Sentences with phrase «older students in»

A recent article in the Globe & Mail discussed the phenomenon of older students in university, driven in part by the recession,

Older students in their late 20s, 30s, and even 40s looking for a change in career but hesitant about going back to the classroom for three years, plus a year of articling, would likely be attracted to a fast - track program.

Plantation Heritage This program gives older students in grades 5 - 8 a close look at life at Magnolia Mound around 1825.

• Suggest that the teacher start a pet club with older students in the school who can help with pet care and teach responsible pet care to others.

Although I was one of the older students in my class at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, no one was more enthusiastic or hard working than I.

It's probably already too late for many older students in DC to clear the new proficiency bar.

But that leaves less time for older students in higher grades to prepare for the new common core tests.

Younger students, those in Kindergarten through second grade, were far more likely to use iPads, while older students in grades 6 through 8 used Chromebooks more often.

Engineering is something that only older students in advanced math or physics are permitted to do.

With older students in particular, truancy — meaning students who land in truancy court due to many unexcused absences — also remains a challenge because «sometimes parents don't even know that their child is absent so the work there is more with the individual student» rather than with the parents, says Conway.

As part of an intensive planning and self - study process, teams of parents, educators, community members, and older students in each school received training from Institute for Responsive Education staff, then conducted focus groups and interviews with local constituent groups, asking these questions.

At the Upper Campus, our older students in grades 4 - 8 celebrate Mass together weekly.

To make the program appealing to older learners, the software and instructor manuals were written with older students in mind.

You can send older students in search of food poems.

9:15 a.m.: Instead of having our usual meeting with our advisor, green group (the older students in the school) got to work.

«The direction East stands for awareness or awakening and so our first effort with our older students in particular is to identify what it is that they're about to learn, what it is that is coming into their awareness.

The use of avatars may ease the potential awkwardness of a particularly advanced 10 - year - old, for example, working with older students in some subjects.

Although older students in high school may have open campus and thus be able to leave at lunchtime to purchase junk not available at school, these same kids already have that right.

Initially, the bar was only available to older students in grades six through eight, but this limited availability did not sit well with their younger peers.

Initially, the bar was only available to older students in grades six through eight, but this limited availability did not sit well with their younger peers.

Lummis said the chances are relatively slim with so many older students in theological schools.

«It definitely will affect my choices,» said Wang Xiaoyu, a 20 - year - old student in Beijing.

You should have seen our five - year - old students in Greenwich carrying around their cassette tape recorders to keep a record of their thoughts.

He captured the Public Links championship of the United States last week by hitting some marvelous iron shots and one - putting 12 greens to bring down little Gene Towry, a laconic 28 - year - old student in electrical engineering at SMU.

For example, in 2012, 96 % of 15 - year - old students in OECD *...

On the basis of the institution receiving place and top - up funding, but instead on a similar basis to post-16 year olds students in mainstream school sixth - forms.

Nigerian born oil and gas engineer, Kufre Umoh Uwem was yesterday handed a 7 - year jail term for allegedly raping an 18 - year - old student in Aberdeen.

22 year old student In south london.

I am a 22 year old student in Japan.

Beauty by Catherine is run by Catherine who is a 21 year old student in Ontario, Canada.

The Directing Award: U.S. Dramatic was presented to: Sara Colangelo, for her film The Kindergarten Teacher (Director & Screenwriter: Sara Colangelo, Producers: Talia Kleinhendler, Osnat Handelsman - Keren, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Celine Rattray, Trudie Styler)-- When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.

(For a deeper role, catch Mr. Chalamet in the film «Call Me by Your Name,» in the awards - worthy role of an awkward gay lad who is feeling out his identity through a relationship with an older student in Italy.)

When a Staten Island kindergarten teacher discovers what may be a gifted five year - old student in her class, she becomes fascinated and obsessed with the child — spiraling downward on a dangerous and desperate path in order to nurture his talent.

Currently employed as a Subject Leader for ICT at a high performing secondary school in Yorkshire, England this management role involves him in not only leading a department, managing the staff, teaching 11 to 18 year old students in the study of ICT and Computing but also responsibilities whole school and to feeder primary schools.

«As part of their «rite of passage,» the oldest students in our school — the fifth - graders — transform the school cafeteria into a haunted house,» Braney explained.

Present your oldest students in a poetry slam competition, like teacher Brenda Dyck staged with her students (see the Education World article, A Poetry Slam Cures Midwinter Blahs).

Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2012 show that more than one in four 15 - year - old students in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries did not attain a baseline level of proficiency in at least one of the three core subjects PISA assesses: Reading, Mathematics and Science.

If the NAEP exams are the nation's report card, the world's report card is assembled by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which administers the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) to representative samples of 15 - year - old students in 68 of the world's school systems.

Since the year 2000, the most developed countries have been able to compare knowledge and skills of their 15 - year - old students in reading, mathematics and science in a periodic PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) test.

In 2012, virtually all 15 - year - old students in OECD countries had a computer at home, but less than three - quarters used a computer or tablet at school, and in some countries it was fewer than half.

Peterson also points to research by Harvard University's Martin West and German economist Ludger Woessmann, who examined the impact of school choice on the performance of 15 - year - old students in 29 industrialized countries and «discovered that the greater the competition between the public and private sector, the better all students do in math, science and reading.»

The authors surmise that students in grades 6 - 8 who remain in K - 8 schools «may benefit from being among the oldest students in a school setting that includes very young students, perhaps because they have greater opportunity to take on leadership roles.»

The OECD has just released its latest study of the financial literacy competencies of 15 - year - old students in 15 countries.

Though it is difficult to isolate the effects of redshirting from those of other characteristics, such as family background, two recent studies that take advantage of either variation in state birthday cut - off dates or the random assignment of students to kindergarten classrooms have enabled researchers to measure the impact of being among the oldest students in a class.

The assessment, which focused on the competencies of 15 - year - old students in close to 70 countries, made major headlines across Australia, with the results showing:

Ayesah, a seven - year - old student in Karachi, Pakistan, clicks a link with her computer mouse and enters herusername and password to open a page.

Senior Students Play Active Roll in Welcoming Newbies When school opens next fall, will the oldest students in your school play an active roll in welcoming — and mentoring — the incoming class?

PISA assessed the achievement of 15 - year - old students in each country, regardless of the grade they attended.

Natalie is a 15 - year - old student in eighth grade.

I couldn't stop thinking, for instance, about the 16 - year - old student in my fifth period class who shared with me that she was by far in the best group home she'd been in but that her belongings were constantly being stolen by other girls.