Sentences with phrase «parents learned test»

The result: a series of sessions in which students and parents learned test - taking strategies together.

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Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

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When my husband returned on the third day, I was wearing one of his shirts because mine were all in the washer, the floor was covered in toys and burp cloths, the dishes weren't washed, there was no grown - up food in the house, and I hadn't showered in two days, but I had survived my first real test as a parent of multiples and while I was sure it wasn't the last trial I'd face, I'd learned a lot to prepare me for the next one.

Many parents are worried about the possible effects of certain food additives on their children, and they're often surprised to learn that the FDA does not test and approve each of the literally thousands of additives in our food supply.

At any point in our parenting journeys, we can reflect back on our early days as mothers or fathers and glow in the knowledge of how much we have changed since that... first positive pregnancy test... or our oldest child's birth... or a seemingly endless night of breastfeeding... or our struggle with learning how to do positive discipline... or the first day of school... or our daughter's first basketball win... or our son's first crush... or our child's high school graduation... or our daughter's wedding... or our son's first child...

Testing may show he's a gifted child so what parents and teachers thought was a learning issue may just be simple boredom because he's not challenged enough.

Once parents learn that their child is gifted - whether they've gone the testing route or not - they almost immediately begin thinking about how to nurture their child's «gifts.»

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There's probably not a parent out there who's not familiar with the challenging behaviors kids can sometimes engage in as they mature, learn how to control their impulses, and test boundaries.

A 36 - year - old woman who had her DNA tested by Ancestry.com says she was shocked to learn that her biological father was her parents» fertility doctor.

For example, Early Head Start, which provides comprehensive services focusing on early learning experiences, health and nutritional status, social - emotional behavior, early intervention, and parent support, offers increased access to health care, well - child exams, immunizations, and screening tests for children enrolled in the program.

Sophisticated DNA testing is allowing parents to learn more about the health of their children than ever before, but...

You'll learn gentle, loving, tear - free techniques, developed by world - renowned parenting expert Elizabeth Pantley and tested by hundreds of families around the world, guaranteed to help you:

While many homeschooling parents recognise that testing and examinations are very limited in what they measure, they often wonder how else to assess their children's learning.

Find out when kids are old enough to blow their own nose and learn parent - tested tried - and - true strategies for teaching them ho...

From deciding to try, to taking the test; from babies loved and lost and babies learning to crawl and walk; from preschool to grade - school; from the tween years to the teen years and beyond, every member on BabyCenter has the right to share the story of his or her unique parenting journey.

You also quickly learn one of the most vital tests parents can keep in their arsenal — the sniff test.

Lead poisoning can cause learning disabilities but parents weren't notified and the City Department of Health won't test children for lead poisoning.

However, officials note that «the current inspection framework is antithetical to the Steiner ethos / pedagogical approach» in terms of «Literacy in Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and Key Stage 1 (KS1)», where Ofsted required «more formal learning»; «KS2 tests», as «Last year, the Academy pupils did not sit the tests (the Academy provided the exam papers and rooms for pupils to sit the exams but parents chose not to allow their pupils to sit the tests)»; and «Teaching and learning», where it is noted that the schools consider that «any process which judges learning as the immediate outcome from teaching in a lesson is inappropriate.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

Parents and local school administrators have panned the Common Core testing, arguing that it takes the learning out of the classroom by setting unrealistic educational guidelines for success due to the high rate of failure on standardized tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

Board members also learned pressure is being put on parents to have their children tested if they are seeking entry into the district's best schools.

The tests have become controversial in recent years after being tied to teacher evaluations and the new learning standards, prompting many parents to skip them in protest.

«All the parents think too much time is spent on preparing kids for tests instead of learning the curriculum.»

Unions and parents groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary for the modern job market.

She comes back to New York at a time when parents are so upset over what top politicians say was the botched rollout of the new Common Core learning standards that they allowed their children to boycott the tests.

The program has been controversial in New York, where parents and teachers have confronted the state's Education Commissioner, John King, in public meetings, saying the children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

«Standardized tests must be worth taking, high quality, time - limited, fair, fully transparent to students and parents, just one of multiple measures, and tied to improving learning.»

She comes back to New York at a time when parents are so upset over what top politicians say was the botched roll out of the new Common Core learning standards that they allowed their children to boycott the tests.

Parents and teachers have confronted state Education Commissioner John King in public meetings, saying children are stressed from all of the new tests being administered as part of the transition, and that too much time is being taken away from classroom learning.

A more complex picture emerges among people who had anesthesia several times as small children: Although their intelligence is comparable, they score modestly lower on tests measuring fine motor skills, and their parents are more likely to report behavioral and learning problems.

Working with mice, Lei and Spradling set out to test their belief that certain undifferentiated germ cells learn to develop into eggs very early during their production in the ovary, when germ cells are found in small clusters of interconnected sister cells, all daughters of the same parent cell.

In the commentary, published in Human Fertility, it is highlighted that, due to the rise in direct - to - consumer DNA testing, there is now a need for fertility services to alert prospective parents to the possibility that if they decide not to tell their children of their donor - conceived origins themselves, they may later learn of them in unplanned ways due to direct - to - consumer DNA testing.

In some cases, parents may choose to terminate or abort a pregnancy after learning the results of these tests.

It's become a familiar story in the age of consumer DNA testing: A person spits into a test tube to learn more about their genetic heritage, and ends up finding out they have a parent or sibling they didn't know existed.

Free from their parents» rules, their idyllic summer quickly becomes a test of friendship as each boy learns to appreciate the fact that family — whether it is the one you're born into or the one you create — is something you can't run away from.

After his parents paid for private testing, they learned he had dyslexia, dysgraphia (a writing disability), and what now is called Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).

One research finding that it highlighted is that when teachers and parents tell girls their intelligence can expand with experience and learning, they do better on math tests and are more likely to say they want to continue...

When faculty, students, and parents know that they are valued, achieving a shared vision becomes everyone's shared responsibility — not to teach testing, but to help every student achieve success in learning.

But I also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing, and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students.»

President Barack Obama has often noted in speeches the enthusiasm of Korean parents for their children's education, the high quality of Korean teachers, the number of learning hours that Korean students spend, and the outstanding educational achievements these have produced; for example, top rankings in international academic - achievement tests, and low rates of school dropouts and juvenile delinquency.

Although the tests are conducted in May, the results are not provided to parents until at least September, negating their effectiveness as diagnostic tests to pinpoint learning difficulties students might have.

«Results are shared with parents,» says school principal Sue Roche, «so if we know a child is especially bodily - kinesthetic, we give parents and kids tips on ways to learn and study for tests.»

It's critical to consider the effect of timed tests on students with learning disabilities — a point raised by several parents and teachers.

Each year I hosted an afternoon training [session] with my grade - level team that began with a group meeting and ended with parents rotating through teachers rooms and the school office learning various activities like using the copier, working with small groups, and conducting fluency testing.

I suspect that a parent's mind would not be as closed as Mr. Willingham's as he senses his child's newfound joy in learning because he is respected for his unique intellectual gifts and not «left behind» like he was by all the other teachers whose primary focus was the test scores and not the child.