Sentences with phrase «part helps students improve»

The second part helps students improve their listening skills.

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And the problem can get particularly acute when it comes to a teacher's criticism of a student's work — an indispensable part of good teaching, but an experience that for many disadvantaged students is weighed down by questions of trust: Is my teacher criticizing my work because he's trying to help me improve or because he doesn't respect me?

Tracking student progress and helping them improve their grades is part of Toliver's job.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

We need to recommit to the civic mission of our schools and universities, so they help students gain the knowledge and the dispositions that make democracy work — in the acts of ordinary citizens, in how we relate to one another, in how we collaborate, and in how we take responsibility to improve the communities of which we are a part.

This really helped to improve the writing of my students and especially when it came to the editing part of...

A song can improve transitions because it becomes a behavior cue: Students grow accustomed to the length of the song or part of a song and internalize the time they have to move on to the next task, which helps them begin to take responsibility for their own learning.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

For example, within a community - or service - based learning experience, students may plan and conduct a project that improves their local community or helps the people in it, but they may also do other activities that are not part of a project.

After the act passed yesterday, Tasmania's Education Minister, Jeremy Rockliff said the bill is part of a long - term plan to to improve education outcomes in the state, and that it «will help close the gap where currently Tasmanian students can receive up to two years less schooling than their interstate counterparts.»

We are therefore thrilled to be a part of a program that will help principals and senior administrators improve the performance of their schools and students.»

Later this week, the Department of Education will release non-regulatory guidance on one part of ESSA, a new grant program designed to help schools and communities provide students with access to a well - rounded education, to create safe and supportive school environments, and to improve the use of technology.

... This is part of the district's «Second Step» curriculum, which helps students improve their social - emotional skills.

As a component of the school - level parental involvement policy mandated by federal law Title I, each school served under this part shall jointly develop with parents for all children served under this part a school - parent compact that outlines how parents, the entire school staff, and students will share the responsibility for improved student achievement and the means by which the school and parents will build and develop a partnership to help children achieve the State's high standards.

Assessment is a fundamental part of the teaching and learning process, but more time needs to be focused on what a well - balanced assessment system is and can do to help teachers improve student learning.

With an increased focus on connecting educational leadership to student learning, creating cultures of improvement, and other big picture concepts, the standards can be seen, in part, as a force for helping principals remind us as a nation that the moral purpose of educational change is to improve society and the lives of its citizens, especially those most in need.

The U.S. Department of Education kicked off the Validation and Scale - Up grant competitions that are part of its $ 150 million 2013 Investing in Innovation (i3) program, which is designed to help school districts and nonprofit and school partnerships implement innovative ideas that improve student learning.

An integral part of Catapult Learning's mission is to share our expertise with fellow educators of students with special needs so that, together, we can help improve their future prospects.

Title II, Part A funds can also, as part of an overall strategy to improve teacher quality, be used for teacher incentives — for example, to provide stipends for teachers recruited for hard - to - fill positions or to retain teachers who have been effective in helping low - achieving students succeed — or for the salaries of master teachers who provide or coordinate professional - development services for other teachPart A funds can also, as part of an overall strategy to improve teacher quality, be used for teacher incentives — for example, to provide stipends for teachers recruited for hard - to - fill positions or to retain teachers who have been effective in helping low - achieving students succeed — or for the salaries of master teachers who provide or coordinate professional - development services for other teachpart of an overall strategy to improve teacher quality, be used for teacher incentives — for example, to provide stipends for teachers recruited for hard - to - fill positions or to retain teachers who have been effective in helping low - achieving students succeed — or for the salaries of master teachers who provide or coordinate professional - development services for other teachers.

He joined the Principal Advisory Council to be part of a group that is dedicated to improving outcomes for all Chicago students and to help facilitate a stronger collaboration between District and charter schools.

The best professional learning for teachers helps them acquire, practice, and apply new skills to better serve their students.2 But despite annual investments of $ 18 billion by federal, state, and local agencies into professional learning for educators, many teachers still do not receive the kind of professional learning that helps them grow and improve their practice.3 Less than one - quarter of teachers say that they have changed their instruction as a result of professional learning, likely in part due to the lack of a consistent professional learning strategy across states and school districts.4 Learning Forward, a nonprofit association dedicated to supporting professional learning for educators, contends that the current state of professional learning is one of «inertia.»

The purpose of Title II, Part A is to increase the academic achievement of all students by helping schools and districts improve teacher and principal quality and ensure that all teachers are highly qualified.

«This grant competition is the next step as part of that plan, and will help states and districts improve tests to allow for better depiction of student and school progress so that parents, teachers and communities have the vital information they need on academic achievement.»

We don't believe student assessments should ever be the sole measure of teaching performance, but evidence of a teacher's impact on student learning should be part of a balanced evaluation that helps all teachers learn and improve.

The Recovery Act provides $ 10 billion in additional Title I, Part A funds to state education agencies (SEAs) and local education agencies (LEAs) to support schools that have high concentrations of students from families that live in poverty in order to help improve teaching and learning for students most at risk of failing to meet state academic achievement standards.