Sentences with phrase «particular class of students»

Obviously, you will need to use your best judgment about which will work with a particular class of students.

He recalled a particular class of students where he tried everything to make a difference, but nothing seemed to work.

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This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Waldorf is dedicated to providing its middle school students with an academic curriculum with rigor and purpose — one that is creatively designed to meet the particular needs of middle school students — along with exceptional teachers, regular class travel, a no - cut athletic program, and fine arts and performing arts courses.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

Rosters are added as student registrations are compiled for the particular class, and only after the minimum number of registrations have been received.

He pays particular attention to the needs of every student throughout each class and gives an in - depth and clear understanding of different Asana and their benefits.

In light of this analysis, the Sutton Trust is calling for a renewed effort to close the attainment gap, recommending that: - Schools implement targeted improvement programmes for those students at particular risk of falling behind, including white working class children.

Teachers held discussions with their class about the relationship between effort and outcome in mathematics; in particular about the worth of the students» workbooks and the mathematical routines and practices they were encouraging students to adopt.

«In my class, I ask students to write essays that are exploratory and meditative,» Sommers says, «essays that focus on the interplay of the particular and the universal, on the flexibility and experimental nature of the essay genre, and on the development of a narrative voice to tell a compelling story.»

In Social Studies class, groups of students who had focused on a particular poster discussed their thoughts.

As soon as the Report Card is turned into a test in which a teacher learns not that a student is having trouble making friends but rather that the student is at the 18th percentile for the district in terms of sociability; or not that four particular students in her class are frequently late or absent but rather that the classroom is at the 40th percentile on the dimension of student timeliness, the function of the Report Card is lost.

In particular, the drop in ranking relative to one's peers may have a negative effect: a marginal G&T student is likely to go from being near the top of the regular class to being near the bottom of the G&T class.

An example of a non-abstract soft skill is a particular student working hard on challenging math problems during the first quarter reporting period in Mrs. Thomas» fifth grade class.

If it takes longer than a year, in most cases you then have to account for a whole pile of new variables to do with the assignment of students and teachers to particular classes, the effects of other teachers and the effects of the curriculum.

While mapping out my plan of action for the morning, a paraprofessional came in and said she usually was assigned to the class in the morning to work with a particular student — the boy who was absent.

Put simply, a principal and leadership team that knows how to use the resources and expertise available to them in ways that maximise the outcomes students can achieve is a key determinant of the success of the school and, in particular, the extent to which teachers can deliver high quality teaching to each and every class.

This can be used as an intervention starter for any art or photography class, but maybe of particular use to GCSE and A level photography students - covering AO1 discussing and developing ideas.

At the end of a class in a particular subject area, have students answer one multiple - choice, standardized - test type of question to see if they grasped an idea covered in class.

I've classed the resource as suitable for ages 7 - 14, but it really does depend on the age at which your students begin their FRENCH, and what areas of learning they might need to focus on at particular times during the school year.

Most importantly, prior to the first day of class, students are unaware of the computer policy of a particular class, and there is virtually no switching after the first day.

In particular, her night class for adult students retaught her exactly how powerful each of the document's 1,337 words really is.

Students who struggle to meet your expectations of good behaviour in the classroom work better if they know what they have to do, where they have to sit, where you will stand, what particular signals mean — and if that stays the same, routinely, in every class.

We can identify patterns of skill deficit and strength, using data to paint a clearer picture of students in particular classes, cohorts, or the school at large.

Students were able to be grouped in linked floating classes, of equivalent subject levels (e.g. a particular type of Science or Maths).

Unlikely as it may sound, science teacher Ken Williams of Nobleboro Central School says he is able to have more individual contact with students because he can have e-mail chats about their particular problems or interests while class is in session.

Danielle Allen's «Our Declaration» to receive 2015 Heartland Prize for Nonfiction Chicago Tribune, 10/28/15 «This fierce, remarkable winner of the 2015 Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize has its roots in Chicago, in particular, in a night class of adult students, juggling jobs — or no jobs — child care, and the other pressures of life.

Moreover, there may be other factors, unrelated to class size, that lead to swings in classroom performance, such as a dog barking in the parking lot on the day of the test or special classroom «chemistry» reflecting a good match between a particular classroom of students and a particular teacher.

At least in this particular setting, however, the homogeneous classes that are created by tracking seem to allow the teacher to deliver instruction at a level that reaches all students, thus offsetting the effect of having lower - performing peers.

One sample vignette asks candidates to determine what is «in the best interest of the particular student» in a case where a high - school senior failing a class asks the principal if he can drop the class, even though permitting the student to do so is «contrary to school policy.»

Of course, in a particular class, all students may begin at more or less the same point in their learning and so be ready for the same teaching and learning experiences.

The AOCC seeks to inspire and impact the improvement of the education sector by annually convening Harvard Graduate School of Education alumni, students, and friends concerned with issues of race, class and education as they pertain to all people, and in particular to communities of color.

Depending on the content and the structure of the class for a particular day, students would be put into break out rooms, mini groups, and then work on problems to then be able to share with the whole class.

Quick Checks: If you want to know if your students grasp enough of a particular concept before you move on, you can use tools such as Poll Everywhere, Socrative, or Mentimeter to get a quick snapshot of the class.

Turn your lessons into blended lessons — In many classroom the teacher talks at the front of the class for the entire period while the students take notes about that particular lesson.

The above two approaches should not be confused with schools allowing religious instruction classes where students of a particular faith have the opportunity to learn more about their religion.

This attrition could reflect ordinary factors unrelated to the study, such as students» moving out of a school's geographic zone or having to repeat a grade, as well as families» responses to being assigned to a particular class.

If a teacher assumes that everyone in a class is familiar with an example from history that is only ancillary to the point of a particular lesson, for example, but uses that example to illustrate a particular point, then the students who are unfamiliar with the example or who have misconceptions about that example, may just miss the point of the lesson or develop misconceptions about the point of the lesson itself.

At both schools there were examples of teachers subsequently designing their own impromptu surveys that were administered to students to get more immediate feedback as to what is working or not working for them in that particular class.

The veteran teacher also knows that learning a particular student's name the first few minutes of the first class could be an indicator of behavior problems to come; «Is it a good thing that I have said your name three times in the past 5 minutes?»

But in that particular instance when Mr. Johnson leaned heavily on data to inform his decisions, the performance of students in those classes was «abominable,» he recalled, and the separate classes were scrapped.

Students might fall anywhere within a range of three years in one particular class.

For example, if a group of teachers decides to implement a particular strategy for engaging students in problem solving, each teacher would implement the strategy within their class (es) and standard curriculum.

An example of Jacob working with the students on communication was noted in a particular lab session in which he used a class handout and overhead sheet to share a variety of student responses on geometric rotations.

How could the Special Day Class, in particular, have done so well and outperformed thousands of other students in the district on every exam — exams they were not even supposed to take?

Students read challenging texts — Hamlet, The Great Gatsby — in class, then take an oral examination in which they argue a point one - on - one with their teacher about a particular passage from one of the texts.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

I want to highlight one particular change that is made with the best interests of our students, families, and teaching faculty in mind: We are moving the start of classes for groups 1 - 8 two days earlier than what has been our typical start date.

While Stephanie did mention her own instructional strategies as a part of her evidence for lesson effectiveness, the function of these strategies served to support her claims that she was attending to the learning needs of this particular subgroup of students, the English learners in her class.

Instead, the technology should help students contribute to class discussions and activities and even change the course of what happens in class on a particular day.