Sentences with phrase «particular groups of students»

The report's school accountability approach emphasizes two equally important goals for these new systems: 1) ensuring that accountability systems drive toward equal education opportunities by creating a system for identifying and acting on chronic low performance by particular groups of students and 2) ensuring that accountability systems are broadly framed in order to drive toward a comprehensive conception of student and school success and a culture of continuous improvement rather than just shame and punishment.

These are self - awareness, self - management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision - making.26 While there are existing assessments that measure aspects of SEL for particular groups of students, none of these assessments» purpose is to hold schools accountable for students» SEL.27 Nonetheless, providing local educators with insights into how well students are developing their SEL can be useful to inform instructional practice.

Second, I determine how these mechanisms vary for particular groups of students, such as black and Latino males and first - generation college - goers.

Large - scale summative assessments may be useful for ranking and comparing schools, districts, or programs, and they may yield disaggregated data that identify content areas in which particular groups of students are struggling.

Education Week examines whether the «widespread worry that states would walk away from making sure that particular groups of students — English - language learners, students in special education, and racial minorities — mattered in their school accountability systems» under ESSA is well founded.

It is possible, of course, that looking at average student achievement could divert our attention from changes for particular groups of students.

The impact for this particular group of students is likely to be much less, unless you make the bizarre assumption that it is only the diploma — not what the student learns — that affects job prospects and future income.

Even with a plethora of how - to advice on creating community in a classroom, it can be difficult to know what will work best for any particular group of students.

For example, if students throughout a school were asked to redesign their classrooms, each classroom would look different as it would be tailored to the needs of that particular group of students.

1) Find a study, preferably one that has some surface credibility, that shows that a particular intervention had a certain effect on a particular group of students.

Since important differential effects were identified for only one subgroup, one can not infer that the impact of performance pay on student math learning is concentrated on any particular group of students.

There may be other sources of volatility that are more related to the educational mission of a school, such as the favorable chemistry between a teacher and a particular group of students or teacher turnover.

This is because it is important to set goals that are appropriate for a teacher's particular group of students.

«Eventually I plan to work in a job that allows me to support teachers in creating instructional practices that help this particular group of students and also have the ability to develop curriculum that creates equity through excellence.»

We may do our particular share of this work locally, with a particular group of students, in a particular community, but we must keep sight of the links between this local action and the global enterprise of which it is a part.

Even if professional learning planners agree on the student learning outcomes they want to accomplish, what works best in one context with a particular community of educators and a particular group of students might not work equally well in another context with different educators and different students.

There may be instances in which local district may benefit from the flexibility to try new instructional programs in a limited setting with a particular group of students.

Teachers must quickly figure out what works with a particular group of students.

Underlying many school reform efforts is the notion that classroom teachers are in the best position to know their students» needs and interests, and therefore should be the ones to make decisions about tailoring instruction to a particular group of students.

Where a particular group of students are under performing schools must come up with a plan to help.

This particular group of students does not live and breathe re the attribution of global warming, although I imagine that most of them would pretty much subscribe to the RC view of the overall issue (and they pretty much ignore paleo stuff).

Not exact matches

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

What do you think it is about this group of students in this particular moment that feels like a break from the past?

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

A tragic event galvanized a group of students who likely were predisposed to progressive politics to organize and take action on one particular topic.

First and foremost, how to get creative on the spot, modifying lessons to reach each group of students and their particular needs for the day.

A group of alumni, otherwise unidentified, had asked the bureau whether «an organization which raises funds to be used principally in travel and other activities necessary to interview and persuade prospective students with outstanding athletic ability to attend a particular university» was tax exempt.

Camp counselors are often high school or college students who supervise a group of children or direct a particular activity.

«We had a group of students at one elementary school in particular who petitioned the superintendent and the administration to reconsider.»

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.

Many students, of all ethnicities, enter college with the intent to study the sciences, and many leave; attrition is not confined to a particular group.

The method, known as regression - discontinuity analysis, compares two groups of students on either side of a particular threshold.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

Additionally, a workforce with a better representation of ethnic minorities will help attract more students from these groups in particular.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schools.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says former HGSE associate professor Hunter Gehlbach (now at University of California Santa Barbara).

But, if they're working collaboratively and closely with other teachers and it's all easy to do, they might have the other teacher take over, monitoring what the students are doing, so that the teacher can go and resolve that particular conflict with a small group of students.

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

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach.

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

The Obama administration's long - anticipated blueprint for overhauling the Bush - era NCLB law seeks to maintain the current statute's focus on disaggregating data and improving the performance of particular student groups, such as students...

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

For the classroom teacher, this might take the form, for example, of a roster of students who are flagged because they are consistently receiving low scores on a particular Report Card item or group of items, e.g., having friends.

More subtly, concluding that students in a particular school are performing well «given their socioeconomic backgrounds» or «given the proportion of Indigenous students in the school» reflect reduced expectations based on group membership.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

To take an example, imagine that a particular sub-group of students do more poorly than expected (based on their performance on other questions testing the same math skill) on a math item that uses the word «foyer,» while other groups of students do just as well as expected.

He showed me charts with stick figures in five colors (representing percentages of English school children) that are used to explain to teachers and parents what the particular problems were for each group of students and how to fix them.

You may want to give students the option of breaking into groups based on interest in a particular speech.