Sentences with phrase «particular students learn»

Likewise, many educators espouse the mantra «all students can learn,» but they tend to avoid hard conversations about strategies that will help particular students learn.

In some schools, we see teachers using computers and audio or video recorders to help them monitor student work, building databases that can help identify the ways a particular student learns best.

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It was designed to be a shared space where students and members of the education community — professors, deans, researchers — can learn about the many opportunities offered by the energy industry in general and Total in particular.

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

Worksheets often allow a student to apply the principles they've learned in the course to their own particular situation.

Each instructor could issue an ijaza, which was an authorization to the student to transmit the material learned, usually a particular book.

A quick and somewhat obvious example of the fundamental interrelatedness of reason and emotion is the excitement a student may feel about a particular subject matter that impels her / him to learn more.

Medical students need to learn more about nutrition, and in particular the role of breast feeding in infant nutrition.

Not all students learn the same, which is why we surround your child with adults who believe all students can succeed when they are given the tools that fit their particular learning style.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

The main reason end of the year standardized tests are given is to measure how well students have learned the skills that are expected to be taught at a particular grade level.

Brownell studies biology education, in particular how undergraduate biology students learn and how instructors can develop more effective ways to teach.

Lessons are presented in a particular order, and students are tested after they learn.

Fourches and Jeremy Ash, a graduate student in bioinformatics, decided to incorporate the results of molecular dynamics calculations — all - atom simulations of how a particular compound moves in the binding pocket of a protein — into prediction models based on machine learning.

In particular, Shah and her colleagues — her student Been Kim, whose PhD thesis is the basis of the new paper, and Cynthia Rudin, an associate professor of statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management — were trying to augment a type of machine learning known as «unsupervised.»

While he insists much remains to be learned about ERAD in particular, Rapoport recently added a fourth project, the mechanism of protein import into peroxisomes, to attract students and postdoctoral fellows who want to make an impact on a less - studied biological problem.

I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.

If you have a story to tell — something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson — you're in the right place.

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).

... But elements of the flipped classroom, where you're just identifying things in your teaching and learning practices in the classroom... perhaps maths is a great example even in primary school, where a lot of students just require a particular maths example to be explained over and over and over, using different examples.

In particular they appreciated the noticeable acceleration in student learning, especially for students whose improvement had previously stalled.

In the cover letter, students will introduce themselves and express why they are interested in that particular site, what skills they bring, and want they'd like to learn.

Utilizing Student Portfolios as an Assessment Tool Portfolios show the cumulative efforts and learning of a particular student oveStudent Portfolios as an Assessment Tool Portfolios show the cumulative efforts and learning of a particular student ovestudent over time.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and manLearning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and manlearning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

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.

«I have found some really great tours that don't just take the students through some pictures but also have them searching for particular information and learning in - depth, specific things about their topic.»

Here are some specific steps and tips to guide and help employees, students and consumers develop the particular skills they learn through eLearning.

You're on the front lines of transforming K — 12 education, and you have a story to tell: something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson.

In learning areas for which we have good measures (in particular, reading and mathematics), the most advanced 10 per cent of students begin each school year five to six years ahead of the least advanced 10 per cent of students.

In other words, the curriculum is developed not simply as a top - down specification of what somebody believes students in a particular year of school should be learning, but as a description and picture of how long - term progress in an area of learning typically occurs in practice.

To put it quite simply, learning objectives are the guide to draw up learning activities which assist in achieving the goal for the particular lesson which collectively lead to better student engagement and learning.

Studies where teaching activities are targeted towards particular learners based on an identified learning «style» have not convincingly shown any major benefit, particularly for low attaining students.

Students will enjoy this particular activity so much during the holiday season; you can't go wrong with this teaching and learning activity!

Lastly, when students come across a sight word, or a word that they can not remember how to spell or read, they now know how to investigate that particular word while learning a little more about English orthography.

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Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

With that knowledge, I often take students aside to find an approach that will meet their particular learning needs.

It's where I learned lots of ways to use technology to interest my students — girls in particular.

Further, the particular forms that are viewed as socially desirable vary from culture to culture and setting to setting and thus have to be learned by students (e.g., interrupting teachers to ask questions or to express opinions is standard practice in American classrooms whereas Japanese students are expected to be very quiet during class).

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.

And they can learn from their experience whether the practices that are recommended for the typical student by science work in the particular circumstances in which they are operating.

Likert scales are a way to measure whether an individual agrees with or disagrees with a particular statement or idea, and a simple Likert scale of faces with expressions ranging from a smile to a frown is an appropriate way to begin the monitoring process, and will encourage students to focus their attention on their learning.

To be sure, it is a real problem when students in one state learn very different things than those in other states, and in particular when students from some states lack the skills needed for our modern economy.

A tablet is a powerful exploratory learning tool that helps students automatically differentiate their learning according to their particular interests, knowledge, and skills.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

Taking a cue from what Harvard recommends for its students, make notes along the margins (if using physical paper) or in the comments box (if using digital format) to highlight how the particular piece of content is relevant to the course or which learning objective it fulfills.

Deep learning implies that students will follow a particular stream of inquiry to the headwaters, rather than simply sampling all the possible streams.

The college - level studies find «no significant difference» in student performance in online courses versus traditional face - to - face courses, and in particular programs that students learning online are performing «equally well or better».»

Resource specialists in the center work with students who are having trouble identifying their learning styles, for example, or who are at a loss for ways to manage their particular difference.