Sentences with phrase «programming language her students»

Already, she's developed a solid knowledge of Scratch, the kid - friendly programming language her students are using.

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Laval's French - language program begins with a full week of classes, and thereafter students attend in - person sessions every other Saturday.

The French - language MBA program offers two tracks: a regular program in which students work on a major project incorporating course material, or a co-op program with two work placements.

IHSNO is an open - enrollment charter school with 565 students and claims to be the only high school in New Orleans to offer the rigorous International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IBDP), which requires students learn a foreign language.

While the curriculum is designed for high school and community college students — and select schools will start offering the curriculum this fall — you don't have to attend school to learn to code in Swift, Apple's programming language.

We've started world language immersion programs in which students spend half of each school day learning in Chinese or Spanish, beginning in kindergarten.

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.

The ECR program is delivered in conjunction with another service, Postgraduates for International Business (PIB), wherein an international graduate student is assigned to the SME to help the company better understand the target market context and cultural differences, and adapt the SME's messages to the host country language.

That course had an even more profound effect on me: It made me decide to devote my life to the study of East Asia, Japan in particular, and I entered the graduate program at Harvard as the only student in sociology and Far Eastern languages.

There, she developed and taught a language enrichment program for all kindergartners in the district and provided speech and language therapy for the two special education classes, as well as serving those students from kindergarten to sixth grade having articulation, fluency, voice, cleft palate, hearing impairment and language delays.

Starting this spring, the Everyone Can Code program will be integrated across the citywide curriculum to teach students this new language.

Districts participating in the federal school meal program have been required since 2006 to formulate a wellness policy to promote student health, but such policies often consisted of boilerplate language stashed in the drawer of a district official.

Non-English speaking students enter the school's English as a second language program, which has seen enrollment double since 1997, Supt. Tim Kanold said.

Explore Japan Summer Cultural Exchange Program (Milton, MA) is a series of 2.5 - week programs where local students learn about the many facets of Japanese culture (art, language, cuisine, etc.) while hosting and spending time with visiting Japanese exchange students.

History, science, physics, math, foreign languages, music, art, fitness and outdoor education programs, are all designed to excite the imaginations of students at these ages and be relat able for them at their life stages.

Districts can further lessen their exposure by instituting risk management programs that ensure the safety of school personnel, students, and visitors; by seeking protection through insurance; and by putting language into shared use agreements requiring the user to assume all or part of the liability in the event of injury or property damage.

After having been a tutor / mentor in language arts for students in grades 3 -4-5 for several years, I wanted to see how another program worked to help students who were behind in school catch up.

Better alignment of English as a Second Language (ESL) programs with the needs of our English language learners, including expansion of the APPLE model, an alternative high school program for 17 - 18 year - old students to learn the language, graduate, and get a job or go to college.

«Dual Language programs offer academic rigor for students and the opportunity to maintain their native language while learning a new one and learning about diverse cultures.

Dual language programs help immigrant students flourish in the classroom, and provides them with opportunities to succeed in life.

The programs are made available to English - language learners, immigrant students who are native speakers of the second language, and native English speakers.

I now call on the DOE to build on this important first - step and expand dual language programs to other South Asian languages in order to meet the needs of students and parents in the Indian, Pakistani, Nepalese, and other South Asian communities.

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

The city will spend $ 1.8 million for professional development for arts teachers, $ 785,000 to provide arts education for English language learners and special needs students, and $ 220,000 to expand existing student programs like a two - week arts intensive for middle schoolers.

BRONX, NY — Celebrating the hard work and achievement of this year's graduating class of Primavera Italian Language students, State Senator Jeff Klein (D - Bronx / Westchester) was honored for his critical funding support and outstanding dedication to the language program at today's -LSB-...]

While no program yet exists to allow students to learn to program using natural language, this prototype and user studies indicate that it is possible.

So Tremblay went down to Boston in a student - exchange program and immersed herself in the language.

«What we found is that the sheer amount of language, the number of adult words, was not related to brain activation or verbal skills,» said Rachel Romeo, lead author of the study and a doctoral student at a joint Harvard and MIT program.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

Studyandgoabroad.com is the «go to» site for students, primarily in Canada, who are researching options for further studies abroad, or considering a volunteer program, learning a language, working abroad or taking an international internship.

All returning students and new transfer students can register and adjust Tutorial aimed at people who have experience in imperative programming languages but haven't programmed in a functional language before.

«Imagine,» she said, «schools that are open all day and offer after - school and evening recreational activities and homework assistance; high schools that allow students to sign up for morning, afternoon, or evening classes; that include child care and dental, medical, and counseling clinics or other services such as English language instruction, GED programs, or legal assistance.

When divided by language skill the biggest difference was seen in writing skills, where the students in the blended program obtained an average of three points more than the students in the standard program.

Every morning, students immerse themselves in a program that uses the language and techniques of drama, dance, music, and visual and media arts to explore literacy and numeracy.

This study of 1,159 seventh graders, using both a correlational and quasi-experimental approach, compared students participating in the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) program who also had traditional instruction to students in only a traditional reading / language arts program.

The contractor then extracts information on each student's demographic characteristics, enrollment, test scores, and certification for and participation in various programs such as free and reduced - price lunch, special education, and English - language services.

A five - year quasi-experimental study on K - 12 bilingual education programs offered to language - minority students in U.S. public schools.

This resource is a scheme of lessons (Unit of Work), 5 lessons that will coach students in programming using the BBC Micro: Bit block language.

English - language learners make up 17 percent of the student body, and 87 percent of kids are on the free - lunch program.

We have a majority - minority student population, a large group of English - language learners, and almost 60 percent participation in the free or reduced - price lunch program.

Students participating in the CORI program had higher motivation, engagement, and achievement compared to students in the traditional reading / language arts Students participating in the CORI program had higher motivation, engagement, and achievement compared to students in the traditional reading / language arts students in the traditional reading / language arts program.

Key recommendations of the report include: • A test to assess the literacy and numeracy skills of all teaching graduates; • A requirement for universities to demonstrate that their graduates are classroom ready before gaining full course accreditation; • An overhaul of the in class practical element of teaching degrees; • A specialisation for primary school teachers with a focus on STEM and languages; and, • Universities publish all information about how they select students into teacher education programs.

Structured community and character development programs like weekly Circle gatherings and advisory meetings called pride groups are deeply ingrained in the schools» culture, and all students and teachers are expected to achieve fluency in the language of social growth and learning.

K12 students are modestly less likely to participate in the federal free or reduced - price lunch program (40 vs. 47 percent), roughly as likely to be classified as having a learning disability (9 vs. 12 percent), and much less likely to be English language learners (less than 1 vs. 14 percent).

So, you want to introduce coding in class but with so many programming languages out there how do you choose the one that's right for your students?

To see where the public stands, we asked questions about visa programs for highly specialized workers, federal aid to school districts impacted by immigration, and the desirability of instructing immigrants and students with limited English proficiency in their native language.

In response, the project team created Mindspark — a personalised, tech - based adaptive learning program for mathematics and language where students learn at their own pace and can access the tool in English or Hindi.

Staffing and resource availability and constraints on student choice, for instance, a schools» decision to make a language compulsory, are incorporated into the subject selection module and built into the timetabling program.

For example, some postgraduate students might not have completed undergraduate programs in mathematics, science or languages, so this will be challenging.»

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).