Sentences with phrase «quality of writing students»

«If we could institute only one change to make students more college ready, it should be to increase the amount and quality of writing students are expected to produce.»

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That quality of conviction is found precisely in one of Gwynne's inspirations, the 1918 edition of The Elements of Style, the original version William Strunk wrote for his Cornell University students.

God's Not Dead, the tale of a college professor who grades his students based on whether they'll write «God is dead» in their notebooks, is not an example of high quality movie making.

Ton Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and chef at Ravenscliffe High School, which provides a predominantly vegetarian menu, said: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

Indeed, until I started writing TLT, I rarely visited my kids» cafeteria and when I finally started coming by, my eyes were opened not just to the quality of the food, but also to the eating habits of the students.

«Mr. Schneiderman is looking into whether the schools and their recruiters misrepresent their success in finding students jobs, the quality of instruction, the cost of attending, and the program's accreditation, among other things,» Barbaro writes.

A wise policy would therefore consider the quality of international students in making visa decisions, write Eric T. Stuen of the University of Idaho, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak of Yale University, and Keith E. Maskus of the University of Colorado, Boulder, in an article published in The Economic Journal in December 2012.

Instead of relying on institutional rankings to gauge the quality of the college experience, the researchers wrote that it would be more beneficial to students, parents, institutional leaders, and the media to focus on indicators that more accurately represent what students do during college.

Or he writes letters that distinguish between students in the quality of their work in ways that are not reflected in the grades he assigned.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

The Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

These school indicators should also incorporate other measures of key ingredients to long - term success, such as student performance in writing and oral presentations, teaching and curriculum quality, student attitudes and culture, attendance, and school leadership and management.

It was a tight contest, with many students from all over the region submitting pieces of high quality work that showed both excellent written skills and good imaginations, but Kirsty did really well at producing a finished article that was a cut above the rest.

We need high quality applied learning opportunitites that still have students writing, analyzing, reasoning, and engaging in the study of important questions.

If applicable, assess the quality of student writing using a grade - appropriate rubric.

On the third page of the study, the authors write: «Negative voucher effects are not explained by the quality of public fallback options for LSP applicants: achievement levels at public schools attended by students lotteried out of the program are below the Louisiana average and comparable to scores in low - performing districts like New Orleans.»

They are admirably aligned with rigorous research (on early reading instruction, for example); explicit about the quality and complexity of reading and writing that should be expected of students every year; very solid on arithmetic as a clear priority in the elementary grades; ambitious in aiming for college and career readiness by the end of twelfth grade; and relatively jargon - free.

If the skeptics are right, Wood writes, Common Core «will damage the quality of K — 12 education for many students; strip parents and local communities of meaningful influence over school curricula; centralize a great deal of power in the hands of federal bureaucrats and private interests; push for the aggregation and use of large amounts of personal data on students without the consent of parents; usher in an era of even more abundant and more intrusive standardized testing; and absorb enormous sums of public funding that could be spent to better effect on other aspects of education.»

A WORD FROM THE CHEFS Giving the last word to a school chef, Tony Mulgrew, BBC Cook of the Year and school chef at Ravenscliffe High School said of the new standards: «This is a great opportunity for all school chefs to showcase their skills — for example, writing their own menus for their students and schools, and having the flexibility to use only the best quality and local produce when designing menus.»

In the interim, schools might adapt their classroom observations and student surveys to look for evidence of student writing or add questions to the student survey asking students to describe the quality of feedback they receive on their writing.

Quality of learning can be observed through what students say, write, make, or do (Griffin, 2007).

The importance of quality health and physical education delivery in secondary schools can not be understated to ensure students are given developmentally appropriate opportunities to engage in active play and positive health choices, writes Alison Turner, ACHPER National Executive Director.

With the help of School Success Press, Greenwood School families will soon have a bookstore - quality paperback of student writing to add to their home bookshelves.

A common outcome of that artificiality is that teachers feel disappointed in the quality of writing turned in because the students are capable of better results.

Students will be evaluated on the quality of their written description of the monster they draw and on their ability to correctly interpret the written directions for the monster they recreate.

This hands - on science lesson teaches students how to take standardized measurements of water characteristics, integrates writing activities as students describe the characteristics of the local watershed, and provides an excellent introduction to issues of water quality.

To write high - quality questions, ask students to first research the interviewee and decide what kind of information they'd like to learn from that person.

Assessment items are written so as to allow students to gain direct academic credit based on the quality of the design and the documentation.

My writing and speaking center on inspiring quality and character in students, specifically through project - based learning, original scientific and historical research, service learning, and the infusion of arts.

«A school's primary responsibility is to provide students with a high - quality education, but children can not learn to their fullest potential with unmet health needs,» the Colorado Association of School Executives wrote to Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet.

Instead, it has constructed an exhausting, expensive process that wastes time and money while suggesting that the measure of teacher quality is not whether students learn but whether teachers write sufficiently passionate essays about their «commitment» and «reflectiveness.»

This makes poetry a perfect writing form to study immediately after holiday breaks when students typically show regression in the quality of written and spoken communication.

And when markers evaluate the quality of student writing online, it is possible to monitor the consistency of marking standards and to identify in real time markers who are unusually lenient or harsh in their marking.

In our experience, when students complete writing tasks online they often write more than they would on paper, and markers are not distracted by the quality of students» handwriting.

During two weeks last summer, twelve students at a juvenile court - mandated school in San Francisco wrote intense, deeply personal pieces of hip - hop and spoken word, set them to music, produced a studio - quality CD, and performed at a local club.

Although his little four - room schoolhouse in West Bridgewater is gone, replaced by a more modern brick building, the legacy of what a quality public education offered him is clear, as shown in a letter written in 1973 by one of his junior high students to a superintendent in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., in support of a teacher who lost his vision and then his job:

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The launch of edweek.org in 1996 ushered EPE into the Digital Age and created a platform for the evolution of its Education Week flagship publication into an integrated print - digital news organization that provides distinctive staff - written original reporting, a forum for a lively but civil exchange of opinion on education issues, an unequaled online archive of 30 - plus years of education coverage, high - quality content from news and information partners, interactive databases, and a host of video, multimedia, and other features that clarify complex points of policy and bring the stories of American schools, educators, students, and parents to life.

Such councils should focus on promoting student success through the P - 16 pipeline, and improving the quality, quantity, and diversity of teachers, Jan Kettlewell writes.

And, teachers will model for their students each step of the writing process when facing a complex task: taking productive notes on multiple sources; planning, drafting, and revising their work; and continually checking their texts against the well - known hallmarks of high - quality writing.

Third, the quality of instruction students receive is a major determinant of their writing achievement (Graham & Harris, 2002).

To support student success in writing, teachers don't need to change what they teach — the building blocks or characteristics of high - quality writing haven't changed.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 18 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 95 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (9 sheets) * Homework project (7 tasks) that includes both reading and writing skills * A copy of the key scene, with original version on the left and space for students to «translate» into modern English on the right * End - of - unit reading / writing exam * End - of - unit exam mark scheme (suitable for KS3 Levels 3 - 6, with GCSE 1 - 9 conversion) Unit's lessons include: * Quiz on the life and times of Shakespeare * Group «collective memory» activity on the Globe Theatre * Activities focused upon «translating» Shakespearean language * Storyboarding the play * Reading and translating Act 3 Scene 1 * Analysing characters in the key scene * Structing an essay response * Designing costumes for Puck and Titania * Designing a set for the key scene * Spelling tests on key vocabulary (differentiated by writing level) * SPaG starter activities * Crosswords * End - of - unit reading exam (GCSE English Language / Literature style) * End - of - unit writing exam (GCSE English Language style) * Teacher / peer / self assessment opportunities

b. Referring back to the paper with their chosen qualities, students will write one of their strong qualities on each limb of the cut - out.

Thank you for allowing the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) the opportunity to provide written testimony of its research and analysis on improving high quality educational opportunities for all Texas students.

A + Educators has identified focus standards in the core content areas of mathematics, reading, writing, science and social studies, and has developed meaningful student projects utilizing Web 2.0 tools that include engaging qualities of student work and assessment of and for learning.

As educators, we realize that the quality of a child's education can not be measured solely by scores on standardized reading and math tests, which by their nature do not assess students» conceptual thinking, their ability to do research and to evaluate and defend ideas, their skill at written and oral expression, or their success in collaborative or teamwork settings.

Rebecca felt that superficial tasks like this overshadowed the quality of students» writing.

The audit was requested by state Sen. Tony Mendoza, who wrote in a letter to the committee that he wants to determine if the public funds Alliance receives were used to «advance student achievement and improve the quality of educational programs» and were not used to resist unionization, which Alliance would have to use privately raised funds for.»

In low - stakes writing, students are not graded on the quality of their writing, but instead on the validity and substance of their responses to open - ended questions.