Sentences with phrase «rather than secondary school»
One of the ways teachers can encourage students to read for pleasure is by reading aloud to them, but it is a practice more associated with primary rather than secondary school settings.
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Too much emphasis was placed on the «mechanics» of reproduction in secondary schools, rather than the importance of healthy sexual relationships.
Under the coalition government, half of secondary schools have become academies: schools that are more autonomous and funded directly by central government rather than through local authorities.
«[B] oys rather than girls are now on the short end of the gender gap in many secondary school outcomes,» said Cornelius Riordan in 2000.
A traditional secondary schooling model normally focuses on content, compliance and control rather than engaging students in the learning process and encouraging them to become lifelong learners
It is all rather patronising to suggest my daughter needs an alternate provision school, she failed the 11 + and struggled her way through troubled secondary moderns (can't get teaching staff in grammar areas) to get better GCSE than all her friends who passed the test.
As we are all aware, educational establishments at primary and secondary school level rely on funding from the local education authority and in times where austerity budgets are tight, as should be expected with what little additional funds there are, funding is better put to use providing teaching aids to enhance the students learning rather than providing for their security.
A secondary school's Physical Education provision is often judged on GCSE PE grades and trophies rather than its impact engaging and developing the health and wellbeing of students across the school.
Rather than finding a pre-built app, students in secondary schools can propose a design to build their own app to solve a pedagogical problem.
On top of this, two thirds (67 %) of secondary school leaders said that workload played a major part in persuading teachers to leave rather than join the profession, which could be why 34,910 qualified teachers left the profession for reasons other than retirement in 2016.
Child care courses: Courses in childhood, primary, and secondary schooling have become quite popular, as figures from Open Universities Australia have shown that students over the age of thirty tend to steer towards them for a career change and personal gain, rather than the often already achieved financial gains.
The union representing Ireland's secondary - school teachers reacted with a statement saying that a major strength of the Irish education system has been students» perception of their teachers as «an advocate in terms of nationally certified examinations rather than as a judge.»
The policy was a 2015 Conservative manifesto pledge but Greening said she wanted secondary schools to focus on gaining «lost ground» rather than having pupils repeat materials.
The majority of BME teachers did not feel positive about the appraisal system: only 30 % of BME teachers working in primary school and 23 % of BME teachers working in secondary school agreed the appraisal system is «supportive rather than punitive.»
For the first three years, at least, threshold targets for secondary schools (60 per cent of pupils achieving 5 A * to C grades), and for primary schools, (85 per cent of pupils achieving level 4 in English and maths) will become the new floor target and will reinforce the importance of hitting targets rather than focussing on pupil progress.
In a national survey of public schools, the National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality and Public Agenda (2007) found that if given a choice between two otherwise identical schools, 76 percent of secondary teachers and 81 percent of elementary teachers early in their careers would rather be at a school in which administrators strongly supported teachers than at a school that paid significantly higher salaries.
Laura Henry, an independent early years consultant, said: «Rather than penalising the sector, which is already seeing a recruitment crisis, why aren't we asking why these individuals are leaving secondary school without those GCSEs?
There will also be a new way of assessing schools in England, to be introduced later this year, called Progress 8, which will measure how much progress pupils make in secondary schools, rather than their raw results.
Once again, Education Austin, Pride of the Eastside, and the broader Eastside community worked together to encourage the district to partner with Talent Development Secondary of Johns Hopkins University, an entity dedicated to truly collaboratively partnering with the school rather than taking it over and running the school itself.
Not only are they likely to have a cognitive ability development deficit on entering secondary school, but the gaming, cramming and high pressure revision approaches such schools are forced to apply in order to survive in the marketised system will increase rather than decrease that cognitive ability developmental deficit.
In secondary schools, teachers spent an unusually high proportion of their working days in the classroom, rather than preparing lessons or training.
The BLS expects more secondary teacher job growth in the South and the West than in the Midwest and the Northeast, as well as in urban and rural school districts, rather than in suburban school districts.
Particularly, it is commonly believed that secondary vocational school students are those who failed on high school entrance examination; thus, they have no choice but to attend such a school (rather than it being an optimal choice) or have a learning disability (Wu & Yao, 2013).