Sentences with phrase «same kind of student»

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«We still have some work to do to ensure that students who take out private student loans have the same kinds of protections offered by federal loans.»

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

In a world of school supplies that all look the same, patterned pencils, notebooks with cats, or a certain kind of binder in a favorite color let students express their individuality beyond the basics on the school supply list.

As co-chair of my school district's student nutrition committee for the past 8 years, I get exactly the same kind of feedback from parents and other advocates — some demand farm - to - school, some want only organic, some want to ban HFCS, etc. — and few understand the USDA regs which govern the meal program, or the limits of what can be accomplished on the inadequate government reimbursement.

Paterson said he hoped the law would protect students from bullying similar to the same kind of that he experienced in school.

Anti-poverty activists are urging Cuomo to veto a bill that would allow students at for - profit colleges to get the same kind of tuition assistance being offered to their non-profit counterparts.

«I know that they are working very hard to do what they can to maintain the same programs that allowed those students to have that kind of success last year, even though there has not been funding, but it is effecting them and I think it is important for us all to be aware of that,» remarked Elia.

This kind of institutional support follows impressive results: The program graduates minority students with a biology degree at the same rate as Asian and white students, and at twice the rate of minorities not in the program.

Foreign students will be supported by research funds and domestic students by training money, although both will receive the same kind of training.

I'm the wife of a law student so we're kind of in the same boat and I'm getting my Ph.D!

I completely understand what you're saying, I kind of had to do the same thing from being a college student and dressing more casually to more professional.

During their period of study, we aim to provide students with the same kind of professional experiences that they will deal with throughout their career.

The crew of semi-anonymous British TV veterans behind the Crackle series Snatch have stumbled into the kind of job that gets pawned off on patsies and chumps: turn the Guy Ritchie movie of the same title into a crime series with the approximate production value of a Guy Ritchie - influenced student film.

Until last week, the North Carolina Community College System, which as of the 2006 - 07 academic year had 112 degree - seeking undocumented high school graduates among about 800,000 students of all kinds at its 58 campuses, followed the same policy.

«That kind of experience, where students realize that other people watching exactly the same thing have different interpretations, is very valuable,» he says.

Ii is the same thing with education: The scope is very broad, with cases like students who seek counselors / «career advisors» based on the studies they are taking; or international student assistants; or even the wizard to student life in the city they are, to inform them about all kind of activities.»

When going over my records, I noticed that certain students continued to make the same kinds of errors in every writing assignment they turned in.

«We want our students doing the same kinds of tests [of their devices] that the experts do when they're designing prostheses,» Coronado says.

This same kind of introspection about the college experience can start before students arrive on campus — during the application process, as students are looking for the right school to fit their personal, social, professional, and academic goals.

If we are serious about preparing our students for the 21st century and for the kinds of jobs that will require them to problem solve, think creatively, and work collaboratively, we need to help them master those same skills in the classroom.

We found what I'd considered to be called «non-parallel delivery», because like you said you're doing two different kinds of teaching at the same time; you're interacting with kids face - to - face and that has its own challenges and pedagogical challenges, and then you're also dealing with a two dimensional set of students that are remote and, of course, you're two - dimensional to those students as well.

When implementing this approach, we only compare the outcomes of students for whom the same pair of teachers is making the assessments to ensure that our results are not biased by certain kinds of students being assigned to teachers with especially high (or low) expectations.

Um, and when I saw those words, you know, I kind of remembered that student, but I also saw something worth sharing and so I took a picture of it, I uploaded it to my new Twitter account, and I really just hoped that other teachers would ask the same question to their students and, much to my surprise, they did, and it ended up, you know, going viral and, you know, like TV cameras all of a sudden came to the school and there was a lot of attention on it, and it really amplified my students» voices.

Later, students use their experience with the horny toads to practice various kinds of writing: instructions to capture a lizard, a persuasive paragraph on the same topic, a description of horny toads» resemblance to a dirt clod, an explanation of how this appearance benefits the lizards.

And the result was that when we looked at the data for the state science exam, all schools made progress, not at the same rate, but all of the sub-groups also made progress, and that kind of had light bulbs going off that this was really having an impact on student learning.»

Students should have access to the same or nearly the same kinds of tools and technology adults use in similar situations.

I haven't yet found other instructional strategies that bring out the same kind of behaviors from all students — especially from the majority of learners outside the small group motivated by grades and / or college - admission requirements, or the even smaller group motivated by intellectual curiosity.

The same kind of distractions from the business at hand must be said of the Common Core State Standards debate, which has drained our collective energies and focus on students.

«If we want students to have a voice and a choice in their learning and we want them to be in the driver's seat, we have to allow teachers to do that same kind of learning,» she said.

We also call this «symmetry» in our work — that if, as a system level leader, you want teachers to teach students in a particular way, you have to give teachers opportunities to have those same kinds of learning experiences...

He liked the notion of low - income public - school students» getting the same kind of instruction as rich kids in private schools.

Among those looking for more charter schools in the state's worst - performing districts was 18 - year - old Eddie McGuire, a senior at Boston Collegiate Charter School in Dorchester, who believes more students should have the same kinds of opportunities he has had.

In some cases, students examined after receiving this kind of try - again feedback had learning outcomes that were lower than students who hadn't received any feedback at all on the same initial set of questions.

In a 2012 policy brief, the Illinois State Board of Education emphasized the need to seamlessly connect high school and college education by streamlining the curriculum taught to high school seniors and college freshmen according to the Common Core.6 Though Illinois encouraged state universities to share with state high schools what kind of material students will be expected to know in their first year of college, nothing indicates that homeschools or private schools would be privy to the same information.

Prospective teachers should have the same kind of experiences integrating science, mathematics, and technology as their future students.

Teacher educators can not assume that their students have the same kind of college experience as previous generations.

Prospective teachers learn to use tools, doing the same kind of exploratory activities in which their own students in the middle grades could be engaged.

My own experience in college was really life changing, and I want to support that same kind of transformational experience for students.

Welders, for example, need strong trigonometry skills while machine tool and die makers are often times the same kind of top math students that go into the tech sector.

But more importantly, charter schools do not enroll the same kind of special ed students as the district schools.

For Tennessee's version of the value - added method to work properly, however, student test scores must be statistically converted to a special kind of analytic scale so that student achievement gains in particular content areas represent the same amount of growth at different grade levels.

He aspires to be the same kind of leader as his own elementary school principal — a leader who understood that a student's circumstances outside of school should not impact their ability to receive a great education.

Students who speak the same language or have similar levels of language proficiency may need very different kinds of support to succeed in the classroom.

That's kind of ironic given the current belief that the purpose of No Child Left is to ensure all students regardless of their backgrounds should achieve at the same level.

But it will take decades to know whether the students graduating from high school today will reap the same kind of lifetime benefits that their predecessors did from those diplomas.

From where they sit, simply requiring kids of different backgrounds to attend the same schools, either by using and zoned schooling rules, or through supposedly more choice - oriented magnet schools (which restrict choice by setting quotas on what kind of kids can attend, often to the advantage of middle class families) Wil lead to higher levels of student achievement and foster greater understanding among each other.

I do still have 20 - 25 % of my students finding the same kind of basic sources as before.

If we want low - income students from less - educated families to get the same kind of high school education their more affluent peers are getting, we need to give them access to the same knowledge those peers are taking in at home.

By massing the same kinds of problems together, students» performance within a single class or homework assignment might improve, but it won't benefit their long - term retention of those skills.