Sentences with phrase «several classes of students»

He says the teachers will be responsible for several classes of students.

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It also gave students more flexibility in customizing their coursework to account for their ability level, offering core classes at several different levels of difficulty.

When teaching a first - year class of 350 students, Leblanc noticed several who had difficulty staying awake for the second half of his three - hour class.

It was probably at least a decade ago, while I was teaching at Oberlin, that a young African - American woman — I'll call her Tonya — who had been a student in several of my classes told me she was leaving school, at least for a year.

For several years I have asked students in introductory theology classes to make a list of the half dozen most important and foundational things they believe about them - selves, the universe and their place in it — convictions that clearly affect the choices they make and the ways they choose to live.

Several students saw the play and compared it with the biblical Book of Job for the benefit of the class.

Larry Bird chose my high school to do his student teaching after the ISU Sycamores run to the NCAA championship game and several of us from orchestra kids got to shoot around with him at what would have been our fourth hour orchestra class which was delayed half an hour for one semester while the teacher had younger students from the new middle school built together with the high.

This takes place through school visits of one to several weeks annually in North America Waldorf schools, working with teachers, classes, staff, and individual students, as well as offering lectures / workshops for parents and the wider community.

My girls have already been voted students of the month in their respective classes several times since Kindergarten.

Mr. Seabrook, now 53, was an indifferent student, cutting classes and getting booted out of several high schools before earning his G.E.D.

A better understanding of why people's attention meanders has several practical applications, including finding ways to keep students focused during class.

Each master's student attends several classes during the first year, covering topics from thermodynamics and molecular biology to programming, depending on the background and career perspective of the student.

«This chimeric role of employment / education affords us several concessions, including deferring student loans, increased time off... plus sick and holiday leave, decent benefits, the ability to pay into the UC retirement plan, and the flexibility of participating in lectures, seminar, conferences, and classes.»

This installment of CreatureCast is the first of several contributions that were done as final projects by undergraduate students in Casey Dunn «s Bio0410 Invertebrate Zoology class at Brown University.

► A woman calls a female student and a man who had raped her to the front of a class (the man's face is covered with several bandages) where the first woman orders them to have sex and the younger woman disrobes: we see her bare breasts and nipples, part of one hip, and her legs as she spreads them while leaning back against a desk while the man stands between her legs, he drops his pants (his shirttail covers his crotch but reveals partially bare thighs), spits on his fingers and rubs his groin under his shirt; the camera cuts to the second woman's face as she says, «A shame,» (implying there was no erection) and the man pulls up his trousers and leaves the room (we see one of the woman's breasts and her bare back as the camera cuts to the man leaving).

The school's student support committee discussed several ways to raise money for the shoes — teacher donations, collecting change, and more — but Kelsey, who teaches a split class of fourth and fifth graders, had another idea.

Guest blogger Jennifer Gonzalez proposes the In - Class Flip, a modified version of the flipped - learning model that incorporates the video lecture element as one of several stations that students visit during their class peClass Flip, a modified version of the flipped - learning model that incorporates the video lecture element as one of several stations that students visit during their class peclass period.

Gonzalez proposes the «In - Class Flip,» a type of blended learning that incorporates the video lecture element as one of several stations that students visit during their class peClass Flip,» a type of blended learning that incorporates the video lecture element as one of several stations that students visit during their class peclass period.

Several years ago ~ when I worked in a position that involved sending my self - contained gifted students to specials classes (art ~ music ~ physical education and other electives) ~ the teachers began complaining about the behavior of some of my students.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

Tamez Guerra informed the class of a pilot program involving technology - based textbooks called Programa Enciclomedias, which are provided to several thousand fourth and fifth grade students throughout the country.

One 18 - year - old student she visited, who has taken several college courses in nursing through a dual enrollment program at Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), said that in high school «I'm only learning in a few of my classes.»

For example, when reading a Sherlock Holmes story with a Year 9 class, several students thought that the photo on the front of their reading books was Conan - Doyle, but it was in fact a colour still of Jeremy Brett from the 1980s television dramatisation.

A randomized study was designed involving 16 observers, under supervision of two graduate students, who carefully coded student behavior for several weeks in two sets of classes (classes that received parent calls from teachers, and those that did not).

Several students from my class had projects, such as a look at Italy, a report on the Titanic, a study of area Native American tribes, and an exploration of his father's career as a local police officer.

Payback could bring several benefits: it not only represents fairness to the rest of the class, but also communicates to the student that she is as responsible as anyone else in the class to work hard and that she has talents to draw on.

This year's class makes my point — a great cross-section of students, some with teaching experience, some with a business background, one in the Harvard Law School, and several from overseas — but all wanting to see how they could put to work the freedom and flexibility afforded by the charter model.

The data, presented in several tables, show that 55 percent of students in the class of 2003 who haven't passed the English and mathematics exams that they take for the first time in 10th grade are white.

Several teachers boast that even the shyest students begin participating in class discussions because of their ever - growing comfort level.

Several years ago, I read a book by educator Ron Clark called The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck — 101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers, in which he describes an event that involves having students practicing social skills in a competition called The Amazing Shake.

To monitor the efficacy of the implementation of the strategies, Dryden - Peterson and a team of several doctoral and master's students enrolled in her class on Education in Armed Conflict have worked with 14 UNHCR priority countries — Bangladesh, Chad, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Kenya, Lebanon, Malaysia, Pakistan, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, Uganda, and Yemen — to track progress.

Bacow will join the weekly class of the proseminar in higher education, serve as a presenter in several classes, and provide reflections on students» discussions in others.

The class would then resume the task with students trying one or several of strategies they learned from classmates.

Over the course of several sessions, Schneier asks questions based on students» comments and has the class look at the poem in different ways, such as by identifying phrases that «go together» in meaning.

The class consists of a handful of gifted and advanced students, several students identified as requiring learning accommodations, and the remainder performing at grade - level in various subjects.

As a result of this class I developed several websites for my students at Brighton High School through a network site called Ning.

Resource Title St. Patrick's Day Mini Display Pack Age / Year Group Display for All Classes / Year Groups Total Pages in download ❤ 42 File Type PDF Resource Content ❂ Over 30 Flashcards including names of all counties in Ireland (North and South of the «invisible» border) ❂ 10 Real Life Photos of Ireland (mainly the North Coast - County Antrim and County Derry / Londonderry) ❂ Several «St. Patrick's Day» fun images - these can accompany student work for St. Patrick's Day and / or would be suitable for a St. Patrick's Day classroom / corridor display.

This product has plenty of opportunities for students to have several turns during one class, or over several class periods.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

Several teachers also have assigned the book as a work of nonfiction to students in English classes, and have used it to prompt students» reflections on their education.

This can be achieved in several ways, such as swapping students through subjects they take in other lines where there is more than one class of that subject, or by reprocessing the lines themselves.

And over the course of my first year in the classroom, that same thought emerged several more times — at the school musical, visiting the graphic design class, and even just watching a couple of students do their math homework during study hall.

Several weeks later, my well - meaning homeroom teacher had a brainstorm that a good way to promote harmony between the races was for several of us black students to serve as hall monitors during the breaks between classes when kids moved from room tSeveral weeks later, my well - meaning homeroom teacher had a brainstorm that a good way to promote harmony between the races was for several of us black students to serve as hall monitors during the breaks between classes when kids moved from room tseveral of us black students to serve as hall monitors during the breaks between classes when kids moved from room to room.

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

As several classes have started taking the PARCC exams in English and math this week, I have been reflecting on an area of our program that many of our students find most challenging — writing.

The proportion of Corcoran High School students saying that they learn new things instead of reviewing things they already know «Everyday» or «Several Times per Week» increased by 10 percentage points for English classes and by 19 percentage points for math classes.

Currently, she is following several teachers who «flipped» their classrooms (a process in which teachers have students watch the lecture portion of a class at home on video, then do the homework or more hands - on work, in class), and is preparing to go in that direction with her own class.

Teaching experience of the teacher and number of teachers in the class (the Building Bridges case involved a first - year teacher and a doctoral student who had taught for several years, while the Making Weighty Decisions case involved one veteran teacher).

For instance, schools participating in the Carnegie Foundation's Student Agency Improvement Community, a network of researchers and practitioners applying the science of learning mindsets to daily classroom practice, have seen stronger outcomes among low - income black and Latino students since implementing interventions focused on learning mindsets.34 Equal Opportunity Schools, a national nonprofit organization, has also partnered with school, county, and district leaders to increase the number of black and Latino students enrolled in advanced placement courses and has seen gains in both participation and passage rates as a result.35 In addition, several studies show that learning mindsets interventions can reduce the effects of stereotype threat among female, black, and Latino students in math and science classes.36

-- Yong Zhao Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas, and author of several books, including Catching Up or Leading the Way: American Education in the Age of Globalization and World Class Learners: Educating Creative and Entrepreneurial Students