Sentences with phrase «small class of students»

Our JD program selectively admits a small class of students each year, so you each get the personal attention you deserve.

Kittleson started teaching a small class of students with learning disabilities and emotional issues at Muskegon Heights last October.

Having an advanced class of the most gifted students and a small class of students who need much more intervention and are currently not working anywhere near the expected level, yet with regular review and the ability to move classes should learning, attitude and behaviour change.

While I had continued to read and be profoundly moved and strengthened by the early monastic abbas and ammas, I was happy where I was, teaching Hebrew, Aramaic and Syriac to small classes of students.

In particular, special education teachers, who often teach small classes of students with the most severe disabilities, may have very small numbers of students with which to calculate value - added; they may even have fewer than the minimum required by the state.

Not exact matches

Students on the small island of Caye Caulker had stopped showing up for class.

MOVING from the security of the small primary school class group can often cause considerable anxiety to students starting high school.

Small classes facilitate your ability to network with a core group of fellow students that share your professional interests.

Small classes also facilitate your ability to network with a core group of fellow students that share your professional interests.

The school in his neighborhood has a poverty rate of 62 % (62 % of students qualify for free or reduced - fee lunch), and is overcrowded because the governor doesn't think small class sizes are important.

But his colleagues and students who have written here are persuaded that he belongs to that small class of philosophers who merit enduring attention and appreciation within the philosophic adventure.

The small nature of private colleges tends to create groups in which students can meet and engage with people from diverse points of view, simply because class sizes tend to be so small.

Selective preschools, tracked classes, small schools within schools and enrichment programs are presented as open to all students but in reality are open only to the children of the most savvy parents — that is, to the children of rich white parents who possess the social and cultural capital to manipulate the institution to serve their needs.

But in the small classes with eager and thoughtful students where I experience it, it is quite wonderful, and certainly provides them with a taste of what genuine community can be like.

The schools sell themselves on the basis of academic excellence, programs offered, small classes, personalization of the educational process, teacher - student ratio, a «friendly atmosphere,» or location and environment.

Next would come a series of discussions, in small groups and in the class as a whole, in which students compared and contrasted their solutions, arguing and lobbying for different approaches.

The small class size allows for our kids to really get to know all of their fellow students and faculty.

Friesen says, «Freshman Academy allows students to go through their classes in a small cohort with the support of their professors, a faculty Learning Coach, and their classmates.

Her schools have endured scathing reports on disciplinary procedures and attacks from teachers» unions and rival charters, noting that Success Academies rarely refill the seats of students who drop out or are expelled, leading to far smaller class sizes.

He's also in favor of free tuition to CUNY colleges for low - and middle - income students, smaller class sizes in the city's public schools, and desegregation of the school system, which he noted is the «third most segregated in the nation.»

He learned about small satisfactions, like when eight of the students in the G.E.D. class he teaches every afternoon recently passed their test.

The charge of excess budgeting, which auditors have noted in reports on about 20 districts on the Island since January 2014, annoys many school administrators in Nassau and Suffolk counties, who say they must maintain financial cushions to preserve student programs and small class sizes in an era of fiscal uncertainty.

As for last year's testing opt - outs, Farrell said the district saw only a small percentage of students refuse to take the state tests despite low class sizes which easily skew the data.

Eroy - Reveles has also transformed a set of small courses for students looking for extra help with large lecture - based STEM classes — SFSU's version of the classes she taught at UC Santa Cruz.

Coming from a high school with a graduating class of about 60 students, I opted for a small undergraduate college rather than a university.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year doctoral student and first author of the report.

«Previously, almost all neuroscience Ph.D. students at Karolinska were recruited from classes of students studying to become M.D.s,» says Olsen «but in the last 10 — 15 years this has changed so that now a small minority of the students we accept for our Ph.D. program are derived from the M.D. curriculum classes.»

The small class size promotes good teacher - student interaction; in some ways, he suggests, class time is just a natural extension of the rest of life at Choate Rosemary Hall.

(You would be amazed how many students in a small class end the semester without knowing the names of their classmates.)

«And highlighting one small group [there were 24 students in the first UNC class of chancellor's scholars last summer] out of an entering class of 4000 is not the way we normally welcome our students.»

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

In smaller classes, students often work in groups to complete a series of steps that make up a larger problem.

With small class sizes and close contact between students and faculty, an increasing number of new private universities are attracting students from Germany and elsewhere.

«Essentially, the students are reaping the benefits of a liberal arts education — small class size, general education curriculum, high contact with professors and a residential campus,» says Graham Miller, a second - year graduate student in education and the report's first author.

Perhaps one of the main reasons for this distinction is that the Samatva Yogalaya teaches yoga only in small class sizes of about 10 students.

Those of us who are advocating to free Fire Cider are busy with our own vibrant lives; we have students, classes, events, and our own small businesses to run.

UBCNM is proud to offer small class sizes, a recently renovated anatomy lab with 24/7 student access and a student to cadaver ratio of 4:1.

Soon, Peter Max's small apartment could not accommodate all of the throngs of young people wanting to meet Swami Satchidananda, so his new American students rented a place where he could teach Yoga classes and give talks.

The classes were small enough that the instructors could pay equal attention to each student, correcting form where needed and to provide an added dose of encouragement when my butt cheeks felt about ready to fall off during the barre section.

In an intimate setting of small class size and experienced faculty, students are challenged to bridge tradition with innovation while being mentored to explore the healer they are becoming.

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

That's because the story is based in McFarland, Calif., a small, predominantly Mexican - American agricultural community, where many of the high school students work as pickers in the fields before and after classes.

Stations with self - guiding questions for reflection can be a great way to allow students to move through the writing process at their own pace, and the teacher can rotate through the stations, addressing small groups of students instead of the whole class.

But instead of having students view the content at home, that video becomes a station in class that small groups rotate through.

Have students work in small groups of 2 - 4 or project the game and do a whole class activity.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

And the announced enhancements, which included kindergarten literacy assessments, full - day kindergarten, smaller class sizes, keeping teachers and students together during the early grades, and individualized learning plans for students at risk of being held back, gave no indication of how dramatic the changes were.

If the same approach is applied to the STAR sample to adjust for the fact that some students did not enroll in the class they were assigned to - and a comparable sample of low - income black students is used - the gains in test scores after two years of attending a small class (average of 16 students) as opposed to a regular - size class (average of 23 students) is 9.1 national percentile ranks in reading and 9.8 ranks in math.

Then there is the question of how much of the students» gains in private schools are attributable to the fact that private schools had smaller class sizes in all three cities.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.