Sentences with phrase «small groups of students rather»

«I am free to work with small groups of students rather than standing up front with no chance to get through to all kids.»

In recent years, experts have discovered that if a question is posed to a small group of students rather than to just one learner, the answer is worked out and recalled more effectively.

Differentiation is simply attending to the learning needs of a particular student or small group of students rather than the more typical pattern of teaching the class as though all individuals in it were basically alike.

Not exact matches

Rather than drilling students into compliance around the critical components of SLANT (Sit Up, Listen, Ask and Answer Questions, Nod your head, Track the Speaker), a blended - learning environment will hopefully create the conditions where students will want to be more fully present through individualized learning and targeted small - group engagement.

Rather than teaching all the students the same subjects, in the same way, at the same pace — like in today's schools — the teacher rotated around the room and worked individually with small groups of students.

In my experience students really enjoy this opportunity to use spoken French in a small group, rather than in front of the class.

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

Unlike reading specialists, they focus primarily on teacher development rather than working with small groups of students.

One DCPS official told a concerned parent in an email that a longer testing window has allowed schools to rotate smaller groups of students through tests rather than testing everyone at the same time, «so that instruction, student services, field trips, science fairs, performances and the like can continue.»

These studies suggest early grade teachers do better when they «specialize» in a small group of students, rather than a certain academic subject.

One of the great things about a session of this type is rather than being in a virtual class with students and professors from all over the world with areas of expertise from military to healthcare to finance to manufacturing, I will be in a small group of industry specific specialists.

The executive director of Smarter Balanced, a consortium of states developing the new Common Core assessments, said he supports California's decision to give the field, or practice, test in the new standards to all students next spring, rather than limit the pilot to a small test group as other states are doing.