Sentences with phrase «smaller class either way»

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The most common way to teach essential skills is through classes, small groups or workshops taught by instructors from outside your company.

«This decision makes the big boys bigger and the middle class smaller, and we are determined to restore the law to the way it was,» said Senator Alexander, who added that the legislation has some bipartisan support and could advance to a vote in the coming months.

The government had pitched the changes as a way to prevent wealthy Canadians from gaining an unfair advantage and paying less tax, but small businesses said the changes hurt the middle class.

With dynamic economic growth, burgeoning middle classes and new and expanding business opportunities increasingly defining Canada - Asia relations, businesses and educators across Canada are looking for ways to significantly increase the small number...

Please don't think I'm going all Porcher on you: But the argument that America has in some ways become too oligarchic is nontrivial (even THE WALL STREET JOURNAL is starting to notice a bit), and it's not that clear that smaller government or lower taxes by themselves will grow jobs for our increasingly pathological middle / lower middle class.

While you can't blame Jones for his overall strength of schedule in fighting past prime opponents or being the bigger guy, it's GSP who comes out way in front overall for fighting younger opponents overall who were still prime, fighting in a deeper, more talented weight class overall, and also being much smaller than Jones in his respective weight class,

Still, the 23 - year - old may have benefited from working with world class players and contributing in some small way to the club winning two Champions League titles and La Liga in the last two years.

of course no team wants to lose but I can guarantee you that the reaction by the Chelski fans after today's results are nowhere near what would have occurred if we shit the bed on opening day... the difference is they have tasted EPL success on more than one occasion recently, they have won the Champions League and they have done it with 3 different managers in the last 12 years with a similar, if not smaller, wage bill than us... in comparison, we have been experiencing our own personal Groundhog Day with nothing to show for it but a few silvery trinkets that would barely wet the appetite of a world - class club... so it's time for Wenger to stop gloating over our week one escape act and make some substantial moves before this window closes or I fear that things will take a horrible turn when the inevitable happens... living on a knife's edge is no way to go through a full season of football and regardless of what side of the argument you fall on, you could feel high levels of toxicity in the air and that was friggin week one... I would much rather someone tried their best and failed, than took half - measures and hoped for the best

I guess I look at Watford as similar to Bolton in a lot of ways: a smaller club in a working class area on the outskirts of a major city with loads of big clubs always casting a shadow.

The stark contrast in his role and his production perfectly embodies the really big fish in a small pond idea, and truly conveys what happens when a superstar footballer drops way down in weight class of the league he plays in.

Whether it's small class size, a nurturing family environment or the ability for teachers to foster the love of learning, many families choose private school as a way to enhance the learning of their littlest family members.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

But the way the deal was done — with a promise - busting tax increase to help pay for an election - year middle - class tax rebate, and a minimum - wage boost coupled with a tax cut for small businesses — was a vivid illustration of the genius and the expediency of the Andrew Cuomo method.

Middle class families and small businesses are just getting penalized and taxed in other ways.

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.

«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.»

These include: a) Global Clusters that consist of a small, tight subset of genes that are co-expressed under the entire spectrum of experimental conditions; b) Time Series of gene expression profiles during successive days of standard ES cell differentiation; c) Specific Gene Classes based on hierarchical clustering of transcriptional factors and ESTs; d) Expression Waves of genes with characteristic expression profiles during ES cell differentiation, juxtaposed to waves of genes that behave in the exact opposite way; e) Pathway Animations that illustrate dynamic changes in the components of individual KEGG signaling and metabolic pathways viewed in time - related manner; and, f) Search Engines to display the expression pattern of any transcript, or groups of transcripts, during the course of ES cell differentiation, or to query the association of candidate genes with various FunGenES database clusters.

«Functional fitness squeezed into the top 10 (10th place), but I would predict in Australia it would actually rank higher: the fitness industry in Australia is world class, with many great sports and exercise scientists paving the way with innovations — just look at our great Olympic records with such a small population!

Moving through arm exercises using small hand weights, we found our way to the barre, where we pulsed through plies, tendus, leg lifts, jumps, ball squeezes and arabesques until the whole class was quivering around on shaky legs like human jellies.

For new and experienced yogis, small class or private instruction can help individuals focus on posture development, deepen practice, or simply introduce yoga in a safe and anxiety - reducing way.

Whether you keep a gratitude journal, take class notes by hand, or commit to regularly writing an older relative handwritten letters, handwriting is a small but effective way to boost your quality of life when you have Hashimoto's hypothyroidism.

Let Me In is more interested in presenting the humiliation of being the small one in swim class, in the locker room, after school, on the way to wherever when the places off the trail loom with promise of every mysterious means to degradation.

That Tim is a small - time operator who dreams of making it big does introduce a faint whiff of class satire; Amanda, for all her imposing bluntness, entertains a similar fantasy of shortcutting her way to success, frequently invoking Steve Jobs as her role model.

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.

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.

That struggle might manifest itself in the classroom in a variety of ways — not volunteering to answer questions, not asking for help, not speaking up in small - group activities, even not talking in class at all.

The only way to implement any of these reforms successfully, within budget and at scale, is to help excellent teachers increase their productivity: swap portions of excellent teachers» time with digital instruction so they can teach more classes with similar or even smaller group sizes; let them delegate nonessential tasks to other adults; use digital tools to save time on instructional monitoring and planning; put them in charge of other teachers; and let the willing have more students to nurture under their strong wings.

However, a survey by TES Global questioned around 4,300 UK teachers, and found that many teachers deemed smaller class sizes as an effective way of improving learning.

Both Chandler and Noe agree that modeling the various roles within a small group in front of the whole class is an effective way of teaching students how those roles allow the group to function.

The first thing I did was create new Edmodo groups for my new classes, and introduced them to a range of new ways to use it such as silent conversations, small group collaborations and completing class tasks digitally.

The pack includes: Powerpoint - A Powerpoint about the festival of Hanukkah - when it is, what is eaten, how it is celebrated - the pages could also be printed off to enable you to create a class book for the children to read Photographs - Colour photos of a Menorah, a Dreidel, Hanukkah Gelt and people lighting the Menorah candles - great to add to your displays or for discussion Word cards Fact cards - Fact cards about the festival of Hanukkah Display banners - 2 different large titles for displays «Happy Hanukkah» and «Hanukkah» each with Hanukkah themed pictures Display border - A colourful display border with Hanukkah themed pictures - this can be printed as many times as you need to use on a display border of any size Writing pages - A collection of decorated A4 border pages - great for the children's work or to add to your writing area at Hanukkah Colour page border - A collection of colour A4 border pages - a great way to quickly display the children's work Colour posters - A set of A4 information posters with pictures of Gelt money, Menorah, Dreidel and Potato Latkes Display lettering - Large letters spelling «Hanukkah» which are decorated with pictures linked to Hanukkah - Great for a larger display Hanukkah story - The Hanukkah story for you to read aloud to the children Colouring posters - A collection of posters for the children to colour - these could also be printed smaller for the children to use on their Hanukkah cards Bookmarks - A collection of Hanukkah themed bookmarks for the children to cut out and colour Number line - A number line to 50 on colourful Dreidels Alphabet line - An alphabet line on candles - this could also be used for other festivals or a part of a birthday display Colour posters - A4 posters with pictures of images associated with Hanukkah Songs and rhymes - A collection of decorated song sheets with songs and rhymes about Hanukkah including two number rhymes Recipe - A photo recipe to make Latke cakes - a popular Hanukkah dish - the pages can be printed to make a book or used for displays Dreidel game - A Dreidel spinner to cut out and play the game of Dreidel Make a Dreidel - A 3D Dreidel spinner to make complete with instructions Hanukkah cards Acrostic poem Maths worksheet - Count the number of Dreidels Addition worksheet - Add the numbers on the Dreidels Menorah Counting - Worksheets to count the number of Menorah candles lit Cut and make a Menorah Number dominoes Word search Worksheets - Match the Hanukkah words to the pictures, draw the Hanukkah pictures and fill in the missing words Writing activities - Worksheets to write the Dreidel instructions and writing about Hanukkah

Following are some of the ways that procedure might be adapted in a classroom setting to involve small groups or an entire class.

Instead, school districts have attempted to enhance student learning (and address many other problems along the way) by hiring more people — more teachers (for smaller classes) and more teacher aides, guidance counselors, bus drivers, lawyers, accountants, special educators, bilingual specialists, and others.

Aziz, a student from Sage International School, said that as he neared graduation, he realizes that «small class size and getting to know the people around me in such a personal way... is not something that all high school students get in their schools.»

He noted that when schools in his small district must reorganize classes to cope with new students who push classrooms out of compliance, it disrupts education in a way that's «counterintuitive to what we wanted.»

We explored the goals and methods of SAGE teachers in higher - achieving and lower - achieving classrooms; the results suggest some interesting ways in which educators can maximize the benefits of smaller classes.

Because small class sizes are proven way to boost achievement, the district should not postpone working on a strong class size policy.

Two weeks after the preservice teachers designed and presented their modelactivities during the sixth week of classes in the fall semester, one student (to be named «Trent» hereafter) inquired about a set of TI - 83s to use withhis onsite, small group teaching lesson, a requirement of the practicum course.Trent had been searching for ways to improve the test scores of these studentswhen he heard during class that using the TI - 83s and StudyCards was one wayin which a teacher had reached her social studies students with special needs.These special needs students had grown - up with GameBoys and other handheldvideo games and were motivated to learn using the TI - 83 since it was a similartype of device.

Our offer does include smaller class size, an extended teaching day, additional extra-curricular activities and other imaginative and often innovative ways of bringing learning to life and making it relevant for the pupils we serve.

The only possible way UDL could ever work would be to have a very small class size.

Group sessions are the latest way for teachers to engage and connect with their students in whole - class or small - group settings.

These include whole class direct teaching, ideas for small group work, playful activities, games and ways to set up the Early Years environment in a way that inspires children to explore the concepts in question.

With small class sizes, our teachers really get to know students and support them every step of the way, with college exposure embedded in daily life from kindergarten through high school.

Another local way to promote and pay great teachers is to get beyond the smaller - classes - are - always - better myth.

Now, this does not in any way dispute the value of great teachers and small class sizes.

The same way surgeons practice a single stitch thousands of times, teachers need to practice moving students from whole class instruction to small groups over and over again.

When one compares small group and whole class instruction in this more meaningful way, small group teaching loses its advantage; that is, no differences in average achievement.

We will show you how to incorporate our software into your lesson plans, enhance your core curriculum through technology, differentiate instruction, and share proven ways to facilitate independent, scaffolded learning for students with diverse needs through whole class, small group, or individual instruction.

Skyline High students in English teacher Lisa Rothbard's class gather in small groups to discuss the best way to define a strong thesis statement.

Studies from Tennessee, Wisconsin, and states throughout the country have demonstrated that students who are assigned to smaller classes in grades K - 3rd do better in every way that can be measured: they score higher on tests, receive better grades, and exhibit improved attendance.