Sentences with phrase «smaller classroom sizes»

The school is supposed to be on the average a bit better because of the smaller classroom sizes and more attentive teachers.

Smaller classroom sizes and additional resources enable students to participate in a stable, stimulating, and supportive environment that instills confidence and eliminates the obstacles that might otherwise stand in the way of a quality education.

Smaller classroom sizes, increased parental involvement, and a well - rounded education that embraces the arts are the things that will put our children on a path to success.

Getting our fair share from Albany means smaller classroom sizes, restoring programs, and reducing the need to fill gaps with higher property taxes.

Additionally, with the one - on - one educational setting of home education or the traditionally smaller classroom sizes at private schools, children receive more direct help and have more of a chance to learn and grow.

«Our son has enjoyed Cross and Crown since preschool; we truly appreciate their core values, the small classroom sizes, and the individual attention each child receives.»

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

Alternatively, considering the small classroom size and strict environment at West Point, the negative effects of technology could be larger in more standard college settings.

With small classroom sizes, high performing test scores, and extended learning opportunities (i.e. Spanish classes), Capitol Riverfront provides students with a thoughtful education designed to best meet their specific needs.

The Capitol Riverfront staff takes pride in delivering excellent educational outcomes for students in a nurturing environment with small classroom sizes, high performing test scores, and extended learning opportunities.

The program offers small classroom size and individualized instruction.

Not exact matches

The classroom sizes at FXW are smaller, which leads to more one on one attention from the teachers and the children have a better chance of academic success.

One potential culprit captured by the study: Faculty may lack the training necessary to take advantage of smaller class sizes, open classroom layouts and other strategies meant to reduce the reliance on conventional lecturing.

The naturopathic program provides the experience of small class sizes, encouraging classroom interaction in an active learning environment.

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

Smaller class sizes enable classroom teachers to build a community where everyone is respected.

«Students go from a primary school environment characterised by smaller class sizes and a smaller student cohort... and one main classroom teacher rather than multiple teachers [and specialist staff].

In this four - year longitudinal class - size study, more than 7,000 students in 79 schools were randomly assigned to one of three classroom situations: small class (13 to 17 students per teacher), regular class (22 to 25 students per teacher), or regular class with a full - time teacher's aide.

The students in the smaller classes continued to achieve at higher rates than their peers in the other groups even after they returned to normal - sized classrooms in grades four and beyond.

By pooling data across a network of agencies, we help smaller districts and charter organizations meet the 200 - classroom target sample size, with 100 classrooms each in the treatment and control groups.

For a larger class size in a small classroom, the presenters may rotate instead of the listeners.

The push for rural consolidation is all the stranger given the movement in urban areas toward smaller schools, including charter schools, so that classroom sizes are smaller and there is more accountability among students, parents, and administrators.

Despite the smaller (i.e., than for teachers and teaching), yet still significant measured effects on student learning for school - based factors beyond the classroom — Hattie has calculated an effect size of 0.39 for principals / school leaders [3]-- research evidence has confirmed that «school leaders can play major roles in creating the conditions in which teachers can teach effectively and students can learn».

Over in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the WINGS model of schooling — now Divine Providence Academy — is an example of how blended learning can facilitate effective multi-age classrooms, allowing schools to right - size staff and become sustainable as much smaller operations, akin to one - room schoolhouses of old.

Print one and then enlarge or reduce it on the copier to the size you need, whether it's for your classroom wall or for a small binder.

For instance, Krueger (1999) estimated that small classes in the Tennessee classroom size experiment generated a 5 percentile point increase in performance in early grades.

Within each school, students and teachers were assigned randomly to classrooms of three types: a small class of 15 students and two regular - sized classes of 22 students (one with a teacher's aide).

... showed students who were placed in a smaller - sized classroom made measurable gains and performed better even when they were put back in larger classes.

Intervention should focus on factors that can produce significant improvement, including effective professional development, active parent involvement, high - quality classroom assessment, and smaller class sizes.

And by incorporating family engagement, small class sizes and individualized attention, NYC Autism Charter School does whatever it takes to make sure its students succeed both in and outside the classroom.

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A survey of Georgia private school parents in 2013 found the top five reasons why parents chose a private school for their children were all related to school climate and classroom management: better student discipline (50.9 percent), better learning environment (50.8 percent), smaller class sizes (48.9 percent), improved student safety (46.8 percent) and more individual attention for their children (39.3 percent).

I've also be clear that I believe the reason the test scores are higher is that not only are classrooms sizes small etc. etc. but that AF and other charters are pulling those students that are less poor, speak primarily English, do not go home to households that don't have English as their primary language and have fewer special education needs.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

For starters, the class sizes are much smaller allowing for a much more focused and intimate experience in the classroom.

Small class sizes can foster inclusive classrooms, good relationships between staff and students, collaboration among staff, greater staff availability for helping students, and a positive school climate.

Studies have shown that smaller class sizes contribute to a more positive classroom environment where students learn better and test higher.

Class sizes should be small, and the regular education teacher should have some understanding of the kind of disabilities found in their classroom.

The movie includes no acknowledgment that the things teachers want for themselves - more resources devoted to education, smaller class sizes, policies that allow them to keep order in the classroom - are also good for kids.

The main shortcoming of this study, besides its small size, is that the students in these teachers» classrooms were mostly from middle - class households in six New England states and New York.

Even with data in hand, a teacher's claims could fall on administrators» deaf ears due to the small sample size of their one classroom.

Expanding classrooms creates smaller class sizes, increases access and opportunity for more students to quality schools, and keeps the promise of a quality education for all California students.

Our small class sizes, low student / teacher ratio, multi - age / multi-grade classrooms, and personalized instruction are designed to meet the needs of each learner.

Many credit the success of Chicago's preschool program to the small class sizes, teacher aides, and high parent involvement — parents are required to spend time in their child's classroom, and staff members often make home visits.

In a 2009 study of class sizes in California, published in the Journal of Human Resources, the authors found that the positive achievement benefits that accrue for smaller class sizes were diminished by allowing emergency credentialed teachers into the classroom who had not obtained regular credential coursework and student teaching experiences.

A classroom might be effective because of its small class size or because of random variation in peer composition.

In one study, part of the impact of attending an effective classroom may have been attributable to small class size; in the other, part of the effect may be attributable to the effectiveness of the school.

So while Malloy and Jumoke congratulate themselves about their education reform achievements, parents in every other Hartford school would do well to remember, smaller class sizes, having a teacher and an instructional assistant in every classroom and providing more support services is not a result of Malloy's education reform efforts but a result of Malloy, the State of Connecticut and the City of Hartford actually stepping forward and providing the resources necessary to make appropriate changes --- changes that should be being made at every Hartford School if only elected officials would address the broader issue inadequate funding for Connecticut's schools.