Sentences with phrase «so students of all abilities»

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So a student in the bottom half of his class at Harvard University might be less confident in his abilities than a student in the top half of his class at a less prestigious institution.

Studying the humanities offers students «mental empowerment» so that they can go forward in life armed with «a sense of social responsibility» and «intellectual and practical skills that span all areas of study, such as communication, analytical and problem - solving skills, and a demonstrated ability to apply knowledge and skills in real - world settings.»

«While we support the ability of all our students to explore difficult issues, we also encourage them to do so in ways that are sensitive to others,» he aid.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

We do know that AP courses often come with much more homework, so students need to be prepared for the extra work and make sure this fits with their overall schedule and their ability to take care of their health and well - being.

Excerpt: «Chris knows that we have to invest in Oregon's community college and state university system to ensure students from all walks of life have the ability to study, train and update their skills so they can compete for good - paying jobs today and be ready for the high - tech jobs of Oregon's next economy.»

In a statement last week, Nicole Malliotakis, a Staten Island assemblywoman who pushed for the change, said the reason to add cursive was so that students would «know how to write a signature of their own to identify themselves, and have the ability to sign a legal document, check or voter - registration form.»

A final - year PhD student with this load highlights, «very few taught postgraduates have any practical ability, so they take up a great deal of my time to train them to carry out the work.

The awards will be given out based both on the quality of the research and the ability of the author to convey potential policy implications, so it will help if the student has had the research previously peer reviewed and published.

By doing so you create a very rich teaching awareness that suits all yoga students regardless of their abilities.

Kristine carefully tailors her classes to the abilities of her students, providing both easier and harder modifications so that students of all levels are able to participate fully in the course.

We need to learn how to teach progressively so that students of varying abilities and experience levels can practice in the same room safely and comfortably.

Modifications to the postures in conjunction with your physical abilities will be offered to encourage the student so they can experience a sense of success.

Meanwhile, Professor X is running his school for mutants, but instead of training his students how to fight, «He's teaching people how to control their abilities so that they can work at a bank.

Over the course of three 40 - minute classes, we had seen little improvement in the students» efforts to solve the problems, and no improvements in their abilities to do so.

Before teaching grit, it's crucial for educators to have a deeper understanding of what grit actually is so that they can not only create the conditions that encourage grit, but also realistically moderate their expectations of students» ability to develop grit.

Now students have the ability to discuss many things: ethics, tone, narrative distance, point of view, grammar, and so on.

This will help teachers gain the know - how to design, develop and deliver the whole of the new computing curriculum so that it benefits all primary and secondary students, whatever their ability.

Howard Gardner's concept of multiple intelligences, insofar as it influences teachers and curricula, has widened the path so that students with a variety of abilities can approach excellence.

Teachers are more likely to have chosen their career out of a desire to better society and help their students, and a belief that they have the ability to do so, rather than because they «love kids», research shows.

As the definition of literacy evolves in our world, so does the charge of schools in helping students work towards and gain mastery of the skills and abilities NCTE has outlined above.

A student's performance on any given test will be due partly to true ability and partly to random influences (distractions during the test, the student's emotional state that day, a fortuitous selection of test items, and so on).

The advent of more student testing, especially the spread of value - added measures of pupil and school performance, has given us both the technical ability to evaluate teachers by the results they produce and the moral imperative to do so.

And so one of the things that our group is doing right now is we're engaging with teachers from all around the country, in fact all around the world, to try to learn from them what they're doing in their own classroom practice to instill a growth mindset in their students and to help students see intelligence, and to see their academic ability, as things that they can grow.

It is very mixed ability as I have only one group of students with FFTd grades ranging from F to A in a school where languages are compulsory so it will be up to you to fit in extra practice from textbooks or tailor your feedback to stretch the more able in the mini tasks.

We compared a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student reading or math achievement, one of the specific items principals were asked about, with that teacher's actual ability to do so as measured by their value added, the difference in student achievement that we can attribute to the teacher.

If I do say so, I've experienced some success with topical differentiation (giving students choice when it comes to the topics they explore) and learning style differentiation (providing activities that appeal to the spectrum of learning styles), but readiness differentiation — instruction dictated by a student's readiness, or ability, to comprehend a concept or develop a skill — has presented a much bigger challenge.

Interviews with ecosystem scientists support the team's ability to develop EcoXPT so that students can authentically test their own hypotheses so as to better understand causal patterns they could previously only observe, thereby extending their comprehension of underlying causal relationships.

Most educators agree that differentiated instruction can dramatically help students to succeed, but good differentiation needs careful planning to make sure students of all abilities are engaged and it can be a challenge when teachers are already so pressed for time.

You are able to pick the pieces that you want, depending on the needs and the abilities of your students... so many possibilities.

This bundle combines resources for: Improving handwriting Assessing the gaps in a student's literacy skills so the teacher knows what needs to be improve upon Practical strategies for teachers to differentiate reading material to make it accessible for all pupils - regardless of their ability range A grid outlining explicitly the active literacy skills that are embedded in the content of all subjects in secondary schools A resource for engaging reluctant readers A resource for Parents» Evening to show concerned parents simple techniques that will help them to build their child's spelling skills at home This bundle supports all subjects across the curriculum - including SEN and EAL groups too

Flexibility and the ability to formulate Moodle to so many different interfaces, based on the needs and desires of the faculty, students, and institution.

In so doing, they made sure that the quasi-regulations would play on their terms by focusing on student outcomes — not on inputs like the type of training teachers should have that would limit their ability to innovate.

This phase involves students» perception of the learning environment — so, for example, how challenging a task is for them — but also their perception of their own abilities and motivation.

Ability to recruit international students is one of essential elements of making the courses profitable (aka successful), so it is important to tailor the learning environment to their needs.

Unfortunately, one of the main criteria by which you are judged as a teacher is your ability to keep «order» in the classroom — quiet; neat rows of seated students; one person speaking at a time after being recognized; and so on.

These are just some of the shifts that have impacted students» ability to manage their work and their schedules; if we want kids today to have a shot at negotiating their way through school, we have to arm them with the skills they need to do so.

They're true tests of a student's abilities and knowledge, linked to standards, and documented so that everyone — students, parents, and educators — understands what is being assessed.

Other options we're looking at is trying to come up with ways [to improve students» cognitive ability], improve their thinking skills, and so there are a couple of projects that we may do from there.

Skipping lunch can have an effect on a student's ability to concentrate and affect their ability to learn towards the end of the day, so again, more control over how a child can spend the money you give them will put parent's minds at ease.

This involvement makes the students take their work more seriously; they perform tasks considered beyond the abilities of children at their grade level, like mapping data to find trends over time, or going to scientific conferences, which has become so commonplace that we've developed a system to figure out who gets to go.

What seems to matter most is providing curriculum and instruction geared to the needs and abilities of students, engaging them so they will return day after day, and continuing to build on what they have learned.

Working with students across a wide & complex range of abilities requires a major rethink of the core day - to - day business of schools and teachers and so many of our teachers are already overwhelmed and skeetering along the brink of burnout.

Along the way, we realized that there's so much more that defines a successful student and citizen, and that schools play a central role in training students to improve on a multitude of skills and abilities.

Each section of the lesson has a low threshold with a high ceiling so that students of all abilities are easily challenged.

It seemed obvious to us, as it does to so many educators, that bubble - in answers would only ever tell part of the story and that broader, richer assessments were critical to showing the full range of a student's abilities.

I know my understanding of content and delivery is so much better, my ability to differentiate, as well as acknowledge and address particular individual needs also improved... yet the progress (or lack thereof) of my students has remained much the same.

One element of a good sexuality education program is providing sequential lessons from Foundation to Year 6 so that students develop the ability to talk about relevant and age - appropriate aspects of sexuality without unnecessary embarrassment.