Sentences with phrase «struggling pupils»

This approach can be used to identify appropriate catch up support for struggling pupils, but can also be used to ensure that high attaining pupils continue to make good progress.

A literacy scheme which aims to help struggling pupils has failed to produce the same positive results as in a smaller trial.

The classroom teacher or team set benchmarks to identify struggling pupils and begins to collect data, which will be used to modify teaching strategies.

But some teachers say early entries can help increase focus for struggling pupils, as well as the most able.

According to the Foundation, the results of two randomised controlled trials suggest: in literacy when teaching assistants are trained in and stick to a specific and tested programme, they can improve the skills of struggling pupils; -LSB-...]

Struggling pupils in Wolverhampton and Walsall also attain fewer passes than the English average in most GCSE years, sometimes by a very narrow margin.

Class sizes would be cut, the Lib Dems promise, by a programme targeting # 2.5 billion at struggling pupils.

«Schools may be doing a fantastic job in helping struggling pupils make great progress, but judging them on GCSE results does not reflect this because it is based on the grades achieved rather than the progress made.»

And the government has ended struggling pupils» automatic right to one - to - one catch up help, pledged across England by the previous Labour government.

Mr Balls also promised more frequent reporting to parents of children in the first three years of secondary school, with a stronger focus on one - to - one tuition and catch up support for struggling pupils.

I'm sure they live lives of appallingly low self - esteem because instead of people buying their services on a market, they instead prove their worth by the gratitude of a patient or the look of sudden understanding on the face of a struggling pupil.

To put it bluntly, NCLB did some good for America's struggling pupils, but for high achievers, it mostly just hit the education pause button.

Some schools have problems with weak leadership and poor teaching especially for the struggling pupils, and this is a much worse problem than having a large school.

Schools simply look for ways to offload problematic and struggling pupils and look to take easier exam boards than some of the top schools to boost the pass rate.