Sentences with phrase «student per teacher»

The larger number of students per teacher at the secondary level does not necessarily mean, however, that reliability is better.

In kindergarten, there are more students per teacher.

These classes have fewer students per teacher, allowing for more individualized attention.

So, the advantage of having more students per teacher is offset by other factors that reduce reliability in middle school.

The Council on Children and Families initiative shows that between the 1999 - 2000 school year and 2009 - 2010, the number of students per teacher in Wisconsin increased by 0.5 students.

Although the average number of students per teacher among the top five performers is only slightly lower than among the bottom five (15.1 vs. 16.6), the average masks larger differences.

Instructional group size is reduced to 15 students per teacher for the reading block.

«K12 has more than three times the number of students per teacher compared with overall public school student - teacher ratios.

Normal public schools always use certified teachers and limit caseloads to 100 to 150 students per teacher per day (5 classes of 20 to 30 students each).

The law tops the caseload at 28 SPED students per teacher, but he was given all 43 at the school.

There are substantially more students per every teacher in California than there are in Vermont.

Take a tip from some of the pioneer districts currently running successful distance learning programs like the one in Riverside, California; there is no escaping the fact that the more students per teacher, the less individualization per student.

In the U.S., groups such as Class Size Matters are dedicated to the proposition that fewer students per teacher is a recipe for success.

The only potentially important resource measure we can observe is pupil - teacher ratios, and we find no consistent evidence that ERI altered the number of students per teacher in the schools it affected most.

The children in the intervention group were taught reading 40 to 50 minutes a day in intensive small group settings of one to four students per teacher.

It is actually a recipe for disaster (unless the intention is also to reduce every class size to 6 students per teacher).

Schools are no longer just recording and analyzing inputs — dollars spent, number of days of instruction, numbers of students per teacher — but pushing their data - gathering and analysis efforts into the brave new world of outcomes.

Last year, as a graduate student in Sarah Dryden - Peterson's class at Harvard, I heard from aid workers and refugees about overcrowded classrooms with as many as 70 students per teacher; minimal teacher training; nearly no inquiry - based instruction; frequent disruptions; little consistency in the language of instruction, with students struggling to master a new language rather than academic content; and rampant discrimination.

We reduced the student - teacher ratio in high schools from 21.7 students per teacher in 1960 to 19.8 in 1970, and, by 1999, to 14.1.

On Oct. 5, Ms. Neeley had sent a guidance letter to school boards allowing them to grant their district superintendents the authority to ask the state for permission to exceed the class - size cap of 22 students per teacher in grades K - 4.

Between 1955 and 1995, the ratio of students to teachers in elementary and secondary schools fell from 26.6 to 15 students per teacher, a 40 percent decline (see Figure 1).

The most important criteria for the ranking of universities in the world include: (1) education that is to say number of courses offered and number of students per teacher and (2) teacher quality that contains a number of publications, number of citations, and number of prizes (Nobel, Fields, Descartes, and Abel and Lomonosov).

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.

Perspective is needed: The 5 percent cut could be accomplished by allowing pupil - teacher ratios to rise by just one student per teacher — a change that's virtually unnoticeable by most teachers.

Researchers Martin West and Ludger Woessmann have pointed out that several nations that perform impressively on international assessments, including South Korea, Hong Kong, and Japan, boast average middle - school class sizes of more than 35 students per teacher.

The results were averaged over at least 60 students per teacher to ensure statistical reliability.

But that required reducing class size from 23 to 16 students per teacher.

He also argues for a reduction in the number of students per teacher; a major reconstruction of the school day; and a simplification and...

Meanwhile, despite these huge new investments in technology (see Figure 1), massive increases in the workforce of teachers drove the student - teacher ratio from 22 students per teacher to 16 students per teacher between 1970 and 2001.

Class size would be about 15 students per teacher and initially the school would serve elementary students.

Vermont is the state with the lowest number of students per teacher, the National Education Association says.

The United States would have to reduce teacher salaries about 5 percent below their current average of $ 41,460 and increase class size by 10 percent — to nearly 17 students per teacher — to be optimally efficient, the researchers said.

If we shift 6 million students into special education and maintained the same 1974 ratio of 20.8 students per teacher, we would have shifted 292,398 teachers with them.

The advantage of having more students per teacher is offset by other factors that reduce reliability in middle school.

Classrooms in the US range from 20 - 30 students per teacher.

The union also cited recent district data that showed about 3,000 classes have over 45 students per teacher.

The number of public school students for every full - time teacher in California was 23.4 during the 2011 - 12 academic year, almost 50 percent above the national average of 16 students per teacher.

The lowest student - teacher ratio was in Vermont with 10.7 students per teacher.

Virtual class sizes tend to be larger than at traditional schools — the Virginia academy averages 60 students per teacher, according to a school document.

2) the number of students per teacher is another wacky number: it is obtained by dividing the enrollment over the total number of certificated personnel.

Meanwhile, class size has significant impacts in all four models: An increase of one student per teacher is statistically associated with a 0.8 to 1.1 point drop in student test scores compared to the national average.

As is typical with special education schools that focus on severe cases of autism, Firefly offers the gold standard of treatment for autism called Applied Behavioral Analysis with a ratio of one student per teacher.

Nevada has more students per teacher than any other state, the National Education Association says.

However, numbers ranged from a high of almost 24 students for every teacher in California, to about 11 students per every teacher in Vermont, as seen in the map below:

The bill would allow — but no longer require — every school that receives funding to keep its K - 3 classes at 18 students per teacher or 30 students per two teachers.

Some oddities in the ratio of students to teachers and administrators: at the Middle School there are 15 students per teacher while the state average is 13 students per teacher (noting this because of the complaints of overcrowding).

Classes are limited to 20 students per teacher and students learn language arts, math, science, music, and art.