Sentences with phrase «students at every ability»

Moreover, a larger percentage of students at all ability levels participate in smaller schools, and students participate in a wider range of activities, for example, both sports and academic clubs.

Student engagement increases because students at all ability levels encounter questions that are challenging, yet not insurmountable.

Not exact matches

A new instructor, he says «has the ability to impact many students» lives and students have access to experts, right at their fingertips,» he says.

It also gave students more flexibility in customizing their coursework to account for their ability level, offering core classes at several different levels of difficulty.

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.

«If you're not going to be in the top half of the class, you're going to run the risk of mistakenly thinking that you are not a good student, of coming to a conclusion about your own abilities that's at odds with reality.»

His ability to eliminate his student loans and grow that business has allowed him reach financial independence at the young age of 32.

It's always an important and separate element that lenders look at in determining your ability to pay off newly refinanced student loans.

A recent report from the Global Financial Literacy Excellence Center at the George Washington University said 54 % of millennials are concerned about their ability to repay their student loans, and nearly half don't think they could come up with $ 2,000 for an emergency.

My messages were very much like a top exit student from theological training who preached at the church I was attending, and was impressed with his own ability to exegete every word of «the original Greek».

If SB 1146 were to pass, it would deny students» ability to participate in state grant programs — programs that exist to help low - income students, and which are overwhelmingly used by racial minorities — at schools that are found in violation of the bill.

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.

She was polite to every student and had the ability to laugh at an irreverent comment from one student while fixing another with a silencing eye.

At the end, even though he has been fired by the school, we are thrilled as his students find the ability to stand against authority, to think for themselves.

I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set of moral principles.

By throwing millions at various diversity initiatives, university administrators propitiate the idols of diversity and tolerance while contributing to a climate that actively undermines the ability of students and faculty alike to engage in free speech and debate in an atmosphere of respect and civility.

Many students come from disadvantaged homes and backgrounds that don't necessarily have the ability to support healthy at - home meals made with fresh fruits and veggies.

We believe that with support, encouragement, discipline, patience, and overall balance; your student athlete will have the ability to play at a high level.

Testing provides, sort of a snapshot, of a child's skill set and abilities at a given time, and allows a parent and a school to develop more appropriate expectations of the students; whether it's performance in school or ability to learn.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

Students feel competent, they say, when their teachers give them tasks that they can succeed at but that aren't too easy — challenges just a bit beyond their current abilities.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

At the heart of our education lies the goal to bring students to an understanding of the commonality of the human experience of all of the world's people, transcending the stereotypes, prejudices, and divisiveness of classification by race, religion, sex, nationality, and ability.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

At Kosciuszko Pool, 2732 N. Avers Ave. (486-9340), diving instructor Jim Carney likes to take his students to the limit of their ability.

And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.

While at the capitol, they took the opportunity to reconnect with other congressional leaders such as Senators Tommy Tomlinson and LeAnna Washington to continue discussions about legislation that will strengthen Licensed Athletic Trainers» abilities to safeguard student athletes in Pennsylvania.

Bradford Trudeau, Director of Student Nutrition Services at Garland Independent School District (TX), said two of the fastest trends in school meals are international options and the ability to have students create their own lunch.

The parent shall provide for an annual educational evaluation in which is documented the student's demonstration of educational progress at a level commensurate with her or his ability.

If the student does not demonstrate educational progress at a level commensurate with her or his ability, the district school superintendent shall notify the parent, in writing, that such progress has not been achieved.

Continuation in a home education program shall be contingent upon the student demonstrating educational progress commensurate with her or his ability at the end of the probationary period.

By doing away with a la carte snacks, which had become the emblem of «I have money», and instead offering a variety of full meals (all of them covered under the free / reduced lunch program), we have achieved the ability to offer older students a wider variety of choices at lunchtime but also a fully equitable program, where literally there is no way to tell anymore who bought their meal and who is eating free.

Union contracts, for example, could allow senior teachers, who typically are paid more, the ability to choose the school at which they teach, which could be seen as providing increased support for students in one building over others.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — Chess enthusiasts of all ages and abilities are invited to join instructors and students from the National Scholastic Chess Foundation for Chess in the Park being held Monday, October 9 from 1 to 4 pm at the Ruby Dee Park at 1

«She had a very strong sense of community and a great ability to get her fellow students involved in causes that were important to her,» said Angela Carannante, her former teacher at New Dorp HS.

Whilst the UK Government preoccupied themselves with ending maintenance grants, Kirsty Williams has been busy ensuring that for every student in Wales it is your academic ability and not your ability to pay that determines whether you can study at University.

And he rejected the claims of private college officials that his proposal will wreak havoc on their ability to attract students, especially at a time when many small, independent colleges are financially struggling.

Volunteer internships at AAAS exist to make use of training and abilities of undergraduate and graduate students in developing special projects or studies for the organization.

• Notably, nearly two - thirds (64 percent) of the students who experienced cyberbullying said that it really affected their ability to learn and feel safe at school.

The study also found that nearly two - thirds (64 percent) of the students who experienced cyberbullying stated that it really affected their ability to learn and feel safe at school.

Among those middle and high school students who had the lowest levels of resilience, their ability to learn and feel safe at school was negatively affected many times.

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

Choi, Christine Lippard, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at Iowa State; and Shinyoung Jeon, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Oklahoma - Tulsa, analyzed data measuring inhibitory control (the ability to pay attention and control natural, but unnecessary thoughts or behaviors) and math achievement for low - income students in Head Start through kindergarten.

Serious but accessible research and an ability to inspire younger students are among the keys to getting hired at an undergraduate - focused institution

«The major advancement of this new tool is the ability to use a low - cost and accessible imaging method such as EEG to depict deeply located brain activity,» said both senior author Dr. Talma Hendler of Tel - Aviv University in Israel and The Sagol Brain Center at Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, and first author Jackob Keynan, a PhD student in Hendler's laboratory, in an email to Biological Psychiatry.

«From the first moment she came into our school,» wrote teacher Mike Weddle, «I was amazed at her ability to captivate the students with a succinct explanation of the pika's very complex characteristics and behavior.»

The research tested the ability of 114 nutrition and dietetics students in the U.S. and Australia to identify foods and determine serving sizes by looking at photos of food on plates.

Last year, for example, we reported on mathematician Don Haussler, the adjunct at Kansas City Kansas Community College whose students mounted a fundraising drive to help finance the surgery he needed to retain his ability to walk.

As an EU citizen living in Scotland, at the moment I am worried about how Brexit will affect my ability to stay and work in the United Kingdom, and how it will affect my students, the members of my lab, and a lot of my colleagues and collaborators.

Student submariners gather at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland to compete in a race that tests their engineering skills — and ability to pedal under water