Sentences with phrase «students in a particular group»

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«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

In particular, Code.org strives to reach underserved minority groups such as girls and Hispanic and African American students so they, too, have a chance to learn about computer sciences.

What do you think it is about this group of students in this particular moment that feels like a break from the past?

The city has launched programs to target three groups in particular: small - business owners, filmmakers who are women and people of color, and students dreaming of getting into the business.

The idea, in short, is that the same principle that suggests Christian students should be allowed to form groups with particular identities also means that Vanderbilt has a right to corporately discriminate against student groups at odds with its values

A group of alumni, otherwise unidentified, had asked the bureau whether «an organization which raises funds to be used principally in travel and other activities necessary to interview and persuade prospective students with outstanding athletic ability to attend a particular university» was tax exempt.

«We had a group of students at one elementary school in particular who petitioned the superintendent and the administration to reconsider.»

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

Those studying for a PhD constitute a particular and special group in the student community.

As a grad student, I once spent 2 months demonstrating that three particular amino acids on a protein in the arabinose operon (the group of genes that allows bacteria to metabolize a certain sugar) do not play a role in causing that protein to bind to other copies of itself.

The «deliberate practice» method begins with the instructor giving students a multiple - choice question on a particular concept, which the students discuss in small groups before answering electronically.

For those embarking on a chemistry career in Canada, the new resource at Careerchem.com helps students to identify leading scientists in emerging areas of chemistry, to locate alumni from a department or a particular advisor's group who were successful in obtaining academic positions in Canada and the United States, and to discover particular patterns of recruitment for faculty positions at chemistry departments in Canada.

Additionally, a workforce with a better representation of ethnic minorities will help attract more students from these groups in particular.

«To build tissues, we need to be able to take stem cells and use them to make many different cell types which are grouped together in particular spatial patterns,» explained Andres M. Bratt - Leal, the paper's first author and a former graduate student in McDevitt's lab.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

On the other hand, there is reason to believe that the approach to bolstering students» advanced literacy skills, and academic language skills in particular, need not be entirely different for different groups, particularly with increasing grade levels.

In particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schoolIn particular, we take advantage of the lottery - based admissions process for charter schools to compare the academic performance of two groups of students: those who wanted to attend a charter school and were randomly admitted and those who wanted to attend but were not admitted and remained in traditional public schoolin traditional public schools.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says former HGSE associate professor Hunter Gehlbach (now at University of California Santa Barbara).

During most classes, students work in groups based on the particular benchmark activities or assessments that they are mastering, while the teacher and tutors walk around and provide assistance.

Even with a plethora of how - to advice on creating community in a classroom, it can be difficult to know what will work best for any particular group of students.

In Social Studies class, groups of students who had focused on a particular poster discussed their thoughts.

Nearly all the schools surveyed placed students in particular attainment groups purely based on their previous attainment levels.

«Take a group of students who are arbitrarily assigned to spend a year with a particular teacher, who probably had no choice in selecting the students, and make them get along well,» says Associate Professor Hunter Gehlbach.

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

Before beginning the activity, ask students to brainstorm in small groups the steps that might be involved in deciding whether a particular franchise opportunity is a good one or not.

More subtly, concluding that students in a particular school are performing well «given their socioeconomic backgrounds» or «given the proportion of Indigenous students in the school» reflect reduced expectations based on group membership.

Because the performances of all students would continue to be reported on the current NAPLAN score scale, it would still be possible to calculate year level averages, to show how students perform in relation to their year group, and to identify levels of proficiency that, ideally, all students should reach by particular times in their schooling.

He showed me charts with stick figures in five colors (representing percentages of English school children) that are used to explain to teachers and parents what the particular problems were for each group of students and how to fix them.

This is ideal for any age group but particularly good for GCSE and A Level graphics communication in particular, and will give information on which students can show an informed response.

You may want to give students the option of breaking into groups based on interest in a particular speech.

Yet data clearly show that some groups of students, poor and minority students in particular, do not fare appreciably better in schools that are higher performing overall.

Students learn through the following tasks: - Gauging and collaborating previous knowledge of «propaganda» through a discussion - based starter task; - Using an interactive, out - of - seat, group activity to build understanding of the features of propaganda; - Reading chapters 7 and 8 with a particular focus on the character of Squealer, and demonstrating their understanding through a related activity sheet; - Developing their understanding of Squealer's actions, and finding textual evidence to back this up, through a scaffolded, retrieval activity; - Using their imaginative and creative skills, in addition to their knowledge of Squealer and propaganda posters, to construct their own propaganda poster for Animal Farm; - Peer assessing their partners» learning attempts.

Students were able to be grouped in linked floating classes, of equivalent subject levels (e.g. a particular type of Science or Maths).

Research shows that a properly organized peer - led study group can help improve students» grades; a particular study of 110 students found that students who studied in a peer - led group scored an average of 5.5 points higher in their final exams compared to students who were not in a group.

Average Year 9 reading results for schools in three ICSEA groups (2009 to 2013) Of particular concern is the observation that, since 2000, between - school differences in student performance in PISA have been increasing.

Building community also means connecting with kids, so United for Success starts and ends each school day with an advisory period, during which a small group of students meet with a particular teacher, creating an in - school family of sorts to support students academically and personally as they navigate the rough waters of adolescence.

While I'm working with a group of students on a particular skills, I have a couple other small groups working on task cards in which they are writing out the answers and using an iPad to scan the QR code.

For students of color as a group in a particular school or district, the initial goal might be to reach and exceed state - level averages for white kids.

There's random error in student test scores; there's random variation in the particular group of teachers who complete a program in a given year; there's random variation in where those teachers end up working; and there's random variation in how responsive their students are.

Children may be assigned to different groups for reading and math, and can switch groups if they have shown progress, struggle to get along with other students in a group or need extra help with a particular lesson.

«Eventually I plan to work in a job that allows me to support teachers in creating instructional practices that help this particular group of students and also have the ability to develop curriculum that creates equity through excellence.»

We may do our particular share of this work locally, with a particular group of students, in a particular community, but we must keep sight of the links between this local action and the global enterprise of which it is a part.

The Mathematica researchers draw on other studies to try to estimate the potential peer effects, but clearly the best way to resolve the issues of self selection, attrition and replacement would be for KIPP to run a substantial number of «conversion» charter schools — schools in which KIPP educates students who happen to live in a particular neighborhood, rather than a self - selected group of students.

Description According to Harvey Daniels, author of Literature Circles: Voice and Choice in the Student - Centered Classroom, a classroom literature circle is a small group of students who read and discuss a particular piece of literature.

Increases in achievement for African American and Latino students, in particular, were substantially higher than the average gains for students overall at all three age groups and in both subjects.

In particular, the strategy called Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ``... encourages students to use a variety of techniques, such as group projects, multimedia presentations, drawings, or music» for literacy and other academic subjects.

Education Week examines whether the «widespread worry that states would walk away from making sure that particular groups of students — English - language learners, students in special education, and racial minorities — mattered in their school accountability systems» under ESSA is well founded.

Many school systems have gotten the message that they need to be more data driven, and they are now awash in data - not just yearly student test scores, but figures on how different groups of students are doing in particular subjects or grade levels, how successful a school is at attracting and retaining teachers or closing the achievement gap among disadvantaged students, or how equitable funding is from school to school.