Sentences with phrase «students of a certain class»

If lets say some students of a certain class flunk the Maths test but most others passed it, does it mean the students who failed did not study their Math book properly and there is something wrong with the Math book?

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A review of preliminary class profiles for 12 Top 20 American business schools, including Harvard, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, and Columbia, shows one certain thing: Business students are increasingly female and international.

I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.

Though we found some rigorous studies that after controlling for certain variables showed positive results of the AP program, especially in the sciences, we believe more research needs to be done before we can verify the broad claim that taking AP classes makes students more likely to succeed in college.

When some of her students at CAU struggled in her classes because they didn't have the necessary background, she realized that there's no way you can try to catch up after a certain point.

Maybe the regular teacher has established a strong bond with the class, understands a student's injuries or limitations, and has a certain balance of speaking and silence.

According to a report in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, a Georgia elementary school introduced yoga classes to de-stress students, but some parents thought that certain elements of the practice reflected a «non-Christian belief system.»

Nor, as Frederick Hess explains, is there any scientific evidence that requiring teachers to have certain views about «sexuality or social class» ensures that they teach all students: «Screening on «dispositions» serves primarily to cloak academia's biases in the garb of professional necessity.»

School districts around the country are experimenting with programs that allow students to home school for part of the day but take certain classes at the local public school.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

These classes also frequently involve a real (if bounded) element of choice; students need to produce an essay or documentary film that accomplishes certain academic objectives, but they can choose the topic that interests them.

• Limit state restrictions on use of funds requiring a certain number of students to be in class with a certain number of teachers.

They still may not have mastered the cognitive aspect of language — the linguistics needed to really understand certain topics — so Astalos allows students who have strong English skills help those who are still learning, and the aides who assist the students with special needs in his class help anyone whos struggling.

The foundation of rounds is based on describing what was observed in the class instead of immediately asking if the teacher held the students» attention or if too much time was spent on a certain activity.

With this metric, educators can track the percentage of students in a class, school, or district who are «proficient» (scoring at or above a certain designated baseline), with hopes that this percentage will eventually rise to 100.

It became a class that taught students that they could, through using certain strategies, leave my classroom with greater intelligence than when they entered it, because they could control their own depth of learning.

In your class, you can use origami to illustrate the concepts of one - half, one - third, or one - fourth by folding paper and asking how many folds students would need to make a certain shape.

Although a thorough, well - funded study like this signals promise, findings like these do not reliably tell us why some portion of students or certain classes likely didn't fare as well whereas others fared far better.

As we were writing Disrupting Class, which focused largely on how to help the U.S. transform its education system into a student - centered one by harnessing the power of disruptive innovation, it was clear that, in certain respects, the theories of disruptive innovation would be most powerful in helping the developing world.

If you imagine each of the students in a class with some kind of a handheld computing device, which is not farfetched today — maybe it was five years ago but it's not today — and you imagine a teacher is, for example, teaching a principle in physics and asks the students to predict what would happen to the trajectory of a ball if you're rotating around in a circle and let loose the ball at a certain position.

In addition, the counselors reported that certain barriers to taking AP courses have been removed; at one high school, there used to be a minimum class rank that a student had to have in order to take AP courses, but after adoption of APIP, any interested student was allowed to take AP courses.

In the new five - year program, students will be able to take courses for a longer period of time each year, possibly spending double class periods in certain subjects.

This can be especially useful in science and engineering classes where students use models to demonstrate certain capabilities of a product.

You tweet the first line and have students tweet a certain number of lines over a determined period of time, then read the finished story in class.

I would also urge that if a simulation is focused on creating a certain emotional response out of the students, such as the anger of the colonists in The King's M&M's, be sure to debrief students before the end of the class period, so the students understand the relationship of the activity to the historical concept in the instructional objective.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

The resurgence of ability grouping comes as New York City grapples with the state of its gifted and talented programs — a form of tracking in some public schools in which certain students, selected through testing, take accelerated classes together.

Its schools, like all schools in the country, also have lots of areas of nonconsumption — where students have no option or ability to take a certain class or benefit from a certain opportunity.

Passion Projects: Allotting a certain amount of class time for students to work on projects unrelated to the curriculum is important.

Historically in education we have accepted the velcro TA as a way to take care of certain students whilst the teacher can concentrate on teaching the rest of the class.

For example, an analysis of the results of students on a common assessment may reveal that although some students struggled with certain concepts, Teacher A had great success with that concept with her class of students.

At first I believed that virtual schooling could only be used for certain classes and was worried about the teacher / student communication as well as the cost of virtual schooling.

Some districts limit the use of aides to certain areas, such as assisting with special education students, working in bilingual classrooms or helping supervise very large classes (such as P.E.); others provide aides to help teachers in the regular classroom.

Some districts limit the use of aides to certain areas, such as assisting with special education students, working in bilingual classrooms or helping to supervise very large classes (such as P.E.); others provide aides to help teachers in the regular classroom.

Jodi Robins, the assistant principal of curriculum at Miami Beach High, said that even if students struggled in certain subjects, the virtual labs were necessary because «there's no way to beat the class - size mandate without it.»

Tracking is defined as a sustained separation of students by academic ability into groups for all subjects or for certain classes within a school.

If a student doesn't pass one of the four end - of - course tests, they can still graduate if they have a certain class average and meet specific benchmarks.

The state of Florida ensures that students pass certain classes in order to be considered worthy of a high school diploma, and in the chart below I pulled the percentages that constitute passing scores for exams within the «core classes» — language arts, mathematics, science and social studies.

Push Out: Classes where the student is pulled out for the added support for a certain number of minutes and days per week.

Push In: Classes that the student is in a general education class with added support for a certain number of minutes and days per week.

Special Day (SDC): Classes that do not require the student to be self - contained all day but a certain number of minutes and days per week.

New students applying to enter grades three through eight are tested, but primarily to ensure that they are prepared for the specific demands of the French program, where all classes are taught in French, or the Montessori program, which employ a system of self - guided instruction that requires a certain amount of remediation for new students unused to it, leaders said.

The first ten minutes of your class creates an environment that can create or deflate; therefore, it is crucial that certain criteria are met to assure that your students are prepared, positioned and positive for success.

Through this program, the students earn college credits prior to high school graduation, earn dual high school and college credit for the completion of certain classes, become comfortable on a college campus and develop the self confidence and determination necessary to complete university degree programs.

«We know a ton about what it takes for kids to be college eligible, what is the level of knowledge you need to do well in a college course, if you get a certain score on the ACT, it is predictive of whether a student will get a B in a college class,» said Jimenez.

You may announce, for example, that the class can earn a certain number of additional bonus points each day for each sincere compliment that you observe being used in cooperative learning groups, free time, while students are in the lunch line, etc. (Of course, you would also remind students that you are the sole judge of whether bonus points are to be givenof additional bonus points each day for each sincere compliment that you observe being used in cooperative learning groups, free time, while students are in the lunch line, etc. (Of course, you would also remind students that you are the sole judge of whether bonus points are to be givenOf course, you would also remind students that you are the sole judge of whether bonus points are to be givenof whether bonus points are to be given.)

Socioeconomic integration is a win - win situation: Low - income students» performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle - class students» performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.

Since STAR involved comparing outcomes between students in classes of 22 to 25 students and those in classes of 13 to 17, many critics have argued that classes have to be reduced to a certain level to provide benefits.

School literacy specialist Bill Clarke recounts how Blackstone met that enthusiasm by instituting daily silent reading, openly discussing with students their need to improve reading skills, and requiring certain readers to take one of three intervention classes that the school created.

One of the main reasons why students fail at their classes is because they have to deliver certain papers and they do not have enough time to do them, or they have no idea on what to write about, or they simply do not know how to write these papers.