Sentences with phrase «students of a given age»

According to this method of classification, all students of a given age or age range are treated alike educationally, even though they may differ widely in the characteristics that are relevant to learning — as age is not.

The time frame for students of a given age is keyed to the amount of time they can delay gratification and exert impulse control.

These include not only whether the school was providing supervision, but also what sort of activity led to the injury, whether the possibility of injury could have been reasonably foreseen by the school employees, and the capacity of a student of a given age to understand the risk of injury.

Not exact matches

«Those with significant student debt are much less likely to own a home at any given age than those who completed their education with little or no student debt,» William Dudley, president of the New York Fed, told reporters on Monday.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

as a student of history and topic, it is almost impossible to believe a rabbi the age of jesus would not be married, it is too obvious that the church wanted to diminish the role and power women had until finally releasing the truth about mary magdeline, jesus» probable wife, they needed to create a divine son of god to give the church power especially after the council of nicea

Daycare providers should be able to give a smack to one of their wards should misbehaviour occur, and teachers should be allowed to spank their students as a way of teaching lessons — especially the littlest ones in preschool, as the reasoning I have read here appears to be that children around that particular age just can't understand alternatives to spanking.

The superintendent declined to give the age or grade of the student involved.

Many of the students in the BPS are from high risk homes and statistics show that without appropriate guidance, nutrition, development of study habits and exercise from a young age «at risk» students are not given a fair opportunity for education and become doomed to failed lives.

Implementing an age - appropriate program for young students would give critically important information to victims — many of whom do not know there is a way out of their horrific situation.

The late 1980s featured stark warnings of an impending shortage of scientific talent based on a demographically driven formula for calculating the number of science and engineering Ph.D. s in a given cohort of college - age students.

Graduate students should also seek to grasp the social aspects and implications of scientific issues and be given the opportunity to «gain a good understanding of what it means to be a socially responsible scientist in this day and age.»

In a placebo - controlled within subject study, researchers from the Netherlands and Germany took 24 students (aged 19 to 27) with light to moderate cocaine use, and gave them either 300 mg of oral cocaine, or a placebo.

So whether or not your students are pregnant right now, if they are of reproductive age or gave birth before, they are more likely to have more mobility in their SI ligaments.

A research team led by Dr. Glyn Howatson with PhD student Phillip Bell in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation at Northumbria University in the U.K. gave 12 healthy participants (average age 26 years) two doses of Montmorency tart cherry juice concentrate: about 1 ounce (30 ml) of the juice concentrate mixed with 100 ml of water (equivalent to 90 whole Montmorency tart cherries) or 2 ounces (60 ml) of juice concentrate mixed with 100 ml of water.

This well - rounded program gives students the tools to teach to all ages and interests from chair yoga to power yoga, and there is a great emphasis on the philosophy of yoga, anatomy and pranayama.

Also on this platform, students between the ages of 18 and 23 will be given a free Gaydar upgrade with an unlimited access.

Since giving up a career as a concert pianist at age 50, Seymour has dedicated his life to teaching his students about music, happiness and the power of detaching satisfaction from success.

Having left his wife at a young age, Kepesh has lived a life based around such freedoms; a popular lecturer, he admits to regularly sleeping with his students, usually through his end - of - term cocktail parties (in an amusing aside, he makes it clear that he only does this after he has given them their results).

Rubrics simplify teacher assessment of student work and provide students, parents, and administrators with an answer to the age - old «Why did you give it this grade?»

Eight assessments generate valid estimates of U.S. national reading performance: the Main NAEP, given at three grades (fourth, eighth, and 12th grades); the NAEP Long Term Trend (NAEP - LTT), given at three ages (ages nine, 13, and 17); the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS), an international assessment given at fourth grade; and the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), an international assessment given to 15 - year - olds.

Meeting this fifth challenge depends on better ways of: identifying children at risk of being locked into trajectories of low achievement at the earliest possible ages; enhancing levels of school readiness; diagnosing learning difficulties upon entry to school; and intervening intensively during the early years of school to address individual learning needs to give as many students as possible the chance of successful ongoing learning.

The government gives free education up to a decent age which means a lot of students from poor class enroll there.

Apps like Book Creator and Book Writer give students of all ages the power to become storytellers.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

The teacher input can vary depending on age and ability, but there is scope to delve deeper into the relationship between Atman and Brahman and Moksha and A-level students tend to give much more analytical answers when reflecting on their experience of the meditation.

The assessment itself was first given in 1969, but the underlying political compromises meant that (a) students were tested by age, not grade level; (b) results were reported either as percentages of test takers getting individual questions right or (starting in 1984) on a psychometric scale that included no benchmarks, standards, or «cut points»; and (c) the «units of analysis» were the entire country and four big regions but not individual states, let alone districts or schools.

Tony explains that having the right technology from an early age is key to giving his students the best possibility of success when they leave for high school.

Know students on a personal level and attempt to understand their home experiences: This can begin with giving them a questionnaire about their lives, adjusting the questions according to their age, at the beginning of the year (or any time of year, if you haven't yet).

Students are given two sets of data for the ages of the cast of Hollyoaks and Coronation Street.

The Senate version of HR 4210 would give families a $ 300 tax credit for each child under the age of 16; create an income - contingent, direct - loan program; make the interest on student loans tax deductible, and allow deductions for the full appreciated value of property donated to charitable organizations, a provision that is important to colleges and private schools.

There are 36 different student cards; each card gives a first name, a nationality, age, birthday, number of brothers and the number of sisters.

This website is designed to give students of any age access to online learning and even internet based certification programs.

The challenges give students of all ages the opportunity to make their own unique contribution to the iconic series and -LSB-...]

In this fidgety age when no medium remains still for more than a few seconds and concentration spans are a shrinking resource, the study of photographs gives students a chance to concentrate and see — at thoughtful length — what the great photographers have seen.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

NAEP was administered to U.S. 8th graders in 2005, while PISA 2006 was given one year later to students at the age of 15, the year at which most American students are in 9th grade.

Our main analyses control for students» age, gender, and the average test scores at their middle schools, but we obtain similar results from a simple comparison of lottery winners and losers, as we would expect given the use of the lottery.

The graph shows a simple correlation between black - white discipline disparities (the percentage of black students given one or more out - of - school suspensions in 2013 — 14 divided by the percentage of white students given the same) versus black - white poverty disparities (the percentage of black children between the ages of five and seventeen in the district living below the poverty line divided by the percentage of white children living below the poverty line).

We can continue to utilize a time - bound, age - based, one - size - fits - all curriculum - driven instructional model or choose to develop a personalized competency based learning system which identifies crucial learning outcomes, gives students the instruction and practice they need at their level of readiness, and monitors and adjusts instruction for as long as needed until competency is fully achieved.

According to information given to me by Deborah Abramson Brooks Wsm, the U.S. Dept. of Education is insisting that the New York Board of Education continue to force all students with disabilities, except for those with the severest disabilities, to take the tests matching their chronological age, not their developmental age, ignoring their cognitive disabilities.

Born in Culiacan Sinaloa, Mexico, Luis founded a youth publication in Queretaro at the age of 16 to give students a chance to voice their opinions on social and political issues.

President Obama recently spoke on the importance of giving every student the opportunity to learn through computer science so that they can compete in the 21st century digital age.

Teachers may replace approximately 20 to 50 percent of face - to - face instructional time in a given subject with digital instruction, depending on student ages, other student needs, and the quality of available digital instruction.

An educational norm is simply a picture of the typical level of performance for any given group of students based on characteristics such as age range, grade level, or geographic area.

All students of all ages are well capable of expressing themselves and their opinions, experiences and ideas in schools and about education in healthy and positive ways, given substantive opportunities to do that.

Mulgrew stated that both State Education Commissioner John King and Chancellor Dennis Walcott told him they were against standardized testing for pre K to grade 2 but Mulgrew went on to say that 36 schools were giving bubble tests to kids of this age and that he talked to a teacher who reported that some of these students could not even hold a pencil.

Shirley Ford, a Los Angeles mother who co-founded Parent Revolution, the organization that helped pass California's landmark «parent trigger» law — legislation that gives parents of students at low - performing schools the right to replace a school's leadership or switch it to charter status — died Sunday at the age of 69.

Offering dual - credit (aka dual - enrollment) classes on the high school campus gives students no experience of learning on a college campus with college - age students, he writes.

Other strategies include: (1) establishing and using a time - out or cooling - off place (even an informal time - out activity like having a child take a message, book, or box of chalk to another teacher could give the student the space and time he or she needs to maintain or regain composure); (2) applying role plays, simulations (for example, Barnga, Living in a Global Age, Rafa - Rafa, and Broken Squares) and moral dilemmas to teach students how to resolve conflicts, make collective decisions, appreciate different perspectives, weigh consequences, identify right from wrong, and check impulsive behavior; and (3) suggesting or assigning literature with characters who face similar challenges to that of the disabled student.