Sentences with phrase «students on basic skills»

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Our Digital Inclusion Program teaches foster youth basic digital literacy skills and provides them with a laptop and mobile Internet access for five years, two things that most of us take for granted but can be life changing for students who are accustomed to writing essays on their cellphones.

As students learn the basic paradigms and the structure of biblical Hebrew, they will be able to understand and gain access to the wealth of information stored on the CD - ROM and have a fighting chance of maintaining their linguistic skill throughout their ministry.

Rather, what constitutes the school community is its basic focus on equipping its students with professional ministerial skills and competencies.

Boys Basketball Beginner (incoming 6th - 9th): This class is for student - athletes who are either interested in learning more about the game of basketball or have recently been introduced to basketball and are looking to improve on their basic skill - set.

The average fifth - grade student received five times as much instruction in basic skills as instruction focused on problem - solving or reasoning, Pianta and his coauthors reported; in first and third grades, the ratio was ten to one.

The instructional videos are focused on teaching toddlers, preschoolers, and even elementary students basic English language skills.

The idea arrived at a key time — nearly a decade into the No Child Left Behind era, when schools nationwide focused obsessively on year - to - year improvements in students» basic math and reading skills.

The suit was filed on behalf of two groups, the NYC Parents Union and the Partnership for Educational Justice, and essentially argues the tenure provisions give students access to ineffective teachers and ultimately hinders children the basic constitutional guarantee of being taught literacy, math and verbal skills.

Living on credit and grant money and fighting a change - resistant school board, Pilloton and Miller lead their students through a year - long, full - scale design and build project that does much more than just teach basic construction skills: it shows ten teenagers the power of design thinking to re-invent not just their town but their own sense of what's possible.

And whether due to radiation (The Hills Have Eyes) or just good old determined inbreeding (Wrong Turn and so, so many films you're better off not knowing about), the yokel - prone in film have really enjoyed slaughtering innocent families on vacation, travelers deficient in basic map usage skills and, best of all, sexually active college students just looking for a good time.

Before then, the high school dropout rate was almost 16 percent; the percentage of our elementary students meeting national norms on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills in reading was less than 37; the percentage of our students testing in the bottom quarter was about 32.

But on a very small scale, it appears to be working in terms of teaching tech and basic skills — and keeping students engaged in their studies.

A short lesson on basic animation in Adobe Edge Animate with students first watching the teacher create a bouncing ball and then completing it themselves from written directions and a tutorial, followed by another practice hands - on activity to add to and reinforce skills, leads to the culminating activity of the unit — to create a cartoon using their skills in Adobe Edge Animate.

The report profiles several charter schools that utilize sophisticated computer technology to individualize instruction, reinforce students» basic skills, and provide immediate data on student progress, all of which helps teachers to fine - tune instruction and students to learn at their own pace.

The basic tenets of IR hold that visiting teams do not discuss individual teacher «data:» they focus on trends that they see related to the «problem» they are looking to address at scale - be it student engagement, poor writing skills, boy / girl performance gap, etc..

This second lesson in the Getting Started series introduces students to basic navigating skills — the skills they'll need in order to get around on the Internet.

The kind of research that supports them are not instructional studies on how to teach the standards, but instead are studies of what is taught in other countries, or what students need to know (in terms of basic skills) when they go into the workplace or into the college.

Since the Texas state test was a test of basic skills, and the accountability metric is based on pass rates, schools had strong incentives to focus on helping lower - scoring students.

The bet here is that if students can drive their development of basic skills and background knowledge, teachers can «trade up» and focus their energies on challenging tasks and compelling experiences.

While we estimated that, after one year, African - American students scored 7 percentile points higher on the math portion of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills than their peers in public schools, Barnard reports impacts of 6 percentile points for African - American students from low - performing public schools.

Several large systems, including Chicago (beginning in 1996), New York (2004), and Philadelphia (2005), now require students in particular grades to demonstrate a benchmark level of mastery in basic skills on a standardized test before they can be promoted.

While the Millennium Development Goals and the Education for All Goals established an ambitious agenda to provide a basic education worldwide, they did not, according to Reimers, focus on ways to help students develop relevant skills to expand their options in life.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

And unlike many urban schools where teachers spend the bulk of the day on scripted lessons, drilling classes on basic skills for high - stakes tests, LACES teachers spend very little time prepping students for California's state tests.

Vallas had based his accountability system almost entirely on what percentage of all students scored at or above national averages on the norm - referenced Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

The only way to do well on these tests is to teach students well — and not just basic skills, but a well - rounded curriculum that includes art and music, history and science, geography and literature.

Though the reader is left to infer that such «one - on - one» computerized instruction is equally effective for all grade levels, one wonders whether the inculcation of basic skills and the more sophisticated analysis presupposed of high school students would respond equally well to this computerized approach.

Eighteen of the 25 institutions that train teachers in Florida have lost state approval of one or more of their education programs under a law that holds them accountable for their students» performance on the state's basic - skills test for teachers.

On a smaller scale, when I wanted to introduce my 3rd grade students to creating stories in Storybird, I had to first make sure they knew basic word processing skills.

Charles Fadel, Cisco's global lead for education, suggests that educators devote their multimedia resources and interactive lessons to teaching complex subjects, rather than wasting them on building students» basic skills.

9 documents on one spreadsheet that will give quick revision of all of the basic skills needed at foundation level for students targetting grade 4 or 5.

,» published by the Consortium on Chicago School Research, students whose teachers routinely gave «authentic intellectual assignments» increased their scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills (a widely used standardized test) by 20 percent more than the average increase in scores nationally.

A three - year study of teaching and learning in more than 400 third -, sixth -, and eighth - grade classrooms in Chicago found that when students were given writing and mathematics assignments calling for more authentic work, they performed better on tests used to judge basic skills.

Social studies students don't need a lot of technical skills, but they do need to know some of the basics about what it's like to be on the radio.

This study concluded that «students who received assignments requiring more challenging intellectual work also achieved greater than average gains on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills in reading and mathematics, and demonstrated higher performance in reading, mathematics, and writing on the Illinois Goals Assessment Program.

An MCT is a standardized exam of basic skills on which a passing score is intended to signify that a student has acquired at least the minimum necessary skills and knowledge for promotion to the next grade or for graduation from high school.

A prerequisite of this activity is that students need to have basic computer coding skills, including the knowledge of variables, loops, if - else statements, reading input from a sensor or keyboard, and printing text on screen.

Researchers found that STAR students in smaller classes in grades K - 3 earned significantly higher scores on basic skills tests in all four years and in all types of schools.

For example, what if top - down accountability as defined and enforced by states and the federal government were limited to basic skills, something like the MCTs of the 1970s but based on clear, empirically validated standards about what students need to know and be able to do to hold down the types of jobs that do not require a college degree?

While some critics have charged that changing to a four - day school week may have negative effects on student achievement, researchers at Colorado State University have completed a study indicating that the switch to a four - day schedule has «no effect» on achievement as measured by the Iowa Test of Basic Skills.

Student scores on basic - skills tests have improved in 12 of 17 New Jersey schools experimenting with the «effective schools» program, according to a new state report.

Such schools, responsible for educating many students who enter kindergarten without knowledge of even the alphabet, need to focus on very basic skills.

The standards the group was to release April 12 at its convention in Chicago will place an expanded emphasis on basic skills and list specific tasks that students should accomplish at designated points in their K - 12 educations, according to the president of the 100,000 - member organization.

The Singapore texts and methods were so effective in College Gardens that the scores of students there on the math computation portion of the standardized Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills (CTBS) rose from the 50th and 60th percentiles to the low 90s in the first 4 years they were used.

As reported on its website, «Though many students at KIPP Empower Academy entered kindergarten without basic letter and number recognition skills, by the end of the year, 98 percent were reading and performing math at or above the national average.»

These data provide us with information on achievement, as measured by the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills (ITBS), before students applied and, even more crucially, with post-application achievement data for students who remained in Chicago's regular public schools.

Results of the Student Achievement Guarantee in Education, or SAGE, program showed that between 1996 - 97 and 1998 - 99, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd graders in 30 public schools performed better on the Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills than did students in bigger classes.

Last but not least, its teaching approach is designed to work with both advanced and struggling students, and intended to foster abstract skills like creativity, depth of thought, and problem solving, rather than focusing on remediation and basic reading and math skills.

(The negative effect to which Darling - Hammond refers was probably what Summers and Wolfe noted as the «perversely» negative relationship between 6th grade teachers» scores on the NTE Core Battery, a test of pedagogy and basic skills, and their students» achievement.)

THREE fantastic units of work that focus on basic literacy skills - reading, writing, speaking (1) READ IT is about using everyday reading skills in different contexts (2) WRITE IT focuses on using a variety of writings tools to share information, with plenty of writing tasks (3) SPEAK IT helps students develop confidence around their speaking and listening skills.