Sentences with phrase «students over a subject»

Schools may in fact decide to run an extra class in a subject that was a popular third choice for students over a subject that was a top choice for a handful of students.

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Throughout OSPI there is the concept that, although our School Child Nutrition Programs are not for profit but to feed students, we should be cutting costs as a priority over what is sometimes recognized as good nutrition — a subject where many entrenched and trendy ideas prevail and are promoted by giant food manufacturers.

During a recent faculty meeting over this subject, I and a handful of others gave concrete examples of how colleagues ignoring the FMNV create unnecessary obstacles for teachers who don't give candy and students.

For over 70 years, our School has emphasized rigorous core academic subjects, world languages, the arts, and athletics, while supporting the healthy intellectual, social, and emotional growth of our students.

Challenge Success at the Stanford Graduate School of Education reviewed over 20 research studies on the Advanced Placement Program as well as examined its own research on the subject with schools and students.

The School and Early Years Finance (England) Regulations 2014 state that schools funding (ie provision funded via the DSG) can only be used to support students who are in FE and aged over 19 but under 25 if they are subject to an LDA or EHCP plan.

The Regulations only allow the high needs budget to be used to support students who are in FE and aged over 19 but under 25 if they are subject to an EHC plan.

Whereas, Mr. Paladino acknowledged that he made these statements; And, Mr. Paladino is an elected official charged with the responsibility to represent children and families in a district comprised of over 70 % Black, Brown, Asian, Immigrant and other minority students and families; And, Mr. Paladino took an oath to ensure that students are afforded an environment which is free from fear and respects diversity within the school district and the community and is subject to all district policies; And,

He pointed out we are yet to see the new wave of students graduate with higher debt levels than ever and there are still «serious questions» over how increased costs are impacting on the subjects chosen by students.

The minister expressed concern of the government over the low interest in Mathematics and the science subjects by students.

«It is unconscionable that the state and the city have flouted the law and are subjecting over 290,000 students to overcrowded classes of 30 students or more,» said Haimson, citing a Class Size Matters analysis of city Education Department data.

The federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often known as «the Nation's Report Card,» periodically tests students on several subjects to gauge their progress over time.

The study's authors recommend that educators, administrators, and parents work to strengthen students» positive emotions and minimize negative emotions related to school subjects, for example, by helping students gain a greater sense of control over their performance.

«Students emerging from the oft - criticized K - 12 system appear to be studying science and math subjects more and performing better in them, over time,» said Teitelbaum in Congressional testimony in November 2007.

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

The panel, which will begin meeting next week, includes several prominent players from both sides of the ongoing debate over whether recent curricular reforms provide students with enough mathematical rigor while also fostering a deeper understanding of the subject.

If you have a story to tell — something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson — you're in the right place.

As a result, although scaling Station Rotation and Flipped Classroom models might not be the most exciting thing in the world — nor might it create models in which students have the maximum amount of personalization in and agency and ownership over their learning — in the next several years, the scaling of these models is both an important step forward and likely to be where the action is in mainstream subjects.

Over the past decade there has been growing concern about the levels of engagement with Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects by Australian students (Chubb).

You're on the front lines of transforming K — 12 education, and you have a story to tell: something you've realized over the course of your career about how to get students excited about learning; a strategy you recently tried that didn't quite work out and how you changed course; an aha moment that led you to rethink how you teach a particular subject or lesson.

These «value - added» measures are subject to some of the same problems, but by focusing on what students learn over the course of the year, they are a significant improvement over a simple average test score (or, worse yet, the percentage of students that score above an arbitrary «proficiency» threshold).

We've worked one - on - one with hundreds of students over the last decade, and while they always start from «my teacher hates me» or «I'm just bad at this subject,» a change in their own behaviors and beliefs consistently leads to a turnaround in grades.

While the role of education is to give students a broad and foundational knowledge over a wide range of subjects, it is equally important for young people to be aware of and develop their unique strengths.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Below is the percentage of students scoring at the «proficient» level or higher on the reading NAEP, meaning they demonstrated mastery over the challenging subject matter.

That sector deals with adults and, hence, has been less prone to regulation than K — 12 education, but it has nonetheless become increasingly subject to federal controls, including through accreditation and a Sword of Damocles — separation from student aid — hanging over institutions that, regardless of the mix of students they serve, do not meet federal performance metrics.

They can be used over again for almost any year group and any subject, and have a wide range of awards so every student can be celebrated for their uniqueness!

A 1999 study by the Center for Research in Educational Policy at the University of Memphis and University of Tennessee at Knoxville found that students using the Co-nect program, which emphasizes project - based learning and technology, improved test scores in all subject areas over a two - year period on the Tennessee Value - Added Assessment System.

For over four decades, beginning with a science assessment in 1969, the LTT NAEP has tested randomly - selected groups of students age 9, 13, and 17 in several school subjects.

Using a complex system of assessments developed over the two decades the university has been operating, WGU's method is competency - based, requiring that students prove they've mastered all the skills and knowledge offered in a given subject area.

In many Michigan elementary schools, more than one - third of students (and in some cases over half of students) have been the subject of an investigation.

Over the last decade, patterns in grouping students have changed markedly in the U.S.; high school students are no longer placed in rigidly defined general - education or noncollege tracks but have the flexibility to move between course levels for different subjects.

Through 20 % time, we give our students a voice in their own learning path, and allow them to go into depth in subjects that we may skim over in our curriculum.

The app complements Gojimo, the free revision app used by one in five GCSE students offering access to over 160,000 practice questions on all popular subjects.

There has been a steady decline in the number of students choosing to study languages over the last two decades, which has in turn led to issues in recruiting and training enough high quality teachers in the subject.

This involved over thirty students in a conference room at UniSA for two days, researching, debating, discussing and providing comprehensive plans for the teaching of this subject in their respective schools.

Teachers text weekly updates — which can be translated into over 70 languages — about what their students are learning across all subjects, photos of students in class, and ways parents can help with homework.

Khan Academy has over 26 million registered students and covers subjects from math to science, history, economics, computer science and more.

Her dissertation examined the effects of Teach For America on student achievement, documenting variation in the impact of Teach For America across the distribution of student achievement, subject areas, developmental stages, baseline proficiency, and as the organization has evolved over time.

For each tested subject that counts (math, reading, and any other subject the state chooses), some constant * times the natural log of the following quantity for all students: one plus the absolute change in percentage proficient over the past three years (e.g., for a 7 % positive change, the natural log of 1.07).

According to ETS, the number of students «passing» an AP exam in at least one subject (scoring at least a three on a five - point scale) increased from a little over three hundred thousand in 2002 to nearly five hundred and seventy - five thousand in 2012.

[4] In other words, over 90 percent of those in recent age cohorts are not performing at a reasonably high level on any externally administered, subject - specific examination, a possible explanation for the much lower percentage of US students than students in many other advanced industrial societies who are performing at the «advanced» level on international tests.

One of the National Education Goals for the year 2000 is that all students be able to show in grades 4, 8, and 12 «competency over challenging subject matter» in a range of subjects.

As a casual teacher relieving in many classrooms, over a number of subject areas and often seeing the same children during the day in those different classes, it is clear that the teacher who normally takes the class sets the tone and student expectations.

The study also finds that many states already measure student achievement beyond what is required in the NCLB Act, including test performance in additional subjects and growth in student performance over time.

In a decision that underscores long - standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after complaining that it does not encourage students to memorize multiplication tables and solve problems without calculators.

Investing in high - quality teacher - preparation programs for reading teachers could lead to higher student achievement in the subject, concludes the final report of a commission that has studied the issue over the past three years.

This is why, in our modeling efforts, we do massive multivariate, longitudinal analyses in order to exploit the covariance structure of student data over grades and subjects to dampen the errors of measurement in individual student test scores.

Over the past few years, state test scores at Bazzell Middle School students have risen consistently in all subject areas.

Robert Pondiscio, a vice president at the conservative - leaning Thomas B. Fordham Institute, worded it nicely in a piece on the challenge of teaching students to engage in the «close reading» Common Core requires: «Background knowledge is intended to be built systematically over time and across subjects — neither disregarded or backfilled in the minutes before students begin reading a complex text.»