Sentences with phrase «students per teacher for»

Instructional group size is reduced to 15 students per teacher for the reading block.

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At the very least, therefore, schools for poor and minority children should have as much funding per student, as many qualified teachers and as good physical facilities as other schools.

After accounting for the increase in student numbers and teacher wages, the effective increase is closer to half the Productivity Commission's figure of 14 % per student across government and non-government schools.

Per the policy, all fees approved by the Ghana Education Service Council for first - year students have been absorbed by the government, save Parent Teachers» Association (PTA) dues.

Currently, young people must apply for university places using grades predicted by their teachers, but in 55 per cent of cases these are wrong, leaving many students without anywhere to go, or feeling that they should have applied for a better university.

The demonstrators touted a study by the teachers union - backed Alliance for Quality Education, which used a formula developed by Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration to determine that the state still owes New York City schools $ 2.5 billion, or $ 2,667 per student.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

On Wednesday at 3:30 p.m., «thousands of teachers will rally in Foley Square to call on Mayor Bill de Blasio to support growing the charter sector to 200,000 students by 2020,» per Families for Excellent Schools.

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After completing her first teacher training in 2004, Eisenberg volunteered at the Michigan Institute for Neurological Disorders, a prominent neurological center in her area, as a yoga instructor for students with MS. Today she provides small group adaptive yoga therapy classes for over 70 students with MS per week, and her book — five years in the making — blossomed from that.

Since it's not often possible for teachers to sacrifice an entire day of schooling to allow for individual creative pursuits, the idea has been reinterpreted in many schools as a «Genius Hour,» where students get one hour per day or week to focus on a project of their choice.

For example, if a student is reading 50 words per minute but needs to be at 120 words, the teacher can explain this.

However, in contrast to this, recent research from Techknowledge for Schools has found that 87 per cent of teachers surveyed believe that learning with technology can help students «be eager to explore new things».

«Cost benefit estimates,» say the authors, «show that taxpayers paid 51 dollars per student for an experienced teacher to retire in return for an increase in test scores of 1 percent of a standard deviation — a negligible amount.»

The typical incentive program for teachers is pay - per - performance: teachers are promised money if their students perform in certain ways on an exam.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

The resources available for this study ($ 500,000, or roughly $ 8,000 per teacher) would certainly have been more than enough to perform a rigorous analysis of the performance of National Board teachers vis - à - vis unsuccessful candidates, using a random sample of the two groups and adjusting for students» socioeconomic status and previous achievement levels.

Student participants read one book per month, and the staff works with parents to ensure that the books are appropriate and not core literature used by teachers for instruction.

On Oct. 5, Ms. Neeley had sent a guidance letter to school boards allowing them to grant their district superintendents the authority to ask the state for permission to exceed the class - size cap of 22 students per teacher in grades K - 4.

Teachers also raised concerns about the EBacc, with 74 per cent saying it has narrowed the Key Stage 4 curriculum in their schools and 77 per cent saying the new GCSE curriculum will be less suitable for low attaining students.

E-learning technologies increase per capita productive output, for both producers (educators and teachers) and viewers (students).

I examined variables such as salary, years of teaching experience, whether teachers planned to stay in teaching for the next few years, the number of hours per week (on top of required hours) that teachers spent on activities related to their students» academic progress, and the number of hours that they spent on their students» extracurricular activities.

About 40 per cent of teachers employ monthly filmmaking in their classrooms for students to be able to explore topics; however

The most important criteria for the ranking of universities in the world include: (1) education that is to say number of courses offered and number of students per teacher and (2) teacher quality that contains a number of publications, number of citations, and number of prizes (Nobel, Fields, Descartes, and Abel and Lomonosov).

More than 46 per cent of pupils also said they revise for five or more hours every week, and one - fifth of students said they don't feel supported by teachers.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

*** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** The passages and comprehension questions in this packet are designed to help you meet both your specific English / Language Arts standards and learning expectations as well as those recommended by the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSS).

I was tested for gifted in the first grade and placed in a pull - out program, where the teacher came (maybe once per week, don't remember) to work with me and another student.

Chelsea Dale is the founder and president of On Giants» Shoulders, a not - for - profit organization which advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating under - performing elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.

The program, called On Giants» Shoulders, advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating underperforming elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.

And with forty school visits, ten workshops for K - 12 teachers, two week - long field trips, an annual openhouse event at CSU, and even a television show on a station operated by the city «sPoudre School District, Jones and the Little Shop of Physics bring hands - on scienceto more than 15,000 students per year.

Country - level variables included in the analysis were per capita GDP, teacher salary levels, average expenditure per student, external exit exams, school autonomy in budget and staffing decisions, the share of privately operated schools, and the portion of government funding for schools.

If, as in the example above, state and local funds are to support one teacher per 25 students in grades K - 3, the auditor would check that any Title I funds spent on K - 3 teachers line up dollar for dollar with reductions below that baseline class size in Title I schools.

Research (by Irenee Beattie, Josipa Roksa, and Richard Arum) that examined appellate court cases from 2000 to 2002 found that, on average, those cases emerged from secondary schools with 29 percent nonwhite students compared to 37 percent nonwhite students in the national population of secondary schools (the latter weighted for enrollment size to be comparable to the court case data); appellate cases also emanated from schools with more educational resources per student (student / teacher ratios of 16.3 compared to 17.5 nationally).

For example, part of a district's methodology could be using state and local funds to support one teacher per 25 students in grades K - 3.

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

There will be a growing substitution of technology for labor and thus a steep decline in the number of teachers (and union members) per student; a dispersion of the teaching labor force, which will no longer be so geographically concentrated in districts (because online teachers can be anywhere); and a proliferation of new online providers and choice options, attracting away students, money, and jobs.

By teaching more students and achieving excellence in teams, teachers can earn more from existing per - pupil funding, even after new costs for technology and additional paraprofessional support.

Indeed, the city's fiscal disadvantage in 1993 was clear to everyone: its schoolchildren received some 12 percent fewer dollars than their counterparts elsewhere in the state; 11.8 percent of the city's teachers were uncertified, compared with 7.3 percent statewide; the city's students had 1 computer for every 19 students, compared with 1 for every 13 students statewide; there was 1 guidance counselor for every 700 city students, compared with 1 per 350 students in the rest of the state; there were 16.5 library books per pupil in the state, but only 10.4 in the city.

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

Teachers can then, at a glance, see marks, listening duration and more, for individual students or classes, and order them to previous attainment — allowing them to spot exemplary or deficient patterns in knowledge per student and use this to build a more complete profile of their learning.

In addition to this, 19 per cent believed their school was not a welcoming environment for teachers of different religions (12 per cent for students).

There is one focused course of study (history, language - English and Spanish - and the arts; mathematics, science, and technology; and health); everyone is enrolled in it; an appropriate path for each student is developed (every child has a «personal learning plan»); most teachers have responsibility for no more than 50 students (this on a per - pupil budget that is the same or less than in nearby public secondary schools).

Our annual «Impact of New Technologies» survey into the views of English Maintained Schools on a range of new technologies used by teachers and students carried out in conjunction with the National Education Research Panel (NERP) shows that an increasing majority of schools (56 per cent primary, 65 per cent secondary schools) feel they are now definitely unable, or unlikely to be able, to maintain planned new technologies investments for 2011/12.

In 1999, Jay Chambers of the American Institutes for Research merged unique state - level databases containing information on teacher salaries, teacher course assignments, and course enrollment data to calculate per - pupil expenditures by course for students in Ohio.

For teachers, the top three were: promoting students» independent and critical thinking (61 per cent); promoting knowledge of citizens» rights and responsibilities (57 per cent); and promoting respect for and safeguard of the environment (51 per cenFor teachers, the top three were: promoting students» independent and critical thinking (61 per cent); promoting knowledge of citizens» rights and responsibilities (57 per cent); and promoting respect for and safeguard of the environment (51 per cenfor and safeguard of the environment (51 per cent).

38 per cent of teachers said their PE provision has declined because core / eBacc subjects have been given additional time with students taken out of timetabled Physical Education for extra tuition in other subjects.

We also control for the total number of minutes per week that the teacher reported teaching the math or science class, as more total instructional time could have an independent effect on student learning.

These licenses will be available to individual primary & secondary schools starting at # 2,495 per year for 500 user licenses (# 4.99 per license) to provide to students and teachers.

Have a specific focus: Narrowing feedback to one or two skills per paper can focus students without overwhelming them, and doing so cuts down on grading time for teachers.