Sentences with phrase «students reflect on the year»

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Reflecting on the past three years, I couldn't help but pause and think how far we've come from our first class of 17 students.

2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

Institutions should continue to apply these principles when completing their data returns during the remainder of the academic year, reflecting the very latest position of which students have EHC plans, or which students local authorities expect will or will not go on to receive EHC plans.

The idea of live streaming the birth tickled at the back of my mind and I found myself reflecting on the labor and birth videos I had watched over the years either preparing for my own births or as a student midwife.

U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel is once again reflecting on his second - oldest case — a nearly seven - year - old lawsuit alleging that Donald Trump defrauded students of the now - defunct Trump University before he was president.

Each year since 2006, ASHG has run a DNA Day Essay Contest to challenge students to examine, question, and reflect on important concepts in human genetics by writing an original essay.

As one school board member, reflecting on LA Unified School District's attempts to recover from a disastrous iPad roll out last year, told the LA Times, «Why would we treat all our students — whether they are a first - grader or a high school freshman — as if they all had the same technology needs?

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«Last year Queensland students recorded their best ever results on NAPLAN which reflects the hard work that goes on in our schools every day.

Provide students with a template and let them create a pinwheel that reflects on one side their thoughts about war and peace, tolerance, bullying, living in harmony with others You might use this activity to incorporate one of your writing goals / standards for the year; for example, the writing might be a poem, prose, haiku, or an essay.

Have students go into Schoology, or your Learning Management System (LMS) equivalent, to see how they reflected on the exam or project from the previous year.

It starts with action planning in the early fall (in which schools develop and submit an improvement plan); a provincial learning session in mid-fall for staff teams from all OFIP schools in the province (knowledge is shared from previous experience as well as new learning about emerging needs - for example, student and staff resiliency in 2012, and staff learning in mathematics in 2013); mid-year conversations in early spring (monitoring and identifying mid-year successes and challenges in order to modify plans and activities); and a summative conversation in late spring (in which staff reflect on the year, successes, and challenges, and begin discussions about the coming year's OFIP strategy).

95, president of the Piney Woods School, reflects on education leadership, being the first alumnus to lead the school in its 105 - year history, and whether he enjoys eating chicken nuggets with students.

By shifting the focus of NAPLAN in this way, it also may be possible to downplay school comparisons based on year - level means (a statistic that is strongly correlated with students» socioeconomic backgrounds) and to make greater use of NAPLAN's ability to compare schools based on the value they add, reflected in the progress students make.

Schools and students need to have forums for discussion where students can reflect on how they feel about the election and what they'd like to see happen in the next four years.

These lessons aimed at KS3 students (year 8 - 9 ideally) explore some contemporary religious movements, the controversies associated with them and urges students to reflect on what makes a religion different from a so called cult.

Teachers at Flat River Middle School realized after their first year of conferences that having students reflect on their work throughout the year not only helped them prepare for the conference, it helped them learn more effectively, said Bettez.

With or without access to technology, final portfolios are opportunities for students be creative as they reflect on, describe, analyze, and interpret their own work and learning from the year.

Braziller has spent a decade teaching Facing History and Ourselves (FHAO)-- a curriculum that leads students to reflect on themselves through in - depth study of history — and has taught at this public alternative school for 18 years.

Joshua Block shares his final portfolios project, a year - end activity in which students review and reflect on their work to more fully understand what they've learned and how they've grown.

When she announced her intention to overhaul the school report cards last year, Fariña promised «the first balanced picture of a school's quality,» one that «reflects our promise to stop judging students and schools based on a single, summative grade.»

On the one - year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn, we asked HGSE students to reflect on the tragedy using just one worOn the one - year anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting in Newtown, Conn, we asked HGSE students to reflect on the tragedy using just one woron the tragedy using just one word.

This freebie is great for helping students reflect on their school year.

Other students reflect more expansively on a year of major academic growth or the accomplishment of earning an award in sports.

Each year since 1997, North Carolina has recognized the 25 elementary and middle schools in the state with the highest scores on the «growth composite,» a measure reflecting the average gain in performance among students enrolled at a school.

The beginning of the school year is a good time to ask students to reflect on what gives them guiding direction in their lives.

Even if you have not done this earlier in the year, at the end of the year, you can ask students to reflect on what they see as their social - emotional and academic strengths and where, in each of these areas, they feel they grew the most over this past year.

Before your school community scatters for the summer, reflect on your teaching year through student feedback (face - to - face or anonymous), self - evaluation, parent feedback, and your PLN.

All year long the students have been reflecting on their 21st century skills and challenges related to those skills.

«Seven years ago, the future of an Eminence student was pretty bleak,» said Berry, reflecting on this small community of 2,500 about 30 miles from Louisville.

Current and former teachers, reflecting on last year's progress, said they worried that they were spending too much time on test preparation and putting too much pressure on students.

As students prepare to move in to their residential houses this year, we reflect on the relationships built between seniors and their residential counsellors.

In the Australian Curriculum: Work Studies, Years 9 — 10, students are given opportunities to explore similarities and differences in cultural values, beliefs and practices in the context of work and enterprise and reflect on intercultural experiences.

We focus our analysis on four primary outcomes that reflect possible student responses to the Promise: days suspended, days in detention, whether the student completed any course credits in the school year, and GPA.

Each activity uses a different methodology to encourage students to reflect on the year and look ahead to next year.

This activity uses a Circle format to encourage students to reflect on the school year that's now coming to a close.

Students read and reflect on a poem and on their experiences over the past year, and consider things they've learned or goals they want to set for the coming year.

Some also worry about using state tests rather than other measures to measure student growth and evaluate teachers: If a student improves dramatically over the course of a year, for example, but still fails, the failure might not reflect accurately on the teachers» accomplishments.

The amount that schools are slated to receive is based on enrollment projections and may be adjusted once the school year begins to reflect actual student enrollment.

Taking time to «reflect» on their experiences of the previous year gives students one way for students to learn from the past, as well as an opportunity to move forward and plan for the future.

Spring / Summer Planning: Focuses on planning for the upcoming school year and reflecting on what worked and what needs to be adapted to better meet the needs of students.

She reflects on the 1993 — 94 school year, during which all her administrators, teachers, and 1,400 students — from kindergarten on up — began using the maps:

Steve Fleischman reflects on how using research and evidence to provide an excellent education for every student was as important 50 years ago as it is today.

Most people can not simply get this clear picture by simply perusing their learning goals — it can help to take and reflect on your end - of - year assessment, analyze student work samples, talk to colleagues and review curriculum guides.

E4E - Boston member Kayla Morse reflects on a year spent advocating for students with trauma and invites more teachers to join her next year (Educational...

Journal articles and ASCD yearbooks on assessment in the early years reflected their times, centering on assessment of individual student achievement and focusing on developing tests that were fair to students and that tested what was taught.

The results for the 2014 - 2105 school year, published online, reflect scores from California districts that are part of CORE, a nonprofit that is focused on improving student achievement by fostering highly - productive, meaningful collaboration between its nine member school districts: Fresno, Garden Grove, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, Sanger and Santa Ana Unified.

This year's contest, «Making Choices in Today's World,» asked students to reflect on a powerful quote from the late Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate, and write an essay on choices they have made thus far and how their future choices will ultimately have a great impact on their lives and those around them.

Special education teachers typically do the following: • Assess students skills to determine their needs and to develop teaching plans • Adapt lessons to meet the needs of students • Develop Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) for each student • Plan, organize, and assign activities that are specific to each students abilities • Teach and mentor students as a class, in small groups, and one - on - one • Implement IEPs, assess students» performance, and track their progress • Update IEPs throughout the school year to reflect students» progress and goals • Discuss students» progress with parents, teachers, counselors, and administrators • Supervise and mentor teacher assistants who work with students with disabilities • Prepare and help students transition from grade to grade and after graduation Special education teachers in public schools are required to have at least a bachelor's degree and a state - issued certification or license Most states require a degree specifically in special education.

Teachers are paired with a coach for an entire school year (sustained approach), they regularly reflect on videorecordings of their classroom instruction and carefully observe how they interact with students (approach focused on interactions), and they apply the validated Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS - S) to improve the quality of their interactions (rigorous approach).