Sentences with phrase «students several times a year»

«We'd actually meet our students several times a year,» she said.

So, American Academy tests its students several times a year with private tests that provide practically instant results that the school uses to change student placement, teacher development plans, and teacher evaluations, assignments, and retention.

Susan currently teaches Living and Learning with Parrots: The Fundamental Principles of Behavior to online and workshop students several times a year.

Not exact matches

Several times a year, VarsityBooks.com even flies the student reps to attend two - day conferences akin to corporate sales meetings.

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

I was fortunate to make it down to D.C. for the march (and the weekend conferences leading up to it) several times when I was a student at Princeton and in the years immediately thereafter.

This time it is Rabbi Mordechai Elon, one of the foremost rabbinic leaders of the Israeli Orthodox movement and former rosh yeshiva at the flagship Yeshivat HaRav, where last year a Palestinian mounted an assault which left several students dead.

ALBANY — As a result of several years of efforts by Agudath Israel of America and the unwavering support of New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, it appears that rabbinical college students in New York State will, for the first time ever, be eligible to receive Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) grants.

Those local tests would be administered several times a year to measure student growth.

I decided to spend a fourth year in the lab, partly because I had several projects that could be brought to fruition with another year of research, and partly because being a senior graduate student with responsibility for nothing but benchwork is one of the most enjoyable times of life, or should be.

Last week, for the second time in 6 months, opposition from several scientists on National Institutes of Health director Harold Varmus's influential Advisory Committee to the Director forced him to withdraw a plan to establish a small graduate school on the NIH campus that would enroll 15 students a year for a 5 - year Ph.D. program in disease - oriented, integrative biology.

She has also experience teaching to undergraduate students as a part - time lecturer during several years (Dept. of Optics, UPC).

Survey results indicate that inclusive schools have several strengths in promoting STEM education in students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, such as recognizing that some students need extended instructional time, keeping students with teachers for multiple years, providing students with higher levels of contact with mentors in STEM fields who mirror the students» backgrounds, and emphasizing career and technical preparation.

Staff members visit colleges several times a year to check in on alums and steer students to particular services or resources.

Although I used to give students time to read once a week in my English classes for several years, I always knew I wasn't making the impact I was aiming for.

Several years ago, I had my fifth - grade gifted students stand up, one at a time, and share their dreams for the future.

Since the game can be used with any text or topic, Rebecca's students will play it several times this year.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studestudents with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studeStudents and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on studestudents spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

«We've heard several times over the past few years that nothing is more cognitively and physically taxing in the project - learning environment than managing student work groups,» McDowell writes in «Leading Student Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning envirstudent work groups,» McDowell writes in «Leading Student Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning envirStudent Work Groups in the 21st Century,» an in - progress article that discusses the tools, best practices, and scholarly strategies for student work groups in the project - learning envirstudent work groups in the project - learning environment.

She says the peak body has worked for a long time with member schools to support student wellbeing initiatives and adds that, for several years now, teachers in all sectors have been concerned that they've been looking after students» wellbeing when their own wasn't necessarily at its best.

Play several times at intervals across the school year - this really does put students» memory and developing knowledge to the test.

And over the course of my first year in the classroom, that same thought emerged several more times — at the school musical, visiting the graphic design class, and even just watching a couple of students do their math homework during study hall.

Charts track students» math and reading scores; the County Literacy Inventory, which measures reading skills several times a year; as well as monthly attendance rates, Halstead said.

Having students complete several brief reading and writing assessments over the course of the year, rather than conducting only one test at the end of the year, to give educators real - time updates on students» progress; and

For example, every student receives a written assessment of academic performance several times each year.

For several years they have been giving 9th grade students the MIDAS at the same time introducing project - based learning activities into various subjects.

If supplementary programs operate as relatively independent pull - out programs, and if students tend to stay in programs for a year at a time, then there are seldom venues for several teachers to consider an individual student's progress at any given time.

In 2007, the U.S. Department of Education began using SoundOut's materials to promote Safe and Supportive Learning Environments, and that same year the SoundOut Student Voice Curriculum was initially released; it has since been revised several times.

With several California Distinguished & Gold Ribbon Schools in the network, the PUC high schools have a graduation rate that exceeds 90 % every year and almost 100 % of the students are accepted to colleges and universities by the time of graduation.

Several times during the year, our schools open their doors and invite the community to join them for a light breakfast, read to our elementary students, meet school leaders, and enjoy a tour of the schools.

I have visited the school several times this year and during every visit, at least once, a student has stopped Dr. Coley to tell her about their work... how they are improving, what they are working on and how many books they are now reading.

When students come to us for the first time, they may be several academic years behind their more affluent peers.

If we look at students» critical reading scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) from 2002 to 2009, during the time NCLB has been in effect, we see a slight increase in points for several years, followed by a decline to below the average score for 2002 (Gewertz, 2009).

An administrator or team of teachers could visit a teacher's class several times a year to observe lessons and to review student work.

Re the 12 - week window, several factors are that item - tryout studies are not strongly sensitive to time - of - instructional year like operational programs where you want all students taking the test within a relatively small window for comparisons across students or groups of students, nor are you generally concerned about test security since it is a low stakes research data collection.

By Keith R. Krueger and Bob Moore There has been no shortage of time and energy spent on the issue of student data privacy in the past several years.

-- The groups pose several recommendations for reform, like having states and charter school authorizers cap the number of students who can enroll full - time in virtual charter schools for each year of a charter contract, and ensuring that authorizers are aggressive about closing chronically underperforming schools.

For example, with the «Mini Assessment Pack,» you can test five students once or 1 - 2 students several times throughout the year.

Many of the students on the waiting list are enrolled in traditional public schools, which have slowly been losing students to charter schools over the last several years, creating at times an antagonistic relationship between the two.

Teachers measure basic skills — everything from algebra to how well students can structure an essay — several times a year.

But a few years ago, the Fairfax school system eliminated another program, known as Quest, which sought to spark interest in TJ by taking minority students to the campus several times a month for science and math programs.

While 258 schools failed to meet annual yearly targets for the first time this year, a number of schools in several districts have 90 percent or more of their students making proficient or advanced marks, state officials said.

Even if a student was able to understand their loans because of that counseling, by the time a student starts repaying those loans several years later they have often forgotten that crucial information.

I'm still a full - time student and will be so for the next several years.

I rarely feel comfortable using growth rates of 25 % or 30 % for projections, but the private student loan industry is and has been growing at these rates as the gap between government loans and cost of education (inflation) widens every year, and First Marblehead has grown at several times the growth of the industry in the past.

This is definitely a lot shorter than the usual home mortgage or student loan (which can take many people several years to fully pay off), but will still require some budgeting and planning in order to be taken cared of smoothly and in good time.

«Eventually, our student loans got to be at a very manageable level and one at a time, over several years, we wrote checks to pay them off completely.»

Canada Student Grants and Loans has expanded eligibility for part time students, as well as full and part time students with children, and introduced a three - year pilot project that will provide adults returning to school on a full - time basis after several years in the workforce with an additional $ 1,600 in grant money starting Aug 1, 2018.

Dr. Walker received several notable awards recognizing his surgical proficiency during his time as a veterinary student, as well as his time in primary care veterinary practice in Oklahoma where he served on several committees with the Oklahoma State Veterinary Medical Association who honored him in 2007 with the OVMA Young Veterinarian of the Year Award.

Time noted how several prestigious schools, including Harvard and MIT, have seen the number of students deferring entrance by one year increase dramatically (Harvard by 33 % in the last decade; MIT by 100 % in the last year alone).