Sentences with phrase «teacher ratio with»

If a school has a certain number of students who don't speak English, for instance, the school will only earn supplemental funding for them if it maintains a specified student - teacher ratio with teachers who are specifically credentialed to help them, said Michael O'Sullivan, who leads the advocacy group GeorgiaCAN.

Through a small student to teacher ratio with certified special education teachers, and additional academic guidance and instruction, students are enabled to achieve their academic and personal potential.

Not exact matches

The school's four - to - one ratio of students to teachers ensures that every student interacts closely with professors and receives personal attention.

The student body is split 46 % female and 54 % male, with a student - teacher ratio of 8:1.

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

He had 13,794 Sunday school classes spread throughout the four towers in classes ranging from five students to 6,000, with an average ratio of one teacher to 20 students.

Two to 5 day golf school with 1 - to - 1 and 2 - to - 1 student - teacher ratio is available as well as private package lessons that include use of a digital video system.

We offer top - notch instruction from nationally ranked Stanford Equestrian Team riders and coaches; a safe and friendly environment with a high teacher - to - student ratio.

Located just 30 minutes from Minneapolis and St. Paul, Chanhassen has outstanding public schools with low student - teacher ratios.

Their low teacher - child ratio encourages children to develop trusting relationships with adults and allows teachers to facilitate children's social - emotional development.

Every two days someone arrives wanting an individual course on home birth with their own set of links to refute the standard set of arguments and a 1:10 student - teacher ratio.

To help our children explore their world and satisfy their curiosity, we seek educational situations that are no more than a 1:6 teacher to child ratio and learning opportunities that are rich with movement, multisensory, project based and diverse.

Secondly, the school feeding program, though successful in attaining high enrolment, it has negatively impacted teacher - pupil ratio, with implications for quality.

The current government provision already allows for a qualification - related higher ratios: those with Early Years Teacher of Professional Status can care for children aged 3 and 4 in groups of 13 rather than 8.

A new, in - depth report takes a look at how states spend education money and finds that the most cost - effective ways of increasing student achievement are by reducing pupil - teacher ratios, providing more prekindergarten programs, and providing teachers with discretionary classroom resources — not by raising teacher pay.

We run the risk of the «factory model,» where we put as many students as possible through a course with a large student - to - teacher ratio.

And its pupil - teacher ratio was 12 - to - 1, compared with 29 - to - 1 across California.

Specifically, spending increases associated with court - mandated reform are much more strongly related to improvement in measured school inputs (e.g., student - to - teacher ratios, length of the school year) than ordinary spending increases.

Since extensive research shows that a ratio of positive - to - negative feedback of between 3 - 1 and 5 - 1 is necessary for healthy learning to occur, teachers might consider a strategy called plussing that is used by Pixar animation studios with great success.

Pages of Download Grade 2 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 15 - Place Value 16 - 20 - Ordinal Numbers 21 - 25 - Smallest / Largest Number in a set of numbers 26 - 29 - Greater than 30 - 33 - Less than 34 - 36 - Greater than / Less than 37 - 39 - Add or subtract write the sign in the blank 40 - 45 - Adding using place value (example: 4 + 13 + 5) 46 - 51 - Adding with words - Example - what is 150 more than 200 52 - 55 - Skip Counting 56 - 59 - Skip Counting - Missing Numbers on a Number line 60 - 65 - Reading Graphs 65 - 71 - Solving Word Problems 72 - 76 - Time 77 - 83 - Coin Identification and Coin counting 84 - 88 - Counting Dollars and coins 89 - 92 - Geometry 93 - 96 - Fractions 97 - 115 - Answer Keys 116 - 118 - Terms of Use and Credits Pages of Download Grade 3 Practice Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Measurement Height 12 - 19 - Place Value 20 - 24 - Find the smallest / largest number from a set of numbers 25 - 28 - Number Words 29 - 32 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 33 - 37 - Counting dollars and coins 38 - 48 - Reading thermometers - temperature 49 - 53 - Reading graphs 54 - 57 - Reading Calendars 58 - 62 - Numerators and Denominators 63 - 67 - Fraction Circles 68 - 72 - Fractions of a solid 73 - 78 - Word Problems 79 - 83 - Data Tables 84 - 88 - Multi-Step Word Problems 89 - 92 - Rounding to the nearest ten 93 - 96 - Rounding to the nearest hundred 97 - 100 - Rounding word problems 101 - 103 - Probability 104 - 107 - Geometry - identifying shapes 108 - 110 - Height of a triangle 111 - 113 - Angles identifying right, acute, and obtuse 114 - 117 - Symmetry and Angles 118 - 121 - Perimeter 122 - 125 - Area 126 - 129 - Elapsed Time 130 - 155 - Answer Keys 156 - 158 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 4 practice sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 6 - Measurement Length 7 - 11 - Patterns 12 - 15 - Parallel and Perpendicular Lines 16 - 26 - Reading Temperature 27 - 31 - Reading Graphs 32 - 36 - Coordinate Graphs 37 - 41 - Skip Counting - complete the sequence 42 - 46 - Place Value 47 - 50 - Number Words 51 - 55 - Powers of 10 56 - 60 - Adding using Place Value 61 - 70 - Fractions 71 - 75 - Fraction Word Problems 76 - 80 - Convert Fractions to Decimals 81 - 85 - Convert Decimals to Fractions 86 - 90 - Height of a figure 91 - 95 - Missing Number in an equation 96 - 100 - Balancing Equations 101 - 105 - Data Tables - ordering numbers 106 - 110 - Data Table Addition 111 - 115 - Data Table Time 116 - 120 - Data Table Subtraction 121 - 125 - Estimation Word Problems 126 - 130 - Ratio Word Problems 131 - 134 - Probability 135 - 140 - Spinner Probability 141 - 145 - Arrays 146 - 173 - Answer Keys 174 - 177 - Credits and Terms of Use Pages of Download Grade 5 Sheets: 1 - Cover 2 - For the Teacher 3 - 7 - Units of Measure 8 - 12 - Reading Graphs 13 - 17 - Number Words 18 - 22 - Place Value 23 - 27 - Decimal Place Value 28 - 32 - Rounding Numbers 33 - 37 - Complete the sequence, skip counting 38 - 42 - Solving Equations 43 - 47 - Variable Equations 48 - 52 - Simplify Expressions 53 - 57 - Finding the Mean 58 - 62 - Mean, Median, Mode 63 - 67 - Greatest Common Factor 68 - 72 - Fractions 73 - 77 - Comparing a set of Fractions 78 - 83 - Comparing Multiple Fractions 84 - 93 - Fraction Word Problems 94 - 98 - Estimating / Estimation Word Problems 99 - 103 - Possible Outcome Problems 104 - 108 - Distance Word Problems 109 - 113 - Division Word Problems 114 - 118 - Ratio Word Problems 119 - 124 - Coordinate Graphs 125 - 130 - Perimeter 131 - 135 - Area 136 - 145 Elapsed Time Clocks and Watches 146 - 171 - Answer Keys 172 - 175 - Credits and Terms of Use

To adjust for this, we assume that the change in the real cost of special education services is commensurate with the change in student - teacher ratios.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

Prior to the report, school inputs — spending per pupil, teacher pupil ratios, and the like — were customarily viewed as roughly synonymous with results.

In Hyderabad, private schools, including the unrecognized ones, had significant advantages over the government schools: the average pupil - teacher ratio was 42:1 in government schools compared with only 22:1 in the unrecognized and 27:1 in the recognized private schools.

With a specialist outdoor educator and a teacher working together, the ratio may be nearer 6:1 (young people to adults).

«We can no longer proceed with teacher policies that speak of student and teacher ratio in the old way of assuming there will be one teacher per 40 students,» she urged.

In contrast, if a district used state and local funds to cover one teacher per 25 students in its non-Title I schools, but only got to that same ratio in its Title I schools through a combination of federal Title I dollars along with state and local funds, the auditor would — in keeping with the letter and spirit of the new law — find the district in violation.

Abecedarian was a full - day, year - round program with a very low teacher - child ratio (1:3 for infants and 1:6 for five - year - olds), and unusually qualified staff and management.

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).

Project STAR (Student Teacher Achievement Ratio) was a large - scale class - size experiment that began with kindergarten students in the fall of 1985.

Together with census data, that information allows for the calculation of the ratio of minority teachers to minority adults for each state, which serves as an index of minority representation.

Without a mentor, nearly one in three new teachers leave by their fifth year, but with a mentor that ratio drops by more than half, to one in seven.

Even with a school - within - a-school environment and low student - teacher ratio, teaching a «rough and tumble» population when he'd come from a school where, he says, «students stood up when a teacher walked into the room» was challenging to say the least.

These characteristics include, in addition to a variety of measures of student achievement as of 1996, the percentages of students in the school that are eligible for free school meals, those who are nonwhite, and those with special educational needs; the pupil - teacher ratio and the number of students enrolled; whether the school is all girls, all boys, a religious school, or in London; and several measures of the qualifications of the teaching staff.

Technology developed for a school with, for example, a 12 - to - 1 student - to - teacher ratio still may not export easily to a more traditional public schooling context.

The ratios were the worst in the North, with just 1.2 per cent of teachers being BME in the North East, compared to 7.8 per cent of pupils, and in the North West just 3.3 per cent of teachers are BME, compared to 17.8 per cent of pupils.

Because Minecraft has such open possibilities and potential, teachers have been experimenting with different ways to use it in the classroom for a while now to teach math concepts like ratios and proportions, while others use it to support student creativity and collaboration.

While student - teacher ratios are strikingly reduced from past years, the hoped - for improvement in academic achievement associated with more intimate circumstances has not occurred.

Three areas are pivotal to achieving that end: (i) early access to programs that serve children age 0 - 3; (ii) working with parents (direct practice of skills and intensive home visiting); and (iii) high quality programs entailing teacher - child interactions that promote higher - order thinking skills, low teacher to child ratios, and ongoing job - embedded professional development.

With teacher salaries and benefits the biggest cost to K12, increasing student - to - teacher ratios is an easy way for the company to increase profits.

In these states, access to early childhood education is limited; wages for teachers are not competitive with those of comparable professions; and teacher - to - pupil ratios in schools are unreasonably high.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

Superintendent David Snead said that while Detroit public high schools are overstaffed, some elementary and middle schools have staffing shortages, with student - teacher ratios of up to 35 to 1.

Witness also its finding that it is particularly important to reduce class sizes in states that begin with high average pupil - teacher ratios.

In fact, the weak relationship between pupil - teacher ratio and school ratings is in the opposite of the expected direction: schools with larger classes receive somewhat higher grades, perhaps because effective schools attract more families to the neighborhood.

The National Association of Elementary School Principals has launched an initiative in preschool education that will include: a national survey of state standards for preschool education, efforts to lobby state lawmakers to reduce student - teacher ratios in the early grades, and plans to work with state...

The school with a total population of about 822 students between grades 9 and 12 boasts of a very impressive teacher to student ratio of 1:8.

The school with a total high school population of about 887 students between grades 9 and 12 boasts of an impressive teacher to student ratio of 1:16.

With the backing of teachers» union President Paul Hubbert, Gov. Fob James Jr. proposed a school - reform bill this year that promised 1,600 additional teachers and lower pupil - teacher ratios, all without a tax increase.

While some students were found to demonstrate a constructivist approach to decisions about ratios / proportions, the authors concluded, «The extent to which the preservice teachers could make plans consistent with constructivism was highly variable» (Kim & Sharp, 2000, p. 328).