Sentences with phrase «than silencing student»

Rather than silencing student voice, Meaningful Student Involvement can amplify the voices of the silenced; more so, this approach can engage these students as partners with the very teachers who used to fail them.

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In seminaries as in churches, breaking the silence has a powerful impact on the community itself: student organizations sponsor films and speakers on the topic; campus incidents are addressed rather than denied; field - education placements in shelters are developed, or a session on sexual harassment is provided for field - education supervisors; resources on these issues are added to the library, and continuing - education programs are developed.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Now called two - way dual - language education or two - way immersion in an effort to silence the word «bilingual,» the new proposal required that half of the students be learners of English and the other half be learners of the language other than English (Lindholm - Leary, 2011).

After months of silence and despite the overwhelming fact that there is no federal or state law that allows the government or school districts to punish children (or parents) who opt their children out of the Common Core Testing Scam, Malloy's interim Commissioner of Education incredibly instructed school superintendents to continue their unethical and immoral harassment of parents who are seeking to protect their children by opting them out of the Common Core SBAC Tests — A test that is rigged to ensure that as many as 7 in 10 Connecticut public school students are deemed failures and that more than 90 percent of special education students and English Language Learners have «fail» attached to their academic records.

While I'm a decidedly more mature reader than Rebecca Donovan's intended audience, I am also a veteran teacher with sixteen years» experience in ignorantly turning the other way while students in my classroom suffered in silence the way Donovan's heroine Emma does.

Emma Gonzalez, one of the student leaders of the #NeverAgain movement, stood in silence for more than six minutes in honor of the Parkland shooting victims during the March for Our Lives rally on Saturday in Washington, D.C.

Two hundred miles north in Orlando on the weekend following the shooting, more than 3,000 Jewish teens did gather at the BBYO International Convention to show that the 17 victims, including five Jewish students and staff members, did not die in vain, as the proceedings began with a moment of silence for the fallen.