Sentences with phrase «value all students even»

What type of professional learning experiences lead to this kind of intense teacher commitment, as seen in this teacher's statement, to value all students even when it challenges established teaching patterns?

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I value the education I received (even if I was just a C student), and I value the professional experiences and mentors who helped me along the way.

On Tuesday evening, I heard first hand from a group of marketing students about the value they place on corporate responsibility when deciding where to work.

But even here the emphasis falls on becoming aware of hidden assumptions, learning how to live with people whose «value systems» differ, and acquiring the critical detachment necessary for students to «choose for themselves what principles will guide them.»

Laredo students value the «food court» style cafeteria setup and were excited to be provided with even more choices to create healthier school meals.

He makes it clear to his students that he values clean work above all else, even if it does not yield the sexy results so many labs are looking for.

Given that the armed services put a high value on technical skills in recruiting and training, the proportion of science and engineering student - veterans is likely to be even higher.

In a typical lab activity, «the relevant equations and principles are laid out in the preamble; students are told what value they should get for a particular measurement or given the equation to predict that value; they are told what data to collect and how to collect them; and often they are even told which buttons to press on the equipment to produce the desired output,» write the researchers.

Specifically in education, the «gamification» of earning badges raises concerns that students may start to obsesses about earning as many badges as possible instead of on mastering the right material, or that the badges offered may not even represent anything of value.

Students will explore how they can develop and evidence their own employability skills even if they have little or no work experience, and discuss why employers value these skills.

Even more importantly, it is continually instructional in how it captures the value of teacher - student connections and how teachers can effectively deal with the emotional lives of learners.

And still others question whether public schools should even be involved in shaping students» civic values.

If high - income parents are more likely to make a request, and such requests are for better teachers on average, then the availability of requests could exacerbate the achievement gap between students from low - and high - income families, even if all families equally value academic achievement.

Measures of teachers» value added in previous years are an even better predictor of future gains in students» achievement than are principal ratings.

By working with the right IT partner, and receiving the right advice, education establishments can get the maximum value out of their available budget, equipping students and staff with the resources they need and even provide peripheral equipment as added extras.

Children and teens often have a great deal of empathy for their close friends and family, but it is often harder to truly value those outside this circle of concern, especially those who are different or who may not be on their radar, such as a new student in class, someone who speaks a different language, or even someone who dresses differently.

Surely this was my experience as a student that the populist teachers would be voted highly by the students even though their value to your life May be later recognized to have been nil (think of teachers who act as if they are your friends, and as a student you like them a lot, but once you are out of school you May recognize that they haven't taught you anything).

Speaking to the audience that evening MSAT principal Bob Lenz talked about the value of projects and of student presentations: «How the students present is not only a reflection of their own learning; it's also a reflection of our teaching.

Such a design means that the two groups of students are identical in every way, even in the intangibles like the value their parents place on education.

Even on days when I've had to race to school after a chaotic morning at home and feel like less than my best self, my students deserve to feel welcomed and valued.

The authors also investigate whether high - value - added teachers have benefited by being assigned students who would have made greater gains on standardized tests for unobserved reasons (such as family factors that can not be gleaned even from tax returns).

These efforts occur in ways that allow students — or in our case, youths and pre-service teachers — to demonstrate creativity and have their perspectives valued in ways that few middle - or high - school lessons (and maybe even fewer traditional teacher education clinical experiences) enable.

In math, four times a year, each student is given a set of values or codes to substitute in the equations so that even though the students are working together, they have to focus on the mathematical process and not just the «right answer.»

Even though value - added measures accurately gauge teachers» impacts on test scores, it could still be the case that high - VA teachers simply «teach to the test,» either by narrowing the subject matter in the curriculum or by having students learn test - taking strategies that consistently increase test scores but do not benefit students later in their lives.

«Homework can help students develop study skills that will be of value even after they leave school,» reads a publication on the U.S. Department of Education website called Homework Tips for Parents.

Homework's value is largely as a tool to develop the capacity of students, even when it has no mark or grade attached;

In some cases, the lack of preparing for another country's culture can result in difficulty recruiting students and faculty, or even a struggle to stay open when the offerings don't align with what is valued by the local economy.

Students learn about even and odd numbers and use this information along with their knowledge of place value and greater than / less than to sort numbers in a Carroll diagram.

Even the most «standard» curriculum decides whose history is worthy of study, whose books are worthy of reading, which curriculum and text selections that include myriad voices and multiple ways of knowing, experiencing, and understanding life can help students to find and value their own voices, histories, and cultures.

Partisanship, then, provides a particularly good proxy for shared values, even though high - school students are unlikely to identify each other by partisan labels.

Aside from the fact that she believes there is relevance and value in teaching fiction to students, even when they may not be required to deal with those sort of texts frequently in their adult lives, the largest problem everyone faces in her school, Lovdahl says, is the lack of necessary resources to effect this transformation.

There are numerous other combinations like these few examples in which teachers have had their evaluations based on students that are not even in the same building (any teacher receiving a district's value - added rating as shared attribution).

Sarah Brody Shulkind, the 2008 NASSP Middle Level Dissertation Award winner, shares the findings of her research and underscores how much students value advisories — even when advisors themselves might not see the value.

[4] Sometimes called selection bias, the problem is that student needs and parental resources are never directly accounted for in value - added measures, even though they might affect student learning and therefore reduce validity of teacher value - added estimates.

Because value - added measures adjust for the characteristics of students in a given classroom, they are less biased measures of teacher performance than are unadjusted test score measures, and they may be less biased even than some observational measures.

In Florida, the system went completely haywire, giving teachers value - added scores for students they had never taught or who weren't even in the same building.

A common criticism of value - added measures is that some teachers are at a disadvantage because they are assigned students who are more difficult to educate, even after the measures account for students» prior test scores; this is what researchers call selection bias.

But I have to disagree on this new drive to publish (in newspapers) the student test scores of individual teachers, even in a value - added way.

Boosting your students» understanding of «hard to learn» math concepts including telling time, place value, money, Cartesian coordinates, multiplication, division, factoring, odd / even numbers, algebra and fractions.

BEIJING — Chinese students, already immersed in classes and textbooks that promote nationalist loyalty to the Communist Party as a bedrock value, must be made even more patriotic and devoted to the party, even when they are studying in universities abroad, according to a new directive sent to education officials.

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

The AFT and the state education department have only agreed that classroom observations — which, even under the best of circumstances, are far less reliable in measuring student performance than either value - added analysis of student test score performance or even surveys of students — should be the «majority» element in the new evaluation system.

This is in part because there are many other influences on student gains other than individual teachers, and in part because teachers» value - added ratings are affected by differences in the students who are assigned to them, even when statistical models try to control for student demographic variables.

I am the mother of a profoundly gifted student and can not even begin to describe the value of this program.

The idea behind value - added modeling is to level the playing field by using statistical procedures that allow direct comparisons between schools and teachers — even when those schools are working with quite different populations of students.

Our students value it even more.

The incumbent, flawed 20th Century, Factory Based, one size fits all teaching paradigm, is what the US educators value the most, because it works for them, even when they know that it doesn't work for their students.

In this way, it is not fair since a teacher who happens to have an assignment in his «comfort zone» can get a higher «value - added» than another teacher, even though that other teacher may have been even better had he gotten the first teacher's students.

[34] Even when character education proponents tiptoe around that word, their model of instruction is clear: good character and values are instilled in or transmitted to students.

She said Catholic schools have a «value added» in their openness to exploring religious questions, which can be an appealing even to students who are uncommitted to a particular faith tradition.