Sentences with phrase «when class sizes»

Though anecdotal reports in California said teachers from disadvantaged schools fled when new positions opened up in other schools when class sizes were reduced, what the follow - up studies show is that after rising temporarily in all schools, teacher migration rates fell dramatically to much lower levels than before, most sharply in schools with large numbers of poor students.

Even when class sizes are reduced, teachers do not change their teaching strategies or use these student - centered methods (Shapson, Wright, Eason, & Fitzgerald, 1980).

Indeed, other studies have confirmed that when class sizes are lowered, teacher turnover rates fall.

But you're right to point out the difficulties involving Inclusion, especially when class sizes are large.

When class sizes become overwhelming, teachers can't form strong relationships with students or address individual learning needs.

Student performance has been shown to improve when class sizes are smaller, but budget cuts in Wisconsin have led to increasing class sizes in many school districts.

They learn when class sizes are small enough to do all this.

Nevertheless, contrary to these beliefs, high - quality teaching and learning and active student engagement can still occur in strict, teacher - controlled classrooms, even when the class size is large (Hiebert et al., 2003; Huang & Leung, 2004).

«You can't reduce staffing when your class size goes from 24 to 22.»

Not exact matches

-- When changes in the composition of families are taken into account — including fewer adults per household as family sizes decrease — the real after - tax income of middle - class families increased 30 per cent from 1976 to 2010 — on par with other income groups, but still lower than the top earners

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

Michigan had been looking at a class size of 22 when this season started but those three transfers push the number up to 25.

When your student does not want to take a full sized laptop to class or to the library, a nice tablet makes a great laptop alternative.

Stuart - FYI, Clegg sounded pretty committed to scrapping the CTF in order to fund reduced class sizes when he was on BBC R4's «Woman's Hour» a week or two ago.

When he began there 15 years ago, he said, the average class size was around 24, but it has since risen to around 30.

Parental choice was clearly restricted when LEAs were empowered to refuse admissions to particular schools on the grounds of reducing class sizes.

Class size has been a significant issue for many years, with concerns long expressed about the quality of teaching possible when a single teacher is responsible for large numbers of pupils.

«We became interested in studying the effects of economic downturns on public spending during the Great Recession of the late 2000s, when media outlets were filled with stories about states cutting optional Medicaid benefits, increasing school class sizes and reducing course offerings,» said Ho, who is also a professor of economics at Rice and a professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine.

«The data allowed us to get a quantitative understanding of size classes and when these big sharks are using the channel.»

When comparing between four size classes, two microplastic < 4.75 mm and meso - and macroplastic > 4.75 mm, a tremendous loss of microplastics is observed from the sea surface compared to expected rates of fragmentation, suggesting there are mechanisms at play that remove < 4.75 mm plastic particles from the ocean surface.

What to look for when choosing a quality yoga teacher training program e.g. reputation of yoga instructor, international certification, class size, cost etc..

Class size: When it comes to Pilates, the smaller the better.

When I began volunteering at Sequoia Academy, a new private school of about a dozen students, in Janesville, a medium - sized working class city in southern Wisconsin, I never imagined that I would end up as a lunch lady.

By keeping the class size small we keep the focus on form and have the ability to provide individualized attention when needed.

When I'm a different size, I'll sign up for that dance class I've always wanted to take.

We remained friends when my (size 2) roommate reminded me every day I was fat, or when everyone teased me for taking longer to walk to class through Central Park than them.

Soft and true to size you will live in these as well when you are sitting in class, work or for night life!

The pint - sized world, smack dab in the middle of the Arizona desert, presents an opportunity for the lower middle - class couple from Omaha to be millionaires in the miniature world, since you can stretch a dollar farther when your house is the size of Barbie's Malibu dream home.

When Matt Damon's Paul Safranek undergoes the procedure and moves to «Leisureland,» he discovers, with the aid of a disabled Vietnamese dissident shrunk against her will, that the racial and class inequalities of the normal - sized world persist — and are perhaps even intensified — in this eco-friendly micro-utopia.

Our school field provides plenty of play space in summer, but come winter, the hard play area is the same size as when we were a one - form - entry school and we now hold an extra four classes.

By only responding when needed with the amount of feedback needed, teachers can add a lot more writing to their classes without increasing the size of the stacks of work they bring home.

Possessing this information is vital to designing a right - sized learning experience when students return to class.

When looking at class size, determine if breaking the students into groups would make a difference.

• Opportunity for career advancement and rigorous, on - the - job learning becomes possible when great teachers advance by collaborating with, leading, and developing other teachers in teams to reach more students (without forcing class - size increases).

We have poured more money into schools, hired an army of new teachers to reduce class size, expanded professional development, and retained more experienced teachers — everything that the teacher unions have in mind when they repeat their mantra that we know what works and just need the resources to do it.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

But when the legislation passed, the only available evidence about the program consisted of testimony; a dozen or so empirical studies by the program's own staff that used primitive quasi-experimental designs; and the most - cited single study confounded the court - ordered introduction of the program with a simultaneously ordered reduction in class sizes of 40 percent.

Larger class sizes and staff layoffs should not be pinned on charter schools when district buildings are not being used efficiently.

How to explain such relentless reductions in class size, especially when they seem to be at the expense of teacher pay?

When the district had sufficient funds prior to 2011, it agreed to a series of wage increases for union employees, added remedial summer - school classes, reduced class sizes, operated underutilized buildings, and devoted extra resources to improve poorly performing schools.

And again, even Duncan admitted as much when he later said that «class size has been a sacred cow and we need to take it on.»

Many of the individuals who are driving education policy in this country... sent their own children to abundantly financed private schools where class sizes were 16 or less, and yet continue to insist that resources, equitable funding, and class size don't matter — when all the evidence points to the contrary (Haimson, 2009).

When Americans are asked to choose between increasing teacher salaries and reducing class sizes, they regularly select the latter option.

Even when they are told that «reducing average class sizes by three students would cost roughly the same amount as increasing teacher salaries by $ 10,000,» 44 percent of Americans select class - size reduction, whereas 28 percent select increasing teacher salaries.

The pack includes: Powerpoint - A Powerpoint about the festival of Hanukkah - when it is, what is eaten, how it is celebrated - the pages could also be printed off to enable you to create a class book for the children to read Photographs - Colour photos of a Menorah, a Dreidel, Hanukkah Gelt and people lighting the Menorah candles - great to add to your displays or for discussion Word cards Fact cards - Fact cards about the festival of Hanukkah Display banners - 2 different large titles for displays «Happy Hanukkah» and «Hanukkah» each with Hanukkah themed pictures Display border - A colourful display border with Hanukkah themed pictures - this can be printed as many times as you need to use on a display border of any size Writing pages - A collection of decorated A4 border pages - great for the children's work or to add to your writing area at Hanukkah Colour page border - A collection of colour A4 border pages - a great way to quickly display the children's work Colour posters - A set of A4 information posters with pictures of Gelt money, Menorah, Dreidel and Potato Latkes Display lettering - Large letters spelling «Hanukkah» which are decorated with pictures linked to Hanukkah - Great for a larger display Hanukkah story - The Hanukkah story for you to read aloud to the children Colouring posters - A collection of posters for the children to colour - these could also be printed smaller for the children to use on their Hanukkah cards Bookmarks - A collection of Hanukkah themed bookmarks for the children to cut out and colour Number line - A number line to 50 on colourful Dreidels Alphabet line - An alphabet line on candles - this could also be used for other festivals or a part of a birthday display Colour posters - A4 posters with pictures of images associated with Hanukkah Songs and rhymes - A collection of decorated song sheets with songs and rhymes about Hanukkah including two number rhymes Recipe - A photo recipe to make Latke cakes - a popular Hanukkah dish - the pages can be printed to make a book or used for displays Dreidel game - A Dreidel spinner to cut out and play the game of Dreidel Make a Dreidel - A 3D Dreidel spinner to make complete with instructions Hanukkah cards Acrostic poem Maths worksheet - Count the number of Dreidels Addition worksheet - Add the numbers on the Dreidels Menorah Counting - Worksheets to count the number of Menorah candles lit Cut and make a Menorah Number dominoes Word search Worksheets - Match the Hanukkah words to the pictures, draw the Hanukkah pictures and fill in the missing words Writing activities - Worksheets to write the Dreidel instructions and writing about Hanukkah

When the unions start busing in kids, parents, and teachers to rally against increases in class size or pay freezes, expect a lot of Republican governors to start quoting their good friend Arne Duncan.

These patterns are repeated when one goes to the other «evidence - based» recommendations of Picus and Odden, including class size reduction and professional development.

Consider what has happened since 2001, when the Clark County School District increased class sizes in grades 4 through 12 in order to save tens of millions of dollars.

When other factors are taken into account, higher spending and smaller class sizes seem to correspond to inferior mathematics and science results, though the overall effect is relatively small.

Nevertheless, class size, when factored into my analysis, was not significantly related to student achievement.