Sentences with phrase «while weaker students»

Every year, she sees her strongest students go off to private primary schools, while weaker students enroll in public schools.

Not exact matches

Following a review of the available evidence and a public discussion involving the program's faculty, staff, and trainees, the exam's ability to predict student performance seems «weak at best» while it significantly disadvantages women, minorities, and students from low socioeconomic backgrounds, writes Scott Barolo, director of the Program in Biomedical Sciences (PIBS), in the announcement.

Tomonaga, who had always been physically weak, would sometimes instruct his students while lying sick in bed.

His advice for further improvement in Poland and abroad — «We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.»

We ran a regression analysis to estimate the relationship between states» absolute and relative poverty levels and student achievement, and the result was clear: absolute poverty is a powerful predictor of achievement, while the relationship between relative poverty and test scores in the U.S. is weak and not statistically significant (see Figure 5).

Seating students in heterogeneous groups maximizes the learning environment: weaker students see how stronger students learn and approach problems, while stronger students gain a deeper understanding of the subject by teaching it to others, creating a «technical success.»

In other words, focusing solely on outcomes lets the Harvards of the world breeze by on the strength of their students» natural abilities, while programs with weaker students are punished unfairly regardless of the value they are adding.

But OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

He said equity in the Australian school system is above the OECD average, but OECD's latest PISA survey found that Australia is the only country where differences in learning mathematics between advantaged and disadvantaged students are large, while the strength of the relationship between students» achievement in school and their family background is weaker than average.

By calling on whomever you please, you can distribute questions more effectively while assuring that the weaker students get questions that they have a good chance of answering.

Teachers and principals report that the stronger specialists help them analyze lesson plans and student work in the context of the new standards, while the weaker ones add little value at best and misinformation at worst.

Parochial schools are less likely to fall into the public - school habit of «structuring inequities»: public schools offer students the chance to take weaker academic courses while Catholic school courses are «largely determined by the school.»

We have to provide more support for the weakest students, while at the same time we need to better recognize different talents and find multiple ways to make them flourish within the comprehensive school system.

Some teens use social networks to anonymously torment other teens, while other teens are tormenting the people who are different such as disabled students, weaker students, socially isolated students, and un-athletic students.

The same research suggests that while students feel strongly attached to their immediate communities, they generally feel a weaker sense of belonging to national, European and international communities.

While there's much emphasis on the necessity of school choice («choice can strongly foster diversity and increase the options for students living in areas where the existing schools are weak») there's an oxymoronic antipathy towards public charter schools which, in our most segregated districts, are often the only choices available to families who can't afford private schools or out - of - district tuition.

In addition, providing the choice of discussion format to students enhanced course satisfaction and, while some differences were found in cognitive achievement, the results were weak.

- Data from the Gary Income Maintenance Experiment shoes that, in a single year, students with the weakest 5 % of teachers made a half - year's worth of reading gains on standardized tests, while those with the top 5 % of teachers gained a year and a half.

The Common Core, while arguably a strong baseline for student learning in the United States, are rightfully being criticized for a weak emphasis on 21st century competencies like creativity, collaboration, and communication (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, 2010), as well as for a narrow focus on only reading and math.

Under Obama's framework, teachers with weak ratings tied to student achievement could lose their jobs, while high ratings could mean bigger paychecks.

While prior evidence paints a mixed picture of the influence of demographic variables on leader efficacy, the overall effect of such variables seems to be weak or non - existent.185 For example, virtually no evidence suggests that school level or size, 186 teachers «age or total years of experience in education, student SES or student ethnicity, influence leader efficacy.187

I'm clipping coupons in the short run, running credit risk while I don't see any major credit risks on the horizon aside from weak sovereigns (think the PIIGS), student loans, and weak junk (ratings starting with a «C»).

It'll take a while, but eventually students will figure that out (not for nothing, but in the US, where tuition fees are exgregious and bear little relation to the quality of education, weaker schools are having to cut tuition fees, or indeed, shut down programs, as would - be students have figured out that the degree isn't worth what they're being asked to pay for.

• Assist the teacher in classroom activities while catering for emotional, psychological, social and cognitive needs of physically or mentally disabled students • Provide one to one tutoring and reinforce daily lessons in small groups • Identify weak areas of students and develop individualized lesson plans accordingly • Supervise the children during play and lunchtime • Inculcate strong moral and social values among the students to make them responsible citizens • Facilitate the teacher in conducting various classroom activities • Maintain all teaching aids in an organized manner • Devise need - based AV aids to facilitate teaching process • Assess multiple instructional strategies for effectiveness and change the teaching methodology as per requirement • Carefully record and gauge each student's progress and discuss the same regularly with teachers and parents • Encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities and boost their confidence in all possible ways • Communicate home assignments clearly, mark homework and test papers • Assist students in completing classroom assignments • Maintain daily attendance and early departure records • Discuss individual cases of individual needs and interests with teachers and parents of the student • Develop and implement targeted instructional strategies to cater for particular needs of each student • Observe students» behavior at playtime and chalk out a behavioral intervention plan to address any inappropriate, violent or disruptive behavior • Operate adaptive technological equipment single - handedly • Maintain complete confidentiality of student data • Aid physical, speech and rehabilitative therapists in their sessions and encourage the student to cooperate with them

While it may be that the weaker pound is more attractive to overseas students, it also proves the ongoing demand for UK higher education.