Sentences with phrase «with classroom achievement»

, 1991, observing mother and child behavior in Problem - Solving Situation at school entry Relations with classroom achievement: 1 ~ 16

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However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — With the new school year underway, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today re-issued his challenge to all Westchester County students in grades 6 through 12: Win a free season pass to Playland by earning high achievement in the classroom.

Outside of his work with the coalition, Justin also serves as President of the Board of Directors for the Chautauqua Leadership Network, is a classroom volunteer for Junior Achievement of WNY, is a mentor for the WNY P - TECH STEM College & Career Academy and is a member of the WNY STEM Hub.

Cataloguing the achievements of President Akufo - Addo's government in Ahafo, the Yamfo Chief stated that in the Tano North district, bungalows have been constructed for the Directors of Health and Education; together with the construction of several units of classroom blocks in the district.

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.

Blacks did better if they went to school with whites, and the achievement of whites did not decline in integrated classrooms.

Another increasingly important method of capturing student achievement, especially with regard to project learning, is shooting classroom video footage.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

The free - to - access lesson plans, student worksheets and digital libraries celebrate the success of Indigenous land management programs, while providing teachers with classroom - ready material that helps students explore our shared histories, cultures and achievements.

While previous research indicates that ability grouping is in fact correlated with higher achievement, these findings could be misleading if students placed in high - ability classrooms were likely to be successful for reasons that researchers are unable to measure, such as stronger motivation.

Today I'm talking to Professor Peter Barrett who, along with colleagues Dr Yufan Zhang, Dr Fay Davies and Dr Lucinda Barrett, from England's Salford University, carried out a three year study into the link between physical classroom design in primary schools and academic achievement.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — Studies of two middle - school programs for high - achieving students — known as gifted and talented (G&T) programs — show that being placed in programs with academically strong peers does not boost students» achievement over and above what is learned in a regular classroom from the start of 6th grade to mid-way through 7th grade.

Indeed, it's one thing to think, rather generically, about the achievement gap between races and socio - economic groups, but as I saw up close and personal in that sixth - grade classroom yesterday and as Mike makes vividly clear in his Ed Next story, our relatively recent headlong rush to celebrate diversity — and integration and «mainstreaming» — has brought with it new achievement gap challenges.

For instance, a school may assign children with similar achievement levels to the same classroom, in order to minimize teaching difficulty.

Thomas Kane: So for 40 years, we have known that when similar students enter different teachers» classrooms, they come out with very different achievement.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

In these surveys, we asked principals to evaluate their teachers along a variety of dimensions, including dedication and work ethic, organization, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, student satisfaction, role model value for students, and ability to raise math and reading achievement.

Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based on the average prior academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).

Best of all, including game design in the classroom drastically increases student engagement with the material, thus increasing achievement.

When compared with such crude indicators, the combination of student achievement gains on state tests, student surveys, and classroom observations identified teachers with better outcomes on every measure we tested: state tests and supplemental tests as well as more subjective measures, such as student - reported effort and enjoyment in class.

(Just as we did with classroom observations, to avoid generating a spurious correlation between student survey responses and achievement scores for the same group of students, we estimated the correlation across different classrooms of students taught by the same teacher.)

In essence, TAP provides a detailed plan for how teachers can be effective in the classroom, furnishes a formula to evaluate all teachers, and links positive evaluations along with achievement - growth measures to bonus pay.

Principals were asked not only to provide a rating of overall teacher effectiveness, but also to assess, on a scale from one (inadequate) to ten (exceptional), specific teacher characteristics (ten altogether), including dedication and work ethic, classroom management, parent satisfaction, positive relationship with administrators, and ability to improve math and reading achievement.

For the first time ever in the classroom, leverage the powerful Gamecenter to challenge students with our leaderboard and achievements.

It is recognised that by combining classroom teaching with outdoor experiences significant achievements can be made by children, supporting a holistic education and life long approach to learning.

But perhaps more importantly, like my dad did for me over 20 years ago, by connecting your students with their own digital portfolios, you will be allowing them to compose a narrative that will not only inform your own assessment of student growth and achievement, but will leave a legacy of learning and who they have become years after leaving your classroom.

Among students assigned to different teachers with the same Overall Classroom Practices score, math achievement will grow more for students whose teacher is better than his peers at classroom management (i.e., has a higher score on our Classroom Management vs. Instructional Practices measure).

If you start with a clear goal and ask relevant, critical questions of what you're considering, you're well on your way to improving student achievement in your classroom.

And we'll share some of our favourite snippets from interviews with previous EPPC presenters exploring classroom wellbeing, school leadership, staff PD, closing student achievement gaps, and new ways of teaching and assessing maths.

Again, this has been linked to higher student achievement with the Trust reporting that «students who write outside school daily are five times more likely to have levels of writing above those expected for their age, compared with those who never write outside the classroom (30.9 per cent versus 5.8 per cent)».

And it turns out that out - of - school learning has every bit as much to do with achievement gaps that show up in school as anything that happens in the classroom.

By contrast, those who had the misfortune to be placed in classrooms with three bad teachers in a row saw their achievement levels plummet.

This is why I am so encouraged by the vibrancy and growing spirit of innovation that comes with charter schools, new technology in the classroom and the demand for higher achievement.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

They are campuses with depressingly low pupil achievement, poor student - level growth, and very little successful teaching and learning in their classrooms.

The Key to Evaluating Teachers: Ask Kids What They Think The Washington Post, February 23, 2013 «So for 40 years, we have known that when similar students enter different teachers» classrooms, they come out with very different achievement.

This meta - analysis of social and emotional learning interventions (including 213 school - based SEL programs and 270,000 students from rural, suburban and urban areas) showed that social and emotional learning interventions had the following effects on students ages 5 - 18: decreased emotional distress such as anxiety and depression, improved social and emotional skills (e.g., self - awareness, self - management, etc.), improved attitudes about self, others, and school (including higher academic motivation, stronger bonding with school and teachers, and more positive attitudes about school), improvement in prosocial school and classroom behavior (e.g., following classroom rules), decreased classroom misbehavior and aggression, and improved academic performance (e.g. standardized achievement test scores).

So policies that mandate the accumulation of course credits, advancing in terms of degree status (e.g., from A.A. to B.A.), or attending workshops, by themselves are not likely to produce teachers with high - quality classroom skills or necessarily contribute to children's achievement.

The results are consistent with other studies that show a substantial return (up to 50 percent of a standard deviation on standardized achievement tests) to achievement from observed classroom quality, with greater effects often accruing to children with higher levels of risk and disadvantage.

After all, if a student trusts that the assessment is meaningful and will help them later on, it helps with both their achievement and with your own classroom management.

As far as teachers are concerned, their number one role must be to establish caring and empathic mentoring relationships with their students, making the classroom an emotionally safe harbor where learning, achievement, success, and security are the norm.

With male academic achievement declining by almost every measure, and their scores possibly dragging down national averages, administrators are taking a fresh look at same - sex classrooms and the concept that boys and girls might do better when they're apart.

In this interactive webinar, the co-founders of the Vermont Writing Collaborative and a 4th grade teacher share classroom - tested methods that advance student achievement by intimately connecting deep content knowledge with explicit writing frameworks.

With increasingly rigorous teacher evaluation policy, teachers» classroom instruction isfrequently observed and evaluated, and teachers are held accountable for their students» achievement gains.

Jack has now made huge leaps forward in his classroom achievements, and with support from all staff, is able to work as part of the class to achieve his targets.

All three studies achieved very high response rates on all data collections, whether teacher surveys, classroom observations, collection of teachers» scores on college entrance exams or precertification exams, student achievement tests, collection of student data from district administrative records, principal surveys, or interviews with program officials.

A randomized controlled trial of My Teaching Partner — Secondary — a Web - mediated approach focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom — examined the efficacy of the approach in improving teacher quality and student achievement with 78 secondary school teachers and 2237 students.

Legislated and bargained contractual protections make the process of dismissing an ineffective teacher with tenure prohibitively lengthy and expensive in most states, and teacher tenure evaluation processes remain largely disconnected from teachers» performance in the classroom or student achievement.