Sentences with phrase «first year students focus»

First year students focus specifically on exhibitions — their history, form and design — alongside courses in contemporary and global art history, theory and criticism, and primary engagements with artists and designers.

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When Dorm Room Fund, a student - focused fund from First Round Capital, launched at Berkeley, a 21 - year - old Fiance became managing partner and spent two years sourcing deals for them.

Millennial Branding and Internships.com Release First Ever Study on High School Careers 50 % of companies are creating high school internship programs this year and high school students are now more career focused than college students.

MD - PhD programs are not the only available approach for training future physician - scientists, but they have, in many respects, become the most visible.2 — 4 In an MD - PhD curriculum, students complete the requirements for both the MD and the PhD, usually by starting with the first two years of medical education and then focusing on graduate school before returning to complete the medical degree.

The School will focus on first - and second - year graduate students in the computational molecular sciences (bio - and macro-molecular simulation, quantum chemistry, and materials science) whose research requires a firm foundation in software engineering and programming.

We also have a major new educational initiative underway, First Two, which works to increase retention of STEM students in their first two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college studFirst Two, which works to increase retention of STEM students in their first two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college studfirst two years of college, with a particular focus on first generation college studfirst generation college students.

In 2015, Momentum, a design class for first and second year MIT students sponsored by the Office of Minority Education, focused on sensorimotor neural engineering.

The first round of grants will focus on three areas: building commitment among policymakers and business and community leaders to increase postsecondary completion rates; improving the ability of institutions of higher learning to help struggling students at two - and four - year colleges finish their programs,...

Grossman is also part of another project focused on Africa: Cybraries, an idea she came up with during her first year teaching, when she realized her students didn't really know how to use the Internet to do research.

This past year, while a student in the Education Policy Management Program, Cotignola was also an intern with I'm First, a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. that focuses on helping first - generation college students get to and through colFirst, a nonprofit organization based in Washington D.C. that focuses on helping first - generation college students get to and through colfirst - generation college students get to and through college.

Due to our low statewide exam scores in math prior to 2006, we decided to focus our first - year efforts on math support for all students.

Geography exam questions for year 10 and 11 students, focusing on the first half of the course (e.g climate and change, global hazards, sustaining ecosystems and distinctive landscapes).

Washington moved on, as did Chris, and then a few years ago something funny happened: NAEP scores in fourth - grade reading jumped significantly, especially for the low - income, low achieving students who were Reading First's focus.

During the first year of the ELT program, academic intervention courses focused on math skills since student performance data showed that all students needed support in math.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

This year, the committee's first event will be a parent fair with a focus on providing positive role models for students.

While there are many factors for first year faculty to consider that aid in student retention, faculty can focus on factors they have control over.

With English - language learners as the special focus of this year's report, it also, for the first time, provides 50 - state information on this diverse and growing student subgroup,...

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

We focused on students using a voucher to switch from a public to a private school in grades 5 — 8 during the program's first four years (2011 — 12 through 2014 — 15).

From improving assessment and placement to creating a supportive first - year experience to academic and career planning that propels students toward their goals, we're working with institutions to tackle the complex problems of improving student success, persistence, and completion.To learn more, select a student success focus area:

Now, a year later, the Wyoming school district is celebrating the gains made as a result of its first year of partnership and is ready to begin year two with a continued focus on the mathematics achievement of all students in their diverse community.

In this first year, the team will focus on Alexander Calder's mobiles to help teachers see integration strategies and help students design mobiles that integrate art, measurement, geometry, spatial relations, force, motion and simple machines.

Cheatham said she has been more focused in her first few years on building «a strong foundation of 50 schools that serve 27,000 students.»

The discussion focused heavily on whether high schools adequately prepare students for college coursework, although the presenters admitted that there was little data on why roughly a third of college freshmen drop out after their first year.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

We were especially focused on examining a few specific programmatic features first articulated during the 2011 - 2012 school year: Productive Time, Transformed Space, and Student - Adult Learning Relationships.

A team of first grade teachers had identified students who had not made a year's worth of growth during kindergarten as a focus group with a goal of making a year's worth of growth, or more, this year.

L.A. Unified's 150 - page application focused in the first year on helping 25,000 students in 35 low - performing middle and high schools.

Do teachers who experienced a video - enhanced teacher preparation course focused on student - centered analyses of lesson effectiveness incorporate such analyses in their reflections about their teaching effectiveness at the end of their first year of full - time teaching?

there is a documented account of a first - year chemistry teacher so focused on Texas testing that «The entire chemistry course was solely designed to drill students for science exit testing by utilizing multiple - choice worksheets.»

This video, produced May - June 2014, captures perspectives of the TeachOregon program after the first year of implementation It focuses on the experiences and opinions about the innovative practice of partnering college educators from teaching programs, established K12 teachers, and teacher students (also called «teacher candidates») to create an intensive teacher preparation program.

The focus on high expectations, high levels of achievement, and college readiness for all has lead to a school year that has not time for anything except academics, and it doesn't even have time to do that properly if you're a student who doesn't get something the first time it's taught.

The media reported that, «for the first time in years the district is focused on improving student achievement.

CSU also receives $ 50 million for its Graduation Initiative, a program that aims to improve four - and six - year graduation rates to 24 percent and 60 percent, respectively, with a particular focus on underrepresented students and first - generation college students.

Nearly ten years ago, a passionate group of educators, led by Making Waves Foundation Managing Director Sherry Smith, came together and founded the area's first multicultural case study program, with a focus on access to selective institutions for students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds.

For the qualitative study, I facilitated focus groups to assess students» perceptions of the informational supports they receive, the relative utility of available resources, and the challenges they confront during their first year of «free college.»

Built from the company's Literacy First Framework, a three - year professional development program proven to create a school culture of learning and achievement, the Core Instructional Model professional development focuses on consistency and coherence across a school and district for leaders, teachers, and students.

After earning a highly selective fellowship with a national foundation focused on youth, Adam was hired as the Washington State education agency's first - ever student engagement specialist, where he conducted action research on student engagement in a three year project focused on student leadership and service.

Most first degrees (in STEM) focus on acquiring skills in increasingly focussed subject areas so students focussed on gaining better degree marks can achieve this through careful selection of subjects in final years.

There's one in the first year that gives the students the chance to make their own webcomic series as part of a module focused on online publishing / marketing and building an audience for yourself on the web.

Focus: Financial information to help first - year law students develop sound financial habits that will enable them to stay on budget, keep to their financial plan and live within their means

Olivia Cox is a first year student at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY where she is pursuing her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine with a focus on neonatal / prenatal care, genetic counseling and reproductive medicine.

Inspired by Parley's initiative, for the first round of this year's Student Focus, we would like to see a single image which highlights and raises awareness of an environmental topic of your choice.

Over the years, the League has remained focused on the founding principles of the first class: emphasizing the importance of artistic creativity, maintaining the greatest respect for artists who devote their lives to art, and educating students in the process of making art in an environment in which anyone who wishes to pursue an art education can realize his or her full potential.

Taking a second step, we set up a series of three workshops designed specifically for first year students, and addressing needs that were previously identified by the focus group.

And more on, «Oh, the places [our students will] go,» 15 as volume 21 continues the theme of how to best prepare law students to practice law, Jeremy Francis, Daphne O'Regan, and Ryan Black's article, «Designing Success: Motivating and Measuring Successful 1L Student Engagement in an Optional, Proficiency - Based Program Teaching Grammar and Punctuation,» 16 focuses on the lawyering skill — using correct grammar and punctuation.17 Responding to a gap between the entering students» grammar and punctuation skills and how to address those needs, the authors collected data18 in a five - year study of almost 1,500 students, who completed the first - year curriculum at Michigan State University College of Law, which includes instruction on grammar and punctuation.

Exercises using samples in the first - year legal writing and analysis course bring the students» focus to legal writing doctrine by requiring them to judge the effectiveness of the work of legal writers other than themselves.

First - year students focus on developing good relationships with their mentors and logging 18 hours of fieldwork.

Focused on criminal law from the start, he began his courtroom career as a student caseworker in first year (1994).