Sentences with phrase «knowledge community students»

Christopher Tan's Knowledge Community students in Hong Kong and Singapore «form communities to solve problems, construct knowledge, explore ideas, and build projects.»

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The Internet began as a medium for sharing information among academics; today it is furthering that initial vision as a tool for sharing information and knowledge across the entire educational community of students, parents, and educators worldwide.

Make a difference to the student community through networking, mentorship and knowledge sharing.

The Hunter Hub is the University of Calgary's new initiative to engage and immerse students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community in a culture of entrepreneurial thinking, challenging them with a new and bold approach to teaching, learning, discovery and knowledge - sharing.

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

* Education as the respect for and nurture of each student as an individual with unique gifts to be discovered and developed while introducing students to the best of art, knowledge, scientific inquiry, logic, and philosophy and encouraging play, creativity, self - confidence, self - reliance, self - expression, independence, collaboration, and community.

They also express concern that students without the deep and broad background knowledge and fluency that affluent children generally absorb from their homes and communities first need to develop that core knowledge before they can benefit from a collaborative, project - based approach.

Students are responsible for sharing their knowledge and talent in a way that enriches the rest of the community.

Whether you work as a teacher, a principal, or a health professional, the Knowledge Guide supports members of the school community to understand what has become an internationally recognized approach to health that has been demonstrated to improve students» health and academic success.

Finger Lakes Community College President Dr. Robert Nye said, «FLCC works with the community to make sure our students get the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in the localCommunity College President Dr. Robert Nye said, «FLCC works with the community to make sure our students get the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in the localcommunity to make sure our students get the skills and knowledge they need to be successful in the local economy.

These fellowships permit professors, researchers and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world, enabling them to pursue their academic work and to continue to share their knowledge with students, colleagues, and the community at large.

ACENET, the European Network in Applied Catalysis, is a much younger initiative than NICE, but it also aims to bring together academics, industrial scientists, and policy - makers into a «real community» focusing on sharing knowledge and training students and professionals.

«Teachers who lack confidence in their own knowledge of evolution feel uncomfortable getting into confrontations about it with either students or members of the community,» says Michael Berkman, coauthor of the study.

The study, which was recently published in the journal Economic Inquiry, uses data from the test of essential knowledge administered by the Community of Madrid when students complete their elementary education.

Knowledge gained in the classroom compels medical students to serve as leaders in real - world applications in Puentes De Salud, United Community Clinic (which was recently profiled by the Penn Current), and other clinical opportunities throughout Philadelphia.

The International Center for Interdisciplinary Science Education (ICISE) in the city of Quy Nhon (Central Vietnam) has the objective to focus on developing science and education, helping Asian students and scientists to meet with the international science community, bringing the opportunity to accelerate their knowledge from attending lectures and sharing ideas with overseas high - level counterparts.

«I hope that students that come to these events leave with the knowledge that there is a community of like - minded peers interested in neural engineering and with fresh insights from the research presented.»

As a member of a vibrant and recovering community, as a teacher of gentle and restorative yoga, as a student and soon to be master gardener, the knowledge and application of ayurvedic principals could enable me to grow and teach others to grow our own food; to amend our flooded and sewage damaged soil for growing edible foods; to learn and teach others to eat seasonable foods that will sustain not only our bodies, but provide for others.

Whether you are taking a couple of courses to upgrade, are a full - time university student or are passionate about tole painting, every community both large and small have courses you can take that will not only net you more knowledge but a whole new set of people to meet and interact with.

We aim to provide both students and the community with the knowledge, tools, and connections that will better enable them to create successful films and careers.

«Competency - based education is a growing movement driven by educators and communities focused on ensuring that students have the knowledge they need to flourish in a global economy,» said Susan Patrick, chief executive officer of iNACOL, a nonprofit that runs the website CompetencyWorks.

By partnering with local experts and collaborating with the community, his students engaged in inquiry, developed projects, and gained content knowledge that extended well beyond the classroom.

PLCs go a step beyond professional development by providing teachers with not just skills and knowledge to improve their teaching practices but also an ongoing community that values each teacher's experiences in their own classrooms and uses those experiences to guide teaching practices and improve student learning (Vescio et al., 2008).

The purpose of our link will be to perpetuate the Yasuni - Amazona «the rain forest of knowledge» goals, create academic synergies for the Ananagu Community, support sustainable Eco-Tourism Models, safeguard future Independent Study opportunities for students into the far future.

In the same way, students need to reflect on their actions and their work in order to build their classroom community and increase their own knowledge and skills.

He has worked collaboratively with staff, students, and the community to develop a strategic planning framework for MCPS that is aligned with the skills and knowledge students will need in college and the work place — academic excellence, creative problem solving, and social emotional learning.

We need to recommit to the civic mission of our schools and universities, so they help students gain the knowledge and the dispositions that make democracy work — in the acts of ordinary citizens, in how we relate to one another, in how we collaborate, and in how we take responsibility to improve the communities of which we are a part.

I emphasize three concepts from mutuality when conferencing with students: the importance of equal and interactive discourse among writers, that knowledge is a result of discourse, and that writers gain agency and voice by negotiating a «middle space» between their own experience and the expectations of the discourse community.

Results were statistically analyzed, finding that the program increased students» awareness and knowledge of their natural environments more than other outdoor education or community service activities.

Mehta hosted the fair as a way for students to share the collective knowledge of the class and also for students to present their work to the broader community.

The process resulted in small projects led by students, in which knowledge they've build in the classes was used to transform schools and communities.

At the same time, the education community must be open to new forms of enterprise wherever it can make a contribution, such as contracting of specific instructional services, teacher cooperatives, and information technologies that enhance evaluation of students» knowledge and capabilities.

The benefits from this extend to the wider school community as the students can carry on this knowledge in their local area, their homes and eventual future organisations.

Through a tight - knit student community and a curriculum that practices the principle of consilience, or the unity of knowledge, Wild believes that his school model will keep students engaged in their own learning.

The discussion and critical thinking involved in the PBL unit developed student knowledge about local human communities and local history.

In a conversation, Usable Knowledge asked Warikoo, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to talk about why students in the U.S. need to understand the historical roots of affirmative action and how colleges can become communities where students can talk about racial difference.

In this lesson, students review their knowledge of the following concepts and themes: vocabulary related to civilization, community, and Spanish - speaking countries; preterite tense of verbs, and direct object pronouns with conjugated verbs and infinitives; and European exploration of the American continent and present - day challenges in the Spanish - speaking world.

In this lesson − aligned to ACTFL standards − students will demonstrate knowledge of vocabulary related to places in the community, apply knowledge of sentence construction without the subject, apply knowledge of «yes / no» questions without the subject, examine the spread of the Spanish language in America, and recognize the purpose of the RAE in the Spanish - speaking world.

Such challenges will require students to engage in the civic and developmental lives of their communities, faculty to continue to expand the domains of intellectual knowledge, and administrative vision and planning in partnership with faculty to lead the university into tomorrow.

This will help deepen your knowledge of your community and make art that much more relevant to the students.

Today's students require strategies that support their acquisition of knowledge, allow them to save their notes across devices, permit them to search through vast quantities of information, and share their learning with the rest of their community.

As educators, we seek to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and dispositions that will help them become productive, responsible members of their communities.

Fogarty says the program is a model of learning that's engaging part of the whole community in teaching and also changes the dynamic between teachers and students because it positions the conversation more about what learning is being selected, who's doing the selecting and how to balance that knowledge.

History In Scotland a programme called «Outdoor Journeys» take students on a tour of their local area and asks them to apply their local knowledge and understanding to broader historical themes to help them understand how local culture and community evolved.

«The communities understand the need for curriculum outcomes, but they also want to make sure that some of their own knowledge and approaches are valued in the education that their school students are getting.»

Schools have increasing demands placed upon them to develop knowledge and skills and deliver programs to prepare students to be good citizens and community members.

The Learning on Country program, launched in 2013, involves community leaders and Indigenous rangers that teach students about customary knowledge, culture and literacy and numeracy.

Service - learning advocates believe that students learn more, and more purposefully, by applying their classroom knowledge to help their communities.

The idea aligns with the Australian Curriculum, which notes on its website that students need the knowledge, skills and confidence to make ICT work for them at school, at home and in their communities in order to participate in a technologically sophisticated society now and into the future.

I was supervising a teacher who was enrolled in our program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst that focused on developing student self - knowledge, ego strength, trust and community in classrooms.