Sentences with phrase «students liked the ability»

Students liked the ability to see an «at a glance» view of their applications via widgets.

Students liked the ability to take notes on Google Docs or Evernote and have a narrower form factor in comparison to a slightly wider iPad Mini.

Not exact matches

«Nearly 40 percent of millennials who would like to own a business someday said student loan debt is affecting their ability to start one,» reported the study.

My messages were very much like a top exit student from theological training who preached at the church I was attending, and was impressed with his own ability to exegete every word of «the original Greek».

The capacities that develop in the earliest years may be harder to measure on tests of kindergarten readiness than abilities like number and letter recognition, but they are precisely the skills, closely related to executive functions, that researchers have recently determined to be so valuable in kindergarten and beyond: the ability to focus on a single activity for an extended period, the ability to understand and follow directions, the ability to cope with disappointment and frustration, the ability to interact capably with other students.

In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.

At Kosciuszko Pool, 2732 N. Avers Ave. (486-9340), diving instructor Jim Carney likes to take his students to the limit of their ability.

But new research from a spate of economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and educators has found that the skills that see a student through college and beyond have less to do with smarts than with more ordinary personality traits, like an ability to stay focused and control impulses.

After some initial resistance, Mr. Brown says that his teachers now love breakfast in the classroom and the ability it gives them to bond with their students in a new way; the teachers like connecting the children to good nutrition.

Competitions like this not only draw thousands to their host regions, but also provide students with the ability to solve problems in innovative ways.

The First Amendment, like the U.S. Constitution generally, does not limit the ability of private schools to discipline students, he noted.

How would the PI like students to be evaluated (oral communication, technical writing, in - depth technical knowledge, ability to work in teams)?

«A lot of the privately educated students are incredibly articulate, and they are able to speak about their discipline... with what seems to be like supreme confidence,» Reay says, noting that it takes a while for working - class students «to recognize that supreme confidence isn't the same as ability.»

The bulk of evidence over the last century «suggests that academic acceleration and most forms of ability grouping like cross-grade subject grouping and special grouping for gifted students can greatly improve K - 12 students» academic achievement.»

The competition was designed to be an opportunity for students like Sergbeh to showcase their abilities.

«We have to realize that what makes the difference between a good student and bad student is not intelligence — or anything like that — or capabilities or creativity... I would really say what distinguishes them is not their intellectual ability at all.»

Employers always provide the same three reasons as to why they like my students: 1) their written and oral communication skills, 2) their versatility in research, i.e., their ability to change research directions without inhibition, and 3) their ability to adequately conduct research within the context of a group project.

About his ability to marshal big egos there can be little doubt, but his camera bobs all over the axis of action like a first - year film student, and he shows almost no command of tone, reducing the material's vaguely satirical detours into perversion (incest!

This program gives the district the ability to offer a range of online courses and scheduling options to better meet the needs of its students who would like to pursue custom and cyber learning opportunities.

Beyond helping our students develop the inner focus required to know how to best manage their interactions with their devices, and the outer focus of what positive use looks like, we also need to nurture our students» abilities to recognize the context in which their interactions occur — the other focus.

It is better for everyone if students are sorted into like groups based on ability, as measured by IQ, and have their education delivered within these rigid tracks, they argued.

A Powerful Collaboration Burdette and Smethurst have found that their school's quality and Montessori - like educational philosophy and practices work well for students from varying socio - economic conditions and of varying abilities and skill levels.

Grouping students by English proficiency, like other groupings by ability, was not «segregation» and was in fact allowed under the EEOA.

There are also options like Padlet, Google hangouts, Skype, blogging, and the discussion boards of your school's LMS options that either allow students the ability to connect with each other or the world beyond the four walls of their classroom.

In fact, it may be accurate to say that schools like the most effective schools in our study may be the first to produce students for whom these two types of cognitive ability are consistently decoupled, providing an opportunity to study just which kinds of outcomes are enabled by gains in crystallized knowledge alone.

Believing that each kid has the innate ability to succeed in college — to not give up on any one student because of how they act or their previous schooling or what they look like.

And, because we compare the students to themselves from year to year, we can also account for important but hard - to - measure factors like student ability, motivation, and personality characteristics.

If you do ~ you will build a great rapport with these students because they will feel like you get them ~ and you will inspire these students to develop their gifts and abilities to the fullest.

Our students like OER because of the intuitive interface and the ability to connect with their classes both online and offline.

The latter being designed to give students the ability to be as creative as they like.

They are unrivaled in their ability to get students excited about note - taking so incorporate them into your classroom as often as you'd like!

Oh, and let's not forget the ubiquitous frustration and anger I keep running into regarding things like professional discretion, high - stakes testing, and an often enormous gap between curricular mandates and students» ability levels.

In so doing, they made sure that the quasi-regulations would play on their terms by focusing on student outcomes — not on inputs like the type of training teachers should have that would limit their ability to innovate.

This involvement makes the students take their work more seriously; they perform tasks considered beyond the abilities of children at their grade level, like mapping data to find trends over time, or going to scientific conferences, which has become so commonplace that we've developed a system to figure out who gets to go.

However, schools like Geelong Grammar are working hard to model a paradigm shift in education that requires ongoing support for teachers, students and parents in their ability to translate and apply scientific findings.

Vicky, it looks like a differentiated classroom, doing productive learning activity, based around learning progressions (curriculum) that are selected by the teacher based on solid data that reflects students» current abilities.

They also point to the ability for students to catch up on missed lessons easily through the use of video and online course tools like Edmodo or Haiku Learning.

«The program allowed me to sit with like - minded people who are committed to improving the quality of education available to all students, without regard for race, socioeconomic status or ability.

Students like being able to choose where they can sit to work and the ability to go and work in small groups in other areas of the common spaces.»

The study showed that what distinguished students who did well on the ACT was not their ability to do things like make inferences or find the main idea while reading.

Theoretical concepts like the object of learning and its critical aspects can help educators to focus on the ability to be learned, and on what students need to learn in order to do so.

They can decide to look at students» socioemotional growth and whether schools are helping them develop skills like resilience and the ability to effectively collaborate with peers.

And the prevailing ultra-liberal philosophy in Alexandria abhors tracking, in which students are separated according to ability, or anything that could look like ethnic or class - based segregation.

The ability to include new indicators of success means states can choose to also ensure that all students have equal opportunities to succeed in advanced coursework like AP classes.

There are services like Renzulli Learning that provide educators and students access to thousands of vetted sites that are aligned to students passions, talents, interests, abilities, and learning styles.

In Paul Tough's new book, he writes that the people who are best at engendering «noncognitive» — or character — abilities like grit in students hardly ever mention these skills in the classroom.

Its schools, like all schools in the country, also have lots of areas of nonconsumption — where students have no option or ability to take a certain class or benefit from a certain opportunity.

But like having cancer, many students in struggling schools carry incredible «baggage» - not their fault - that can interfere with their ability to learn.

These assessments test students» ability to recall information like a name, fact, quote, or other basic piece of information.

For example, as Paul Tough summarized in his 2012 book How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, students who display characteristics like grit, the ability to remain focused on a specific goal, or growth mindset, the belief that characteristics are not fixed but can be improved, are more likely to successful in a variety of areas.