Sentences with phrase «students see alternative»

Students see alternative or original solutions to existing problems and can envision the world differently from how it currently exists.

Not exact matches

Conversations with our students convince me that they come because they see us offering a better alternative.

«I worry that the public will see them as a good alternative model to educate U.S. students,» he told the panel, without mentioning by name such rapidly growing institutions as the University of Phoenix and DeVry University.

Whether you use the standard league tables or not, it is always worth seeking out extra information and advice, perhaps from alternative league tables (see «Alternative choice: Student life isn't just studying &lalternative league tables (see «Alternative choice: Student life isn't just studying &lAlternative choice: Student life isn't just studying «-RRB-.

The project, which invites an investigation of solar and alternative energy, uses a small and inexpensive robotic bug to let students see, hands - on, how a solar panel works to convert certain kinds of light energy to electrical energy.

I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen, so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.

I had been invited to see a set of culminating presentations of collaborative research projects by college students and alternative - education students from a local middle school.

The alternative to seeing students in terms of groups is to see them as individuals.

When I taught in an alternative school, I saw many high school aged students who felt their problems were unsolvable.

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Newark, New Jersey, superintendent Cami Anderson (see «Newark's Superintendent Rolls Up Her Sleeves and Gets to Work,» features, Winter 2013) recalls that when she served as area superintendent for New York City's alternative schools and programs, the district had two «conventional wisdoms» when it came to evaluating guidance counselors and social workers: «The first was you'd be violating student confidentiality if you observed guidance counselors or social workers interacting with kids one - on - one, and the second was, if you weren't licensed as a clinical supervisor, you didn't have the authority to evaluate or document performance for these people.»

At City of Oxford College, a project with Laing O'Rourke has seen students proposing alternative uses for a unit in a city centre retail and leisure development.

The adoption this month of eight different products for K - 8 students is also seen as highlighting an emerging trend of cooperation between states and educational publishers to develop alternative and technology - based materials that encourage active learning.

Researchers also saw examples of the positive impact of schools adopting Indigenous cultural practices — including the adoption of smudging ceremonies, talking circles and eagle - feather ceremonies in Canada and an alternative approach to student discipline in New Zealand focusing on restorative practices.

We strive to help education leaders see the implications of current and alternative ways of applying resources, and to help leaders use every dollar to maximize benefits to the students served.

Please see PURE's alternative proposal for a more comprehensive student - centered approach.

See Alternate & Alternative Assessments for information about student reports for the VAAP, VGLA, VSEP and VMAST.

Although schools of education are in competition with some of the alternative certification programs for students, some of the schools like what they see in the residency model.

Watch here to see how Infinity Learn supported students in alternative education Salinas, California.

The trip enabled participants to see a range of secondary learning options for students, including a comprehensive high school with small learning communities, a small school within a larger educational complex, an alternative high school, and a public charter school.

Paradoxically, the Austin Independent School District has not been participating in that growth; it sees a loss of enrollment year after year as parents sign up students in alternative charter schools or private schools.

It serves as a one - of - a-kind flexible option for students who do not currently see themselves as a match for a traditional learning environment or a mainstream alternative high school in NYC.

Many reform advocates see charter schools as a way to introduce competition in the education system and provide alternatives for students in failing schools.

If the teacher sees that students have not mastered the content to be learned, he or she employs corrective alternative teaching practices.

«As we continue to see increased enrollment growth and better test scores by choice students, families from all over Wisconsin are embracing the idea of education alternatives.

Tuck correctly sees that this would stop most new charters from opening, thus leaving few alternatives for parents and students in failing districts.

Most of the time I see people missing payments it's simply because they don't know a cheaper alternative to their student loan payment exists.

See what alternatives you have to managing high student loan debt.

Influenced by performance artists and musicians he saw in New York when he was a visiting student at the Cooper Union, he began performing and making music as an alternative to making art objects.

Because schools have this alternative method of providing tuition help, it is unlikely that many graduate students will see tax hikes if the House bill becomes law.»

And Susan Robinson, assistant dean for career services at Stanford Law School, says that while more students consider alternatives to larger firms, she has not seen a noticeable decline in the number of 2Ls taking big - firm internships.

There were plenty of bright, motivated, entrepreneurial law students at IU - Indianapolis - I know because some of them were my students - who saw this kind of small ball as an alternative to the big firms.

wouldn't tell the public that the problem is not the Law Society's problem, as in effect it does; (15) LSUC's website wouldn't state that lay benchers «represent the public interest,» which is impossible now that we are well beyond the 19th century; (16) CanLII's services would be upgraded in kind and volume to be a true support service, able to have a substantial impact upon the problem, and several other developed support services, all provided at cost, would together, provide a complete solution; (17) LSUC's management would not be part - time management by amateurs - amateurs because benchers don't have the expertise to solve the problem, nor are they trying to get it, nor are they joining with Canada's other law societies to solve this national problem; (18) the Federation of Law Societies of Canada would not describe the problem as being one of mere «gaps in access to legal services» (see its Sept. 2012 text, «Inventory of Access to Legal Services Initiatives of the Law Societies of Canada» (1st paragraph), (19) LSUC would not be encouraging the use alternatives to lawyers, such as law students, self - help, and «unbundled, targeted» legal services, as a «cutting costs by cutting competence» strategy; and, (20) it would not be necessary to impose an Ontario version of the Clementi Report (UK, 2004) that would separate LSUC's regulatory functions from its representative functions, to be exercised by separate authorities.

We continue to see student housing as one of the best risk - adjusted returns as an alternative investment, especially when compared to the four major food groups of commercial real estate.