Sentences with phrase «academic learning while»

Entrusted with the essential task of accompanying their students on a several - year journey, Waldorf grades 1 - 8 teachers have a role analogous to that of effective parent, guiding the children's formal academic learning while awakening their moral development and increasing their awareness of their place in the world.

Not exact matches

The MBA Global program focuses on academic theory and research - based learning, while the MBA in the Management of Technology and Innovation (MBA MTI) covers management skills while examining complex, technology - related business problems.

The pilot program for the 2015 - 2016 and 2016 - 2017 academic years seeks to support enhanced confidence with technology integration, facilitate the adoption of campus - wide technologies, such as Adobe Connect and Desire2Learn, while also encouraging exploration of learning technology solutions to classroom and department initiatives.

C. S. Lewis explored the polarity in the address «Learning in Wartime,» delivered to Oxford students who were trying to concentrate on academics while their friends fought in the trenches of Europe and staved off the German aerial assault on London.

While it is interesting from an academic standpoint to learn about people in ages past — history is important — but really, relative to him, who cares what his ancestors did?

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

Careful structuring of classes allows for every child to be known and loved, while providing a broad range of learning opportunities in academics, visual and performing arts, athletics, service, and leadership.

While in residence, students learn in a structured environment about handling personal conflicts, academics, basic life skills, anxiety and other skills or issues.

Imagine a program that allows your child to gently transition into the world of education with a positive and confident eagerness all while getting a head start in learning the building blocks of their academics.

While at a preschool like this the kids will learn more academics earlier, I feel the focus on developing positive discipline and good, self - respecting social skills is far more important for kids this age.

Activities like Square Panda provide a fun way to balance the work with play, while helping kids learn new academic skills for reading.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

Some of these problems are purely academic, while some are social issues that affect learning.

Some daycare facilities take great pride in their formalized academic preschool curriculum, while others adopt the adage that all skills learned by toddlers and youngsters is a form of learning, and that a child's most important tasks each day are learning to get along and to grow through play.

On a typical Wednesday in Pamela Victor's home classroom, her 14 - year - old son works on structured academics while her 12 - year - old daughter heads out to a wilderness program to learn to track animals, find edible plants and build a fire.

«Dual Language programs offer academic rigor for students and the opportunity to maintain their native language while learning a new one and learning about diverse cultures.

Whether this is the mindset with which you enter your PhD or something that grows on you while you're doing the academic grind, you learn to accept it.

While Balch had long practiced machine learning for his academic job, the financial application of the technology was merely a «hobby» for him at the time, he says.

While personal preferences play a role in choosing this uncertain career path, it seems that during Ph.D. programs, young researchers learn to regard academic employment as more desirable than other employment.

Our facilitator - led support sessions provide opportunities for students to collaborate with peers while learning necessary skills for managing stigma, strengthening campus support and relationships, and assessing readiness to increase academic and social demands.

The articles are based on my experience & learning while analysing stocks for my personal investments and the lessons learned during the academics and out of classroom readings.

For example, while many black children begin developing English oral - language skills years before formal schooling, many Hispanic children must develop English language proficiency as they are simultaneously learning academic content.

While experts such as Santos recommend that ELLs be integrated with native English speakers in regular classrooms, San Francisco International High School teachers say that for many older newcomers, a school devoted solely to ELLs provides students the support they need to build confidence as they continue to learn both English and academic content.

While it may sound more like a means of informal learning, video - based learning may soon become the most sought after phenomenon across the corporate and academic learning ambiance, specifically after the advent and rise in the use of smartphones in the education domain.

While it is now widely recognised that social - emotional wellbeing is a protective factor for wellbeing and mental health, as well as a key to educational success, the current emphasis on academic achievement and data - driven accountability in schools tends to relegate social and emotional learning to one side.

Instead of just focusing on the academic preparation found in a higher education classroom, we need to equally emphasize the clinical experience and whether prospective educators can successfully apply the concerns learned in the classes they take while leading classrooms of their own.

While I was at Drake, my colleagues and I achieved great academic results from the students as a result of a redesign of the school to support project - based learning and by building a strong, professional learning community.

It allows you to customize learning to your students» academic needs and interests, all while making it fun.

Because of students» openness to the arts, their motivation remains high, their attention spans tend to be longer, and their learning increases — yet teachers sometimes struggle with how to incorporate the arts while maintaining academic integrity.

Craig Haas, Special Ed and Student Services Coordinator at Edwards Middle School, shares how his team uses expanded learning time to provide relevant academic support to each individual student while breaking down stigmas between children of different abilities.

The projects exhibit the educators» abilities to exceed strict academic standards while making learning fun and effective for their students.

While her primary focus — and the focus of many media reports about her — has been on vouchers, tax credits, and education savings accounts, organizations she has led or helped found have also advanced other reform initiatives, such as accountability for student learning and more - rigorous academic standards.

«Service learning, in contrast, is a teaching method that combines academic content with direct service experiences in which students provide genuine service to their school or community while extending or deepening their understanding of curricular content.»

All students deserve an engaging and personalized learning experience that helps them think deeply and critically while supporting their academic and personal success.

And while we know that young children need a healthy dose of playtime in school, a new study reminds us why academics are important at that age: Over the course of a year, preschoolers who spent more time on language, literacy, and math activities than their peers gained, on average, 2.5 months of additional learning.

The program promotes individual achievement while supporting the academic agenda in the Savannah - Chatham County Public Schools with 22 - week project - learning programs in four subject areas: the performing arts, film, music production, and information technology.

«While educators and policy makers can provide insight into the academic and political landscape of education, only parents have the ability to link the impact of home and school life with the learning success of their children,» the researchers note.

While early - college high schools link students with local colleges, Schwartz says another option is to directly link high school students to business, like existing career academies, which started in 1969 in Philadelphia in collaboration with Philadelphia Electric Company and Bell of Pennsylvania, and talent development high schools, which allow struggling students to play academic «catch up» before learning about specific career paths.

While corporate LMSs may focus on compliance, online training certifications, and other business - minded initiatives, academic Learning Management Systems must possess a unique set of features and functions that cater to private audiences.

We have been asking the impossible of our students, that they learn as much as their foreign peers while spending only half as much time in core academic subjects.»

While full service and community school programs reinforce and extend the central importance of academic learning and achievement in children's lives, they also advocate for children in the larger contexts of family and community.

While Summit students spend most of their time working on projects, 20 percent of the day is devoted to Personalized Learning Time (PLT), during which students learn academic content, choosing the digital tools they'll use to meet their goals.

The report argues, «Children's viewing of educational television has been shown to support significant and lasting learning gains, while too much viewing of other types of programming may be associated with a lack of academic achievement.»

Her goal is to showcase how at these schools children are learning academic content in rigorous ways, while at the same time being carefully and thoughtfully prepared to be warriors for justice.

Often taught in the classroom, social - emotional learning gives tomorrow's workforce the tools for success, while educators find it contributing to a positive school climate and increased academic success.

The supplemental blended instructional curriculum developed by our partner, Middlebury Interactive Languages, allows students in grades 4 — 10 to learn the fundamentals of academic English while completing projects that relate to English language arts, social studies, mathematics, and science.

«College and Career Readiness: The Importance of Early Learning» by Chrys Dougherty This short but powerful report by an ACT principal research scientist shows the importance of a knowledge - rich, well - rounded curriculum through which all students master basic skills while also building an academic foundation in the early grades.

After collecting a century's worth of academic studies, summer - learning expert Harris Cooper, now at Duke University, concluded that, on average, all students lose about a month of progress in math skills each summer, while low - income students slip as many as three months in reading comprehension, compared with middle - income students.

In her role as chief academic officer for Boston Public Schools, she is committed to eliminating racial achievement disparities while improving student learning results so that students of all races and cultures receive an equitable and excellent education that enables them to thrive and experience success in college, career and life.

SEL creates a positive school climate that supports learning and academic success while narrowing the achievement gap.