Sentences with phrase «alternative learning institutions»
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The National Science Foundation has awarded a total of $ 6 million to seven institutions for research and development into alternative forms of assessing student learning in mathematics and science.
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They are calling for for an alternative to these punitive practices, namely the institution of mediation methods that help students learn to deal with their emotions, talk about their problems, and confront the consequences of misbehavior in a supportive environment.
Folk education is «learning that happens when individuals and communities come together to celebrate culture and life in order to critically analyze challenging and especially oppressive situations, to build a knowledge base [and] to apply that knowledge to create alternative possibilities for the institutions in which we live and work» (as quoted from the Folk and People's Education Association of America web site at http://www.peopleseducation.org/).
Alternative Certification Programs and Institutions of Higher Learning who continue to ask students to move through a series of courses designed to lecture them into the classroom are not adequately preparing their students to teach.
As massive open online courses (MOOCs) continue to expand and online academic institutions gain more credibility, the education landscape is breaking away from long - time learning traditions — on - campus classrooms and printed textbooks — to provide alternatives.
Yet the impact of these alternative forms of teaching and learning on students, faculty, and institutions has yet to be broadly or deeply studied.
Join us on Saturday, February 24th from 10:00 am — noon and learn how private companies and public institutions are realizing that mediation is a very cost - and time effective alternative for resolving internal disputes.
As a social worker and unit manager at a state institution for juvenile delinquent boys, the manager of group home for juvenile sex offenders, and a counselor at an alternative learning school, I am very comfortable with and have been very successful working with this population.