Sentences with phrase «as students of a subject»

When pre-service teachers felt confident as students of a subject they were more apt to be comfortable teaching that subject.

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Students «learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates («chunks») information,» as well as «illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.»

Varsity Tutors» newest offering, called Instant Tutoring, aims to connect students with one of its 40,000 on - demand tutors in more 150 subjects in as little as 15 seconds.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

As another school year begins, artistic - minded students (and their parents) are once again wrestling with the age - old question of whether one should indulge an enthusiasm for music, literature or other fine - arts subjects at school, or instead study something more... shall we say... employable?

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

As a history of its subject this book is likely to be the principal reference - point for students for a very long time.

As to obligations of a more personal nature I have many people to thank — colleagues who have advised me, students at Union Theological Seminary who have stimulated me with their responsive interest, members of the congregation of The Riverside Church, New York, who, by their attentive listening to mid-week lectures on the subjects handled in this book, have kept alive my confidence that even difficult and recondite problems concerning the Bible are of vital, contemporary importance.

In this stage the student is allowed to enjoy a sense of adventure as he or she explores what a subject might have to offer.

The great advantage of such an approach is that it constantly reminds students that ideas do not exist in a vacuum, that what can too easily be presented as immutable facts are subject to revision, that science quite as much as any other subject is liable to paradigm shifts.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

«Contrary to comments by GLSEN falsely labeling the Day of Truth as «inappropriate and divisive,» the event was always about the right of students to peacefully express their point of view on the subject of homosexual behavior,» the statement said.

When such issues are treated only in the opening and closing sections of a course, students tend to look on them as addenda «tacked on» to the main body of subject matter.

Thus the student is subjected to a confusing amalgam of tradition and criticism, which also undercuts the tradition, as a rationale for the whole package of study.

In discussing the kind of doctrine that ought to be taught to Jesuit students, he wrote in the Constitutions: «The doctrine which they ought to follow in each subject should be that which is safest and most approved, as also the authors who teach it» (no. 358).

I can not but think that the most important step forward that has occurred in psychology since I have been a student of that science is the discovery, first made in 1886, that, in certain subjects at least, there is not only the consciousness of the ordinary field, with its usual centre and margin, but an addition thereto in the shape of a set of memories, thoughts, and feelings which are extra-marginal and outside of the primary consciousness altogether, but yet must be classed as conscious facts of some sort, able to reveal their presence by unmistakable signs.

Our seminaries briefly introduce students to the subject through such classic texts as Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism and through reviewing medieval and Reformation views of work.

Students of mine, such as Professor André Cloots, Abraham Koothottil, James Eiswert, Paul Thelakat and many others started to be interested in process thought and wrote doctoral dissertations on the subject.

An impression one gains from many teachers of these subjects as well as from their students, is that often now a robust sense of Church is accompanied by great willingness to enter into conversation with secular society.

The tradition of the scientific handbook as a concise, accessible source of validated information emerged in the late nineteenth century when the factual burden of scientific and medical subjects began to overwhelm students.

While it is true, as has been said before, that theology requires personal involvement on the part of its students, the fact can not be ignored that in the activity of the intellect the ultimate objects and subjects of love, faith and hope must be set somewhat at the fringe of awareness.

This year is the fifth anniversary of Rum & Rhythm as a benefit for the CTO Foundation, a charity which offers scholarships and study grants to Caribbean students pursuing studies in tourism and hospitality and related subjects.

She helps out at school by tutoring other students in various subjects, and is viewed by her peers as a leader and a supportive person who is willing to help people out at the expense of her own studying.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoverAs a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recoveras a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

As students mature, they engage themselves at new levels of experience with each subject.

While students will still be required to take core classes such as English, Math and History, they view all those subjects through the context of their academy theme.

Students then create their own textbooks, known as main lesson books, which become written and artistic records of what they have experienced in class and learned in each subject.

The Kid Collection covers topics for littler students like being nervous for the first day of school to praising hard work as well as subjects for tweens and teens like peer pressure and making good friend choices.

But these are all either run by the school catering staff themselves or, if bought in, then are still subject to the same rules as the school caterer in terms of availability to all students (on free meals or not) and in terms of the nutritional standards.

Challenge Success at the Stanford Graduate School of Education reviewed over 20 research studies on the Advanced Placement Program as well as examined its own research on the subject with schools and students.

During weekly meetings, parents may opt to teach a subject such as a foreign language or a science lab to a group of students.

New York State must repeal existing marijuana laws as many other states have done, otherwise New Yorkers will still be subjected to biased enforcement and needless loss of access to student loans, subsidized housing and other public benefits, and, for non-citizens, the risk of detention and deportation.»

Key to this criticism was the Labour policy of making students pay tuition fees, which the Liberal Democrats had promised to abolish as their price of entering a coalition, but which became merely the subject of an inquiry as the coalition was formed.

The IET has already highlighted this to Ofqual following their proposals to streamline the number of GCSE courses in manufacturing, electronics and engineering as a result of low numbers of students studying the subjects.

Now the published measure will include numbers of sixth - form students who achieve AAB in two «facilitating» or «E-Bacc» A Level subjects, rather than three as originally proposed.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

Next, she'd push to diminish the role of standardized testing in the evaluations and develop alternate assessments, such as portfolios of student work for some subjects, she said.

I have a 14 - and a 12 - year - old daughter and the thought that they're going to have to be subject in places of public accommodations, like public school locker rooms or restrooms and changing facilities, to having male students in there is a concern to me as dad,» Rev. Jason McGuire of New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms said.

Financial incentives of up to # 20,000 per student to attract the best graduates into teaching subjects such as maths, chemistry, physics and computer science in Wales, have been announced by Education Secretary Kirsty Williams (Mon 3rd April).

They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.

The minimum stipend for Research Council students has increased to # 9000 in 2003 - 04 and is set to rise further, to # 12,000 by 2005 - 6, with up to # 13,000 on offer to students in subject areas such as the physical sciences where there is a shortage of PhD candidates.

One of the subjects Eurodoc is currently focusing on is the recognition of Ph.D. candidates as employees, not as students.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

As an MIT graduate student, Strominger was told to steer clear of risky subjects like string theory; he ignored the advice.

For example, a Psychology 101 student, familiar with how scientists run experiments, might volunteer as a study subject in which they are asked to wear a backpack, and guess the incline of a hill.

Surveys of medical students and residents consistently find that substantial fractions are subject to abuse, perhaps as part of the profession's «hidden curriculum»

The federally run National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), often known as «the Nation's Report Card,» periodically tests students on several subjects to gauge their progress over time.

As part of an unusual study, Philip Sadler, the Frances W. Wright Senior Lecturer in the Department of Astronomy, and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.

And the attractiveness of U.S. higher education to foreign - born graduate students is notoriously volatile, subject to external events — such as Tiananmen Square or 11 September — that have nothing to do with the scientific workforce.

As part of an unusual study, Sadler and colleagues tested 181 middle school physical science teachers and nearly 10,000 of their students, and showed that while most of the teachers were well - versed in their subject, those better able to predict their students» wrong answers on standardized tests helped students learn the most.