Sentences with phrase «catalyst for student»

Tour this exhibition with School and Docent Programs Coordinator Lindsay Kranz and discover how to use these artworks as a catalyst for student - centered learning.

Our model of home visits is a cost effective and proven catalyst for student achievement, family engagement, teacher development, and school success.

Active engagement is a catalyst for student achievement.

Thus, Design & Technology, often the catalyst for those students who would later enjoy careers in product and systems» design, engineering and manufacturing — via apprenticeships or graduate entry — is struggling for curriculum time.

And despite all of our reform attempts, we have ignored one of the most promising catalysts for student success.

Teacher working conditions as catalysts for student learning.InfoBrief, 43.

Since the program's founding in 2001, the James VanDerZee archive — housed at the Studio Museum — has been the primary catalyst for the students» critical reflections on the representation of culture and community.

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Maybe this will be the catalyst for them to get on board with the idea of teaching for the sake of learning instead of teaching to get students to use their # 2 pencils to complete the answer pattern which will render the best financial results for the school district.

«Our water splitter is unique, because we only use one catalyst, nickel - iron oxide, for both electrodes,» said graduate student Haotian Wang, lead author of the study.

Biotechnology thus forms a catalyst for bringing together students and postdocs from across disciplines, with common interests in the biotechnology industry.

Working in his lab in UD's Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Rosenthal and doctoral student John DiMeglio have developed an inexpensive catalyst that uses the electricity generated from solar energy to convert carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas, into synthetic fuels for powering cars, homes and businesses.

The new catalyst design builds on one the group developed last year, led by graduate student Yan Xie, which was also a single - site catalyst, with all the components needed for the reaction on a single molecule.

Meg is Department Chair of Integrative Health Studies and Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, where her focus is preparing graduate students as catalysts for positive change in healthcare, wellness, and health promotion.

As the Department Chair of Integrative Health Studies and Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, her primary focus is preparing graduate students as catalysts for positive change in health care, wellness, and health promotion.

Her focus there is preparing graduate students as catalysts for positive change in health care, wellness, and health promotion.

Hutton's character is made a distraction for the most part by his function as catalyst and counterpoint for Babs's emotional growth (he's the egghead alternative to her philandering jock choice) and by his wardrobe and facial hair changes; in short, he's Jenny from Forrest Gump, the one genuinely involved force in the film, punished by a marriage to a brassy grad student (Patricia Clarkson)... and yet he's not the star.

When teachers, students, staff, and families join together to explore social justice issues, it can be the catalyst for important conversations and significant change.

Depending on your school and their expectations of what instruction looks like, I say use your curriculum as a catalyst for engaging students more deeply.

The Internet and new technologies can be a catalyst for rethinking the way we organize learning, provide instruction, and meet the needs of students, teachers and parents.

She is inspired every day by teachers and students that are catalysts for making the world a better place!

«If students have a good breakfast and a good lunch, they seem to have an increased ability to concentrate in class,» says Appleton English teacher Mary Bruyette, a catalyst for initiating the dietary changes.

My hope is that these award winners will be a catalyst for both teachers and students to use the design thinking process as a way of viewing traditional classroom activities in a different light.

It is essential that we develop a system in which the achievements of all students can be recognised and in which students» individual strengths and interests can be used as catalysts for supporting good progress and positive life chances.

«Through the success of the inquiry learning and problem - based project of Firestorm, Stage 3 students proved that they can be the catalyst for the community of St Ives to consider the impact of bushfire.»

It is also yet to be seen whether micro-credentials will serve as just a personalized means of better teacher development, or if they are another catalyst in the movement to personalize learning for students as well.

By leveraging these skills, and capitalizing on the catalyst of emotional engagement (our stock on the shelf), we can bring about significant student achievement.The challenge for us in the arts education community is to demonstrate how teachers can employ those very same skills in their teaching, whatever the discipline.

Physical education should never be about team sports, Wilson says, but rather should be the catalyst for developing a student's individual and lifelong sport and recreational interest.

Learn how to make technology a catalyst in your classroom — one that builds students» aptitudes for critical thought and partnership.

That is in keeping with its stated mission, «to prepare low - income students with the scholarship, dedication, and honor necessary to succeed in college and lead exemplary lives, and be a catalyst for education reform in Chicago.»

Not every charter school succeeds, but across the nation, charter schools have become the catalyst for innovation and rising student achievement.

Technology has the potential to reshape teacher education: «It has become a catalyst for challenging our attitudes, long - held beliefs about the way things have always been done, classroom practices and the way students learn» (Willis & Raines, 2001, p. 3).

Through a strategic partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership, a national Executive Leadership Institute will sustain and promote high professional standards among principals as the lead catalyst for driving school and student performance.

All of these questions inform instruction and the data Naiku provides can be the catalyst for increasing student achievement and accelerating our growth as educators.

Our goal is for students to take up the challenge of wrestling with ideas among themselves; the teacher serves as an initial catalyst for discussion.

The AVID College Readiness System (ACRS) accelerates student learning, uses research based methods of effective instruction, provides meaningful and motivational professional learning, and acts as a catalyst for systemic reform and change.

Without recognition and support for principals as the catalysts for continuous school improvement, it is virtually impossible to improve school conditions that lead to better instruction in the classroom and student learning outcomes.

Further, NAESP supports elementary and middle - level principals as the primary catalyst for creating a lasting foundation for learning, driving school and student performance, and shaping the long - term impact of school improvement efforts.

Interactions between students, teachers, and content provide the catalyst for deepening understanding.

Exploring a variety of texts, students will understand and appreciate language and literature as catalysts for deep thought and emotion.

By invitation only, the 2011 Academy is an intensive professional development event designed to raise student achievement by building and empowering school leadership — the catalyst for high performance.

Asked about the role of independent public charter schools in K - 12 education in Georgia, Governor Deal said, «Innovation, flexibility and accountability are fundamental building blocks to driving student achievement in K - 12 education, and charter schools are catalysts for improvement and reform within a system that has long been burdened by bureaucracy and inflexibility due to top - down control.»

It also is the catalyst for change in schools that can spur them to higher performance and greater academic achievement for students.

After reading a short story, students use freewriting as a catalyst for a literary analysis essay.

Empowering parents to choose a school that best meets their child's needs is critical to improving academic outcomes for all students and is a catalyst for necessary changes to the public education system.

The project demonstrated that linking what students learn to what teachers earn can be a catalyst for systemic change that benefits students and teachers.

Student work on display acts as a catalyst for future learning.

The idea was that the key policies and practices that affect the success of school leaders — the standards that define high - quality leadership and provide a basis for holding leaders accountable; the training that prepares leaders for their role as catalysts for learning; and the range of conditions and incentives that help or hinder those leaders — are most likely to be successful and sustained if they are both well - coordinated and aligned to the goal of improved student learning at all levels of public education: state, district and school.

Ultimately, if you are always on the lookout for what makes your students unique, what strengths they have, and what potential they are showing, you can be the catalyst for developing their talents even if the system in which you work isn't yet set up to recognize them.

Strong evidence of its outcomes will drive demand for the model, which will be known at the state and national levels as the best foundational practice in family engagement and an essential catalyst of school improvement efforts and increased student success.

It's encouraging to read how Mark used his most frustrating year of teaching as a catalyst for the research and reflection that resulted in a radical overhaul of his whole approach to motivating his students.