Sentences with phrase «challenging academic work»

Insights from the three educators» stories reveal how coupling feedback with expressions of high expectations and faith in students» capabilities can influence student motivation, particularly in the level of support felt by students when tackling challenging academic work.

«The central premise of EL Schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering as students confront challenging academic work.»

The second technique they use is really challenging academic work — rigorous, long - term projects that students take on, where they can't help but learn in a deeper way.

The central premise of EL schools is that character is built not through lectures or direct instruction from teachers but through the experience of persevering through challenging academic work.

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The academic response was no less critical, but Tversky and Gilovich successfully defended their work, while uncovering critical flaws in the studies that challenged it.

The «students» tend to be scientists and academics who are working on big science challenges — hairy problems in biotech and pure technology — funded by the NSF.

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One may still think that we can and should change the way the system works without challenging the theoretical assumptions of the academic discipline of economics.

Join the Challenge Success School Program as a returning team, and build upon the work that you have initiated to improve student well - being and academic engagement in your school community.

Demand for our program is growing, and Challenge Success is working hard to ensure that we continue to provide research - based assessment and interventions that reduce student stress and increase academic engagement for more schools and families across the country.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

Much of my awareness of academic challenges comes from my work running development programmes for new and recent principal investigators and more senior academics, listening to them describe the challenges of their roles.

Another challenge is time: Some academics struggle to contain their work in the community to do what's needed to advance professionally,» June writes.

The so - called «human challenge model» has a long and checkered past that began with 18th century experiments by smallpox vaccine developer Edward Jenner and later fell under intense scrutiny when they were conducted by Nazi doctors, military researchers, and academic scientists working with prisoners.

With 82 tenured / tenure - track and 40 additional full - time faculty, 1,300 undergraduate students, 700 graduate students and more than 23,000 alumni, we are working to leverage our partnerships with academic and industry partners — across disciplines and across the world — to contribute to solving the greatest global challenges of the 21st century.

Such activities offer academic scientists great opportunities to apply their expertise to real - world challenges, impacting human health more directly, learning how business works, and even improving their financial situations.

However, Mendick proposes that to challenge the ever - increasing pace and expectation of the Higher Education sector, academics could treat their work more as a job and less as a vocation.

Heather Hava, right, who is working on a doctorate in aerospace engineering sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, describes a computerized system she is developing with other graduate students participating in the eXploration HABitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge.

Female academics face several challenges that their male colleagues don't, says lead author Joyce Benenson, a psychologist at Emmanuel College in Boston (who co-authored the paper with Richard Wrangham, a full professor at Harvard University where Berenson worked previously as junior faculty).

Sharon Grimster, General Manager Wales, ReNeuron, commented: «This is a challenging but vital part of the broader commercial manufacturing strategy for the therapy and we are pleased to be working with leading academic and commercial manufacturing partners on this important program of work.»

He also worked as a liaison with several schools, designing academic and behavioral programs for challenged children.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

The challenge in working with children with low self - esteem is to restore their belief in themselves, so they persevere in the face of academic challenges.

With schools today facing an array of complex challenges — from working with an increasingly diverse population of students, to integrating new technology in the classroom, to meeting rigorous academic standards and goals — observers...

This special report examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

This support may help the child work through a new academic challenge, such as learning to write a new letter of the alphabet; or the close relationship may help the child maintain a previously learned skill when confronted with a challenging new context.

Through its work with partners in the field, COACHE has identified interventions that can help academic leaders identify midcareer challenges and support faculty in their advancement.

Getting a master's degree is frequently something done concurrently with a full time teaching job, so the last thing these teachers want is a challenging academic program that requires real work.

Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»

Of course, pupils should have access to a challenging and stimulating academic curriculum, but to truly work for all children, the education system needs to value and make space for different types of learning and success.»

The Student with Low Self - Esteem When working with children with low self - esteem, the challenge is to restore their belief in themselves, so they'll persevere in the face of academic challenges.

This special report, «The Chief Academic Officer's Evolving Role: Powering Big - Picture Learning Goals,» examines the challenges CAOs are facing in school districts across the country and how they are working to improve academics in the age of common standards and digital teaching and learning.

As a special educator with seven years» experience as a public school teacher and now seven more as a private tutor, I've worked with students with huge academic and behavioral challenges.

Fall - Hamilton Elementary, in Nashville, does so by working to understand the adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) so many of the students bring with them to school — and the holistic impact that challenging life contexts have on a student's academic performance.

Teachers work largely in isolation; face uneven sets of challenges; and must respond not only to the academic needs but also to the physical and emotional needs of their students.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

A recent review of this research by the late, great scholar Jeanne Chall may be found in The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom?

Violeta Ramos is a Success Adviser, for College Success Arizona, working with college students in Northern Arizona and in the Phoenix area, navigate the academic and personal challenges that come with college.

South Central Services Cooperative (SCSC)-- South Central Service Cooperative provides a variety of opportunities for students to participate in coursework, work - based learning experiences, and academic conferences, activities and challenges.

In addition, we have adapted our work in strategic instruction to the specific challenges associated with teaching mathematics and developing students» literacy skills - RTI's two core academic areas.

Parents who press for more challenging academic courses probably also press their children to work harder, do their homework, and so on — generating higher achievement.

The workbook is a critical part of Uni Pathways and a great opportunity for you to create a unique, challenging scheme of work tailored precisely to your academic studies.

The Priority Schools Campaign is NEA members and the community working together in struggling schools to address those challenges, increase graduation rates, and close gaps in academic achievement for all students.

Given the challenges for many working parents, it is critical that schools and districts do more to partner with families on supporting the academic growth of their children.

High School Allotment: Provides $ 275 per high school student in additional funding to districts to prepare students to go on to higher education, encourage students to take challenging course work, increase the rigor of academic courses, align secondary and postsecondary curriculum, and support promising high school reform initiatives in grades 6 through 12.

11.5 Students work with professional counselors to establish challenging effective and affective academic goals.

By increasing students» sense of ownership over their grades, the ARRT's work ultimately helped build students» persistence — an academic behavior necessary for students to tackle and complete challenging academic tasks.

Academic vocabulary can pose a major challenge to students when encountering a new text or work of literature.