Sentences with phrase «classroom of the university»

She talks about her work in the accessible manner of a compassionate sibling with the intellectual heft of an artist who is as comfortable in front a canvas as she is a classroom of university students.

That can be studied in any classroom of the university as part of the law subjects.

Not exact matches

For although from the outside looking in, all of the world's universities seem safely ensconced on their campuses, a revolution is happening outside the classroom.

Second of all, universities that have already implemented the flipped classroom are seeing impressive results.

Located in Silicon Valley, Santa Clara University helps its students take advantage of the location by hosting numerous events and speaking engagements that keep students captivated outside the classroom.

Many people are aware of e-learning, which most universities have implemented to allow learning to take place outside of the classroom, but with the rise of mobile technology, mobile learning has emerged to make learning accessible from anywhere there is a mobile signal.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Approximately 650 children are sitting in classrooms, thanks to the work of Restore International, and more than 100 students from these schools are now attending universities.

The way the university is constructed is indicative of its fragmentation: many first year students live in one part of the campus, virtually devoid of contact with the rest of the student population; some the colleges within the university have their own dormitories, which also contain classrooms and faculty offices; many of the dormitories house only students with certain majors and contain the classrooms and faculty offices of those disciplines.

The program is the result of a ten - year study of the rapid proliferation of part - time instructors in college, university, and seminary classrooms.

The modern university's emphasis on academic specialization and its skepticism about the possibility of discerning moral truth have deprived students of opportunities to pose and ponder life's biggest questions in the classroom.

An especially contentious point was the dropping of classroom prayer to accommodate the secular university setting.

Save the World on Your Own Time by Stanley Fish Oxford University Press, 208 pages, $ 19.95 Here is Stanley Fish, writing Save the World on Your Own Time: «Not only is the genuinely academic classroom full of passion and commitment; it is more interesting than the alternative.

I have encountered more profound and straightforward discussions of ethics in patrol cars than I have heard in university classrooms or at academic religious conferences.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Anyone who reads John Henry Newman's The Idea of a University, published in 1852, and then ventures into the typical college classroom of today will suffer a similar case of mental whiplash.

Therefore, one function of a university, whether in teaching or research, in classrooms or dormitories, is to assist all of its members, and indeed all of its constituencies, toward that achievement of moral clarity — toward the clarification of the moral issues and alternatives which are resident in the university itself and in the disciplines it practices — which surely is an essential ingredient in all responsible action.

Or maybe you think that what makes a university Christian today is real concern about a student's life outside of the classroom.

«This organization has given me an opportunity to not only get involved volunteering in my community, but also learn more about how to be a better leader, in my community, classroom and on the soccer field, which I am hoping to bring to the University of Colorado.»

Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...

A former inner - city high school teacher, Farrington left the classroom after 15 years to get a Ph.D. in urban - education policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Today, as a professor at the University of Texas at Austin, Yeager is among the leading researchers exploring how to apply the findings of education psychology in the classroom.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Through my writings (books, scholarly articles, popular articles, and website), my lectures at conferences (for physicians, lactation consultants, health departments, and LLL groups), and my university classroom teaching (I manage to work this material into every class, no matter what the official topic might be), I have been able to pass along the lessons I learned from LLL to thousands of people, who in turn have passed them along.

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

That's why I'm thrilled to share with you a new «white paper» on food rewards in classrooms, co-authored by my blogging colleague Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids, along with Dr. Alicia Fedewa of University of Kentucky, College of Education and Anita Courtney, M.S., R.D., of Tweens Nutrition and Fitness Coalition.

Kids who play sports are better at following instructions and staying focused in the classroom, University of Montreal researchers find.

«Faculty may maintain a focus on professional responsibilities in the classroom by taking advantage of the options the university provides, including reasonable break times, private areas for nursing mothers to express milk, and leave in the case of a sick child.»

Doctoral candidate Ximena Portilla and Assistant Professor Jelena Obradović of the Graduate School of Education, with colleagues at the University of California, San Francisco, studied kindergarten students and classroom environments and then followed those students into first grade.

But as a practicing pediatrician and associate clinical professor of pediatrics at George Washington University, Beard said that what children eat in a cafeteria «may be as important a determinant as the reading, writing and arithmetic they get in the classroom.»

After learning of Burger's methods, McGill University education professor Jon Bradley says he would consider taking a similar approach in his own classroom — encouraging students to analyze their work the way sports fans obsess over how the home team might do better next season.

«The absolute first thing parents need to think about is respecting where their child is in the classroom and very incrementally moving them forward, instead of pushing them,» says Meg Zweiback, a nurse practitioner, family consultant, and associate clinical professor at the University of California at San Francisco.

Dozens of graduate students at Columbia University walked out of classrooms and research labs to press home their right to unionize, as part of a one - week strike timed for high impact with classes wrapping up for the year.

The Cambridge University research for the NUT found a «noticeable change in the climate of schooling» as some teachers offered incentives such as snacks or «credits» towards a day off school in a bid to encourage unruly pupils to pay more attention in the classroom.

The deans of education programs at 18 State University of New York schools are condemning a proposal they say would lead to unqualified teachers in New York classrooms.

The project, which is in addition to the ongoing classroom projects, would be replicated at the College of Technology Education (COLTEK) and other campuses of the university.

And when he dropped in on some students in a classroom at the State University of New York, he showed he was still working on the art of making small talk with strangers.

But Nadeau, a Ph.D. student at the University of Connecticut, with a passion for science education, has run into trouble over how to make his research on Daphnia magna water fleas relevant to educators in the classroom.

An Infrared image captures biologist swabbing microbes from a University of Oregon classroom.

«If intelligent design is injected into the classroom by political means, it will be the first step towards a complete politicization of everything in science,» says Brown University biologist Kenneth R. Miller, author of Finding Darwin's God, who testified for the Dover plaintiffs.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

Washington State University neuroscientist Jaak Panksepp believes diminishing classroom playtime could be responsible for the recent rise of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

On a sunny day this past October, three dozen people file into a modest, mint - green classroom at Montana State University (MSU) in Bozeman to glimpse a vision of the future.

If unobtrusive brain stimulation proves safe and effective in larger classroom trials, the technology could augment traditional forms of study, says Roi Cohen Kadosh, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Oxford, UK, who led the study.

In addition the being the first university in the country to allow the mixing of men and women in both the classroom and the lab, KAUST has abandoned the usual departments in favor of interdisciplinary research centers.

Lark and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) recently published the results of a nationwide, multiple - case study in The American Biology Teacher detailing how Avida - ED curriculum was used in high school and college classrooms.

Psychologist John Rooney of La Salle University in Philadelphia has found that women so prize their hair that most students surveyed during a classroom exercise said they would not shave their heads for even $ 1 million.

A study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly popular approach to learning in the health sciences fields — the flipped classroom model — where pre-recorded lectures are viewed outside of the classroom and in - person class time is devoted to interactive exercises, discussions, and group projects.