Sentences with phrase «cultures of the students who»

Does the decor reflect the languages and cultures of the students who sit in the seats?

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She says while professors taught students the nitty gritty of business — marketing, accounting, financial management — it was the students who schooled faculty on Aboriginal culture and history.
Robert Wuthnow of Princeton is among the students of American religion who have incisively analyzed the ways in which all the churches are split along a left - right, liberal - conservative divide, mirroring the divides within our general culture.
An educational program aiming to nurture citizens who can function justly within the mosaic of American culture and within the world's multicultural pluralism should teach students the dynamics of various hegemonic orders, the reasons for their emergence, the conditions of their continuence, the factors that lead to their decline and fall.
It will be much harder to do that in the future unless the college administration reverses its present course, calls the faculty and students who have been brutalizing Professor Esolen to order, and reaffirms Providence College's commitment to genuine academic freedom and to a Catholic vision of the human person that challenges the tribalism and identity politics eroding our culture and our politics.
Her work should be required reading not only for students of American religion, but also for anyone who wishes to study sympathetically and fruitfully a different religious culture.
For a student who was brought up a Unitarian but has just decided to become an Episcopalian, the case for absorbing the Episcopal «ecclesial culture» in one of that denomination's seminaries is strong.
According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.
Principals can create a culture of attendance in their school and marshal the data to intervene with students who are missing too much school.
When Scott Bearby, General Counsel for the NCAA, was asked by yours truly at the NCAA Convention in San Antonio last week about who holds the athletic trainers and medical staff accountible about return - to - play decisions for student athletes, it opened the door to an interesting observation about the culture of concussions.
In addition to American folk music, the songs and dances you'll learn will offer your students a breadth of diverse cultural riches, brought to you by a teacher who has done extensive research into dances of many cultures.
Elite institutions of higher education are disproportionately outside the South and outside Red States, and students from Red States who attend these elite institutions frequently assimilate into Northern / Blue State culture and do not return to their home states.
«Students of many other cultures and ethnicity rightly have off for the most important holidays they observe, and kids who celebrate Lunar New Year should be afforded the same,» said U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D - Flushing).
Attending the Institute helps Hispanic students to feel proud of who they are and their culture.
We look for students for whom it is fun to share ideas and who have the patience to learn the language and culture of different areas of science.
Our team included several «insiders,» postdocs who had been grad students at the University of Chicago and, as a result, could provide the benefit of their experiences with administrative practices and institutional culture.
«Kissing in human sexual relationships is incredibly prevalent in various forms across just about every society and culture,» says Rafael Wlodarski, the DPhil student who carried out the research in the Department of Experimental Psychology at Oxford University.
But «supervisors are absolutely key,» he suggested, «those who look after their CRS also look after young lecturers and research students,» so a change of culture would be good for everyone.
Students and «postdocs [who] come from different cultures should be exposed to the good practices before they start work, so that they are in tune with the rest of the team,» she writes.
«This is the first time the 3 - D culturing method has been used to predict the effectiveness of different drugs on tumors from individual patients,» said graduate student Alex Walsh, who has played a key role in developing the test.
«As bioengineers, we can now design 3D culture systems where environmental parameters such as composition, porosity, and stiffness can be precisely tuned to study the importance of these cues on tumorigenesis,» says coauthor Sandeep Koshy, a Harvard graduate student in the Harvard - MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology, who works in Mooney's lab at Harvard SEAS and at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
Students who attend a middle school compared to a K - 8 school are likely to have a lower perception of their reading skills, finds a new study by NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.
Itai Roffman, a graduate student at Haifa University in Israel who worked at GAT, says the situation arose because of a culture clash.
At the same time, we wish to help students (1) experience authentic processes of science, in particular discussion / debate about experimental data and their interpretation (including «grey areas»), (2) recognize the creativity and open - ended nature of research, and (3) see the diversity of people who undertake research careers (i.e. not just the genius / geeks of popular culture).
The new biomedical innovation course, which will take place at the laboratory's Maine campus, is geared to advanced graduate students, post-doctoral trainees and researchers at all levels who want to learn the basics of organoid culture and the most recent developments in the organoid field.
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Her storyline intertwines with three other black students at Winchester who are also struggling: Lionel (Tyler James Williams) wrestles with not being «black enough,» Coco (Teyonah Parris) steps away from black culture unless it can get her places and Troy (Brandon P. Bell) needs to impress his father instead of himself.
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In particular, enriching field trips contribute to the development of students into civilized young men and women who possess more knowledge about art, have stronger critical - thinking skills, exhibit increased historical empathy, display higher levels of tolerance, and have a greater taste for consuming art and culture.
Those who already had a culture of supporting students with anywhere, anytime learning kept students and parents fully informed of school closures or openings, and could operate almost as normal with learning materials and activities available from anywhere, ongoing student teacher communications and on - line submission of completed work.
But by allowing young people to explore these ideas, educators can foster empathy and encourage (and empower) students to see themselves as problem - solvers who have an active role to play in creating a classroom culture that includes and supports every one of their peers.
«I would especially want to know what kinds of assets they're bringing,» says Kim, who stresses that asking students to assimilate to an American way of life can mean losing valuable aspects of their cultures that can benefit the whole classroom.
EL - MEKKI: First of all, I think for our students of color, we need to recognize who they are, and I don't mean from the media or just from hip - hop culture.
Since not all students are at the same stage of cultural adjustment the International KidSuccess» groups are helpful in different ways for different students: for those who are still in the «honeymoon» stage, it is helpful to hear that although there will be some ups and downs on the road ahead, this is a normal process that everyone goes through when moving to a new country and culture.
According to Becky Smerdon and Kathryn Borman, who led the Gates - sponsored research team that evaluated the initiative, by the late 1990s some consensus had emerged among reformers about what made schools successful: «a shared vision focused on student learning, common strategies for engendering that learning, a culture of professional collaboration and collective responsibility, high - quality curriculum, systematic monitoring of student learning, strong instructional leadership (usually from the principal), and adequate resources.»
This system of overt - convergence is enforced by a grading culture that systematically penalizes students for being «wrong,» and by allowing a school environment in which students tease those who exhibit non-normative behaviors.
From 2004, when we graduated the first set of 33 students in a week - long ceremony to celebrate these youth who had been subjected to a rigorous training that goes beyond ordinary conventional educational training system, in order to immerse them into a new culture of discipline and prepare them adequately as future quality and dependable leaders.
This project builds an understanding of an artist like Chila who amalgamates two cultures: Asian and British and there are examples of her work and student examples of outcome.
Ask questions of cultural brokers (individuals who can facilitate understanding between two cultures) and show students that you care.
Teachers who think of themselves as cultural beings will open the door to thinking about their students as having their own culture, which in turn can profoundly influence their thoughts and behaviour.
In addition, students gain global and cultural competency when they are exposed to people who are different than they are, and to the art, music, history and culture of other nations, races and peoples.
The school has created a culture of respect for new generations of at - risk students who can feel safe and free to concentrate and succeed at school in a way that previous generations could not.
These students teach the Honor Code to fifth graders, who, in turn, explain it to younger elementary school students to help establish a student - driven culture of integrity.
While our school like all others is not perfect ~ we strive to maintain a culture of learning and encouragement for all who enter - students ~ parents ~ leaders and faculty.
Having a quality music program can help musical students, who otherwise feel unable to connect to a school's academic or sporting culture, feel like they too are able to make a positive contribution to, and feel a part of, their community.
The legend of the superhero teacher who steps into a crumbling, underresourced school and singlehandedly changes the lives of a group of indifferent or hostile students is a pervasive one in popular culture.
Teachers who successfully foster this culture of trust can be assured that their students will do right, even when they aren't looking.
And a richer culture of collaboration will emerge among students who learn to work together.
Whereas Charlotte Simmons is a brilliant young woman who wastes her mind and is corrupted by the culture of her classmates, Lee Fiora is a mediocre student who is lazy and cheats on her exams.
The first one was that Maori students identified that they wanted teachers who respected their cultural location as Maori and part of that [is] teachers who are culturally appropriate; so, who understand some of the features of Maori culture, and use in the curriculum and use in the classroom what I would call «Maori iconography» - so students could see themselves in the curriculum.
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