Sentences with phrase «engage students like»

I loved to learn but my school failed to engage students like me.

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Here, for instance, is an NPR article explaining «a study that found cocoa flavanols can help boost mood and sustain clear thinking among adults who are engaged in intense mental efforts — like students cramming, or journalists on deadline.»

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Like these subjects, religion invites both scholar and student to engage enduring human questions.

These have generated within me kindred feelings towards Eliade and hence the question I would like to ask is, «Is Eliade showing the way for an Indian student who is engaged in the study NT history and Theology?»

The program, created by the Chemical Educational Foundation, is a quiz show - like competition that engages and educates students in chemistry, he notes.

During the third annual Food Waste & Hunger Summit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack drew attention to efforts like The Campus Kitchens Project, which engages college and high school students to gather unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants and farmers» markets and deliver it to the less fortunate.

They also sent home items like cartoon - branded vegetable scrubbers to engage students and make the process more fun.

To make his case against flavored milk, Oliver engaged in some eye - catching (though perhaps slightly misleading) stunts, like filling a school bus to near - bursting with white sand to demonstrate the amount of sugar offered to LASUD students each week in flavored milk.

Before diving into the recipes, students displayed their knowledge of spices, produce and food from other cultures as they engaged in a 20 - Questions - like game for which the answer was cardamom.

We recently sat down with Kern Halls, Area Manager of Orange County Public School Food & Nutrition Services, to discuss ways the OCPS district has engaged students in their food choices through creative initiatives like My Food Face — a sort of «internal Facebook» for students and their families — and the use of a food truck for school events and field trips.

Naturally, Fuel Up to Play 60 tapped school nutrition professionals — like you — to help engage and empower students to take charge of their health through better food choices and increased activity.

In particular, Google's Maker Camp encourages students to engage in practical but fun activities, like building small robots or coding simple programs.

Simple recipes, like pear jam and sweet potato hummus, are quick, effective ways to engage students in learning.

«You are never too young to contribute to your neighborhood and to your community,» said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. «We need more young people like the Bronx Youth Corps student volunteers, students who want to be engaged in the world around them and who want to make a difference in the lives of others.

«I am proud to sponsor activities like this that engage and excite our students.»

If they are available in your classroom, technologies like electronic voting can help engage your students and make them more active.

A group of Wellesley College students answered two questions for the chance at a secret job for the U.S. Navy in 1941: Did they like crossword puzzles, and were they engaged to be married?

So we engaged a team of undergraduate students to build ExoplanetSat, a prototype nanosatellite that could monitor a Sun - like star for two years.

«We assessed how medical students engage with social media platforms like Facebook and found that they have a pretty sophisticated understanding of its risks and benefits,» said Daniel R. George, assistant professor of humanities.

In the place of courses based solely on lectures and memorization, they are incorporating the latest practices of biological research, engaging students with the opportunity to think and work like scientists on issues with real - world relevance.

Committee for Postdocs and Students (COMPASS) Outreach Grants are intended to provide funds to ASCB members to promote science outreach projects — like visits to labs for students, organizing science fairs, or any other ideas for engaging theStudents (COMPASS) Outreach Grants are intended to provide funds to ASCB members to promote science outreach projects — like visits to labs for students, organizing science fairs, or any other ideas for engaging thestudents, organizing science fairs, or any other ideas for engaging the public.

These resources allow postbac students like Farooqui to engage with students and professionals in a variety of engineering disciplines that are represented at the CSNE.

«These are the perfect films to engage the students (we do outreach with)-- obviously because it's something they will like, but those filmmakers are not some fuddy - duddies, but really young, vibrant voices that connect with a younger audience,» Kasper said.

Those surveys were designed to measure five types of outcomes: 1) whether the school tour helped create cultural consumers (students who want to return to museums and engage in other cultural activities), 2) whether the school tour helped create cultural producers (students who want to make art), 3) whether the school tour increased student knowledge about art and history, 4) whether the school tour improved student critical thinking about works of art, and 5) whether the school tour altered student values, like empathy and tolerance.

Perhaps students could spend their first semester in small groups, meeting all day every day with a single professor to engage deeply in a topic that relates to the world around them, like gentrification, social class in America, or public health.

Much like their iconic counterparts, today's Bloom students and teachers are deeply engaged in an ambitious campaign, this one aimed at the good of the planet.

I like to make resources that are engaging and interesting for students to use.

He is currently researching how students read and engage with non-traditional texts like video game narratives, manga, horror, fantasy, etc. as well as the effects of inquiry teaching on teachers, students, and learning.

«The students have really engaged with Aussie of the Month and like how we've linked the program to our school values,» Ms Kennewell said.

Something simple, he says, like inserting a football team's name into a word problem or referring to a memorable in - class demonstration, can help engage students» attention.

Student - Led Conferences Hold Kids Accountable Would you like to find a way to actively engage students in their learning process and increase parent attendance at conferences?

«If a podcast feels like someone is just reading to me, it's not as engaging as when it feels like the students are having a conversation with me,» Schmit says.

Would you like to find a way to actively engage students in their learning process and increase parent attendance at conferences?

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.

One possibility is that studies like this help us pay attention to the fact that our students have writing lives, that they routinely engage in writing - intensive work that is complex, and that it is useful to engage our students in conversations about how writing works in the world.

Here's a video that showcases how we use technology like Photoshop and blogging to engage students in reading, writing and arts.

Students will be engaged through the numerous activities including quiz rounds like «From Numbers 2 LETTERS» and «This shouldn't be too TAXing» whilst crucially being able to recognise those areas which need further attention

- Some students work faster than others and you would like an interesting extension activity for your faster - moving students to keep them learning and engaged.

They might reach beyond the school building to engage students through learning in the community (apprenticeships and the like), participation in social and recreational activities outside the school, or even partnering with other schools or local colleges to broaden the range of learning experiences.

The starter is fun and always engages as students like guessing at what the connection may be.

Students engage in activities like recycling, planting a tree or alternative transportation methods.

He praises social media for keeping students engaged but also keeping teachers, like himself, engaged.

Our students want to be challenged, they want to be engaged in their learning, and endeavors like NaNoWriMo give them that opportunity.

In COPELLS, students engage in project - based learning (PBL), and like real scientists, they collaborate and share findings.

The topics that are tested within the lesson include: Sexual and asexual reproduction Meiosis DNA and the genome Genetic inheritance and disorders Sex determination Variation Genetic engineering Resistant bacteria Classification of living organisms Students will be engaged through the numerous activities including quiz rounds like «From Numbers 2 LETTERS» and «This shouldn't be too TAXing» whilst crucially being able to recognise those areas which need further attention

Students are excited to see that people are engaging with them, and that they can get responses from experts, like NASA.

When they insist that ideas like school choice, performance pay, and teacher evaluations based on value - added measures will themselves boost student achievement, would - be reformers stifle creativity, encourage their allies to lock elbows and march forward rather than engage in useful debate and reflection, turn every reform proposal into an us - against - them steel - cage match, and push researchers into the awkward position of studying whether reforms «work» rather than when, why, and how they make it easier to improve schooling.

The learning journey is clear and progressive, following a pathway of progressively more difficult tasks, including: - An engaging true or false game to help students understand what life was like for women in the Great Depression; - A worksheet that enables students to demonstrate understanding of key quotations about Curley's Wife, and also to link Curley's Wife to key themes and ideas.