Sentences with phrase «engaged my students became»

My least engaged students become highly engaged when project time rolls around.

The more engaged our students become in conversations with teachers about their learning, the greater the likelihood that they will experience success.

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One result of this is that the wissenschaftlich pole of theological education has become more an exercise in communicating to students the results of critical inquiry than an exercise teaching them to engage in critical inquiry themselves.

When 16,000 college students gathered at InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's latest Urbana conference to talk about missions, one of the main debates became how evangelicals should engage with the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

When that doesn't happen, project - based learning can become the empty calories of education: a collection of engaging distractions that are unrelated to the larger goal of increasing students» knowledge.

Students turn to us because they've become frustrated in large, impersonal institutions, while others seek a richer, more engaging education without the emphasis on standardized testing.

The unique Waldorf philosophy of inspiring the heart before engaging the mind, enables our students to develop capacities that eventually outpace those in mainstream education, helping them become fully balanced, lifelong learners, through college and beyond.

While at Glen Brook, over 200 acres of woods and private lake become the students» backyard for outings and engaging practical lessons.

Teaching ASL helps students become more engaged through cognitive and whole - body learning.

Fathers who become involved in school settings early in their children's lives are more likely to stay engaged later, which increases student achievement.

Burger says a poor score on an assignment becomes a gift from teacher to student — an opportunity to engage in some «high - quality failure.»

«The Corridor has been a living lab where students gain real - world experience, produce portfolio work and make connections that foster more engaged alumni who are more likely to become community and global leaders,» Liddy said.

A number of graduate students, postdocs, and young scientists in nearly every field of science have become more active and engaged in issues related to graduate education and employment.

She became engaged in 1931 during her first term to childhood friend Robert Ollerenshaw, a medical student, and «envisaged a life as Robert's wife, he a practicing surgeon, myself playing the role of the supporting wife and, hopefully, mother.»

Through Elmer's support, Science Buddies will help millions of students from all walks of life to build their literacy in science and technology so they can become productive and engaged citizens in the 21st century.

Science Buddies mission is to help students from all walks of life to build their literacy in science and technology so they can become productive and engaged citizens in the 21st century.

As a result, many of our students become engaged in multi-semester undergraduate research projects in collaboration with Widener's distinguished faculty.

By doing STEM activities that use the Science Journal app, we anticipate that students will become more curious and more engaged with the engineering and science behind their electronics.

Students participating in the National Student Leadership Conference listened to scientific lectures, engaged in career panels, and discussed the path to becoming a scientist.

In just about every class, there are students who are actively engaged in lessons, and others who would become actively engaged if their teachers used proven programs (in my case it was cooperative learning).

With it comes a timely — if not urgent — opportunity to help students become more engaged citizens.

So when teachers assign students a digital place - based - learning project, the kids quickly become engaged.

School has become a very positive place for many, and much of that sentiment has to do with the type of work in which students have been engaged.

How do we move to a point where more of the school - based tasks in which students are engaged actually become the stuff of their dreaming when they leave us at the end of each day?

Testing and refining learning tools to help students become stronger collaborators, making the time they work together on projects as productively engaging within the discipline as possible

It's their hope that if they arm students with hands - on learning opportunities, those students will become more active, informed citizens — prepared to vote, volunteer, and engage in civic life.

The third stage, from 14 to 21, is inspired thinking, when students become engaged intellectually and are encouraged to analyze information and think critically.

For more suggestions about teaching students to become citizens of the world, download a free copy of Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World (PDF) by Veronica Boix Mansilla and Anthony Jackson.

If we want to help our students become lifelong lovers of text, we must engage the community in reading and writing.

Although students enjoy using technology, a lot of students become even more engaged when they can create.

The more you engage your students in learning and doing mathematics, the greater the likelihood of their developing the mathematical habits of mind of a productive mathematical thinker — and becoming experienced problem solvers who know what to do when they don't know what to do.

Teachers can do much towards creating a world - class education for their students by preparing them to readily access information on their own terms, and to become and remain «informed, engaged and discerning» throughout their lives.

In 2015, gamification became a buzzword used within the sector as schools embraced tools such as Minecraft to engage with their students.

Previously disengaged students became more engaged.

The program opens up channels of communication where members of the school student community are given license to engage with others, become aware of those around them, value their peers and know that they exist in a mutually and active supportive community.

«My students were really the reason I applied to HGSE, to become a better teacher, to not only rely solely on the way I had been taught, but to find ways to connect with them and make music engaging,» Cueva says.

The need to better communicate and engage our students, staff, parents, and prospective families became even more essential.

While for the most part the arts have been on the fringes of education, when they become a larger part of the curriculum, they can engage students in numerous ways, and particularly can benefit students in low - income, low - performing schools.

By engaging school families and encouraging students to think creatively about the possibilities, redesign became possible through the donations of time, a few gallons of paint, and used supplies found in the homes of her community.

We found that the pathway to becoming the leader of a classroom starts in middle and high school, so we ask: How do we engage middle and high school students to think about teaching as a career?

This brings us back to the need indicated in Part I; that in order to develop effective, irresistibly engaging eLearning where learner engagement becomes more and more fueled by intrinsic motivation, we need to include the voice of the silent stakeholders in learning, the students or learners themselves.

«I saw the students change from being disinterested and believing they weren't good at anything to becoming engaged and feeling better about themselves in the classroom.»

Ultimately, as long as the content remains interesting and engaging, students will want to learn and will be less likely to become disinterested and disruptive.

Tony with Down's syndrome, Tamika from a broken home, and others similarly afflicted became engaged in learning thanks to superhuman efforts from teachers and student - centered learning.

My strengths and passion are in teaching and learning and making my lessons as engaging as possible as it is this which I believe to be the most effective behaviour management strategy and the key to helping students achieve excellent results and become engaged and excited about history and my lessons.

Museums and other informal learning settings can invite students to become engaged in exhibits and activities.

The activities with students must engage, guide, determine and motivate students to become involved in getting its own success.

But if school leaders adopt blended learning merely to increase out - of - district enrollments, increase course offerings, boost credit completion rates, lower staffing costs, or decrease the demands placed on teachers, then blended - learning technologies will become increasingly cheap, convenient, engaging, and easy to use without necessarily improving students» academic or life outcomes.

Effective teachers recognize the importance of engaging their students in learning; this is why it is necessary to implement relevant technologies for assessments to make learning applicable to modern students, who are becoming more digital and competence - based to meet the demand for future jobs.

Once students understand how and why the Chinese New Year is celebrated, they might want to become personally involved in the celebrations by engaging in classroom activities related to the event.