Sentences with phrase «for student learning at»

None of these studies examined the direct impact of teacher leadership on student learning, and instead investigated how teacher leadership affected the conditions for student learning at the school level.

Teacher constructions of students in lower attainment groups in English secondary schools, the ability grouping technique is likely limiting for students learning at a low - attaining level.

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At 49, as a grad student, I look forward to learning and developing new methods for exploring deep topics so I can get past the surface solutions I easily come up with now.

The other founder, Ryan Bubinski, longed for his days at Columbia University, where he taught programming and evangelized the importance of learning to code through a student group he had founded called the Application Development Initiative.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

«We regularly review our course materials and textbooks to ensure they are up to date, and any changes that need to be made will be done at the appropriate moment to ensure the best learning outcomes for schools and students,» a spokesperson for the company told CNBC.

It was incredibly useful for my big organization job at the time, particularly because of the students who all had big jobs to, I learnt as much from my peers as the professors.

When two students killed 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999, some parents did not learn their children's fate for two days.

After school shootings like the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, administrators reached out to former Columbine High principal Frank DeAngelis for advice, since there is no book to teach what he learned after gunmen killed 12 of his students and...

February 2, 2017 By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.

(CNN)- Columnist and gay - rights advocate Dan Savage is standing by his comment that «we can learn to ignore the bulls ** t in the Bible about gay people» at a recent conference for high school students, a line that prompted some to walk out and spurred intense online debate.

At Hennepin County, for example, seminary students in our clinical pastoral education program have learned a good deal about suicidal people and crisis intervention by participating in our Suicide Prevention Service under the supervision of that staff clergyman.

In 1969 Pollak sought an interview with Bettelheim because he wanted to learn more about his brother Stephen, who had been a student at Bettelheim's famous home for emotionally troubled children.

Certainly I knew nothing then of the vast grounds for the hymn - writer's protest, but later in the decade of the thirties I joined, incipiently at the level of a graduate student, the ranks of the same critics and with some real enthusiasm learned and cultivated the techniques of «tearing apart» the biblical literature.

I have also learned not to take for granted students» knowledge in some general academic areas that may have been expectations at the high school, or dare I say, even junior high level, in my generation.

For the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposFor the next few years, I was engaged mostly with parenting: working to develop the cooperative spirit and patterns so necessary for a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposfor a department of 20 specialists if we were to listen to and learn from each other in such a way that we could train graduate students together rather than at cross-purposes.

One of my students reported that she learned to love nature by watching, studying, and photographing one polar bear for hours at a time over several weeks.

So seriously is it believed at McGill University that a Western student is not being offered adequate facilities for the study of Islam and for a degree in Islamics unless he has Muslims available from whom to learn, that it is formal policy at its Institute of Islamic Studies that half of the teachers and half of the students be Muslims.

Twice therein occurs the statement, «Any certain extent of academic education shall never be a requirement for credentials...» (22) While there is always more to learn for any student of Scripture, however brilliant or trained, I am not at all prepared to say that such simple pietistic use of Scripture is defective; it is not so much wrong as limited.

I learned that another course on the Virgin was being offered in a different department at Wheaton the same semester; rather than competing for student attention, both classes quickly filled.

As an academic scandal at the ACC college continues to unfold, a former learning specialists named Mary Willingham, who worked at the UNC Academic Support Program for Student Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letterStudent Athletes, showed ESPN an essay (that's under 150 words) that earned a student - athlete an A - letterstudent - athlete an A - letter grade.

In 1824, a group of theological students at Yale Divinity School signed a compact «to go to the State of Illinois for the purpose of establishing a seminary of learning such as shall best be adopted to the exigencies of that country — a part of us to engage in instruction in the seminary; the other to occupy, as preachers, important stations in the surrounding country.»

I designed one side of my wall with a chalkboard I'll update every week that includes the essential question (what the students will be learning), an «I Can...» statement (what they will be able to do at the end of the lesson), HW that is due, and HW for that night.

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This was a disheartening reality for somebody used to easy success, learning the game at 14 as a kind of exchange student in Warsaw, Ind., and becoming a vital part of such storied programs as North Carolina, the Boston Celtics and the Lakers.

Working specifically with kids for over 10 years Worked and trained with top professionals at the Nike Junior Golf Learning Center for 8 years Many students currently playing High School golf and attaining scholarships for co

Working specifically with kids for over 10 years Worked and trained with top professionals at the Nike Junior Golf Learning Center for 8 years Many students currently playing High School golf and attaining scholarships for college Juniors (ages 7 - 15) playing and winning SCPGA Junior Golf Tournaments

Champions Extended Learning offers innovative before and after school extended day programs and care for preschool, kindergarten and students in grades K - 6 right at your child's school.

The emphasis is for each of our students to learn the basic fundamental skills needed to wrestle at the junior high and high school levels.

Similarly, what happens to the brilliant Ph.D. students who learn that there are too few openings for new professors at the Ivy League schools?

Students at Elm City (86 percent of whom qualify for free or reduced - price lunch) now control their schedule and follow their own personal interests in their learning much more than they used to, and they have more autonomy in the subjects they study, including daily «enrichment» courses in robotics, dance, and tae kwon do.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

And not to beat another dead horse here, but for those who want to learn how to work effectively with their school district's student nutrition director and school board to make changes in their own schools» food, there is plenty of free advice, based on real - world experience, at http://www.peachsf.org.

She really loved teaching at that level and still remembers thinking that these younger students were «born scientists» displaying an inborn curiosity and enthusiasm for learning.

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

Polk County Public Schools have lot of great programming, including breakfast - in - the - classroom (Polk County received Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grant back in SY 2012 - 13) and a «What's That Wednesday» program where students learn about new foods; additionally, Polk has implemented CEP at 109 sites which has had a positive impact on participation.

The district is gauging parent interest for their students to learn another language, starting at what grade level and what language.

Is it possible that encouraging students to be responsible, organized, and self - disciplined through homework is actually a recipe for creating apathetic, disinterested learners who are good at doing as they're told but not remotely interested in truly learning or thinking for themselves?

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

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For most elementary aged students with learning disabilities, about fifteen to twenty minutes of reading at least three days a week is a good place to begin.

Environmental students learned about the prairie ecosystem, collecting data for fieldwork by identifying plants, looking at invasive plants and studying wildlife.

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«When students come to school hungry, it's really hard for them to pay attention and learn,» said Jill Kidd, the director of nutrition services at Pueblo City Public Schools in Colorado.

He was then able to work with the students at his chosen middle school for an entire school year — teaching and learning, and experiencing what school lunch struggles are like on the ground.

Recipients of the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom grants, funded by the Walmart Foundation, will offer breakfast to all students at no charge, while moving meals from the cafeteria to the classroom improves participation in the federally - funded School Breakfast Program and boosts learning and health.

After his first camp, he served as Co-Director at CKND for the next three years, while also learning about the broader organization as a member of the National Student Panel in 2013 and an Operations Intern in 2014.

His program at Holy Trinity is telling us some important things about kids and school food — namely, that food doesn't need to be «dumbed down» for kids to accept it; that kids implicitly understand when deep care is being put into the preparation of their food and they respond with equal respect; and that improving school food can change kids» attitudes about food outside the school yard gates, as was the case with the student quoted by Chef Boundas who cut back on fast food now that he's eating healthful foods at lunch and learning about nutrition and cooking in Chef Boundas's kitchen.

At the same time, the government have proposed cutting wildly at student support for those in further education, with both the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely abolisheAt the same time, the government have proposed cutting wildly at student support for those in further education, with both the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely abolisheat student support for those in further education, with both the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) and the Adult Learning Grant (ALG) set to be entirely abolished.

Speaking through the State's Deputy Governor, Dr.. Mrs. Idiat Oluranti Adebule, who led other top government officials on the tour, Governor Ambode recalled that at the end of last year, the State Executive Council approved N10billion for the rehabilitation of existing schools as well as the construction of eight new ones, including three model colleges to boost learning experience of students in the State.