Sentences with phrase «goal of students who»

We don't want tech geeks who are teachers; we want teacher geeks who can use technology, with the end goal of students who are more engaged.

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Founded in 2009 by online education entrepreneur Shai Reshef, the goal of the university is to provide a free online education in computer science and business administration for students in developing countries who can't afford to go to college.

«It isn't a goal for Harvard Business School to graduate more entrepreneurs, but this will be a side benefit,» says Alan MacCormack, a Harvard professor who recently oversaw the school's startup initiative, which assigned an entire class of 900 students to launch micro-businesses as part of six - person teams, with seed capital from the business school.

Borrowers who have refinanced their student loan debt with lenders on the Credible platform with the goal of reducing their interest rate, loan term and total amount repaid can expect to save $ 18,668 over the life of their loan.

The goal is to relieve the strain of student loan repayments on the budgets of young workers who are just beginning to save for retirement.

A recent analysis found borrowers who refinanced their student loan debt with lenders on the Credible platform with the goal of reducing their interest rate, loan term and total amount repaid should expect to save $ 18,668 over the life of their loan.

Our goal, even more than collecting data, was to make students think of administrators like political leaders — as figures who can be challenged and even given the heave - ho.

The Rev. Joseph W. Knowles describes the goals of the Renewal Center Mission as (1) developing the Life Renewal Center through small «groups,» (2) giving attention to the use of present structures to focus the whole life of the church as a healing community, (3) developing a program of supervised clinical pastoral education for theological students, and (4) maintaining a Residential Center halfway house for twenty men and women who have been previously hospitalized for mental illness.

Clerking for the U.S. Supreme Court is the great goal of many elite law students, and it provides a crucial credential for those who want to teach law.

Instead, the teacher is basically a researcher who needs the student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.

The students Brooks examined in 2001, who had entered adolescence after the fall of the Berlin Wall, spent their formative years in a world predicted by Francis Fukuyama in 1992: «The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.»

«It's important that people who have the nutrition and welfare of students as their highest priority are as engaged as those who may have different top goals in mind.»

FRAC has set an ambitious, but achievable, goal of reaching 70 low - income students who qualify for free or reduced - price school breakfast for every 100 who eat school lunch.

Breakfast Challenge awards will be given to schools each term who reach the challenge goal of increasing student ADP in the SBP by 25 %.

Obama administration goals for the legislation include: (1) improving nutrition standards for school meals; (2) increasing participation in school meal programs; (3) increasing parent and student education about healthy eating; (4) establishing nutrition standards for the so called «a la carte» foods (see my School Lunch FAQs for more information on these); (5) promoting increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low - and fat - free dairy products; (6) strengthening school wellness policies and promoting physical activity in schools; (7) training people who provide school meals and providing them with better equipment; and (8) enhancing food safety.

Repealing the Second Amendment would be the best way to «weaken the NRA» and help the students who have protested around the country achieve their goal of sweeping gun control, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in a NY Times OpEd.

He introduces readers to a group of MIT students who made a fortune playing Massachusetts state lottery games, showing how PhD level pundits using methods originally developed for the U.S. nuclear program to accurately predict field goals and race times, and explains why poker is one of the ultimate challenges for artificial intelligence.

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who heads the 64 - campus SUNY system, set the bar high last year when she outlined goals and strategies designed to move the system to the head of the educational pack: the crown jewel of 2013's address was the three - year program to graduate students faster than the traditional four years of study...

While the main hiring priority of any school district should be hiring the most qualified teachers who can build up their students the most, building a teaching workforce that is reflective of the community in which they work must be a goal for districts.

Our goal is to reach students who are at an impressionable age and drive them away from the dangers of opioids and drug abuse.

Cherry Lane Elementary has even been recognized by the US Department of Education as a Blue Ribbon School in 2013, an award «reserved for schools that boast students who meet and maintain high educational goals,» according to the department's official website.

Research, it turns out, is one of the best ways to accomplish that goal: Young students who have the opportunity to get their hands dirty in the lab tend to be motivated to take the next step to a 4 - year college; those exposed only to textbooks can't match their enthusiasm.

It was a good move by both the federal governments and the Länder (states) to agree on two new goals: increasing the number of foreign students by 50 % and doubling the number of German students who spend time abroad during their studies.

As a Ph.D. student, Vermeulen was «an extremely motivated scientist, really striving to do things very well... and trying to reach [his] goals,» says Luc De Meester, a former colleague of Vermeulen's who today is a full professor in the department of biology at the University of Leuven.

«It is the most powerful and moving celebration of students who achieved their goals, many under dire circumstances,» says Flowers.

«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.

A different pathway is used to train students in the combined degree program at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UT Houston) and the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, where the goal is to produce physician - scientists who will pursue careers in clinical research.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

The main goals of these groups will be to increase the interaction between different partners and transfer knowledge and key technologies within the network, acting as a resource for a specific topic for all members of NeuroStemcell.The groups are addressed to scientists (students, post-docs or senior scientists) who have a relevant experience on the matter and are / will be working full time on the topic under NeuroStemcell funding.

I'm a student, Mom of 3 (who don't live with me), and right now I'm very goal oriented.

laid back and drama free guy who is full time student trying to better myself and reach my goals regardless of hsv

The strange irony is that teachers who convince many of their students to opt - out are likely to help achieve Cuomo's goal of increasing the share of teachers judged to be low - performing.

For instance, if you teach language arts and the goal of the unit is teaching students how to write an effective response to literature or a literary analysis essay, who says everyone has to write about the same book written by some ancient dead writer (no offense, dead writers)?

One of the original goals of the arts@newman initiative was to explore how an integrated arts - based model could help engage those students who found themselves on the edge of this place we call school.

The students were sorted into three groups: an «opt - in group,» who were offered the choice of committing to a goal of earning 10 percent more, but losing 20 percent if they failed to meet it; an «opt - out group,» who were automatically enrolled in the intervention, although could choose to drop out; and a «control group,» who merely indicated they wanted to set a goal of increasing their paycheck.

A huge amount of credit is also due to our dedicated teachers who have worked closely with all students over the past 12 months to ensure they achieved their own personal goals.

It can also benefit students in a wide range of settings who need to work towards a specific goal.

Each Friday, I select a couple of students who are in need of affirmation and who have struggled to meet a few of their goals.

«That day solidly defined another goal of mine: to figure out what it would mean for our country, our schools, and our students if literacy is recognized as a civil right,» says Yassine, who will be applying to Ph.D. programs for fall 2018 to study literacy, identity, and civil rights.

Increasing the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college by linking families to academic and community resources is the goal of the ENLACE Initiative.

The state is also about to start a pilot program that pairs up students with an adult mentor who can, among other things, help students understand the purpose of school and set and meet academic goals.

The students who articulated the specifics of how they would overcome obstacles to their goal were more successful in attaining the goal (they completed more practice questions) than students in the control condition, which involved writing about an inspiring person or event (Duckworth, Grant, Loew, Oettingen, & Gollwitzer, 2011).

The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.

Mostafa Shahat young Egyptian entrepreneur who started one of the most successful youth initiative in Egypt called G.O.L (Goal Oriented Learners), Mostafa had a dream since he was civil engineer student, to help his community, he saw many challenges in his community but the one who decided to take actions for and starting searching for solutions is the unemployment problem.

For example, if you have volunteers who lead reading groups, you can measure student achievement from the beginning of the school year to the next or set a goal for each student; that is, students will increase reading vocabulary by 25 percent.

All teachers who reach certain goals get a bonus; but 50 percent of that bonus is awarded for teaching skills (a classroom - based evaluation) that are not tied to student outcomes and 50 percent for student achievement gains that are not part of the teaching skills evaluation.

While all students whose parents were actively involved in their education in the seventh grade had higher goals and aspirations as eleventh - graders, parents who were college graduates had a stronger impact on school behavior and grades, which are the prerequisites of reaching students» goals.

«I have added the goal of learning how to teach my students that they are part of a community that they can change if they so wish,» says Kabongo, who is completing her practicum for the Teacher Education Program (TEP) at Chelsea High School where she teaches a mixed - level history class.

But I hope that TFA corps members who actually wish to keep their students focused, attentive, and working toward those big goals will have a copy of the Lemov book at arm's length.

Program Links Hispanic Families to Education Resources The goal of the ENLACE Initiative, a project funded by the philanthropic W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is to support Hispanic students» academic efforts and increase the number of Hispanic students who complete high school and college.