Sentences with phrase «group of students learning»

Here are resources I made when teaching a group of students learning French as a foreign language at university.

In it, a group of students learn the technical aspects involved in the development of smart cities, by developing prototypes that solve the problems of the city of New York.

Many tutors will agree to work with groups of students learning same work.

«This book provides teachers with what they need to reach out to Latino families, engaging an important group of student learning stakeholders in classroom achievement.»

Not exact matches

One of the things young statistics students are supposed to learn is that results only count to the degree that your sample is representative of the larger group you study.

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.

5) Context: The notion of context is endlessly complex, with each student, ministry site and learning group representing multiple combinations of contexts.

Students spent each day of the four - day conference participating in «community group» learning sessions and praise and worship led by well - known Christian musicians like Chris Tomlin.

The Sutton Trust has found excessive praise or grouping students by their ability doesn't aid learning, and that a teacher's knowledge of a subject is more likely to make a difference.

We were a group of 20 students at a mission school in Rome and by taking to the streets each week to speak and pray with the people we met, we put into practice what we learnt from the great Catechism of the Catholic Church and various encyclicals on mission and love: to listen and to love.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

«Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,» the Harvard student group had said in a statement, «but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.»

Faculty members are the most crucial element in this assemblage of groups, because they, more than the students, give shape and substance to the entire configuration of groups, because they are relatively more permanently rooted within any given academy, and because they are charged with the task of initiating the students into the discourses and the disciplines, the subjects and the manners of higher learning.

Whatever discipline is necessary — and some discipline is required if the whole educational process is not to become anarchic — will be for the sake of the whole group, so that each student will learn to cooperate with others.

In the last ten years I have moved increasingly toward experiential teaching (using self - awareness exercises, role playing of counseling methods, live demonstrations of growth groups, and so forth), which involves the students» own feelings, responses, and needs; asking the students to draw up their own «learning contract» based on what they want to get from a given course or workshop; expecting students to participate in the teaching by sharing in some systematic way the insights they have discovered to be meaningful; revealing my own struggles, uncertainties, and weaknesses; and asking the students to evaluate anonymously the course, including my teaching.

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.»

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

Cooperative Learning: Circle Time is a group experience of high - energy songs, dances and question - and - answer interactions between our students and their teacher.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

The ability to operate in a group setting has proved vital, particularly recently as I begin to learn how to exist as a part of complicated healthcare teams in my current role as a medical student.»

Reading aloud in small groups gives your child a chance to practice expressive reading, and students can work together to sound out and learn the meaning of unknown words.

Preschoolers also learn «school readiness» skills, which help them understand the routines of school, how to work in groups, and how to be students.

A group of students from Newburgh is nearing the end of a trip to Ecuador and, when they return, they'll be applying their global service learning to community impact projects in their neighborhood.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 % of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, State Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

At a recent conference held by the teacher's group Educators for Excellence, New York State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia says she plans to try to convince parents not have their children repeat this year's boycott of standardized tests associated with the Common Core learning standards, which resulted in 20 percent of students statewide opting out of the tests.

Working with input from educators, parent groups, and school administrators, the Governor will launch a weekly interactive webcast series called «Albany at Work» aimed at helping high school students learn about and keep updated on the workings of New York State government.

A powerful group of state lawmakers is drafting new legislation to help black and Hispanic students gain entry to the city's top public schools, the Daily News has learned.

A powerful group of state lawmakers is helping black and Hispanic students gain entry to top city schools with $ 2 million in new state funding, the Daily News has learned.

Unions and parents groups rallied last April when New York became the second state to begin testing based on the Common Core, a set of learning standards that aim to give students a deeper understanding of material and boost skills necessary for the modern job market.

«In a real - time universe, our children should not continue to learn in an antiquated method,» Adams said to a group of teachers and students at Eagle Academy.

Through the Bronx Youth Corps, the students will learn to work as a group, learn about the importance of taking responsibility for their community, and gain the skills to make positive changes in The Bronx and become future leaders.

Through the Bronx Youth Corps, the students will learn to work as a group, learn about the importance of responsibility for the community, and gain the skills to make positive changes in The Bronx and become future leaders.

Each summer, he coordinates the mentoring of a group of about 15 students from around the world who are learning to write open - source code through the Google Summer of Code program.

In 2009 University of Virginia psychologist Christopher S. Hulleman described a semester - long intervention in which one group of high school students wrote about how science related to their lives and another group simply summarized what they had learned in science class.

Studying in groups gave me the opportunity to teach and learn information from a student's point of view.

The students in each of the five groups learned to produce Oldowan flakes in different ways.

«We further theorize that the essential difference between collaborative group work and direct instruction is that students learn about the «self as agent and others as (the) audience,»» a hypothesis explored in another paper by Zhang's co-authors, Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and graduate student Joshua A. Morris, both of the U. of I.

Up to 100 PhD students are divided into eight or nine groups, each with a «tutor» to encourage them to play a variety of team - building and business games, and to discuss what they are learning about themselves and about how well they work in teams.

A group of mechanical engineering students are working on a project that will fly drones into the middle of tornadoes in an effort to learn more about the inner workings of these destructive storms.

«Although some teachers may worry that social media distracts students from legitimate learning, we found that our Facebook group helped transform students from anonymous spectators into a community of active learners — and this has important consequences for student performance,» Dougherty said.

In an article recently published in Nature Chemistry, a UT Dallas team — including a materials scientist, two chemists and a game design expert — describes how a group of 39 college students from diverse majors played an enhanced version of the popular video game «Minecraft» and learned chemistry in the process, despite being given no in - class science instruction.

For the current study, Jessica Childs, a graduate student in Kroener's lab, applied VNS to a test group of rats used in the study in a process called «extinction learning» to determine whether the procedure could help the animals learn different behaviors and reduce their drug cravings.

Second, they asked another group of students to learn Japanese words.

A group of Brigham Young University professors have found that giving students access to their personal biological data has a profound impact on their learning experience.

Nussbaum, a University of Michigan zoologist who specializes in caecilians, the little - known group of amphibians to which this beast belongs, learned of the specimen from one of his graduate students.

In the second group, students performed the attention - boosting activities as well, but parents received only three 90 - minute sessions of instruction and did not have an opportunity to learn the curriculum in depth; in the third group, neither kids nor their parents did anything special.

Scientists have chronicled the impact of negative expectations in settings where they occur naturally, such as classrooms that «track» students from early youth and in society's treatment of stigmatized groups such as racial minorities, the poor, the elderly, the homeless, convicts and children with learning disabilities.

In the institutional hierarchies of U.S. higher learning, graduate and professional students belong to the least influential of political groups.