Sentences with phrase «in classroom studies»

Sixth - graders at Wright Middle School, including Mia Rodriguez Torres, left, and Eric Williams, right, participate in classroom studies Monday at the school in Madison.

Desiderio explains how this approach might be used in a classroom studying Native Americans.

Not exact matches

The master's of arts in interdisciplinary studies with a focus on social entrepreneurship combines classroom instruction, a consulting project with a local social enterprise and a lean startup exercise.

Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

Millennials start companies in dorm rooms while studying the subject of starting companies in classrooms.

When Zajonc started studying it so many decades ago, his initial experiments measured how much schoolchildren liked the adults in their classrooms.

Like the International Study Tours, the program includes activities outside of the classroom including company presentations, tours, roundtables discussions, but these are truly secondary to the in - class piece.

Whether it is through study and work experiences abroad, learning more about Asia in the classroom, or even engaging with newcomers in our local communities, our government needs to help us be more proactive in stepping out of our comfort zones.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» he wrote.

Experiences, solutions and answers that are developed through traditional classroom platforms, case studies, etc. can now pivot towards a more effective and meaningful learning experience in educational entrepreneurship.

Those AIC university deep courses were much tougher requirementally for studying / passing than ORE courses were due to much deeper dives into what it takes to become a professional Appraiser than becoming a so - called professional Realtor (after serving only a few weeks in the classroom).

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Students are sometimes so wrapped up in their plans to honor God years later in the mission field, or even later in the day at a Bible study, that they forget to honor Him in the classroom.

One may observe this feature in almost any college classroom, not only in religious studies, but within the humanities in general.

His program consisted solely of a speech or classroom lecture on a religious or moral subject, presented in a study - type set, with the aid of a blackboard on which he occasionally illustrated a point being made.

The program is the result of a ten - year study of the rapid proliferation of part - time instructors in college, university, and seminary classrooms.

When I was a child, attending grade school in Washington, D.C., we took classroom time to study manners.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The most disconcerting feature of these misunderstandings is that they appear after classroom study, not in the initial discussion.

But whatever the emphasis, theological students in classroom, study and chapel are introduced to the great historic reasoning of God with men and led to participate in it.

We are asking them in our dorm rooms, at our kitchen tables, over coffee, in classrooms, at Bible studies, at church, in our journals, in our hearts, and in thousands upon thousands of tearful, faithful prayers each night.

Before Martin and Malcolm, black ministers and religious thinkers repeated the doctrines and mimicked the theologies they read and heard in white churches and seminaries, grateful to be allowed to worship God in an integrated sanctuary and to study theology with whites in a seminary classroom.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

A recent study suggests that when there are more girls in the classroom, the performance of boys improves.

Departmental names won't matter much if the shift has already taken place from a scientific theology, based on the prior Catholic faith commitment of every student in the classroom (which obviously would require everyone enrolled in the course to be a committed Catholic), to a phenomenological, historical study of what others believe.

I'm ok with teaching creationism in a religious studies class or even a history class but not a science classroom where scientific method is used.

Whether in the classrooms on this campus or the lecture halls of other colleges, I have found that surprising numbers of white students (who are nothing if not middle class) are deeply interested in the study and application of religion.

A study released by the Department of Education in 2009 stated that blended learning — which mixes traditional classroom teaching with virtual instruction — «had a larger advantage relative to purely face - to - face instruction or instruction conducted wholly online.»

Our objective is to help students be successful in the classroom by providing a quiet environment in which to study and learn with dedicated, experienced tutors available.

What Jackson's study suggests is that what is going on in those classrooms may not really be about students acquiring skills, at least not in the traditional sense.

Based on over 10 years of work in the field and over 20 case studies from Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented in a single classroom or on a school - wide scale.

She has published curriculum and articles in the areas of special education, social studies, English, educational computing, ESL, multi-cultural education, study skills, and classroom organization.

September 25, 2009 «Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early - childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function.»

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

i think the data from this study could be evidence to convince all the stakeholders that only a combination of nutrition education in the classroom and offering ONLY healthy options (no hot sandwiches and pizza w / chocolate milk every day) will help put a dent in kids horrible eating habits and their resulting bad health.

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

SNA will present a broad body of research that exists around breakfast consumption, and two specific research studies examining breakfast - in - the - classroom, specifically; we'll examine benefits beyond increased participation such as academic performance, decreased tardiness, improved behavior and attendance, a and a reduction in visits to the nurse's office.

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

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Another study found that whether recess happens indoors or out, children are «more attentive and more productive» in the classroom after recess.

These studies address immediate, short - term responses to exercise, and lend support the idea that school recess periods — breaks for play and physical activity — can enhance attention in the classroom.

One thing that really struck us when reading these case studies is how very important collaboration and stakeholder engagement are to the success of a breakfast - in - the - classroom program.

Each study details the implementation of universal breakfast - in - the - classroom pilot programs, one in Memphis City Schools and the other in Dallas Public Schools.

Alex Ashbrook, director of D.C. Hunger Solutions, called in - classroom breakfast a possible «magic bullet of school reform» because some studies link a good breakfast to increased test scores and fewer visits to the school nurse.

And while I know of no academic studies looking at the latter two categories of classroom food, in my experience (and in the reported experience of my readers), food used as a teaching tool and as a reward also almost always falls into the «junk food» category.

Presenting science - driven studies with measurable results and identifying breakfast - in - the - classroom (and other wellness initiatives) champions (like principals) allows you to make a «proof is in the pudding» argument that speaks to the whole child approach to student wellness.

For instance, in a study of American children (aged 9 - 11 years), researchers found that kids with secure attachment relationships — and greater levels of maternal support — showed «higher levels of positive mood, more constructive coping, and better regulation of emotion in the classroom.»

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.