Sentences with phrase «interdisciplinary team of students»

Today, an interdisciplinary team of students from Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center (ETC) is pushing the boundaries of what we can achieve.

Big Ideas is an annual contest orgainsed by the University of California, Berkeley and its partners, aimed at providing funding, support, and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of students who have «big ideas.»

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A new course that brings together computer science and business students in a sort of mini Silicon Valley sees interdisciplinary teams develop ideas for software startups — from a platform connecting students for tutoring, to 3D computer puzzles that mimic building IKEA bookshelves.

As Science Careers noted 5 years ago, a group of young scientists at WUSTL took matters into their own hands, creating the volunteer - run BALSA (or Biotechnology and Life Sciences Advising) Group, which hires out five - person interdisciplinary teams — sometimes including law or business students along with scientists — to do approximately 6 - week - long consulting projects for companies, universities, and other organizations.

An interdisciplinary team with researchers from fields of psychology, biological statistics and computational biology, medicine, and physics included the study's co-first authors, Paul Shamble, a former graduate student in Hoy's lab who specializes in spiders and is a distinguished science fellow at Harvard University, and Gil Menda, a postdoctoral researcher in Hoy's lab.

Helped by locals who house and feed 30 students for 6 weeks each summer, the interdisciplinary team of 12 researchers is now in its third year of excavations.

Through iGEM, interdisciplinary teams of supervised students or community lab members throughout the world engineer genetic systems, using standardized biological parts, to tackle a broad variety of global synthetic biology challenges, from producing sustainable chemicals to detecting environmental contaminants.

In addition to the assistance from neuroengineer Salimpour, the student inventors received guidance from other members of an interdisciplinary team of Johns Hopkins medical researchers that includes neurologist Zoltan Mari, neurosurgeon William Anderson and neuroscientist Reza Shadmehr.

The article describes the work of Poon's interdisciplinary research team, which included John Ho and Alexander Yeh, electrical engineering graduate students in Poon's lab; Yuji Tanabe, a visiting scholar; and Ramin Beygui, associate professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Stanford University Medical Center.

The UC interdisciplinary team of faculty and graduate students from the departments of geology, anthropology and geography published the conclusions and details of the study this month in the Journal of Archaeological Science titled, «Evaluating soil salinity and water management in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.»

A collaborative environment and interdisciplinary approach bring students together with clinical and basic scientists to give them the experience of being a contributing member of a research team working on significant scientific problems that aid in our understanding of medical issues.

Project - based, interdisciplinary learning requires teaching teams to integrate a theme or project into rigorous lesson plans from a variety of disciplines, and to coordinate delivery among teachers and across classrooms so that projects progress apace and students meet curriculum goals.

By the second year of implementation, Diplomas Now schools differed from comparison schools in how much teachers collaborated in interdisciplinary teams, teacher professional development, and the use of data to identify struggling students.

Though the research literature is sparse, evidence is surfacing that types of educator collaborative study groups such as lesson study, interdisciplinary teaming, and professional learning communities, have impacts on teacher practice and, again, limited evidence associating collaborative study groups with student outcomes (Gersten, Domino, Jayanthi, James, & Santoro, 2011; Sanders et al., 2009; Vescio, Ross, & Adams, 2008).

Interdisciplinary teacher teaming further reinforces the physical organization through common planning time during which teachers develop integrated lesson plans and share information about the performance of their students in different disciplines.

To support these students, interdisciplinary teams should meet with the ELL specialist, selecting vocabulary and basic strings of discourse related to content objectives.

The teacher will work as part of an interdisciplinary team ensuring that a student's IEP goals are being met.

Upper - grade academies, likewise, have interdisciplinary teams of teachers assigned to a group of students.

At the center of this reform was a set of goals for students that addressed the needs of a democracy for preparing well - educated citizens, including focuses on thinking and problem solving, real - life applications, self - sufficiency, team membership, and interdisciplinary integration.

Interdisciplinary teams of teachers, with the benefit of daily common planning time, shouldered complete responsibility for class membership, daily instructional time allotments, and organizational / program decisions affecting their students.

Findings suggest: (a) teachers without prior preparation learn informally from peers to use CPT; (b) they use CPT to promote student and teacher learning and well - being and to respond to school - wide needs; (c) teacher knowledge of CPT varies and teams could function more fully and / or efficiently with formal professional development; (d) teachers have adapted the ways they use CPT under NCLB, planning fewer interdisciplinary units and more lessons to promote reading and math achievement.

a nongraded, schools - within - a-school, interdisciplinary team teaching structure that delivers instruction to learners of all abilities in heterogeneous classes of no more than 30 students; and

She is a part of an interdisciplinary team of researchers and practitioners looking at the potential of drama - based instruction for students from diverse backgrounds.

• Serve as a member of interdisciplinary teams to address needs of at - risk students and to serve the needs of students with disabilities through the special education assessment, eligibility, and placement process;

As part of the Middle School Journal's focus on middle school renewal, researchers Steven Mertens, Nancy Flowers, and Peter Mulhall discuss the impact of school size on interdisciplinary teaming, classroom practices, school climate, and student outcomes.

We created space in our instructional calendar for a team of teachers to have the same students, which allowed all students to engage in an interdisciplinary unit.

SMALLab was developed by educators for educators over a period of several years by an interdisciplinary team of dedicated faculty and graduate students at Arizona State University's School of Arts, Media and Engineering.

The approximately 50 teachers who belong to PGCEA at Gholson are involved in all activities and interdisciplinary teams, which are groups of teachers responsible for the academic, social, and emotional needs of its 940 students.

The Assistive Technology Team is an interdisciplinary group of program support teachers, speech and language pathologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and adaptive art and music professionals working together to provide assistive technology and augmentative communication to the district's staff and students.

The cohort championing project - based learning, called the redesign team, observed schools that had adopted the approach and noted that interdisciplinary instruction appealed to a greater diversity of learners through its student - centered approach.

Many students move from middle schools organized into interdisciplinary teams of...

Instead of sorting students based on grade level and passing them assembly line - style through distinct subjects, teachers collaborate daily in autonomous, interdisciplinary teams, continuously adjusting student groupings based on individual needs.

At Envision, Suzanne developed project - based social studies curriculum for the network, contributed to the development of its advisory program and the 10th grade portfolio defense, and led teams of teachers to plan interdisciplinary projects that culminated in powerful exhibitions of student work.

Highly Effective Teams: Increasing Personalization and Responsive Interventions that Supports Student Achievement: To become a highly functioning interdisciplinary team of teachers understanding the stages of development is the first step to making conscious decisions that impacts student leStudent Achievement: To become a highly functioning interdisciplinary team of teachers understanding the stages of development is the first step to making conscious decisions that impacts student lestudent learning.

In Turning Points 2000, Jackson and Davis (2000) recommended that professional development should focus on «curriculum, instruction, adolescent development, classroom management, assessment, service learning, interdisciplinary teaming, and parent involvement» (p. 114) to facilitate high levels of learning for students.

School nurses can also be part of an interdisciplinary team to help address students» mental health needs.

NCREL also offers tips on creating a caring school climate, such as gathering interdisciplinary teams of teachers to encourage a sense of belonging in large schools, and on fostering student resiliency at www.ncrel.org/sdrs/areas/issues/students/atrisk/at600.htm.

Sound assessment practices using interdisciplinary teams are important when identifying additional disabilities in students who are deaf or hard of hearing (Paplinger & Sikora, 1990).

Professional Experience Walt Whitman Middle School 246 (Brooklyn, NY) 2004 — Present New York City Teaching Fellow — 7th & 8th Grade Collaborative Team Teacher • Develop individualized education plans and interdisciplinary lessons for students with various disabilities • Implement varied instructional techniques to reach students of diverse backgrounds and skill sets • Create an atmosphere conducive to learning and personal growth • Implement and meet district and statewide curriculum and content standard demands • Organize and facilitate meetings with students» parents and related service providers

NSET is an interdisciplinary team of professionals with a diverse skill set who are working collaboratively to build capacity within students, schools, and the community.

This innovative model features the importance of an interagency and interdisciplinary collaborative approach in working with students with severe challenges, and emphasizes the value of including families as members of the care team.