Sentences with phrase «large class of students»

Kerr, supra n. 37, at 116 («Proponents of the Socratic [M] ethod extol its capacity to teach sophisticated legal reasoning effectively to a large class of students.»)

If the sound is kept low even a large class of students can be successful without them.

In this phase, residents teach larger classes of students at a school in the Boston area.

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A large percentage of these students hail from tier 2 and tier 3 cities and are paying for offline tuition classes.

And yet, campuses keep churning out larger classes of humanities grad students.

The funeral was attended by a large number of students who attended his class.

The funeral was attended by a large number of students who attended his classes.

He said, «It was a full decade before I could stand before a class and answer the searching questions of the students at the end of a lecture without the sense of being a fraud who pretended to a larger and more comprehensive knowledge than I possessed.»

We send eighteen - year - olds off to college rather than to professional schools, and, for a large part of four years, students take classes in subjects with no obvious relevance to their future jobs.

She has had a large clinical practice with an emphasis on child and adolescent problems and parenting issues, and has taught Child Development classes to graduate students at the University of California San Francisco Medical Center.

Eventually an opportunity presented itself when a principal approached Martin with a logistical problem: a large number of his students wanted to eat breakfast but the cafeteria lines were too long in the morning, which meant a crowded cafeteria and students arriving late to class.

To remedy this problem, some districts, particularly those in large urban areas, have adopted universal, in - class breakfast programs whereby all students are able to obtain and eat a free breakfast in their classrooms at the start of the school day.

She graduated magna cum laude with her BSc in Midwifery from MCU, and was named student of the year among the largest graduating class in the history the school for her achievements in the field of midwifery.

In 1998, Florida became the first state to require a class on relationships and marriage for high school students, part of a larger plan to encourage marriage skills by discounting marriage licenses for couples that take a premarital skills course.

The plan will affect a larger number of state employees — about 28,000, most of whom are upstate — and is designed to include students who use work - study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.

A large majority of students at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School in Buffalo walked out of class Wednesday morning.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Joel Klein, the former schools chancellor who now runs Amplify, News Corp.'s education - technology business, had great enthusiasm for the iZone, especially its technology component: He envisioned classes in which Nobel laureates, such as Richard Feynman, would teach large groups of students via video.

We urgently need to reinvest in our classrooms and reverse years of cuts that have led to larger class sizes and the loss of many programs and services that students depend on.

She also called for a greater focus on the district's cramped public schools, which have some of the largest class sizes in the city, and where students often work in trailers.

Eroy - Reveles has also transformed a set of small courses for students looking for extra help with large lecture - based STEM classes — SFSU's version of the classes she taught at UC Santa Cruz.

They conducted a large controlled trial of 1,200 students aged 14 - 16 in 70 classes from secondary schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which students were tested for acceptance of evolution and understanding of evolution and, as a control subject, genetics.

«But clickers, in - class worksheets, and content delivery with online quizzes using learning management platforms are examples of strategies that can make student thinking visible on a large scale.»

Upper - level high school students, the report says, should take far more science and math classes, and a larger proportion of college graduates should go into teaching.

University students who used a Facebook group as part of a large sociology class did better on course assignments and felt a stronger sense of belonging, according to a Baylor University study.

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage students.

In smaller classes, students often work in groups to complete a series of steps that make up a larger problem.

The researchers conducted a large controlled trial of almost 2000 students aged 14 - 16 in 78 classes from 23 schools across the south and south west of the UK, in which teachers were asked to teach genetics before evolution or evolution before genetics.

And instructors from the 2 - week workshop are now taking it back to their home institutions, testing it out with different types of students, he says: «We think in large undergraduate classes, this would be very successful.»

Even in a large auditorium with hundreds of students, the best classes are those in which the students make eye contact with you and are inspired to ask thoughtful questions.

When Shechtman announced this course for the first time, 800 students came to attend, but the hall was only approved for 600 people — «the largest class of the Technion ever», as he remembers.

Classes are lighthearted and fun with large doses of inspiration as students weave their way through creative sequences.

From your first class until the day, perhaps, that you decide to join the ranks of Yoga Yoga Teacher Training graduates, we are here to serve the needs of our students and the yoga community at large.

Mixing archival footage from Wilson's life, video of the class she teaches, and interviews with both her and her students, as well as with fellow veteran actors like Frances McDormand and Tyne Daly, Nyswaner tries to speak to larger truths about acting and life while also recounting the details of Wilson's life.

Despite the hurdles, and due in large part to the commitment of both Ben Franklin and Decatur leaders, the first three and a half years of the program have been quite successful with the great majority of participating students having graduated with their classes or shortly thereafter.

In an effort to improve the achievement levels of their most disadvantaged students, the Dade County schools have launched a large new program this year that will place more than 17,000 elementary - school children in classes of 15 or fewer.

In the meantime, millions of students will face a narrower curriculum, larger classes, crumbling buildings and the erosion of extra-curricular activities as schools cope with over # 3 billion in real terms cuts.

It occupies a large geographic and administrative footprint, it incorporates Learning Services South (which is the south of Tasmania), the largest school farm, which is located a short drive away, and we also have direct oversight over a Trade Training Centre, which provides really first class training facilities for vocational education and training (VET) for our students and the broader community.

After this, student groups from each AP Human Geography class were selected to present work at the Visitors» Center in Seattle to a large group of agricultural and development experts.

It's a straightforward concept, but the nature of the problem is quite complex: a typical teacher observes a large dispersion of skills, attitudes, interests, and preparedness in students in the same class.

We created an image of a teacher and students in a class with digital tools from which they can access families, the community, the environment and the world at large through the internet.

Addtionally, principals and administrators may respond to large losses of experienced teachers, such as by decreasing class sizes or changing the assignment of teachers to students.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

Students admitted to both types of G&T programs suffer a large drop in their relative rank in terms of grades within their classes, which could have adverse consequences that offset any benefits of improvements in their educational environment.

The authors of the study, Lindsay Daugherty, Paco Martorell, and Isaac McFarlin Jr., focus their analysis on 17,057 graduates from the 2002 through 2008 graduating classes in a large urban school district in Texas that historically has sent few students to college.

Generate a public audience for the product (s), which can be on a small level (students in the same school but not in the same class) or a large level (community members from outside of the school's boundaries).

[v] Indeed, Matthew Chingos has shown that schools would do well to increase class sizes modestly in order to cover the costs of a longer year; the time - related benefits for student achievement would far outweigh any losses due to larger classes.

A teacher one standard deviation above the mean effectiveness annually generates marginal gains of over $ 400,000 in future student earnings, assuming a class size of 20, and proportionately higher gains with larger class sizes.

With a weighted lottery, charter schools could ensure that their proportion of poor students served never drops below 50 percent, even if a large number of middle - class families enters the lottery.

Therefore, any negative peer effects associated with being in classes with large shares of black students largely reflect the impact of being exposed to low - income students.