Sentences with phrase «like eager students»

The truth is, our metabolisms behave like eager students, awaiting instructions on how to make use of the foods we eat.

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But in the small classes with eager and thoughtful students where I experience it, it is quite wonderful, and certainly provides them with a taste of what genuine community can be like.

Because noncognitive qualities like grit, curiosity, self - control, optimism, and conscientiousness are often described, with some accuracy, as skills, educators eager to develop these qualities in their students quite naturally tend to treat them like the skills that we already know how to teach: reading, calculating, analyzing, and so on.

When the school put blocks on their computer network to keep students from accessing non-educational websites, like Myspace, Jack found a project he was eager to work on.

So, while the colleges of our American brethren are filled with students eager to emulate the antics of Animal House and the like, alas for the poor British students who have no such Hollywood role - models.

Although the students and campus look more like Hefner's guests at the Playboy mansion than a academic institution, the eager freshman barely has time to look around before stumbling across an Internet clip showing a robot attack in China.

The issue is gaining increasing attention as more educators eager to motivate students, especially those at the low end of the achievement gap, are, like Shakur, experimenting with financial incentives for kids.

They can also develop courses that go beyond AP offerings, do more with individual student projects, concentrate their counseling efforts on college placement, and muster teams of eager students (and teachers) for science competitions and the like.

Each morning, students were eager to see what the next patch would look like, and to document their observations.

A kite might seem like the last thing that could bring a divided country together, but 634 eager students from Pasco High School in Pasco, Wash., hope that their homemade kites will give the people of Afghanistan a reason to put past differences behind them.

Sometimes other teachers view a noncore class like Teacher Academy as a lightweight, bulletin board - making elective and my students as classroom helpers rather than aspiring educators eager to learn the nuts and bolts of their chosen profession.

My student teacher was an eager - to - learn practitioner who felt like she had simply not learned enough from her teacher preparation coursework.

Pairing reflective teachers like Nobles with eager preservice teachers like Gerheart does not have to happen only in the student teaching experience in traditional places near the university.

Fewer than half of teachers - 41 percent - said their students are eager to learn about space - related topics like planets, the solar system, space travel, and space exploration milestones.

Like most practitioners, I am always eager to assess where my successes and shortcomings have occurred as they affect the quality of my students» instruction.

2018 promises to grace us some truly mesmerising narrative experiences, a fact has me fervently foaming at the mouth in eager anticipation like a crazy college student one the first day of spring break.

Graduate Students: Wanted: Intelligent, eager and hard - working individuals who would like to learn more about climate dynamics and more!

Like many eager, wide - eyed students before me, I entered law school with the misguided notion that the purpose of a law degree was to learn «The Law».

You may not be too eager to become a student, but our program is nothing like you've ever seen before.

He was a very eager student and soaked up the knowledge like a sponge here at National Training Truck School.

It is going to take some time, but I'm certain clever lawyers, eager paralegals and law students will find some really inventive ways to kick Dodd Frank to the street, just like the two Senators behind this mess should have been.