Sentences with phrase «model for her students using»

As a strong proponent for student - centered instruction, she uses a blended learning model for her students using a strengths - based approach to differentiate for all student needs.

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Startup Garage, a second - year elective, asks students to build an idea for a company using, in part, the lean startup model, Eric Ries's method of developing and rolling out products or services quickly to avoid costly failures.

For example, in one activity called «Stem of the Living Dead,» students explore the exponential growth of a zombie hoard and how the spread of the infection creates limited resources using World Health Organization and CDC models and graphs.

This workshop uses a «backwards design» model to help teachers plan engaging units and effective assessment techniques that bring learning to life for students.

I'm drawn to educational models like Expeditionary Learning, which emphasize long - term, project - based learning and use assessments in which students are much more involved - for example, student - led conferences where students themselves help to assess how they've done.

«They tend to be relatively cost - effective for sponsoring governments because each of the programs use a «last - dollar» model whereby the state subsidizes tuition costs after the student has exhausted all other available state and federal financial aid.»

This year, the Collegiate Institute for Math and Science used BOOST funds to benefit students in a variety of ways, including tutoring and professional development services, a class trip to Yale Model UN, parent meetings and family nights, a trip for the school's band to play at Madison Square Garden, as well as initiatives for honor roll students and those with perfect attendance.

Formed as a public / private partnership, Teachers Who Code will use the Girls Who Code model to equip New York City public school teachers with the computer science skills to educate students for high tech jobs of today and tomorrow.

This singular focus on research arises from a longstanding funding model that uses students and postdocs as inexpensive labor on professors» grant projects while neglecting their own professional development, which leads to another question McNutt posed: Should federal and state governments consider new models for financing research?

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Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

But the behavior of these reservoirs is not solely determined by physical laws of the water cycle, but also by demands and what these reservoirs are being used for,» says Caltech graduate student Armeen Taeb, lead author of a paper about the model that will be published online on November 22 in the journal Water Resources Research.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

For example, this technology could be used in a new type of medical textbook that allows students to see a 3 - D animated model of a heart instead of a dreary anatomical drawing.

«We have demonstrated for the first time in an animal model that maternal use of a class of antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, resulted in increased fat accumulation and inflammation in the liver of the adult offspring, raising new concerns about the long - term metabolic complications in children born to women who take SSRI antidepressants during pregnancy,» says PhD student Nicole De Long, who presented this research on June 22nd at the joint meeting of the International Society of Endocrinology and The Endocrine Society.

To examine the role for endocannabinoids generated in peripheral organs in controlling the overeating of western diet, DiPatrizio and coauthor Donovan A. Argueta, a bioengineering Ph.D. student in his lab, used a mouse model of western diet - induced obesity (chronic exposure to high levels of sugars and fats).

«Which substance one should use for a model experiment — one similar to the original or one unlike the original — thus depends on what you want to teach the children,» says PhD student Christina Toschka.

To better understand how changes in diet, lifestyle, and exposure to modern medicine affect primates» guts, a team of researchers led by University of Minnesota computer science and engineering professor Dan Knights, veterinary medicine professor Tim Johnson, and veterinary medicine Ph.D. student Jonathan Clayton, used DNA sequencing to study the gut microbes of multiple non-human primates species in the wild and in captivity as a model for studying the effects of emigration and lifestyle changes.

«For this purpose we used nearly 16,000 processor cores in parallel mode, but still a single model run took about 4.5 months of continuous computing,» says PhD student Florian Hanke, who performed the simulations.

«The information collected using this technique can be used to better understand the behavior of concrete when it fails, as well as providing key data for «constitutive» models that are used for designing and determining the safety of large - scale civil engineering structures,» says Rahnuma Shahrin, a civil engineering Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

The research used a mathematical model for risk and screening based on published data on real student athletes, ages 14 - 22.

Brad Fedy, a professor in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Waterloo, and Jason Tack, a PhD student at Colorado State University, took nesting data from a variety of areas across Wyoming, and created models using a suite of environmental variables and referenced them against areas with potential for wind development.

By using experimental evolution — or natural selection — to grow the world's fattest fruit flies, life sciences professor Allen Gibbs and Ph.D. student Christopher Hardy pioneered a new model for investigating obesity - related heart dysfunction.

Deepak Srivastava, MD, and Christina Theodoris, an MD / PhD student, created mouse models of CAVD that may be used to test drug therapies for the disease.

The workstations are custom tailored for 3D modeling and animation, and offer students the latest modeling software commonly used in professional settings - Maya and AutoCad, as well as Adobe CS3 Web Premium.

Suitable for entry - level students in biology, agriculture, forestry, wildlife, veterinary science, pre-medicine or pre-health, the textbook introduces readers to the variety of mathematical methods used to create and evaluate models in biology.

Adopting what are becoming tried - and - true blended - learning models (yes, I know it still may be too soon to use that phrase for blended learning, but I just did it) to individualize learning for students and improve teachers» lives is better than remaining stuck in a failed factory - based model of schooling, even if the model is not the most innovative thing ever that pushes the blended - learning field forward for students.

As a reviewer for the NGLC secondary school models, which seeks to not just fund those schools using online learning but those really taking their approach the extra mile with innovative, push - the - envelope student - centric designs, I have been struck further by how much blended learning has arrived.

Stay tuned to the grant winners: Academy 21 at Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont, which is focused on a high - need, predominantly rural community; Cornerstone Charter Schools in Michigan, which seeks to prepare Detroit students for college and health - focused careers; Da Vinci Schools in California, which will integrate blended learning, early college, and real - world experiences with its existing project - based learning approach; Education Achievement Authority in Michigan, which, as part of the statewide turnaround authority is trying to create a student - centric system for students in Detroit; Match Education in Massachusetts, which already operates high - performing schools in Boston and will now focus on using technology to increase the effectiveness of its one - on - one tutoring; Schools for the Future in Michigan, which will serve students significantly below grade level; Summit Public Schools in California, which aims to build off its experiments in blended - learning models to launch a competency - based school; and Venture Academies in Minnesota, which is a new charter organization that will focus on accelerated college credit attainment and cultivation of entrepreneurial leadership.

On a slightly less negative note, fourteen states and D.C. rate or plan to rate schools» achievement using a model, such as a performance index, that gives additional credit for students achieving at an «advanced» level.

The interactive notebook materials are a simple to print and cut page for your students to use to solve a word problem in their notebook and model the solution.

Teachers should also feel comfortable modeling appropriate use of technology for their students within the school environment.

The «MFM1P 6000» is an interactive computer game which gives students an opportunity to show what they have learned, using models and strategies used in current MFM1P classes, while providing endless opportunity for practice and timely remedial help!

Set aside time to plan (with colleagues and / or a mentor) how you might begin to use current student data and curriculum content to individualize teaching for students in a blended learning model.

Often this modeling process includes a software tour, in which teachers show their students how to use the software and ask them what they notice about it, such as the options for visual representations.

Instead, use the feedback process as a chance to model for students.

The schools in the study use either the model from Linked Learning Alliance or Envision Schools — both of which show clear evidence of engaging and developing high levels of proficiency for students of color, English learners, and low - income students — at levels that far exceed traditional schools serving similar students.

There are two files within this resource, the first is a completed example to be used to model to students before the assessment and the second file is an answer sheet for students to work through themselves and complete.

These models are used to estimate impacts on the separate components of the subgroups (e.g., impacts on minority and non-minority students separately) and test for the difference in impacts between the two groups.

A spreadsheet test designed to assess a student's understanding and application of formulas and functions as well as using spreadsheets for modelling different scenarios.

Feedback can focus on one key topic — such as transitions — and it should model the technique for the student, who should be free to use the example provided in the feedback before trying to use the technique elsewhere in the writing.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Along similar lines, schools would benefit greatly from a 3D print management solution that makes it possible for students to make use of any available 3D printer on the school's campus especially since 3D models can take hours to print and the nearest printer may be busy.

This can be used to show students how to layout their spreadsheet for a specific type of model.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

Staff at GCC decided to use peer mentoring at the school to provide a positive role model for the students, especially the girls.

The model has been used in schools and across districts to raise the quality of instruction for all students.

Like other NYC Outward Bound network schools, WHEELS uses the organization's «To and Through College» model to help students prepare for higher education — a comprehensive approach that addresses everything from logistics and deadlines to soft skills development.

Third, in the statistical models for their NAEP analysis, the authors use measures of student participation in government - sponsored programs as key control variables.

Using the hackathon model as an after - school club, you can train students in the real - world approaches and best practices required in creating websites for nonprofits.