Sentences with phrase «more creative student»

I truly think this makes a more creative student,» writes Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher).

I truly think this makes a more creative student,» adds Vicki Davis.

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«There are teachers with creative ideas on how to engage students, but they just need a little bit of money for more hands - on experiences,» Pine says.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

More recently, we worked with Disney Pixar to bridge the disconnect between what students learn about math and science at school and tackling creative challenges in the real world with an initiative called Pixar in a Box.

We want to attract more top students and deliver a unique educational experience — one that enables students to not only master analytics, but to become creative problem solvers and influential leaders.

There are a few ways to lower your student loan interest rates, and some are more creative than others.

InterVarsity is introducing creative new ways to connect with students and share the gospel message, though doing so as an «unrecognized» student group will prove considerably more costly.

We learned many things about these students» life situations that will enable us to help the succeeding student generations to be more effective ministers and to function as creative agents of mental health.

In Japan, 41 percent of students» time in math class was still spent on basic practice — churning through one problem after another — but 44 percent was devoted to more creative stuff: inventing new procedures or adapting familiar procedures to unfamiliar material.

But then, once a basic level of calm prevailed in the school, the coaches turned their attention to encouraging what they called cooperative learning, a pedagogical approach that promoted student engagement in the learning process: less lecture time; fewer repetitive worksheets; more time spent working in small groups, solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Fashion marketing expert Raymond Nadeau, who has worked with brands ranging from Adidas to Gucci, is the show's creative director this year, a move NC State hopes will give the student designers more opportunities to market and sell their work.

Celona and his farm team are able to distribute more vegetables to more communities, the students learn where their salad bar veggies come from (a mere 15 miles away), and cafeteria staff members are excited to get creative with lunches.

Of course, students will want options that do not meet... but maybe some creative thinking can result in a few more options that can meet them half way.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Still, while more costly than buying a box of cereal at the supermarket, this is a wonderfully creative gift for a cherished healthy eater, cereal lover, or always - happy - to - get - some - free - food college student in your life.

Arts make students smart When children are physically active and creative, they tend to focus better and work more enthusiastically with the rest of the curriculum.

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

MORE THAN 2 MILLION POSITIVE DISCIPLINE BOOKS SOLD The Positive Discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem - solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn.

But even ideology - focused students, including your blogger, forget to look for political messages in more creative spaces.

I hope Republicans are more creative than a lazy / cheating high school student if they ever have to govern...

This continuing program has awarded more than 40,000 new books to students through creative, teacher - led literacy projects.

Davis said that while previous research has typically studied creativity in a lab setting, this work examined student creative work in a more «naturalistic» setting, where it is found in everyday life.

Students who scored highest on creative topics, such as music and Swedish, were more likely to develop bipolar syndrome than students who did well on more fact - based topics such as chemistry, physics anStudents who scored highest on creative topics, such as music and Swedish, were more likely to develop bipolar syndrome than students who did well on more fact - based topics such as chemistry, physics anstudents who did well on more fact - based topics such as chemistry, physics and maths.

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With tuition fees at a record high and the cost of living rising, more and more students are looking for new and creative ways to help fund their education.

In addition to vocabulary expansion, students who want creative expression and students who require creative expression often feel more relaxed when they have a way to express their words.

Although not every idea is born for greatness, each would help students become more creative thinkers.

Our students need to engage in collaboration, inquiry processes, critical thinking, a range of creative endeavors, and much more; the 21st - century Four Cs are a powerful framework to guide deeper learning.

Creative Projects in Canva utilizes the free Web 2.0 tool www.canva.com which allows students to create a variety of graphic based projects such as magazine covers, posters, greeting cards, photo collages and lots more.

As a teacher, I want my students to go far beyond just studying famous people and to take their newly acquired knowledge and insights and implement it into their own lives — lives which will hopefully be more creative as a result

Flory believes that though males tend to be structured in what they do, they are more willing to use creative means to engage students.

The coalition government positioned it as offering «a broad, rounded curriculum» but what about students who have a proficiency in art and the creative subjects — and more importantly vocational and technical subjects?

Exploiting Infographics follows on from 10 Lessons in Digital Literacy, which is a collection of lesson plans based around infographics, and looks in more depth at the genre and how infographics can be used as both sources of information and as creative learning tasks for students.

Study in painting or drawing, for example, can improve complex reasoning, writing, and reading readiness, partly because the critical and creative faculties required to generate and appreciate art transfer cognitively to future learning experiences, and partly because the arts make learning fun: A student personally invested in his or her work will be far more likely to stick with it.

They sought out Harvard specifically to learn more, he says, about economic development, how to cultivate innovative and creative students, and how to help internationalize their students.

Tableau believes that data analytics tools are a critical partner in both school and university learning processes, and offers software to help students and teachers develop not only data skills, but a more data - driven, analytical and creative mind - set which is so needed in today's workplace.

In his signature visual style, Khan sketches a plan for how digital learning tools can make room for teachers and students to embrace more real - life creative learning experiences.

This would give students an early understanding of the business side of the creative industries, and lend itself to more forward - thinking students considering a career in music.

The on - screen examinations are media rich and dynamic, so questions can be designed that require much more creative responses or responses that require students to manipulate data and present new understandings, in a way that is not possible on paper».

There, I learned about a creative use of the iPod for helping young students master reading, writing, and much more.

Divergent thinking strategies offer the possibility of doing more than fostering a creative classroom environment; they can also help us better understand and appreciate difference in all areas of our students» lives.

We have all used activities for students to brainstorm solutions to problems, be artistically creative and more.

It is important to engage students in reinforcement, but let's figure out how to do this in a more creative way.

We're long overdue in asking whether the charter sector could grow more quickly with quality, what's holding it back, and what are creative new ways for successful charters to expand their reach to more students.

If we want our students to do well with this creative skill, we need to model the thinking of synthesis in a low - stakes, scaffolding activity that they can translate into a more academic pursuit.

In his signature visual style, Khan sketches a plan for how digital learning tools can make room for teachers and students to embrace more real - life creative learning experiences, and how Khan Academy and the Discovery Lab summer camp fit into that big picture.

More advanced and creative students can cut a shield shape from poster board and decorate the shield with appropriate symbols.

But you also have to say, how creative can I be» in creating more student support?

I find that the more I help students understand and practice these thinking skills, the better prepared they are to be creative!