Sentences with phrase «new challenges for students»

And with that immediate feedback comes the ability to intervene, to change course when assessments show that a particular lesson or strategy isn't working for a student, or to offer new challenges for students who've mastered a concept or skill.

However, college presents new challenges for these students as well as for college support personnel, and gathering and analyzing college experiences of students with ASD is fundamental to their success.

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The idea was to have students describe their challenges in waking up in the morning for class and to obtain their feedback on a new product designed to help them do so.

The Technology Titans Innovation Challenge, for students who want to impact the world with new products, science and technologies.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labNEW YORK (Reuters)- When two former interns at the New Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labNew Yorker and W Magazine sued parent company Conde Nast Publications on Thursday, legal experts said it could be the first in a wave of lawsuits challenging companies who pay little or nothing for student labor.

The panel of judges will be looking for three key criteria when they evaluate the proposals of this year's Walmart Green Student Challenge submissions: the winning idea will present a new way of doing business, have a significant sustainability benefit, and have a strong business case to back it up.

, in association with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is challenging school nutrition professionals, chefs, students, parents and interested community members to create tasty, healthy, exciting new recipes for inclusion on school lunch menus across the country.»

I read with interest the article «Turning noses up at healthier meals; Student reaction to new CPS lunches shows challenges for schools hoping to change diets» (Page 1, Feb. 21).

The introduction to «Overloaded and Underprepared: Strategies for Stronger Schools and Healthy, Successful Kids,» a new book from the Stanford University Graduate School of Education research group Challenge Success, begins not with research or analysis but an example of a high school student's daily schedule.

As students head back to school for a new year of learning challenges, school nutrition professionals also have the opportunity to learn some new tricks thanks to a fresh schedule of webinars from our... Continue reading →

Master Lock is dialing up back - to - school shopping fun for students and parents with a new interactive game, «Master Lock Photo Hunt Challenge.»

CHICAGO — In his new book, «Helping Children Succeed: What Works and Why,» journalist Paul Tough investigates the challenge of educating low - income children, who now account for more than half of all public school students.

A handful of students also worked to put on a new event for our community, the «Cookin» It Fresh» school lunch challenge.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

It is a great privilege to continue to support the Bronx Borough President's Chess Challenge with Chess in the Schools, whose mission so clearly aligns with AT&T's own commitment to creating pathways to success for New York City's most underserved students,» said Marissa Shorenstein, New York State President, AT&T.

With fewer questions and no time limits, this month's Common Core tests in English Language Arts and math will still be a challenge for New York students.

«She was coming with us to Albany when there were no cameras,» said Ansari, who runs the New York City office, «and using her celebrity to help elevate the voices and stories of parents and students that, like myself, have been coming up there for a number of years challenging New York State, to say, «When are black and brown kids gonna get their fair share of these dollars?

With nearly 11,000 students in 10 schools, the City School District of New Rochelle, through an active partnership amongst community, parents, staff and students, provides a high - quality and challenging education for every child, in a safe, nurturing environment that embraces rich diversity and drives success.

«Now that Ms. Black and Mr. Polakow - Suransky have been approved by State Education Commissioner Steiner, I hope we can move forward on the many challenges the system faces, including creating a curriculum that will give students a well - rounded education, new and better interventions for struggling students, and early action to turn around failing schools,» he said in a statement.

According to Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061 and the principal investigator for the new curriculum project, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the classroom.

With a new emphasis on understanding the interdisciplinary nature of energy, this key concept has become even more challenging for teachers and students.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Campus life typically challenges students with new opportunities for learning, discovery — and intimacy with germs.

The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those challenges in the future.

In Belgium, a group of citizens has started legal action against the government for failing to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and a law student in New Zealand is mounting a similar challenge against her government.

There is a need for new resources, which are consistent with the rapidly changing job market and sensitive to the specific challenges of Ph.D. students and postdocs in the sciences.

In the midst of his graduate chemistry studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carl Brozek stumbled into a new challenge: a yearlong campaign to improve advising for graduate students.

The upcoming shift in focus toward large - scale screening of small - molecule collections will provide both opportunities and challenges for graduate students and postdocs wishing to explore this new domain of academic research.

The new Institute will create an intellectual home for faculty and students applying computational methods to major challenges in science and enhance existing courses in applied mathematics and computation and develop new computational science courses, activities and research opportunities for Harvard students from across the sciences

«The Chen Institute at Caltech provides an unprecedented opportunity for Caltech faculty and students in different fields to join forces to take on these challenges, by creating new collaborations at the interface between traditional scientific disciplines.

PULLMAN, Wash. — A student team from Washington State University is in New York this week as one of 30 national finalists in NASA's $ 2.5 million 3D - Printed Habitat Challenge to design an environment for Mars exploration using robotics and 3D printers.

A 10 day challenge, for parents, families, students, and everyone who wants to start this new year on a sugar - free note.

This class will warm you up, challenge you in new and fun ways and is perfect for the beginner student or the senior practitioner alike.

«Yoga philosophy can be very challenging — even for advanced students,» notes Tracey Ulshafer, a yoga teacher in East Windsor, New Jersey.

Being a relatively new student to yoga, I was looking for an instructor who would gently challenge and guide me with my yoga practice.

His entrepreneurial spirit and leadership led Qualify into the University's program for student - led startups, where they received the CU - New Venture Challenge Rising Star Award.

I am temporary student who is hungry for new challenges and missions.

While some new or struggling teachers might need to submit daily lesson plans for many weeks or months at a time that you'll need to review and provide feedback on, others will need you in their room to help with a challenging student, or to be a thought partner on a topic they are presenting to the rest of the staff.

But relinquishing control for a few minutes each day and letting the students wrestle with a challenge offers a huge payoff in the end: (1) your students learn what it feels like to sweat, to stick it out, and to overcome a challenge; (2) when it comes time to solve, they are more invested in the solution; (3) the strategies they come up with activate prior knowledge and set the foundation for new learning — and tip you off about how they think and what they know and don't know.

Teachers everywhere are facing challenges in finding time to unpack these new standards, discover best practices for their implementation, and still provide innovative instruction for their students.

For example, someone may say, «There is a danger that this project will repeat the skills students learned last term rather than challenging them to develop new ones, as the product appears very similar.

- Explains Direct and Inverse proportion linking to table of values and graphs essential for the new GCSE - Examples allow for step by step modelling - Loads of assessment slides to assess understanding - Fully differentiated activities with challenge worksheets to ensure all students make maximum progress - Exam questions plenary to assess learning Rated «outstanding» in lesson observation from «outstanding» school

Though the new strategies are not a panacea for all of their challenges, the film highlights the potential of mindfulness practices to help students combat distraction and develop the social and emotional skills they need to succeed.

The Carnegie task force acknowledged the need for stronger student performance but added a second, equivalent challenge: «Creating... a profession of well - educated teachers prepared to assume new powers and responsibilities to redesign schools for the future.»

It starts with action planning in the early fall (in which schools develop and submit an improvement plan); a provincial learning session in mid-fall for staff teams from all OFIP schools in the province (knowledge is shared from previous experience as well as new learning about emerging needs - for example, student and staff resiliency in 2012, and staff learning in mathematics in 2013); mid-year conversations in early spring (monitoring and identifying mid-year successes and challenges in order to modify plans and activities); and a summative conversation in late spring (in which staff reflect on the year, successes, and challenges, and begin discussions about the coming year's OFIP strategy).

Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»

I have found the the new spec really interesting but it has a lot more content, which is great, but it's also really challenging for lower ability students.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

But I have always been challenged by, and enjoyed, discovering new ways for all students to be successful.

However challenging the new curriculum is for educators, the focus needs to be on how best to implement it for the benefit of students and schools.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»