Sentences with phrase «of helping students improve»

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Exporting more of our disaffected young people and importing bright young foreign students will not immediately solve those problems, but the report suggests it might just help Canada's economy, and improve its global standing to boot.

Whether you're a student, a blogger, working on a cover letter for a new job, or simply looking to improve your email etiquette, Udemy is currently offering a course entitled «Ninja Writing: The Four Levels Of Writing Mastery» that could help you engage more with the writing you already do everyday.

With In2Books, for example, ePals helps students in grades 3 to 5 to improve their reading skills with the support of adult mentors in a safe, online learning environment.

Michael Chew, executive president of the Residence Hall Association, said members of the student organization helped provide feedback on improving Rutledge to the architects from Little.

I created this blog in order to help me improve my finances (one example — due to this, I was able to pay off $ 38,000 in student loans in 7 months), keep track of my progress, and to help readers improve their finances along the way.

For students taking out private loans to cover college funding gaps, having a cosigner not only improves the odds of being approved for a loan, but can help borrowers obtain, on average, a better interest rate, an analysis of Credible user data shows.

A co-signer can help borrowers improve their chances of being approved for, or get lower interest rates on, their student loans.

Students will learn about the work that The Oficina Escola de Lutheria da Amazônia (OELA), the Rainforest Alliance's Brazil - based partner, is doing to help the people of Boa Vista do Ramos improve their lives while ensuring the long - term health of the forest.

The campaign has three aims: to raise awareness of mental illness, help beat the stigma associated with it and improve students» mental well - being.

Before coming to Stanford, Yeager had taught English at a low - income school in Tulsa, and he was especially motivated to find ways to translate some of this innovative research into practices that could help teachers improve the lives of their students.

In a speech, Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character, explains how a student's character and outside help work together to improve that student's life.

And the problem can get particularly acute when it comes to a teacher's criticism of a student's work — an indispensable part of good teaching, but an experience that for many disadvantaged students is weighed down by questions of trust: Is my teacher criticizing my work because he's trying to help me improve or because he doesn't respect me?

One significant victory in that battle was last year's passage of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act which, among other things, uses Medicaid data to directly certify children for free and reduced price meals; helps states improve the certification process for school meal aid; allows universal free meals for students in high poverty communities; and expands USDA authority to support meals served to at - risk children in after school programs.

The report addresses many other factors affecting child wellness, and many suggestions for how school nutrition professionals and fellow school staff can help create and improve the overall «culture of wellness» for all students and faculty.

We are motivated to help students who are dedicated to improving the lives of others and that's why we hold a $ 1000 merit - based scholarship twice a year for students from all fields of studies.

In honor of Sublette, the award reflects the numerous accomplishments of regional cafeteria and food service managers, who help to improve the health and well being of district students and staff.

Elementary students help lay mulch to improve trails at the Lake Lawson / Lake Smith Natural Area at the launch of the

Independent research shows that a majority of American kids like healthier school lunches, the number of students that like their meals is growing, and that updated meal standards are working to help improve students» health.

He has been a board member of the Association of Arizona Food Banks for nine years, bringing his child nutrition program expertise to help improve student access to healthy foods.

North Carolina schools will have to improve the quality of emergency help on hand when students suffer sports injuries, the State Board of Education determined.

Just one new piece of equipment helped schools improve nutritional quality and variety, entice more students to eat school meals, and operate more efficiently and cost - effectively.

This program is a partnership between the Bower Foundation and the Department of Education to improve students» health and nutrition by providing funds to help purchase combination oven steamers, known as «combi ovens,» in order to eliminate deep fat fryers in Mississippi schools.

This suggests that the state's sports - related concussion law has helped to improve the evaluation and detection of such injuries among high school students, by increasing obligatory emergency room visits.

In recognition of School Breakfast Week from March 5 - 9, several schools across Ohio are opening their doors to highlight the benefits of their recent implementation of Breakfast in the Classroom — a proven best practice that helps improve learning environments by ensuring students receive a healthy meal at the start of the day.

Farm to School programs can help expand students knowledge about food, health, and environmental issues, and improve the quality and nutrition of school meal options, while supporting the local food economy.

SNA offers a variety of resources to help members improve and sustain the health and well - being of all students.

«The state's rapidly improving economic picture means there's a real opportunity for the state to more fully invest in its public schools, including dedicating new money to Foundation Aid as a way of increasing equity and further helping students to thrive,» said NYSUT President Andy Pallotta.

To help achieve the Governor's goal of encouraging efficiency and results, the Executive Budget allocates $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that demonstrate significant improvement in their student performance outcomes and another $ 250 million to be awarded on a competitive basis to school districts that undertake long - term structural changes which reduce costs and improve efficiency.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

«I believe that the reforms we are setting out today will improve the fairness of the system for all students and help to create the best possible match between students and higher education places.»

The Excelsior Scholarship could help improve the perception of college affordability, which can itself be a barrier to access, and foster a college - going culture by giving parents and students hope that a postsecondary education is within reach.

President of the YPI, Akosua Ntiriwaa Anti, who together with some members of the group officially handed over the toilet facility to the school, told Citi News the initiative was to help eliminate open defecation to improve health and hygiene among students.

He said, «Opon Imo has improved method of teaching and learning interface between students and tutors as it also helped in so many ways because students results have improved positively since its introduction.

One of the best tips I was ever given was «ask the student to evaluate you after a few lectures and then adjust your lectures according to their responses / comments» (I forgot who gave me that advice and I am so sorry for that as it helps me every semester improve as a teacher.

Improving student achievement in science and mathematics requires well - prepared teachers who have a solid grounding in the content they teach and an understanding of how diverse students can be helped to learn.

Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and education.

Project 2061 materials will help the Quebec - based project to improve the conceptual understanding of science and technology by seventh - and eighth - grade students.

Tracking student progress and helping them improve their grades is part of Toliver's job.

II: Saving the Kingdom of Fivealot, researchers from the United States Department of Agriculture / Agricultural Research Service Children's Nutrition Research Center at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital evaluated how creating implementation intentions (i.e., specific plans) within the goal - setting component in the game helped fourth and fifth grade students improve fruit and vegetable intake at specific meals.

Without exception, my students recognized that this online method of learning helped to improve their writing and critical thinking skills.

Rather than concentrating on the time intervals between learning, Carnegie wants to improve how students grasp mathematics by helping them break down complex processes into chains of individual principles.

While these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology, they may also harm the very students they are trying to help.

Sara Brownell, an assistant professor with the school and senior author of the study, said there is a national movement to create biology tests that are more cognitively challenging, as these types of tests can improve students» conceptual understanding of biology; however, doing so may harm the very students they are trying to help.

At schools with a student poverty rate of below 10 percent, by contrast, the research team found that regular informal exchange among parents helps improve students» grade point average and makes them more likely to graduate.

Roseman is looking to improve the new energy curriculum with the help of teachers in Virginia and Maryland who will participate with their students in pilot testing of the unit next spring.

«Creating images improved participants» memories and helped them commit fewer errors, regardless of what kind of list we gave them,» said Merrin Oliver, lead author of the study and a Ph.D. student in the educational psychology program in the College of Education & Human Development at Georgia State.

Led by researchers at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development, the study builds upon recent findings that the same program generally improves the behavior and academic skills of children and helps shy students be more engaged in their classwork.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

He has become so committed to improving education that 2 years ago, with the help of some former students, he ran for and won a seat on the school committee of his home town, Sharon, Massachusetts.

Texas A&M School of Public Health researchers have already shown that stand - capable workstations — those in which the worker could raise or lower the desk to stand or sit as they wished throughout the day — boost productivity in office workers, help students» cognitive functioning and improve kids» BMI.