Sentences with phrase «on challenging students»

He said the exams would instead focus on challenging students to think critically and creatively.

Our K - 8 Math Tasks Library includes 15 Teacher Guides that focus on challenging students and maximizing the use of 6 common math manipulatives — Base Ten Blocks, Geoboards, Cuisenaire ® Rods, Pattern Blocks, Color Tiles, Snap Cubes.

Emphasis will be placed on challenging students to develop problem - solving and interpersonal skills to succeed in the 21st Century through Service - Learning, Linked Learning and technology integration across subjects.

While on the surface, schools suggest initiatives that promote an individual's freedom to critically think, reflect, challenge, and be challenged, though the reality is that there is very little room for true criticism or reflection in the classroom; the focus of education is not on challenging students, but rather on explicating absolute skills that can be translated in something that can be effectively numerated and explicitly bought.

But to place a higher priority on challenging students» faith than on teaching them how to defend their faith against attack is simply imprudent.

Not exact matches

Perhaps most remarkable is the collective imagination of students across the United States, who dared to take on a challenge that their parents, aunts, and uncles had all but abandoned: stopping the scourge of gun violence.

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.

Growth - mindset students, on the other hand, looked at schoolwork as a series of challenges and puzzles to figure out.

«It's called «extreme reading,»» and it «challenges students to read no matter where they are or what else they're doing: jumping on a trampoline, skydiving, playing soccer, riding a horse, sledding, or even swimming underwater.»

The «students» tend to be scientists and academics who are working on big science challenges — hairy problems in biotech and pure technology — funded by the NSF.

Since 2012, Friendfactor says the Challenge has included 23 MBA programs and more than 11,000 students, and improved the schools» cultures with 50 % more LGBT students feeling comfortable being out to everyone on campus.

Then there are those of us representing Parkland: Fellow Stoneman Douglas student Nick Joseph lost one of his best friends, Joaquin Oliver, on February 14, and is speaking out in his name by organizing and marching, rising to a challenge no 16 - year - old in mourning should have to face.

But many scholars have challenged the «sage on a stage» approach to teaching science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) courses, arguing that engaging students with questions or group activities is more effective.

Many student loan borrowers owe a significant amount, and depending on the type of repayment program they select, keeping up with monthly payments can be a challenge.

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 labor.

Students who were absent on Feb. 14, the day Nikolas Cruz killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, face a different set of challenges from their peers who were at school that day.

As a core part of the visit, they took part in a case competition with their fellow MBAs, which partnered Huang with students from Colombia, Vietnam, India and Canada on an applied business challenge.

To learn more about the Walmart Green Student Challenge and how to enter, please visit www.greenstudentchallenge.ca, visit our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/WalmartGSC or follow us on twitter at @WalmartGSC.

Student teams from around the world showed that they are more than ready for the challenge at the second annual O.R. & Analytics Student Team Competition held during the recent 2018 INFORMS Conference on Business Analytics and Operations Research in Baltimore.

In your article around Baltimore's technology gap («Computer - based tests a challenge for low - income students, some Baltimore teachers say,» April 22), we read that students who took the PARCC scored lower when they took the test on a computer than when they used paper and pencil.

When political science students were challenged about being Republicans, they were not thereby disenfranchised from voting; when economics students were challenged on the merits of capitalism, they were not thereby excluded from purchasing notebooks, But when students were told that everything they had learned about their religion before entering this class was wrong, did we know — or care — if their capacity to function religiously in a mature fashion was diminished?

In a press release today announcing victory in its biggest campus access challenge to date, InterVarsity noted that its 23 chapters on 19 CSU campuses will «once again be recognized student groups.»

Referencing the university's handbook which challenges «students to make decisions that ultimately glorify God» both on and off campus, she added: «If a student was in a position where the university felt they were not upholding the standards in the handbook, we'd address those issues with that student at that time.

Whether students come from a religious or secular background, they gather at non-religious institutions to challenge their own ideas and the ideas of others, to encounter new and unique perspectives on the world, and to revel in the diversity this sort of atmosphere can offer.

Scott Cormode maintains a site about a fictional congregation named Almond Springs, which engages students and pastors in the lively challenges of pastoral ministry (see the article on page 16).

As the only full - time staff member at Vertical Ministries, a non-denominational, student - led ministry that seeks to challenge college students to actively pursue an authentic and «vertical» relationship with God, Wallace relies on the support of volunteers to make everything come together week after week.

Thank you for challenging me as a Bible student to study... as if my life depends on it.

He will accept only students who are willing to ponder fundamental questions, reflect thoughtfully on how important writers ask and answer these questions, and respond to direct challenges to their own positions.

When we talked about it she said that she saw it as a challenge, which I loved — it's a challenge to create bright, colourful, healthy meals that fit into a busy life on a student budget.

, 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.»

A Technomic study on college foodservice shows some of the unique challenges today's operators face: 49 percent of college and university students avoid some type of meat or animal products; more students are price - sensitive off - campus (58 percent) than on - campus (46 percent) and 54 percent of students say it's important to eat healthy and pay attention to nutrition.

CGI also convenes CGI America, a meeting focused on collaborative solutions to economic recovery in the United States, and CGI University (CGI U), which brings together undergraduate and graduate students to address pressing challenges in their community or around the world, and, this year, CGI Latin America, which will bring together Latin American leaders to identify, harness, and strengthen ways to improve the livelihoods of people in Latin America and around the world.

The program will have seven stages, including a culinary arts competition in which teams of high school culinary arts students from throughout the country take on the challenge of creating a delicious, nutritious school meal for $ 1 per meal; a Healthy Eating Crockpot 8 - week cooking course for families, at the end of which participants and / or the individuals will receive a free crock pot; healthy recipe / healthy snack cook book and monthly newsletter by student chefs; and supporting student chefs in developing and growing their own home gardens.

A group of students wanted a vegan dining hall, and White took on the challenge.

Our enrichment programs provide students with fun and challenging experiences on the field, on stage, or in the robotics lab.

During Tuesday night's Duke - Michigan Big Ten / ACC Challenge game, Michigan guard Nik Stauskas lost his shoe and couldn't get it back on quick enough so he decided to chuck it into the Duke student section.

We approach each week with traditional learning styles, play - based learning, student driven challenges, and hands - on projects.

Benefiting from discovery and play in our Early Childhood program, skill - building in our Lower School, and rigorous intellectual challenges in the High School, Green Meadow students go on to top colleges, fulfilling careers, and are known for their resilience and creativity.

Run student and parent awareness programs, talk to the faculty at a local high school, and work on having any of the Challenge Success founders speak at your local school.

As a result of their work with Challenge Success, the students on the team developed a catchphrase, «Find it, own it, live it.»

With a rising emphasis nationwide on mental health and wellness, Challenge Success is on the forefront of providing upstream solutions that support schools in making real, systemic changes that positively impact the health and well - being of students.

Challenge students to synthesise the material they have encountered and to comment on the work and families bill.

I remember the challenge of balancing the demands on my time as a teenager, and now as a teacher, I watch students continuing to do so.

The close relationships between students and teachers enhance learning and the ability to explore new interests and take on new challenges.

Challenge Success has since worked with almost 800,000 students, faculty, administrators and parents throughout the United States and across the world on efforts like changing bell schedules, reforming homework policies, shifting to alternative assessments and encouraging project - based learning with the goal of creating «healthier and more productive pathways to success.»

Why spent money on sports programs or academic challenges if you can't fuel your students with premium ingredients, which are not any more expensive when used wisely?

(or a class of «behavior challenged» Middle Schoolers who could care less about taking a test) Sad that this is what education has come to in an effort to make sure that no child is «left behind»... This is the underlying issue right here ~ too much emphasis on penciling in the correct letter circle and not enough student driven cirriculum.

The contest, in its fourth year, challenges students to create a healthy meal on a tight budget.

The cooking contest, while fun for students, highlights the challenge schools face in trying to serve healthy meals on limited budgets.

This Healthy Eating Play challenges students to set up quick, easy meals to grab on the way in to school, or in between morning classes for breakfast, to speed up the cafeteria lines during lunch, or after school.