Sentences with phrase «on particular students»

LexisNexis provides free database access to all RULE law students, donates books to its library, and has produced a video chronicling the impact of CLEW on particular students.

The PALM model was somewhat different in that it combined three assessment elements: classroom - embedded assessments, a week - long on - demand assessment, and «taking a close look» assessments, which teachers used to gather additional information on particular students.

Similarly, RAND used statewide averages as its measure of school resources, an extremely imprecise indicator of the actual resources being spent on particular students who attend specific schools.

The best method is to discuss with other teachers a tactic that they might be using that might work on that particular students.

Schools were assigned an overall rating based on the pass rate of the lowest - scoring subgroup - test combination (e.g., math for whites), giving some schools strong incentives to focus on particular students and subjects.

«Beginning with the end in mind» can focus on a particular student's learning path; setting «manageable and measurable objectives» can be informed by real - time, student level data.

For instance, one team meeting can focus on a particular student's social - emotional status, and the next might be a longitudinal data analysis of student achievement.

A resource coordinator might ensure that volunteer tutors focus on a particular student's areas of academic weakness, for example.

What to do if you default on your student loan is to take immediate action by contacting a debt relief attorney who will offer you free advice on the best path to move forward based on your particular student loans debt.

Not exact matches

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

Maybe focusing on one particular course that teaches video production at the college makes way more sense, mimicking what you see in the Wix ad, because then a potential student can imagine what it is like to take that course.

In particular, although 85 % of students surveyed consider internships important to their future career prospects, only a third have a presence on LinkedIn, a primary online mechanism for connecting to internship opportunities, and only 1 in 9 have a presence on WordPress, a major home for blogs.

Even the beginner student of nutritionism will immediately spot several flaws: the focus was on» fat,» rather than on any particular food, like meat or dairy.

Based on the above, UKTI commissioned the ECR program in combination with the PIB service to, among other things, allow companies to employ foreign - language - speaking students at U.K. universities and other British institutions of higher learning to address issues related to language and cultural barriers that companies may face in entering particular foreign markets.

Get to know a particular lender's student loan unemployment deferment and forbearance options before signing on to refinance or consolidate.

A tragic event galvanized a group of students who likely were predisposed to progressive politics to organize and take action on one particular topic.

Most college students tend to focus their enthusiasm and energy on courses devoted to their particular major.

I'm reading NFIB v. Sebelius (the Obamacare decision) in preparation for teaching the case to my constitutional law students and came across the following most interesting passage in in Justice Ginsburg's opinion: «A mandate to purchase a particular product would be unconstitutional if, for example, the edict impermissibly abridged the freedom of speech, interfered with the free exercise of religion, or infringed on a liberty interest protected by the Due Process Clause.»

Wrenn, if you're still watching this particular post, I'm curious about your opinion on my thought of students claiming «financial discrimination» if private schools stopped accepting Pell grants.

He took particular note of scenes of cheering crowds: flag - wavers in Times Square and at Ground Zero in New York City, baseball fans in Philadelphia, patriots in Boston, enthusiastic students on....

This statement comes from one of my ninth graders in response to yet another lecture of mine on how important it is for students to bring their literature books to class — a particular hurdle in my case because I teach at a military school....

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised.

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

On both sites, I am always open to input from other students of Scripture about how to translate Greek and Hebrew, or how best to explain a particular word or phrase.

Yet while eavesdropping on a campus tour for prospective students, I heard the guide explain that Duke is not affiliated with any particular church (it is affiliated with the United Methodist Church), that the statues at the entrance to Duke Chapel are of «important people from Duke's past» (the figures, which include Robert F. Lee, Girolamo Savonarola and, of course, John Wesley, have no direct ties to Duke) and that «anybody can come to worship that wants to, but nobody has to» (true enough).

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first place.

Christianity teaches that this particular individual, and so every individual, whatever in other respects this individual may be, man, woman, serving - maid, minister of state, merchant, barber, student, etc. — this individual exists before God — this individual who perhaps would be vain for having once in his life talked with the King, this man who is not a little proud of living on intimate terms with that person or the other, this man exists before God, can talk with God any moment he will, sure to be heard by Him; in short, this man is invited to live on the most intimate terms with God!

Maybe more than ever, the students displayed the «competency» about being able to argue intelligently based on their own reading of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau, and of being able to integrate particular arguments from the text in their own «comparative narratives.»

When there is a such a wide array of opinions and beliefs on what a particular passage means, and there is very little chance for the average student of Scripture to gain clarity or certainty on which view is right, most people think «Why even try?»

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

The event was called off following a protest by some lecturers and students at a reference he once made to the claim of a particular philosopher that the verdict on Galileo was «rational and just».

That course had an even more profound effect on me: It made me decide to devote my life to the study of East Asia, Japan in particular, and I entered the graduate program at Harvard as the only student in sociology and Far Eastern languages.

The program is based on the «simple notion that students, laypeople, pastors and professors all have a stake in the particular problems of ministry and mission within local congregations, that each has gifts to bring to the understanding of the issues and that they can work together to address those issues.»

We did end up having a discussion about different faiths - expressing nor endorsing opinions on any in particular but merely educating the students on the differences (and then they pointed out the lack of difference between many).

During the last term, I asked my students why they had not thought through a particular passage from St. Augustine on friendship and loss.

No particular expertise was required to say that soldiers firing with machine guns on unarmed students were violating fundamental moral principles.

One in particular is Michael Cartwright's on the formation and vocation of students.

If I think my students were being affected in a negative way by a symbol, be it the cross, the particular face that might be on the cross, or the lack of respect for divinity, I would change my classroom environment.

First and foremost, how to get creative on the spot, modifying lessons to reach each group of students and their particular needs for the day.

Middle and high school students, in particular, are learning how to look at the week ahead, predict which days will be packed and which may be free, and should be allowed to work on tasks in their own schedule.

The first of these assertions comes in for particular scrutiny, specifically the sub-claim that AP classes increase a student's chances of academic success in college; «[A] closer look at studies [on the subject] reveals some potential problems with the notion of causality,» reads the report.

'' [The Universities Minister] said that it was disappointing that the University of Oxford, in particular, was held back from expanding by a limit on student housing in the city.

One of her websites, the Partnership Educational Justice, says its goal is to help students, and their families «advocate for the great public schools they deserve,» with a particular focus on low income students.

Ms. Moskowitz proudly touted the success of Success, noting with real joy how three students at the school in Bed - Stuy had achieved a perfect score on an international math test «out of 30 or 40 worldwide» and taking particular pride in how many of the schools» high achievers are «black and brown» and from neighborhoods that face enormous disadvantages.

The principal of P.S. 18 in Inwood fired teacher Madeline Luciano after she let a student write on a chalkboard the reasons why eighth - grade students didn't like a particular classmate.

The Committee on Education will meet at 1 p.m. for oversight on bullying, harassment, and discrimination in the public schools; there will be a particular focus on LGBT students and other vulnerable students.

He also said she would raise the minimum wage across the nation, reduce students» college debt and take on issues particular to cities — affordable housing, mass transit, repairing roads and bridges, policing reform and immigration reform.

One of the challenges that graduate students face is that their deadlines are so far in the future (6 - 12 months) that they are not sure what they need to do during a particular week in order to be on track with their thesis.

On this particular Thursday, he and his students are searching for ways to improve the humble pill bottle.

«These items focus not only on content, but on student's problem - solving skills, their scientific reasoning, and how they approach a particular problem,» Asghar said.