Sentences with phrase «role of helping the students»

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In his role at Blackboard, and formerly at MyEdu, a startup focused on helping students get jobs, which Blackboard acquired, he spent a «ton of time with college students in dorm rooms, looking through their bookbags and apartments [with their permission],» he told Inc. in a recent phone interview.

The Role of Provincial and Reserve School Systems in Explaining Aboriginal Student Performance,» author John Richards finds that innovative approaches in BC help account for much better high - school completion rates for Aboriginal students, compared to other provinces with large Aboriginal populations.

By providing students in all disciplines with concepts of sustainability, universities are taking on a more essential role — giving students a broader perspective for whatever profession they choose and helping to create a more inclusive, responsible society.

By ensuring that students across India have the nourishment they need to be able to learn, the foundation plays an integral role in the education of Indian youth, and we are honored to help them execute on their mission.»

Not only would this help to reclaim a historically marginalized part of the body, taking on the designation «ass of the college» would describe their role more aptly, and would reflect the way that most of us no doubt perceive their role in the college and their relationships with students and faculty fellows.

We kicked off with a role play — imagine a student in your college ministry approached you because she had become friends with a Muslim student on campus, and she was looking to you, as a Christian leader to help her make sense of that friendship.

BAM uses group discussions and role - playing exercises to help develop anger - management and self - control capacities in the students, all teenage boys, who are selected for the program because they are considered to be at especially high risk of dropout or of involvement with the criminal - justice system or both.

How odd that I attended seminars at the universities each of my sons went to on how to help them transition into their new roles as college students, but there were no seminars for me about how to transition into my new role of mother with (semi) grown children.

Parks noted after interviewing Representative Briggs and Senator Tomlinson, «I was very impressed with their knowledge of what athletic trainers actually do and what a vital role they play in helping to protect our student athletes from injury, and if injured, how they help them heal, recover and get them back in the best playing shape.»

The leadership of the Governor will help our students develop a greater degree of civic participation and responsibility for their role in New York's future.»

Toward High School Biology — Developed with support from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences and in partnership with BSCS, AAAS Project 2061 has developed and tested an innovative eight - week curriculum unit designed to integrate physical and life science concepts to help middle school students understand chemical reactions and their role in the growth and repair of living organisms.

The clinic also worked to teach medical students about the role of community medicine in helping poorer populations.

Among the tools that CCPE is developing to help meet these goals are CCPE postgraduate scholarships for engineering students, workshops presenting motivational messages and key skills required in the engineering work environment, and establishing a national database of role models.

Sure, advisers may not be in the best position to mentor students on such a wide variety of paths, but universities still owe it to their students, and to society, to provide meaningful help in preparing their Ph.D. graduates for the nonacademic roles they're likely to hold.

«We hope hair samples will help establish the role that changes in cortisol levels throughout pregnancy have on the health of women and their children,» said study co-author Laura Smy, a PhD student at the University of Toronto.

Not only did they find that students in public pre-K were significantly more likely to take the gifted and talented test, regardless of demographic background, but they also found that attending public pre-K may play an important role in helping to reduce test - taking disparities among different groups of children.

«These special guests will help my students meet role models and get a number of viewpoints on the same topics that they've been practicing here in class,» he says.

In another mHealth study that highlighted the role that online social networks can have on wellness, Arriaga, Georgia Tech Regents Professor of Interactive Computing Gregory Abowd and graduate student Hwajung Hong investigated whether social networking could help individuals with autism improve their social connectedness.

The assignment of graduate students and faculty mentors plays an important role in helping students registered in preparation courses for qualifying examinations.

I will eventually go to graduate school, but first, I'd like to help students of color by being a role model and dispelling the myths about majoring in science.

Study co-author Lynsey Romo, North Carolina State University's assistant professor of communication, said that the study highlights social networking sites» essential role in helping college students advertise and facilitate their own drinking experiences.

With the new center, we will be expanding upon our role as a global hub to help students and professionals maximize their potential, realize their career ambitions, contribute to the advancement of biomedical science and translate their ideas and discoveries into products, services and therapies that will benefit human health and well being.

Graduate Student Brian Bender helped to determine the first crystal structure of neuropeptide Y. Neuropeptide Y plays a role in the regulation of the hunger feeling and is a promising drug target.

Create rich and complex tasks so that various students have a chance to excel and take on the role of helping others.

But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign schools to allow students to achieve what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.

I've written previously about its role in creating proof points capable of scaling for the field that help propel the education system more toward a fully competency - based, student - centric one, and now NGLC is at it again (full disclosure: I serve as a reviewer for their grants).

Gather Stories: Instead of teaching history from textbooks, put students in the role of historian and help them make sense of the past.

Bett 2018 is a celebration of education and the role it plays in helping students prepare for the future.

It helps pupils gain an insight into the workings of the justice system and the roles of legal professionals, encouraging students to raise their aspirations to see the law and related areas as a future career possibility.

The Federal Government's recently - established Office of the Children's eSafety Commissioner will play a key role in supporting Australian school students who experience serious cyberbullying and aim to help guide all students towards positive online experiences and interactions.

The role of counselors in schools is expanding from just attending to individual students to leading discussions and activities for groups of students that can help improve school performance and behavior.

Passed in 1965, it created a clear role for the federal government in K - 12 policy, offering more than $ 1 billion a year in aid under its first statutory section, known as Title I, to districts to help cover the cost of educating disadvantaged students.

The very nature of a librarian's service role within the school and community, helping students learn in any and all subjects, and using the best tools for the job, makes them the perfect person to ask about what tools are the most efficient, as they can provide training and guidance.

Several current projects examine the roles of information and assistance in helping students prepare, access, and succeed in college.

In this partnership, the ministry's OFIP team plays various support roles - coach, challenger, facilitator and mobilizer of ideas and knowledge - first to help districts and schools gauge as precisely as possible student needs, and later to put in place the plans to help meet them.

In this new world of many options, we'll need new entities and roles for both educators and youth - focused organizations to help students / families navigate.

«The Ed School's mission and priorities provide opportunities for librarians to research the role and impact of libraries in learning and also for librarians to collaborate across schools to help students and faculty build student research skills,» said Fliss.

A booklet to help students practise the skills necessary for conducting the role play part of the speaking exam.

In his research, the academic found that having someone around to play a «grandmother role» — chatting and offering simple words of encouragement rather than instruction — helped boost student learning and level the playing field for those from disadvantaged backgrounds with limited or no access to education.

This specialized role is emerging as one of the most important kinds of help a school can have as it tries to make the leap to personalized instruction for every student.

- Fun games to get the students to speak in the target language (see explanation under the slide)- A listening activity on what you saw and did not see at the zoo - Vocabulary slides with lovely pictures - Plenty of mini-whiteboard games on colours with animals and on opinions about animals - Grammar explanation on negative forms and verbs of opinion - Several writing activities about your favorite restaurant - Survey activity on likes and dislikes - Translation exercises - A writing activity to use longer sentences and verbs of opinion + infinitive - Grammar explanation on the partitive with worksheets to practice - Grammar explanation on infinitives and conjugating - er verbs - A lesson on infinitives and how to conjugate - er verbs - A worksheet explaining the steps of conjugating an - er verb - A fun mime the verb game - A mini-whiteboard game to practise conjugating - er verbs - Grammar explanation on numbers and quantities - Learn high numbers to be able to give prices and quantities - Mini-whiteboard activities about numbers and quantities - Games with prices - Dialogue worksheets to build up to role - play activity - A number worksheet - Put the dialogue back in order worksheet to help with role - play activity - A grammar explanation of «il y a» and «il n» y a pas» - Grammar explanation «on peut + infinitive» and other grammar revision - A song with lyrics created and sang by me with a link to the Youtube video - Vocabulary building activities to teach directions - A grammar explanation on the imperative with exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on the imperative in French - An iPhone activity - A grammar explanation on modal verbs - A grammar explanation of prepositions with «de» and exercises to practice - A grammar worksheet on prepositions in French I hope you will enjoy my resources and if you have a question on a particular slide or activity, please do not hesitate to contact me or leave me a message.

To help guide them, Simpson designed, in consultation with Merseth, Opportunities in Education — a weeklong program offered in January that provides students with a glimpse of the different roles that exist within the education field outside the classroom.

Senior leaders or even business managers can and have taken driving roles in creating a new school by bringing together a team of teachers and other professionals and using their knowledge and experience to help bring an outstanding education to more students across their local area.

Each STEM challenge in this pack includes: • teacher instructions • student challenge sheet • planning and design pages • scoring rubric There is also a set of team member role cards, design process cards, a master score sheet to find out which group is the most successful at helping the explorers, and associated NGSS standards.

The chapter «The Role of Feedback» alone makes this book a necessary read if we are to help all students achieve.

The theater students also operated the lights and the audio, helped manage the backstage hustle and bustle, and even played the role of screaming fans and paparazzi as the nominees walked along the red carpet.

Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?

It is full pack of career focus based activities to go with the theme of the week, designed to be used in tutor - time, focusing on the work of different careers and helping the students understand the roles of different careers and jobs around the world.

In one scenario, students are asked to play the role of an engineer and help a remote village where the water well is no longer working.

The meeting — believed by its sponsors to be the first of its kind held in the nation — was convened to help teachers examine their «role and responsibility» in making students aware of the dangers and implications of the nuclear - arms race.