Sentences with phrase «speak to students because»

The campus is already planning to invite Robin back next year to speak to the students because of the practical and encouraging information she brings from the field and her experiences.

Not exact matches

An English - speaking archipelago that begins about 50 miles off the south coast of Florida, the Bahamas attracts spring breakers of all ages; college students often pick it because it is easy to reach and has plenty of beach party staples, such as Senor Frogs.

Scheduled to speak at an LGBT event, he has found that another speaker, Fran Cowling, the L.G.B.T. + officer of the National Union of Students, is refusing to share a platform with him because of alleged transphobia and racism.

I would have my own students pay special attention to the Cappadocians — Basil the Great, Gregory Nazianzen, and Gregory of Nyssa — because, more than anyone else, they engaged their polytheistic rivals on their own terrain by appropriating Neoplatonism (the «Summa» of the Ancients, so to speak) and Christianizing it.

«Christian students in particular should be bold in speaking up to oppose that kind of behavior because it goes completely against the model Christ gave us.»

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

But professors are much safer these days speaking at other campuses than on their own because it's only on your own campus that students are going to file harassment charges and drag you before the Equal Opportunity Commission if you say one word that offends someone.

According to Shittu Afeez Enitan, student union representative who spoke with our correspondent said the incident was cultists attack because the perpetrators left a mark for the opposition cult group.

And that's in turn in part because individual people know how to speak in the vernacular that's right for their audience — college students know how to talk to college students, moms know how to talk to moms, and techies know how to talk to techies.

Speaking to Citi News, Mr. Tagba condemned the riots but said it is in response to the dismissal of deferred students because they tried to avoid such outcome.

Speaking at the launch event, Barbara Schaal, AAAS president - elect and distinguished professor in the department of biology in arts and sciences at Washington University in St. Louis, praised the THSB curriculum because it begins to introduce students to an interdisciplinary way of looking at the world.

«We designed it to speak to graduate students as a population because generally graduate students are an afterthought» on university campuses, where undergraduates are usually the focus, Panger says.

Some students may not speak up in class because they don't want to look stupid in front of other students.

The scholar was visiting his department to give a talk in an area with seemingly very little connection to Reddi's expertise, but he cornered him nonetheless, because «as a doctoral student I had made it an issue to attend talks in areas other than mine and to cultivate learning from people who didn't speak the same language as I do,» he recalls.

«Assessing the readability of campaign speeches is a little tricky because most measures are geared to the written word, yet text is very different from the spoken word,» said Maxine Eskenazi, LTI principal systems scientist who performed the analysis with Elliot Schumacher, a graduate student in language technologies.

I wish I had the opportunity to do this when I was in college because I was able to speak with the students about their dreams and what inspires them when it comes to fashion.

I like this visual, and I use it with my students because getting to the point and encapsulating the gist of something is vital in today's speaking - and writing - heavy world.

«This finding speaks to the need for greater focus at the secondary level on preparation for vocational / technical careers, because not every student can or wants to go to college,» the report says.

A student might be reluctant to speak up in class because he has a speech defect or difficulty putting his thoughts into words.

Occasionally students speak of not listening to their favorite music or avoiding friendships with other students of color because they don't want to be misunderstood by their hall mates.

«With bullying, lots gets lost because students are afraid to speak up or they think it's just when something really bad happens.»

First, having even more Hispanic peers in a cohort that is already mainly Hispanic may be helpful because each student who has difficulty speaking English is more likely to find a bilingual student to translate for him, to help him learn English, and so on.

Third, some schools, when faced with an unusually large Hispanic cohort, may segregate their Spanish - speaking students in a particular classroom because there are enough students to fill such a class.

Because of the keys, more of the parents of Weeks's students attend open house and make sure that they speak to her directly.

I have worked with and spoken to dozens of educators who strongly feel that engaging in social media is irrelevant for them because of their students» age.

Often students struggle to speak with eloquence for longer than 20 seconds because they haven't formed opinions on a specific topic.

I wanted to speak on a topic that I believe is important to note, because it affects not only a students» outlook on...

An impulsive students might tell you that he called out because if he didn't speak immediately, he would have forgotten what he wanted to say.

«Whether one of my students wants to go off and study history or wants to be involved in medicine, what we do in our class is going to be applicable because they are going to need to speak and write strong arguments that are part of the larger conversation in their fields for the rest of their lives.»

It's not just because we have the opportunity to speak daily to our students on this subject, but also because of the racial breakdown of teachers in our schools.

MJ: It's a bit unfortunate because you think Advanced Maths, just because of the word «Advanced» that it must be harder, but that's not necessarily the case, and certainly in Queensland according to most of the students that I've spoken to, they say that actually it's a bit easier than Intermediate Maths and more enjoyable.

Unfortunately, we were not able to control for changes in the number of students who spoke limited English or in the school's operating cost per pupil, because at the time of the study such information was available only up to the 2001 - 02 school year.

When conversations plummeted into a tirade against testing or veered into rants that «our students can't learn, because they don't come to school / don't speak English / have special needs,» and so on, I redirected them back to the basics: What are you teaching?

To take a turn speaking, students must say what their role is and why they are speaking, and if someone wants to comment, he or she must say «I agree» or «I disagree because...&raquTo take a turn speaking, students must say what their role is and why they are speaking, and if someone wants to comment, he or she must say «I agree» or «I disagree because...&raquto comment, he or she must say «I agree» or «I disagree because...»

The students spoke about sitting at uni, learning out of a textbook how to teach and then being in front of groups of students feeling so overwhelmed because they hadn't learnt the unique pedagogy required to teach drama lessons.

This was a dream come true because we could continue to go around to schools and organizations to speak and inspire other students to follow in our footsteps AND help the non-profit organization that made our work possible and is fighting for such an important teen related cause.

Students who fail a couple of quarters are allowed to breeze through classes online, according to the sources, who spoke anonymously because they were worried about losing their jobs.

Because it would force people to be accountable, we NEVER speak to the role of the STUDENT in our education mess.

Students participate in these debates because they are interested in current affairs and want to hone their public speaking skills.

If, however, they do well because they already know the words» meanings, I challenge the students to strive to integrate the words fully into their written work and spoken language through the year.

High school students from Parkland FL are speaking out eloquently and powerfully in favor of gun regulation, in a way elementary school students from Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, CT, were not able to do because they were too young

It is a powerful tool because it, in essence, bypasses the anxieties and fears some students have when they have to speak in public or verbally express themselves.

Some students talk with others who appear lonely and try to offer friendship; they speak up when they see injustice because, in the words of one student, they «don't think it is right to judge people by how they dress.»

Erin speaks about why she chose to start a charter school in Orange County: because of the large gaps between student populations in the area, finding a co-founder whose unique vision fit her own, and her ability to serve the student populations that most needed it.

But actions speak louder than words and there will be good number of successful students unable to graduate from high school because they are simply not good at taking standardized tests!

Using the iPads makes this so much more interesting than just writing in an exercise book, and because you can record your voice in Book Creator, this allows my students to blend the two language skills of speaking and writing.

Atlanta Public Schools Chief Financial Officer Lisa Bracken said the school district has higher costs for several reasons: The expense of city living drives up teacher pay; the district has «low population» schools that lack economies of scale but are kept open «due to urban traffic constraints and community needs;» many students need extra services because they have learning problems or disabilities, don't speak English fluently or come from poverty; and the district has a large unfunded pension liability with growing obligations.

The decision to give one of Hartford's public schools to the Jumoke Academy was not only lucrative for the Jumoke Academy but was even more noteworthy because the Milner elementary school has been one in which half the students come from households that didn't speak English and fully one in four students weren't fluent in English.

North Star [one of the large Newark charter networks] serves effectively no children with limited English language proficiency, in part because North Star caters to a predominantly black student population from Newark's black neighborhoods, which remain geographically segregated from the city's Hispanic and other ethnic neighborhoods and are home to non-English speaking families.

Because ACES students include both native Spanish speakers and African American students who speak no Spanish at home, we believe that ACES graduates will be the citizens who bring the different communities of Los Angeles together to think creatively.