Sentences with phrase «student about the path»

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Worries about debt cause untold numbers of students to pursue safer, but limited career paths, or even skip higher education entirely.

We spoke to HRPA vice-president of research and development Kristina Hidas about how MBA programs and students can change themselves — and each other — to put Canada's economy on the right path.

The mild - mannered Onstott is one of about 20 students from various Chicago high schools who plan to protest the district's food at the board meeting and present members with other possible paths as they review the bids.

In partnership with the Fox Valley Park District, students and park district employees planted about 3,000 prairie grasses and wildflowers along a stretch of Waubonsie Lake, which features a walking path behind the school.

The high school environment does not generally promote or support a path to purpose, according to Denise Pope, a lecturer with the Stanford University School of Education and co-founder of Challenge Success, an organization concerned about students who compromise health, integrity and learning due to performance pressure.

More than 400 Westchester students gathered in October as part of Project WORTHY's Youth Summit at the Westchester County Center where keynote speaker and Olympic coach Tony Hoffman warned students about how prescription drugs found in a medicine cabinet led him down a near deadly path of addiction, crime and prison, before he started his journey to recovery.

Professional societies such as the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA) and AAS are concerned about the situation and have been engaged in continuing discussions in recent years about how to improve current postgraduate training programs in order to prepare students not only for research careers, but to give them a broad skill set that would enable them to pursue more diverse career paths.

By giving personal testimony about our paths through our studies and our profession, we hope to engage students in conversations about scientific careers.

From Mexicali to Harvard by V. Chase, 8 July 2005 Luis León, a third year doctoral student studying immunology at Harvard University and a recent recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Gilliam Graduate Fellowship, talks about his path from minimum - wage jobs to academic researcher.

«This influences students to think about innovation and entrepreneurship as career paths.»

Students who do internships are also exposed to a wider variety of career paths than they find out about in the academic world.

The students, Tracy Nelson and Emily Towler, sorted through rosters of SMU economics alums and shortlisted 18 men and women that they thought were working in interesting fields — which purposely excluded stereotypical jobs in banking and finance — and then carried out scripted interviews with a subset of who agreed to be interviewed via Skype to get additional information about their career path and to assess their charisma.

This series will feature contributions from current M.D. / Ph.D. students, who will tell how they got where they are and what getting there was like, and from physician - scientist graduates in the midst of highly successful careers, who will share their thoughts on their professional lives, describe the paths that led to their careers, and offer advice derived from years of accumulated experience about preparing for and managing an M.D. / Ph.D. career.

The focus groups also probed where students received information about different careers, and how much they weighted their performance in math and science classes in considering different career paths.

«Students don't learn enough about STEM careers unless their parents work in STEM areas, and the messages they receive from parents, teachers and counselors frequently fail to address how students think about and evaluate potential career paths,» sayStudents don't learn enough about STEM careers unless their parents work in STEM areas, and the messages they receive from parents, teachers and counselors frequently fail to address how students think about and evaluate potential career paths,» saystudents think about and evaluate potential career paths,» says Myers.

«It's helped me talk with students about their goals, aspirations, and values as they choose career paths.»

In Un Enfant des Etoiles, Southern European editor Elisabeth Pain chats with a third - year Ph.D. student about his lifelong fascination with astronomy and the path that led him to study the atmosphere of the solar system's largest moon.

The objective of the group is straightforward, says Tate: to encourage women graduate students, who are interested in pursuing an academic career, «to take time to think about where we are going, ask questions we're afraid to ask, and discuss the many paths that a successful academic career can follow.»

These kinds of activities can have tremendous impact on the way students understand and think about computer programming as a skill they can develop and as a STEM career path.

Through this partnership, participating students visit Gladstone for a single day packed with scientific lectures, career panels, information sessions about Gladstone, and a discussion about the path to becoming a scientist.

According to Sarkar, feedback she received from students let her know that the program was having an impact by increasing students» knowledge, helping them make informed decisions about future career paths and providing a better understanding of the power and reach of neural engineering.

Our teachers are passionate about weaving the concepts of Yoga into their lives and sharing what they have learned on their path with their students.

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Folayan, a former pre-med student in New York City, now a documentary filmmaker, talked with me about why she dropped her pre-med path to pursue filmmaking, her influences in life, and why she made this particular film.

INDEPENDENT & FOREIGN FILMS Another Earth (Unrated) Redemption drama about an MIT student (Brit Marling) and an accomplished composer (William Mapother) whose paths cross in tragic fashion on the very same night of the discovery of a mirror planet populated by duplicates of every human on Earth.

The real problem is that comics are sometimes influenced by conventions as played out in movies, and just about every cliché involving master / student squabbles, finding one's own path, and female assassins, adhere strictly to well - known formula throughout.

Two city schools have already held successful World at Work Days when students have the opportunity to talk to alumni working in a variety of jobs about their career paths and life after school.

In recognition of the fact that students begin making vital decisions about their career paths at an early stage, we're beginning to welcome increasing engagement from businesses with schools - certainly this is the philosophy at UTC Swindon — to work in partnership with industry.

Much has been written over the last decade about multiple intelligences, learning styles, student - centered learning, and individualized instructional paths.

The presenter returned to her former school, Haberdashers» Aske's Hatcham College in Pepys Road, New Cross, to talk to current students about her career path as statistics show the crucial importance of alumni in motivating state school students to success.

Nashville Big Picture brings students» mentors into the classroom — or other community members — to talk about their job and the path they took to get there.

Jon Marcus wrote about Match Beyond for EdNext last year in «A New Path to a College Degree: Match Beyond helps low - income students succeed.»

When a student needs direction, we can tell her about the doors in her future and show her the paths that will lead her to them.

Writing about math can be a path to understanding, as students clarify and «take ownership» of concepts and connect math to the real world.

For more about how Every Student Succeeds Act came about, please read «The Long Path to ESSA,» an excerpt from The Every Student Succeeds Act: What It Means for Schools, Systems, and States by Frederick M. Hess and Max Eden.

Students learn at different paces, which seems less about intelligence and more about the time barriers put in the path of learning.

While early - college high schools link students with local colleges, Schwartz says another option is to directly link high school students to business, like existing career academies, which started in 1969 in Philadelphia in collaboration with Philadelphia Electric Company and Bell of Pennsylvania, and talent development high schools, which allow struggling students to play academic «catch up» before learning about specific career paths.

In addition to the expected services for students — college visits and college fairs — she also talks to students about other highquality paths.

These students are repeatedly taught about «appropriate» behavior and that the path through school, and many parts of life, is easier if one conforms to «mainstream» cultural standards.

Puvidham students have started on a path to social activism through their theater skills, too: Older students write and perform skits in neighboring villages about relevant local and environmental issues, such as land degradation, chemical farming, and water conservation.

My young source holds forth with disarming confidence, especially about some of the toughest social and emotional issues middle school students face: fitting in with your peers, being different without becoming isolated, how to navigate the gauntlet of critics, teasers, and bullies that line the rocky path to high school.

The mentors volunteer their time, typically meeting once a week with each student they mentor (some of them work with two or three students) to help advise them academically, provide tutoring, or just offer some inspiration about their potential career paths.

Khan academy provides an easy path for students to jump in and begin learning about any subject that they choose.

Rep. Bishop: Student Success Act Builds a Better Path Forward for Students Why America's Homeschoolers Support Reforms in #StudentSuccessAct Rep. Joe Wilson (R - SC): #StudentSuccessAct Gives Students «Fresh Start» Rep. Virginia Foxx (R - NC): Reduce the Federal Footprint in America's Classrooms Rep. Todd Rokita (R - IN): Why Americans need a new education law AEI's Rick Hess: Here's the Right Way for Conservatives to Start Fixing No Child Left Behind AEI's Max Eden and Mike McShane: Restore the Rule of Law to Education Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Michael Petrilli: Take Our Schools Back Thomas B. Fordham Institute's Chester E. Finn: The conservative case for H.R. 5 Daily Caller: No, Congress Isn't About to Mandate Common Core What They're Saying About #StudentSuccessAct

Assistant Principal Oscar Kreis cleared a path to the side gate for entering students as about three dozen protesters passed out leaflets, entitled «Padres» — Parents.

As your students explore various career paths, you can invite a professional into your class to share their career stories, inform students about necessary skills and education required, and inspire them for the future!

Questions such as «Tell me about it» or «Show me more» and «Let's see what you did» can be used to encourage students to see efforts as a path to achievement and also give them a sense of control.

Our students spend about half of their day working on individualized learning paths in our computer lab, or «Pod».

It's about how each student is doing and specifically where he or she is along that path to academic success.

Kopp talks about the incredible momentum in positive change the education world has seen that has changed the paths of students» lives, whether through policy and / or truly exceptional education.