Sentences with phrase «student debate and discussion»

A poem I have written exploring the way we treat our planet and intended to prompt and provoke student debate and discussion.

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The recent move by Twitter to verify the students is yet another example of how big the current discussion around gun regulation has become, and an example of how the company hopes to add credibility to users who are at the center of a debate riddled with misinformation.

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In an emotional encounter with Christakis's husband, a Yale faculty member who argued that a university should provide a context for discussion and civil, reasoned debate, one student shouted, «It is not about creating an intellectual space!

With a few exceptions teachers and students do not engage in a denominationally restricted discussion but participate in a Protestant and a Christian conversation or debate about the ultimate problems of faith and life.

I never bought into this line of reasoning and remember having many long discussions and debates with other students about this when when I was in Bible college and seminary.

When I facilitate workshops with midwives and students, there is always a lot of discussion and debate about professional responsibilities in the mother - midwife relationship.

The next discussion saw Professor Anne Deighton, Sir Michael Arthur, former Ambassador to Germany and High Commissioner to India, and former MPhil student Maximilian Ruhenstroh - Bauer debate the case for greater integration in the EU.

She's fought on behalf of students and recent graduates suffering from crippling student loan debt, and to change the debate in D.C. from a discussion over whether to cut Social Security into one about how we can grow it.»

The debate about whether transgender students should be allowed to use restrooms that align with their gender identity is now before the Buffalo School Board — and the group is getting fierce pressure from those on both sides of the issue.Nearly 150 people turned out at Wednesday's meeting to have their say on the proposed policy.It was a discussion marked by emotional com...

Although there appears to be no short - term answer to the tuition debate, the time is nonetheless ripe for universities, students, the public, and politicians to engage in discussions over the state of higher education in Ontario and the direction it should take, particularly with respect to accessibility.

At the same time, we wish to help students (1) experience authentic processes of science, in particular discussion / debate about experimental data and their interpretation (including «grey areas»), (2) recognize the creativity and open - ended nature of research, and (3) see the diversity of people who undertake research careers (i.e. not just the genius / geeks of popular culture).

Classes lose their cadence, and their rhythm; reflective discussions and debates are jarringly interrupted by school bells that silence a student's closing comment on labor strikes or leave unanswered a question about the differences between representative and direct democracy.

In fourth through 12th grade, active discussion and debate should be the primary activities of language and literature classes, with older students increasingly transferring those oral language skills into writing.

The lesson explores what rights students believe we are entitled and includes opportunities for debate and discussion.

1) Teach, model and introduce students to debate and discussion.

Indeed, he believes that engaging students of all ages in inquiry - based activities, discussions, debates and collaborative work is essential for growth and learning.»

In other cultures, students do not recognize discussions / debates to be a different learning strategy, and therefore ignore the activity when it occurs.

Substantive classroom discussion is demanding on students and teachers alike, to say the least, and yet research indicates that this practice is as important in citizenship formation as civics classes and, for some students, can compensate for a home life bereft of such debates.

Launched by law students at Yale, Harvard, and the University of Chicago in 1982, the Federalist Society built networks and created forums to air conservative arguments, emphasizing discussion and debate rather than decreeing set positions.

Perfect for a form discussion or a PHSE / Citizenship lesson, this resource examines the investigatory powers act and gives students the opportunity to debate their opinions on mass surveillance.

dineshbakshi.com has developed a series of resources for various Economics topics through which teachers can create a debate and discussion in the classroom and inculcate analytical and evaluation skills among students.

It is aimed at intermediate or advanced students and it is interactive to allow a lot of discussion and debates about women's rights and their impact on society.

The third slide introduces positive and negative opinions about uniform, asking students to translate and categorise those given before forming their own for a debate / discussion on the fourth slide.

For a FREE DEMO please search: «The Philosophical Debate Generator [Free Demo Version]» Uses: - P4C (Philosophy for kids)- Form time activities - R.S. / Philosophy / Citizenship cover lessons - Debating societies - Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their posDebate Generator [Free Demo Version]» Uses: - P4C (Philosophy for kids)- Form time activities - R.S. / Philosophy / Citizenship cover lessons - Debating societies - Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their posdebate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position.

Uses: - P4C (Philosophy for kids)- Form time activities - R.S. / Philosophy / Citizenship cover lessons - Debating societies - Making best use of spare time at the end of lessons Discussions follow one of four formats, each asking students to move from one side of the room or the other to make their position clear: teachers should then use questioning to foster a debate between students, encouraging them to present reasons for their choice and defend their position.

The lesson will challenge students at varying ability level and will generate discussion and debate which will engage students in their learning.

Another example, «Constructive Controversies,» is a classroom activity that prompts discussions and creative problem solving; first, students are selected to debate one side of an issue, then the same students are asked to debate the other.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

«The research in Diversity Challenged shows that affirmative action policies have major benefits not only in overcoming the history of exclusion of minorities, but also in creating a richer educational experience for all students and injecting new ideas and understandings into discussions, debates and research on campus,» said Gary Orfield, co-director of The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University.

The seminar - style workshops will cover a diverse range of subjects and concepts that are representative of the debates and discussions currently occurring in education and include how best to assess student progress in lessons, whole school assessments and using assessment and feedback in middle management.

At the end of the course, the teacher should be able to develop with the students an asynchronous communication and manage it in the appropriate way so that the learning community can engage in discussions on the topic to be debated (Maboe, 2017).

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on written journal entries, participation in class discussions and debate on segregation, and persuasive essay.

The lesson includes links to media clips to provoke discussion and includes differentiated case studies for students to debate.

Socratic Seminar A Socratic Seminar is a student - led discussion centered around a single piece of content (e.g., a poem, a movie, etc.) While both a traditional debate and socratic seminar elicit potentially differing views on a topic, a socratic seminar is not a debate.

The issue of teacher quality has been the focus of discussion and debate time after time, since the classroom teacher is widely regarded as the most influential school - related factor that affects student achievement (Mendro, Jordan, Gomez, Anderson, & Bembry, 1998; Muijs & Reynolds, 2003; Stronge, Ward, & Grant, 2011).

Importantly, they actively engaged in a weekly platform where there was discussion and debate from team members to seek answers and «problem solve» to arrive at solutions needed to unlock the mysteries of students» achievement.

A variety of activities that stimulate students» thinking, such as Edward de Bonos» Six Thinking Hats and curiosity, Socratic discussions or Buzz groups which will encourage debates and students to discuss and share ideas

Confirming comments include, «Students were highly engaged in the box analysis and provided some of the best writing we had seen from this class,» and «There was quite a debate about whether education, flowers, and clothes were a need, linked their discussion to math and adaptation.»

Students then analyze a list of 10 recommendations about farming and select the three they feel are most important, based on what they have learned about soil, plant growth and plant nutrients through a class discussion and debate.

Through this partnership with Dr. Fisher, Achieve3000 is taking the best research from Dr. Fisher's book Visible Learning for Literacy, cowritten with Dr. John Hattie and Dr. Nancy Frey, to accelerate student learning with a new instructional model called Read - Discuss - Read, designed to increase student comprehension through repeated readings, classroom discussion, and debate.

And considering his or her students» needs, an individual teacher might focus on honing one particular aspect of academic discussions, such as debate structures, for one - on - one coaching.

Purpose: Student voice, peer critique, improved writing or artistic skills, impetus for celebration, teamwork, learning through discussion and debate

Key practices that foster great discussion include ensuring that most students work with one another early in the school year; preparing students about the relevant issues before any debate; explicitly teaching skills for respectful interchange; establishing rules; and modeling respectful demeanor.

Examples of the instructional and democratic citizenship benefits of developing these economic reasoning skills in students include: sharpening critical thinking and critical literacy skills; entertaining multiple perspectives; better understanding current events; laying the groundwork for authentic discussions and civil debates; casting informed votes; and making students» thinking explicit for assessment purposes.

The learning activities that were suggested for gifted / enrichment students are problem - based, necessitating small group collaboration, research, discussion, empathy, design, scientific inquiry, debate, question of our civic community constructs and personal and community reflection, the affective domain.

Join us as we foster innate curiosities, encourage discussion and debate, and guide students to think their own way through to answers.

Discussion questions are an excellent way to engage students in online conversation, debate, and collaboration.

After some discussion and debate, the students decided that pairs of 7th graders would serve as mentors to elementary school classes twice a week during recess time.