Sentences with phrase «student focused her energy on»

Over the course of the last four articles, I've presented a few hints and lessons distilled from my own exercises in career exploration, with the express intent of helping other students focus their energy on what works.

One student focused her energy on writing a song to include in her group's film.

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Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

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

At that time, when a teacher wanted to focus his time and energy on a few specially selected students, the teacher would pick only one or two, at the most three students to train.

Since I don't have a classroom of students to analyze, I just focus TOO much energy on analyzing my kids... I need to practice the «just wait» mantra daily.

Peneston says there's a cost for demanding schools focus so much energy on having elementary school students do well on standardized math and language arts tests.

This is to sensitize students on the fundamentals of Ghana's Energy sector with key focus on the petroleum industry.

The article focuses on the team's effort to describe how students make progress in their understanding of 14 specific energy - related ideas at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels of complexity.

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

In earlier studies that primarily focused on energy expenditure, teachers observed increased attention and better behavior of students using standing desks.

In a three - week series of after - school sessions hosted by Girls Inc., a Washington, D.C. - based nonprofit, the participating students were introduced to basic concepts of matter and energy as they tried out classroom activities focused on the process of weight gain and weight loss and their health implications.

Students in a mid-day stage of life (roughly 25 - 70 years old) need more focus on the breath and other energy management practices to support them in their busy lives that likely include careers, children and households.

This study focuses on the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading program via a cluster randomized study of 100 teachers instructing students in a light / energy unit, with 50 teachers in the control group and 50 in the treatment group.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

The bet here is that if students can drive their development of basic skills and background knowledge, teachers can «trade up» and focus their energies on challenging tasks and compelling experiences.

It seems that for a young child, it's important to have a single teacher who knows that child well enough to customize teaching to his or her needs, who spends enough time with students to be able to understand and respond to their behavior, and who has few enough students to focus energy on building relationships with them.

Whereas most of the energy in the school choice debates has focused on vouchers and charter schools, relatively little attention has been paid to another important choice model that serves as many students as charters and has been in existence for longer — magnet schools.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

As a teacher, I often felt encouraged — tacitly and sometimes overtly — to focus my energies on my students who were below grade level.

And in reality ~ we may not be able to hit a homeroom with every lessonnot everyone has the time or energy to do these kinds of lessons day - in and day - out - but we can focus on implementing these clay - pot lessons more and more ~ until one day ~ students love our classroom and are lined up at the door waiting to get in.

Not only are local superintendents of KIPP schools better positioned than our national staff to identify and groom local talent and ensure long - term sustainability; the pooling and sharing of support services allows the energy and time of our school leaders to remain focused on the highest - value activities: working with faculty, students, and families.»

Instead, we should focus our energy on finding ways to provide teachers with better knowledge about their students» learning and how to use it.

Supporters of the plan, which will operate in 12 of the district's 102 schools next fall, hope that it will focus the system's energy on improving student achievement in a manner they say is...

This is largely driven by living costs, which must be covered if students are to focus their time and energy on school rather than work.

Help your students understand the essential processes cells use to get energy from the food we eat with this set of clear, simple diagrams and a concise study guide that focuses on the main events of aerobic cellular respiration.

Wendt focused his energy on creating an environment conducive to learning and giving his students a chance to explore sophisticated concepts.

Within this revision session there are focused «mini lessons» on: Changes in Energy Energy Changes Electrical Circuits Electricity in the Home Particle Model Nuclear Reactions Within these mini lessons students are guided through some of the core content, complete structured activities and complete exam style questions.

Within this revision session there are focused «mini lessons» on: Atomic Structure Periodic Table Ionic Compounds Chemical Calculations Salts Electrolysis Energy Changes Within these mini lessons students are guided through some of the core content, complete structured activities and complete exam style questions.

So often in education we focus problem - solving on «made up» or already - solved situations, when funneling that energy into real world issues that could make a difference in their lives is not only motivating to students, but also a great benefit to your school and community.

Throughout the semester, Lee's students spend weeks preparing presentations on a particular topic to share with their assigned peer class — last year, they focused on Vermont's alternative energy initiatives, and the Sejong City students shared details about their city's shift to solar and wind power.

When a nation focuses all its energies on boosting the reading and math scores of the most vulnerable students, there is neither much cause nor much appetite for developing and pursuing education strategies capable of improving American schools overall.

The same kind of distractions from the business at hand must be said of the Common Core State Standards debate, which has drained our collective energies and focus on students.

They believe that energies of educators should be focused on establishing that sort of «good education» in heterogeneous classrooms and that the proliferation of such classrooms would serve all middle school students well.

Now that we have the students» focusing their energy and excitement toward learning, we can focus on covering the rest of our standards for the year.

Describing the most important aspects of instructional leadership in more detail and clarity, this refined version of the framework helps school leaders better identify areas for instructional improvement and focus their time and energy on academic achievement for all students.

After four days of intensive interactions focused on developing greater expertise in leading for instructional improvement, they returned to the students that they serve with the inspiration, knowledge and energy that could make a difference for the whole school year and beyond.

The Thoughtful Classroom has been a cornerstone of our improvement at Edward Town Middle School, focusing our attention and energy on student learning like never before.

Right now the administration forces them to focus on directing their energy on getting students through academic hoops by a certain stage — allowing little time to engage learners, develop relationships or embed ambitious resilience.

I explored new websites focusing on energy and I found new ways to share this content with my students.»

This page introduces the patterns of global consumption of resources, focusing specifically on trade and energy through a 3D animation on trade and a number of graphs and maps supported by a student worksheet.

Clarity around the best purpose and use of different types of assessments along with intentionally shifting time and energy to focus on information from assessment gives teachers and students more power and more meaningful information to ensure learning.

Here's what I told them: As a teacher, I would love for someone to ask me to imagine what it would be like to work in a place that ensures that all teachers have the chance to improve their craft, and be rewarded for getting better; a place that lets all teachers make the best use of their talents by focusing their time and energy on parts of their job that they do best; a place that lets great teachers multiply their impact by giving more students access to their teaching for more pay; and a place that offers excellent teachers leadership roles that are not far removed from students.

He notes that the threshold «encouraged schools to focus their energies on students just below this proficiency cut score» since raising scores for students above that line «would not help the schools» accountability ratings.»

Help us teachers and students focus our energies once more on what really matters — student achievement and learning.

«At the beginning of this new school year, we need our district and union leaders to move past the stalemate and instead, focus their energy on the important work of implementing the new system as a tool to have meaningful conversations about how teachers and students keep growing.»

When students» energies are focused on decoding and fluency issues, their comprehension of text is often hampered.

Last year, the middle and high school worked with Education Northwest coaches on a change cycle process that focused the energies of both schools on one strand of literacy instruction that had been a challenge area for Mary Walker students: reading analysis.

«Honeywell and NSBA are united in advancing awareness and efforts to improve our school infrastructure through building improvements, energy conservation measures and other steps that ultimately improve productivity and save schools money so they can focus on what matters most — student outcomes.»