Sentences with phrase «students challenging the ideas»

It included questions such as: Are students challenging the ideas of other students or the teacher?

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The idea was to have students describe their challenges in waking up in the morning for class and to obtain their feedback on a new product designed to help them do so.

Last year, a team of four students from New York University's Abu Dhabi campus and I presented in front of a panel of judges at the Hult Prize, which awards $ 1 million in seed funding to innovative startup ideas that address a global social challenge.

They decided that by holding events in corporate innovation spaces, they could link incubators with corporate innovation officers, students and other networks, unleashing networking opportunities in order to connect challenges with solutions, ideas with practical implementation.

PEP will assist small businesses by providing them access to some of our region's top business students, who can help brainstorm fresh ideas and solutions to real challenges facing a business.

The panel of judges will be looking for three key criteria when they evaluate the proposals of this year's Walmart Green Student Challenge submissions: the winning idea will present a new way of doing business, have a significant sustainability benefit, and have a strong business case to back it up.

For the second year, Walmart Canada is running the Green Student Challenge where teams of post-secondary students from across the country have an opportunity to convince some of Canada's most successful business leaders that they have the most compelling breakthrough idea to change business as we know it.

The 2018 Charlotte Venture Challenge will showcase UNC Charlotte student ventures, National Science Foundation I - Corps ventures from area universities, and Charlotte metro NC IDEA Ventureprise Launch participants.

«Prospective employers do not want a future workforce of graduates who seem thin skinned, humourless and brittle, but rather one that is composed of well - rounded people who have learned to challenge, reject or embrace some of the new and difficult ideas they encountered as students.

Whether students come from a religious or secular background, they gather at non-religious institutions to challenge their own ideas and the ideas of others, to encounter new and unique perspectives on the world, and to revel in the diversity this sort of atmosphere can offer.

I not only present content but try to challenge students with new ideas and foster their ability to reflect critically.

In terms of our previous discussion of the rhythm of education, the subject matter and an interesting manner of presenting it, the challenge of new ideas hopefully touches the recesses of creativity within each student, and stimulates their interest, prompting interest in further inquiry.

The principle behind Main Lesson seminars are to engage students in the learning process by inspiring them to prepare thoroughly, participate daily, solve problems collaboratively, explore divergent ideas, challenge assumptions, and learn to lead class discussions.

There have been few efforts to challenge the students who demand emotional protection from challenging ideas.

The candidates shared their ideas on how to help students excel academically and personally while in a district working to address its share of challenges.

So what ideas exist to help more students with similar stories and how does that happen in a district that maintains low academic standing and graduation rates along with many other challenges?

However, knowing that you have provided students and their teachers or professors with a strong, challenging resource for information and ideas is a source of pride and gives one a feeling to cherish.

So, in this article I will review this and other common challenges that graduate students face when applying for positions in industry and will give some ideas for addressing them.

In an introduction to the special JSTE issue, editors Joseph Krajcik and Ibrahim Delen call attention to the current challenges posed by NGSS, which calls for a shift from classrooms where ideas are merely presented to students to those where «students grapple with data and ideas and use those ideas to explain phenomena and design solutions to problems.»

Yet Palmer and Templeton still face all the challenges of beginning a new faculty position: recruiting students and staff, finding research funding, teaching, integrating themselves into the academic community, and establishing a steady flow of ideas and data.

Hervé Perron, then a graduate student at Grenoble University in France, dropped his Ph.D. project in 1987 to pursue something more challenging and controversial: He wanted to learn if new ideas about retroviruses — a type of virus that converts RNA into DNA — could be relevant to multiple sclerosis.

A college student, and an «inventor» got the bright idea of taking the 10 super foods for 10 days challenge and experienced micraculous results - healthier skin, acne gone, and 10 pounds lost as a result.

I love breaking down challenging poses and complex philosophical ideas for students and then seeing them really engage with the challenge.

My challenge to you is to change the culture, change the language, and change the idea of what yoga teachers and yoga students look like.

Corner describes the London College of Fashion as being centred around the development of ideas, with the staff and students using fashion, alongside cultural and historical practice, to challenge social, political and ethical agendas.

«The challenge is to find the way to bridge my experiences and ideas with the realities of what is on the ground,» especially in a way that makes sense to her students.

The impact on students of having their ideas challenged is far greater than being told the correct answer.

One challenge to generating substantive questions and ideas is getting every student's voice heard.

Through quick, deep, frequent conversations, teachers can understand students» ideas and support their challenges, act as a guide, and help identify models and sources of inspiration.

The learning is designed as a way of challenging students to examine new ideas, and ideally it results in students producing work that goes beyond their expectations of their own abilities.

When faced with this challenge, many students are taught to detach from content, to analyze with sterile language, and to develop ideas within a narrow formula.

Last spring, the classroom activity, called Care Court, earned Floyd a finalist slot in the Dean's Challenge, a contest where Ed School students worked alongside Making Caring Common to develop simple education ideas that promote empathy.

The experiment in place - based education earned the 17,000 - student Grand Rapids school district a coveted $ 10 million grant from XQ: The Super Schools Project in 2016, one of 10 awards made to schools and districts around the nation that challenge conventional ideas of what high school is.

The Student Editions include: • Links to instructional videos, audio, or texts • Links to practice quizzes or activities • 12 assessments that include a total of 39 multiple choice, 2 true / false, and 2 sorting questions • Definitions of key terms related to each of the standards • Examples of how students can apply the standards to their reading and deepen their understanding of what they are reading • Excerpts from several high - quality texts, including: - «Harriet: The Moses of Her People» by Sarah H. Bradford - «The Narrative of Sojourner Truth» by Olive Gilbert and Sojourner Truth - «On Women's Right to Vote» by Susan B. Anthony - «Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death» by Patrick Henry • Accompanying Teaching Notes files The Teaching Notes files include: • Additional activities and writing prompts to help your students explore the standard • Links to additional resources • Ideas to differentiate the activities for students who need extra support or to be challenged further • Answer guides with correct answers, answer choice rationales, word counts, and DOK (Depth of Knowledge) levels

In the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), the term «emotional disturbance» encompasses significant challenges in a student's behavior and mental health.

Wilkinson said: «Students are challenged to connect what they have learned with what they might learn next, collect data, analyse results and apply big ideas to solving real - world problems.

We followed a «design thinking» process, first empathizing as best we could with students and instructors to help us understand their daily challenges, then prototyping and testing our ideas.

We are slowly moving beyond the idea of an expectation for particular levels for each year level of school, which can miss the challenge level, the ZPD required by individual students completely.

Ideas for moving curriculum into a circular pattern and tracking performance to expose students to a wide variety of topics over and over again as the material gets more challenging

I find them useful in having them around to subliminally challenge students» thinking and to get ideas from.

A starter activity and extension task to use as a lesson of idea development, challenging students to be more ambitious in thinking how art can be made in unusual and sometimes quite fun ways.

This was a direct challenge to Rothstein's Big Idea - that there is an immutably inverse relationship between income and student achievement.

We educators always face the challenge of helping our students approach complex skills and ideas.

Knowing how difficult it is to create original activities and game that will motivate and challenge students, I have come up with this 60 - ready - to use interactive games, ideas and activities that will save you a lot of time.

«And I hoped we would challenge teacher - education students» ideas of what it means to teach,» she adds.

An endearingly low - fi video with apples as a metaphor for ideas — student - produced by rising star entrepreneur Emilie Robert Wong, winner of the Technovation Challenge in 2010 for an Android app she developed at the tender age of 14.

We approached the administration with this idea after the district and community co-developed a new Strategic Plan for Byron Public Schools that included the clauses, «Byron Public Schools will challenge the status quo and develop new norms for education by the year 2018,» and «Byron Public Schools will leverage real - world tools and skills to develop in students a passion for learning.»

Unlike teaching a required course to college students with a common denominator of age and educational preparedness, the challenge at a community college is to create a supportive and active learning environment for the discussion of ideas, writing assessment, and peer reviews among a community of strangers.

My students got used to the idea and now they are asking if they can get a challenge.

Challenging students to dig in and achieve their potential during instructional hours confronts a mighty obstacle: the principle of least effort, the idea that people apply nominal effort to achieve a basically acceptable result instead of pushing themselves in pursuit of greatness.