Sentences with phrase «students during the project»

This fall, I wrote about my feeling of success with designing engaging curriculum and my desire to do a better job of giving feedback to students during the project creation phase.

Find and share ideas for checking in with students during a project, class, or semester to assess their learning and see if content or instruction needs adjusting.

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The San Francisco Chronicle has an account of the event, during which students pitched their projects, such as a new disaster communication system, to faculty and venture capitalists.

Students have been able to deliver major cost savings to their companies and uncover lucrative opportunities as a result of projects completed during the program.

During the third annual Food Waste & Hunger Summit, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack drew attention to efforts like The Campus Kitchens Project, which engages college and high school students to gather unused food from dining halls, grocery stores, restaurants and farmers» markets and deliver it to the less fortunate.

Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

Constantinides first floated the idea for the project during his «State of the District» speech in 2015, envisioning the dock as a place where small boats could dock and students could participate in eco-friendly lessons about the waterfront.

«When a new substance forms during a chemical reaction, many students think that the atoms and molecules have actually changed into something new, whereas they simply rearranged, that the mass increase of plants is due to minerals in the soil, or that cell division alone accounts for animal growth,» said Cari Herrmann Abell, a senior research associate at Project 2061.

For example, Cocas arranged a collaboration between a pregnant graduate student in her lab and another student so that data collection could be finished during the new mother's leave without her losing credit for the project, she says.

During the 10 - 12 week program, students choose a research project and attend technical seminars and workshops.

According to a 2012 report from the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, the U.S. needs to produce approximately 1 million more STEM professionals during the next decade than is currently projected, yet «fewer than 40 percent of students who enter college intending to major in a STEM field complete a STEM degree.»

Help students get to know each other during class by assigning group projects.

But there are practical challenges: During the semester, all of Queensborough's lab space is devoted to teaching labs, so students must work on independent research projects after hours, on weekends, or at times when classes are not in session.

After a strong start and the ups and downs that are inevitable during your first few months in the lab, you've found your feet as a Ph.D. student and have gotten your project up to speed.

He praised the ingenuity, perseverance, and compassion that the students have shown in projects that include a water - purification system for rural residents and a motorized chair to position those with disabilities during therapy.

During a «Shark Tank» - style pitch presentation and feedback session on the first day of the colloquium, Cloyd presented the project along with lead investigator Elizabeth Suhay of American University and research associate Erin Nash of Durham University in the U.K. Erin Heath, associate director of the AAAS Office of Government Relations, is also leading the project and the team includes two graduate student researchers.

Over the last 6 years, 5 % of students who did a capstone at Olin were hired by the company they worked with during their project, with an additional 6 % hired by one of Olin's other sponsoring companies.

Yet, she wouldn't say that she felt extra pressure during her project: «I don't think I worked much differently from any other Ph.D. student.»

«We had to figure out how to dissociate the tissue into single cells without completely obliterating everything,» said Anastasia Gromova, the study's first author, now a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, who spearheaded the project while interning at TSRI during her undergraduate years.

Now a final - year genetics Ph.D. student at the Medicine Faculty of Porto University in Portugal, Joana Marques effectively started working on her Ph.D. project during her biology degree.

But that happened because the research project was part of the student's honors thesis, and done during the spring semester,» Gall said.

His next major project after Westinghouse, started during his freshman year at M.I.T., was a software program used to help students choose the right college.

The projects are judged based on a number of criteria, including how the students defined the problem, how well they designed their software, the quality of the user interface with that software, business viability, and a presentation during which the students describe and pitch their project to the judges.

The program, now in its 10th year, has led to nearly 100 students to present science, engineering and technology projects during the Pacific Division annual meeting, Jacobitz said.

We encourage teachers to build on the interest and excitement generated during Hour of Code and CSEdWeek and create opportunities for students to use, practice, and develop programming skills in projects for other subjects and assignments, too.

During the visit representatives of the foreign delegation together with SFedU students worked on a joint project of involvement of company personnel in innovation activities, participated in the seminar «Innovative regional development», as well as in the IV International scientific conference «Prospects for the development of language education in modern educational space», organized by the Department of foreign languages.

During his stay at the station, he will be in regular communication with Belgian students to help them learn about the technical aspects of the station, as well as the variety of the different scientific projects (glaciology, atmospheric sciences and Earth sciences) taking place at the station.

«Our team first observed the 15 colliding galaxies in the sample in 2005, during a previous project,» Rob Spence, University of Sheffield PhD student and co-author of the study, said in a statement.

During the summer months, it was customary to see his laboratories filled with enthusiastic high school students who were participating in science projects for minority high school students.

In fact, according to research compiled by The Ophelia Project, 48 percent of students are regularly exposed to relational aggression, with students ages 11 to 15 exposed to 33 acts of relational aggression during a typical week.

Community service differs from service - learning in that during community service, students engage in non-curriculum-based projects to meet community needs.

Since a lot of time is saved during research, students are able to incorporate a lot of information and knowledge in their projects.

During one of the project's meetings, a dean of admissions, a former first - generation student, recalled a classmate asking him where he «summered.»

Most schools have their share of math and science students who ace standardized tests, thrive during classroom discussions, and excel on independent research projects — who, in short, conquer every academic task thrown their way.

Grossman is also part of another project focused on Africa: Cybraries, an idea she came up with during her first year teaching, when she realized her students didn't really know how to use the Internet to do research.

Students from Allston - Brighton, Jamaica Plain, and Roxbury came to campus for the event, Leadership and Learning: Celebrating the Accomplishments of our Young Men, cosponsored by Harvard Public Affairs & Communications and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, during which they presented their year - long projects, met with their mentors, and saw firsthand what it's like on a college campus.

Have students reflect often — before, during, and after the project — on what they are learning in terms of content and also in terms of empathy, respect, service, civic duty, and more.

Working in cooperation with the Texas Education Agency, the University of Texas at Dallas's Texas Schools Project has combined various data sets to create a database of key characteristics of both teachers and students during this period in all Texas public schools.

The discussion usually starts out slow, but students get the hang of it, and soon we hear, «While I'm proud of my work, I think I could have done better by...» or «I was really unmotivated during the project.

Since meeting Godwaldt during Global Education Day at the 2017 International Society for Technology in Education conference, I've been keeping an eye out for more project ideas to help students take part in real - world learning.

Encourage students to identify the structure of texts that they'll be reading during that day's project time.

At the end of the course, your students will not only have a successful test of their learning, but a project that can be developed immediately by others or that later they can execute themselves during their future professional career.

During the training, we provided a grid of benchmarks to be met for each grade, projects and activities they might do with their classes to meet those benchmarks, and evaluation sheets to ensure that teachers can show parents and administrators what skills students have successfully implemented and what deficiencies still need to be addressed.

He explains, «School activities that draw out emotions - simulations, role playing, and cooperative projects, for example - may provide important contextual memory prompts that will help students recall the information during closely related events in the real world».

Students are required to describe their semester long project during the first five minutes of the presentation and to answer a number of follow - up questions during the last five minutes.

During this project, the majority of Year 7 and 9 students (70 per cent and 85 per cent respectively), improved their workbook marks from the first to the second occasion.

Here's the thing: the time you invest in conferencing with students — especially during or immediately following large projects — will save you time in the long - run with intervention and remediation.

While a student at the Ed School, she served as a student representative during the last Harvard president search and as an editor on the Harvard Educational Review, not to mention the seven part - time jobs, including her current ones: as a research assistant and «go - to person» for Professor Tom Kane and his Center for Education Policy Research and as a project manager for Professor Bridget Terry Long.

The students worked on the same projects and talked them over during their 20 - minute meetings.

Some additional activities students participate in during the project include: