Sentences with phrase «students feel they work»

High school teacher and instructional coach Tony Winger laments how traditional classroom grading practices lead to grades becoming a distraction from learning — a commodity students feel they work the system to attain — rather than a clear message to students and parents.

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Instead of feeling overwhelmed by stress, here are three simple steps Weiss teaches her students to reduce anxiety and discomfort while at work.

Many have complained that multiple credit cards, student loans, auto loans, and more have made them feel like they're always working for someone else, instead of working to improve their own lives.

As with Rachel, these students provide valuable insights, particularly to instructors who feel that certain works are too difficult for students to understand.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but our news programmes are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with the sentimental love expressed in pop songs; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonise over our local sports club; we own many things, and still feel we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» at the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

Each couple will be unique in making this difficult situation work, and students should not feel guilty if it turns out to be too hard to maintain.

I worked with young refugee students and one evening expressed the distress i felt at seeing their continued pain and suffering, even when in safety here.

In short, the student reads and feels that sensation that Emerson describes so well at the beginning of «Self - Reliance»: «In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.»

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

Without God, we are torn in two directions: universities praise diversity, but students still form cliques; politicians promise a bright future, but all our news programs are distressing; people are obsessed with scientific explanations of everything, and equally obsessed with sentimental love in every pop song; sexual abuse with a minor is the most shameful of all crimes, but everyone has a right to complete sexual liberation once they reach the age of consent; we relocate all over the world, preferring to live anywhere but home, yet we still agonize over our local sports team; we own many things, and still feel like we don't have enough; we believe in discipline at school or at work, but we all have a right to «let ourselves go» on the weekend; we tolerate everything, except people that don't agree with us.

Girl, I totally know the feeling of working a summer job as a student.

Working a summer job as a student when you KNOW that you are only there very temporarily can start to feel a bit monotonous.

Berger, who spent 25 years working as a public school teacher and educational consultant in rural Massachusetts before joining Expeditionary Learning, clearly feels a special connection with those EL schools, like Polaris, that enroll high numbers of students growing up in adversity.

And, having now worked closely with Houston ISD's Food Services department for the last four years, I feel only sympathy for school districts trying to balance their budgets while meeting the HHFKA's healthier school food mandates, all in the face of insufficient funding and negative student reactions to the food.

If this helps, allow the student to choose to stand to work or move to the beanbag when he feels the need.

The little wooden tables, chairs and floor gave me a good hygienic feeling, plus all the students were behaving very well working both individually or as a group.

Recently, Maggie and her husband settled in rural Tasmania where she continues to enjoy her work as a CBI trainer, supporting students who feel inspired and passionate about birth.

While he still appreciates Canada's work, Tough feels the research indicates that ongoing success requires much more than the cognitive skills that students demonstrate on tests.

Emma Willard sent Spectrum News a statement after the billboards went up, saying in part, «We feel grief and compassion for anyone who experienced harm in the past and we are committed to the continued work that is necessary to keep our students safe.

The great thing about Global Student Challenge is that it gives the students the chance to feel what it would be like to work in a construction company making high level decisions.

«Senate Republicans are ready to work with the Governor and our partners in the Assembly to combat and root out campus sexual assault so students can feel safe in knowing that we have done everything possible to protect them from harm,» he said.

September 1, 2010 If an RCSD teacher ever feels alone in his or her good work, he or she need only attend REF's Partnership Awards Dinner to understand the depth and breadth of the partnerships supporting city school students.

July 28, 2009 If an RCSD teacher ever feels alone in his or her good work, he or she need only attend REF's Partnership Awards Dinner to understand the depth and breadth of the partnerships supporting city school students.

«So we have county mental health professionals in and working with school districts training on mental health first aid, identifying incidents of bullying where students maybe feel isolated.

Ryan Haaland, who works in the physics and engineering department at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, feels pressure to engage students in meaningful research, but the instrumentation doesn't exist and it's hard to find the money to buy it.

If you thought it was ok to take off for two months, perhaps your professors didn't feel so bad about using their time on their own research, students who prioritized their work enough to stick around the lab, or — heaven forbid — on their own free time, just like you were doing.

Today, she encourages her postdocs and students to ignore the academic tradition of working long hours and to have the confidence to work the hours they feel are appropriate.

Feeling drained from «teaching huge numbers of students,» she left the university in 1999 to work at consulting company Cantox in Mississauga, Canada, where she learned about regulatory affairs as she helped food - processing companies win approval for new ingredients from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency.

Without hands - on direction, students given just the outline of a research topic to work on often feel lost and alienated.

«The glut of graduate students» — and postdocs — «enticed by the growing support a few years ago have since found it difficult to get their own work funded... and the sudden deceleration in funding has left many researchers feeling slighted even though their funding grew by leaps and bounds in the past decade,» he writes.

A female professor wrote that it works the other way, too: in many cases, male students want facts while female students want encouragement and warm and fuzzy feelings.

And because they stay till late, students are «obliged» to keep working deep into the night because they would feel guilty if they went home earlier than the Sensei.

As you work with students at all levels, show the excitement and pride you feel for your discipline.

While visiting labs to promote the unionization effort, Nicoludis heard from research assistants who felt that they were asked to work unreasonable hours, and from female students who felt uncomfortable approaching their advisers about lewd comments; a union could potentially help resolve these situations, Nicoludis says.

And, Hewitt added, «even [among] those faculty members who didn't feel that graduate students should be unionized, still, many of them felt that graduate students were, to a degree, exploited and underpaid, did not have good working conditions.»

I find that I'm more productive working from home 1 day per week, and I feel no pressure to be in my office all day if I have no appointments or student office hours that day.

Those figures give prospective students some feel for how a program works.

It is easy for other activities to crowd the lives of undergraduate students, but when my expectations are clear my students usually keep their commitments, and we all feel good about the work in the end.

While this arrangement generally works quite well, says Simeon Taylor, chief of the Diabetes Branch and director of George Washington University's graduate program at NIH, «It's a hit - or - miss thing,» which may leave some students feeling isolated and unsupported.

Frustration with an adviser due to, for example, conflicting expectations or working styles, or a student feeling that their progress is being held back by an unavailable adviser, is a common source of trouble that O'Connell and Lane help students address.

The idea is that students should establish a personal connection to the work and a feeling of ownership.

«We instructed volunteers to walk or jog on the treadmill at a speed which they felt corresponded to the «light,» «moderate» and «vigorous» intensity descriptors used in the physical activity guide, yet they underestimated how hard they should be working to achieve moderate and vigorous intensity,» lead researcher and graduate student Karissa Canning says.

«The manufacturer should give the customer a sense of ownership and a sense of accomplishment, but without making the process feel too painful because if the perceived process costs are too great, robot evaluation is going to suffer,» said Sundar, who worked with Yuan Sun, a graduate student in communications.

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.»

Crone feels that a strong union presence can limit the ability of other graduate student organizations to work productively with the administration.

This can help counselors work with students feeling lonely, unpopular, or unsatisfied with their lives.»

Back in the Case Western lab, students seemed not to feel the weight of such responsibility on their shoulders as they chattered and worked on their projects.

I was going to be happy with my own little students like my own little lab and try to feel good about it and share some good work with some of my colleagues and friends and family and feel good about the whole thing.

The researchers found that student - athletes reported feeling uncertain in three areas: personal uncertainty, such as uncertainty about balancing school work and sports; social uncertainty, such as uncertainty related to who their «real» friends are; and future uncertainty, such as uncertainty concerning their post-collegiate careers and whether the time they spend pursuing athletics will hurt their career prospects.

«I feel incredibly fortunate and excited to work with an incredible team of students and postdocs to continue advancing our ability to edit and understand the genome,» Zhang said.