Sentences with phrase «students find meaningful»

Many of these training programs offer students either a certificate or an associate's degree that can help students find a meaningful career in a field whose skills are in high demand by health care professionals.

Many graduate students find meaningful work across Yale's many functional areas right here on campus.

Educators should pay close attention to the quality of the experience (loosely defined as one that students find meaningful, engaging, and connected to their personal lives) if they hope to produce positive learning outcomes.

In this Spotlight, discover the links between work students find meaningful and their levels of motivation in the classroom, see what teachers can learn from disengagement on tests, and explore how educators are building student - centered school cultures.

After chatting with Grossman I've come to see that while skills can't be developed without content, without content that students find meaningful, it's unlikely that many will remember much of either for very long.

She also stresses the importance of helping your students find meaningful volunteer opportunities that match their interests.

We're committed to career and technical education programs that help our students find meaningful futures in the region — employed in the region.»

«The quality of the homework assignment and whether or not students find it meaningful can have a significant impact on student achievement, homework completion, motivation and physical health, Pope said in a recent interview.

Stanford education expert Denise Pope says that the quality of a homework assignment and whether students find it meaningful can have a significant impact on student achievement, homework completion, motivation and even physical health.

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Based in Houston, TX, the Recipe for Success Seed - to - Plate Nutrition Education program is helping Houston students find a deeper, more meaningful connection to the food on their plates.

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.

«The findings speak to the necessity of continuing to encourage meaningful substance use prevention programs during adolescence and making sure students have the resilience skills necessary to stay away from substances,» said Dr. Nadine Connell, assistant professor of criminologyand lead author of the study.

We found that underneath the stress that students are experiencing is a deep desire to appreciate life and feel meaningful connections with other people.

To combat this meaninglessness, Damon argues that students need to find a purpose in life — something meaningful to themselves that also serves the greater good.

In addition, a recent survey of principals conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) found that of the 1,100 principals from 14 Common Core states who responded, more than 80 percent agree that the Common Core has the potential to improve conceptual understanding, increase student skill mastery and create more meaningful assessments of students.

Geelong Grammar School's transformational Positive Education programme focuses on cultivating positive emotions and character traits, encouraging students to find purpose and lead engaged and meaningful lives.

Nor do we find that schools with a larger share of white students have a meaningful increase in their WSI.

After collecting and synthesizing data from 17 states and the District of Columbia, we found that, despite state policy changes, many districts still don't factor student growth into teacher evaluation ratings in a meaningful way.

One measure might be a place where students are intrinsically motivated and find schoolwork fun because they can follow their interests and express their knowledge in ways that are meaningful for them.

As research points out, small schools improve life outcomes by helping more students graduate, thus providing them with the opportunities to attend college, find meaningful employment, and become productive citizens.

Many educators are finding innovative ways to use this tool during instruction not only to provide a platform for expanding students» communication skills, but also to allow for meaningful connection and exchange of ideas with diverse populations and audiences.

Students who struggle with the abstract concepts will find greater purchase to understanding when they hear, see, and apply the skills in meaningful ways as done by professionals.

Find out how you can use these educational tools to guide your students toward meaningful role - playing and creative exploration.

Projects motivate students to learn because they genuinely find the project's topic, Driving Question and tasks to be relevant and meaningful.

In their report, «Successful School Restructuring,» the researchers at Wisconsin's Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools found that even innovative school improvements, such as portfolio assessment and shared decision making, are less effective without accompanying meaningful student assignments based on deep inquiry.

Meaningful task for students to practice working out the area of the triangle and Extension for students to find out the base when you are given the length and area.

The key strategies he has found include asking students to integrate multiple skills (such as reading and making comparisons) at once, presenting questions in meaningful contexts, and using a variety of information forms, such as text, diagrams, and symbols.

Our findings, however, suggest that high school closures in New York City during this particular period produced meaningful benefits for future students while not harming, at least academically, the students most immediately affected by them.

While this presents a challenge, the strategic integration of meaningful closings and reflection into classroom practice gives students multiple avenues for engaging with complex ideas and allows more students to find broader meaning in their work.

One of the most replicated findings is that of a downward spiral of under - resourced schools: ratcheted academic pressure, student disengagement, discipline problems, staff mobility, and no stable or meaningful improvements in academic functioning.

Teachers have found that just connecting students with meaningful out - of - school experiences can change the way kids use their minds.

Educational innovation means finding new, positive, impactful ways to rethink roles and responsibilities, create meaningful learning opportunities, and enable students to untangle complexity.

High school students are witnessing political candidates gripe about a lack of jobs, the media proclaim the end of upward mobility, and older siblings and friends struggle to find meaningful, stable work.

We have to help students to find their passion, and with this realization comes the argument that our schools must focus not just on the Common Core State Standards but on the student standards of interest, hobby, and meaningful learning.

First and potentially most importantly, finding meaningful ways for students to express their identity and learn about their classmates» identities — in a safe space — is crucial.

These added resources will enable them to make the necessary shifts — shifts that challenge students to struggle for, and ultimately find, meaningful answers to real problems.

Yes, because each one a) asks students to construct their own responses and b) replicates meaningful tasks found in the real world.

Students develop meaningful research questions through exploring, structuring, and analyzing primary sources and successfully communicate their findings using modern technological approaches.

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To ensure that all students are learning, teachers need to find opportunities to actively engage everyone in meaningful ways.

Existing research shows textbooks differ in their effects on student achievement in meaningful ways, with well - designed studies finding effects in the.1 to.2 standard deviation range.

A study by Kirabo Jackson published in the Fall 2008 issue of Ed Next found that a program that paid students and teachers for passing scores on Advanced Placement tests produced meaningful increases in participation in the AP program and improvements in other critical education outcomes.

I also find large and meaningful reductions in the percentage of students at district schools who are required to repeat a grade as a result of charter school entry.

We can't speak for other programs or schools but we communicate often and develop meaningful relationships with our students to find what is relevant to them in their education.

Findings from this large and comprehensive evaluation show that KIPP schools lead to educationally meaningful increases in student achievement, not just in basic reading and math, but in a broader set of subjects, including science and social studies.»

Although constructivism has been defined many different ways, Applefield, Huber, and Moallem (2001), in their review of constructivist literature, found the following four central characteristics of constructivist learning: (a) learners construct their own learning; (b) the dependence of new learning on student's existing understanding; (c) the critical role of social interaction and; (d) the necessity of authentic learning tasks for meaningful learning (p. 38).

Unfortunately, over the past 20 years, there has been a significant decline in the percentage of high school students who find school to be meaningful and interesting and in the percentage who view school learning as important to their future lives.

To my mind, the failure to find meaningful differences in student performance between charter schools that do and don't use computerized learning is significant.

Future researchers will need to address the challenge, finding meaningful ways to document student achievement while documenting formative measures of progress such as parents» understanding of instructional goals, teachers» priorities and their practice, teacher understanding, and surface - level changes in materials and activities.

In another study of third to fifth graders, Skinner and Belmont (1993) found that when they believed that teachers were providing meaningful choices for them, students showed an increase in effort, attention, and interest in classroom reading and writing tasks.