Sentences with phrase «students know more about»

Often I find that when I go to schools the painting students know more about this recent history than the art history professors and the theorists.

According to a survey by social enterprise company MyKindaCrowd, 54 per cent of teachers believe their students know more about ICT and computing than they do.

We really ought to be past the time when many students know more about computers than some of their teachers.

«This is kind of humbling to admit,» Williams confesses, «But collectively, the students know more about programming the robots than I do.

2014.09.03 Post-secondary students get mixed marks when it comes to understanding credit, budgeting: RBC Poll Both post-secondary students and their parents wish students knew more about personal finance and financial literacy, according to the latest 2014 RBC Student Finances Poll...

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He's got a little story about his pal the ski instructor who knows that the secret to getting a good tip and repeat business is taking students 10 percent beyond their comfort zone, no more.

Students shouldn't borrow more in loans than they'll make in their first year of employment, said Jeff Selingo, author of «There Is Life After College: What Parents and Students Should Know About Navigating School to Prepare for the Jobs of Tomorrow.»

Since I teach MBA students, I believe that knowing more about economics and accounting is always valuable to an entrepre - neur.

Variable rates will fluctuate with the life of the loan and variable rates are currently at historic lows (2 percent range)-- meaning right now they are below federal rates (for more on this topic, see «What every borrower should know about variable - rate student loans «-RRB-.

By the end of the four days, the educators know intimately about the monetary policy process, and they can teach other teachers and their students much more accurately.

Currently, private student loans make up more than $ 165 billion of all student debt across the United States, and while this figure is far below the total $ 1.45 trillion in student loans, it is trending upward.Private student loans have some advantages when compared to federal student loans, but they also have drawbacks that borrowers should know about before applying.

If that professor is still around, I'd love to know what he must be thinking about that student who seemed to know more about how to get people to talk about «God» than he ever did.

Students will come to a theology or biblical studies class knowing more of what their tradition says about the Bible then they do about what the Bible says itself.

But the kid who would have excelled, was a fantastic student, and probably knew more about the Bible than the Sr pastor was sidelined.

Before long the student's natural craving for development will lead to the desire to know more about the subject.

Students are no more «trained» in the doing of church activities than they are simply «informed» about the results of research.

My fiancé teaches elementary school and her students seem to know more about science than you.

That task can be specified more exactly: it is to capacitate students» minds quite specifically for apologetics, for making well - warranted cases for theories about what can and can not be known about God, what should and should not be done in fidelity to God's nature and action.

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

What Parents Need to Know: We may expect to hear more from colleges about exactly how they use endowment funds to specifically help students.

We'd love to know more about that... We really enjoyed seeing all of the students» designs.

Many schools now have programs to fight these problems, and teachers and administrators know more about protecting students from violence.

She knows that the lingering stigma of what school lunch might have looked like when parents were in school will start to go away the more that students come home asking about hummus and roasted organic carrots.

Maybe when her feelings are no longer so raw she will be more willing to do more than bash her boss, fellow teachers and the parents of the students she prefesses to care so much about.

By: Bettina Elias SiegelMSNBC has a story up today about a practice that's old news for school food services directors, but may not be widely known by TLT (The Lunch Tray) readers — i.e., quietly giving «alternative» meals to students who come through the lunch line without the ability to... Read more

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

We need examples of curriculum materials that are informed by practice and research and by what we know about how students learn, and the core concepts that we've agreed all students should learn,» said Malcom, an advocate of a more diverse and inclusive educational approach for students, including those from backgrounds underrepresented in the sciences.

CDC: The typical academic laboratory employs «agents» with a wide range of expertise and experience, from the unmotivated undergraduate student who understands little about the work, to the experienced technician who is, in effect, the lab's Chief Operations Officer, to the advanced postdoc who may know more about the work than the «principal» and will be running her own laboratory in a year or two.

Although they voiced more negative opinions about unionization than their nonscientist colleagues did, their actual experiences «teaching and advising [unionized] students... were no different than in the humanities or social sciences.

If we can equip students to know more about science and have a better educated city in general, that's important.»

The idea, Lovett says, is to get students thinking about what they did not know or did not understand, why they failed to grasp this information and how they could prepare more effectively in advance of the next test.

The researchers, University of Illinois psychology professor Andrei Cimpian and doctoral student Shelbie L. Sutherland, said this «knew - it - all - along» illusion suggests that children's minds more readily absorb information about broad categories than about specifics.

«We do know that people are often more aware and concerned about health and safety regulations than they are about the needs and capabilities of disabled students.

Because of our tireless efforts, many students now want to know more about science and research.

So when they go back to the classrooms they talk about their own research, their high - tech research of isolating cancer cells to space technology — we've sent students to NASA or they do nanotechnology or, you know physics or chemistry or, you know, you name it, agriculture — and when they go back to their classrooms and talk this over among their peers, more peers get interested.

But instead of «ewwwwws» and twinging faces, the students from Decatur's Renfroe Middle School were excited to know even more about each part of the brain — asking Black, a postdoctoral researcher, more about the parts controlling speech, taste and sight, for example.

This event paired Will Rogers students with volunteers from AARP's Create The Good, so in addition to learning more about healthy living, the kids were able to spend time with adults who know a thing or two about being active and eating right.

I know I've participated in some when I was a student and did a little bit of research when I was a graduate student as well so we're going to find out more and more about this but right now let's say at the very least that interval training is the best weight loss program when compared to normal cardio.

Knowing your students strengths and weaknesses will help you to provide the best answer and in turn, will help you to excite the kids even more about their yoga experience.

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I am Hussain a Marketing student have done MBA in Marketing and Ilove to travelling talking to people and knowing more about their culture, family and country... i hopw i will get good friends here for forever...

Harold's saving grace arrives in the person of Cromer, the subversive school janitor, who knows and cares far more about the students than any teacher or administrator.

It probably never occurred to most students of the American black power movement that they should know more about the Swedish outlook on Malcolm X, Stokely Carmichael and Angela Davis.

Bruce Kawin addresses the book not just to students of film but to any filmgoer curious to know more about the process of the conception and creation of our favorite entertainment and art form.»

There may be no more obvious premise for a Woody Allen movie this decade than Joaquin Phoenix as a possibly deranged philosophy professor who enters into a dangerous liaison with his student, spouting heady diatribes about Immanuel Kant in between bouts of unfulfilling sex and murderous schemes.

This is a great way to assess what students know about early settlers such as John C. Calhoun, information about the union, tariffs, imports, and more.

The worry is that gap years become one more thing for less - advantaged students not to know about, and not to have.»

But relinquishing control for a few minutes each day and letting the students wrestle with a challenge offers a huge payoff in the end: (1) your students learn what it feels like to sweat, to stick it out, and to overcome a challenge; (2) when it comes time to solve, they are more invested in the solution; (3) the strategies they come up with activate prior knowledge and set the foundation for new learning — and tip you off about how they think and what they know and don't know.

They are wary of a world where gap years become like French horn solos, spots on the fencing team, or any of the other feats privileged high schoolers use to pad their resumes: «one more thing,» Savitz - Romer says, «for less - advantaged students not to know about and not to have.»

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