To help
students make sense of the «hard choices» around alternative energy, she wanted to find teaching materials on energy budgeting that she could use to teach her students about energy options in a more nuanced and rigorous way.
When teachers carefully select and emphasize key words and phrases in their daily interactions, they can help
students make sense of the often confusing social world.
They know that when tasks help
students make sense of important ideas, are highly relevant to students» life experiences, and are designed at a moderate level of challenge, students are willing to do the hard work that is the hallmark of excellence.
They help
students make sense of the most important ideas within the curriculum.
If well developed, it can also help give new teachers insight into how
students make sense of key concepts, the potential misunderstandings students may have along the way to comprehension, and the instructional strategies that are particularly effective for teaching a given concept or skill.
Defenses also help
students make sense of their education.
The group will continue to share with one another by analyzing samples of mathematical tasks that demonstrate how
students make sense of algebraic problems and persist in solving them.
Teachers use tools and strategies promoting both ELA and science learning, including using the 5E instructional model to scaffold lessons; helping
students make sense of science through writing in notebooks; and using Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning (CER) and questioning strategies
Students make sense of mathematical «tales» by placing missing numbers in math stories.
Allowing students to participate in mathematical discussions and conversations in the classrooms can help
students make sense of the mathematics they are learning.
«The structures and notes have helped me and
my students make sense of informational text more than other close reading.»
Two teachers share their thoughts on violence in the world and the role educators can play in helping
their students make sense of it all.
Following are some ideas for helping
students make sense of their reading:
«The problem is that when that is the only way
students make sense of affirmative action and diversity,» says Warikoo, «it leads to some perverse outcomes,» including the perception of reverse racial discrimination and anxiety about how others are affecting their success.
How do
students make sense of the texts they encounter in and outside of school?
Creating brain movies can help
students make sense of complex nonfiction subject matter and vividly see the characters, setting, and action in stories, thus bringing a text to life.
Tatum also demonstrated how he carefully crafted lessons to help
students make sense of their identity and use language to reclaim authority, share knowledge, and promote ideas.
Fifth, as I wrote a couple weeks ago, as online learning unbundles higher education, a need will emerge for entities to come along that help
students make sense of and navigate this emerging, unbundled world and integrate the modular pieces together in ways that help them carve out a coherent and sensible life path.
After decades of decline, civics education may be staging a comeback as teachers help
their students make sense of a heated political climate.
Middle - school
students make sense of local history while creating an award - winning documentary in an Environmental and Spatial Technology Initiative class.
Science projects that emphasize inquiry help
students make sense of their world and build a solid foundation for future understanding.
We can start using learning profiles when we know the various ways that each of
our students makes sense of content.
How does
a student make sense of the personality features that differentiate them from their peers?
Not exact matches
To be fair, though, it
makes sense that these
students are expecting to receive at least some degree
of post-college support.
It
makes little
sense to award executives on a biased short - term basis when the effects
of their actions can last for years, or to award directors on the basis
of time — or, as one
of my
students put it, «showing up.»
«From a fairness perspective, it
makes sense to
make this no longer an option for future private
student loans,» said Betsy Mayotte, founder and president of The Institute of Student Loan Ad
student loans,» said Betsy Mayotte, founder and president
of The Institute
of Student Loan Ad
Student Loan Advisors.
Because your return on investment outpaces your
student loan interest charges, it could
make more
sense to invest than pay off your debt ahead
of schedule.
Refinancing
student loans can
make financial
sense, but you want to look at all
of your options before committing to refinancing.
Making Sense of Student Loan Debt — notwithstanding Bernie Sanders» promises of free college tuition for all, the challenge of student loan debt isn't going away anytim
Student Loan Debt — notwithstanding Bernie Sanders» promises
of free college tuition for all, the challenge
of student loan debt isn't going away anytim
student loan debt isn't going away anytime soon.
Paying off your
student loans as soon as possible
makes a lot
of financial
sense, but be aware
of how it may affect your credit score.
If you currently have a
student loan with a very low fixed interest rate, it
makes more economic
sense to pay only the minimum payments because
of the low fixes rate and because
of inflation.
Hundreds
of students at the school, just over the county line from the site
of last week's school shooting, came together Tuesday morning for a moment
of silence and to
make sense of the deadly assault carried out by a former Marjory Stoneman Douglas
student.
Wouldn't it
make more
sense to have pictures
of students discussing the bible?
I've found a number
of students here who respond well to her and say they've never been able to
make sense of Christianity before.
However, when schools open their doors to
students of highly diverse backgrounds and interests, rigid grade standards
make no
sense.
He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique
of current educational practices because it works in «the framework
of a Deweyan understanding
of democracy» in which
students are to be
made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more
sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.
One day two or three
of us
students said to him that the Trinity
of experience was to us real and understandable, but that we could not
make any
sense out
of what he called Triunity in God.
We are still a predominantly Christian society — it only
makes sense to close for Christian holidays if most
of the
students would be missing (I think we only closed for two or three anyway — New Years Day [it is a Holy day
of obligation as well as the first day
of the year], Good Friday, but maybe just a partial day off, can't remember, and Christmas.
In partial defense
of this view, Parmenides»
student, Zeno, showed that both science and common
sense ran into paradoxes when they assumed (as they did at that time) that space and time are
made up
of elementary units, but still are continua.
It does not enable
students to
make consistent
sense of nature.
As any
student of Greek knows, there are numerous Greek verbs that
make absolutely no
sense when it comes to their principal parts.
The current arrangement
of the theological curriculum
makes no more
sense, he explains, than if a medical school were to claim that it had to keep
students away from patients in order really to teach them about medicine.
His keen intuitive
sense of the nuances and complex interrelationships between arguments was evident to his
students, but this same gift
made it painfully difficult for him to
make a clean or orderly account
of his arguments.
We kicked off with a role play — imagine a
student in your college ministry approached you because she had become friends with a Muslim
student on campus, and she was looking to you, as a Christian leader to help her
make sense of that friendship.
Of course, I do not teach church history here as I would a university course, but with a view to helping a student make some sense out of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issue
Of course, I do not teach church history here as I would a university course, but with a view to helping a
student make some
sense out
of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issue
of the whole Christian heritage and to apply insights to actual pastoral issues.
Kate Percy shares a case study
of one
of the first
students to join the «Eat Like an Athlete» healthy eating programme for schools, which aims to enable children to
make sense of food by linking what we eat to how we perform and feel.
She carried a deep
sense of injustice from her days as an amateur player, when she was forced to get by on $ 100 a week as a playground instructor and college
student at the same time that she was
making the Wimbledon finals.
So if participation in high school sports is good for
students, at a certain level it
makes sense that as many
students as possible should get that opportunity — but if the same group
of athletes hogs three sports» worth
of spots, then opportunities are lost for others.
Wearing Del Oro's ominous black and gold colors and # 56 lapel pins memorializing Ronny,
students whispered to each other wondering how to
make sense of it all.
I hope you younger
students, even you girls way back there in the sunshine yellow ties, remember that the little things you do for others really
make a difference — not only for the people who you help, but for your own growth and
sense of self - worth.