Sentences with phrase «students say the topic»

Most previous studies on evolution views were done in the Midwest and Northeast, Rissler said, and hearing many of her students say the topic was avoided in their high - school science classes helped prompt the study, she said.

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On the topic of temptation, Green said he learned a big lesson from the early days of his first company, Zimride, a ride - sharing service for college students and employees of local companies.

«This strong vote of confidence from the AACSB demonstrates the tremendous progress we have made at Haskayne to improve the student experience, research important business topics and engage with our community,» says Jim Dewald, dean of the school.

The occasion for such remarks is «Standing for the Unborn,» a statement of the Office of Social and International Ministries of the Society of Jesus in the U.S. «In treating this delicate and controversial topic, we hope to provide our brother Jesuits, colleagues, parishioners, and students with the spiritual leadership and ethical guidance they expect from us,» the statement says.

If, however, our scenario had been a different topic — say, a student had experienced extreme poverty for the first time, or realized the magnitude of the global AIDS crisis and wanted to talk to her pastor about how her faith speaks to that — I imagine the response would have been easier for our students to get out and distinctly Christian.

As schools adjust to the needs of the concussed student, we are happy to help educate school board members about the various considerations surrounding this important topic and offer our services as Athletic Trainers as resources to developing the appropriate protocol,» says NYSATA President - Elect Aimee Brunelle, MS, ATC, EMT and co-presenter of the NYSATA session.

«Think about what is taught during the school day, those important topics, to students who maybe haven't eaten since the night before,» said Fillmore.

The NPP running mate said this in a lecture on the topic: «The Role of Financial Discipline and Investment in National Development» at a National Financial Literacy and Investment Summit organised by the University Students Association of Ghana (USAG) at the University for Development Studies, Wa campus.

The parents, he said, are covering a range of topics, including education law, how to advocate for their students and how to work with other parents.

«The facts of the matter are that as part of the SRC week celebration, the Executive Committee of SRC had a meeting with Management of the University on 30th March, 2016 during which they requested for permission to host Dr Bawumia to talk on the topic «Peace: A Pre-requisite for Economic Development» to the general student body,» the statement said.

Three and a half minutes later, Madore tried again during the sanctioned off - topic portion of the Q&A, saying SUNY professors will have one less day to work right before final exams and asking whether the Governor is concerned about the impact that could have on students» education.

In a statement, Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos said his conference takes sexual assaults on college campuses seriously and he looks forward to working with LaValle, who released a report on the topic and plans to hold further hearings, «to ensure that students at all New York college campuses are kept safe.»

Students said the sanctuary campus bill and the mental health initiative were among the most important topics discussed at the first debate between James Franco and Tyler Rossi.

Utah parents seek criminal penalties against teacher who they say went too far in sex ed class: «The Jordan School District is investigating allegations that a seventh - and eighth - grade health teacher violated the sex education statute by responding to questions from students about topics beyond the core curriculum, including homosexual sex, oral sex and masturbation.»

Industry grants and fellowships «are probably fine as long as the student has the opportunity to choose his or her dissertation [topic] and conduct the research independently of the company and publish their results,» Campbell says.

Eliza Reilly, executive director of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, a non-profit which seeks to strengthen student learning and interest in STEM by connecting course topics to issues of local, national and global importance, said rethinking STEM education is necessary to produce graduates equipped to tackle society's environmental, economic and political challenges.

That's why I'm standing at this table,» said Chantz Thomas, a chemistry doctoral student at the University of Washington, who selected the food topic.

«UCF's alert system was a popular topic of conversation prior to the planned attack due to the high volume of alerts students and faculty received,» said Kopel, a graduate student in applied experimental human factors.

Teachers respond by attempting to teach a topic a week, says education professor Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, an adviser to the TIMSS study, but that approach «denies students the opportunity to find out what it is like to have a deep understanding of any subject.»

Along with a faculty mentor, students will be «designing their research, deciding what research questions to ask, and deciding what topics to work on,» he says.

Jusko says that, among his students, the hottest topics of interest involve biotech — particularly protein therapeutic agents — because many future new drugs will likely be biologicals.

«These special guests will help my students meet role models and get a number of viewpoints on the same topics that they've been practicing here in class,» he says.

«It's possible that the negative effect that we have detected will disappear at that point, because in secondary school, the students have a higher level of English,» says Carro, who also proposes another topic to be analyzed: find out what other factors can influence the program's results, such a the importance of the teachers» level of English.

«The opportunities represented by digital media are exciting and a lot of them are untapped — such as tracking learners over time, personalizing education and letting students learn different topics at different speeds,» Plass said.

«It would have been considered a really silly topic for my thesis,» says Didier Queloz, who was a PhD student at the University of Geneva at the time.

The findings provide fundamental new knowledge about how memory works, Zeithamova said, and eventually could lead to new strategies in educational settings that help students to consolidate new information with previously learned material to build stronger cognitive maps of various topics.

For example, the animated tutor could say, «Let me repeat that...,» give a student a pop quiz or change the topic.

«I want each student to care and be passionate about her topic,» says Lisa, who has been using Science Buddies and the Topic Selection Wizard with students at Brawerman for several ytopic,» says Lisa, who has been using Science Buddies and the Topic Selection Wizard with students at Brawerman for several yTopic Selection Wizard with students at Brawerman for several years.

«I gave my students a research paper on any topic they wanted and told them they needed to use diverse sources from within the past five years,» she says.

While teachers may be tempted to ban debate on topics that could offend or even harm their students in their class — President Trump's immigration ban, for example, or mass deportations — «it's disingenuous to pretend that these are not real issues,» says Levinson.

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Sheean Haley, who helped develop a four - day art and science program for students in Falmouth, Massachusetts, says using the ocean as a topic adds versatility to lessons.

«It's a way of diversifying and showing students that science is very broad and that there are many different topics,» Haley says.

Instead of building during the first 12 years of schooling toward expertise in an advanced topic like calculus that hardly ever comes up in our lives, Perkins says students can instead become «expert amateurs» in something like statistics — a rigorous topic that is also used in daily life.

Several of the students, she said, still hadn't mastered the topic.

Unfortunately, if someone questions whether this expertise serves students well and instead suggests more life - relevant topics, Perkins says the common reaction is: «We're sacrificing rigor!»

Eunice Nuval, who teaches at a San Francisco continuation high school, says choosing a topic that's relevant to her students» lives keeps them engaged with the project.

The following topics are covered within the teacher presentation (85 slides including exercises and solution) and the student workbook: school, food and drink, customer transactions, healthy eating, leisure and past times, cinema and technology, weather and accommodation, countries, holidays, family members, rooms in the house, furniture, describing your town or your house, prepositions and places in town, parts of the body, opinions, adjectives, time markers, seasons, days of the week, months of the year, times, greetings and everyday sayings, quantities, antonyms, adverbs, connectives, prepositions and comparatives!

«The students immediately knew people who had something to say about the topic,» explains Nuval, whose class consists entirely of students of color.

If I do say so, I've experienced some success with topical differentiation (giving students choice when it comes to the topics they explore) and learning style differentiation (providing activities that appeal to the spectrum of learning styles), but readiness differentiation — instruction dictated by a student's readiness, or ability, to comprehend a concept or develop a skill — has presented a much bigger challenge.

Should federal administrators have a big say on what schools teach their students on this politically loaded topic?

«It's given me an opportunity that wouldn't have been there,» said Maryland student Erin Neubauer in an Education Week article on the topic.

«They are teaching topics that resonate with students,» says Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Matthew Miller, Ed.M.»

A study of California schools that underwent class size reduction in 1996, found that teachers and parents are happier, according to a recent Daily Report Card: «Teachers say they can cover more topics, teach at a faster pace, give more attention to students having trouble, and identify those who need special education sooner.»

«Our hope is to inform a lot of people in the Harvard community, who may be interested in this topic, or for personal reasons, such as knowing family or friends who may have experienced a brain injury or even those working in medical or educational fields that may work with brain development or brain health or social services in the community,» says Nancy Meserve, the club's cofounder and a current student in the Mind, Brain, and Education Program.

Additionally I have included several reading and writing activities about Spanish geography to provide the students with a better understanding of Spanish geographical features (and at the end of the topic they will even believe you when you say that it does indeed snow in Spain; quite a lot, actually!)

I chose topics that I knew they said they needed to revise, but it may be useful for other students preparing for GCSE Statistics modules / examinations.

Vocabulary: Build vocabulary words by asking students to think up words related to your topic that begin with the last letter of the previous word said.

He says the videos help students understand advanced topics, such as how to find the area under a curve using a calculator.

«One of the reasons I was asked to head the project,» Smith says, «was my experience with international universities and with academic themes like globalization, world awareness, and international relations, topics that I consider in the forefront of what today's generation of university students should be learning.»