Sentences with phrase «students teach me today»

Teacher researchers pause each morning as they walk into their classrooms and ask, «What will my students teach me today?»

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The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

That's the way economic students are being taught today.

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We help universities and teaching institutions across the globe prepare students to maintain and modernize the COBOL and mainframe systems that support today's business applications.

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

Today, we are heading to a local university to teach and then will spend the evening with college students.

Any student should know that James Petrigu Boyce had a much different set of beliefs than what the Southern Baptists teach today.

Whatever one's quibbles with the list, few would disagree that teaching students who would be at home with the vocabulary would be an unlikely pleasure in today's world.

It is a pleasure to wrestle with the ideas advanced by Bloom, Boyer, Bok and Kimball, today's college professors will tell you, but if teaching is a process of building on what students already know, how can they be expected to teach students who don't know anything — the culturally illiterate?

Bloom's book (subtitled How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students) is an attention - grabber, mainly because the author, who now teaches philosophy and political science at the University of Chicago, is a polemicist with an obvious scorn for understatement.

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

One of the most pressing intellectual responsibilities of the Negro student and minister today is that of working out some of the ethical and theological clues that the Negro revolution is teaching him and us all.)

Mutianus wrote to a friend: «Today the apes of theology occupy the whole university, teaching their students the figures of Donatus, a most unintelligible thing; the figures of Parvulus, pure nonsense; mere exercises in complexities the silliest stuff.»

As a professor old enough to have been a student in the»30s, I find it useful and indeed instructive to compare my own student generation's attitude toward sports with that which I see among the bushy - haired young men I teach today.

After all, we are the parents / grandparents of today's school students, and if the lesson we teach our kids is «eat whatever crap is put on your plate», then what right do we have to complain when they choose to eat crap?

In today's society, he would be viewed as data - driven, and he taught his students to simply describe observable symptoms rather than try to interpret them.

Most teachers today are required to have a college degree and complete a mentored student teaching internship before being eligible to teach.

He said: «It is much more important today to emphasise also how we should teach which will obviously impact how we should examine, what questions we should be asking and what we should be looking for in our students.

These are the experts that teach college students today and will write the history of this era tomorrow».

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña Celebrate Computer Science Education Week Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña today visited PS 241 in Brooklyn to celebrate Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 5 - 11), a national and global effort encouraging schools to engage students in computer science (CS) education by teaching an «Hour of Code» or hosting other CS activities and events.

Speaking today [Tuesday] at a seminar for journalists, Head of the West African Examination Council (WAEC), Rev. Samuel Ollennu said the move will guarantee that the nine terms allocated to teaching and learning in second cycle schools are fully exhausted by students...

Today, Cox teaches chemical engineering and specialist courses in food engineering to master's degree students.

This misconception persists today, even at schools that make an effort to teach international students about their rights, says Francesco Bellei, an international Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and vice president of the school's graduate student council.

Today HHMI announced plans to give $ 1 million over 4 years to each of 20 faculty members at top - notch research universities whose commitment to teaching students matches their thirst for new knowledge.

Krishnamacharya is credited with bringing hatha yoga to the west through his students: B.K.S. Iyengar, Sri K. Pattabhi Jois, Indra Devi, and TKV Desikachar, who created their own styles to carry on his teachings and eventually influence the types of classes you might experience at a studio (or even a gym) today.

Today, Torie teaches yoga and herb classes that help her students gain a better understanding of their own bodies, and how to enhance health through the power of plants.

Before I had a child, my approach to teaching yoga was very different from the expectations I now have today as a student.

Luckily for me conferences begin today and all the prep work is complete so I'll be spending today and tomorrow teaching half a day and meeting with my students and their parents.

On average, today's teachers are older and hence their preparation for teaching occurred when academic achievement was not recognized as the primary purpose of schooling; their professional experience was in institutions that did not demand academic performance from them or their students.

Today's students are the most technologically engaged and savvy generation there's ever been, with two thirds of 8 - 12 year olds now owning a smartphone, and teaching methods need to reflect that.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Dr. Pruitt is very concerned with addressing the diverse student population that we are teaching today.

Today's arbitrary target will only serve to sharpen teaching to the test and a concentration on borderline students.

Today, schools around the world are teaching design thinking to their students to foster innovation skills.

We need to be teaching the learning our students need today but unfortunately some are still teaching (and testing) for yesterday.

This unit is designed to educate students on the 12 most common religions in the world today through web - based research: Baha'i, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, Jainism, Judaism, Shinto, Sikhism, Taoism and Zoroastrianism; while at the same time facilitating the development of opinions on spiritual matters, teaching tolerance, and strengthening student writing through daily prompts and a final creative writing project.

Maybe today's technology can finally make a progressive teaching approach more doable for teachers and students in more classrooms.

Today more than 9,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two - year teaching commitments in 43 regions across the country, reaching over 600,000 students, and nearly 24,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.

A new Web site is available today to connect teachers, parents, and students to teaching and learning resources in math, science, and other subject areas from NASA, the Energy Department, the National Science Foundation, and other agencies.

The policies that states use to govern the teaching profession are outdated, both too inflexible and not rigorous enough, and often privilege the interests of teachers over those of students, an encyclopedic review of state regulations of the field released today concludes.

If approved, the investment would mark an opportunity not only to invest in bringing a high leverage skillset to today's students, but also to fundamentally rethink teaching and learning, with the potential to bring industry experts to bear in classrooms.

I'm really committed to teaching science in a way that shows students that their culture and ancestral peoples have contributed to what we consider science today.

Rather than rows of students, all staring in the same direction, today's classroom should embrace the same collaborative environment that modern teaching technology aims to create.

Many of the current mathematics teachers in secondary schools today have not studied the topics they are teaching since they themselves were middle - or high - school students.

Beyond teaching English as a second language, schools today are developing curriculum relevant to the culture of Latino students.

The educational assessment tests states use today have two fundamental flaws: They encourage the sort of mind - numbing drill - and - kill teaching educators (and students) despise, and, just as important, they don't tell us much about the quality of student learning.

Her research explores ways in which teachers can more effectively teach the full spectrum of students in today's classrooms and centers on the teaching knowledge and abilities of educators in nontraditional contexts spanning indigenous settings in the USAPI, Hawaii, the lower 48 states, and Alaska.

Let's imagine that, due to Say, See, Do Teaching and adequate Structured Practice, your students can do the problems in today's lesson «with one eye closed» before they transition to Guided Practice.