Sentences with phrase «students write their thinking»

Help students write their thoughts in their journals.

In a thinking stem, students write their thinking strategies about t...

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University program designers can review a cross-section of portfolios to glean invaluable information about whether their programs are helping students develop core overarching skills, such as writing, ethical savvy and critical thinking.

«We are scholars and teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale who have some thoughts to share and advice to offer students who are headed off to colleges around the country,» they wrote.

Harvey Mudd describes its core curriculum as «an academic boot camp in the STEM disciplines — math, physics, chemistry, biology, computer science, and engineering — as well as classes in writing and critical inquiry» that it says «gives students a broad scientific foundation and the skills to think and to solve problems across disciplines.»

Every student, who has got into trouble with custom writing, thinks: «Who will write my homework for cheap?»

Early Church History and Protestant Professors in Nineteenth - Century America by Elizabeth Clark University of Pennsylvania, 576 pages, $ 69.95 If you wish... to understand German thought,» the German theologian August Tholuck wrote an American student in 1839, «I....

In his Diary entry for 6 September 1979, Archbishop Romero wrote that Opus Dei «carries out a silent work of deep spirituality among professional people, university students and labourers... I think this is a mine of wealth for our Church — the holiness of the laity in their own profession.»

As someone writing about K — 12 education and Common Core, I have observed that students rarely have a moment to themselves to read and think, but are asked to «collaborate» in groups with their peers on «projects» and develop «speaking and listening skills» as they do.

Through intensive psychological testing, careful interviews, the writing of personal autobiographies, the use of interpersonal interaction groups, and other ways of getting to know them better, we discovered that the students tended to think in a continuum on a power - person scale.

At any rate, in a paper I wrote a couple of years later in graduate school, I argued both the pro and anti-abortion positions, and when another student» an antiabortion activist, I think» angrily demanded to know my opinion, I said, honestly, that I didn't know.

Most New Testament students think that the Fourth Gospel, showing as it does clear traces of Greek influence, could not have been written by John the beloved disciple, but what John did write it — if, indeed, his name was John at all — is less certain.

But all can include personal activity by students: thinking through problems, writing about them, discussing them with teachers and other students.

There are serious students of Whitehead who are persuaded that the closing sections on God in Process and Reality are inconsistent with his previous writing and thinking, and surely no one, perhaps not even Whitehead himself, could have foreseen on the basis of his previous work the doctrine of God which here emerges.

Students of mine, such as Professor André Cloots, Abraham Koothottil, James Eiswert, Paul Thelakat and many others started to be interested in process thought and wrote doctoral dissertations on the subject.

Lindsey Hankins, a PhD student and expert on the gendered rhetoric of martyrdom, wrote an excellent piece for Scot McKnight's Jesus Creed blog in which she notes that John Piper has «stepped squarely into an age - old thread of Christian thought.»

In Helping Children Succeed, I write about an emerging school of thought in educational psychology that focuses on the importance of students» motivations and mindset.

In this century, deeper - learning proponents argue, the job market requires a very different set of skills, one that our current educational system is not configured to help students develop: the ability to work in teams, to present ideas to a group, to write effectively, to think deeply and analytically about problems, to take information and techniques learned in one context and adapt them to a new and unfamiliar problem or situation.

[When he] started to grade these tests, the first one he picked up he noticed that the student had written on top of it: «Can't think.

WNYC, The Takeaway «How Facebook is Hurting & Helping Student Writing» November 21, 2013 «Daydream Believer: Examining the Tangible Benefits of Idle Thought» October 18, 2013 «Do Kids Need Homework?»

New York is the second state to test students under the new Common Core standards, which require more writing, critical thinking and problem - solving.

Develop specifications for writing assessment items, including the use of plausible, but incorrect, answer choices to provide more insight into students» thinking, expecially their misconceptions.

The graduate students who wrote for our Learning and Teaching Scientific Ethics mini-feature learned that, as scientists, they should think about the consequences of their actions in the laboratory.

When I start to write a letter for a former student, for example, I might find myself pausing to think, «What did they do again?

Writing a paper is usually the first thing that comes to mind when graduate students start to think about disseminating their work.

Psychologists asked college students to write essays about having more prestige than others or being low on the totem pole, thus priming them to think of themselves as having either high or low status.

When I was asked to write an article for Next Wave's March 2001 feature on underrepresented minorities in science, I enthusiastically accepted the invitation because I thought it might represent an opportunity to bring key issues to the forefront pertaining to the plight of students of color in science and engineering.

«He always keeps an eye out for each of his students,» and with him, «there is no cultural barrier,» says Chowell - Puente, who also credits his adviser for his improved writing and critical thinking skills.

Even as a grad student, Gazzaley possessed all the elements that are required of an excellent scientist, says Morrison: innovation, dedication, clear thinking, and strong writing skills.

These skills are directly related to the development of many academic skills that allow students to manage their time effectively, memorize facts, understand what they read, solve multi-step problems and organize their thoughts in writing.

Without exception, my students recognized that this online method of learning helped to improve their writing and critical thinking skills.

Using the electronic conference did not save time for me or for my students; thinking and writing still take time — even when the writing is done on a computer.

«At the macro (policy) level, I think it's important to offer a wider array of opportunities, than traditional academia, for scientists to do interesting and important work (industry and government)-- and to help doctoral students become aware of and train for these outlets for their creative work,» Amabile writes.

Then, several weeks later, the students underwent «priming» for analytical thinking — reading words such as «rational», deciphering text written in hard - to - read fonts or looking at a photo of Rodin's The Thinker (pictured).

In extensive interviews with students, Holmes and Wieman write that they found, «the only thinking the students said they did in structured and content - focused labs... was in analyzing data and checking whether it was feasible to finish the lab in time.»

by Christopher Cowley of the School of Medicine at the University of East Anglia thinks that all new medical students should at least have read some literature, if not actually written it.

Using only the classroom sounds, DART could classify the audio into three categories — single voice (traditional lecture with question and answer), multiple voice (student interactive group work), or no voice (student thinking, writing or individual problem solving)-- with over 90 percent accuracy, which matched the ability of the human evaluators to correctly classify the classroom environment.

Active learning strategies are those in which students engage through reading, writing, thinking, and problem -...

The students conducted «journaling»; written accounts of their thoughts and ideas about the issues at stake in the book.

For some students, the directions were phrased in a private context: «Please write down 7 things you think of when you think of your university.»

Culture workers from the nonprofit community can use their fellowship to pursue a program of reading, writing, and thinking or engage in a specific project with the support of center staff, faculty, and students.

For students and postdocs, honing their peer review skills is a chance to practice critical thinking and scientific writing.

Medical student writes of his experiences in the Breast Cancer Clinic and says he learned more about life and the role of healthcare providers in caring for patients than he ever thought possible.

In this setting, students are able to apply the skills they have learned in other courses, and to develop their skills in experimental design, critical thinking, and scientific writing.

Dr. Reaven: I am not sure if I «stood - out», but if there is anything that has helped me in my academic life it was the good fortune of being in an undergraduate program whose goal was to help students learn how to read, write, and think.

I'm about a 58 - year student of nuclear issues and early on I thought it sounded like a good idea, until I learnt more about it and ended up writing a few books on non-proliferation and other nuclear issues.

A study found that when 35 freshman students were assigned to write about their thoughts and feelings regarding upcoming college life, these students displayed a greater increase in working memory seven weeks later, in comparison to the 36 students who were assigned to write on a trivial topic.

Hands down, the worst dating profile I've ever read was written by a law student who thought he knew the way to impress a woman.

Hands down, the worst dating profile I've ever read was written by a law student who thought he knew the way to impress a...

Writing / directing duo Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff introduce the viewers to characters (who simply just carry the actor's names) that reflect what these two young men think high school students might act or sound like.