Sentences with phrase «think of helping students»

When people hear the term, digital citizenship, most people think of helping students to protect their privacy and be aware of their digital footprint.

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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.

Reflecting on the past three years, I couldn't help but pause and think how far we've come from our first class of 17 students.

To explore the places where design thinking and lean startup intersect, we organized a conversation between two faculty members who help run the Stanford Graduate School of Business Startup Garage, where students design and test new ventures.

We started thinking about how we could take this group of highly knowledgeable, experienced college - student tutors who had availability and match them up with students who needed help at any given time.

I'm always thinking about how to help our students get more out of our course.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

Product Idea to Product Success is an educational and thought - provoking mix of quizzes, surveys, and marketing plans to help the student.

Haley Zink, a 21 - year - old community college student who helped to organize a «sibling march» in St. Louis, Missouri, had a message for those who think this movement is just a bunch of loud kids: «I want to it be clear to everyone that, no we are not.»

Why do you think that empty school buildings are better than having churches that are helping poor people that are helping people get off drugs, get out of crime and tutoring students of all faiths?»

Let me help Nathan out a bit... Christ, if you are a medical student as still think that the theory of evolution claims that the human body happened «randomly,» please leave school now and do not endanger people's lives.

He not only provides detailed explanations of the text all the way through (which providing lots of footnotes for those who want to research in more depth), but he also provides theological asides that help the student of Scripture see how the book influences our life and thinking today.

Jamaal Curry: Our students go in a lot of directions after graduation, and I think the college / university should act as a springboard to help students get in that direction they want to go in.

I don't think our contemporary regime of lite reading for college students is a one - way ticket to Gehenna, but colleges could do better and parents could help them by including some little lit among the bedtime stories.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The faculty adviser can help a student find opportunities, both in choice of courses and elsewhere, to think through his own philosophy of life.

Thus the clinical and theoretical material is integrated; psychological and theological understanding is related; and the student is helped to think critically about his own work, to benefit from the insights of his peers as well as those of his teachers, and to honestly face the problems involved in his relationships with others.

The purpose of courses in theology and ethics, then, would not be to explore ethical «positions» or «systems» of theological thought as such but rather to «help students to become practical Christian thinkers» (106).

I think we should clear up the notion that lots of people seem to have that Bill Nye somehow needs the publicity of this statement and that he's somehow not qualified to speak on this subject: Bill Nye is a noted astrophysicist who designed planes for Boeing, was a student and friend of Carl Sagan, and helped design parts of the Mars Rover.

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.

I think that is part of our emphasis on nutrition — we serve students fresh fruit, fresh produce, and breakfast every day and I think that's helped them be ready to perform academically.

While I don't mean to minimize the plight of financially disadvantaged students, I couldn't help but think how much I'd rather have my child eat a simple sandwich than some of the highly processed food my own district regularly serves.

And she found that it's incredibly predictive, that people are pretty honest about their grit levels and that those who say, «Yes, I really stick with tasks,» are much more likely to succeed, even in tasks that involve a lot of what we think of as IQ: She gave the test to students who were in the National Spelling Bee and the kids with the highest grit scores were more likely to persist to the later rounds; she gave it to freshmen at the University of Pennsylvania and grit helped them persist in college; she even gave it to cadets at West Point and it predicted who was going to survive this initiation called «Beast Barracks.»

She suggests that teachers think about the purpose of each assignment and she offers professional development and tools on how to create assignments that are relevant and engaging for the student — or «doable,» as she puts it — without the help of others.

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?»

As this year's legislative session nears, I can't help but think that students — and public education — are having a Groundhog Day experience of their own.

«I think it is very rare for a graduate student to have direct opportunity, so quickly out of graduate school, to see their research really be translated, able to help patients in a really, really, rapid way,» Kotterman says.

«These students become aware of the different jobs within a lab, different ways of thinking, and have also a direct link with real scientists who can help them for their future orientation.»

I like to think I'm helping inspire the next generation of students, as I was inspired by my own field station visits years ago.

The Lindamood - Bell program focuses on helping students develop the sensory and cognitive processing necessary for reading, such as thinking about words as units of sound, and translating printed letters into word meanings.

«I think that there are a lot of advisers out there who suffer from a failure of imagination in two ways: One, they can't imagine a life outside of academics; and two, if they can imagine a life outside of academics, they don't have the resources or information required to help their students find that place.»

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

Talking to your peers, students ahead of you, and people who have earned doctorates in your discipline can help you realize that many others — including those who have successfully completed their degrees and moved on to satisfying careers — have had similar thoughts at one point or another.

Not only should a good adviser help students explore new ways of thinking and learning, they should also act as their advocates, helping them to network and develop professionally, willing to «put their careers at least on an equal footing with their own,» says Soffa.

«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.

«One of the goals of this project is to help students think about labs as environments where science is practiced, [but] also [as] an environment that's shaped by culture and by norms,» says Julia Kent, CGS's director of global communications and best practices and Denecke's co — principal investigator on the project.

Baker thinks this kind of information could ultimately help teachers and guidance counselors figure out not only which students are at risk of academic problems but also why they are at risk and what can be done to help them.

«When I think about the tradeoff of a graduate student for a staff scientist who is already extremely well trained, who can work without constant supervision, who can really help train the younger people in the laboratory,... I actually think we'll be more productive,» she said.

They recruited both male and female college students and asked some of them to think about how their romantic partners helped them achieve their academic goals.

To help students understand these, the programme uses the metaphor of «parrots of perception,» which represent common negative thoughts or ways that our mind convinces us of things that are not really true.

The following Science Buddies posts are designed to help teachers think about the new cohabitation of scientific method and engineering design processes both conceptually and through concrete, side - by - side, comparison of the methods and what it means to have a student complete a project following one approach versus the other:

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.

However, there are times when a physician will alert you to contraindications you might not otherwise have thought of, which can help you plan your student's practice.

Instead, it encourages a restful state of mind beyond thinking... A 2009 study found Transcendental Meditation helped alleviate stress in college students, while another found it helped reduce blood pressure, anxiety, depression and anger.

Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals — from organizing their thoughts Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

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Engage your students in online literacy learning with these interactive tools that help them accomplish a variety of goals — from organizing their thoughts Note: In April of 2009, the Modern Language Association released a seventh edition of the MLA Handbook, in which they made a few important changes to MLA

As big of a deal as this is to the unassuming radio producer, it is the people surrounding him that make a drama to his life: best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen, Green Hornet) thinks cancer will be a chick magnet; girlfriend Rachael (Bryce Dallas Howard, The Help) is struggling to cope; student therapist Katherine (Anna Kendrick, Twilight) has him in a tailspin; and his mother (Anjelica Huston, Smash) immediately responds «I'm moving in» to his dinnertime announcement.

Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson) isn't a particularly special high school student, but he's puzzled why no one ever thought about becoming a superhero or — in lieu of getting cool powers that would let them lift a car, fly or shoot lasers from their eyes — just dress up in a costume and help their fellow man.