Sentences with phrase «understanding is good for both students»

Checking for understanding is good for both students and teachers.

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But for most students, college is necessary to get a better understanding of life in general.

The ECR program is delivered in conjunction with another service, Postgraduates for International Business (PIB), wherein an international graduate student is assigned to the SME to help the company better understand the target market context and cultural differences, and adapt the SME's messages to the host country language.

Whether you're taking out student loans, preparing for repayment, or considering forbearance, it's crucial to understand how student loan interest works so you can make the best choices for your finances.

If you have student loans in repayment, understanding the risks for default and your repayment options is important to keep your loans in good standing.

The initial duty in applied science, research, or teaching is to do the job well: to design an airplane wing that will hold under stress, to find a valid equation for chemical equilibrium, or to help students gain sound understanding of metabolism.

Maybe the best way to amplify and elevate President Trump's understanding of that word «pro-life» would be for a premier Catholic university — say, for example, the University of Notre Dame — to invite him to campus to offer its commencement address, to explain his personal evolution on the abortion issue, and to share, listen, and learn with a cross-section of students and faculty in a respectful dialogue on the meaning of human dignity.

Major differences between faculty and student responsibility for the very occurrence of such activities may suggest tensions between different sets of implicit commitments regarding what is central to the Christian thing and how best to go about understanding God.

«It was new, and people didn't understand it but I thought it sounded great,» she said, and went about the business of collecting data for staffers to better understand the impact of breakfast on students.

As a student of child and educational psychology, I understand the importance of dramatic play for the social and emotional well - being of a child, in addition to the educational value it can bring.

Together we figured out what was the best plan of action for my daughter to feel respected, for the student teacher to understand what he had done, and to prevent future incidents, without my daughter feeling vulnerable.

This fascinating tour is taken by about 44,000 students annually and is a must for any NY history buffs or for anyone seeking to better understand the life of our earliest immigrants.

We know BC schools understand the central role mental well - being plays both in fostering optimal environments for learning, and in engaging students as they develop their skills and explore their passions.

Lucky for us, we have a left leaning school board who do support our efforts and who understand that this is an investment they make in our students which pays big dividends in terms of better focus in the classroom and improved educational outcomes.

I completely understand the idea from the standpoint of nutrition — my concern is in the area of allergies and food sensitivities and, for lack of better word... trust... students (parents) being wary of what might turn up in an unexpected place.

«Mayoral control hearings are necessary to provide transparency, accountability, and a better understanding of the long - term vision for educating all of New York City's students,» said Majority Leader John Flanagan.

All the usual contemporary justifications for the subject of RE in the school curriculum — its contribution to social cohesion and mutual understanding, its presentation of a range of answers to questions of meaning and purpose, and its role in the search for personal identity and values — can best be served by including humanist perspectives and non-religious students.

For instance, today's students are less likely to agree with statements like, «I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective» and «I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.&raqFor instance, today's students are less likely to agree with statements like, «I sometimes try to understand my friends better by imagining how things look from their perspective» and «I often have tender, concerned feelings for people less fortunate than me.&raqfor people less fortunate than me.»

«Given that marijuana is the most commonly used illicit drug by high school students in the U.S., having a better understanding of how marijuana use affects future SC use and vice versa is essential for designing effective prevention and intervention programs.»

First, it can be used for practical purposes;, also there is a theoretical part, which is about fundamentally better understanding these phenomena,» said Tibor Durgonics who is a Ph.D. student at DTU Space and the main author of the new article in Radio Science.

«My main goal is for [the students] to have an appreciation and better understanding of plants and of biology in general,» says Moctezuma, who joined the Department of Cell Biology and Molecular Genetics at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 2003 as an instructor.

It includes recommendations to provide direct funding incentives in the PBF model for the success of one or more at - risk student groups, to introduce measures that wouldn't punish institutions for experimenting with new programs to increase student success, and to better understand the impact of PBF on community colleges before a larger proportion of state funds are tied to the model.

For starters, there's the fact that 70 % of middle school students possess no more than a «basic» understanding of what they need to know to do well in the subject, and only 2 % perform at an «advanced» level.

Using Project 2061's Atlas of Science Literacy and other tools, workshop participants get a better understanding of the science ideas students need to learn and develop new strategies for sequencing lessons to build on what students already know and for helping students see how concepts fit together and can be applied to various scenarios.

The Research Ministry is asking for a 5 % increase in the 3 - year grants in next year's government budget, but Poinsot says the Finance Ministry does not understand the work of doctoral students and fears it might well turn a deaf ear to the idea of any increase at all.

A further understanding of cognitive development in young students, Orosco said, both by researchers and educators working with English - language learners, could ultimately lead to better reading instruction for all students, improved measurement processes and fewer students unnecessarily being placed in special education classes.

These books may be great for attracting interest or raising awareness but, when it comes to helping students to understand, a thousand words are often a lot better than a picture.

«The information collected using this technique can be used to better understand the behavior of concrete when it fails, as well as providing key data for «constitutive» models that are used for designing and determining the safety of large - scale civil engineering structures,» says Rahnuma Shahrin, a civil engineering Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of a paper on the work.

This approach reveals how well students understand the problem they are trying to solve and the demand for a potential solution, Perera says.

So, it's very important for politicians to understand the importance of science and technology, not because it's a good thing to talk about, but especially in an age of today where we are in a globalized economy, where competition is — I tell my students, if you can not work hard, by the time they will graduate, the jobs will be taken away — you have to constantly work hard and think creatively and engage yourselves in a way, in a globalized economy.

The information provided in the article on CRISPR with mechanisms, advantages and set backs is precious and documented well for the understanding of general biology student.

Shaw, who is also a senior research fellow at the Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Columbia University, spoke to a packed auditorium of Columbia Engineering students last spring about how the development of high - speed simulations is making possible insights into human biology that could lead to better understanding of protein behavior and to improvements in drug discovery.

A great teacher is empathetic, compassionate, and looks out for a student's best interest while conveying their understanding of the practice.

This might be a good answer for some patients, especially my yoga students who are well versed in an understanding of prana and the nadis and who have a connection to the mind - body energetics that yoga is ultimately seeking to explore.

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For each posture students are encouraged to understand the human anatomy as well as differences pertaining to the male and female body.

This foundational 200 — hour program is appropriate for aspiring teachers as well as dedicated students who are interested in deepening their practice and understanding of Yoga.

While our open - group yoga and meditation sessions are intimate and specialized to provide a certain level of attention to each student in addition to serving the purpose of coming together in universal consciousness, we understand the need for private sessions as well.

Compared with college students, Members on these elite singles dating websites have better understanding of love and life, and they are ready for marriage and family lives.

Roughly 300 college students were surveyed for the report, which involved a series of open - ended questions aimed at better understanding how the age group perceives sexual behavior.

But scholars and educators would do well to revisit Coleman's earlier focus on student culture and motivations if we're to understand, in his words, «why and for whom educational institutions fail.»

A Better Alternative to For - Profit College TIME, 9/16/16 «Students often «don't understand the burden they are taking on,» says economist David Deming, a professor at Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.

«Both Molly and Jal understand the critical role of teachers, as well as the types of supportive systems that must be in place to ensure success for students and teachers,» he added.

To better understand opportunities for low - income students in general and special education, we propose to examine the likelihood that low - income and non-low-income students are identified for special education services and once identified, are placed in segregated classrooms.

When students were asked to come up with a better design for the lot, they applied their understanding of geometry, civics, law, engineering, and public speaking.

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.

To measure historical empathy, we included three statements on the survey with which students could express their level of agreement or disagreement: 1) I have a good understanding of how early Americans thought and felt; 2) I can imagine what life was like for people 100 years ago; and 3) When looking at a painting that shows people, I try to imagine what those people are thinking.

Studying larger, systemic forces in society can help students better understand their situation, and can be a useful starting point for students to become more active themselves.

Elani McDonald will also address the demands to incorporate IT into advancing teaching of maths and science as a process of bettering understanding of STEM subjects.Middlesborough College's Richard Spencer, finalist of the secondary Global Teacher Prize, provides his top tips to get students interested in science, while there will also be a seminar exploring what «outstanding» levels of science looks like and how you can replicate this for students — from primary to A levels.

All teachers were evaluated by five structured classroom observations aligned to the district's Teaching and Learning Framework, which defined domains of effective instruction, such as leading well - organized, objective - driven lessons; checking for student understanding; explaining content clearly; and maximizing instructional time.