Sentences with phrase «used by students while»

However, there may be a limit on the coverage on property used by students while away at university.

Can be used by students while reading independently, with partners, or during whole class activities.

Not exact matches

My kid already uses Siri to send most of his texts and emails (except when he's in school; there he still uses the «hands under the desk while pretending to listen attentively» move perfected by students everywhere.)

For example, in his days as an undergraduate at Oxford Waugh's fellow student Harold Acton used a megaphone to shout out lines from T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land from an open window of his upper - storey college suite and was later thrown into a fountain by some drunken students in the middle of the night; while another student, Brian Howard, spoke with a stutter and gossiped his head off: all of which got fused in the character of Anthony Blanche in Brideshead Revisited.

«Hey look, we can steal a few more bucks from students by denying them health insurance, and we get to make a political statement at the same time while using the pathetic excuse it is for religious reasons, even while we are actually trying to make even more money... in the name of God...»

Notably, directors who prepared more foods from scratch and increased their use of salad bars were more likely to report that student participation either increased or remain unchanged, while declines in participation were seen most often by directors who purchased more pre-made foods or had fewer menu options.

It was created by former Uni students as a way to help first year students to make their lives a little easier while they're getting used to a completely new way of life.

«We are excited to see Chicago Public Schools continue to be a leader by using procurement dollars to improve the freshness, quality and nutrition in their meals for students while growing opportunities for local, sustainable and fair producers and processors,» stated Rodger Cooley, Executive Director of the Chicago Food Policy Action Council.

While the angst is understandable, especially considering the kettling deployed by the police during last year's student protests, the chances of them actually being used are very slim.

Last week, we were confronted with a bill presented by Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's conference that would essentially provide for a two - year moratorium on the APPR (teacher evaluations) while establishing some restrictions regarding use of a student's personal data.

(i) current employees / faculty of the Licensee who are doing work or conducting research for the Licensee who are authorized to access the Secure Network; (ii) current contractors or visiting faculty doing work or conducting research for the Licensee who are authorized to access the Secure Network; (iii) where applicable, retiree or emeritus faculty of the Licensee who are authorized to access the Secure Network; (iv) where applicable, individuals who are currently, officially enrolled as a registered student of a degree program at the Licensee's institution who are authorized to access the Secure Network; (v) walk - in users who are permitted to use the Licensee's library or information services and who are authorized to access the Secure Network, but only while on the physical premises of the Licensee; and (vi) Other users as may be authorized in writing by and at the sole discretion of the Publisher.

While indoor tanning has decreased among high school students, about 20 percent of females engaged in indoor tanning at least once during 2013 and about 10 percent of girls frequently engaged in the practice by using an indoor tanning device 10 or more times during the year, according to a research letter published online by JAMA Dermatology.

Elsewhere, Freese tells of using the «nuclear shell model» to calculate how certain dark matter particles might be scattered by an atomic nucleus, and how this led her to regret skipping lectures on the shell model as «uninteresting» while a graduate student at Columbia University.

Six months later, the students who had received the group therapy had improved by a further four points, while those using the internet version slipped closer to their old ways.

While EHRs let students to check their diagnostic impressions by monitoring patient outcomes, the practice raises ethical questions about the appropriate use of protected health information.

While Luo was a grad student, he also participated in a project sponsored by Adidas to test prototypes of sprinting shoes that were later used in the 2012 Olympics in London.

Published this week in the journal PNAS, a research team led by psychology professor John McDonald and doctoral student John Gaspar used EEG technology to determine that while «high - capacity» individuals (those who perform well on memory tasks) are able to suppress distractors, «low - capacity» individuals are unable to suppress them in time to prevent them from grabbing their attention.

The study of more than 1600 students found that while Wikipedia was used by seven in eight students, the world's sixth most visited website wasn't seen as the most useful education resource.

Rather than studying bright stars, the two students used Hubble Space Telescope data from 274 dwarf stars, which were serendipitously observed by the orbiting observatory while it was looking for the most distant galaxies in the early Universe.

The report on the recent incident, which an undergraduate student apparently brought on by skipping a step while carrying out a reaction and using a metal tool rather than a safer plastic one, illustrates notable improvement.

While observing a supernova discovered in Messier 82 in January 2014 by Dr Steve Fossey and his students at University College London, astronomers using NuSTAR noticed something else in the galaxy — a source of X-rays flashing once every 1.37 seconds.

While the cinema perception may be that college students are using illegal drugs recreationally, I never saw this when I was in school and instead saw rampant off - label use of potentially dangerous but legal pharmaceuticals by students to keep up with demanding academic programs.

After using this system, I was approached by a couple of High School students (while on a weekend walk) who thought that I was a student at their school.

While about a third of Japanese primary school students aged 7 - 12 use mobiles, by the time they get to high school that figure rises to 96 %, according to a government survey last December.

We should be telling parents about ways to limit device usage (see Curbi Parental Controls for iOS), other than just the plain old every day discipline of taking a device away or sitting beside a student while they use technology (by the way, these two things are the best way to be proactive with our children).

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

Younger students can develop algebraic skills by working on these problems, while older students who already take algebra can use the problems to review systems of equations.

And under ESSA, states appear to be making their accountability systems both clearer and fairer: clearer by using A — F grades, five - star ratings, and the like; and fairer by focusing much more heavily on student - level growth, which credits schools for the progress that all kids make while under their tutelage.

Ringing in my ears was a comment by the late Ralph Tyler that the sole technological advance in a century that had really affected classrooms was the overhead projector because, he wisecracked, it was «the only one that the teacher could use while still keeping an eye on her students.»

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

While standardized test scores are typically the measure of student learning used by VAM researchers, studies show that test scores are subject to numerous factors that teachers do not control, according to Audrey Amrein and David Berliner (PDF).

Additionally, the school system's goal is to increase student achievement by maximizing efficiency and effectiveness while using its resources to support school needs.

By using their own work as sources, students continue to review, acknowledge, and accept the authority, power, and connections in their work from the year, while also identifying where there is room for growth.

They feature: All the topics set up into lessons Detailed questions and answers Animated features of the solution to support demonstration and Q&A Formulas in pink boxes on slides to support students while working Use of colours to support learning and demonstrations How you can benefit: To reduce you planning time by either using the whole presentation or some slides More questions can be added by duplicating the slides and changing the questions Use as a resource to give to student to support their independent learning Use as a basis when planning an observation lesson, again to reduce your time Specification Prepared with AQA C1 and C2 in mind but can be used in the following: Edexcel Mathematics C1 and C2 AQA Mathematics C1 and C2 CIE P1 and P2 any other course with similar topics.

Scratch is very versatile that way — while elementary students get a lot out of it, it's also used by middle and high school students to build projects with increased complexity.

VTTs are in use by all arms of the UK, US, and Canadian militaries and have been found to accelerate training by as much as 60 percent, improve student test scores, and reduce failure rates, while also offering significant cost savings.

It can also be used to promote student centered group learning that will keep students engaged while reinforcing concepts that were taught earlier in the year or from the previous two years taught by other teachers.

And while 83 percent of educators felt that they should provide a safe environment for their LGBTQ students — by displaying visible symbols of support or disciplining students for using homophobic language, for example — only half had taken action to do so, according to the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), an organization that helps K — 12 schools create safe environments for LGBTQ students.

While teachers can try to differentiate and challenge their students, they are still constrained by the availability of the devices and by the capabilities of the device they are using.

«How to complete an Art Project» is a step by step guide to be used while a student completes his or her Art project, whether it be year 7, or A-Level.

While North Carolina is the only state to have enacted such legislation thus far, the issue of bathroom use by transgender students occupied considerable time in many state houses.

The use of the digital technology by clients, customers, and students, while very important, constitutes but part of a far greater totality.

Using clipboards or books as a hard surface, students can take notes by hand while walking around and viewing the slides.

While students may be surrounded by technology at home, it is dangerous to assume that they know how to use it for learning — this is commonly referred to as the «myth of the digital native,» and you can read more about it in this Edutopia blog post: «Digital Native vs. Digital Citizen?

But teachers can use gameplay to achieve learning goals, by allowing students to play the game as the game is intended to be played while structuring the experience in a way that demonstrates learning goals.

The information obtained by a mentor through interaction with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program shall not be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher, unless withholding such information poses a danger to the life, health, or safety if an individual, including but not limited to students and staff of the school; or unless such information indicates that the new teacher has been convicted of a crime, or has committed an act which raises a reasonable question as to the new teacher's moral character; or unless the school district or BOCES has entered into an agreement, negotiated pursuant to article 14 of the Civil Service Law whose terms are in effect, that provides that the information obtained by the mentor through intervention with the new teacher while engaged in the mentoring activities of the program may be used for evaluating or disciplining the new teacher.

With any new program, it takes a while to get used to it and get the kinks out, so parents and students should not be upset by a lower score, but happy for more rigorous education.

By simultaneously using litigation to challenge the laws and practices preventing students from obtaining a quality education, while influencing the tide of public opinion through a media and organizing campaign, Students Matter creates both the opportunity and the demand for meaningful and sustainable policy transfostudents from obtaining a quality education, while influencing the tide of public opinion through a media and organizing campaign, Students Matter creates both the opportunity and the demand for meaningful and sustainable policy transfoStudents Matter creates both the opportunity and the demand for meaningful and sustainable policy transformation.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

While LEP was used by NCES as the indicator of students» language skills, other information in the NAEP data suggests that sector differences in language background are not that extreme.