Sentences with phrase «very able students»

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But once I got over that, I was able to go from a kid at 18 years old that was always like a very average, underperforming student and then fast forward almost to the day 18 years later, I flew in space for the first time.

Also, MEFA's eligibility requirements for student loan refinancing do not include having completed a degree, so borrowers who have put school on hold and are repaying their loans may be able to refinance into lower rates with MEFA — or at the very least, into a longer loan term and therefore lower monthly payments.

A very able graduate student (Lucas Entel) responded to my work, providing a deft summary as well as some valuable questions.

When I teach poetry to my students, I ask them constantly to search the poem for moments of «self - demonstration,» where the poet has been able to convey meaning through phrases or structures that demonstrate the very idea they describe.

She's a great teacher, and I think what makes her so good is that she's able to help her students develop their non-cognitive skills to high levels — in James's case, to very high levels.

«ECC is very proud and honored to be part of the FASNY Program and to be able to serve our firefighters with the education needs they have,» said Chmielowiec, who reports that students are currently enrolled in 18 of ECC's FASNY - approved programs like Criminal Justice and Nursing.

«Of course I'm sadden by the news, but I will say that I've been very fortunate to be able to serve this community, to serve my district and my city and be able to institute policies that I think that were so very great for students and kids in the classroom,» remarked McCarthy.

«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.

It helped the student attendees realise an important fact: Our scientific background is extremely useful in many areas and makes us more able to adapt to very different career profiles.

You could be schooled in evolutionary theory and be able to communicate that very well in a classroom of students who are ready to learn it.

Doug Dluzen, currently a graduate student in the Department of Pharmacology at Penn State University, says that he works in a fairly large lab where there are outlets to discuss research problems, and strategies, and «generally there is someone who has stumbled upon a problem before — being able to discuss my issues can be very helpful when troubleshooting an assay or transfection in the early stages of the experiments.»

To what extent would a student or anyone else reading this book find themselves more knowledgeable and able to think more clearly about the very difficult issues that animal welfare raises?

She stresses, «While numbers are important, I believe what the student's going to be able to contribute to their graduate experience, the campus community, as well as what they're going to contribute to society after completing their graduate program are very important in considering who receives a fellowship.»

«We were very excited to discover that when we used a typical genetic mutation that was more susceptible to electroconvulsive seizures, we were able to actually rescue these worms by treating them with FDA approved human antiepileptic drugs beforehand,» said Monica Risley, co-lead author and a Ph.D. student in FAU's Integrative Biology and Neuroscience program, as well as a student in the new International Max Planck Research School in Brain and Behavior.

«Only students who had implemental mindsets to a very high degree, seemed able to also benefit from elaborative thinking.»

«By selecting only the very best preserved bone specimens and with various improvements in proteomic analysis, we were able to obtain roughly 90 per cent of the collagen sequence for both species,» said lead author Frido Welker, a PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and the University of York.

«We're very proud to be able to support these meritorious students and the reporting of their research,» said Dr. Alan Stern, planetary scientist, founder, and CEO of Uwingu.

Using an integrative approach that combined electron microscopy on the Env trimer complex with PGT151 (led by the Ward lab) with the structure of the PGT151 Fab by x-ray crystallography (led by the Wilson lab), the scientists were able to visualize the location of the PGT151 - series binding site on the Env trimer — which includes a spot on one gp41 protein with two associated sugars (glycans), a patch on the gp120 protein and even a piece of the adjacent gp41 within the trimer structure — «a very complex epitope,» said Claudia Blattner, a research associate in the Wilson laboratory at TSRI and member of the IAVI Neutralizing Antibody Center who, along with graduate student Jeong Hyun Lee, was a first author of the second paper.

School officials said they were concerned that male students would be able to peer up the girls» skirts while they climbed the stairs and that tight clothing is unflattering on girls «who are not very slim.»

But, I must admit that this month also marked some pretty awesome accomplishments — I won a small grant to push forward a Teaching & Learning initiative I've been trying to get off the ground, I was able to help my two new masters students submit their research proposals without their heads exploding, I got to collaborate with one of my very favorite vintage shops Word from the Bird, and finally started bringing to life a new dress that I've been creating in my head for months (which I'm really excited to make a reality).

It can be a very challenging role and a test of strength, but each student who walks away after completing this program is proud, able, and prepared to meet challenges head on.»

«All of us who make motion pictures are teachers — teachers with very loud voices — but we will never be able to match the power of the teacher who whispers in a student's ear.»

While it took a long time for me to be able to «fully flip» significant sections of the Biology course and receive the full benefits outlined earlier, it was still very beneficial for students to have access to video lessons.

Most of the students in this book, either through their own drivenness or through the interventions of adults — either parents, teachers, or related services people, therapists and so forth — develop the strategies they needed to be successful: to be able to access education at a high level; to know how to handle the heavy reading load when they read at a very low rate; to learn how to manage pain, which was the case with one of the students in the book who has chronic pain due to his physical disabilities; or to learn how to manage anxiety, which is the case of two of the people in the book.

It noted: «If able students do very well but less able students do poorly, using the average is a poor guide for parents as to what to expect of that institution for their child.»

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

The lesson culminates in students being able to design their very own version of the Trinity.

This is a game you can play with KS4 and very able KS3 students to really challenge their pattern spotting skills.

This verb is used very often in French and students are advised that they understand and are able to use this verb.

And again, there's plenty of very clear research that effective and positive teachers follow up with students one - to - one away from their audience, where they're able to have those behaviour conversations respectfully about the way in which that student has affected the rights of others in the room.

I've found this very helpful for the less able students.

Whether it's an assessment which takes place part of the way through a course, or a final assessment which will give a student their final grade, assessments are a very clear indicator of how well your students understand the course material, and how well they are able to put that into practice.

The bias in classroom observation systems that derives from some teachers being assigned much more able students than other teachers is very important to the overall performance of the teacher evaluation system.

Suitable for an able Yr 9 class or very able Yr 8 students.

It is very mixed ability as I have only one group of students with FFTd grades ranging from F to A in a school where languages are compulsory so it will be up to you to fit in extra practice from textbooks or tailor your feedback to stretch the more able in the mini tasks.

There is a strong desire to expand beyond just academic indicators — including a measure of growth is very important — but including things that are not direct learning outcomes and focus more on environment and other input measures blurs the vision on what we want students to know and be able to do.

«I've seen work done with high school students that can convey very complicated ideas or allows space to grapple with huge community or social problems through the arts that students aren't able to do in conventional models of education,» she says.

Even though islands of competence may seem very clear to an adult observer, the student may not be able to see them at all.

She found that very effective for making students feel comfortable to ask questions and to seek feedback and for her to be able to give feedback without it being publicly broadcast.

Very nice interactive activity towards the end that is easily differentiated by giving your most able students the roles of the reporter and the news reader.

This lesson can work in any class, not just English, and you may be able to apply the letter to your lessons, keeping your students connected to their learning in a very personal way.

The second time around, the assignments were much better and I was able to grade accordingly knowing I had set forth very clear and reasonable expectations to the students.

Teachers were very impressed at how students were able to do it, and then they said they wanted to do more of that kind of teaching.

Riley: The national effort to test for basic reading and basic math skills for all students was something I thought would be very helpful, and we have not been able to get that approved.

By comparing the educational outcomes of students who scored just above the admissions threshold (and thus were very likely to attend) and just below the admissions threshold (who mostly did not attend), Dougherty is able to account for the selection bias that has plagued prior CTE research.

The next day I asked the student, «How were you able to find yourself fighting with another group of students on your very first day?»

Nigel Smith, Head of Content, FutureLearn, said: «We're very proud to be working with the University of Lancaster on this initiative; we're aware that dyslexic students are often exempted from studying languages, so we're delighted to be able to support teachers to be able to cater for individuals with these learning difficulties.

Studying a postgraduate degree is a significant commitment so we are very pleased to be able to give students the opportunity to start to learn for free and pay - as - they - go before committing to the full degree.

Brick - and - mortar schools will be very different places than they are today: using more technology, staffed by fewer but more able teachers, working with much better information, and delivering instruction better matched to student needs.

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