Sentences with phrase «which values the student»

The course follows a mixed model of PBL, which values the student work as well as the prescribed content.

The educators at Frank Lloyd Wright had a strong shared vision of good educational practice which valued students being actively engaged in learning and having authentic experiences with content.

Not exact matches

About 59 percent of millennials said they value student loan repayment assistance over other perks, including flexible schedules, which is a departure from previous surveys that found flexibility to be the most desired workplace benefit, according to ORC.

The piece draws a comparison to Virginia's Fairfax County, which is similar in many ways to Westchester: They're both suburbs of big cities (New York and Washington, D.C.), they have similarly high home values, and they educate about the same number of students in public schools, which in both places have a good reputation.

At 49, as a grad student at Fordham, I will open my life to a new network of smart professors, students, and alumni who will expand my perspective and sphere of influence, bringing new opportunities and friendships, the value of which I can only speculate on.

«We took a look at 10 of the most Natty - centric cities where our beer is loved and there are thousands of students, and took on the mission to protect their epic college memories,» says Chelsea Phillips, Vice President of Value Brands at Anheuser - Busch, which owns Natural LIght.

A student and a teacher all his life, he lived by solid family values, which he extended to his employees, his friends, and to the community he served.

The term «applicable educational institution» refers to an educational institution which a) had at least 500 students during the preceding taxable year; b) the aggregate fair market value of the assets of which at the end of the preceding taxable year (other than those assets which are used directly in carrying out the institution's exempt purpose) is at least $ 500,000 per student of the institution; and c) more than 50 percent of the students are located in the United States.

UPEI's Faculty of Business has up to seven (7) EMBA Entrance Awards valued from $ 3,500 to $ 5,000, which are offered each year to incoming EMBA students based on academic and professional achievements, as well as leadership skills or potential.

Students will develop a framework within which to analyze whether a business idea is worth pursuing and a methodology to enable them to apply financial economic principles in ways that add to the value of an entrepreneurial undertaking.

Graham & Doddsville is the student run value investing oriented news journal which gets released 3 times per year.

Value investors are students of the game; they learn from every pitch, those at which they swing and those they let pass by.

For example, among the «positive aspects» is an attitudinal study which shows that 82 per cent of the faculty members and 93 per cent of the students «are committed to developing ethical values in college.»

The teacher - student and student - student relationships are transmission lines along which attitudes and values are communicated.

One of these is the desire to safeguard the student by demanding of the teacher an illusory objectivity, as if the teacher had no commitment to a certain field of knowledge, to a method of approaching this field, and to a set of attitudes and value assumptions which are embodied in the questions which he raises.

A second approach has been what she calls values integration, one version of which «seeks to incorporate various themes such as social justice, peace, the environment, etc, into the total life of the school so that the student may incorporate the Catholic values demonstrated in the way the school lives the theme».

«4 Growth groups offer a setting in which students and teachers can wrestle together with the value dilemmas and relationship problems which are central to the development of a workable life - style; they can promote the integration of relevant content from our culture in this process.

I myself was drawn back toward the church in which I was reared, in part by the discovery that at least the history (if not always the present reality) of the Holiness churches was a most significant incarnation of values that I had discovered in the student movements of the past decade.

We expect the student to develop the kind of religious understanding which quietly bears witness to its value and reality and hence does not have to be compulsively sold to others.

«My statement is that there is sufficiently similarity between Muslim and Christian conceptions of God, so that we can say that they worship the same and similarly understood God,» he told students, «which provides the basis for very significant common values.»

Where not a little understanding of the general moral and spiritual Biblical values on the part of students was evidenced, there was still quite often an amazing lack of acquaintance with the Bible from which our culture has largely drawn them.

Continuing to follow their mission to embrace and add value to the community, Roscoe Beer Co. created a real - life project for advertising students at Sullivan County Community College, which will focus on the development of a print advertising campaign to promote beer sales to the consumer.

While the historic Oxford team has traditionally been exclusive to matriculated students, the Club feels it is prudent to align its values with Oxford University's continually evolving combination of tradition, prestige, heritage and most importantly, inclusivity — while also maintaining standards for Blues Status and Varsity Match rules which states that only matriculated Oxford University students can play Cambridge in the annual Varsity Match.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Teachers, students, parents, school nutrition professionals, custodians, and administrators saw the value in the program, which delivered on its promise to increase participation at breakfast.

So while there's clearly room for improvement in Greene, it feels unfair to compare it to a county which places an unusually high value on exceptional school food, has a student population better conditioned to accept such food, and has affluent parents who can pay the higher price tag that comes with it.

AACS Locations with a HUMAN Healthy Vending program will gain: 1) Healthful food and beverage options for students / future professionals, including hot meals 2) Energy savings compared to traditional vending equipment 3) Increased value - add for AACS schools, which adds to their overall marketability

If it makes students more demanding and less tolerant of courses which are poor value, and if it increases pressure on universities to weed out underperforming academics and lousy teachers, that's to the good.

In February, the UFT organized an essay contest in which it asked members in 500 words to tell the chancellor about the value that they add to the lives of students.

In February, the UFT organized an essay contest in which it asked members to tell the chancellor about the value that they add to the lives of students.

They were flat - rate up - front annual charges, to the value of # 1,125 in 2004, for which all students whose parents earned over # 32,000 per annum were liable.

«Legislators are going to have to weigh which they value more: advice from hedge fund billionaires that come with checks or the concerns of students, parents and teachers about what's needed to truly improve public education.»

Other tax cuts: The tax - cut package in the budget also includes: a $ 250 million expansion in the state's Power for Jobs program, under which employers may receive reduced - rate power if they pledge to create or retain jobs in the state; a tax deduction for college tuition at any college in the country for up to $ 10,000 per student per year (valued at $ 200 million); elimination of the marriage - penalty tax ($ 200 million); and an expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit ($ 125 million).

Many current students have no funding, and newly minted PhDs find themselves competing for posts in a job market which, both in academia and outside, has yet to recognise the value of the qualification.

According to CEO Lars Kongsbak, the students «learn the importance of delivering a product of value to customers, which you need to know to start a business.»

Supervised by PhD student Babatunde Okesola, whose research is supported by The Wild Chemistry Scholars Fund, Edward hoped to create gels which could interact with drugs such as Naproxen, and release them at the slightly alkaline pH values found in the intestine rather than the acidic conditions in the stomach.

It can be argued that the film has more value than many historically important sociological studies, which often depend on questionnaires that attempt to quantify the unquantifiable and rely on college students as subjects.

In a typical lab activity, «the relevant equations and principles are laid out in the preamble; students are told what value they should get for a particular measurement or given the equation to predict that value; they are told what data to collect and how to collect them; and often they are even told which buttons to press on the equipment to produce the desired output,» write the researchers.

Malhi also values being a part of the Summer Internship for Native Americans in Genomics (SING) workshop, which facilitate discussions about how genomic research is conducted and to create a support network for Native American students in the sciences.

This class asks students to actively identify their own values and the implications of their work, which is especially important as students go on to create neural engineering devices while considering the needs of technology end users, conduct research or interact with the field in other ways.

and her «sociological experiment,» the Ashtanga yoga community she leads which is based on transparency, trust, and value — she spoke about her teaching practice being based on «a deep sense that I have debts that I can not repay» and has open conversations with students about their monthly contributions to practice in community.)

(I touched on some of this in my recent interview with Angela Jamison and her «sociological experiment,» the Ashtanga yoga community she leads which is based on transparency, trust, and value — she spoke about her teaching practice being based on «a deep sense that I have debts that I can not repay» and has open conversations with students about their monthly contributions to practice in community.)

For many purposes, such as tenure or retention decisions, it is not the «year to year» correlation that matters, but the «year - to - career» — that is, the degree to which a single year's value - added measure would provide information about a teacher's likely impact on students over their future careers.

The New York Times reported that the study is the largest to address the controversial «value - added ratings,» which measure the impact individual teachers have on student test scores.

However, she points out a deeper meaning which reflects the importance of students feeling valued in the classroom: «When people believe they are important in a project, anything works, and, conversely, when they don't believe they are important, nothing works.»

... But I prefer to think of it as simply that we now have choices that our teachers didn't have, and the idea to me of the Flipped Classroom is that by automating the things that are able to be automated, we free up time for the things that can't be automated and those things that can't be automated tend to be the things I think in which teachers bring the most value to their students in the classroom.

This is a great student - centered activity in which students support, explain, and teach each other while building number fluency, place value understanding and mnetal math skills.

Two students independently mark up what they value and then a facilitator helps them to trade sheets and recognize the places where they actually agree on the «big stuff,» which helps guide resolution about the small things.

Indeed, the show, which ran for three days and was attended by many visitors including governors, students, family and friends as well as the local community, is now in its ninth year, surely a tribute to and acknowledgement of the significance and value of these subjects.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.