Sentences with phrase «with eager students»

Dr. Theodore Panitz was a popular educator whose courses filled with eager students, but he had a problem.

Feeding people + NYC are two of my favorite things and I loved sharing them both with our eager students.

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In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

It's back - to - school time for kids across the United States, and while having time with my own children this summer was truly wonderful, I am happy to admit that I am eager to see them get back to their own work of being students.

On the other side of the river, in Boston, stands the business school, founded only in this century, with its students eager to be catechized in the extreme free - enterprise creed.

But the liveliness of the seminary students» discussion, and the urgency which characterized their grappling with the dilemmas of diversity — theological, practical and personal — indicate that seminaries are nevertheless training people who are, despite all obstacles, eager to achieve the impossible.

Even if Lowe was right to take this remark as downplaying Bergson's influence, it is the sort of question one gets from graduate students who may be overly eager to trace down connections instead of dealing with ideas, and Whitehead was never much for worrying about these sorts of things either.

That is, it was I, Norman Pittenger, then a young man and a somewhat eager theological student, looking forward to a long and I hoped successful span of years, who was brought face to face with the inevitability of my own entirely personal death.

But in the small classes with eager and thoughtful students where I experience it, it is quite wonderful, and certainly provides them with a taste of what genuine community can be like.

Why, one student wondered, would a tradition so eager to emphasize Mary's suffering with Christ be hesitant to admit that she suffered in labor as well?

The Cal Sports Camps coaching staff is filled with student athletes and assistant coaches eager to share their experiences both on and off the field, pool, court as well as provide detailed technical instruction to each camper.

Abdul - Jabbar says he started thinking about coaching a few years ago when the Philadelphia 76ers brought him in to work with then rookie center Shawn Bradley, and he saw that his student, though eager to learn, «didn't know certain things that every pivot man should have tattooed on the back of his arm.»

Because noncognitive qualities like grit, curiosity, self - control, optimism, and conscientiousness are often described, with some accuracy, as skills, educators eager to develop these qualities in their students quite naturally tend to treat them like the skills that we already know how to teach: reading, calculating, analyzing, and so on.

In many cases, a modest donation puts current technology in the hands of teachers who are eager to use it with their students.

When we asked Simonds to sit down and chat with us about the Hero award she was eager to talk about her community, her kids, and her program — and to lavish praise on those around her, from her hard - working staff to the 10,000 Waterford students she loves.

At the Accra High school assembly hall, which was packed with over 500 energetic and enthusiastic high school students who were already in reading mode as they prepare for their exams next week, said they were eager to talk about their own ambitions and to read passages from The Fishermen.

While welcoming the students, the Head of Voter and Publicity Alhaji Mohammed Garba stated that INEC believes in the capacity of the youth to bring about improvements in the electoral process, which informs why the Commission is always eager to interact with them.

2010 Lynford L. Goddard is honored as the first recipient of the AAAS Early Career Award for Public Engagement with Science for exemplifying an early career scientist eager to share his excitement about science and demonstrating excellence in reaching high school students with activities in electrical engineering, while simultaneously pursuing a competitive research career.

The fishermen have been excited to learn more about his research and are eager to share their own observations with Scholnick and his students, opening up opportunities for the researchers to connect with their local community.

Given the dearth of formal training programs, the growing number of workshops and short courses is a good way to not only hone technical skills, but also network with the industry leaders eager to train students in the field.

One of the local medical schools occasionally assigned students to do a rotation with me in my internal medicine practice, and I had always found them to be bright and eager.

I was just hoping to be able to take classes and maybe choreograph a dance with their students, but the Director was eager to find ways to collaborate with my research!

Thirty six eager students embarked with us on a journey of transformation.

So, while the colleges of our American brethren are filled with students eager to emulate the antics of Animal House and the like, alas for the poor British students who have no such Hollywood role - models.

Having dropped in on classes as a lecturer before, he committed to a three - hours - a-week, ten - weeks - a-semester program with a group of UCLA students eager to learn more about writing incredible movies.

The issue is gaining increasing attention as more educators eager to motivate students, especially those at the low end of the achievement gap, are, like Shakur, experimenting with financial incentives for kids.

Based on the Responsive Classroom philosophy, an approach that integrates academic and social skills, the book can be used by any teacher eager to provide students with a safe and productive learning environment.

87 per cent of teachers surveyed said they believed that learning with technology can help students «be eager to explore new things», while 60 per cent agreed that it encourages students to «ask and answer questions to deepen understanding».

However, in contrast to this, recent research from Techknowledge for Schools has found that 87 per cent of teachers surveyed believe that learning with technology can help students «be eager to explore new things».

In my art classes, I have the privilege of working with students who have become fired up and eager to take on urgent issues in their artwork.

But policymakers, districts, and even parents are pushing ahead, eager to experiment with an instructional delivery method that promises personalization while setting students up with technological skills needed in today's workplace.

Instead, school districts, eager to be perceived as plugged in and afraid of being penalized for low test scores, have bought into expensive drill - and - kill software — the kind that costs a fortune and displays a silly animation of fireworks or cheering crowds for every five correct answers — with only minimal improvements on test scores and scant evidence of long - term progress among students.

Educators and staff working with young people are eager to learn strategies to enhance their relationships with students to improve wellbeing and academic outcomes.

They can also develop courses that go beyond AP offerings, do more with individual student projects, concentrate their counseling efforts on college placement, and muster teams of eager students (and teachers) for science competitions and the like.

When schools get the design right from the students» perspective, so they feel that school aligns well with the things that matter to them, students show up to school motivated and eager to learn.

Five years from now, as Powderhouse prepares to graduate its first cohort of students, Resnick hopes that students gain skills, agency, and enthusiasm for lifelong learning, that teachers are energized and eager to remain with the project, and that the community continues to embrace the principles of self - directed learning for more students.

I shared this personal story with my kindergarten students, who were eager to learn how to ask dollar questions themselves.

«Kathy McCartney's extraordinary leadership has generated great momentum, and I'm eager to build on that progress in close collaboration with remarkably talented faculty, staff, and students within the Ed School and across the university.

If you have used the first 3 worksheets with time limits students will have found the rhythm and be prepared, excited, and eager for more of the same success.

Yanov asked Harrison, who was speaking at the nonprofit, to consider how much impact he could have working directly with students, even though the salary he could offer wouldn't be nearly as much as at the other businesses eager to hire him.

Cold Mush: Serving Stories from the Iditarod Trail Jeffrey M. Peterson of Minnesota, this year's Teacher on the Trail, is eager to experience the Iditarod and to share his observations and lessons with students around the world.

«Now my students are eager to investigate many things,» says Almaguer, with their new friends in Kansas as partners in learning.

You'll find people are eager to donate unused bikes to schools who allow students to ride them (especially when you provide them with a thank you note, a tax - deductible donation, and offer to pick it up from their location).

The building buzzes with the energy of eager students.

As someone responsible for students with learning disabilities and for closing the achievement gap, and as a school instructional leader, working toward eliminating standardized tests such as AP's and assessing department based learning outcomes, I am eager to learn more about three aspects of Finnish education:

I want these and other success stories found my book to inspire teachers to create opportunities that will allow their students to become eager learners and investigators with tales to tell about impacting lives and affecting change.

He said that Hispanic students are eager to learn and that with adequate support, they will be successful.

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«It's so great to work with students who are eager to learn more and want to be challenged.

I have been friends with each of the three English Language Learner (ELL, ESL, ESOL) teachers that have served my district since I began teaching, but I especially enjoy our new ESL specialist, who is passionate and eager for ESL students to comprehend all possible materials.