During individual counselling and group education classes, educators address and are responsive to patients' cultural customs, values, beliefs and literacy levels.
— Dazzled by the potential of free online college classes, educators are now turning to the gritty task of harnessing online materials to meet the toughest challenges in American higher education: giving more students access to college, and helping them graduate on time.
The program was founded in 2002 when Jo Handelsman of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, received a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor award, an award given to a select few professors who are both top-notch researchers and world-class educators; the award is intended to support innovative undergraduate science teaching.
During the classes, educators discussed glucose logs with the goal of helping participants to learn how food, medication, and exercise affected their glucose levels and possible actions they could take when levels were out of range.
But while such custom-tailored supervision has clearly helped the students in Mrs. Logan's class, other educators say there is no way to guarantee the model's success in all the city's classrooms.
We actually bring aboard a lot of filmmakers to help us make the class, beside educators, so as a result, we see much higher rates [regarding] how people engage.
Part of my work as a consultant involves teaching a class for educators about communication and culture.
Class peer educators performed the drama serial well and generally understood the intervention content much better than their classmates.
Process evaluation found that training courses for teachers, class peer educators, health workers and condom promoter-distributors were well implemented [ 11, 12, 16, 19].
Though preliminary test results from California suggest that younger children are more likely than older children to become fluent in English immersion classes, the educators here worried that younger children would be bewildered by classes in which their native tongue was effectively outlawed.
While many foreign-language and math departments prefer short daily classes, many educators say that longer periods can open the way for interesting teaching, a consensus that is driving many schools to rethink their schedules.
