Sentence examples for pal program from inspiring English sources

A lieutenant in our unit set up a pen pal program with a school in San Francisco that he had attended as a kid.

My Soldier, a pen pal program that seeks to lift soldiers' spirits with letters and packages, was started at Manhattanville by a student who had been deployed to Iraq during his sophomore year; it now has more than 400,000 volunteers.

A reciprocal PAL program was designed to investigate whether there were differential gains in knowledge acquisition among tutors compared with tutees.

He did everything conceivably possible to create a positive environment for the youngsters that came through the PAL program".

Two young copywriters from San Francisco are doing just that through the Federal Bureau of Prisons' pen pal program.

Police Athletic League -- Extend PAL program that has teenagers and off-duty cops doing community service together.

Edith Jenkins, principal of Public School 123 in Manhattan, attributes her professional career to PAL programs where she tutored younger children, played the bugle, ran track and took field trips to the theater.

In the past decade, various health care programs have implemented diverse types of peer-assisted learning (PAL) programs, in particularly peer teaching (PT), due to their reported benefits for students (both those undertaking teaching and those being taught), teachers, and educational institutes.

Six key questions were developed and used in our analysis of particular aspects of PAL programs within medical degree programs.

Many evaluations of PAL programs are based on student satisfaction ratings (Bulte et al. 2007; Ten Cate 2007) and examination of assessment outcomes for evidence of learning (Burke et al. 2007; Batchelder et al. 2010).

Although the tutor recruitment process was not always clearly reported, for the majority (at least 11/19) of PAL programs, tutor participation was voluntary, as an additional activity, open to all students within a particular cohort.