Sentence examples for student overcome from inspiring English sources

The process of habituation is not itself spontaneous, and requires that the student overcome certain spontaneous tendencies, but its outcome is a state in which, ideally, the agent always acts appropriately but never requires thought or effort to do so.

Accordingly, for Hook, programs of affirmative action could be justified if they functioned to help a deprived individual student overcome deficiencies in his educational background or to eliminate any bars to opportunity that had been erected by discriminatory laws or practices.

A boilerplate description of a teacher online isn't going to convey what it feels like to help a struggling student overcome a hardship; or conversely, what it's like to not be able to use your lesson plan because you have to teach students facts to pass a scantron state exam.

The university also expanded admissions criteria to consider when students overcome economic or educational hardships.

Interaction among students in class and around campus, said Kedra Ishop, the university's director of admissions, helps students overcome biases and make contributions to a diverse society.

All over the country, distance learning is helping students overcome not just geography, but also disability, culture, financial and family circumstances.

At the Manhattan School, Karen Beardsley, a singer, presents her own introspective approach, teaching imaging techniques to help voice students overcome audition fears.

He said the guide was meant to help students overcome one obstacle he had faced -- that his public school had only a small budget for science supplies.

Teachers use psychology to help students overcome performance anxiety, to deal with perfectionists (who "bottleneck themselves in the process of learning," and to find why a student enrolled for lessons in the first place.

His aim is not to lower standards but to "level the playing field", getting universities to help disadvantaged students overcome material and cultural barriers inhibiting entry to and success in higher education.

"This is a way for me to help students overcome math anxiety," said Mr. Ostrer, 54, who worked at I.B.M. in programming and sales and as a liaison with industry analysts.