When you begin teaching poetry, you often battle students' notions of what poetry is.
However different their conceptions may be, if the organic change is to exist and amplify across generations, then it needs to be transmitted across generations, and this brings us to the students' notions of inheritance.
"Beneath every facet of this work [at Denison] is a focus on instilling within students notions of civic agency--the ability of people to act together on common problems across differences--while also giving faculty, staff, and local residents more opportunities to work in their communities".
When it comes to teen-agers and college students, the notion of "dating" is often presented in opposition to casual sex, as if one precluded the other.
Then Mr. Kennedy appeared with Mr. Obama Monday at American University in Washington and drew screeches from the college students whose notion of "Kennedy" growing up was more apt to have been the MTV V.J. rather than the political dynasty.
We are in Marcus's office at Columbia University where the 46-year-old teaches creative writing, trying to instil in his students the notion that provoking a response in the reader – "the goal of getting them to care" – is, as he says drily, "really tricky".
For instance, Grinnell points out that scientific papers rarely describe scientific failure and rarely communicate to students the notion that "10 research notebooks' worth of experiments might be required to publish a 10-page research paper" (p. 21).
Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students learn notions of "supply and demand" and "scarcity" by acting as commodities traders on the floor of an imaginary stock exchange based on the game "Pit".
The model that emerged from the data revealed that adolescent decision making is a constructive and recursive process, and the students' simplistic notions of equity inhibited the search for alternatives and their evaluation.
Julia Roberts was meant to be an Oscar contender for "Mona Lisa Smile," the 1950s-set Mike Newell drama about a progressive Wellesley art-history professor who sparks an uproar when she challenges her students' static notions of female empowerment (or lack thereof).
