Sentences with phrase «about conceptual understanding»

And this article is all about conceptual understanding.

«The notion of rigor in Common Core involves equal intensity about conceptual understanding, procedural skill, and fluency and application.»

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I myself am inclined to agree with Barr about the poverty of this postfundamentalist theology and tradition for the future of evangelicalism — though I would want my evangelical colleagues to understand clearly that I reject this tradition not to reject biblical or evangelical faith but to seek rather a more adequate conceptual framework through which to be more faithful to the Scriptures.

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

This symposium discusses the degree to which genetic association studies can inform us about development, what the conceptual and practical challenges are, and how such models help us to understand organismal evolution.

Conceptual understanding is about knowing more than isolated facts and methods.

«When students are given an opportunity to think about and attempt a problem, they have greater ability to make connections and develop greater conceptual understanding.

A major message is that what works best for students is similar to what works best for teachers — an attention to setting challenging learning intentions, being clear about what success means, and an attention to learning strategies for developing conceptual understanding about what teachers and students know and understand.

For evidence of this gap, look no further than the mismatch between what research says about developing students» conceptual mathematics understanding and what we actually do.

Morgan theorizes that, just as children need to practice reading a lot and become fluent readers before they can analyze texts, math students need to become fluent with basic operations before they can talk about multiple methods for solving problems or arrive at deep conceptual understandings.

Preservice teachers were given opportunities to learn about children's development of mathematical understandings and student - centered teaching practices, such as questioning, classroom discussions, and use of mathematical representations and manipulatives to foster children's conceptual understanding.

My parent workshops have incorporated many of the activities shared in the workshop, and we have a community discourse about the ways in which students acquire conceptual understanding.

When asked about the debate regarding memorizing math facts vs. developing conceptual understanding in a 2016 interview she said «Actually, I think it's a silly argument because the evidence is pretty clear that children really need to do both things.

It offers a conceptual model for understanding the decisions that LEFs make as they go about shaping both organizational identity and an approach to their work.

So in terms of the actual rubrics and the critical attributes of the different levels of performance, I could only incorporate those aspects of the common standards that in fact apply everywhere — for example, those things we've been talking about like argumentation and conceptual understanding.

In the science classroom, teachers can enhance reading and improve science learning by focusing on the following: promoting students» conceptual understanding of fundamental science concepts; organizing instruction so students constructively engage in experiences with science phenomena before reading about them; increasing students» awareness of how information is organized and displayed in science texts; teaching students syntactical structures common to science (such as «If... then»); and enabling students to express their understanding of science by doing science, talking about science, and writing about science, in addition to reading about science.

Homework help enables students to learn about the work they are writing and can develop the conceptual ideas about the whole subject Homework is the essential aspect of the academic and educational perception where a student understands, and learning ability defined in his homework.

I often get emailed questions from novice investors who have a desire to learn more about investing and want to understand the conceptual aspects of value investing better.

The road to understanding what formalism in art really is about takes us from philosophical ideas of Plato, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, through the experiments of the avant - garde, all the way to contemporary ideal of socially - engaged and conceptual art.

«He has a complete understanding about the weddedness between conceptual ideas and the world of form, and the way they are integrated,» said the artist Laura Owens, who first met Mr. Ray some 20 years ago when he hired her for her first teaching job, at U.C.L.A., where he ran the sculpture program.

If we consider this book on a conceptual level, as with his paintings, the lessons are not so much about color as they are about the fact that humans are limited in what they can perceive, and if artists can understand those limitations they can potentially expand the perceptual range of those who encounter their work.

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