Sentences with phrase «academic approaches worked»

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Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

This approach did not begin as an academic perspective but rather emerged out of the concrete experience of the poor and of the pastors who lived and worked with them.

Whether you work as a teacher, a principal, or a health professional, the Knowledge Guide supports members of the school community to understand what has become an internationally recognized approach to health that has been demonstrated to improve students» health and academic success.

Challenge number two is — this is something that I became more aware of working on Helping Children Succeed — that even going beyond the challenges that low - income kids face and the gaps in our academic outcomes, there are significant problems with some of the basic approaches to teaching and education that we have in our schools: The basic principles of American pedagogy, how we teach math, how we teach anything.

«Our approach is to work from inside the party and alongside the leadership - and to actively engage with think tanks, campaigning organisations, academics and business people.»

Amaro's work illustrates how a handful of academic labs and small companies are making progress with a fresh approach to targeting p53: rescuing it when it's sick.

The project «got a lot of criticism from academics who showed that the approach wasn't going to work unless the face of the detector in space was as long as a football field,» says Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's former top technology tester and a senior adviser to the Center for Defense Information.

The MSc programme in Mobilities & Urban Studies is a two years full - time study based on a combination of academic, mobile labs, problem - based learning (PBL) and interdisciplinary approaches based on a multitude of work and evaluation methods.

An active, renowned member of the academic science community until the very end, Perham was distinguished for his work on the chemistry of proteins and the assembly of giant protein complexes and was a leader in bringing the power of protein - engineering approaches to problems of protein structure and function.

Think: the floundering security agent turned away from working in the highest office, only to be trapped there in a time of crisis; the plucky child barely talking to her father, soon needing his help to survive; the weary government agent approaching his last week of service, certain to have a memorable swansong; the overworked employee forced to deal with distress on her day off; the leader lambasted for being an academic, then swiftly becoming an action hero.

Could the ASAP approach work in a setting where individual colleges have almost complete autonomy over their academic and counseling services?

It's an approach that seems to be working: Valor Flagship Academy, the first Valor school, produced outstanding academic results, including the highest standardized test scores in the city and the state, in its first year of operation (2014 — 15).

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

In our schools and in our consulting work, we get to see direct evidence of what can happen when teaching and learning is approached with innovative models that emphasize collaboration, critical thinking, and academic mindsets.

Given the choice, I suspect he would've preferred not to have responded so extremely to such mundane events, but he did not choose mediocrity as an approach to academic work.

The academic ran seminars with the teachers, who then trialled the new approaches in their classroom, observed each other and reflected on what had and hadn't worked.

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

Students who set high academic goals, have self - discipline, motivate themselves, manage stress, and organize their approach to work learn more and get better grades (Duckworth & Seligman, 2005; Elliot & Dweck, 2005; cited in Durlak et al., 2011).

Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

Connected learning, an educational approach that integrates student interest and peer networks with academic pursuit, has been shown to create a deeper form of learning that help students succeed in school, work and life.

Attendance Works has a valuable Tools and T.A. section that contains a self - assessment tool to help afterschool programs reflect upon their approach to improving school - day attendance, as well as flyers in English and Spanish to help educate parents about the importance of regular attendance for their children's academic success (http://www.attendanceworks.org/).

Now in its sixth year, that turnaround approach is seen by some as a first of its kind — both for its academic results and, education experts say, for the inclusive and pragmatic way it got traditional public schools, charters, nonprofits, and families to work together.

The best study of this approach, using evidence from Charlotte, North Carolina (see «Solving America's Math Problem,» features, Winter 2013), shows that pushing students into course work for which they are ill prepared actually harms their subsequent academic achievement.

Says Pittinsky, the most honest strategy for addressing academic inequities today is «an approach that involves not just giving adult family members a sense of security that the school is working for their children, but an «all hands on deck» sense of urgency — of just how important education is and how helpful and important it is for education to be reinforced at home by the most important adults in any particular child's life.

With the Word Works approach to thoughtful vocabulary learning, you will be showing your students how to develop a preliminary understanding of new words and academic terms, how to revise that understanding as they read and learn, and how to practice new terms so that they understand what they mean and how they are used.

Restorative practices also work with Second Step, a popular, commercial social - emotional learning program, and Responsive Classroom, an evidence - based approach to teaching that focuses on the link between academics and social - emotional learning.

Meet students and teachers who exemplify what can happen when the Common Core and 21st Century Skills are approached with innovative teaching models that emphasize real - world experience, academic mindsets, and collaborative project work.

Burton and Malinowski both agreed that this collaborative approach — which doesn't happen at every school — to examining data and capitalizing on what works has brought their school's students very far in terms of academic achievement.

A: Given the widely documented low academic performance of Native students, our work broadly focuses on identifying approaches to creating learning environments that are perceived as culturally relevant and welcoming by Native students and facilitate their school success.

This «one - size - fits - all» approach works well if we want to sort students into academic tracks.

The Linked Learning approach integrates rigorous academics that meet college - ready standards with sequenced, high - quality career - technical education, work - based learning, and supports to help students stay on track.

Through a grant from NewSchools Venture Fund, Nexus STEM Academy Principal Tonya Randall and the Gestalt Academic Team are working with Transcend Education to take our educational model to the next level through innovation, going beyond individualized learning to an even more personalized approach that serves the whole child.

As a doctoral student, Nathan worked on a number of projects, including several state - commissioned validity studies with his advisor, Dr. Derek Briggs, examining approaches to quantifying academic growth.

An analysis by The New York Times found that some of the community schools in Cincinnati, which is viewed as a leader in the approach, still showed dismal academic performances even after years of work and millions of dollars of investments.

While Massachusetts has engaged in considerable work to improve educational outcomes for ELL students, the challenges that these young people and their families face go beyond academic English acquisition and require a more comprehensive approach.

By incorporating the Linked Learning approach, which integrates rigorous academics, health - science career - centered classes and work - based learning experiences, Life Academy is helping more students to succeed.

Such an approach requires skilled teacher advisors working with the students and well designed project management systems to insure both productivity and academic rigor.

It has a «this has worked for us» approach that is underpinned by academic research.

Alongside EEF's core focus on academic attainment, this is likely to be an area of our work that grows in future, including approaches that support children to manage their own learning, and a wider set of «essential skills» that prepare children for success in adult life.

Educators are using New Jersey's quality academic standards to drive student - centered instruction and our latest student performance results show that this aligned approach is working.

When asked what approach would provide the most accurate picture of a public school student's academic progress, respondents of every demographic — Republican, Democrat, independent, black, Hispanic, white — selected «examples of student work» more frequently than written observations or grades provided by the teacher.

Instructional approaches emphasizing awareness of the cognitive processes that facilitate one's own learning and its application to academic and work assignments.

The Engineering students often approach me for guidance and aid in their academic work.

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Assignment writing UK has developed a professional and methodical approach that involves a dynamic strategy wherein clients, specialists and support team work in sync to deliver projects that meet the standards of institutions of academic repute.

Moreover, you need to know what scientific approach to take to create a credible academic work based on concrete facts.

But, as you climb up the academic levels, you are expected to work with an independent approach.

The Centre will establish Wales as a center of excellence for the integration of academic and practitioner work in creating a science based approach to understanding society.

A self - taught artist, unbound by classical academic strictures, McCloud approaches his work in a visceral, physical way, privileging blowtorches and hammers as much as brushes and palettes.

Their collective approach to art - making is steeped in academic discourse, and whilst retaining the vibrancy of their graffiti backgrounds, traditional art movements such as Futurism, Abstract Expressionism and Precisionism are also embraced by the visual vocabulary imbued within their work.