Sentences with phrase «academic learning does»

If they are ignored, exploited, damaged, held back in their progress, or teased, the message we give to all children is that academic learning doesn't pay for anyone.

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But the most important lesson he brought with him from the academic world, he says, is that humans learn far more from failure that they do from success.

I asked if there was anything she had learned through the experience that she didn't pick up in her academic, legal, or political work.

A couple of years ago, an American academic by the name of James Bessen wrote a fascinating book called Learning by Doing: The Real Connection Between Innovation, Wages and Wealth.

As a non-native-Albertan academic (in particular one from back east), I have learned that there are two golden rules to follow when in Alberta — don't mention the National Energy Program, and don't mention the National Energy Program.

Does that which not only unifies this school's practices of teaching and learning into a single course of study but makes it adequate to pluralism imply a contrast between «academic» schooling and «professional» schooling?

While it is interesting from an academic standpoint to learn about people in ages past — history is important — but really, relative to him, who cares what his ancestors did?

It does not fit any academic discipline, but some of what has been learned in many disciplines can prove helpful.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

It's hard to blame the academic, so - called «book learned» types that typically compete (and often do extremely well) on TV's «Jeopardy!» when questions more of the pop culture nature, or say, sports variety don't exactly go their way.

Some kids find school extraordinarily difficult because they don't enjoy academic learning.

In the same way that responsive parenting in early childhood creates a kind of mental space where a child's first tentative steps toward intellectual learning can take place, so do the right kind of messages from teachers in school create a mental space that allows a student to engage in more advanced and demanding academic learning.

In - born characteristics like intelligence and cognitive skills do play a role in a child's school success; a child must be able to learn in order to achieve academic achievement.

People are very passionate about this neighborhood school and don't understand my decision but the charter school just lines up better with my daughter and her academic learning style.

If your child does have a learning disability, it's important to seek help for him as soon as possible before the disability or disorder has the opportunity to stymie his academic advancement and create psychosocial problems.

I even found an academic abstract from a paper by Gina Masullo Chen that says the term «continues the culturally ingrained performance of motherhood women learned since childhood, and, in so doing, holds women captive in this subjective norm that may not fit them».

In a statement copied to Ghanapoliticsonline.com Mrs Mogtari said the academic credentials of the learned Professor, her contributions to society and her work as Minister for Education can obviously be fact - checked and therefore, «why Hon. Opoku Prempeh will think and even want to describe as her as an embarrassment and one who does not understand education is simply mind boggling!

Whether this is the mindset with which you enter your PhD or something that grows on you while you're doing the academic grind, you learn to accept it.

When he didn't get the academic job he wanted, he «turned to Twitter as a source of solace and support — and as an opportunity to learn,... what would a plan B look like?»

How do you think the skills learned from the fellowship will impact your future career or academic plans?

«Learning two languages does not limit academic potential for Head Start students.»

«Whether you run your own academic lab or take a position at a company, learning how to manage people, projects, and budgets are necessary skills, but traditional graduate and postdoctoral training do not offer formalized courses in these topics,» says Garth Fowler, outreach program manager for ScienceCareers.org.

Action to increase academic salaries would help, they suggest, but beyond that, «it is not always a pleasing prospect to spend upwards of 10 years learning how to do good research only to get drowned by teaching and administrative duties in a lectureship.»

Although not without its stresses and strains, the journey did what journeys are supposed to do: I reached my destination and learned a lot about the world — the academic research world — during my travels.

Philip Newton, Director of Learning and Teaching for the Swansea University Medical School said: «We did a few simple qualitative analyses of the content of the books, hunting for anything and everything to do with academic integrity.

Ohno - Machado urges experienced researchers to learn management skills and to take on executive academic positions; she particularly encourages women and minorities to do so.

It's a different business model than the usual academic one, but because Hood learned as much about science from the telephone company and a geology camp as he did in school, he knows that progress is not the province of academia alone.

«And if you want to become a PI, you should also learn more about the academic field, so that you have more understanding of grant writing and items you don't get exposed to as a Ph.D. student.»

He endorses the conclusions of No Place to Learn and enlarges the debate by discussing a subject that Pocklington and Tupper don't emphasize, the poisoning of university life by rights - seeking groups who insist (Whitaker writes) that academic life is naturally «sexist and racist and can only by kept in check through intensive regulation and control... Everything that goes on must be monitored and policed.»

IQ is generally considered a predictor of learning ability, but in this study with students who are intellectually disabled or low IQ, the results showed that IQ didn't always predict academic achievement.

My early elementary school memories up through ninth grade are of teachers struggling to maintain class discipline with occasional coverage of academics, but the students did learn how to survive under difficult circumstances.

«Not only do these mice have trouble learning and remembering, they can't perform some other normal daily behaviors such as building a nest,» adds C. Ronald Kahn, M.D., senior author on the paper, Joslin's chief academic officer and the Mary K. Iacocca Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

After finishing my bachelors I did my Master's degree on Statistics and then I spent six months in a sequencing company where I could learn about NGS analysis and where I realized that I wanted to do an academic career.

The joke is that all Lady Bird is doing is learning — just maybe not in an academic sense.

«BAM is not about vocational training or academic support or cash incentives; it doesn't require a long - term commitment or a lot of money,» it simply helps kids learn how to control their emotions.

In a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equity.

Teachers who are engaged in service - learning tend to be more positive about the work they do, and we also see a higher level of parental involvement, which is key to academic achievement.»

Voices From the Field Challenge Education Week, May 1, 2011 «I believe strongly that wisdom lies close to the ground; as an academic, I always learn more when I'm in schools listening to people doing the work,» writes Assistant Professor Jal Mehta.

«I want them to think through what they read online, to apply all the skills they learned in the class — evaluating source credibility, identifying logical fallacies, recognizing bias, basing written arguments on solid evidence — to social media platforms just as much as they do in their academic work.»

Do unresolved behavior issues keep you awake at night thinking about what strategies might enhance responsible decision making and increase academic learning time?

We met with three hundred charter leaders around the state to learn more about what could be done, and then built goals and objectives for the California charter schools movement by first providing insurance, cash - flow financing, and other resources to schools willing to focus on academic quality (measured in many different ways).

At the same time, the school does not have a dress code, has few standard academic requirements, and provides many nontraditional learning opportunities.

The work before us, then, may not be to level an academic playing field for which there is no even, but rather to create new terms for why we learn, how, and where — and then change the expectation for what we do with what we know.

And now let's take another step back and consider the alignment between the work done by those outside of the classroom — including principals, central office administrators, and superintendents — and the desired goal of seeing deeper learning structures, like rich academic discourse, experienced by all students.

You know how important it is for kids to develop life skills like managing emotions or learning to make better decisions — skills that are actually as important as doing well on an academic test.

Social and emotional learning is not seen as a soft skill: «We believe that that's going to drive them to incredible academic success,» says Daren Dickson of the Compass work that students do.

Valor believes that the resulting culture provides a safe space for academic risk taking — students have to «feel comfortable being OK that they don't know everything» in order to learn, explains Todd Dickson.

Low - income kids can lose vast amounts of learning over the summer when they don't have access to the same enriching activities as their higher - income peers, such as vacations, visits to museums and libraries, or even just time spent with family discussing academic concepts or everyday events.

Data Wise: A Step - by - step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, edited by Academic Dean and Thompson Professor Richard Murnane, Lecturer Kathryn Parker Boudett, and doctoral student Elizabeth A City, provides a solid blueprint of what to do with the increasing quantitative information educators face.

This growing importance of academic skills learned in schools holds not only for graduates who went to college, but also for those who did not.