Sentences with phrase «against isolation work»

I used to be totally against isolation work for beginners, but then it hit me: if your goal is to build muscle, then you need to know how to feel a muscle working, and learn how to contract that muscle as hard as you can.

Not exact matches

But in general, excessive rest and isolation might work against kids.

Remember, sugar makes your blood sugar spike and will work against you if consumed in isolation or excess.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Such networks «work against the traditional isolation of teacher from teacher, university from classroom, novice from experienced educator... to craft a new professional community with a new discourse for the understanding and improvement of practice» (Raphael et al., 2001, p. 606).

It may seem strange to complain that a game's too long, but when the genuine scares of being hunted by an unstoppable predator are so diluted by repetition and padding, Isolation's epic length really does work against it.