Sentences with phrase «as academic»

(Ed Week) Robert Schwartz shares perspective on how we approach assessment in the United States, thinking of them as academic rather than reflecting on what they have learned by doing.

With new platforms like these, we are witnessing a particularly exciting breed of edtech that focuses on relationships and networks, as much as academic content and assessment.

Gamification and the focus on fostering practical business skills are a growing market demand and a powerful trend in corporate training as well as academic environment.

The professors found that the correlation between self - esteem and its expected consequences — though positive in a few areas, such as academic achievement — were fundamentally «mixed» or «absent.»

This great group has been strengthened immeasurably by the addition of [Thompson Professor] Dick Murnane, who is now serving as academic dean.

This year, the most popular article by far sought to provide evidence - based advice to parents who may be wondering if they should delay their child's entry into kindergarten for a year, a practice known as academic redshirting.

What College Professors Can Learn From Alan Alda TIME, 1/8/15» «Those who are involved in funding academic research are really keen to see that it's going to lead to something practical,» says James Ryan, the education school's dean, who was trained not as an academic but as a lawyer.

Their study has received widespread attention since its release as an academic paper in January, 2012.

President Neil L. Rudenstine announced today that he has asked longtime research and teaching team Judith D. Singer and John B. Willett who currently serve together as the academic dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, to share the role of acting dean of the School.

Dr. Farber is a former classroom teacher who led the way in bringing games to the classroom, as an academic on the topic and as an author about the implementation of games in the classroom.

As an academic, I try to evaluate the evidence dispassionately, and for many years, I wrote measured descriptions of the accumulating evidence.

He served as academic associate dean from 2005 — 09 and founded and directed the school's Program in Law and Public Service.

Schwartz accepted the offer and served as academic dean for five years while helping to get the fledgling Ed.L.D.

Employers are very clear that personal qualities matter every bit as much as academic qualifications, if not more.

At the end of the second episode the narrator says, «Can something as non-academic as the social - emotional well being of children have an effect on something as academic as the study of science or math?»

Once the rules are in place and students understand logical consequences, teachers can move on to other aspects of the Responsive Classroom approach, such as Academic Choice, which gives students more flexibility in their learning.

They want their kids to develop social and emotional skills as well as academic skills.

The mental hygiene perspective nonetheless held sway throughout the 1950s, and the concept of personality became as important in teacher education as academic and technical preparation for the classroom — as important as content knowledge and skills.

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.

It's called Project Nim and tells the story of Nim Chimpsky (seen above), the chimpanzee who in the 70's was raised from birth by humans and taught sign language as an academic experiment at Columbia University.

However after closer examination, it distills down to a somewhat disturbing story about a man, acting as an academic professional, who is dominating and abusing a young woman that has been placed in his care.

As an academic exercise in learned helplessness, the film flaunts the ultimate power to rewrite its own «rules» whenever it likes, including taking back anything that has already been shown.

Terri applies her knowledge as an academic to help real - world people navigate their lives with greater compassion and understanding.

Whether recommending a particular place to meet someone or suggesting engaging conversation starters to break the ice, the articles draw conclusions backed by personal anecdotes as well as academic studies.

What makes this book so powerful is that she is speaking as not just as an academic and a practitioner who has helped implement the ketogenic diet for many cancer patients, but most importantly and movingly as a mother learning the hard way how to help her son Raffi with his brain cancer.

She ski raced competitively at Dartmouth College, where she received a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in pre-med, studio art and art history, and was an active member of the alpine ski team as an Academic and Athletic All - American.

However, research suggests that non-academic activities, including yoga and mindfulness, are just as important as academic learning and can have a large, positive impact on the academic world (Finnan, 2015).

My Background I received my naturopathic medical degree from Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington, recognized worldwide as an academic leader in natural medicine and sciences.

From 1988 to 1993, Dr Zeff served as Academic Dean at NCNM.

Bert Webb has 20 years of experience as an academic administrator.

Cognition measuring tools were used to measure abilities like planning as well as academic skills like reading and math.

For instance, physical inactivity is linked to poorer results on standard neuropsychological tests as well as academic performance, though exercise appears to improve attention, decision making and memory.

Sheltzer was astonished when a friend at Princeton University told him she was the first female graduate student at her PI's physics lab in his 20 - plus years as an academic.

«The old model where you hold onto the sequences until the publication comes out, which as any academic knows is going to be months, is morally wrong if those sequences can be used to affect a response on the ground,» Dudas said.

Michigan Medicine and Trinity Health, which owns and operates St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea Hospital as part of Saint Joseph Mercy Health System, have a history of successful collaborations based on the complementary attributes and resources of Michigan Medicine as an academic health system and Trinity Health as a health care system with unique capabilities operating community hospitals.

Since the discovery of well - preserved fossils of an early Cretaceous sauropod dinosaur from Tanba in August 2006, our museum saff have been engaging themselves to excavation of dinosaur and other Cretaceous vertebrate fossils from this and adjacent regions, as well as academic studies on the resultant materials.

I subsequently spent 15 years as an academic nomad in Germany, Australia and Kuwait before joining the Visual Sciences Group at the Australian National University in 1995.

As an academic medical center, Loyola Medicine is dedicated to improving future treatments by conducting research on new medications and protocols.

The range of courses available to the student will depend on the specific inter-institutional agreement between the home university and Lund University as well as the academic qualifications of the applicant.

As an academic medical center, UVA was the perfect place to tackle the problem, he said.

We provide individual and group consultations on topics such as the academic writing process, speaking and presentation skills, reading and study skills.

The hospital records more than 3.3 million patient encounters annually and serves as the academic partner of the Baylor College of Medicine.

As an academic medical center, Loyola is dedicated to improving future treatments by conducting research on new diagnostics and treatments.

I became a faculty member in 1995, shortly before the doubling of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget, and never thought much about insecurity as an academic scientist.

Currently, the Herlyn Laboratory collaborates with pharmaceutical companies as well as academic chemists and structural biologists to select and further develop compounds for tumor inhibition.

John trained in paediatrics and nephrology in Sydney and London, then worked as an academic paediatric nephrologist at the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children in Sydney, where he founded the Centre for Kidney Research.

During her appointment at Deakin University as an academic lecturer and research assistant, she acquired teaching experience in environmental science, including marine ecology, environmental management, and animal anatomy and physiology.

She publishes both policy reports as well as academic papers.

Order of Australia Award (AM) For significant service to nuclear medicine and cancer research as an academic, and to professional organisations.

Science as an academic career is a business and as such you have to be a good provider.