Sentences with phrase «as traditional academic»

As the traditional academic year wraps up, we'd like to suggest a new riff on an old proverb: «People may think we only work from sun - to - sun, but a school librarian's work is never done!»

«ESSA claws back some of the most problematic federal accountability requirements, and it emphasizes the need for social and emotional, as well as traditional academic, measures of student success,» Weiss said.

These are designed to measure higher - order skills like creativity, students» well - being and technological literacy as well as traditional academics.

Not exact matches

A recent academic conference in Singapore showcased the latest advances in soft robotics, highlighting how far they are moving away from what we see as traditional robots.

As we mentioned earlier, behavioral finance theories directly conflict with traditional finance academics.

«Provocative and timely, Ellsberg lays bare what he sees as a giant hole in much of traditional education — a focus on «academic» knowledge and a de-emphasis on the knowledge and skills necessary to actually succeed in life.

As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»

Schools that don't use traditional terms such as semesters or quarters usually must pay you at least twice per academic year — for instance, at the beginning and midpoint of your academic year.

And where custom dictates that for the sake of convenience we keep to the traditional academic structure, the philosophical question still remains as to whether biology (or psychology or any other human science) has a genuine right to autonomous existence.

As a progression from the purely academic types of traditional theological training, many applied theological courses now exist, in which hands - on ministerial experience is gained alongside theological learning.

Especially offensive, it seems, are traditional Christian versions of such teachings, other than those Christian ethical teachings, such as special concern for the poor, that are already widely shared in the academic culture.

It maintains the same standards of academic excellence as the traditional Ph.D. while providing a delivery system designed for students currently engaged in missiological work in a North American context.

The appreciation of the unity of the cosmos has not yet been achieved by this academic sub-community - let alone the Faith suggestion that this could support the traditional doctrine of God as the mind immediately behind every aspect of the cosmos.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

As graduate students and postdocs, you likely know that the majority of Ph.D. scientists enter rewarding careers outside the traditional academic track.

While the professional life of Spanish academics broadly goes through the four traditional phases of predoctoral researcher (Ayudante), postdoctoral researcher (Ayudante Doctor), lecturer, and finally permanent research staff, it is early stage and transitional stage career scientists which have been identified as the most vulnerable.

Blogs that support the traditional academic activities of teaching and outreach are often valued as a nonresearch activity — but only at institutions, and in departments, that value nonresearch activity.

Now seeking work «outside the traditional academic sector,» preferably in public health policy, Srinivasan finds that some potential employers «don't believe» all that she accomplished as a postdoc.

These activities also turned out to be a good complement to traditional academic undertakings, and I now work for them as a consultant 1 day a week.

In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

Meanwhile, teamwork between academics and companies offers the potential for cross-fertilization, especially on costly research proposals that won't win funding from traditional sources such as NIH.

The academics surveyed a total of 238 people in two studies using traditional measures of risk and new questions which included more activities which were rated as feminine by a group of 99 men and women.

Naffziger, Richardson - Stovall, Williams, McGee, Beyond Mentoring — Academic Career Coaching as a Supplement to the Traditional Training of Biomedical PhD Students, 5th Annual Conference on Understanding Interventions that Broaden Participation in Research Careers, May 2012

Susan Amara, USA - «Regulation of transporter function and trafficking by amphetamines, Structure - function relationships in excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs), Modulation of dopamine transporters (DAT) by GPCRs, Genetics and functional analyses of human trace amine receptors» Tom I. Bonner, USA (Past Core Member)- Genomics, G protein coupled receptors Michel Bouvier, Canada - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - Coupled Receptors; Molecular mechanisms controlling the selectivity and efficacy of GPCR signalling Thomas Burris, USA - Nuclear Receptor Pharmacology and Drug Discovery William A. Catterall, USA (Past Core Member)- The Molecular Basis of Electrical Excitability Steven Charlton, UK - Molecular Pharmacology and Drug Discovery Moses Chao, USA - Mechanisms of Neurotophin Receptor Signaling Mark Coles, UK - Cellular differentiation, human embryonic stem cells, stromal cells, haematopoietic stem cells, organogenesis, lymphoid microenvironments, develomental immunology Steven L. Colletti, USA Graham L Collingridge, UK Philippe Delerive, France - Metabolic Research (diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver, cardio - vascular diseases, nuclear hormone receptor, GPCRs, kinases) Sir Colin T. Dollery, UK (Founder and Past Core Member) Richard M. Eglen, UK Stephen M. Foord, UK David Gloriam, Denmark - GPCRs, databases, computational drug design, orphan recetpors Gillian Gray, UK Debbie Hay, New Zealand - G protein - coupled receptors, peptide receptors, CGRP, Amylin, Adrenomedullin, Migraine, Diabetes / obesity Allyn C. Howlett, USA Franz Hofmann, Germany - Voltage dependent calcium channels and the positive inotropic effect of beta adrenergic stimulation; cardiovascular function of cGMP protein kinase Yu Huang, Hong Kong - Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency, Endothelium - derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone, Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension, Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs, Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides Adriaan P. IJzerman, The Netherlands - G protein - coupled receptors; allosteric modulation; binding kinetics Michael F Jarvis, USA - Purines and Purinergic Receptors and Voltage-gated ion channel (sodium and calcium) pharmacology Pain mechanisms Research Reproducibility Bong - Kiun Kaang, Korea - G protein - coupled receptors; Glutamate receptors; Neuropsychiatric disorders Eamonn Kelly, Prof, UK - Molecular Pharmacology of G protein - coupled receptors, in particular opioid receptors, regulation of GPCRs by kinasis and arrestins Terry Kenakin, USA - Drug receptor pharmacodynamics, receptor theory Janos Kiss, Hungary - Neurodegenerative disorders, Alzheimer's disease Stefan Knapp, Germany - Rational design of highly selective inhibitors (so call chemical probes) targeting protein kinases as well as protein interaction inhibitors of the bromodomain family Andrew Knight, UK Chris Langmead, Australia - Drug discovery, GPCRs, neuroscience and analytical pharmacology Vincent Laudet, France (Past Core Member)- Evolution of the Nuclear Receptor / Ligand couple Margaret R. MacLean, UK - Serotonin, endothelin, estrogen, microRNAs and pulmonary hyperten Neil Marrion, UK - Calcium - activated potassium channels, neuronal excitability Fiona Marshall, UK - GPCR molecular pharmacology, structure and drug discovery Alistair Mathie, UK - Ion channel structure, function and regulation, pain and the nervous system Ian McGrath, UK - Adrenoceptors; autonomic transmission; vascular pharmacology Graeme Milligan, UK - Structure, function and regulation of G protein - coupled receptors Richard Neubig, USA (Past Core Member)- G protein signaling; academic drug discovery Stefan Offermanns, Germany - G protein - coupled receptors, vascular / metabolic signaling Richard Olsen, USA - Structure and function of GABA - A receptors; mode of action of GABAergic drugs including general anesthetics and ethanol Jean - Philippe Pin, France (Past Core Member)- GPCR - mGLuR - GABAB - structure function relationship - pharmacology - biophysics Helgi Schiöth, Sweden David Searls, USA - Bioinformatics Graeme Semple, USA - GPCR Medicinal Chemistry Patrick M. Sexton, Australia - G protein - coupled receptors Roland Staal, USA - Microglia and neuroinflammation in neuropathic pain and neurological disorders Bart Staels, France - Nuclear receptor signaling in metabolic and cardiovascular diseases Katerina Tiligada, Greece - Immunopharmacology, histamine, histamine receptors, hypersensitivity, drug allergy, inflammation Georg Terstappen, Germany - Drug discovery for neurodegenerative diseases with a focus on AD Mary Vore, USA - Activity and regulation of expression and function of the ATP - binding cassette (ABC) transporters

However, a declining interest in a faculty research career may also imply a greater divergence between students» interests on the one hand, and the academic orientation of traditional PhD curricula as well as advisor expectations on the other [8].

Traditional careers in academic science increasingly are recognized by many grad students and postdocs as being restrictive and problematic.

Dr Zeff has had a dual career in academics and private practice, serving as both faculty and chair at both NCNM and the Emperor's College of Traditional Oriental Medicine.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

Then I might, like E. D. Hirsch Jr., a University of Virginia scholar and author of Cultural Literacy, view mastery of traditional academic subject matter as supremely important to society's least advantaged and to social progress in general.

In the year - round program at Fairview Elementary School, in Modesto, California, for example (see «Power to the People,»), students benefit from an emphasis on civic literacy and responsibility in addition to a regular academic program with about the same number of school days as traditional schools.

While Puleo works in more traditional counseling positions at public schools during the academic year, as a curriculum adviser at Explo she often combines instructional training and counseling.

[I] t has been the prevailing academic practice to treat the faculty member as the copyright owner of works that are created independently and at the faculty member's own initiative for traditional academic purposes.

Particularly with online learning giving way to a suite of flexible learning experiences, schools may indeed move beyond their traditional role as sole academic provider, offering a breadth of non-academic resources such as mentoring, health services, and community - building activities — all of which can support healthy development and serve as powerful antidotes to chronic achievement gaps.

The way for high schools to do this, he says, is to offer more options for students beyond the traditional approach to learning, referred to as «multiple pathways» in academic circles, he says, because everyone should have an opportunity at a good job, not just a job.

We wouldn't necessarily expect CTE students to show as much academic progress as their peers in traditional high schools because they are spending less of their time on academics!

This means that if you take the right online courses, they can also help you in a traditional degree program as well, and you might be able to skimp on a few courses and a semester or two from your academic program altogether, making your education even easier on the pocket.

Known as the CREDO study, it evaluated student progress on math tests in half the nation's five thousand charter schools and concluded that 17 percent were superior to a matched traditional public school; 37 percent were worse than the public school; and the remaining 46 percent had academic gains no different from that of a similar public school.

The state department of education has awarded 67 grants to high schools and school districts to develop innovative programs in those areas as well as in traditional academic... read more

Langley is a traditional public school with the same academic focus as the Harmony school.

Set up as alternatives to traditional public schools, charter schools typically operate under private management and often boast small class sizes, innovative teaching styles or a particular academic focus.

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 authors found that even in districts that were identified by NCPI as having merit pay plans, «most were so weak that they represented no meaningful change from traditional compensation systems,» which typically are based on the number of years on the job and academic credentials.

As long as it remains so, traditional public schools are unlikely to feel much pressure from charter schools to improve their academic performancAs long as it remains so, traditional public schools are unlikely to feel much pressure from charter schools to improve their academic performancas it remains so, traditional public schools are unlikely to feel much pressure from charter schools to improve their academic performance.

The Obama administration, as part of a strategy to promote school reform, has promised to double funding for new charter schools with high academic standards, which many believe are key to improving the nation's K - 12 system through competition with traditional public schools.

This means our schools must meet the same academic performance standards as traditional district schools, as required by federal and state laws.

But pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds focus this additional time «on traditional academic subjects such as English, science and mathematics», according to by Dr John Jerrim of the UCL Institute of Education, while their more advantaged peers opt for «music, sport and foreign languages».

And what we ask should be informed not only by traditional academic outcomes, such as test scores, but also by a new understanding of the many different ways that schools can contribute to student success.

Charter schools must meet the same academic requirements as traditional public schools but are also directly accountable to parents and their authorizer.

Poston is referring to a 2015 Stanford University study that found virtual charter students may trail their peers in traditional public schools by as much as an entire academic year.