Sentences with phrase «at on the continuum»

At the end of last year students were asked to provide their best writing sample, and then along with their teacher, they identified where they were at on the continuum.

Not exact matches

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

The distribution of individual donor - advised funds at CFs across different types of communities on the urban - rural continuum has remained fairly constant over the past five years.

At the extreme ends of this continuum, certainly, are groups respectively empowered along all the axes, on the one hand, and groups empowered along none of them, on the other.

My view is that the dependence of the extensive continuum on the actual world is a function of the fact that if there were no actual occasions there would be nothing at all.

But because such religions are inextricably mixed with Christian traditions — most Haitians, for example, are located somewhere on a voodoo - Catholic continuum — the number of Christians is not at the same time overestimated.

It occurred to me that the distinctions between Catholics at Quakers that seem so pronounced on the outside are but accidental fences in the endless continuum of God's grace.

He can in this way realign philosophy with contemporary scientific theory, while at the same time providing the latter with a «ground» in immediate experience which had been lacking in traditional empiricism, modeled as that was on corpuscular theories of nature.8 In his early work, Whitehead employs Bradley's antiatomism within a classically empiricist framework; redefined as a continuum, sensation still plays its conventional role as a theory of «presentation» (EPNK 60), the given foundation of the reflective process.9

Although it is still useful to employ the «Pentecostal» and «historic» terminology, these should be seen not as two watertight compartments but as ideal types at the two extremes of a continuum on which most real cases are a highly variable and creative mix.

I also tried to use a few lessons I learned from my biscuit adventures to give myself the best chances at successful scones — scones are in between biscuits and muffins on the baked items continuum, and the quality of a good scone is all about texture — so I figured it would be best to try something a little different from my biscuit attempt.

For this reason, your doctor will probably look at your child's walking in the context of other skills and try to figure out where he is on the continuum of motor development.

This link takes you to the «evolving» model of the continuum, on which you can track our progress, but I also have the original version I used back in 2002, which is just a piece of posterboard, with pictures at one end of all the junk food being sold / served at that time in our schools, and underneath, the flames of hell licking at the soda bottles and chips....

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have demonstrated the world's first laser based on an unconventional wave physics phenomenon called bound states in the continuum.

Successful reform efforts require leadership support, and they should address all aspects of the learning environment — from the curriculum and teaching, to how classrooms are configured, said James Collins, who is the Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment at Arizona State University: «You can't fix one point on the continuum and expect the continuum to change.»

In my book The Myth of Martyrdom, I present evidence that far from being normal, these self - destructive killers have often suffered from serious mental trauma and always demonstrate at least a few behaviours on the continuum of suicidality, such as suicide ideation, a suicide plan or previous suicide attempts.

Congratulations to Dr. Ram Devanathan and Dr. Michel Dupuis at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on having their work grace the cover of From Quanta to the Continuum: Opportunities for Mesoscale Science, a Basic Research Needs report.

In other words, you need to spend sufficient time on both ends of the neural - metabolic continuum and explore them one at a time.

He also claims that the mental effects of steroids follow a continuum, often dependent on how large a dose is used or whether several steroids are taken at the same time.

Instead, strength and endurance exist on a continuum, with both elements being trained at all reps. Training at the strength end of the continuum, training between 1 - 15 reps, increases strength the most and endurance the least.

I've increased my curl weight to 100 from 80 in about 3 weeks by mixing up on / off days and light / medium with heavy training (trying to take advantage of the muscle «continuum» and hitting the fiber on light weight most on one but ending with hitting the fast twitch for heavy on light medium workouts for at least 1 set of 5 rep)

I think part of the problem is that I don't know where I'm at on the «recuperation vs. natural «giftedness» continuum.

The human body is a continuum and when yoga poses have a focus on stretching the «parts» at the expense of the spine and SI joint, this is where injuries occur.

Stability exists on a continuum with machines at one end, and lifting free weights while balancing on a stability ball at the other end.

At past Lifestyle Medicine conferences, I've presented on «Wellness Coaching And Lifestyle Medicine: Covering The Whole Continuum».

In the way of warning, let it be said that those concerned more about space - time continuums or time travel paradoxes would best either leave their sense of logic at the theatre door or simply pass on this film.

These two states — interdependence versus modularity — exist on a continuum, but it seems to me that we may be at a crossroads right now in the blended - learning world between the two.

If teachers had online assessment tools available to them to help identify where students are at on the learning continuum, this approach could be successfully implemented from a system perspective.

At the other end of the continuum are those people who believe success is based on a growth mindset.

The final vignette, placed at the visible end of the continuum, involved a planned unit of study on planets.

For some people (at one end of said continuum), success (and failure) is based on innate ability (or the lack of it).

At the invisible end of the continuum, the first vignette describes children creating constructions with wooden blocks freely available on the classroom shelves.

«We need something that really embraces where our Middle Leaders are at on their journey, because it's a continuum.

So similar are the developments globally that one can now posit that all schools sit at a point on an indicative international evolutionary stages continuum, and that schools and their communities have in the continuum a simple scale on which to quickly position themselves and better understand the likely road ahead.

One example of this commitment to the continuum is in New Jersey, where Garden State leaders have not only focused on successful STEM educator preparation and instruction, but are also looking at the long - term economic benefits coming from excellent STEM teachers and successful STEM learners.

This webinar — presented in conjunction with Education Week TopSchoolJobs» Virtual Career eXPO & PD Event — will look at how teachers can find out where they are individually on the intercultural - competency continuum and how they can develop capabilities to effectively respond to and build on cultural differences in the classroom.

In a classic 1946 textbook on Audio - Visual Methods in Teaching (later revised in 1954 and 1969), Dale introduced a model called the Cone of Experience, which classifies educational media and methods along a continuum from the most concrete experiences (at the base of the cone) to the most abstract (at the top):

At this time, KIPP's growth is focused on opening new elementary and high schools in communities we're currently located to complete a Kindergarten through 12th grade continuum for KIPP students.

The authors have built upon the continuum shared in their first book, Building Teachers» Capacity for Success, and added a tool to identify where the teacher is on the continuum of self - reflection, as well as questions for self - reflection at each of the four levels.

«On firing the bottom 5 % of teachers... My opinion is that there are at least three reasons why firing the bottom 5 percent of teachers, as defined by the bottom 5 percent on an effectiveness continuum created by using the value - added test scores of their students on state tests, will not improve the overall effectiveness of teachers... One reason is that... value - added metrics are inaccurate for many teacherOn firing the bottom 5 % of teachers... My opinion is that there are at least three reasons why firing the bottom 5 percent of teachers, as defined by the bottom 5 percent on an effectiveness continuum created by using the value - added test scores of their students on state tests, will not improve the overall effectiveness of teachers... One reason is that... value - added metrics are inaccurate for many teacheron an effectiveness continuum created by using the value - added test scores of their students on state tests, will not improve the overall effectiveness of teachers... One reason is that... value - added metrics are inaccurate for many teacheron state tests, will not improve the overall effectiveness of teachers... One reason is that... value - added metrics are inaccurate for many teachers.

Silberman and Silberman, who first used the term in their 1967 paper «Hyperlexia: Specific word recognition skills in young children,» describe a continuum of reading ability with children who have disabilities such as dyslexia on one end, children with no reading problems in the middle, and at the other end children who «are able to recognize words mechanically at a higher instructional level than indicated by their intellectual potential.»

The cognitive levels of the reading vocabulary objectives and assessment items are, on the other hand, highly aligned at the lower end of the cognitive complexity continuum.

These should be reflected in a continuum of performance assessments that validly and reliably measure actual teaching performance at key career junctures — initial licensing, the achievement of the professional license, and the designation of accomplished practice — as well as in on - the - job evaluation systems.

And what we have realized is that we need to focus on breaking down some of the barriers that exist at points along this continuum and make it one cycle that's all about supporting great teaching for every student in this country.

At the heart of the continuum is National Board Certification, a process designed for teachers to demonstrate, through standards - based evidence, the positive impact they have on student learning as a result of their deep and abiding understanding of students, content knowledge, pedagogical practice, ongoing reflection and participation in learning communities.

It is aimed at recognising a continuum of special educational needs and that, where necessary, increasing specialist expertise should be brought to bear on the difficulties that a child or young person may be experiencing.

(It's normal for different teams to be at different places on the continuum.)

New Hampshire New Hampshire's approach to system redesign is focused on an «improvement - to - innovation continuum,» which reflects a move toward a collaborative, support - based approach aimed at ensuring that students are able to demonstrate learning and mastery of skills on the path to college and career readiness.

Based on rigorous research reviewed by the National Center on RTI at the American Institutes for Research, the authors highlight several recommendations for implementing RTI with fidelity: 1) Institute a continuum of instructional supports for students through a multi-level prevention system, including primary prevention through high quality core instruction in the classroom, secondary prevention through supplementary interventions of moderate intensity for students most at risk, and tertiary prevention through individualized interventions for those who do not respond to secondary prevention approaches; 2) employ universal screening through brief, valid and reliable assessments; and 3) monitor student progress using research - based assessment tools.

We note that «fight» is at a different location, yet on the same continuum of violence as «homicide.»

Instead of having «fixed» gears, such as first, second and third, with specific gear ratios, a CVT simply «slides» along a continuum, from higher ratios to lower ratios depending on what the car needs at any given moment.