Sentences with phrase «better scaffolding»

In our conversations with district leaders on this topic, we often hear this comment: «Our teachers want to provide better scaffolding, but they need more than the general strategies we have been offering them over the years.»
«Our teachers want to provide better scaffolding, but they need more than the general strategies we have been offering them over the years.»
Students who answer «yes» to these questions are more likely to read more widely and gain greater skills, which in turn provides better scaffolding for further learning in all subjects and areas.
It makes a good scaffold for skin grafts or engineered tissue.
EcoMOD will explore these research questions: RQ1 - Using a design - based research methodology, which approaches to abstraction and representation offer the best scaffolding to students?
Challenging - good scaffold for relevant vocab use.
When well scaffolded, assignments to write reports, essays, and other genres (e.g., letters or journal entries by a historical figure) can encourage academic writing (Peregoy & Boyle, 1997).

Not exact matches

The one at the top of this post — Gene Simmons playing from the scaffolding above the stage — was perhaps the best one, while the image below is at maximum zoom.
Religion as a «scaffolding» to help us become a confident, considerate, well - rounded species sounds great.
Men have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... One could fill many pages with the reasons why men have done this, and not tell a hundredth part of them.
I know (all too well) the vigorous (sometimes vicious) arguments that weave a complex scaffold of doctrine and interpretation in which anything other than a literal reading brings the whole thing crashing down, like a teetering Jenga tower when one slim block is moved.
«People have found no better thing than this to do for kings at their crowning and for criminals going to the scaffold; for armies in triumph or for a bride and bridegroom in a little country church; for the wisdom of a Parliament or for a sick old woman afraid to die... tremulously, by an old monk on the fiftieth anniversary of his vows; furtively by an exiled bishop who had hewn timber all day in a prison camp; gorgeously for the canonization of St Joan of Arc.»
I've decided to work on setting up systems to scaffold myself so that I can maintain the best brain health possible * for me * for housekeeping.
With a rope that can be tied to any scaffold and an impressive maximum weight capacity, this swing will grow with your toddler well into childhood.
The judges commented, «The judging panel was impressed by this new innovative» Walkabout» system, which makes use of an existing material to eliminate the need for scaffolding; describing it as an amazingly good innovation.»
«At best, bone - reforming scaffolds that regenerate at the same rate as bones could be used as implants.
Our best models support the theory that dark matter is the scaffold around which normal matter formed galaxies and clusters.
I found that culturing cardiac valve cells on synthetic hydrogels preserves their normal properties better than the traditional plastic plates do, and I discovered a signaling pathway connecting the stiffness of the supporting scaffold to the cells» cytoskeletal structure.
The researchers also looked at whether the molecules with scaffolding helped make existing antibiotics work better.
The team wanted to make the smaller, more flexible molecules better and efficient antimicrobials by attaching them to the carbon nanodot scaffolding, so they built two different molecules: CND - PAM1 and CND - PAM2.
«The bioinspired T cell - activating scaffolds developed by the Wyss Institute's Immunomaterials Platform could accelerate the success of many immunotherapeutic approaches in the clinic, with life - saving impact on a broad range of patients, in addition to advancing personalized medicine,» said Wyss Institute Founding Director Donald Ingber, M.D., Ph.D., who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at HMS and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, as well as Professor of Bioengineering at SEAS.
In a series of side - by - side comparisons, Mooney's team demonstrated that APC - mimetic scaffolds performed better than methods involving commercially available expansion beads (Dynabeads), which are currently used in clinical adoptive cell transfer approaches.
Because those organoids include stroma, a scaffold of connective tissue essential for tumor growth, they may prove better for studying therapies that target the stroma, such as cancer immunotherapy.
The team's recent creations have included BiowireTM — an innovative method of growing heart cells around a silk suture — as well as a scaffold for heart cells that snaps together like sheets of Velcro ™.
The cells showed good viability and demonstrated spreading and other phenotypic behavior consistent with cells interacting with collagen hydrogel scaffolds.
The scaffolds that were more tightly woven hosted a higher fraction of surviving follicles after 8 days, an effect the team attributes to the follicles having better physical support.
In essence, the new system creates a better chemical infrastructure, or scaffold, upon which catalysis can take place.
In a 2009 paper published in Nature Materials, Mooney demonstrated that this could be achieved by loading a porous scaffold — about the size of a dime — with tumor antigen as well as a combination of biological and chemical components meant to attract and activate dendritic cells.
Now, a University of Pittsburgh researcher has used the components of the cellular «scaffolding» of a zebrafish to regenerate heart tissues in mammals, specifically mice, as well as exhibiting promising results in human heart cells in vitro.
When they determined the best combination of variables, the researchers attached the silk scaffolds to a plastic framework to guide the growth of cells.
Perhaps the ultimate solution to keeping transplanted stem cells alive will be to use helpers that give off a cocktail of growth factors, he suggests, as well as pre-conditioning for low oxygen conditions and scaffolds.
To understand the role of the protein scaffold in enzymes, Shaw's team incorporated an enzyme - like OCS to these well - studied catalysts.
Although the human cells became glial cells (the brain's scaffolding) and not neurons, the mice unexpectedly became four times as smart as regular mice, as measured by how well they ran mazes and other tests.
Next - generation «designer matrices» such as hybrid polyethylene glycol hydrogels or microengineered collagen scaffolds, combined with a well - defined set of laminins, may better fulfill the niche requirements of organoids and may be customized for a specific type of tissue / organoid (2,6).
Control of T cell signaling occurs through both positive and negative regulation, as well as through the actions of molecular scaffolds that contribute to the formation of signaling complexes.
I've recently been rewatching the TV series Pan Am and I think all the actresses for that were wearing authentic scaffolding, and the clothes do look good.
(This scaffolding is large enough to accommodate a sequence in which Darwin spends time with Jenny the orangutan at the London Zoo in 1838, three years before Annie's birth: she mimics his actions, shows human - like emotions, and provides apparent evidence for his then emerging theory — as well as a charming interlude where Darwin is young and curious and not tormented.)
«The more politics the better,» said Bettine Birge, 61, who paused on the Walk of Fame to watch crews erect scaffolding and unfurl red carpet outside the Dolby theatre.
Launching the learning in your classroom from the prior knowledge of your students and using this as a framework for future lessons is not only a scaffolding technique — many would agree it's just plain good teaching.
The best part is that, through this scaffolding, students ultimately own the questions and can personalize their project from the answers.
Blatt says the opportunity to spend time in the galleries and gain a better understanding of the various learning tools, from audio guides to docents to cell phones, provided a good reminder for students on how to scaffold learning as well.
To start, watch the «Austin's Butterfly» video for advice on how good critique and feedback can scaffold and support grit in the classroom:
A game can help scaffold the learning of important content as well as providing context for application of content.
Scaffolding a lesson is just good teaching.
I have found they have gone down very well with the pupils when scaffolding the writing task.
While the standard essay format is a useful scaffold, it's important to teach students other, more authentic kinds of writing as well.
This Presentation Includes: Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter — Story Starters Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes Overview of Vocabulary used for a Digital Story - Telling Lesson Flipped Lesson Part - 2 Videos and 2 Resources on Digital Story - Telling Collaborative Group Task — Pair - Share Space for Peer Teaching - Seven Elements of Digital Story - Telling Scaffolded Notes to Support the Learners - Shared Writing Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions — 2 Quizzes Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - 4 Task Cards Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Seven Stages of Life Plenary to Assesses Learning Outcomes - PEEL - Point - Evidence - Explain - Link Success Criteria for Self Evaluation - My Story Sketch Home Learning for Reinforcement - 18 Free Digital Story - Telling Tools Common Core Standards - ELA - LITERACY.
If we want our students to do well with this creative skill, we need to model the thinking of synthesis in a low - stakes, scaffolding activity that they can translate into a more academic pursuit.
This Presentation Includes: Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter — Story Elements Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Objectives and Outcomes Overview of Vocabulary used for a Story Writing Lesson - Story Terms Real Life Application and Career Options of Story Writing Flipped Lesson Part - 3 Videos - Telling a Story, Write a Narrative Story Collaborative Group Task — Pair - Share, Shared Writing Space for Peer Teaching - Story Guide Mini-Plenary with Critical Thinking Questions — 3 Quizzes on Narrative Story Scaffolded Notes to Support the Learners - Story Starters Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - 4 Task Cards Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - 3 Prompts Plenary to Assesses Learning Outcomes - PGP: Praise - Question - Polish Success Criteria for Self Evaluation - My Narrative Story Sketch Home Learning for Reinforcement - Online Stories Common Core Standards - ELA - LITERACY.
Included in this resource pack are: A well - presented, thorough, and informative, whole - lesson PowerPoint presentation; Appropriate extracts from the play; A worksheet with key quotations to enable students to track the development of characters; A template to help scaffold the main task, complete with quotes from the text; A comprehensive teacher guidance form / lesson plan to assist delivery.
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