Sentences with phrase «by rote from»

But were St Thomas Aquinas alive today he would not be teaching by rote from a textbook first published in the 13th century.

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This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote.

The opportunity to learn from each other is lost and methods usually rejected by good instructors — teacher - centered, rote fact - regurgitation - become the norm.

District 9's skid into rote convention is matched by a retreat from the documentary conceit that so expertly delivered us into this strange world in the first place.

Four brief deleted scenes, a rote featurette, an audio recording of Stillman reading an excerpt from the film's novelization (a great read on its own, by the way), and a handsome booklet featuring a brief essay by novelist David Schickler round out the set.

What's interesting about American Sniper, which works from a dicey script by Jason Hall that's always in danger of becoming either a rote action thriller meted out in shootouts or a rote antiwar melodrama about how veterans never quite make it back home, is how obstinately it resists this narrative.

What it gets right on paper is immediately apparent: Casting hot - ticket stars against type as crestfallen romantics struggling to cope with mental illness provides two attractive but ostensibly vacuous mainstream celebrities (Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence) the enviable opportunity to prove their worth with conspicuously «revelatory» performances; meanwhile, the fundamental seriousness of their characters» respective arcs, with Cooper hoping to control the outbursts caused by his bipolar disorder and Lawrence attempting to overcome her grief over her husband's recent death, raise the emotional stakes considerably, elevating largely light material from rote comedy to overtly «adult» drama.

By the early 1830s, he says, math reformers were making one of their first stands, arguing that educators needed to move away from rote learning, so they could better understand the meaning of math.

It's All About the Content Content consumption in a connected environment is significantly different from content consumption in linear teaching, where the textbook was king and learning was by rote.

The misuse of and over-emphasis on test scores caused by pressures from media, corporate - style education reformers, and misguided federal laws has forced schools nationwide to teach to these tests, focusing one - sidedly on rote skills and ignoring higher - level thinking.

Organized by the Learning Policy Institute (LPI), «Walking the Talk: Teacher Preparation for Deeper Learning» highlighted findings from a national study of seven teacher preparation programs that are organized in ways that align with deeper learning approaches — meaning less emphasis on rote learning and more on experiential, innovative, collaborative, and equity - focused pedagogy.

It distinguishes critical thinking skills from low - order learning outcomes, such as those attained by rote memorization.

Distracting herself from the sight of his almost bare chest, she nervously recited by rote her planned introductions.

Jennifer Hammock split the classifications by SBG, Red list target species of switzerland, Rote Liste Zielarten der Schweiz from Aconitum altissimum to their own page.

I like this first of all because the word itself is so strange — and then because it comes from a Latin declension for «this» that I was made to learn by rote: hic, haec, hoc / hunc hanc hoc etc..