Sentences with phrase «by rote in»

We do not say it by rote in services of worship as we do the Lord's Prayer.

Not exact matches

Throughout the run of the series, it has been the creative prowess of Don (and his staff) that has, more than anything else, lured in client after client tired of competitors» pitches - by - rote.

They keep doing the same things and walking the same path, often by rote, only to end up in the same place they started.

«If Deadpool's campaign was an off - the - wall, over-the-top cross-platform marketing bonanza, Batman v Superman's is a by - the - book, cover - all - bases exercise that feels a little... rote,» observes a recent story in Wired.

By automating these rote tasks, salespeople can make better use of their time — rather than trying to figure out who in the pipeline is a serious buyer, they can talk to prospects they already know are interested and can focus on closing deals.

When I try to help my grandkids with their homework I try to make it as plain as possible — unless I want them to engage their brains and think, and I'm more interested in them learning to think than in learning «correct» answers by rote.

Learning by rote is no more useful in Bible study than in other fields, and it is often the Bible's anomalous, even contradictory texts that lead us to deeper thought and strong faith.

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

KANSAS CITY (4 -1-0) moved into a first - place tie with San Diego in the Western Division by defeating Denver (1 -4-0) 37 - 10 despite a 100 - yard kickoff return by the Broncos» Nemiah Wilson and the presence of Quarterback Tobin Rote in the Denver lineup after two seasons of retirement.

«I feel that there's a huge disconnect between science and the public because it's depicted as rote memorization in schools, when by definition, if you can memorize it, it's not science,» says Ingber, who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School and the Vascular Biology Program at Boston Children's Hospital, and Professor of Bioengineering at the Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS).

School children learning by rote do so in a collective singsong.

Whether in domestic states of undress or in designer threads, they're stick figures articulating and acting out rote issues of monogamy, loyalty and betrayal, all amid a dreamy nighttime atmosphere that's diluted by too - neat cross-cutting between Joanna and Michael that hammers home already obvious parallels.

Sports movies live and die by what takes place on the court or in the field, and this one feels rather rote.

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.

The actual plot couldn't be more rote or by the numbers, but Refn — as appears to be his trademark — merely uses genre as a springboard for mining character intricacy and in ways we just haven't seen in quite a while.

A lot of the mechanics in the script by Benjamin and Paul China (billed as «The China Brothers» in a perhaps too - obvious nod to the Coens) are boilerplate familiar to the point of being rote, but the manner in which they're assembled and played out by sophomore director Jamie M. Dagg and his expressive cast of weathered character actors largely redeems them.

Bomback repeats by rote (even Long's character is a nerdy version of Jackson's wide - eyed tagalong in the last entry) and only rarely locates zesty hero - villain and hero - sidekick banter.

Joe is a cipher, and the precipitated flashbacks that ostensibly flesh him out and lend gravity to his sufferance for violence feel somehow reductive, unconsidered, rote in a trauma - by - the - numbers kind of way.

Here he's working in a middle - class suburb of New York, where Marlo and her husband, Drew (Ron Livingston, playing a very Ron Livingston character), are slightly overwhelmed by everything: they have two kids, one with emerging special needs, and a baby on the way, and their lives have devolved to rote routine.

Yet his story, in which Hal achieves self - actualization and becomes a savior by confronting his dead dad's fallibility, is a tedious hodgepodge of rote conflicts and character hang - ups, all while failing to provide Reynolds with a single cocky one - liner to go with his wiseass routine, which ultimately proves as strained as the film's energy is dim.

Omerta review: Hansal Mehta's Omerta, starring Rajkummar Rao, is a surprisingly passion-less, rote incident - by - incident telling of the story of a man who is part of one of the most shameful chapters in India's terror history.

These sequences are straight out of any rote thriller, but they're meant to be profound — critical of the conventions of the genre — because Paul (Arno Frisch) breaks the fourth wall a number of times; this is Scream for art - house aficionados, with Haneke at one point curbing the audience's euphoria by rewinding the film immediately after Anna shoots Peter in the chest.

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.

These people who make these things, they seem to edit them by rote (I know they do, actually; I've watched some trailers being built in the editing room).

Hellion colors inside the lines of its family - drama outline so neatly, it risks becoming rote — which isn't helped by its screamingly obvious Chekhov's - gun reveal — but writer - director Kat Candler creates a nice little world to move the pieces around in, one where an amateur motocross tournament represents Jacob's best bet for saving his family.

More emphasis on problem - solving, less on rote learning, the argument went, would decrease the likelihood that students will be taken in by questions like the following: «There are 26 sheep and 10 goats on a ship.

Along the same lines, parents may also be confused by the critical thinking, creativity, and independence encouraged in western schools, when eastern education traditionally relies more on rote memorization and respecting authority.

Illustrations by Ruth Rowland The need to reform U.S. mathematics instruction dates back to the early 19th century, when cutting - edge educators railed against rote instruction and called for new teaching methods so students could better understand meaning in the complex system of quantitative reasoning.

If there is memorization without mental manipulation the isolated rote fact memories can only be retrieved by the specific cues through which they are practiced in repetitive drills.

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The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its questions and answers about the Church and God learned, by rote, by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)

Most important, however, the standards recommended certain areas that should receive «decreased attention» in grades K - 4, including «complex paper - and - pencil computations,» «long division,» «paper - and - pencil fraction computation,» «use of rounding to estimate,» «rote practice,» «rote memorization of rules,» and «teaching by telling.»

Using the old - fashioned method — one that is held in disdain because it uses rote memorization and is not discovered by the student — the boy delivered the correct answer.

Images of such schools are set against descriptions of schools in which intellectual engagement is driven out by rote memorization and motivation by grades and test scores.

They move to a one - room schoolhouse, dress in period clothing, adopt old - fashioned names, and learn the traditional way — by rote or on a chalkboard.

In the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best optioIn the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best optioin, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.

«By relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquBy relying so heavily on rote memorization, and by testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.&raquby testing me only on the things that were easy to test, my teachers came up with a wholly erroneous picture of my capacity — and gave me a fairly serious emotional beating in the process.»

In contrast, Ruth Schoenbach and Cynthia Greenleaf elevate the term with a more robust definition: «By adding the word engaged, we mean to distinguish between the skilled but rote and unsophisticated kind of academic literacy that many «successful» students master, and the more analytic, critical, and discipline - specific ways of making meaning emblematic of engaged learners.»

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

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.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adultIn 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adultin the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adultIn their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adultin the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adultin a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

It seems that the strategy of memorization used by Chinese students is not simply for rote learning but an important method to achieve a deep understanding in which subject content is internalized and actively reflected upon (Watkins & Biggs, 1996, 2001).

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.

The scrapping of national tests in science has also led to more enjoyable lessons - and less learning by rote.

We are campaigning on high stakes testing, so that pupils learn less by rote, and more by considering problems and challenges in real life situations — where they are required, also, to develop the skills that employers are crying out for — speaking and listening well; collaborating with each other well; using IT.

Learning by rote was the norm in my education, but now I believe most educators understand that critical thinking is much more important.

The Mastermind said it was crucial that a bank robbery proceed in a specific order, almost by rote.

The frequency of vaccination has been debated in professional circles due to some veterinary practices over-vaccinating or vaccinating by rote schedule.

Das Rote Wil was a camp by the river banks of river Neckar, in the Wurttemberg area in Germany.

It also ships with Metal Gear Online, a rote multiplayer shooter made more interesting by a skill system resembling the perks in Call of Duty 4.