Sentences with phrase «class period focusing»

To help them keep up, he said teachers should use techniques like close reading, where students spend an entire class period focused on how one vocabulary word is used in the text, for instance.

Not exact matches

InField Medical Medical technologies accelerator focusing on low to mid tech technologies that have a defined regulatory approval path (Class I / II 510k) and a high liklihood of revenue generation and / or strategic interest / exit within a two year time period

For all asset classes (but focusing on currencies), they define bad market conditions as months when the excess return on the broad value - weighted U.S. stock market is less than 1.0 standard deviation below its sample period average.

As for the article, I found it a bit simplistic and focusing on earthly stuff when the deed of Christ was bigger than his hygiene which would have matched his class and the historical period, but that is me.

The classes they offer focus on labor, birth, the immediate postpartum period, and occasionally newborn baby life or establishing breastfeeding.

Previously published commentaries by Dr. Doroghazi focused on other negative trends, including high student debt, high CEO salaries, long training periods, and the controversy involving Maintenance of Certification requirements and the American Board of Internal Medicine, as factors that discourage the smartest kids in the class from choosing medicine as a career.

Within any class period, focus on one or two objectives and sequence them to model inquiry and design thinking.

Gabbard, a math teacher at Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky, uses the slips as a class opener to focus the students on the topic of study, to provide direction for the period, and to review important skills needed for the lesson.

I got to try out the new thinking skills I was developing in my first intersession, a two - week period in which students put aside their usual academics and take classes focusing on extracurricular activities, design thinking, and real - world skill building.

At Hollin Meadows Science and Math Focus School the interim testing is done within the normal class period and is designed to be part of the regular teaching and learning cycle, said principal Jon Gates.

Since introducing the three targeted programs and implementation model in 2016, Buchanan says the school has seen: improvements across a range of classes using the NAPLAN writing scale of up to 40 per cent; improvements in spelling using NAPLAN assessment and internal data of up to two years within a 12 month period; and its first spike in NAPLAN numeracy improvement for Years 3 and 5 (the two year groups staff focused on through the program).

«My teachers know the seven of eight most important things I hope to see, and I ask them to focus on those things each class period.

Spend a day being your own best friend, ban your critical self - talk from uttering a word all day, and spend the day narrating your successes: «You got your first - period class focused on the «Do Now» within 30 seconds!

Research reveals that students can only focus for 15 - minute intervals, why do we therefore expect them to sit for long periods of time in class!

When we take two or three minutes a few times each day or class period and teach students how to breathe deeply, we are priming the brain for increased attention and focus.

«To ensure that student attention is focussed on the issue, a teacher might find it extremely useful to state explicitly the issue under discussion at various times during the class period.»

I would also urge that if a simulation is focused on creating a certain emotional response out of the students, such as the anger of the colonists in The King's M&M's, be sure to debrief students before the end of the class period, so the students understand the relationship of the activity to the historical concept in the instructional objective.

All of the classes were revisited by the team several times as research has discovered that engaging a group repeatedly over a focussed period of time is more effective than a one off visit.

Reducing the number of class periods per day (and therefore the number of homework assignments per evening) to promote focus and moderate the rushed tempo of school life

Classes generally take place during elective periods or extended lunch hours and focus on skill building and work completion.

In particular, essential questions are meant to focus on long - term learning and thus be revisited over time, not answered by the end of a class period.

Tenure could guard against dismissal of more experienced, higher paid teachers during periods of tight budgets when school leaders may be more focused on reducing costs while meeting class size requirements than they are on student learning.

In reviewing this record of what the teacher was doing throughout the class period, teacher and observer can accurately determine how much academically focused time there was and also identify trends of teacher behavior that interfere with or distract from academic focus.

Instead of large schools, 52 - minute class periods, and rambling curricula, they foresee classrooms and schools that are personalized and focused; they look for teachers that will emphasize mastery over breadth.

Divide the class into groups based on what skills they need to practice — not forever, but for a class period or two, so they can focus on what they really need help with.

But the Hot Potato diverges significantly from the classic version because it employs shorter holding periods and focuses on a single asset class at a time.

This 35 — 40 minute documentary (short enough for a single class period and attention span) will focus on a simple message, «Adopt, Don't Shop,» and show children across the U.S. making change in their community.

«According to the complaint, defendants» Class Period statements were materially false and misleading because they failed to disclose and misrepresented the following adverse facts which were known to or recklessly disregarded by defendants: (a) Battlefield 4 was riddled with bugs and multiple other problems, including downloadable content that allowed players access to more levels of the game, a myriad of connectivity issues, server limitations, lost data and repeated sudden crashes, among other things; (b) as a result, Electronic Arts would not achieve a successful holiday season 2013 rollout of Battlefield 4; (c) the performance of the Electronic Arts unit publishing Battlefield 4 was so deficient that all other projects that unit was involved in had to be put on hold to permit it to focus its efforts on fixing Battlefield 4;»

The exhibition at Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein focuses on Thomas Schütte's lesser - known early works of the late 1970s, a period of time which for Thomas Schütte was a kind of «research phase» during which, as a student in Fritz Schwegler's class, and later in Gerhard Richter's painting class, he gradually made his way to sculpture: «As the student of a painter who could do everything, you couldn't just paint anymore.»

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

In comparison, the exhibition catalogue (MIT Press, 2004) focuses more on the theoretical than on the political implications of this transitional period between high modernism and postmodernism, when the United States overthrew the shackles of European dominance and became a world - class art power.

The Foundation is not currently offering any studio or portfolio development classes, as we undertake a period of focused research and pilot innovative educational opportunities for the artist community.

All three rulings focused primarily on the limitations period interpretation, which affected the three class actions before the court and other ones still in the system before the Ontario legislative amendments.

The decisions focused primarily on interpretations of conflicting provisions of the Class Proceedings Act and Securities Act in Ontario related to the limitations period — which are effectively no longer in dispute because of amendments enacted in 2014 by the provincial government.

Schumacher has extensive class action experience and focuses primarily on wage and hour class actions and collective actions, including Fair Labor Standards Act, meal and rest period, donning and doffing, vacation and regular rate of pay claims at the state and federal levels.