Sentences with phrase «directed at learning»

Recovery from sex addiction and sexual compulsivity is directed at learning to control and eliminate sexual behaviors that result in loss or unwanted consequences in the lives of the sex addict.

Students learn mathematics more effectively and more deeply when reading and writing is directed at learning mathematics.

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Graduates are bound to be excited about the end of classes, but learning can be a lot of fun when it's self - directed and at their leisure.

It seems she learned too indiscriminately, repeating all sorts of language that had been directed at her — including racial epithets, political conspiracy theories, and all - caps Trumpisms (Microsoft has since deleted the tweets, though The Guardian was kind enough to take screenshots).

But if you can master online, self - directed learning, it's entirely possible to earn yourself the quality of education offered at ivy league schools, right from the comfort of home.

Lin reflected on learning about the racist hate mail directed at her when she was chosen to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and said she's frustrated that she's still often described by her physical appearance in articles.

Despite its advantages, active learning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in thlearning isn't likely to completely kill the lecture, says Noah Finkelstein, a physics professor who directs the Center for STEM Learning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in thLearning at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and was not involved in the study.

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Maybe we could learn something from Kickstarter and build something that allows people to direct their tithe directly to Christian ministries and causes at whatever levels they deem appropriate per project.

This stands in direct contrast to the Scriptures, the Fathers, and the saints, whose premise is that suffering is not something to be avoided at all costs — one can learn to live through it.

That said, the reason many Old Catholic and Independent Catholic denominations have avoided the pedophilia scandals has more to do with the form of governance (synod - based decision making, laity inclusive or laity directed), recognition that clergy are mere humans with a special calling and ministry (as opposed to «always to be obeyed» representatives of the «monarchy» / Vatican and king / Pope), clergy are often members of the community at large (married or not, they have homes, careers, and lives outside a rectory), and the fact that clergy have not been brought up in seminary / parochial schools as young boys where they learned how to be abusers because they were abused themselves, but in homes.

He holds a Bachelor of Science in Fermentation Sciences from the University of California at Davis and has also directed several advanced learning courses for the MBAA.

Your kids aren't going to learn from this and are more likely going to direct anger or resentment at you.

Specifically, for fathers, higher expectations about their children's educational level, and greater level / frequency of interest and direct involvement in children's learning, education and schools, are associated strongly with better educational outcomes for their children, including: • better exam / test / class results • higher level of educational qualification • greater progress at school • better attitudes towards school (e.g. enjoyment) • higher educational expectations • better behaviour at school (e.g. reduced risk of suspension or expulsion)(for discussion / review of all this research, see Goldman, 2005).

Dr. Cheyney currently directs the International Reproductive Health Laboratory at Oregon State University where she has developed an academic learning community comprised of five undergraduate research assistants, 12 graduate students and one postdoctoral fellow whose research agendas are focused on identifying culturally appropriate ways to improve access to high quality midwifery care as a means of reducing health inequalities for mothers and babies in the U.S and abroad.

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The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Learning how to manage your anger and not react while having loud, ugly words directed at you is no easy task.

Additionally, with the one - on - one educational setting of home education or the traditionally smaller classroom sizes at private schools, children receive more direct help and have more of a chance to learn and grow.

Where I have worked, in equatorial Africa, by the age of eight or nine, children, almost all of whom have been sibling or cousin caretakers at times when mothers have not taken babies in a back sling to work in a field or do another task, know everything there is to know about raising a baby in their culture except what one learns through the direct experience of breastfeeding.

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Fathers in the intervention group showed significantly greater gains in direct interaction and support for learning activities with children at home than the comparison group of fathers, but only if the fathers were at least moderately involved in the program.

Our older girls are both at ages where they are pulling away (in healthy ways) to explore independence, self - directed learning, and social pursuits without holding our hands.

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With these precisely designed molecules, the team also plans to learn how to better control and direct larger quantities of energy, and convert photo energy to light, electricity, heat or even molecular motion at will.

In a new study published in the journal Psychological Medicine, researchers looked at whether cognitive flexibility for learning tasks and goal - directed control was impaired early in the development of OCD.

Next comes annoyance — which impairs people's well - being even if it has no direct impact on health — with a corresponding figure of 587,000 years, followed by learning deficits among schoolchildren estimated at 45,000, and tinnitus with 22,000.

So they turned to living, anesthetized mice, attached electrodes to their scalps, and directed 2000 and 2010 hertz signals so that they produced a low - frequency, 10 hertz stimulation at the hippocampus, a deep - brain structure involved in learning and memory.

Over the next 10 minutes, I learned that my hobby was an embarrassment to the department, that there was no way I could properly focus on biology, and that every negative lab result I ever produced was a direct result of telling jokes at night.

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At thousands of sites around Japan, drones are learning to direct autonomous trucks from above — heralding a revolution in the construction industry

If you consider th e [at] science that is supported by the government in two ways: one, the fundamental science — that justice directed it; learning new things about the natural world and those aspects of science that have direct applications.

«Dark matter in this mass range can be probed by direct detection and by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), so if this is dark matter, we're already learning about its interactions from the lack of detection so far,» said co-author Tracy Slatyer, a theoretical physicist at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. «This is a very exciting signal, and while the case is not yet closed, in the future we might well look back and say this was where we saw dark matter annihilation for the first time.»

Dr. Amaral's interests include research involving multidisciplinary studies directed at determining the neuroanatomical, behavioral and electrophysiological organization and functions of brain systems that are involved in learning, memory, emotion and social behavior carried out on the human brain and on animal models.

«In tantric sex, you learn how to find your energy, then fire it up and direct it, fueling the energy with sex drive,» says Judy Kuriansky, PhD, clinical psychologist at Columbia University Teachers College in New York City and author of The Complete Idiots Guide to Tantric Sex.

And while nothing I'm about to share can actually be taught — real learning only occurs through direct experience — in these next paragraphs I'll impart some essential components of doing yoga asana, at least as I have come to know the practice.

Meanwhile, Jupiter welcomes experimentation, even at the risk of failure, as long as we learn from our mistakes by the time it turns direct.

«Fe» is a game I didn't learn much about until a few months ago at a Nintendo Direct Mini for the Switch.

Revisiting the film with this newly - learned context in mind, one sequence in particular appears to have been a direct shot at Weinstein.

Shyamalan is at the top of his directing game, but he still hasn't learned to fine - tune his writing.

The Superman movie, directed by Zack Snyder, takes a deliberately serious look at the man in blue spandex, telling the story of a young boy who learns that he has... Read More

At a roundtable interview, DeWitt discussed her research for the role, how playing a real - life person informed her approach to the character, what it was like meeting the real Sue Webb, what she enjoyed most about working with Renner, what she learned about journalists and their determination to get to the truth of their story, her new film «Men, Women & Children» directed by Jason Reitman, and her upcoming projects: Joe Swanberg's «Digging for Fire,» Sam Raimi's remake of «Poltergeist» with Sam Rockwell, and a small part in the TV mini-series «Olive Kitteridge.»

• And with that, much «Invictus» talk ensued, as we learned that Eastwood directed the film at Morgan Freeman's request, and that it's going up against «The Lovely Bones» in December.

At the film's recent press day, Costner talked about the appeal of playing Coach White, Niki Caro's directing style, the bond that developed between all the actors during filming, the pivotal role a coach can play in a young person's life, the Jim White - type coaches who influenced Costner's life in a positive way, what he learned about Latino culture growing up in Visalia, why he waits for projects to come along that he can really respond to irrespective of genre, the biggest cultural gap he experienced on this film, and how sports movies allow us to address other issues within the wider society.

During a conference at the film's press day, voice actors Andy Samberg, Katie Crown, Kelsey Grammer («Hunter») and Stephen Kramer Glickman («Pigeon Toady»), along with producer Brad Lewis and co-directors Nicholas Stoller and Doug Sweetland, talked about how animation is «filmmaking by army,» the film's universal metaphor, what attracted the voice cast to the material, learning about the birds and the bees, the evolution of the Wolf Pack (led by voice actors Keegan - Michael Key and Jordan Peele), and the difference between directing live - action and animation.

Robert Hendren, executive director of the MIND Institute at the University of California at Davis, praised Pepperberg and Sherman's research as innovative, saying it offers children the chance to learn through both observation and direct interaction.

In courses such as these, the best learning strategies frequently involve some form of direct instruction or demonstration followed by learner practice or drill with immediate performance feedback, and less of the creative, open - ended problem solving at the heart of PBL.

«This signals that ETS is serious about supporting teachers in the classroom,» said Dylan Wiliam, who directs the Learning and Teaching Research Center at the Princeton,...

The REFERENCE, RECALL AND WRITE workbook has 18 pages, and is best photocopied double - sided, and double - stapled in workbook format for students to work through either in direct class time, or as independent learning at home.

Well, now, Jonathan Skolnick — who has tackled personalized - learning strategy at School of One, Caliber Schools, and the New York City Department of Education, and is now a VP at the Educational Alliance — has written with a missive that raises one of the thorniest questions about personalized learning: How do we ensure that students in self - directed, customized environments still master skills and content that we think critical — but that they may deem tedious, pointless, and unnecessary?