Sentences with phrase «focus on teaching rather»

Focus on teaching them rather than selling them to establish yourself as a viable resource that they'll turn back to time and again.

At our academy we believe that Key Stage 3, Years 7 - 9, should focus on teaching rather than testing; where we focus on learning and enthusing our students with the joy of our subjects rather than making them simple sit endless tests.

They preferred, appreciated, and believed in this new process for transferring knowledge, valued the efficiencies and leverage provided by technology, and preferred to focus on teaching rather than student discipline and administrative duties.

«This creates the time and space in a pupil's primary years for teachers to focus on teaching rather than on high stakes assessment.

In other words, focus on teaching rather than testing.

«We allow teachers to focus on teaching rather than gathering and creating resources,» Martin says.

We have a simple way of looking at our lessons at The Hewett Academy - focusing on teaching rather than testing.

Not exact matches

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

The approach applies to both teaching and learning and is often more focused on learning concrete skills rather than solving abstract problems.

He mentioned his first mentor, Speros Drelles, investment chief at Pittsburgh National Bank, taught him to focus on the future rather than the present with investments, and also that central bank policy moved markets even more than earnings.

Shen said that working in engineering taught her to focus on math rather than emotion when it came to her money.

Skillshare focuses on doing rather than teaching, so there's more interaction with their courses.

The most successful interpreters of the moral teaching of the NT have focused on the text's paradigms and «symbolic world» rather than on its rules and principles.

Even before the gospels were written, Paul established a breakaway sect that dismissed the importance of the Torah and made no mention of the teachings of Jesus, focusing rather on the Christ as Paul understood the concept following his personal revelation.

I wish the schools would focus on teaching children math, science and other things required to make our society better, rather than focussing on this non-issue.

bit, but I thought we were focusing on what Jesus actually said as a whole via his teaching and parables rather than what he did or what the gospel writers or St. Paul said.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

Rather than trying to «teach» skills like grit and self - control, he argues, we should focus instead on creating the kinds of environments, both at home and at school, in which those qualities are most likely to flourish.

But often when you do this, you're focused on winning the fight rather than working towards teaching your child to choose to do the right thing.

As a parent, you'll be more effective if you focus on teaching your child the skills to process anger appropriately, and avoiding power struggles rather than trying to make your child feel a certain way.

From the time they're very young, girls are taught to focus on the needs of others rather than on their own.

Punishment sabotages kids» moral development, because it teaches them to focus on whether they'll get caught and punished, rather than on the impact of their actions.

So rather than discourage her from experiencing big feelings, focus on teaching her to deal with her emotions in a socially appropriate manner.

Not only is it economical but it's earth friendly and helps teach our children not to focus on material «wealth» but rather the memoris and experiences and opportunities.

Keep the safety lessons focused on teaching your child the life skills that will empower him to stay safe, rather than trying to scare him into learning a lesson.

Focus more energy on teaching your child what to do, rather than reacting to what not to do.

When asked about the political implications of the rally, Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman, painted herself as a school leader who focuses on teaching children how to read and write rather than navigating politically complex situations.

Ms. Levine made a brief analysis of the current state of research in Spain, and among other things, she said that, «The [Spanish] universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.»

But if we look further, the latest analyses show that between 2000 and 2008 more than 60 percent of scientific production in Spain was carried out in universities (2), despite the fact that their professors are ``... civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research».

The universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.

Soon after qualifying, Dr. Lipman became aware of the limitations of his medical training: taught to focus on the disease rather than the patient, he found himself treating symptoms rather than the root causes of illness.

As Nagel says in this series, meditation teaches you to focus on one tough task at a time, while bringing your attention to your breath — rather than any fatigue you're feeling in your muscles.

«Rather than teaching me some magic lines and a few techniques, New York Dating Coach focused on my inner self, on how I see myself around women.

Gertrud renounces external eventfulness in order to cultivate internal or imaginative eventfulness» — and using the (constant - and - never - moving as a way to allow viewers to focus on acting and the body rather than on technical formalist tricks, in fact, the shots are the longest technically allowable before the invention of digital shooting) camera merely as a functional recording - device rather than as an originator of instant meaning and knowledge as in Hollywood, this film remains the best summation of the truism that a longwinded presentation of several actors merely speaking for ten - minutes - a-scene while the camera does not move and no artificial and manipulative «cinematic language» is involved, in other words, the dreaded «merely filmed non-cinematic literature and theatre,» not only has a much greater capacity to teach than any Hollywood mode of filmmaking but is more dramatic than any car chase.

There is a growing movement of schools taking ownership at a local level to interpret how we teach, rather than focusing just on what we teach.

Are they sometimes free to choose their own strategy, or a back - up, rather than focus on a particular strategy being taught?

Rather than focusing solely on changing the demographics of their workforce — an effort that can take decades as staff retire and are replaced — the district's model centers on teaching current educators how to think differently.

Instead the system requires students to rote learn and move on while teaching staff focus on data collection and admin rather than people.

The study focused on pedagogies for effective teaching and learning, rather than including other uses of technology that might be more administrative or organisational.

Implicit in the prior discussion and Figure 1 are strong reasons for schools to focus on skills rather than dispositions: Skills can be taught, are typically publicly observable and specific, lend themselves readily to selection based on what the school or teacher intends students to learn, and aren't heavily constrained by genetics.

It teaches students to focus on getting information rather than on exploring and creating.

By introducing educational apps into lessons, teachers are moving from «teaching» to «facilitating learning» — helping students find ways to learn by focusing on enhancing the process of critical thinking rather than solely looking at whether an answer is right or wrong.

Using technology not to replicate existing tasks but change them rather than focusing on traditional «chalk and talk» teaching methods is something that the technology association Naace believes passionately in.

Last but not least, its teaching approach is designed to work with both advanced and struggling students, and intended to foster abstract skills like creativity, depth of thought, and problem solving, rather than focusing on remediation and basic reading and math skills.

A shift to a focus on measuring outcomes will open the licensure process to high - quality alternative pathways into teaching and encourage innovation among higher education providers who wish to compete on cost and quality rather than on traditional curriculum and seat - time requirements.

At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

It does mean aiming for a much higher level of teaching expertise, and having a focus on quality teaching rather than programs.

Rather than focusing on where students are in their long - term progress, this approach often treats each new topic (or school year) as a fresh start — a self - contained body of content to be taught, learnt and assessed.

Andrew Griffiths, my colleague and mentor at Woodcroft College, taught me to realise the importance of the learning process — to focus on the journey rather than the end result.

Most ICT teaching focuses on learning how to use software, rather than giving insight into how it's made.