Sentences with phrase «for academic discussions»

If you have a talking stick for academic discussions, use that.

Hosted by Oxford's Rothermere American Institute and the Politics Departments at Oxford and Cambridge universities, Elections 2012 is a forum for academic discussion and debate surrounding the US Presidential, Congressional and local elections.

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The day - long event brought together 150 invited guests, including Knight News Challenge grantees along with leading journalists, technologists, campaign organizers, academics and thought leaders for a series of curated panel discussions.

(For one academic discussion of opportunities and barriers see this paper by Robichaud and Knopff.)

Because of the remoteness of the academic discussion from the pressing concerns within the church, the church has in fact looked elsewhere for solutions to its problems.

Her work as an academic philosopher has dealt extensively with the figures and issues of that period, and in her discussions of fiction she has expressed particular admiration for the great novelists of that century, including Jane Austen, George Eliot and Leo Tolstoy.

At the academic level form criticism is the single most important development in the history of the discussion of our problem, for it provides what must be regarded as the only satisfactory understanding of the nature of the synoptic gospel material — satisfactory, that is, from the viewpoint of being able to explain the phenomena demonstrably present in the texts themselves.

He follows a teaching philosophy that presents clear learning objectives, uses real - life examples to reinforce academic concepts, provides numerous opportunities for discussion and fosters an open and supportive classroom environment.

RESIST Agrochemical TNCs together with the All UP Academic Employees Union and NNARA — Youth UP Manila conducted a Round Table Discussion with civil society organizations regarding the imminent approval of Golden Rice application for direct use and open field testing.

Five academics who have written for this series will join a roundtable discussion on May 1 in Canberra, hosted by Ken Henry, the Chair of the Australia in the Asian Century Taskforce.

Evidence Based Parenting: You Can Make A Difference Join us for Coffee and Conversation on Wednesday, November 6 at 8:30 am The discussion will be led by Dr. Anne Townsend, President and Chief Academic Officer of Mariposa Child Success Programs, and current WSB parent.

The Reuters Institute Digital News Report has become a central reference point for evidence - based discussions of news and media developments across the countries covered, and is frequently the basis for both professional, industry, policymaker and academic discussions.

Laura Stefan, the anti corruption coordinator for the Romanian Academic Society, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena and business man Strive Masiyiwa take part in a panel discussion at the Anti-Corruption Summit held at Lancaster House

Well, if you're talking about what he said about women in science, I think he should have kept that for a purely academic discussion — if he wanted to have an academic discussion about it — and not have done it in circumstances in which it could become public.

In his review, Crosbie Smith praises Stanley for producing a well - researched tome that is sure to «challenge the general reader and stimulate academic discussion,» but questions his use of Maxwell as a representative example of a theistic practitioner of science.

Join us for a roundtable discussion that will look at facts and fiction surrounding academic and industry career options for Ph.D. - level scientists.

The UW workshops offered professional development advice, in - depth discussions that included personal issues and life stories, interactions with other potential on - rampers and exploration of strategies for becoming the academics they wanted to be.

The authors frame much of the discussion around women's choices about, for example, which high school math classes to take, what college major to enroll in, and whether to pursue an academic career.

For other informal academic discussion, please email [email protected] or [email protected]

Conference rooms and academic spaces foster a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care and allow for video - conferencing and discussion of challenging cases with experts from the Huntsman Cancer Institute.

On November 18, AIMday ® Diagnostics & Biomarkers in Uppsala brought together academic researchers, industrial representatives and clinicians for discussions on this important and exciting subject.

On December 1, a six - member delegation from Tecnológico de Monterrey in Mexico visited Tohoku University for discussions on academic exchanges.

The definition for «virgin» coconut oil was originally developed in an Internet discussion group we hosted, and various people had input into the definition, including industry insiders, academic leaders, and others.

United Kingdom About Blog The Academic Health Economists» Blog exists to provide an on - line presence for the discussion of issues and developments in health economics.

Each year, this select group of film enthusiasts, filmmakers, professionals, academics and students of varying ages and backgrounds watches over 250 films and participates in illuminating discussions with directors, actors, producers and screenwriters before announcing their selections for the best work of the year in early December prior to an annual ceremony in January.

It is a field enriched by active discussion group lists like Kinema Club (6) which reach out for numerous motivated students of Japanese cinema worldwide, and, no less importantly, by the fact that there are more academic positions held by Japanese film specialists than ever before.

Indeed, recalling Britton's discussion of the importance of determining «the sakes» of a film, scholars scouring university libraries and online scholarly databases for film books and essays also need to be discriminating the sakes of academic scholarship.

In an age where classroom teachers find themselves defending their profession and their results, the discussion of race in the classroom seems like one more opportunity for the finger - pointers who seek deeper understanding about the declining academic performance of all American students.

In its discussion of accountability, the task force rightly lines up behind the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (and, not incidentally, the Risk report itself) in calling for coherent academic standards in every state, in key academic subjects (regrettably omitting the arts, which Risk mentioned and which the National Education Goals expressly included).

In a student's academic life, values - based reflections and discussions encourage a student to ask questions such as: What is learning for?

It wants to use the national discussion paper consultation to establish a set of agreed principles for teaching sport and physical activity, and is working with academics to develop an Australian Physical Literacy Standard.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Conclusion Using the four areas of judgement, the SENCO could produce short - term (urgent) and long - term (through the academic year) action plans, which formed the basis for discussion at senior leadership meetings.

The discussions will focus on how greater collaboration and research can better position the region as a transnational hub for academic excellence, and ensure the leadership, financing and reputation required to deliver competitive, innovative institutions across the region.

Science discussion requires using both academic English and science concepts, which can be difficult for a student who is learning English.

Teachers at this middle school have engaged in professional development on a range of instructional approaches including explicit academic vocabulary instruction, the use of sentence stems, and various structures for small group discussion.

Elizabeth, T., Ross Anderson, T., Snow, E., & Selman, R.L. Academic discussions: An analysis of instructional discourse and an argument for an integrative assessment framework.

Recently, the Independent Education Union (NSW / ACT) held a conference at the University of Technology Sydney for academics and teachers to share their knowledge about mentoring with the aim of beginning a meaningful discussion.

«The Harvard Institute for Superintendents and District Leaders identifies the most pressing issues facing educational leaders today and provides a platform for engagement of academic discussion with colleagues from around the world.»

There are endless design options for collaboration, including flexible groups, partners, peer tutoring, Socratic seminars, academic discussion, and online experts.

The various iterations of student - led discussions are powerful strategies for increasing student participation, intellectual investment, and inclusion in all academic discussions.

Join our guests for an interactive discussion of mobile - learning initiatives and their academic merits.

The CALS construct is defined as a constellation of the high - utility language skills that correspond to linguistic features prevalent in oral and written academic discourse across school content areas and that are infrequent in colloquial conversations (e.g., knowledge of logical connectives, such as nevertheless, consequently; knowledge of structures that pack dense information, such as nominalizations or embedded clauses; knowledge of structures for organizing argumentative texts) Over the last years, as part of the Catalyzing Comprehension Through Discussion Debate project funded by IES to the Strategic Educational Research Partnership, Dr. Paola Uccelli and her research team have produced a research - based, theoretically - grounded, and psychometrically robust instrument to measure core academic language skills (CALS - I) for students in grades 4 - 8.

According to Teach for America spokesperson Takirra Winfield, the program has three major components: discussions on the «history of inequity in the United States»; teaching recruits to view poor children's families and neighborhoods as «assets» to academic achievement, not liabilities (a concept borrowed from African American educational theorists like Lisa Delpit and Gloria Ladson - Billings); and introducing corps members to classroom management tactics.

«This law calls for a well - rounded education and a shifting away from the narrow focus on academics,» said Ulrich Boser, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress (CAP), which hosted a panel discussion at its headquarters in Washington, D.C., to coincide with the release of the reports.

Recently, I had a discussion about Common Core with several university level educational leaders who expressed the need for students to be better prepared for college: to read and write in a more academic manner, to make logical inferences, and to cite specific evidence from the text to support their conclusions.

The Progressive Policy Institute hosted a panel discussion on the importance of implementing meaningful academic achievement standards for students and schools under ESSA.

And considering his or her students» needs, an individual teacher might focus on honing one particular aspect of academic discussions, such as debate structures, for one - on - one coaching.

The speaking and listening standards in the common core call for student engagement in academic discussion in pairs, small groups, and whole - class settings.

So much of the discussion on English language learners in U.S. schools focuses on what they don't have (for example, academic English) or what they haven't been able to do (such as graduate in rates comparable to proficient English speakers).