Sentences with phrase «formative experience for»

This collaboration with her mother proved to be a formative experience for Ringgold.

This proved to be a formative experience for Ringgold.

It will be a formative experience for students who will have intensive, intimate engagement with some of the world's foremost artists.

A formative experience for Fragoso was the six years he spent developing a rubber plantation in the state of Bahia.

That was an extremely formative experience for me.

Born in Asheville, N.C., Noland served in World War II before enrolling at the Black Mountain College, the alternative school that proved a formative experience for many members of the American postwar avant - garde, including Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage.

The games creator, Matt White claims to be heavily influenced by Dark Souls and states «Playing that game was an extremely formative experience for me as a game designer, and has caused me to rethink everything».

On top of that, I love how he transformed a formative experience for him (studying abroad and getting out of the classroom) into a business that is thriving.

For anybody that's read this page, you may recall that Comics Camp was a major formative experience for me in 2017; if you wish, you can read about 10,000 words on it here.

Induction can be a formative experience for a new employee, shaping the way they feel about the company from then on.

There was Kris Kristofferson (whom he appeared with in the unforgettable «Cisco Pike» and Sam Peckinpah's «Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid»), Jack Nicholson (whom he worked with multiple times, in Monte Hellman's beautiful «Ride in the Whirlwind», a formative experience for Stanton, and in Arthur Penn's «Missouri Breaks»), Marlon Brando (also in «Missouri Breaks»), David Lynch (who used him multiple times, in «Wild at Heart,» «The Straight Story,» «Fire Walk With Me,» «Inland Empire,» «Twin Peaks: The Return»).

This film was a very formative experience for me, so I'm thrilled to watch it in the brand spanking newly restored version on the best screen in London.

The moment that mirage is discovered has been a formative experience for many militant black leaders.

The internship became the most valuable, formative experience for me.

Formative experiences for the leading - edge boomer include the Cold War and nuclear threat, the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the draft, the assassination of JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, and Watergate.

Not exact matches

For Orr, who had never been particularly civic - minded, the experience was formative.

Sanders» truly formative experience was her dad's 2008 campaign for president, a family - centered endeavor not unlike the one Sanders would join eight years later.

I can not avoid the conclusion that by the time they were written — and the Pauline epistles are the earliest of the New Testament writings — Christians no longer thought in that way of their present experience of the risen Jesus; but reserved such language for the initial Easter period (extended by Paul to include his own formative experience).

In other words, if passion had been a measure for discerning God's call I would have missed what has been — by far — the most formative work experience I have ever had.

That accords with my observations and experience: powerfully descriptive and formative as myth and ethos may be, for congregations that authentically «have character» the future is not preternaturally determined.

The time I spent there was a key formative experience in my early preparation for ministry.

My Aunt Jennifer is responsible for most of my formative memories of brisket, and most of my positive experiences with passover.

Home birth, mama is a nurse for maternity home health company, faced opposition but support from immediate family, had some formative and transformative experiences that were precursors for a deciding on a home birth, devoured much research on positive births and home births and empowered herself with it, lots of visualisation, hand s and knees swaying, followed the urge to moan and it felt good, bath, natural endorphins produce a feeling as «high as a kite», felt her own baby, skin to skin bonding, ready to have another one!

For most, excitement trumps nerves, but some children develop anxiety serious enough to get in the way of what should be a fun, formative experience.

We believe that these experiences are formative for both babies and parents, and tend to establish patterns of intimacy and sociality for life.

Her most formative political experience came in 2003, when she became the director of online organizing for Howard Dean's presidential campaign.

Boone worked as a union organizer for Service Employees International, «helping nurses, healthcare professionals, patient care assistants and teachers improve their wages, working conditions, and benefits,» an experience her campaign said was formative.

National Institutes of Health / NIH - Fogarty International Center International Research Scientist Development Awards The International Research Scientist Development Award (IRSDA) is offered by the Fogarty International Center (FIC) for U.S. postdoctoral biomedical scientists, in the formative stages of their careers, who seek an opportunity to continue research in, or extend their research experience into, developing countries.

After his formative experience abroad, he found that at Oxford, «enthusiasm for trying new things was blunted.»

It is hard to wean children off picture books when pictures have played a major part throughout their formative reading experiences, and when there is competition for their attention from so many other sources of entertainment.

As such, this experience was amongst the most formative of my young life as a chemist, igniting a passion for academic research and scientific problem solving on the highest level that will never be quenched.

In the clip above, watch the legendary actor share what first sparked his affinity for comedy and his formative experience with Charlie Chaplin's 1940 masterpiece The Great Dictator.

From then on, all of their formative life experiences are shared: they kiss boys for the first time together, they go to a concert where Milly loses her virginity to a rock god backstage, and Jess offers bedside emotional support during the births of Milly's two children.

It helps us appreciate the formative experiences we took for granted at the time.

Reference librarian and guest blogger Paige Alfonzo cites EMS (experience sampling study) as a foundation for using social media as a formative assessment tool for students who already live in that world.

When teachers practice great formative assessment, it can be a transformational experience for them as practitioners and, more importantly, for their students.

Alfonzo, a reference librarian, cites EMS (experience sampling study) as a foundation for using social media as a formative - assessment tool for students who already live in that world.

Our math experience at DreamBox provides ongoing formative assessment that is seamlessly integrated into instruction in real time giving teacher and learner the feedback they need for consistent and constant improvement.

As a senior fellow for the International Center for Leadership in Education, she provides professional learning and coaching to districts and schools on leading learning organizations, designing rigorous and relevant learning experiences, achieving instructional excellence, and utilizing formative data to drive daily practice.

Her interest in conceptual change and formative assessment began in 1992 after reading the seminal article, Teaching for Conceptual Change - Confronting Children's Experience by Bruce Watson and Dick Konicek.

We analyzed formative and summative assessment data to determine if students were making adequate progress, developed intervention plans for students not meeting expectations and created extension experiences for students exceeding expectations.

John Deasy, for instance, noted that when it comes to redefining what is permissible, «my most formative experiences have developed almost entirely in relationships and mentorships with noneducators.»

From parsing this research and reflecting on my own experience as an educational consultant working with elementary and secondary teachers on assessment issues, particularly the difference between formative assessment and grading, I have identified what makes for powerful feedback — in terms of how teachers deliver it and the content it contains.

California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) spoke for many when he recalled the formative prep school experience of an exam that consisted entirely of one question, asking students to give their impressions of a green leaf.

As they progress through a lesson, they encounter a rich learning environment that includes hands - on experiences, multiple modalities and repeated opportunities for reinforcement and formative assessment.

Her experience as the founder of the Bluewater Sustainability Initiative, an Arabic teacher at the Sarnia Muslim Association, and a Student Trustee for the Lambton Kent District School Board (LKDSB) were formative to her work in community development, social justice, and youth engagement.

By the end of this training, participants will develop good analytical and reflective questions they can use to set the instructional focus and serve as formative and summative assessments for deeper student learning experiences.

All of the participant teachers in these districts completed the six - month online digital learning experience, Formative Assessment Insights developed by the SAAL team and funded by the Hewlett Foundation, which laid the foundation for the current project.

Key developments in text and tools offer new opportunities, for example, for fashioning technology - mediated learning experiences, for advancing disciplinary understanding and sensemaking, and for formative assessment of students» progress in learning.

Here are 9 examples of student - led formative assessment in which students can take the lead in place of the teacher for a unique learning experience.