Sentences with phrase «from class observation»

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By focusing on the various skills — everything from observation and data gathering to analysis and reflection — Newnham and his colleagues developed a framework for teachers to use in their science classes, beginning as early as kindergarten.

The truth from the ground, based on the extensive footwork due diligence I conduct plus emails from readers around the country reporting similar observations, is that the inventory of home listings of soaring (the published inventory reports by design have 2 - 3 month lag), prices are dropping quickly, the time it takes to sell a home is increasing significantly and, most important, the potential pool of middle class home buyers no longer have an income level that will support the size of mortgage it takes to «buy» a home.

Ethnographic descriptions and anthropological observations of the 19th century highlighted the fact that Malayarayans were different from other hill tribes of Travancore on many counts.3 The Travancore Census Report (1901) describes Malayarayans as «a class of hill tribes, who are little more civilised than the Mannans, and have fixed abodes in the slopes of high mountain ranges.

There arise from these observations certain implications for those of us who are indeed «scribes,» members of that class which makes its living from producing and distributing what passes today for officially certified «wisdom.»

From 1983 to 1992, I collected data on the pregnancy and childbirth experiences of 100 middle and upper - middle class mainstream pregnant women and mothers, and on the health professionals (physicians, nurses, midwives, childbirth educators) who care for them, through observation and interviews in hospitals, offices, and homes.

Kahlenberg and Wrangham analysed data from 14 years of observation of wild chimps and categorised stick - use into four classes: as probes to investigate holes; as weapons during aggressive displays or attacks; as a prop during solitary play; and, in essence, as dolls.

Previous observations of other hot Jupiter - class planets (HD 189733 b and unpublished data for HD 209458 b) have found that their hot spots may be shifted slightly away from the closest point to the star, possibly due to strong winds moving hot, gaseous material around.

That came partly from some of Brenda Milner's observations that the memory deficits in patients like H.M. belong to a much broader class of memories than just the purely spatial.

This discovery will enable astronomers to compare the properties of black holes gleaned from gravitational wave observations with those of similar - mass black holes previously only detected with X-ray studies, and fills in a missing link between the two classes of black hole observations.

After analyzing four years of Kepler space telescope observations, astronomers from the University of Toronto, and of the University of Cambridge have given us our clearest understanding yet of a class of exoplanets called «warm Jupiters», showing that many have unexpected planetary companions.

The European X-ray Observatory Satellite (EXOSAT), originally named HELOS, was an X-ray telescope operational from May 1983 until April 1986 and in that time made 1780 observations in the X-ray band of most classes of astronomical object including active galactic nuclei, stellar coronae, cataclysmic variables, white dwarfs, X-ray binaries, clusters of galaxies, and supernova remnants.

«AO observations from 8 - 10m class telescopes are a dramatic improvement in spatial resolution over previous ground - based observations.

Since you aren't a SUGAR DADDY and you don't send to or receive email from SUGAR BABIES... you really aren't in a position to make the same OBSERVATIONS that I have made» As for the «snob» definition, I will help you here: snob — a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and dislikes people or activities regarded as lower - class.

Though the material may not greatly differ from a high school science class, Maltin's observation that these are the same people who made Snow White and Bambi is astute.

But star Amy Adams» role calls on her to spend a lot of time staring thoughtfully in the distance after reading a passage from her ex's tome, all while Ford piles on mean - spirited observations about the heroine's crumbling upper - middle - class lifestyle.

Artifacts include Fulton's observations from class visits, feedback based on rubric criteria, teacher comments and teacher - provided evidence such as lesson plans.

We demonstrated that a regression - based statistical correction for the proportion of the students in each teacher's class that are English - language learners, have education disabilities, are from low - income families, and so forth, wrings most of the bias out of classroom observations.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

To address this concern, we use observations of student achievement from teachers» classes in the one or two school years prior to and following TES measurement, but we do not use student achievement gains from the year in which the observations were conducted.

This lesson helped my middle ability year 9 class to consider their observation skills in exploring a 5 mark mood and atmosphere style question from the WJEC fiction reading paper.

«Previous to using edTech apps, my assessment of skill gaps in student learning was, at best, approximate and anecdotal; that is, I estimated these gaps based on anecdotal observations from class discussion and student evaluations such as unit tests,» said Kevin Neal, a social studies teacher at Valley High School in the West Des Moines school district in Iowa, USA.

Traditionally of course, observation involves usually someone from a leadership group going into a class and observing.

The teacher was referring to what is commonly known as an informal observation, which typically lasts anywhere from 10 minutes to a full class period.

In making his observation that contradicts logical thinking, Gladwell used data from RSD # 12 to illustrate how the smaller class sizes did not have the benefit of improving student performance.

Whether it's the formative data from online tools and spreadsheets or the tech-less data from class discussions and observations, this information helps us to reach our students and meet their needs.

Note from the observation and walkthrough can be e-mailed immediately after the class visit is complete.

Additional data from interviews and observations over the course of the class might have yielded a more robust understanding of how these enhancements impacted the ways in which teachers worked in the course and made it possible to begin to develop hypotheses about ways in which teachers develop content knowledge on geology in online classes and how course design can best support it.

Screen shot from class Online teacher training involves much of the workload that traditional in - the - class instruction does: textbook lessons, classroom observations, student teaching.

The dealership was under construction at the time of our visit, but from our observation the staff continued to handle business undeterred and with class.

Brooklyn - born artist Jean - Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry fragments, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

Many of Kelley's main concerns come from the contrast of his youth in Detroit, where he was good at art, watched ground - breaking punk concerts, worked in service jobs and grew up in a working class Catholic family, and his observations of the art world.

Brooklyn - born artist Jean - Michel Basquiat filled numerous notebooks with poetry, wordplay, sketches, and personal observations ranging from street life and popular culture to themes of race, class, and world history.

The school's core program is a four - year Master Class comprised of 40 students and focused on the primacy of painting and drawing from observation, the human figure and in depth study and research after old and modern masters.

(Ms. Fendrich's essay is about teaching painting in painting classes to undergraduates, primarily beginning painting students; Mr. Blackstock says, «Yes, people need to learn to paint draw printmake [sic] from observation to train the eye to line shape tone colour texture surface...»)

Apart from the fundamental scientific advances of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy of classes of lesser papers, along the lines of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect of science • Report the views of a clutch of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..

For example, changes in time of observation, adjustment for a move of a station that was previously sited next to a heat source to a better location (that now allows the station to be classed as Class 1 or 2), switch to a different temperature measurement device or system, etcetera, could explain why smaller classes of raw data don't track well with the overall trend calculated from homogenized station trend data.

Unit root and stationary processes differ in their implications at infinite time horizons, but for any given finite number of observations on the time series, there is a representative from either class of models that could account for all the observed features of the data.

After you complete this online class and your in - car observation and driving lessons, your driving instructor from A-1 Driving School will issue you an official Certificate of Completion.

Lisa Lane Filholm shares frank and funny observations from her time in the trenches otherwise known as high - school English class.

Current UK government policies recognise the need for universal parenting support to complement targeted and indicated approaches29 — 33 and the English Department for Education is currently piloting the offer of free vouchers for parenting classes (the CANParent initiative) to all parents in three areas of the country.34 Such recommendations derive from observations relating to the prevalence of suboptimal parenting, 35 the inefficiency of targeting on the basis of identifiable risk factors36, 37 and the potential for realising change in high risk as well as whole population groups by reducing the stigma which may be attached to targeted parenting support.36 — 38 Given the range and prevalence of health and social outcomes on which parent — child relationships have an influence, 2, 3, 5 — 16 universal approaches are appealing.

These results are supported by fidelity findings from the structured observations (N = 27) carried out in a sample of classes over the course of the study (observations: mean number of observed activities full implementation = 90.9 %; partial implementation = 2.3 %; activities not implemented = 6.8 %) Given that there was no significant difference in the level of programme adherence between the intervention groups, the impact results were analysed by comparing the intervention group's results (i.e. intervention Type I combined with intervention Type II) with the control group's results.