Sentences with phrase «from conceptual understandings»

«Effectively, this is not that different from the conceptual understanding of carbon taxes — the idea is to tax the dose of the pollutant to incentivize consumers and producers to use better technologies to reduce carbon,» said Dr. Blecher.

However, for students to understand, and communicate, some of the important ecological, conservationist arguments, they benefit from a conceptual understanding of food webs, ecological interactions, and natural selection.

In this webinar, hear insights from Francis (Skip) Fennell and Tim Hudson around how to: • Implement tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving • Use and connect mathematical representations • Build procedural fluency from conceptual understanding • Elicit and use evidence of student thinking

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Regardless of your role in your company, everyone could benefit from understanding management principles from an in - depth conceptual perspective.

I hope, nevertheless, that my comments may indicate why one person at least on this side of the Atlantic (and hence somewhat isolated from the technical expertise, vocabulary, and sometimes apparently frenetic debates of the community of process thinkers) finds in Hartshorne's work «genuine philosophic wisdom,» especially as it develops insights into the logical status and conceptual structure of a theistic understanding of the concept of God.

In the last few pages of the book he speaks frankly about the «serious crisis» suffered by concept of «Traditio», the «deep wound which the Church is experiencing after Vatican II», owing to the refashioning of the understanding of Revelation from the conceptual, propositional approach of Vatican I and scholastic theology to the notion of Revelation as experience and encounter, leading to «a displacement of the dynamic aspect of revelation to the detriment of the noetic», «a gap between truth and love» and a «strong subjectivism».

«Properly understood,» she continues, «myths provide a conceptual system through which one may understand and thereby construct a universal reality, a roundhouse where we can move from the back of one person's reality to another's, passing through the myth that expresses them all.»

The healing and growth insights that are available from the psychoanalytic understanding of psychosexual development through adolescence, particularly as these insights have been extended by Erik Erikson and corrected by feminist psychologists, offer valuable conceptual tools for understanding and facilitating human growth.

«A combination of practical scenario and case study questions, with more conceptual essay questions, will test a range of skills essential to the international tax profession, from determining a client's tax position based on an understanding of applicable legislation, to offering analysis, evaluation and advocacy on a topical issue in international tax discourse.»

The two - volume Atlas presents a collection of nearly 100 conceptual strand maps that show how students» understanding of the ideas and skills that lead to literacy in science, mathematics, and technology might develop from kindergarten through 12th grade.

In addition, a recent survey of principals conducted by the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) found that of the 1,100 principals from 14 Common Core states who responded, more than 80 percent agree that the Common Core has the potential to improve conceptual understanding, increase student skill mastery and create more meaningful assessments of students.

The example has clearly color coded sections for students to draw conclusions from and develop conceptual understanding as they apply their own knowledge through practice.

The controversies that emerged from his research recruited exceptionally talented people from a variety of fields; his wide - ranging intellectual interests expanded the conceptual tools available for understanding important aspects of childhood and adolescence; and finally, his expectations for policy research have been institutionalized in ways that have improved both the relevance and quality of social - science research in general.

We used a conceptual framework, derived from socio - cultural learning theory, to help us identify and understand central office administrators» practices in the PPLCs.

Contents run as follows: * Visual summary of plot * Storyboard resource for students to then recall the plot and key events from memory * Exploring the form and structure of the play * Context (students explore key contextual issues and make connections between events from history and events in the play) * Key Quotes - Students explore key quotes through analysis of their meaning and significance, quotes are broken down act by act * Themes - Students make connections between themes, characters and events in the play * Characterisation - Students have to complete a character profile for all the main characters using the study tasks provided * Key Terminology - Exploring some key terminology and vocabulary that will deepen their conceptual understanding of the play as well as impress examiners.

It is based on a comparison of two different value - added scores for teachers: one derived from the regular state assessment (which varies by participating district) and the other from an alternative assessment that is specifically designed to measure students» depth of higher - order conceptual understanding in each subject.

Data from student test scores should be used by schools to move students to mastery and a deep conceptual understanding of key concepts as well as to inform instruction, target remediation, and to focus review efforts.

Alternatively, instruction that places a premium from the start on meaning and conceptual understanding may improve classroom productivity.

From the Common Core's Enduring Understandings and Understandings by Design to the Next Generation Science Standards stipulation of CDIs - Core Disciplinary Ideas and CCCs - Cross Cutting Concepts and Themes to AP courses» Conceptual Frameworks, specifying the precise ideas that will now constitute the lenses to be knowledge are how Preschool through college are now to work.

The MET report uses data from six major urban school districts to, among other things, compare two different value - added scores for teachers: one computed from official state tests, and another from a test designed to measure higher - order, conceptual understanding.

They used data from six major urban school districts to examine correlations between student survey responses and value - added scores computed both from state tests and from higher - order tests of conceptual understanding.

Using the Rekenrek, children begin to develop conceptual understanding, and the emphasis is changed from learning computational procedures to developing conceptual understanding.

Also, new tests seem to have applied some lessons from the previous generation — they are more comprehensive in their coverage and do a better job at assessing deeper conceptual understanding than previous renditions.

Funded by the Florida Legislature and championed by Governor Rick Scott, Math Nation is a comprehensive online teaching and learning system designed to help students improve their conceptual and procedural understandings of mathematics, from foundational pre-algebra concepts to advanced topics such as trigonometric functions.

A much more effective mantra would be to adopt «problem solving» approaches as this emphasizes the problem, the problem clarification, the notion of success that comes from resolving problems and asks for a better balance between surface, deep, and conceptual understandings.

«This book reminds us that we need to go back to models of learning and use them to help students see similarities and differences, learn how to summarize and take notes, practice deliberately, use imagery to build a deeper conceptual understanding on which they can «hang» surface level knowledge, learn from one another, solve problems, generate and test hypotheses, and give and receive feedback,» wrote education professor and author John Hattie in his foreword to the publication.

From 2017, the top grade will be much harder to achieve and will require deep conceptual understanding of a broad range of mathematical topics, as well as strong reasoning and problem - solving skills.

They don't understand how to make the conceptual leap from a job where we are told what to do to a life where we decide what to do — and seek to do something that connects, that makes an impact, and that yes, might not work.»

I often get emailed questions from novice investors who have a desire to learn more about investing and want to understand the conceptual aspects of value investing better.

In many ways, her work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler of pointing at the ironic and content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

Ranging from sculpture that inhabits physical space in unusual ways in order to better understand and demonstrate force, motion, energy and matter, to works depicting the patterns of the earth and its cycles of change, the artists in this exhibit explore natural phenomena in ways both literal and conceptual.

While the works created by these artists have previously been contextualized in terms of associations and movements ranging from Fluxus to Conceptual Art to the blanketed arena of contemporary art practice, in Radical Presence they will be presented along a trajectory providing general audiences and scholars alike, a critical understanding of the significance and persistence of black performance as a stand - alone practice.

The road to understanding what formalism in art really is about takes us from philosophical ideas of Plato, Aristotle and Immanuel Kant, through the experiments of the avant - garde, all the way to contemporary ideal of socially - engaged and conceptual art.

From a series of found object sculptures that represent the human body to a durational confetti - throwing performance at The Armory Show, Pica creates a diverse set of conceptual artworks, all driven by the desire to be understood.

The conceptual underpinnings of Rockburne's work draw from the world of thought and investigation, from the vision of artists like Leonardo da Vinci who struggled in their own times to hone the clearest understanding of the forces that determine our universe.

Using a variety of techniques, such as thick and thin painting, removing portions of canvas from his work, and multi-media assemblage, Aldrich has developed an artistic style that turns away from the canonical understanding of art historically, in favor of exploring new conceptual processes through which to view the contemporary world as he sees it.

Collier's work can be understood as following a conceptual artistic tradition inherited from Marcel Duchamp, Andy Warhol, and Douglas Huebler, as they too worked with content - laden artifacts of our media age rather than creating new objects.

Sehgal's interpretations of the dance aesthetics of twenty of the greatest choreographers of the modern era, including Pina Bausch, Trisha Brown, Merce Cunningham, Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, Yvonne Rainer, and Le Roy, represented for the artist a transformation from his past experience in choreographing a single, discrete piece into what might be understood as a conceptual artwork - exhibition of collected performances — in his words, «a museum of dance» 2 incarnate.

The exhibition, which included works made from 1966 to 1973, is best understood in conjunction with its catalogue of the same title, in which essayist Claire Barliant traces Mayer's trajectory from conceptual practice to experimentations with fabric to her structural sculptures.

With artists such as Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris, Andre redefined our understanding of sculpture, moving the significance of the practice from material to conceptual levels.

With over 100 objects, «From a diamond made from roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a golden crown for ecclesiastical use to traditional military tailoring, this exhibition addresses how luxury is made and understood in a physical, conceptual and cultural capacity.&raFrom a diamond made from roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a golden crown for ecclesiastical use to traditional military tailoring, this exhibition addresses how luxury is made and understood in a physical, conceptual and cultural capacity.&rafrom roadkill to a vending machine stocked with DNA, a golden crown for ecclesiastical use to traditional military tailoring, this exhibition addresses how luxury is made and understood in a physical, conceptual and cultural capacity.»

Taking its title from LeWitt's statement «Irrational judgments lead to new experience,» this book examines the breakthroughs of the artists» intertwined careers, offering a new understanding of minimal, post-minimal, and conceptual art amid the era's political and social upheavals.

Numerically, but certainly from a conceptual - understanding viewpoint.

This disconnect partly stems from a lack of conceptual understanding and partly from the ongoing debate as to what constitutes adaptation and what represents good and sustainable development.

The main conceptual problem that people have with the heat transfer mechanisms is not understanding that a hotter skin / subskin reduces heat flow from below.

Experts tend to underestimate structural uncertainty arising from incomplete understanding of or competing conceptual frameworks for relevant systems and processes.

Structural uncertainties arise from an incomplete understanding of the processes that control particular values or results, for example, when the conceptual framework or model used for analysis does not include all the relevant processes or relationships.

This picture is derived from well - understood and elementary physics, and the validation shows that this conceptual model is consistent with the best data there is.

From my conceptual perspective, this question is not a very high priority until we get a conceptual and quantitative understanding of all the other acute and concentrated forcings first.

Justice La Forest observed in the Hodgkinson case that, «From a conceptual standpoint, the fiduciary duty may properly be understood as but one of a species of a more generalized duty by which the law seeks to protect vulnerable people in transactions with others».