Sentences with phrase «in academic conversations»

Because of the nature of the prompt, students were willing to engage in academic conversations.

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And while these words are commonly found in everyday conversations, Steven D. Cohen, an award - winning speaker who leads career and academic workshops on public speaking at Harvard Extension School, argues that «they often detract from the listener's ability to understand a particular message.»

Just a few years ago, conversations about artificial intelligence (AI) ethics and policy were limited to a very specific community of academics and enthusiasts, and perhaps a marginal few in the circle of avant garde policy - makers.

He, too, was a long - time reader of First Things, and in conversations showed himself a thoughtful and well - read academic.

Thus the onus to foster the conversation is awkwardly placed on students or young faculty members, those living in the tensions between the academic and apologetic worlds and who feel the most pressure and enthusiasm for synthetic thinking.

In the longest sections on One Mediator, the primary, though not exclusive, addressee is the Catholic academic community in India and the East which the ODF thought was compromising the church's teaching on the Unique Mediator in its conversations with world religionIn the longest sections on One Mediator, the primary, though not exclusive, addressee is the Catholic academic community in India and the East which the ODF thought was compromising the church's teaching on the Unique Mediator in its conversations with world religionin India and the East which the ODF thought was compromising the church's teaching on the Unique Mediator in its conversations with world religionin its conversations with world religions.

In thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his realitIn thirty years as a professor, of graduate seminars, academic conferences, committee meetings, lunches and dinners, and conversations short and long, I have heard God mentioned rarely, and when he is mentioned he is never talked of in a way that assumes his realitin a way that assumes his reality.

We became friends and colleagues in the mid-1980s, and I discovered that, in addition to his insight into society and its dynamics, Peter Berger was one of the funniest men alive, a walking encyclopedia of jokes who used his native Viennese wit to both sharpen conversations and deflect silly conflicts between overinflated academic egos.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Townsville during the Queensland election campaign, keeping track of politicians» claims and working with academics to test them against the evidence.

The Conversation's FactCheck team will be in Adelaide for the next two weeks, working with academics to test politicians» claims against the evidence as South Australians prepare to vote on March 17.

«Launched in 2007, ASCD's Whole Child Initiative is an effort to change the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the long term development and success of children.»

While in hospital with Stella, I had had a conversation with an academic pediatrician whom I asked why, in his opinion, was milk production delayed beyond what seemed the hunger and thirst limit for the babies?

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

Aside from the extreme interest in academic considerations following a concussion generated by the presentation, another common area of conversation at the exhibit booth was what schools or districts without a certified athletic trainer (AT) do to monitor and manage student - athletes with concussions and other sport - related injuries.

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Roger Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA - CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organizatioIn Conversation with Roger Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA - CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organizatioin the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization.

In - depth conversations with academic, government, and private research institution professionals helped me to see clearly my professional objectives that fuel my journey as an assistant professor.

Since then, I'm helping to start a science advocacy group on campus in hopes of improving public trust in scientists and opening conversations between academic researchers and the local community.

This article by MDI Biological Laboratory research scientist James Godwin, Ph.D., was originally published in «The Conversation,» an independent source of news and views from the academic and research community based in Australia, where Godwin was formerly a research fellow at the Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute (ARMI).

Conversations with these two have helped me to think broadly about the world and my place in it, going far beyond the expectations I could have asked for from an academic advisor.

At Addgene we hope that all parties involved in making academic research a successful and enjoyable path for people from all walks of life will continue having conversations like those at the FOR symposium and will enact their solutions as soon as they become actionable.

After Cumberbatch noted that Hawking and Turing are very different in personality and academic discipline, he admitted, «This is such a weird conversation — Eddie's a really good friend of mine.

In a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equitIn a classroom where students are doing the majority of the talking, where they are engaged with each other in rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equitin rich, structured conversations and where they use academic vocabulary to support their ideas with evidence, I know two things are happening: Students are experiencing deeper learning, and this classroom is a step closer to ensuring educational equity.

Some of the schools I work with in Oakland, California, are aspiring to this description of academic discourse in the classroom: «Conversations in whole and small group settings are facilitated by students and consistently involve all students in academic discourse among students.

Conversations about access to higher education often focus on affordability issues, but poor academic preparation is an equally significant barrier to success in college, says Long, academic dean at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student...

On the eighth - grade academic research residency, students use their language skills to engage Japanese natives in conversation.

As Tappan explains, Brown and Lamb invited him to join the project to «tackle this issue of how media and marketers shape the messages they send, and how these messages inform the broader culture conversation about boys, their academic achievement, and the other issues in their lives.»

«The intent here is for these regular meetings to serve as a platform for conversation that would not be limited to students in leadership positions, but would also include kids with a variety of social and academic backgrounds from all walks of life.»

Though this is a departure from traditional academics, it's important teachers join in the conversation and do what feels comfortable, which is the type of collaboration we are expected to see in 2017.

Commenting on more academic skills, Fox and Geddes say basic science concepts can be explored through play - based inquiry and the foundations for more formal literacy and language learning can be laid by adults immersing youngsters in meaningful conversations and taking the time to listen carefully and respond.

They provide a space where students can practice their academic voices and possibly come to the realization that writing is not an isolated process; it is a social interaction and part of a larger conversation in an academic community.

As their personal lives changed, their interest in and conversations about what initially connected them — cultural awareness, cultural empathy, and academic intelligence — did not.

The observer and teacher should discuss specific interactions to get a sense of the context, prior conversations, students» academic history, an understanding of who the student is in that particular classroom, and what challenges and opportunities they present to the teacher.

At the K - 12 level, most of the academic — and public — conversation about segregation speaks in terms of costs.

There are students who sound fluent in English, who can carry on conversations, but lack the fluency in English academic discourse to access complicated content or to express their understandings.

If the answer to those questions is yes, a serious conversation about strategy will cover not just how to create incentives for elite schools to access public funding but also how to assist private schools of all types in building the academic capacity to serve students of all backgrounds.

The Conversation, an independent academic and research source, produced a study in June 2017 which gives new insight on the role of play in the learning process.

This conversation could be taking place at El Verano School, in Sonoma, California, or at Hamilton Central School, in upstate New York, or in K - 8 classrooms in cities as diverse as San Francisco, San Antonio, Miami, and dozens of others whose school districts are using an art curriculum called Visual Thinking Strategies to improve critical thinking, language and writing, and academic achievement.

This is the parenthetical citation for an article I have referenced in nearly every writing assignment and academic conversation I have had at HGSE.

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.

«We believe that HGSE, as one of the world's leading academic institutions, has the responsibility to change the conversation in order to improve student opportunity, achievement, and success in rural communities,» she says, stressing that rural education needs to be part of the dialogue around providing quality education to all.

In this A Word interview, he describes how his state tried to change the education conversation from being about money and conditions (adult concerns) to instruction, learning, and academic outcomes (student priorities).

Hard - to - read parents need meaningful conversations that help them to understand their roles and ways they can parent academic achievers in partnership with the school.

If our reporting on statehouse conversations about what academic standards Indiana will use next have felt pretty abstract, try on this possible consequence of pausing Common Core rollout in Indiana: Tucked into the Office of Management and Budget report state lawmakers will discuss Tuesday is the possibility students could have to take two standardized tests in 2015.

Student learning, academic rigor, the sense of pride in athletic teams, as well as thriving clubs and activities, were evident in student conversations, in displays of student work, in daily announcements, but most importantly in the hearts of the young men and women who walk the halls.

Vision in Action: The ASCD Whole Child Award is designed to recognize schools that that have changed the conversation about education from a focus on narrowly defined academic achievement to one that promotes the development of the whole child.

Bowman Elementary School, Lexington This project will allow for developing supports to implement academic conversation skills and strategies in K - 3 classrooms.

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) promote the academic reasons for providing ample opportunities for students to take part in a variety of rich, structured conversations in order to build a foundation for college and career readiness.

Discussion Group on Facebook: All educators, and people interested in gifted education, are invited to join and contribute to the ongoing conversation about how to best serve the academic needs of our nation's brightest students.

When education insiders pick apart the factors that make a school successful, there's often a lot of conversation about academic rigor, resources, quality of teachers and even, in some cases, the socioeconomic makeup of the students within the school.