Sentences with phrase «included learning my place»

My goal was to learn everything I could about Mira, and that included learning my place in it and discovering safe routes of passage around the more dangerous inhabitants of the planet.

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It's one of the first places lenders look to learn the details of your business — the industry you do business in, projected revenues, estimated annual sales, and how you interact with your creditors is some of the information included in your profile.

Social impact «residents» that have been placed in coworking centres by All Good Work include BASE, which develops co-living residences for young adults with learning differences; RiF, which supports refugees and asylum seekers arriving in New York City; and AdaptLab — a team that helps filmmakers with autism and learning differences to work on productions and gain valuable skills for sustainable employment.

The ecosystem is composed of all the necessary feeding and support functions including the source and development of talent, places where they can work, mentors, networking and learning opportunities, and access to capital.

Interesting then that many of the worlds» most prestigious places of higher learning have religious origins, including some of our nation's Ivy League schools.

He ended, «I am sure your sons will look back upon Yale as a better place to have lived and learned because of the controversies, including the draft resistance controversy, which so tax the patience of so many of their elders, including their president.»

From Ryan Lizza's enlightening profile in The New Yorker, I learned that Michele Bachmann's influences include spiritual and political mentors who preach the literal «inerrancy» of the Bible, who warn Christians to be suspicious of ideas that come from non-Christians, who believe homosexuality is an «abomination,» who portray the pre-Civil War South as a pretty nice place for slaves and who advocate «Dominionism,» the view that Christians and only Christians should preside over earthly institutions.

This is at least partially because people have spent their whole lives learning about how the society in which they live functions — including the church — and how to find a place for themselves in it.

We have learned that religious traditions, including Christianity, have supported male dominance in many ways, including depicting God as male and denying women a place in religious leadership.

This section will include reviews of bump's (and eventually baby's) favourite products, things that Dannii and Dave are learning along the way (or just a place to vent), family days out, family friendly recipes and things for fussy eaters and a few adorable baby photos.

If you're a manufacturer considering gluten - free certification (of any product, including personal care and supplements, in addition to food and beverage), this information - packed white paper is the perfect place to learn more.

I was surprised to learn that so much that I had grown up believing about childbirth simply wasn't true — including that hospitals are always the safest place to have a baby, that drugs for pain relief during labor won't hurt the baby, and that babies must be observed in newborn nurseries separate from their mothers.

NWSRA activities provide opportunities for children and adults with disabilities to have fun, make friends, be included, learn new things, go new places and celebrate their lives.

This includes learning to use many more hands - on materials and activities (that are not practical in a large classroom with many children and only one adult), checking the regulations in your area, finding out about home school groups, places to visit for your field trips, etc..

In addition to protecting critical habitat for native species, Mass Audubon's land conservation efforts provide many quality - of - life benefits, including clean drinking water, locally grown food, and places to learn about and enjoy nature.

School gardens can create opportunities for what is called project - based and place - based learning; and on this there is a growing body of research that highlights benefits, including:

Learning from Obama cuts through the hype and places the individual online tools used by the Obama campaign and its supporters in context, including internet video, social networking outreach, online advertising and the MyBarackObama.com activist toolkit.

They detected little or no MHCI expression in some areas of the brain, but they found it in several other places, including the visual cortex while the ocular dominance columns were forming, and in the hippocampus — an area of the brain associated with learning and memory — at all ages.

Although science is a big part of my life in Singapore, I enjoy many other activities, including learning guitar, playing tennis and basketball, going to the gym, and visiting other places in the region.

The results might help researchers, including Ragsdale and Raugei, learn to control methane synthesis — either in the lab or in bacteria that make it in places like the Arctic — and how to break it down.

«I think this is an absolute gem available to anyone in the valley for a whole host of reasons including the wonderful community, the level of acceptance anyone who walks through the door experiences, the level of teaching & learning that goes on, the transformational power of the practice & the pleasantness of being in the studio, It is a powerful, positive, holy place.»

This retreat invites people affected by cancer, including caregivers, to enjoy a place of peace, calm, community, and information as you learn essential tools for creating health and wellness in your daily life.

Learn more about Texas and the best places to live in Texas including information on schools, business, health, real estate and things to do at the state

Director Coixet is also a first class filmmaker, with a near thirty - year career including movies like My Life Without Me (2003), a segment of Paris, je t» aime (2006) and Another Me (2013) under her belt, making Learning to Drive more than deserving of a place on your must - watch list.

Relatedly, conversations with parents / guardians about creating home environments conducive to learning — including setting up daily routines and finding a time and place to do homework — would be a regular focus.

Place - based learning engages students in their community, including their physical environment, local culture, history, or people.

Also included are games for the teaching and learning of the naming of whole numbers, decimal numbers and place values.

Kira — We (including me) in the reading field have been telling teachers for many years that optimum learning would take place if students were placed at their instructional level.

This includes how teachers and schools can better recognise that students learn differently, and give students more ownership over the time, place, path and pace of learning.

Teachers also receive intensive training in design thinking and place - based education instruction, which includes attending a three - day workshop at the Henry Ford Learning Institute.

In this beginner Welsh lesson you will learn 10 Welsh words for different places you might go in a town including the Welsh for: church, shop, cinema, hospital, sports stadium, museum, theatre, police station, town hall, and car park.

It's moving in the exact opposite direction of teacher evaluation systems everywhere else, including places like Washington, D.C., where we've learned from experience that test scores should make up less, not more, of a teachers» evaluation.

I would tell them that you want this classroom to be a safe place and one in which there is care for each other, yourself very much included, and that for you this is as important as their learning.

This includes recommendations suggesting that: primary schools should bring in outside experts to teach coding; all primaries should have 3D printers and design software; secondary schools should be able to teach Computer Science, Design and Technology or another technical / practical subject in place of a foreign language GCSE; the Computer Science GCSE should be taken by at least half of all 16 year olds; young apprenticeships should be reintroduced at 14, blending a core academic curriculum with hands - on learning; all students should learn how businesses work, with schools linked to local employers; schools should be encouraged to develop a technical stream from 14 - 18 for some students, covering enterprise, health, design and hands - on skills; and that universities should provide part - time courses for apprentices to get Foundation and Honours degrees.

Lesson for Year 9 students who are about to make GCSE option decisions Quiz giving general facts about language learning with a specific focus on France in places Includes video clip of Harry and Paul Football Manager from YouTube (warning: swear word included!)

Important places for me to stop along my path include: undergraduate professor in a college - based teacher education program, professional development specialist for teacher collaborations, and director of community - based learning center that uses culturally responsive arts for academic support and life skills.

Students learn through a logical and step - by - step learning journey, including: - Understanding the context of the poem and the horrific events that took place in the battle; - Understanding key information about Owen Sheers» life; - Reading and interpreting the poem; - Interpreting the poem, with a particular emphasis upon the language and structural features; - Finding and analysing the language features used throughout the poem, and considering how these link to the poet's message; - Writing an extended analysis piece based upon how Sheers gets across his message about war; - Peer assessing each other's learning attempts.

The presentations include: Seasons: A simple introduction to place the learning into context Writing an Autumn Report (Non - chronological report) A Week in Autumn (Poetry with a Grammar Focus) Halloween - A Revolting Recipe - writing instructions Halloween Literacy Bundle - variety of language tasks Autumn Handwriting (to be used with interactive board for modelling handwriting) Autumn Maths (number, handling data and some area activities) with answer slides Scarecrow Art There are also some online links provided within the presentations to engage the learners.

Some of the key tech themes being explored at the show this year will include the effective assessment of computing learning, demonstrating the value of tech to senior leadership teams, infrastructure and having the bandwidth and systems in place to support good tech in the classroom.

«This will only happen if their childhoods include some simple ingredients: frequent, unregulated, self - directed contact with people and places beyond the immediate spheres of family and school, and the chance to learn from their mistakes.»

With the technology reaching maturity, it's easy to see that it won't be long before 3D learning approaches, including augmented reality, earn a place in the standard suite of online training products.

Penarth Learning Community School, Cardiff, South Wales, comprises a mainstream comprehensive school with 1280 places, together with a special educational needs (SEN) school, catering for 205 pupils with a wide spectrum of learning needs including those with learning and physical difficulties and those on the autism sLearning Community School, Cardiff, South Wales, comprises a mainstream comprehensive school with 1280 places, together with a special educational needs (SEN) school, catering for 205 pupils with a wide spectrum of learning needs including those with learning and physical difficulties and those on the autism slearning needs including those with learning and physical difficulties and those on the autism slearning and physical difficulties and those on the autism spectrum.

Techniques include strategies such as: developing strong mathematical content knowledge and positive attitudes towards mathematics; encouraging their students to use critical thinking and active learning; placing more emphasis on understanding rather than rules and procedures; using concrete materials and technology; and providing support and encouragement for all students.

Both have attracted and hold strong faculty, largely because the teachers know that they have both the exhilaration of shaping their place for learning and an obligation to meet external standards, including the satisfaction of their students» parents.

Through this kind of project, students not only learn how data is important to good decision making, they also take notice of the invisible building blocks of community, including the citizen participation necessary to developing an inviting and workable place to live — both important and lasting life lessons.

Back in Cambridge, Adukia is finishing her research on the impact of health on education in India and other places, including how the lack of adequate sanitation affects learning.

Part of service learning often includes place - based learning, where students can see intersections of learning by doing authentic fieldwork and partnering with community stakeholders.

CSEDU 2015, the International Conference on Computer Supported Education, aims at becoming a yearly meeting place for presenting and discussing new educational environments, best practices and case studies on innovative technology - based learning strategies, institutional policies on computer supported education including open and distance education, using computers.

For instance, urban place - based lessons could include oral history projects where students collect the stories of community members, or historical parks or buildings, or learning about urban agriculture and community gardening in large cities with food deserts.

Calling their entrepreneurial venture the Happy Eating Place (HEP), the students originally set out just to prepare healthy snacks on campus and raise money for a yet - to - be determined nonprofit organization, but Malamud saw the opportunity for a service learning initiative with broader goals that would include social justice issues within our society.