Sentences with phrase «just on academic»

The success of young people depends not just on their academic achievement but on their cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and ethical growth, as well as their civic participation.

Cognitive Stimulation is also discussed in the video regarding ways to connect with the student not just on an academic level but a personal level.

It focused not just on the academic goals of curriculum, but also on education's broader social dimensions, including the development of students» moral and creative capacities and an understanding of their diverse needs.

Another common thread among all of these studies is that successful programs focus not just on academic support, but also offer other enrichment activities.

The role of local authorities is changing dramatically, increasing pressure on school based teams, and the free school programme (an off shoot of the academies programme) has introduced competition between schools which focuses attention not just on academic performance but on the image a school wants to project.

I think it can be hard for pre-service teachers to expand their ideas of what curriculum is, especially if they're coming from [cultures in which curriculum means academics specifically]-- to understand that we're not focusing just on academics, or even that that's our main focus.

Schools should work with students, not just on academics but on other issues as well, taking into account their students» individual, family, and social contexts.

Not exact matches

«When I was going on the academic job market, worrying about the campus interview, my friend Matt Seigel told me to just be myself because otherwise, if I got hired as the person I was pretending to be, I would have to keep up that pretense for the rest of my career,» she says.

According to the 2014 Edelman Trust Barometer, you trust «a person like yourself» only just a bit less than an academic expert or a technical expert, especially when you're looking for information on a new company or business.

«A lot of them are just tired of the bureaucracy and garbage that goes on in traditional academic environments.»

- Just announced committee of academics to commission independent research on social media on democracy.

Academics (and even newspaper editorial boards) might get by with just being right on the facts, but Trudeau has to bring along the many Canadians with serious doubts about legalization.

«Most of my classmates just treated all this as an academic exercise, and they kept on living as they had before.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

Ranting on about calling someone a coward just makes you look childish, and honestly, a disgrace to the academic community.

To name just four academics sympathetic to sociobiology at work in the biology departments of American universities: Timothy Goldsmith of Yale teaches a course called «Biological Roots of Human Nature»; William Zimmerman of Amherst teaches the «Evolutionary Biology of Human Social Behavior»; David Sloan Wilson (Department of Biology, SUNY «Binghamton) researches the evolutionary basis of human behavior; and Randy Thornhill at the University of New Mexico coauthored the infamous book on the evolution of rape.

Moser brings to the subject matter a unique background: As a clinician who has treated hundreds if not thousands of concussed student - athletes at the Sports Concussion Center of New Jersey, she brings real world experience to the subject, not just as a neuropsychologist with specialized expertise on baseline and post-concussion neurocognitive testing but in the management and treatment of concussions, including the academic accommodations that are often needed during the sometimes long road to recovery.

One of the fundamental beliefs of deeper - learning advocates is that these practices — revising work over and over, with frequent critiques; persisting at long - term projects; dealing with the frustrations of hands - on experimentation — develop not just students» content knowledge and intellectual ability, but their noncognitive capacities as well: what Camille Farrington would call academic perseverance and what others might call grit or resilience.

Winning the academic rat race is not worth your child's psychological health and happiness, because ultimate success rests on far more than just grades.

Improved academic performance is just one of the many positive impacts school breakfast has on students, and test - staking season certainly highlights that aspect.

These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

And that was on top of the stress of incredibly high academic expectations, which I was just encountering — that was my first semester.

These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!

Doctors, midwives, and women's health advocates are sparring — in academic papers, on blogs, through the media and even on Twitter — over just where pregnant women should actually have their babies.

The paper is just the second academic study on the subject, due to the difficulties researchers found in trying to isolate variables.

«Nurses should be hired and promoted on the basis of having compassion as a vocation not just academic qualifications,» Cameron told a subdued Commons chamber.

In addition, I was just offered and accepted a position with Williams College as a visiting lecturer on leadership beginning in February 2017, and anticipate accepting other academic positions shortly,» Gibson wrote in his announcement.

Prof. Joseph Mifsud admits knowing Papadopolous, who pleaded guilty to lying about their conversations to the FBI, but claims he is just an «academic» who never shopped Kremlin dirt on Clinton to the Trump campaign.

Meg Russell, the leading academic on the House of Lords, points out that David Cameron would need to appoint just over 160 new Conservative members with no peerages at all for other groups to give the government a Lords majority.

My loathing of experimental teaching methods that failed generations of children, my fear of disruptive children wrecking the education of those who want to get on and learn, my contempt for the «all must win prizes» mentality - whether in sporting or academic endeavour - is not just political, it's personal.»

Having worked on yeast genetics during his academic career, when Mark West decided that he just wasn't happy in research any more, he realised that perhaps he could apply his skills in California's wine industry — an industry that is part art, part science.

Ruth Müller, a postdoctoral research fellow at the Research Policy Institute at Lund University in Sweden, who focused her Ph.D. on studying how the academic landscape influences the working practices of postdocs in the life sciences, notes that while the study acknowledges the diversity of the European system, it uses just one European country — Germany — in its quantitative survey.

Following the feedback from this one - and - only interview, I was told that I was «too technical» and the interviewer suggested I return to bench work.So what can I do to convince the employers to give me a chance in clinical research when they just look at my CV (which I have actually revised so that it does not come across as an academic CV) and «pigeonhole» me into bench research purely based on my experience?I hope you can help me.

Now that he has secured an international research reputation and established a firm grip on the rungs of the academic career ladder, Crowdy encourages young mathematicians to take off the blinders, put on their metaphorical backpacks and hiking books, and seek career opportunities far and wide instead of just sticking close to some comfortable disciplinary home.

Should I just go with the academic flow, continuing down the research path that so many have taken before me — to a postdoc or two, a temporary research position perhaps, and, if I'm extremely lucky, on to a tenure - track position?

Just Some of the Away - From - the - Bench Careers Featured on Next Wave - Careers With an MBA - Patent Law - Science Broadcasting - Science Journalism - Teaching - To see many more, click here Alternatively, if you can't quite bear to leave the academic safety net, there are many other courses of study to pursue.

The academics found that only just over half of the tools that they analysed were based on a clear and open methodology.

The salary issue remains a challenge in France, and is even more sensitive for people just starting on the academic ladder.

No one can read everything that is being published about the job market for academics in the Netherlands — there's just too much going on.

That was a bold step that differentiated us from the academic environment; it said we're not just looking at the frontiers of science, but we're really focusing on immediate return for investment.

Consistent with this approach, scientists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) just published their research on ADHD in a most unusual academic journal: the Frontiers for Young Minds is an electronic scientific journal whose primary audience comprises children from elementary and junior high schools.

«In terms of academic freedom, scientists are able to work on whatever interests them,» subject to funding, just as in the West.

Researchers, she adds, need to look not just in front of them on the academic path but also all around them at the job options in other sectors, making the best choice for themselves rather than the best choice for their labs.

The change was hard on his family — especially Weddle, who left her prestigious academic position just after receiving a promotion.

Through YRP, Bunthof wanted to involve young scientists in the debate on genomics and society, because, as she puts it, «academic training includes more than just doing your research project.»

On the whole, academics would just as soon get on with the job of teaching, research and administration within their own universitieOn the whole, academics would just as soon get on with the job of teaching, research and administration within their own universitieon with the job of teaching, research and administration within their own universities.

Just because someone can't get a top academic position does not mean that they can't go on and develop a successful and productive research career elsewhere.

Or has academic science become so dependent on public and corporate funding that it is just as directed as corporate science?

The research looks simultaneously at the importance of a number of college characteristics including cost, reputation, academic facilities and recreational facilities, and bases findings not just on students» stated preferences but compares them with the actual choices they make.

This may be the reason why it's difficult to explain to others just why it's worthwhile going, but also why, even if you're convinced the academic path you're on is the right one, you'll gain a lot from it: I defy you not to.