Sentences with phrase «key observations for»

«Although the key observations for June are statistically insignificant, the year - to - date trend is clearly positive: Actual new homes sold reported so far this year are up 11 percent over the first half of 2015,» says realtor.com Chief Economist Jonathan Smoke.

Buoys provide key observations for mapping and attributing summer ice loss: drift, bottom vs. top melt, amount of snow accumulation, nature of ponds (even if anecdotal from web cams), and thickness of level ice.

DeGoey has two key observations for Morgan.

Not exact matches

Continue on to share your key observations about the prospect's industry today, and you'll have your prospect's full attention for the rest of the talk.

Intuit founder Scott Cook hit on the idea for Quicken financial software after two key observations.

I do not elsewhere «skewer» conservatives for their devotion to the founders» intentions because of its resemblance to the principle of sola scriptura — I note this mostly as a bemused observation — but because, apparently unlike Reilly, I do not subscribe to a «Great Man» view of historical agency and historiography in which the mens auctoris provides the definitive key to the meaning of texts or historical events.

Yet the key point for Catholic thinkers to acknowledge is that the philosophy of science from Bacon right through to modernity has shown that the success of modern experimental observation does challenge Aristotelian - Scholastic «natures».

Here are a few key observations from the extended piece by Andy Beckett - for which he has clearly been granted considerable access:

He uses this background to predict new observational phenomena as well as to understand the key underlying physical mechanisms responsible for current observations.

Previous observations suggested that Schöningen offered key examples for the early use of fire.

It may be that the galaxy we have observed, EGSY8p7, which is unusually (intrinsically) luminous, has special properties that enabled it to create a large bubble of ionized hydrogen much earlier than is possible for more typical galaxies at these times,» said Sirio Belli, a Caltech graduate student who helped undertake the key observations.

One of the key science drivers for the extension was the study of proper motions of stars in dwarf galaxies, which requires observations taken over as long a time baseline as possible.

GCOS specifies 54 Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) that are key for sustainable climate observations.

It's a low - key relationship dramedy / road movie starring the ripe - for - a-late-career-renaissance Bruce Dern (who'd be the most obvious likely beneficiary from the film's award season release date), and «SNL «alum Will Forte, that promises at least a modicum of the kind of off - kilter wry observations about masculinity and aging that have marked out Payne's best previous work.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

They argued that there is a growing professional and academic understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

Most of them heavily weigh periodic observations of teachers keyed to teaching standards, such as the well - known Framework for Teaching developed by consultant Charlotte Danielson.

Key Elements of Observing Practice (DVD) contains a series of short videos that invite you into classrooms and meeting rooms at the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, a school that uses data wisely, and comes with a Facilitator's Guide for designing your own process for learning from classroom observation.

updated outdoor continuous provision for problem solving, reasoning and numeracy area, with observation opportunities, resources, key words etc..

updated continuous provision for the psrn area, with observation opportunities, resources, key words etc..

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

, which was really critical - we didn't want them jumping between two documents, so we've created a school document and within that there's key things that we will observe when we go into a classroom for a formal observation.

Drawing on their observations of best practice, Chapman and Vivian set out a vision for STEM education in Australia driven by five key components for a successful strategy:

Teacher observation is one model of professional learning that «is key to supporting a new vision for professional development,» explained Stephanie Hirsh, executive director of Learning Forward.

The second set of preliminary findings, released in January 2012, examined classroom observations and offered key considerations for creating high - quality classroom observation systems.

One is Kai - ming Cheng's observation in his chapter on the Shanghai system in which he describes how a certain number of slots in key schools in Shanghai are set aside for students from outside that schools» enrollment area who can choose that school if they wish.

From interviews and observations, we identified five key elements of school operation that appear to be, in part, responsible for that success.

Hold a live training using the Substitute Teacher Handbook allowing time for orientation of new substitute teachers, discussion, observations, and role - play of key skills.

A teacher forms groups using student benchmark assessments (e.g., student reading levels and observations), and identifies specific target skills for each group (e.g. phonics, using context clues, identifying key

For one, they ignore the key reason why the Obama Administration declined to renew Washington State's waiver: The state's failure to meet its promise to replace its shoddy observation - based evaluations with more - objective data - based performance management tools using test score growth data.

As quality teaching is key to providing the high - quality early learning experiences, IDRA provides customized technical assistance and training that can include: classroom demonstrations and observations, coaching for success, nurturing of innovations, and building on existing strengths.

As a result of these observations and discussions with teachers they determined that the key teaching problem of practice was that teachers needed to better teach the vocabulary and the processes for students to engage in effective mathematical discourse.

The researchers found that having different raters score observations of teachers» practice may be a key component for the observations systems.

We also provide a range of development and support for both new and already serving principal supervisors, including executive coaching and direct training designed to build key supervisory skills — such as observations and feedback.

Principal Dr. Richter makes several observations he feels have been key contributors to their success after having implented the program for 3 years.

A key concern of citizens was the fact that «adequate staffing» for daily observation and care of the animals was not addressed.

Renowned for his unique figurative style and incisive observations of class and sexuality, Bhupen Khakhar (1934 - 2003) played a central role in modern Indian art and was a key international figure in 20th century painting.

One floor comprises two artists, Zanele Muholi and Nikolai Bakharev, who shoot in black and white for what might be called traditional purposes — socially engaged portraiture and low - key observation.

Key to efficient design is observation and replication of natural ecosystems, where designers maximize diversity with polycultures, stress efficient energy planning for houses and settlement, using and accelerating natural plant succession, and increasing the highly productive «edge - zones» within the system.»

Satellite observations do play, however, a key role for evaluating models of the indirect aerosol radiative effect (Ghan et al., 2001b).

A lower and more constrained estimate of climate sensitivity using updated observations and detailed radiative forcing time series R. B. Skeie (1), T. Berntsen (1,2), M. Aldrin (3), M. Holden (3), and G. Myhre (1)(1) Center for International Climate and Environmental Research — Oslo (CICERO), Norway ([email protected]), (2) Department of Geosciences, University of Oslo, Norway, (3) Norwegian Computing Center, Oslo, Norway A key question in climate science is to quantify the sensitivity of the climate system to perturbation in the radiative forcing (RF).

In recent years one of the most important methods of estimating probability distributions for key properties of the climate system has been comparison of observations with multiple model simulations, run at varying settings for climate parameters.

(Equally the AOGCMs are not compatible with these satellite - based observations, since none of them manage to simulate or account for this increase in net received shortwave over this key period.)

... [U] nless revised plans compensate for the anticipated shortcomings in climate observations, gaps in several key climate data records (some that go back almost 30 years) are highly likely....

The present scope includes accurately monitoring column ozone with Dobson spectrophotometers globally, monitoring the ozone profile at key sites, monitoring all relevant chlorine - and bromine - containing compounds globally, improving and developing new instrumentation, conducting laboratory studies of newly proposed chemicals, and using statistical models to test the observations for signs of ozone layer recovery.

Consider this key sentence: «The (climate) forcing from changes in total solar irradiance alone does not seem to account for these observations, implying the existence of an amplifying mechanism such as the hypothesized GCR - cloud link.»

«The authors write that North Pacific Decadal Variability (NPDV) «is a key component in predictability studies of both regional and global climate change,»... they emphasize that given the links between both the PDO and the NPGO with global climate, the accurate characterization and the degree of predictability of these two modes in coupled climate models is an important «open question in climate dynamics» that needs to be addressed... report that model - derived «temporal and spatial statistics of the North Pacific Ocean modes exhibit significant discrepancies from observations in their twentieth - century climate... conclude that «for implications on future climate change, the coupled climate models show no consensus on projected future changes in frequency of either the first or second leading pattern of North Pacific SST anomalies,» and they say that «the lack of a consensus in changes in either mode also affects confidence in projected changes in the overlying atmospheric circulation.»»

The significant changes in the Arctic are key pieces of evidence for global warming, but the observations from Arctic are complemented by evidence from around the world.

Dr Meier:» The significant changes in the Arctic are key pieces of evidence for global warming, but the observations from Arctic are complemented by evidence from around the world.»

For a complete discussion of this see Essex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvhipLNeda4 Models are often tuned by running them backwards against several decades of observation, this is much too short a period to correlate outputs with observation when the controlling natural quasi-periodicities of most interest are in the centennial and especially in the key millennial range.