Sentences with phrase «longer learning blocks»

In one high school we visited, the staff shifted to block schedules, creating longer learning blocks for students; they started shifting students across teachers to accommodate different skill levels, and built more time for collaborative planning among staff.

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Some of the key insights, like long - term thinking, continuous learning, and simplified company structure, all serve as building blocks for his startup's culture, he said.

If you want to learn better — and retain what you learn for longer — try interleaving instead of blocking.

While alcohol is often associated with a poorer memory, the study explained that, «alcohol blocks the learning of new information and therefore the brain has more resources available to lay down other recently learned information into long - term memory.»

A malleable talent like Knox, who's still learning the game, would be a useful building block for the long - term.

While researchers continue to look for the concussion «holy grail» in the form of specific impact thresholds above which concussions are highly likely and / or the number of impacts or the magnitude of impacts per week or per season that substantially increase the risk of long term brain injury, impact sensor technology is available right now to do what we can to reduce total brain trauma by using impact data to identify kids who need more coaching so they can learn how to tackle and block without using their helmets.

Rushing a child from one activity to the next doesn't expand her horizons; it stunts her creativity and inherent zest for life, which are the building blocks of a life - long love of learning.

The advantages of block learning have long been recognized in Waldorf Education.

Researchers have known for a long time that infants have this same burst of connection creation, which helps them learn skills such as rolling, holding a fork or building a house of blocks.

Finding a way to reconcile two competing demands - minimizing contact in practice in order to reduce the number of concussions sustained and the number of hits players sustain over the course of a week and a season that emerging science, now more than ever, suggests may have a deleterious cumulative effect [26] on a player's cognitive function over the long term, while at the same time maximizing the amount of time in practice learning how to tackle and block without head - to - head contact - time that is needed to maximize the protective effect of proper tackling on the number of head - to - head hits players sustain in game action, which can not only result in concussion, but catastrophic neck and spine injuries - is challenging, but clearly not impossible.

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Looking ahead, artificial intelligence, block chains, robotisation, and machine learning are no longer futurist dreams.

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But the BBB also blocks the passage of many potentially useful drugs to the brain and it has long stymied scientists who want to learn more about this vital tissue because of the lack of realistic non-human lab models.

We want photos of you sweeping the glitter off the village hall floor; heading out to teach 5 people on a dark evening half an hour's drive away after a long day at work; your piles of philosophy books stacked next to your mat; your tabs of marking for trainees; the scrubby you use on the handstand footprints on the wall; the loose change rattling in the donation box after the PWYC; your studio rent bill; the baby sick on your yoga top after mums and baby yoga; the holes in your favourite decade - old yoga leggings; the charity shop where you buy more; coffee stains on cork blocks and the hospital room where you teach cancer patients; the costume box for your yoga and theatre kids class; your ID badge for prison work; the hug from the student who finally learned to stand on one leg...

Proponents of block scheduling cite active learning as the key to keeping students engaged and learning during longer periods.

The centre spine of this school is a 120 - metre long undercover space called the Learning Workshop which provides direct access to learning and social areas — the library, student services, teaching block aLearning Workshop which provides direct access to learning and social areas — the library, student services, teaching block alearning and social areas — the library, student services, teaching block and cafe.

In blocking the regulations, the bill put an end to the controversial requirement that states issue annual ratings for teacher training programs based on criteria such as how long graduates stay in the teaching profession and the graduates» impact on student - learning outcomes.

Deeper learning schools use teaching strategies that have long been considered good practice, like project - based learning, long - term cumulative assessments, advisory classes, and block scheduling.

No longer will days be organized in strict time blocks of «classes,» but instead, students will work in different learning studios suited for the type of work they need to undertake — be that individual or group work.

Always learning what works and what doesn't and the shorter forms are great building blocks to learning how to write longer pieces.

Or try your hand at kitesurfing on Long Beach's Belmont Shores, one of the best places in the state for beginners to learn the sport thanks to the protective breakwater that blocks major waves.

Or try your hand at kite surfing on Long Beach's Belmont Shores, one of the best places in the state for beginners to learn the sport thanks to the protective breakwater that blocks major waves.

You'll find yourself on longer treks in order to solve some of the bigger puzzles, although there's few very taxing puzzles in the game, and it's mostly a case of learning and remembering where things are, dragging around blocks, finding key objects to advance, pulling switches and making risky jumps in which you sometimes find your fingertips saving you from a nasty fall.

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But the inability to consider and aggressively pursue opportunities that take advantage of their education might actually compromise their long - term efforts because the real - world learning from that first job as a career building block is missing.

Learning these three building blocks and what they mean can get you a long way towards mastering medical assisting terminology.

Brookfield Property Partners is looking to increase the proceeds of a 2010 Bank of China loan on its block - long office tower at 245 Park Avenue, Commercial Observer has learned.