Best of all, encouraging students to
make observations instead of evaluations is easy.
Not exact matches
My buddy Jim Kane with Retailer Web Services recently
made an interesting
observation about public companies: He noted founders waste an embarrassing amount of shareholder cash trying to save or slowly wind down companies
instead of shuttering operations when it's clear the odds have turned against them.
In this context it is difficult not to recall the
observation of Eddington,
made a half - century ago (NPW 47 - 58) that in Minkowski's time - space the past is separated from the future even more effectively than in the world of Newton:
instead of an instantaneous three - dimensional cross-section, it is a four - dimensional region of «Elsewhere» which separates the causal past from the causal future.
He
made a keen
observation about how Khabib always resets his position on the ground after a few strikes to maintain control
instead of just wailing away till the guy gets up.
For them, corruption is what obtains when leaders fall short of these standards and «eat»
instead of «feed», a recurring
observation that many authors
make throughout the book.
These kinds of
observations can not be easily
made under a microscope, of course, but require
instead an indirect, statistical approach: «Using small - angle X-ray scattering at BESSY II, we were not only able to ascertain that the nanoparticles are all around five nanometres in diameter, but also measure what the separations between them are.
Researchers at HZB in co-operation with Humboldt - Universität zu Berlin (HU, Berlin) have
made an astonishing
observation: they were investigating the formation of gold nanoparticles in a solvent and observed that the nanoparticles had not distributed themselves uniformly, but
instead were self - assembled into small clusters.
Instead of having to be present at the telescope to
make his
observations, Karl simply waits for the telescope staff to
make the
observations for him.
Instead, diagnoses continue to be
made by artful
observation.
Instead, we start with 15 antennas and gradually
make a larger configuration over a week or so, and then
make 3 - week
observations with this arrangement.
Instead of trashing real climate scientists who study nuclear winter as stooges of KGB manipulation, maybe the FBI should see if the Wegman fiasco might be an actual example of their
observation that «foreign researchers may be under pressure to
make their research conclude what their government wants it to conclude, or they may be ordered to write completely fabricated studies.»
The walkthroughs were structured to encourage administrators to suspend judgment about teaching, and
instead to record what their
observations made them notice and wonder about teaching and learning as it applied to their math goal.
Instead, we should deliver feedback as questions, as neutral
observations of accomplishment («You gave five complete examples»), or as whole - class conversation about the choices various writers
make.
Engels suggests that
instead of relying solely on standardized measures to determine which students need additional support, schools should bring instructional decision
making back to the teacher by combining a limited set of screening data with teacher
observation and analysis of student work.
It begins,
instead, with a startling
observation the author
made while looking at rankings on Amazon.com.
Encourage ATTP to provide
observation data and illistrations to
make his point
instead of generalized conclusions that one can just ignore as opinions not based on facts.
The fact that anomalies are being used
instead of actual empirical
observations means that some assumptions have been
made.
Clearly the instrumental data available bears no relationship whatsoever to Michael Mann's hockey stick which,
instead of relying on actual instrumental records (and extremely good
observation) believed that trees
made better thermometers than thermometers.
And Sarah Glassmeyer
made an interesting
observation Tweeting that it is a «tragedy of the commons» that «The US bar [is] paying billions to WEXIS
instead of supporting @LIICornell like the Canadians do with @canlii.»
Invoking Buckminster Fuller's
observation that you can not change things by fighting reality and
instead must build a new model that
makes the existing one obsolete, we suggested that, ultimately, legal design could go as far as to build a completely new model for how we handle «legal» issues.
«If an employee is offended
instead of accepting that the other person has
made a valid
observation, she has just killed her accountability,» points out Miller.