Sentences with phrase «more academic understanding»

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PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Notre Dame should appoint only excellent scholars; but we should realize that we have more than one option when it comes to understanding academic excellence.

The matter is raised here not merely for reasons of academic interest, but to underline again the more profound and theological understanding of the act of stealing.

Several academics have developed the idea of «Lived Religion» — the idea that religion is not simply a list of rules or practices, and in fact is much more clearly understood in reference to the way it influences individual lives.

Waldorf education understands that developing human potential requires far more than just academics.

Become open to learning about the law and policies pertaining to your office and ask questions often, and partner with local universities» academic as they know more about your ministerial needs and guides understand the domestic culture than an expatriate of Euro / American background.

We examined the largest of the expert groups, academics, in more detail, in order to understand the geographical spread of these witnesses.

CDC: The typical academic laboratory employs «agents» with a wide range of expertise and experience, from the unmotivated undergraduate student who understands little about the work, to the experienced technician who is, in effect, the lab's Chief Operations Officer, to the advanced postdoc who may know more about the work than the «principal» and will be running her own laboratory in a year or two.

Drilling down more deeply into the data should help academics and policymakers alike better understand the forces behind the rate of attack escalation.

Academics say understanding how these factors are linked is vital in helping to reduce deaths by suicide — and that more research is needed in this area.

«People have trouble understanding that we're embedded in an invisible microbial world» and that we are colonized by those microbes, says Olsiewski, whose program has given academic researchers more than $ 40 million in grants.

Engler understands and would like to see academic culture change to reward more diverse training.

I would certainly go along with that, since Davies must have contributed more than any other living British academic to the public understanding of science.

«And if you want to become a PI, you should also learn more about the academic field, so that you have more understanding of grant writing and items you don't get exposed to as a Ph.D. student.»

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.

If these processes were better understood, it would provide the industrial, biotech and academic community new perspective and tools for the discovery of new antibiotics to treat the severe, multi-resistant Gram - negative infections that are becoming more and more common in Europe and across the globe.

As during previous panels, speakers Moon Duchin, Rafael Luna, Joan Reede, Alberto Roca, and Jessica Tytell made it was obvious that more data is needed for us to fully understand the precise makeup of academic researchers and, in fact, one of the projects developed during the Saturday Hack Day Session focused on finding this information and making it more easily digestible / available.

The new name also more accurately reflected the broad - based academic training in mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology as well as specialized curricular elements related to understanding the oceans as a unified dynamic system and the study of its living components and resources.

I mostly agree that we need to study real foods; using supplements and other forms of reductionism, however, can be useful for understanding the mechanisms of how things work, which is of academic interest to some people and is of general utility in better understanding how to restore people to health who have lost it, which might require more than mere return to a traditional diet sometimes.

In an age where classroom teachers find themselves defending their profession and their results, the discussion of race in the classroom seems like one more opportunity for the finger - pointers who seek deeper understanding about the declining academic performance of all American students.

Once the rules are in place and students understand logical consequences, teachers can move on to other aspects of the Responsive Classroom approach, such as Academic Choice, which gives students more flexibility in their learning.

We were able to create «wins» for this student in the weight room, cultivate his work ethic and dedication to his teammates, and provide an atmosphere where he could be disciplined without feeling like he was being called out by another teacher who didn't understand him — this all lead to the embodiment of a more positive sense of self - worth, resulting in improved behavior and academic performance.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

The permaculture design principles are a filter for developing more strategic outcomes that contain rich academic rigor and an increased understanding of students» tremendous potential as change makers in their communities.

Academics claim extra training is necessary to allow teachers more time to develop their theoretical and practical understanding of pedagogy before becoming fully qualified.

Students answer ten questions that test their ability to demonstrate understanding of vocabulary related to family, domestic living, and academic settings; subject pronouns; and Spanish language in the US, the arrival of Columbus, and the Mexican population This printable quiz includes: • Five matching questions • Five short answer questions • Questions including key vocabulary words and topics, such as: la pizarra, el hogar, el rey, Mixtecos, and Mayas • An accompanying teacher guide with correct answers Need more resources?

The Education Department of Western Australia asked us to help the department understand the relationship between school attendance, or more particularly, being absent and the effect of being absent on academic performance.

New understandings about how people learn point the way to developing more effective educational environments and instructional processes to enhance the academic achievement of all students.

This, in turn, catapults their science self - efficacy as students become more confident in their academic abilities and capable of maneuvering the scientific realm of understanding.

Through a more harmonious and healthy interaction to various cultures and socio - economic backgrounds, to developing a deeper understanding of community that comes from hands - on interaction with corporations, non-profits, cultural and academic institutions, students are exposed to a microcosm of the world at large, learning skills of interaction, team building and cooperation.

Running a school with no extended learning day, and more than 700 students who ride buses from as far away as East Boston, principal Mary Driscoll understands what it means to have a partner like Steppingstone: It means more students gain access to extra academic instruction on - site.

The project prompted teachers to understand their students better and to design more interdisciplinary projects to combine academic and career studies.

Both educators and the public are beginning to better understand that success for our students, beyond high school and through college and careers, means that teaching and learning must focus on more than just core academic content — and that students do not gain social and emotional competencies at the expense of rigorous academics.

Research tells us that when children are supported in being metacognitive (i.e., thinking about their own understandings), they are more likely to be engaged in their learning and that they have better academic outcomes.

Teachers were essentially charged with bringing new, more rigorous academic expectations into our classrooms without adequate time to become versed in new materials or understand methods for applying them to our instruction.

«Everyone» at CORE, Bookman continues, «understands that we are still going to use academic achievement data, just more wisely and more appropriately — that's not being taken off the table.

«Teachers across America understand that social and emotional learning (SEL) is critical to student success in school, work, and life,» according to the Missing Piece survey of educators, commissioned by the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning: «Educators know these skills are teachable; want schools to give far more priority to integrating such development into the curriculum, instruction, and school culture; and believe state student learning standards should reflect this priority.

A critical foundation to reaching advanced levels of literacy is that we begin by immersing children in academic language within the context of great stories where they can painlessly acquire the vocabulary and sentence structures, which can facilitate their understandings of more complex readings, and even support their ownership of these words.

Just like a patient does not have to become a doctor to have clear understanding of his or her body, what a diagnosis means and what possible paths are available to better health, likewise a parent and a student can have a clear understanding of what helps and hinders his or her learning, what different options are available to learn and what alternatives could prove more compatible to one's learning and academic achievement.

Overall, these studies will provide a more comprehensive and deeper understanding of the academic environment for gender expansive youth and how their social environment influences their health, an issue of crucial importance for educational policy.

Management and Academics are also under huge pressure with the introduction of TEF, which is designed to help students have a more accurate understanding of the quality of teaching.

Based on more than a decade of experience, we understand what such students need in order to realize their academic potential.

This year, we implemented a four - tier parent - teacher - student intervention system to influence academic performance and help teachers, students, and parents engage, understand each other, and work together to expect more from these children, particularly black boys.

Learn more about Illinois» Every Student Succeeds Act plan — and the role assessments play in understanding proficiency and reporting on academic progress — on the Real Learning for Real Life webpage.

If you need more background, the training module Using Academic Progress Monitoring for Individualized Instructional Planning is helpful in understanding the uses of progress monitoring in formative assessment.

A bill filed in the state Senate, «NC Comprehensive School Accountability,» seeks to strengthen oversight for the voucher program, but it only deals with limiting the choices of standardized tests private schools can administer in an effort to make students» academic progress more comparable and more easily understood.

'' seeks to strengthen oversight for the voucher program, but it only deals with limiting the choices of standardized tests private schools can administer in an effort to make students» academic progress more comparable and more easily understood.

Studies that investigated the role of classroom discourse and other forms of scaffolding describe how teachers mediate between students» current English abilities and levels of science understanding and the more academic English and science knowledge being targeted (Gibbons, 2003; Parkinson, Jackson, Kirkwood, & Padayachee, 2007; Young & Nguyen, 2002).

And young children who miss a lot of class are more likely to end up with holes in their understanding, and with academic trouble later, whether their absences were excused or not.