Sentences with phrase «more formative years»

Mass Effect is the space opera all boys (and some girls) lived out in their heads during their more formative years.

Thankfully, the Internet came along and preserved the memory of the art form's more formative years.

Not exact matches

«Our culture's sexual freedom is more accurately described as sexual addiction,» says West, who was working this out in practice during his formative university years.

The contrast between Darwinian evolution and the creative or emergent evolution of recent years may be sharpened if we look more closely at the decisive notions which are seen to be formative in each case.

I guess it's time to do more assumption hunting... I «found him» all through my young formative years.

«There is no more heart - felt space deserving of our energy, passion, and love than holding a child in its formative years and providing a foundation for lifelong learning»

there is no doubting that Arsene has helped to provide us with some incredible footballing moments in the formative years of his managerial career at Arsenal, but that certainly doesn't and shouldn't mean that he has earned the right to decide when and how he should leave this club... there have been numerous managers at each of the biggest clubs in Europe throughout the last decade who have waged far more successful campaigns than ours yet somehow and someway each were given their walking papers because they failed to meet the standards laid out by the hierarchy of their respective clubs... of course that doesn't mean that clubs should simply follow the lead of others, especially if clubs of note have become too reactionary when it comes to issues of termination, for whatever reasons, but there should be some logical discourse when it comes to the setting of parameters for a changing of the guard... in the case of Arsenal, this sort of discourse was largely stifled when the higher - ups devised their sinister plan on the eve of our move to the Emirates... by giving Wenger a free pass due to supposed financial constraints he, unwittingly or not, set the bar too low... it reminds me of a landlord who says he will only rent to «professional people» to maintain a certain standard then does a complete about face when the market is lean and vacancies are up... for those who rented under the original mandate they of course feel cheated but there is little they can do, except move on, especially if the landlord clearly cares more about profitability than keeping their word... unfortunately for the lifelong fans of a football club it's not so easy to switch allegiances and frankly why should they, in most cases we have been around far longer than them... so how does one deal with such an untenable situation... do you simply shut - up and hope for the best, do you place the best interests of those with only self - serving agendas above the collective and pray that karma eventually catches up with them, do you run away with your tail between your legs and only return when things have ultimately changed, do you keep trying to find silver linings to justify your very existence, do you lower your expectations by convincing yourself it could be worse or do you stand up for what you believe in by holding people accountable for their actions, especially when every fiber of your being tells you that something is rotten in the state of Denmark

What's more important, the genes of an All - Star or having a parent with the time and freedom to coach you through your formative years?

Picture this, we don't come out of the gate firing on all cylinders, Wenger speaks of how there wasn't enough time for the first - teamers to build chemistry, several key players aren't even playing because of Wenger's utterly ridiculous policy regarding players who played in the Confed Cup or the under21s and the boo - birds have returned in full flight... if these things were to happen, which is quite possible considering the Groundhog Day mentality of this club, how long do you think it will take for Wenger to recant his earlier statements regarding Europa... I would suggest that it's these sorts of comments from Wenger which are often his undoing... why would any manager worth his weight in salt make such a definitive statement before the season has even started... why would any manager who fashions himself an educated man make such pronouncements before even knowing what his starting 11 will be come Friday, let alone on September 1st... why would any manager who has a tenuous relationship with a great many supporters offer up such a potentially contentious talking point considering how many times his own words have come back to bite him in the ass... I think he does this because he doesn't care what you or I think, in fact he's more than slightly infuriated by the very idea of having to answer to the likes of you and me... that might have been acceptable during his formative years in charge, when the fans were rewarded with an scintillating brand of football and success felt like a forgone conclusion, but this new Wenger led team barely resembles that team of ore... whereas in times past we relished a few words from our seemingly cerebral manager, in recent times those words have been replaced by a myriad of excuses, a plethora of infuriating stories about who he could have signed but didn't and what can only be construed as outright fabrications... it's kind of funny that when we want some answers, like during the whole contract debacle of last season, we can't get an intelligent word out of him, but when we just what him to show his managerial acumen through his actions, we can't seem to get him to shut - up... I beg you to prove me wrong Arsene

I grew up in Oklahoma, and while my formative years skewed more toward the mid - to late - 1980s, when OU and Miami were running college football, my umbrella was only beginning to expand.

For many parents, choosing a good child care center has become more important than ever, as this is where your child will spend most of his or her formative years.

Her humorous, supportive and authoritative voice as a guide, parents can navigate some of the more difficult aspects of these formative years and lay the groundwork for their child's future with confidence.

Indeed, although Clinton's political ambitions were clear to many who knew him, the documentary neglects Clinton's higher education and its incubation of his political desires to focus on his more formative high school years.

My mother, by far my greatest inspiration, always answered all my questions in those decisive formative years and encouraged me to ask more questions.

We need more research exploring brain development over the entire lifespan, especially in the early, formative years.»

Perhaps stars forming more than one dust disk may be the norm in the formative years of a star system.»

The rosy tint is faint, but prominent enough to wear solo, with a whisper of shimmer that is certainly more subtle than the sparkle - filled balms of my formative years.

I then moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where I spent arguably 6 of the most formative years of my... READ MORE

During those formative years as a young teen, I gravitated to more regular pink colors, as opposed to pastel pink or hot pink.

With more than 25 years in education, Glass brings a breadth of experience in curriculum and instruction, including standards - based curricula; backward design; pre -, formative, self -, and summative assessments; and instructional strategies that facilitate close reading.

Evidence of effectiveness in teaching the state's academic content standards, including the common core and English language development standards as measured by more than one year of summative and formative assessment data.

Each time I learn a new formative assessment strategy, I wish that I can have a redo of one of my years in the classroom to apply the strategy and make my instruction that much more effective.

For instance, several years ago, I met with my direct supervisor for a mid-year evaluation and she indicated we needed to be more consistent with common formative assessments and data review.

Whereas summative assessments are tests that evaluate the degree to which students have successfully learned all the material planned for teaching in a given time period (typically, one school year), formative assessment refers more abstractly to the ongoing process of assessing what students have and have not learned for the express purpose of adjusting instruction moment by moment to meet individual students» needs.

«My husband and I decided we wanted our children home for the middle school years to give us more control over their education during those formative years.

She has spent more than 20 years studying and writing about classroom assessment practices and has authored a number of ASCD publications, including How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading, How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students, and How to Design Questions and Tasks to Assess Student Thinking.

Further, if your goal is to know if individual students are progressing in their learning then there are far more important tools that could be used by teachers in formative assessments without any stakes attached that could inform them and parents far more effectively than a mass standardized test whose results come back well into the following school year.

A major shift from NCLB accountability is emerging on issues of testing and assessment — with a focus on a more sophisticated blend of summative and formative assessments as key foundations for improving teaching and learning, as well as on the capacity of state and school systems to track and monitor progress, by student, from year to year.

More formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is workMore formally, after we've got the RTI model implemented, well, parents are going to choose to be involved in varying levels, but as a school person I'd encourage parents to be involved as we look at the results of our screening whether we're screening annually, or maybe even three times a year, when we're looking at those academic benchmarks that would indicate how well a youngster is performing in class and then when we're conducting the progress monitoring so that students who are part of more intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is workmore intensive interventions will have their progress monitored, or will conduct those formative assessments to inform us how well that intervention is working.

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It never really went away, of course — most modern cars spend a chunk of their formative years in a wind tunnel (virtual or otherwise) these days, but as manufacturers scramble for increasing efficiency gains the aerodynamic aids that emerge are becoming ever more advanced.

A new study published in the Economic Journal has proclaimed that children earn more money if they are surrounded by books during their formative years.

It brings me back to my formative years when I read a lot more science fiction than I do now.

While Sony experienced a tumultuous existence in its formative years in Japan, Toshiba and Sharp enjoyed more success because they offered an online bookstore to tap their devices into.

Jory says the following about the role his service dog has played in college, «Daisy makes it possible for me to be more independent and fully experience these formative years of the college experience.

In owning a Nintendo 64 during my formative years, I subscribed to the age - old philosophy of «less is more.»

Prime among these reasons is the concern that Tarahumara culture will be lost among future generations, as more and more Tarahumara youth move to city centres during their formative years.

Add to that a home life that i've only recently feel like i've been able to recover from, and its not hard to see how I was maybe a little more isolated than I should have been in my formative years.

Being that my formative years came about during the early 2000s, some of the more obscure titles Namco Museum has in store as an»80s arcade compilation are quite new to me.

Liberally stuffed with gaming references ranging from Angry Birds all the way through to Shadow of the Colossus, while boasting the sort of gleefully vibrant visuals that make you want to set your copies of Battlefield and Call of Duty on fire, it's clear early on that Super Chibi Knight is more than just a mere familial collaboration; it's a true love letter to the games which played such a key role in our formative years.

What's more, the game is set during 1995, and anyone who spent formative teenage years around that time will delight in many references to its pop culture.

Richard Prince's formative years occurred during the heyday of Pop art and the breaking through of the more analytical Conceptual art.

For fans of Mr. Prina, it should be a treat to learn more about his formative years.

«Employers care more about your most recent decade of experience than the formative years of your career» says Nii Ato Bentsi - Enchill, Ivy Exec's Manager of Coaching and Resume Services.

Preschool educators have more responsibility on their shoulders as they are responsible for not only imparting book knowledge but to manage the formative years of preschoolers in terms of confidence development and learning objectives.

A further two years funding was also sourced from the Australian Research Council to help develop resources after the more formative work and research had been completed.

We should have fed him more processed food in the formative years.