Sentences with phrase «much about instruction»

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You can select games, explore instruction manuals, and change a handful of settings about the console — that was pretty much it.

Of all the robots that we tested it stood out in pretty much every category: no big or unrealistic promises, an easy sign - up process, with clear instructions and all the necessary information about the software itself.

After recently mentioning that I would consider an investment in the Vanguard Wellington Fund if I wanted to create wealth in such a way that I did not have to spend much time thinking about investments or intended to pass the ownership stake on to someone that did not have much knowledge about investing (i.e. if you wanted to turn your children into trust fund babies in a way that they could not ruin it, you'd want to set up a restricted trust that only permitted the kids to receive the interest and dividend income generated by the fund, perhaps with the instruction that the assets transfer into an S&P 500 index fund if the Wellington Fund were to ever cease to exist).

Detailed instructions about participant observation are readily available, 4 and much can be learned about the method by reading the congregational studies of Melvin Williams and Samuel Heilman.

The much - debated Exodus 21 passage gave instruction to ancient Israel about how to handle the accidental killing of a fetus when a pregnant woman is injured by fighting men.

The other factor is religious involvement that includes specific instruction, not so much about the poor but about believers» responsible use of money.

So the issue is that without much in the way of concrete models and instructions about how to do so, the lack of involved male, dads or father figures and the face of the stereotype of the bumbling dad, can result in him disengaging when the stress of adjusting to the role of new dad hits.

For the most part, feedback from teachers cited concerns about rodents and bugs, too much going on [in the classroom], spills, and taking away from instruction time.

But I know this little guy well enough to know that too much instruction will completely turn him off (hmmn... I don't know where he gets that), and that he wouldn't begin to attempt something until he'd studied, watched and thought about it a good deal already.

Much has been said about the benefits of Lego — great for building, following instructions, extending the child's imagination, fine motor skills and the list goes on.

«It actually doesn't happen that much if you give your patients good instruction about when to come in,» said Lu, who is an associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology and public health at the University of California Los Angeles.

and relatively clear; there isn't that much to say about completing the forms that isn't said reasonably well in the instructions.

Few scientists receive much, if any, instruction in philosophy or the history of science during their training, and as a consequence few think much about what they do, how they do it, what it achieves and what it does not.

While a person's genes dictate eye, hair and skin color, earlobes (attached or dangling), the ability to curl your tongue or not, and the shapes and size of fingers and toes, much about our gene's instructions is how we influence them with our environment.

«I think for a long time teachers have been encouraged to target children's individual difficulties with explicit instruction, but my findings highlight actually just how much teachers will need to know about the range of strategies a child uses and the types of errors they make if they are going to use explicit instruction effectively.

Victor Pereira instructed me in a three - semester sequence of Science Methods and so much of what I know about curriculum design and inquiry - based instruction comes from him.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new study estimates that between 7.5 and 14 percent of students in Milwaukee's voucher program have disabilities, a much higher rate than the one provided by the Wisconsin State Department of Public Instruction (DPI), which has stated, «about 1.6 percent of choice students have a disability.»

RESNICK: The teacher still plays an incredibly important role, but in this approach it's not so much about delivering instruction.

But too often, teachers are worried about how they are being evaluated, spending too much time on projects that don't have clear objectives to support instruction, or putting on a show for observation day.

For much of the past few years, reflecting general concerns about the quality of public schooling, discussions of magnet schools have centered on their potential for providing intensive instruction in such subjects as science and mathematics, serving as models of effectiveness, and increasing family choice within the public system.

From how to plan lessons to whether students should collaborate to how much homework to assign, daily decisions about instruction number in the hundreds.

I think Larry is absolutely right that faith in our ability to achieve personalization through miraculous Uber - ish software engineering is likely to disappoint and that Joel is right that personalization has great potential so long as it's as much about rethinking classrooms and instruction as it is about pixels.

The resulting products reveal much about students» cognitive processes, contribute to my knowledge of them as learners, and help inform my attempts to individualize instruction.

Instruction should be informed as much as possible by detailed knowledge about students» specific strengths, needs, and areas for growth (Tomlinson, 2014).

To be sure — and to be fair — there is much room for concern about the uneven quality of curriculum and instruction, a problem that Common Core has done less to create than to reveal.

When soliciting evidence about learning during instruction, teachers must do so much more than find a few right answers to key questions.

The author also depended on work from the University of Michigan's Study of Instructional Improvement, which measures how much teachers know about instruction.22 Also helpful was the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's «Neuromyths» publication.23

Race and ethnicity influence teaching and learning in two important ways: They affect how students respond to instruction and curriculum, and they influence teachers» assumptions about how students learn and how much students are capable of learning.

In the Tigard - Tualatin School District (TTSD), it's about «never giving up; nothing matters as much as teaching every child to read at grade level,» said former district superintendent Rob Saxton, newly appointed in September 2012 as Oregon's first Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction.1 TTSD's mission to educate every child is operationalized through a collective commitment to focused work; continuous improvement and refinement in instructional practice on a district - wide basis; and a pervasive attitude on the part of district and school personnel to ensure that all students leave TTSD able to be highly successful adults.

There is much less published research about the components and time needed for effective math instruction.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

Teaching, as most new teachers find out very quickly, is as much about the day - to - day instruction as it is about mastering daily housekeeping routines.

Russ on Reading covers much fine information about literacy instruction, but he also writes serious posts in support of teachers and public schools.

However, from reading this post, I suspect that you — and your readers who agree about the importance of integrating reading and content instruction — may be much more interested in the way structured word inquiry is explicitly used as leverage for deepening understanding of terms and concepts of core units of study.

Generally, students spent about twice as much time in whole - or large - group instruction as they did in small - group instruction.

When the inevitable problems occur with the SBAC and PARCC test administrations this year, the public outcry will be about how the technology infrastructure failed or how the tests were taking too much valuable time away from real instruction.

Differentiated instruction and teachers knowing as much as possible about their students and their families are keys for success.

As educators used Imagine Learning to personalize instruction, they saw students make tremendous gains and exhibit much more excitement about learning.

I don't know much about these things, but if I get the right wiring and parts, I should be able to follow instructions.

Since the library started providing information about how the library considers and acquires books, most authors follow the library's instructions, making the process much more efficient.

About a month later, when I was on the night shift, I tried an experiment where I cleaned out the popcorn maker, cleared out the old popcorn, and the popped a fresh batch using a little less than the instructions would indicate, much less the young lady who trained me.

Included are step - by - step instructions, answers to the most often asked questions, consumer credit rights, sample letters to use when communicating with the various credit reporting agencies about credit file questions and difficulties and much more.

I really like that you spent just as much time talking about passive investment logic as you did giving instructions on HOW to setup the investments and the benefits of each.

There is a lot to learn about veterinary assistance and this kind of professional instruction teaches students about medical terminology, the identification of different breeds, proper restraining techniques, ways to administer medications, how to handle chemicals and much more.

There is a great deal to know about veterinary assistance and formal instruction teaches how to identify breeds, proper restraining techniques, medical terminology, ways to administer medications, handling of chemicals and much more.

Unless your pet's doctor has given specific instructions about which medications and how much to give, you should avoid the temptation.

- Chris Kohler is subbing for Clive Thompson over at the Wired game column, and chats about cooking instruction DS titles, adding this interesting piece of commentary: «As the user base of the DS expands, both in terms of broadening demographics and sheer numbers, I have to wonder whether Japan's game industry will really need super hits for very much longer.

I learned as much about their viewpoint in art from what they thought about movies, T.V., politics, how they dealt with daily problems in their studios, their small pleasures and pet peeves, how they liked their eggs fried, than from any direct influence or instruction.

These contain thoroughly professional instructions about marketing, search engine optimization, ethics and advertising, web content and design, advice about posting fees, writing a blog, traditional marketing and networking, branding, client communications, paying for referrals, and much, much more.

The Benchbook is used by Mass. judges as an official «playbook» and answers every possible question about jury trials, including attorney - conducted voir dire, mentioning damages in closing argument, juror notebooks, jury questionnaires, peremptory challenges, jury instructions, and much more.