Sentences with phrase «of reflecting on their learning»

If educators are empowered to incorporate lessons about the positive impact of reflecting on their learning and using specific strategies to improve academic performance from the early grades on, students will be better equipped with the skills they will need to thrive in school, in their personal lives and in the working world.

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As the company tries to attract new advertisers and venues, the Silvermans have learned the importance of trial and error and reflecting on past experiences.

Edelman, who teaches in the Negotiation, Organizations & Market unit of the school, was apparently irked to learn that the restaurant's menu on its website hadn't been updated to reflect the prices he was charged for shredded chicken with spicy garlic sauce, stir fried chicken and other dishes.

In a talk at Oxford, Apple CEO Tim Cook reflected on the «spectacular failure commercially» of the Cube, and what he learned from his mentor Steve Jobs about failure amid the whole experience.

Reflect back on 2013 and see what lessons you learned that you could leverage today to prepare you for a strong disruption of your competitors in 2014.

, as well as a fun way to reflect on the need to view becoming a good leader as a long, hard journey of learning.

, his talk is a good exercise in collecting the key experiences that make great leaders, as well as a fun way to reflect on the need to view becoming a good leader as a long, hard journey of learning.

2017.02.03 RBC announces 30 Black History Month Student Essay Competition scholarship winners As Canada prepares to celebrate its 150th birthday, RBC asked high school students to reflect on the contribution of black Canadians over the past 150 years and what future generations can learn from them...

For entrepreneurs, the start of each New Year means reflecting on accomplishments and lessons learned from the previous year, making resolutions to fulfill throughout the next 365 days and taking...

An algorithm learning the wrong lessons or formulating responses based on an incomplete picture, and the lack of transparency into what criteria are reflected in a decision model, are especially problematic when identified correlations function as inadvertent proxies for excluding or discriminating against protected classes of people.

The songs on this two - cd set are arranged thematically rather than chronologically and reflect many of the recurring themes of Cash's oeuvre: love, sin, redemption, life, death... Adding to the intimacy level, many of the songs feature spoken introductions by Cash, as if he were introducing the songs to an audience, in which he talks about his history with the song, how he learned it, or wrote it and, more personally, why he feels such a deep connection with the composition.

That we are not yet living within the crudely totalitarian and oppressive atmosphere of Orwell's world, but are aware of some subtle signs that we may be moving in its direction, makes it vital that we reflect on the meaning of Barmen, in order to learn to speak and act while there is still time.

Later on, Pharisaic ideas were more highly «spiritualized,» and Paul, himself a learned Jew before his conversion to Christian faith, probably reflects such notions in the way in which he speaks of resurrection in I Corinthians 15.

Such communities will draw on the real life skills of their members, and learn to reflect on their shared experience.

As well as learning from the past about the importance of a healthy diet, we might also reflect upon a point made by one of the contributors to «Sunlight» (a journal of the 1920 - 30s concerned with promoting healthy living): that we have minds as well as bodies, and behaviour depends upon «whether one's mind is fed on treasure or on trash».

Reflecting, even briefly, on the state of affairs which might evoke this universal love in the human heart, a love so often vainly dreamed of, but which now leaves the fields of Utopia to reveal itself as both possible and necessary, we are brought to the following conclusion: that for men upon earth, all the earth, to learn to love one another, it is not enough that they should know themselves to be members of one and the same thing; in «planetizing» themselves they must acquire the consciousness, without losing themselves, of becoming one and the same person.

McInerny's death, aside from providing an opportunity to reflect on his own legacy, also invites us to reflect on the body of learning known as Thomism.

But this time of year, I think it's appropriate to take stock of one's accomplishments and failures, to reflect on lessons learned, and to set new goals for the future.

Each group reflects on the process of its formation and on what the members have learned about one another.

The time is ripe for Americans to reconsider the advantages of crowns — or at least, to reflect on what we might be able to learn from constitutional monarchies and the longstanding traditions of England's kings and queens.

Our program is a mix of texts and literature, with an emphasis on literature, as well as a lot of learning - through - play and life - learning which booklists don't reflect.

We've both learnt so much through this process though and I want to start sharing more of this side of our journey with you, reflecting on both the good and the bad — I want to make these posts as honest as possible too, as I hope that will make them a lot more useful for you.

having reflected on the grand amount of time i spend @ sk... i would like to state that i truly look forward to an interesting & exciting sk 2011... i have learned so much from you this past, as i strive to be better educated in the art of baking... so thank you for a great year & a treasure trove of amazing recipes.

As I've been studying photography and applying what I'm learning to my own work, I've been reflecting on the luxury that living in Seattle provides; as I mentioned the other day, the city has a multitude of farmers markets, some of which operate year - round, and it's no problem to find grocery stores stocking quality, whole, organic items.

Upon checking out of the CasaMagna Marriott I reflected on how much I learned about the people who live in the beautiful city of Puerto Vallarta, as well as their way of life, revered traditions and what they value.

«When I reflect back on my year now, I think every moment has been an experience to grow from, and a learning curve for me both on and off the golf course,» wrote Ko, who left David Leadbetter for swing coach Gary Gilchrist, switched from Callaway to PXG gear, and made a number of caddie changes.

At the time, I reflected on how the skills I learned as a C - 130 Aircraft Commander came in handy as a parent of two young girls.

Yet, my personal approach to parenting is a mix that goes well beyond the bits and pieces of these books that I found helpful — among the bits and pieces that I feel don't apply to my family but certainly they may apply to another family — and include bits and pieces of how I was raised, the lessons learned reflecting on years of parenting already behind me, thoughts from friends and family members, my instincts, the reality of unavoidable challenges, scientific studies, blogs and websites, parenting classes and support groups, teleseminars, conferences, and so much more.

As time went on, and she learned more about the natural birthing process and the current state of maternity care (as well as reflecting on her unmedicated hospital birth experience), she knew that she would not want to birth another child in the hospital, so as she and her husband Matt looked forward to conceiving their second child she had already decided on hiring a licensed midwife and planning to birth at home.

At any point in our parenting journeys, we can reflect back on our early days as mothers or fathers and glow in the knowledge of how much we have changed since that... first positive pregnancy test... or our oldest child's birth... or a seemingly endless night of breastfeeding... or our struggle with learning how to do positive discipline... or the first day of school... or our daughter's first basketball win... or our son's first crush... or our child's high school graduation... or our daughter's wedding... or our son's first child...

Help your children find activities that reflect who they are and what they want to learn, instead of imposing your preferences on them.

I cover topics such as playdates, homeschooling, and pagan parenting while also reflecting a natural parenting mindset: my son is attachment parented and is learning about how to be a responsible human in terms of his impact on the world and those in it.

I want to wrap up this project by sharing some of the major lessons on infant sleep that I learned along the way, both from the science and in reflecting on my own experiences.

Children can learn to identify complex emotions, reflect on personal strengths and weaknesses, respect the views of others and persevere through emotional difficulties.

In their lifetime, how you connect with them — how you communicate, share affection, help them learn to reflect on their emotions and understand the importance of relationships — will shape the structure of their brain, model how they have relationships with others in the future, and nurture their developing mind.

But noticing the date of my contract ending, made me reflect on the relatively... Continue reading What I Learnt from Returning to Work after Stillbirth →

My oldest child is about to turn 4, and his birthday always makes me reflect on all I've learned in these few short years of motherhood.

It's given me a lot of time to reflect on the benefits of breastfeeding, and beyond just the tangible benefits for your baby, things like what you can learn about yourself while breastfeeding.

By reflecting children's feelings, and giving them a proper dose of sympathy or comfort, we help them learn when they can manage on their own and when they need our help.

By bringing together 50 randomly - selected members of the public, weighted to reflect the EU vote, it has shown what a diverse sample of the UK electorate feel about the Brexit options when they have had the chance to learn about them, listen to the arguments, and reflect on their own preferences and those of their fellow members.

The bill reflects an unusual alliance of Republican lawmakers who see the Common Core Learning Standards as a federal intrusion on local decision - making and Democratic lawmakers who oppose the use of standardized tests to sanction teachers and schools.

He charged Muslim faithful to hold strongly on to the lessons learnt in the month of Ramadan and reflect same after the Holy.

Cuomo and his staff however ensured that key issues that would reflect badly on him were stricken from the report, especially information that investigators had learned about the powerful Real Estate Board of New York and its political donations.

In the California Verbal Learning Test, on a scale of 0 to 80, with 80 reflecting the best memory, the healthy participants had an average score of 55.8, whereas those with mild cognitive impairment scored an average of 40.5.

«As a society it's like we're learning a new skill of text communication, and we don't fully understand or reflect on its power to affect so many people in ways that we may not have intended,» said Nels Oscar, an OSU graduate student in the College of Engineering and lead author on the study.

«This reworking of science textbooks provides a rare opportunity to reflect on how we can create texts that enhance science teaching and learning.»

The results were clear: Students who strategically reflected on how to use their resources to learn effectively ended up with higher grades at the end of the semester, outperforming their classmates by an average of one third of a letter grade.

But Ziv Bar - Joseph, an associate professor in the Machine Learning Department and the Lane Center for Computational Biology, said that view of what is essential and what isn't reflects how scientists study genes — by noting their effects on an organism when a gene is removed — not necessarily the gene's importance.

In addition to the fun of meeting other scientists and the interested public and learning more about recent research, these conferences provided me with an intriguing opportunity to reflect on cultural attitudes.

It is probably instructive to reflect on the fact that cancers used to be thought of as one disease, but the more we learn these cancers, say blood cancers, are found to be different types.