Sentences with phrase «of rote learning»

I put it down to the method of rote learning that disagreed with me as a child, and to the threat of punishment for getting my multiplication tables wrong.

In 2015 Wattanawongchai was part of a group exhibition «Copy - Paste», in which Thai artists responded to the method of rote learning prevalent in Thailand.

This involves a lot of rote learning through cramming and memorizing.

The only exception I might take is the comment about college involving «a lot of rote learning through cramming and memorizing.»

Our emphasis on broad cognitive and metacognitive skills instead of rote learning was instrumental in lighting up our students» imaginations, which drove their learning achievement,» said Valorie Hargett, the State Consultant for the Academically or Intellectually Gifted Programs in North Carolina and a principal designer of the program.

Many American educators have a rather smug view of Asia as the home of rote learning and nose - to - the - grindstone schools.

Toll noted that IDEO «did a whole school network in Peru,» transforming a system of rote learning into one focused on «group work and technology.»

This simplistic model may work well when teaching basic vocabulary or other forms of rote learning.

If you know anything about kids, you'll understand that they get bored very quickly — which means that if they know they're in for the same kind of rote learning in every single class, they'll soon distract themselves with things other than learning.

This practice, Lee said, has encouraged too much of an emphasis on the Confucian traditions of rote learning.

Not exact matches

Both are in whole or major part, the fault of the revisionist education dogma of the so - called progressive left which abandoned rote learning, core curricula, and classics for outcome - based propagandizing about the «victims» of Western civilization.

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned [scholasticism] almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

Today, of course, memorization is routinely dismissed as «rote learning,» and priority is given to «self - expression» in the service of «authenticity» and other presumed goods.

Generations of Catholics, including priests, learned it almost by rote, often ending with a set of abstract propositions which they could not easily relate to the world or to history.

This people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote.

She considers recourse to the Hail Mary to be little more than prayer on autopilot, the rote droning of words learned and memorized as children.

When it comes to rote memorization and mindless droning, is there any set of formulas that more deserved such a treatment than the terminology we learned while studying poetry?

In a classroom environment, there has to be a certain amount of structure, rote learning and workbooks, even in the best of schools.

There is no body of information that my kids have to learn by rote, sectioned off by age to be tested on.

Xiao is part of a fast - growing number of Chinese children whose parents are turning their backs on the state - run education system, which is based on rote learning and limited critical thinking.

I wanted them to have exposure to all kinds of stimulus and to be able to follow their interests rather than learning by rote.

In college, she studied Mandarin — a language that takes hours upon hours of rote memorization to learn.

Cameron, ever the man of the people, appeared at a press conference the next day with an answer he seemed to have learned by rote.

Most of us learn best when we do things; rote memorization is an inferior approach, though in many instances it's the only approach that's feasible; more on this later.

Even the prestigious universities worry that their curricula and teaching methods are outdated and inappropriate for the modern world and encourage rote learning at the expense of creativity and critical thinking.

Rote learning of long lists of words must surely be one of the most unpopular types of schoolwork.

These endeavors are invigorating and enriching, and they cultivate a holistic perspective of learning — unlike rote learning.

Beginning with counting and moving through topics such as multiplication and fractions, Arithmetic provides a nuanced understanding of working with numbers, gently connecting procedures that we once learned by rote with intuitions long since muddled by education.

One possibility, Duflo observes, is that children in Delhi primary schools learn math in a rote style that may not have allowed the experiment's set of games to have an effect.

Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have made the surprising discovery that people with Alzheimer's disease retain the capability for a specific form of memory used for rote learning...

But it's all still very rote, with the characters doing the vary basic motions of a redemption story in which an ass learns how to not be such an ass.

The civics lessons of the past, for example, are often criticized for emphasizing rote learning and underrepresenting people of color.

By the early 1830s, he says, math reformers were making one of their first stands, arguing that educators needed to move away from rote learning, so they could better understand the meaning of math.

Let's face it: We're not going to beat the rest of the world on rote learning.»

We were all a product of similar rote learning,» she says.

It takes a clarity of vision that sustains one's courage to stick with it when feeling the heat from parents, central administration, and others to prepare students for Advanced Placement and other standardized exams, for «the realities of college,» which typically means more rote learning and memorization of innumerable facts.

The Bishops who convened at the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884 determined to write a catechism for Catholic children — the famous Baltimore Catechism, which was a standard text in Catholic schools for the next 80 years, its questions and answers about the Church and God learned, by rote, by millions of children, in a fashion that might put Muslim madrassas to shame — and then issued what today would be considered a terribly draconian and medieval (parochial?)

When you provide students with opportunities to apply learning — especially through authentic, personally meaningful activities — and then provide formative assessments and feedback throughout a unit, facts move from rote memory to become part of the memory bank.

Critical thinking, which has long been relegated to the back of the classroom in favor of standardized - testing - friendly rote learning, should be the priority in teaching math.

The design of many worksheets are as time - fillers and contribute to superficial learning or rote learning.

In the eyes of western politicians, a certain type of education based on exclusive and rote learning of the

In the digital age we live in, going back to learning times tables by rote seems like an archaic form of learning, which is likely to be difficult for the already stretched teaching profession, so coming up with enjoyable paths of learning for both the educator and the student is more than likely the best option.

Teachers who once traveled to town to instruct a heterogeneous room full of passive learners on matters of rote memorization have come to adopt new roles and philosophies toward learning.

There is emerging consensus that the 20th - century approach to education, which favors methods such as lectures and rote learning, is standing in the way of making school relevant to more students.

Learners have to develop certain fast, fluent capabilities if they are to prepare for the next tier of learning — and, in many instances, «rote learning» is an essential tool for building fluency.

«It's much better to grasp the fundamentals and have no boundaries at all, than learn a fixed range of recipes by rote.

Memory has long been viewed as a key aspect of learning, but as the emphasis in educational standards has shifted away from rote memorization and toward the knowledge and skills needed to process new information, working memory is increasingly taking center stage.

The students were then examined on their learning and were (impressively) passing their examinations with flying colours; primarily through a system of rote - learning sounds and words.

When Bishop examined the effects of high - school exit exams, one traditional form of external accountability, on intrinsic motivation by comparing whether students subjected to this approach engaged in less reading for pleasure or were more likely to associate learning with rote memorization, he found no evidence that accountability undermined natural curiosity and even found some evidence of the opposite.

In addition to the dearth of resources this far from the city, Umesh says, the rote learning and streamlined messages of the government schools can alienate rural students from themselves.