Sentences with phrase «often practiced in schools»

The five - paragraph essay (or theme) is an artificial genre often practiced in schools and required on standardized tests.

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Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

A medical school, for instance, is a research and often also a healing center, directly concerned with the increase of knowledge about the human organism and with its health; but it is also a training center where men are prepared to work in many other institutions of the society, from private practice to public health offices.

Schools belonging to conservative churches, on the other hand, are often very conscious of their Christian grounds, but they typically express this in terms of conservative mores, an emphasis on pious practices, and the teaching of Christian doctrine in the curriculum.

The social practices involved in academic specializations tend to be institutionalized (often informally) outside of theological schools in what are often referred to as academic guilds.

The challenge I often face in my practice is how to implement cognitive rest for concussed high school and college athletes who are engaged in regular classwork and study.

It is from this table that I would often depart early in the morning, only to return again later — after school was out, after tennis practice was out, well after sundown.

Family physicians often have an additional 3 years of training beyond medical school with some family practice doctors choosing to specialize in obstetrics.

Meal debt is a difficult problem that negatively affects both kids and school food programs, and it's important to keep in mind why schools often resort to these practices.

Many parents today also choose alternative options, such as academic redshirting, or the practice of postponing for a year school entry for kids whose birthdays are close to cut - off date (often in or around September for most districts).

For elementary schoolers, craft kits are often a way to practice what they're learning at school or see science at work in a fun... MORE application.

I often share digital best practices at national and regional conferences such as AAPC, Art of Political Campaigning, CampaignTech, Campaigns & Marketing Summit, NTC, Netroots Nation, Organizing 2.0, the Reed Awards, and RootsCamp, webinars for Progressive Majority, Salsa Labs and others, and trainings in - person for small groups around the country including for Wellstone's Advanced Campaign Management School, Amalgamated Transit Union, Camp Wellstone, Center for Progressive Leadership, Clean Air Task Force, Democracy for America, HRC, New Leaders Council and New Organizing Institute.

Student athletes in the Buffalo Public Schools often practice and compete in facilities lacking locker rooms, equipment and showers.

There are some courses available in these areas, but often one travels to a brewing school to learn about malting practice.

School and community gardens have become increasingly popular in recent years, but the people managing and working in these gardens are often unfamiliar with food safety practices that reduce the risk of foodborne illness.

Patients who go to the emergency room (ER) with chest pain often receive unnecessary tests to evaluate whether they are having a heart attack, a practice that provides no clinical benefit and adds hundreds of dollars in health - care costs, according to a new study from researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

«But their teaching practice is not benefiting from the kind of support often provided in school - based mentoring programs.»

Francois notes that the school emphasized independent reading as a community, where students and teachers often engage in shared practice of reading.

I realize that traditional schooling practices are often so firmly entrenched in our collective minds that they often become habits that remain, to a large extent, unquestioned.

In the past, schools were technological islands, with technology often limited to supporting existing practices, and students always outpacing schools in their adoption of technologIn the past, schools were technological islands, with technology often limited to supporting existing practices, and students always outpacing schools in their adoption of technologin their adoption of technology.

Staff were also asked to indicate how often their school had used six intervention methods in actual cases of bullying (direct sanctions; strengthening the victim; mediation; restorative practice; the support group method; and, the method of shared concern) and their effectiveness.

I travel often and do site visits at schools, which allows me to engage with teachers, administrators, and students to hear about their day - do - day work and understand how policies and innovative practices are being implemented in local schools.

Too often this idea of evidence - informed practice is being isolated teachers working on particular issues, or on a Masters degree, which is great but often that work is not being linked in or informed by, or informing, the overall school agenda.

In my prior work as a mentor for new teachers in a highneeds school district, I was often amazed and humbled by the impact that the creativity of passionate teachers, when combined with thoughtful planning and reflection on their practice, had on the students they serveIn my prior work as a mentor for new teachers in a highneeds school district, I was often amazed and humbled by the impact that the creativity of passionate teachers, when combined with thoughtful planning and reflection on their practice, had on the students they servein a highneeds school district, I was often amazed and humbled by the impact that the creativity of passionate teachers, when combined with thoughtful planning and reflection on their practice, had on the students they served.

But state leaders too often overlook a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity, namely, funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts, herein called «phantom students.»

Approaches, practices and interventions delivered in real - world school and classroom settings often look different from what was originally intended.

Mentoring, a growing practice in the nation's schools, offsets first - year teaching challenges that often result in new instructors» early departure from the profession.

To keep the peace, schools often resort to giving teachers as much latitude in their classroom practices as possible.

His statistical gymnastics are used most often in the service of defending current school practices against most reform proposals, usually by denying the need for reform in the first place.

Current practice often strays from the state constitution's requirement that property be assessed at its full market value, said Wayne Blanton, executive director of the Florida School Boards Association, which filed the suit last month in a Tallahassee circuit court along with the Palm Beach and Sarasota school distSchool Boards Association, which filed the suit last month in a Tallahassee circuit court along with the Palm Beach and Sarasota school distschool districts.

In a similar vein, «telling someone to try to ignore the situation» — the most common teen advice — «is a recommendation that may initially seem helpful, but is often quite difficult in practice,» says Selman, who is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical SchooIn a similar vein, «telling someone to try to ignore the situation» — the most common teen advice — «is a recommendation that may initially seem helpful, but is often quite difficult in practice,» says Selman, who is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical Schooin practice,» says Selman, who is also a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

As I wrote in this piece about prudent school - closure policies, there is often invisible but incalculable value in institutions and practices that have survived the test of time.

That's easier said than done, because the schools these newcomers find in their gentrifying neighborhoods often embrace practices that they find off - putting and difficult to accept.

Schools are asked to report how often they engage in what the experts on this panel regard as «best practices.»

Football often implores consistent and constant methods of evaluation in practice and in the games, as opposed to schools where most often reflections are made at the end of a term.

In «Charter Schools, Vouchers, and the Public Good,» Black recognizes that charter schools cou ld, in theory, promote the public good, but have, in practice, often done the oppositIn «Charter Schools, Vouchers, and the Public Good,» Black recognizes that charter schools cou ld, in theory, promote the public good, but have, in practice, often done the opSchools, Vouchers, and the Public Good,» Black recognizes that charter schools cou ld, in theory, promote the public good, but have, in practice, often done the opschools cou ld, in theory, promote the public good, but have, in practice, often done the oppositin theory, promote the public good, but have, in practice, often done the oppositin practice, often done the opposite.

«We often find that practices designed to meet the needs of the most challenging students in a school are effective for all kids,» says Peter Poutiatine, Edutopia's school selection coordinator, who researches successful school practices.

Funding Phantom Students In this brief published by Education Next, authors Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton describe a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity: funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts and how this is often overlooked by state leaderIn this brief published by Education Next, authors Marguerite Roza and Jon Fullerton describe a common practice that inhibits both efficiency and productivity: funding students who do not actually attend school in funded districts and how this is often overlooked by state leaderin funded districts and how this is often overlooked by state leaders.

Emasculated teachers» unions can still play a major role in negotiating work rules and personnel practices at the local level, as well as influencing local school board elections where voter turnout is often low.

They argued that such efforts to reinvent schools have in practice «often resembled shooting stars that spurted across the pedagogical heavens, leaving a meteoric trail in the media but burning up and disappearing in the everyday atmosphere of the schools.»

A former student of Buddhist Studies with a master's from Harvard Divinity School, McGarvey came to the Ed School interested in how spiritual practices can influence people's lives for the better, and how they work consciously and rationally with deep emotional reactions that often overwhelm.

Should charters be held to enrollment standards that other schools can not meet, while districts continue to practice questionable policies such as the warehousing of special need students in select placements (while often failing to follow - though on their obligations for services, we might add)?

Learning Clubs help schools close the gap between what we know is best practice and what is often done in classrooms.

The programs shared seven common features: they were focused on the subject areas that teachers teach; incorporated active learning; supported collaboration; used models and modeling to demonstrate effective practice; provided expert coaching and support, offered opportunities for feedback and reflection, and were sustained in duration, often unfolding over months or years, rather than occurring in a single, «drive - by» after school workshop, as is often the norm.

Often, the authors of these studies provided a discussion that set the findings of impact on teacher practice in the larger context of conditions supportive of change in schools, of which teacher leader actions were a piece.

National Education Trust seminars are often held in early years» centres, schools, colleges and universities and focus on highlighting highly effective pedagogy and practice.

The familiar and often cited African proverb, «It takes a village to raise a child,» is a practice we are trying to put in place this year at Arthur Middleton Elementary School.

Such information, often brought to the attention of school officials by parents, has already made a significant difference in policy and practice in some schools.

CEO Notebook I have often written and talked about the unique role that NBOA plays in the independent school community — how we fulfill our mission to provide you with best practices, staff support and technology to advance business excellence within your own school.

If your learning team is anything like MOST of the teams that I work with in schools across America, my guess is that using CFAs as a tool for identifying weaknesses in your own instructional practices doesn't happen very often.