Sentences with phrase «on critical thinking rather»

TheResolution notes that community schools should emphasize high - quality teaching, a focus on critical thinking rather than high - stakes testing, culturally relevant curriculum, wrap - around supports and positive discipline practices, among other components.

John Harmon accuses me of founding Christian witness «on critical thinking rather than evangelism.»

Not exact matches

We focus too often on becoming good processors and producers, manipulators of data, rather on than on becoming good human beings — critical minds, and noble hearts, capable of appreciation, engagement, and thought — and hungry for adventure and romance.

thoughts on what novels do for us, I was intrigued to read Francis Watson's rather critical comments of their form in western literature:

Process thinkers such as those just mentioned are critical of the rather one - sided emphasis on analytical thought, all too often at the expense of concrete experience.

I don't think the nurses think «you chose rooming in, you're on your own» but rather, «I have to do this more critical thing first» and by then you've changed your own baby's diaper.

I never thought I'd see the day when Slant Magazine would be the one critical outlet reviewing a film on artistic rather than (knee - jerk) political merit.

This type of student - led discussion — based on Socrates» method of student inquiry rather than teacher lecture — elicits student ownership, deep thinking, critical questioning (PDF), academic vocabulary usage, and a rooted sense of community.

By introducing educational apps into lessons, teachers are moving from «teaching» to «facilitating learning» — helping students find ways to learn by focusing on enhancing the process of critical thinking rather than solely looking at whether an answer is right or wrong.

Techniques include strategies such as: developing strong mathematical content knowledge and positive attitudes towards mathematics; encouraging their students to use critical thinking and active learning; placing more emphasis on understanding rather than rules and procedures; using concrete materials and technology; and providing support and encouragement for all students.

These novice teachers are certainly proficient users of technology themselves, but rather than just giving their students time to work on the computer, our graduates understand the importance of using critical media literacy skills to enhance students» creativity, thinking, learning, and awareness of how each of us are situated in the world.

The culprit seemed to be too much focus on enjoying what the screen could do rather than the material itself, which isn't necessarily bad if the emphasis on the learning was supposed to be critical thinking or investigation, rather than comprehension.

I think of Live From Neverland as an attempt to represent an enigma rather than to provide answers or defend a critical position on media culture.

I think a critical look at Wolfson needs to be presented rather than focusing on a painter whose work portrays an important historical event and an event that helped galvanize the civil rights movement of the 1950's and 60's.

Perceiving critical dialogue to be a crucial component toward meeting their mission, the organization funded the ACAC Writing Fellowship for Art Practical, which creates a platform for emerging writers and aims to encourage critical thinking and writing on Asian contemporary art practices in the Bay Area.6 The inaugural fellow is Ellen Yoshi Tani, a graduate student at Stanford University, whose research centers on «work of transnational artists, attending to how they activate sites of difference or sameness, using race and / or identity as medium rather than positioning it as subject.»

At once critical and lighthearted, his approach invites viewers to look beyond established systems and hierarchies and consider a new way of thinking and acting globally, one hinging on practices of adaptation and collaboration rather than on conformity.

I learned of Charles's death while watching on PBS the fifth episode of Ken Burn's «Our National Parks: America's Best Idea,» — a rather tedious trek through the parks» history that made me think on several occasions of Charles, his love of nature, his life - long expression of that love in his work, and his sharp, critical sensibility.

«Readers and commentators must learn to share some practices with scientists — following up on sources, taking scientific knowledge seriously rather than cherry - picking misleading bits of information, and applying critical thinking to the weighing of evidence.

To anticipate LAI, however, progressive law firms will begin thinking of legal processes as a critical path or decision tree (rather than something that is instinctive to lawyers) building on their work on Legal Project Management (LPM).