Sentences with phrase «particular focus of his practice»

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He said that it's impossible to not feel positive effects from practicing a particular form of meditation: one focused on compassion.

Our particular areas of focus in our Immigration Practice Group include: H - 1B (Temporary Foreign Workers), L - 1A / L - 1B (Intracompany Transferee Executives or Managers; Intracompany Transferee Specialized Knowledge Professionals), E-2 (Treaty Investor), EB - 1 & O - 1 (Extraordinary Ability in Athletics, Arts, Sciences, etc.), EB - 1 (Multinational Managers & Executives), EB - 2 (Advanced Degree), EB - 3 (Skilled Workers, Professionals, Unskilled Workers), EB - 5 (Immigrant Investor), TN (NAFTA Professionals), J - 1 (Exchange Visitors) visa categories, and Labor Certification (PERM applications).

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

You will sense that particular gestures are appropriate, that certain words and phrases stand out in your practice readings, and that various meanings of the texts will be coming into sharper focus.

His blog examines the interface of Christian theology and psychology with a particular focus on how existential issues affect Christian belief and practice.

Precisely because particular congregations are constituted by their enactment of a more broadly practiced worship, theological schooling focused by questions about congregations could not be content with a sectarian attention to individual congregations.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

The team support staff must closely monitor all players, instead of only a particular focus on less fit, large players with an excessive body mass index (BMI), for signs and symptoms of developing heat - related injury during football practice or competition in stressful environments.

Purpose of the Best Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school Practice Examples: The following CSH best practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school practice examples were developed to support health sector partners in working through a CSH lens using a particular health area as a focus for collaborative action in the school setting.

These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.

In this second part of supercharging your Vinyasa, master teacher Natasha Rizopoulos leads you though a practice to help you dive deeper into Urdhva Mukha Svanasana, with particular focus on opening the upper spine.

I'm going to focus on the development of students» academic discourse as a high - leverage instructional practice that contributes to deeper learning, one in which our urban students need particular explicit instruction.

Murphy imagines a hypothetical model program called Administrative Leaders for Learning — ALL for short — that would be organized to spotlight and connect three overlapping domains of knowledge: instructional practice and learning theory, with a particular focus on high achievement for all students; the education sector, with a particular focus on schooling in context; and matters of leadership and management.

Most pieces focused on instructional practices, but did not focus on a particular content area or subgroup of students.

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

Elmore and the Network focus on effective instructional practice as a means of achieving successful student learning; by observing actual classroom settings in schools with particular focuses in mind, they hope to find effective strategies to meet their goals.

These findings echo those of Wallace et al. (1999) and Miller et al. (1999), that a focus on a particular topic (such as a new curriculum) and type of teacher leader activity (such as dissemination) in a preparation program was manifested in teacher leader practice.

In particular, the paper examines his practice and focuses on his incorporation of educational technology (the Internet, multimedia technology, and word - processing applications) to achieve his pedagogical goals while teaching in a school with significant technology resource constraints.

To give you a taste of what is coming in Part 2, the arguments can be summarized as: 1) Education does not lend itself to a single «best» approach, so the Gates effort to use science to discover best practices is unable to yield much productive fruit; 2) As a result, the Gates folks have mostly been falsely invoking science to advance practices and policies they prefer for which they have no scientific support; 3) Attempting to impose particular practices on the nation's education system is generating more political resistance than even the Gates Foundation can overcome, despite their focus on political influence and their devotion of significant resources to that effort; 4) The scale of the political effort required by the Gates strategy of imposing «best» practices is forcing Gates to expand its staffing to levels where it is being paralyzed by its own administrative bloat; and 5) The false invocation of science as a political tool to advance policies and practices not actually supported by scientific evidence is producing intellectual corruption among the staff and researchers associated with Gates, which will undermine their long - term credibility and influence.

We intentionally model and practice these social skills with particular focus during the first six weeks of school.

While this is appropriate for many schools, irrespective of their ofsted status or position on a league table, for some the focus is more specifically on refining particular processes, systems or aspects of school - wide practice.

Results of the design experiment thus potentially focused on changes in this particular teacher's practice, characteristics this teacher possessed that may have contributed to successful technology implementation, and the development of a general theory on the types of teacher knowledge necessary to teach successfully with technology.

The new focus on scaling quality and the growth of managed networks has placed particular demands on old policies, practices, and authorizing capabilities.

In particular, since a key goal of TURN is to create positive change in school and district practice by promoting innovative ideas among union and district leaders, APA's evaluation focused on the following target: To identify districts that have implemented substantive changes in schools as a direct result of participating in SW TURN.

Questions focused on the impact of the PT3 grant on the teaching practices of the general education faculty, plans for sustaining the modeling of technology integration in general education courses, and particular insights gained over the life of the grant.

Measures should also include student work drawn from specific undertakings in the classroom that can be analyzed in terms of teachers» practices focused on particular learning goals.

Preservice teachers are generally regarded as having a broad understanding of how to use technology for personal purposes; however, they have minimal knowledge about the range of tools available to support student learning or how to use these tools to support student learning with a particular focus on constructivist practices (Ertmer & Ottenbreit - Leftwich, 2010).

While there's a rich scholarly literature on PLCs, Goldstein focuses on the «still speculative» idea, from scholars Jal Mehta and Steven Teles, that teachers» communities of practice should be linked to particular pedagogical approaches.

Policy leaders, in particular, can (1) support initiatives that expand broadband availability in all of the federally funded 21st Century Community Learning Centers and in state and locally - funded afterschool sites; (2) encourage robust experimentation with digital platforms that allow expanded learning organizations to collaborate, share practices, and connect experiences that kids are having at various expanded learning sites; and (3) support pilot experiments in up to 10 % of the 21st Century Community Learning Centers that focus on integrating evolving technologies.

Master's programs can focus on a specific area of teaching practice like elementary or secondary education, a particular academic subject, or put a graduate on a track towards school administrator jobs or curriculum and instruction jobs.

In the age of complicated legal matters, many lawyers are increasingly specialized and you'll get better services from someone with a practice focus in a particular area of the law than a generalist who deals with a broad spectrum of legal issues.

Act as public educators and advocates for appropriate use of service dogs, with particular focus on psychiatric service dog partnership, which is often less - familiar and subject to discriminatory practice

The veterinary resident is a graduate of a veterinary college, has completed an internship or been in private practice, and is now in an advanced training program focused on becoming a specialist in a particular area of interest.

She received her Doctorate of Veterinary Medicine in 1986 and lists veterinary law, veterinary emergency medicine, and general practice as areas of particular professional focus.

SPECIES DIVISIONS: Cat; Dog; Horse; Parrot The species divisions allow members to focus on the education, current practices, protocols and care, matters of interest and discussions related to that particular species.

Of particular focus is Giacometti's studio practice, which is examined through rarely seen plaster sculptures that highlight the artist's working process, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum — which hosted the artist's first US museum exhibition, in 1955 — and with New York City.

A former graphic designer, his recent artistic practice has been focused on reinterpreting and playing with the language of traditional tile design, and that of the Portuguese tin - glazed ceramic azulejo in particular.

Reinventing the Wheel: the Readymade Century pays tribute to this seminal work and traces the subsequent elaboration of neo-dada practices, with a particular focus upon everyday and vernacular contexts; the mysterious and libidinous potential of sculptural objects; institutional critique and nominal modes of artistic value; pop, minimalism and industrial manufacture.

Tessa graduated from the University of Oxford with a degree in History, gaining a Master's degree in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2012, with a particular focus on the practice of Gerhard Richter.

Her research interests are focused on the relations between philosophical inquiry, perception and art practice, with a particular emphasis on phenomenology and the work of Maurice Merleau - Ponty.

Laughing Matter is the culmination of In Residence, a new strand of Studio Voltaire's Participation Programme, which supports artists with a particular focus on public and social practice, connecting the gallery with our locality over an extended period of time.

Laughing Matter forms part of In Residence, a new strand of Studio Voltaire's Participation Programme which supports artists with a particular focus on public and social practice, connecting the gallery with our locality over an extended period of time.

«Le Tableau,» a show organized by artist and critic Joe Fyfe, attempts to uncover the influence these painters had on contemporary practice, with a particular focus on the contribution of French abstraction from the post-war era.

She has ensured the financial viability of the Museum through one of the most difficult funding periods for the institution and has led a critically acclaimed programme with a particular focus on supporting artists» practice and introducing new audiences to contemporary art through a dynamic and discursive programme that extends beyond the gallery space.

On Non-Visibility, Cokes's first gallery exhibition, presents a historical cross section of his practice, focusing in particular on the titular theme.

Featuring 35 paintings and works on paper and examples of 13 repetitions, the exhibition is the first to focus on van Gogh's «repetitions» — a term the artist used to describe his practice of creating more than one version of a particular subject.

Foell's practice investigates «the boundaries of legibility, accessibility and (re) presentation modes that relate to the impermanence of messages we read continually,» and for this particular exhibition she focuses on the flat surface, combining autobiographical images, «floating scripts like signs,» and the technique of scratching to invert «our expectations of a deflated space.»

Converge 45: YOU IN MIND is conceived as an «art convergence in four chapters» that takes an acute and particular care about the idea and ethos of Portland's inherent positivity to amplify (for good purpose) the generous hand of independent artists whose practices tend towards perpetuating / activating the now radical notion of our cultural commons... It is my intention with YOU IN MIND that the projects we exhibit and / or present, focus on artists who have a «public» in mind, conceptually, structurally and / or are actively present within the resulting work itself.

In particular section 1 focuses on key concepts and perspectives of population dynamics and adaptation, section 2 on sources and methodologies of population data for adaptation, and section 3 on the planning and practice of adaptation.

The report states that «the focus on CRU and Professor Phil Jones, Director of CRU, in particular, has largely been misplaced,» and that Dr. Jones's actions were «in line with common practice in the climate science community,» and the CRU's «analyses have been repeated and the conclusions have been verified.»