Sentences with phrase «practice problems focuses»

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Nichola Whitehead, a registered dietitian with a private practice in the UK, summarizes the problem this way: «While calories are important when it comes to losing, maintaining, or gaining weight, they are not the sole thing we should be focusing on when it comes to improving our health.»

Complaints focus on intrusive fundraising methods (like telephone and doorstep appeals) and sloppy or unethical data security practices — the same problems that slammed our household wallet shut.

Atheists: I know many there are many people that practice religion just by fanaticism, I've seen many people in my opinion stupid (excuse the word) praying to saints hopping to solve their problems by repeating pre-made sentences over and over, but there are others different, I don't think Religion and Science need to be opposites, I believe in God, I'm Catholic and I have many reasons to believe in him, I don't think however that we should pray instead of looking for the cause and applying a solution, Atheists think they are smart because they focus on Science and technology instead of putting their faith in a God, I don't think God will solve our problems, i think he gave us the means to solve them by ourselves that's were God is, also I think that God created everything but not as a Magical thing but stablishing certain rules like Physics and Quimics etc. he's not an idiot and he knew how to make it so everything was on balance, he's the Scientist of Scientist the Mathematic of Mathematics, the Physician of Physicians, from the tiny little fact that a mosquito, an insect species needs to feed from blood from a completely different species, who created the mosquitos that way?

Private practice focusing on child and adolescent anxiety and mood disorders, school problems and family stress

The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in focusing curriculum developers» and teachers» attention on the importance of engaging students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.

While these numbers explain why attention is focused on a reduction in maternal deaths, attention is also needed to defining and measuring the extent of problems around childbirth, such as mistreatment, to better inform constructive changes in policies and practices.

In our upcoming book, The Two Body Problem (Johns Hopkins Press), we examine the policies and practices employed by colleges and universities that try to respond to the needs of dual - career couples, focusing specifically on cases in which the initial hire is a faculty member.

Kristin N. Javaras, DPhil, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and statistician whose research and clinical practice focus on eating disorders and overeating, as well as other commonly co-occurring problems including anxiety and depression.

As an integrative functional medicine practice, our focus is on identifying the underlying root causes of health problems which we believe helps our patients achieve the balance that ultimately leads to true health and wellness — a balance in mind, body and spirit.

Dr. Andrew Weill, a physician who focuses on integrative medicine, states that «practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress - related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorder.»

a) After a few self - calming breaths, let's focus attention on the 14th Dalai Lama's advice: That the serious, daily practice of meditation, compassion and / or yoga will help you to better deal with the problems existing in this world today.

«This finding supports the argument that it's not just a few students who are having trouble using retrieval - based strategies when they are expected to do so, and the prevalence of this problem suggests that researchers need to stop looking for explanations that are based on cognitive deficit, which are thought to originate with the child, but focus more on understanding how teaching practices can contribute and even hinder children's development of basic number fact fluency.»

Allow students with dyslexia to do every other problem or only half the problems to keep the focus of homework on demonstrating and practicing content knowledge as opposed to making it an exercise in endurance.

Originally conceived as an approach for kindergarten through eighth grade students, limited resources and the logistical problems of implementing Responsive Classroom practices with multiple teachers, prompted the NEFC to narrow its focus primarily to elementary schools.

But they had common practices across the schools which enabled them to focus on issues that were related to behaviour as a problem that needed to be solved in usually educative ways.

Less formally, more than 20 cities, through the Gates Foundation — funded District - Charter Collaboration Compacts, have established cooperative working groups focused on a range of topics, such as solving shared problems, addressing gaps in service across sectors for students and families, and sharing innovative practices.

If several students had problems with that, the teacher could focus his or her lessons on that topic or set up centers in the classroom for students to practice that skill.

Instead, it focuses on three specific challenges that are often encountered when districts, especially small districts, grapple with the costs of their highest - need special - education students, and it makes three recommendations that districts and states could put into practice today, without waiting for reforms or help from Washington, as they seek ways to mitigate those problems:

And at the same time, I was seeing this dilemma: You can focus on that type of stuff, but if students haven't practiced generating their own ideas and... they don't know what to say, then that's actually a bigger problem,» she said.

The institute will focus on research and practice related to administrative problem - solving, school - based management, and school restructuring.

Then, educators tend to focus more on «silver bullets» and «best practices» as a means to solving educations problems, she said.

When both a parent and teacher stay focused on a problem, be it a child needs more practice with a skill, or even something more concerning like an attitude problem, things can usually be worked out.

To address the problem, the teachers decided to focus on the nature of homework — practice, in this case — thereby addressing the problem, as well as meeting the school's requirement for collaborative professional development with peers.

Narrator: The information gathered through the LoU - focused interview can be used to monitor the progress of an implementation as well as to identify and address problems teachers might have in connecting a specific innovation or standards - based reform with their classroom practices.

Students receiving solid instruction focused strongly on mathematical practice # 7 (looking for and making use of structure) are likely to be able to complete this problem more easily and efficiently than those who only learn to think about the problem as substituting each number individually and «checking if it works.»

IES program officers will describe the funding opportunities for educational leadership researchers that are currently available for Fiscal Year 2014, including those under the «Improving Education Systems» and «Partnerships and Collaborations Focused on Problems of Practice or Policy» program areas.

Thus, this third learning activity engages learners in proposing a problem of practice that will focus the professional learning efforts within a school and the actions for vetting and reaching a consensus on that problem across the boundaries of school, academy and community.

To enable aspiring and practicing educational leaders to inquire effectively in order to identify a problem of practice that can focus a school's professional learning efforts on the needs of students of color and those situated in poverty.

This workshop is designed for all ages but we will focus on how to create Math Writers so participants will need to bring a set of word problems that we can practice on ourselves!!

The program focuses on problems of practice - studying practice, engaging in constructive critique of practice, and improving one's practice.

Janet is currently participating in the Learning Forward Academy program, a 2 1/2 year cohort focused on a specific job embedded problem of practice, in this case, the CAR process.

When teachers conduct instructional rounds, they focus on why a problem of practice persists schoolwide — and on what they can do about it.

Only solid instructional practices, such as constructivism, concept mapping, and problem - based learning, can help create classrooms that focus on making meaning.

Dr. Bernstein's simulation research focuses on capturing the experiences of school leaders around problems of practice for the creation of scalable Peer - to - Peer Professional Development (P2P - PD) for practitioners.

The presentation will also illuminate how collaboration through strong clinical partnerships has enabled the development of this uniquely focused clinical practice program, designed to address problems of practice at the local level.

For most principal supervisors this is truly new work, with a priority focus on building principals» expertise as instructional leaders through one - to - one coaching and working from problems of practice and problems of student learning.

With an overall focus on Tier 1 instruction, staff outline problems of practice and identify steps for effective solutions.

, with a priority focus on building principals» expertise as instructional leaders through one - to - one coaching and working from problems of practice and problems of student learning.

In Ed Camps, attendees will work with colleagues to focus and harness their ideas in an interactive session based on their problems of practice.

Thomas also focused on addressing problems of practice and giving concrete, helpful feedback on instruction.

We have focused this work around «problems of practice», short, six - to eight - weeklong projects that try to take a specific, high - priority instructional issue from initial analysis to implementation and assessment.

Each chapter is focused on one step in the design - based approach and includes the stories of four school leaders as they work through solving a problem of practice in their respective contexts.

«One of the findings is that Road Map is helping shift the lens to focus on what we can change as educators — in terms of policy and practice — rather than focusing on students or families as the problem,» Petrokubi says.

Each system selected one of two problems of practice as its focus.

Effective communities of practice engage in active learning guided by a process of inquiry, with a shared focus on a clear problem of practice.

School Leaders and Executive Coach Planning: The coach and school leader discuss key focus areas, identify a problem of practice and mutually agree on objectives for improvement.

→ Action → Invest in our existing public institutions of higher education focusing on improving teacher, counselor, and leader education; and reinvest, reclaim, and refocus the function of regional education laboratories to maintain integrity, relevance, and responsiveness in research aimed at seeking solutions for communities» education problems; and establish the outreach and extension of research findings to ensure their use in educational improvement practices.

Given the large and increasing size of the ELL student population in Arizona, the current focus on testing and accountability, and the documented problems in current assessment practices, improvement in instruments and procedures is critical.

Given this emphasis and current research in leadership development and adult learning strategies, NJ EXCEL is designed to provide authentic, problem - based learning experiences in an inquiry - focused, project - based curriculum that emphasizes collaboration and dialogue in the examination of leadership and instructional practices.

Other factors that blossom from that trust are also crucial, including close communication with parents, strong ties with community service providers, effective use of data to identify and respond to problems, and ongoing team - oriented support focused on continually improving teaching practices.