Sentences with phrase «promote higher forms»

He's best known for the development of «Bloom's Taxonomy,» a tool designed to help teachers promote higher forms of thinking in their students, such as analyzing and evaluating information, rather than just memorizing facts.

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Nonetheless, although novelty is a necessary condition to achieve value, it can also produce evil should it introduce a chaos that can not be creatively formed into a higher order, for as Whitehead did clearly state: «The novelty may promote or destroy order; it may be good or bad» (PR 284).
The Gil Basketball Academy was formed to promote the sport of basketball in East Salinas, as well as the overall development of local student - athletes desiring to compete at the highest athletic levels of competition.
I began to recognize that many of the very common problems parents have with babies today stem from the new «modern» parenting practices promoted over the last century (by industry - educated, predominantly male doctors)-- colic, reflux, rashes, diarrhea, constipation, sleeplessness, ADHD, diabetes, obesity, hyperactivity, antisocial behavior — and then continuing into adult problems of high blood pressure, depression, eating disorders, and inability to form strong bonds with a mate.
In the infant - toddler years, these take the form of sensitive - responsiveness, which is known to foster attachment security, 1 and mutually - positive parent - child relations, which themselves promote child cooperation, compliance and conscience development.2 In the preschool through adolescent years, authoritative (vs. neglectful) parenting that mixes high levels of warmth and acceptance with firm control and clear and consistent limit - setting fosters prosocial orientation, achievement striving, and positive peer relations.3, 4,5 Across childhood and adolescence, then, parenting that treats the child as an individual, respecting developmentally - appropriate needs for autonomy, and which is not psychologically intrusive / manipulative or harshly coercive contributes to the development of the kinds of psychological and behavioural «outcomes» valued in the western world.
High - intensity strategies engaged men directly during home or health visits by forming men's groups and by working with male community leaders or members to promote EBF.
Conventional, high - dose chemotherapy treatments can cause the fibroblast cells surrounding tumors to secrete proteins that promote the tumors» recurrence in more aggressive forms, researchers at Taipei Medical University and the National Institute of Cancer Research in Taiwan and University of California, San Francisco, have discovered.
In 1959, in an effort to help the state economy and promote high - tech industry, a public - private coalition created Research Triangle Park (RTP, so named because it lies within the triangle formed by Duke University in Durham, North Carolina State University in Raleigh, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
The High Phthalates Panel (HPP) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) was formed in 2011 with a mission dedicated to promoting the benefits of esters of phthalic anhydride based on C9 and higher alcohols (C9 + phthalates), including the most common high phthalates (DINP, DIDP and DPHigh Phthalates Panel (HPP) of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) was formed in 2011 with a mission dedicated to promoting the benefits of esters of phthalic anhydride based on C9 and higher alcohols (C9 + phthalates), including the most common high phthalates (DINP, DIDP and DPhigh phthalates (DINP, DIDP and DPHP).
However, ADCs that use derivatives of calicheamicin, which promotes double - stranded DNA breaks, such as GO and inotuzumab ozogamicin, 40,41 have limited activity in cells with high multidrug resistance protein activity, a phenotype found in a significant fraction of AML patients.42 Another ADC, SGN - CD123A, comprising an engineered form of the CD123 - targeting 7G3 antibody conjugated to a synthetic pyrrolobenzodiazepine dimer, which acts via DNA crosslinking, has entered clinical trials after showing robust activity in preclinical models of AML, including those with multidrug resistance.33
Rather, it appears that high - protein diets promote the growth of pre-cancerous lesions that have already been formed, but provide equally dramatic protection against the formation of these lesions in the first place.
When exposed to high heat during frying or cooking, most vegetable oils can form toxic products that can promote cell injury
Because vitamin C and other antioxidants help repair damaged cells and promote the growth of new cells, researchers at the National Eye Institute believe that a high intake of vitamin C may help prevent cataracts from forming in older adults.
When researchers tested blood lipids of 805 Yi Chinese, they found that buckwheat intake was associated with lower total serum cholesterol, lower low - density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL, the form linked to cardiovascular disease), and a high ratio of HDL (health - promoting cholesterol) to total cholesterol.
Short bursts of high - intensity interval training may provide a more realistic alternative to more time - consuming forms of exercise when it comes to preventing and managing type 2 diabetes as well as promoting weight loss, according to a paper published in Obesity Reviews.
Additionally, unlike some weight - loss promoting products, consuming high - quality collagen guarantees no fillers, hormones or any form of harsh chemicals that may affect the normal functioning of your body.
Animal protein causes our bodies to create very high IGF - 1 (insulin - like growth factor 1) hormone levels which not only is a known cause for cancer, but also drastically promotes the spread of cancer cells that already exist or may form.
Responding to what they perceive as growing public disillusionment with their profession, 19 deans from some of the nation's leading schools of education are meeting in Wisconsin this week to consider forming a new organization to promote higher standards in the field.
Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.
At the conference, the newly formed National Substitute Teacher Alliance (NSTA) announced that its mission is «to promote dignity and respect for substitute teachers as they provide the highest quality of educational continuity for our nation's students.»
In 2012, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, run by the high - tech industry, formed an organization to promote charters, Innovate Public Schools.
Describes the committee of high school students formed to promote greater student involvement.
KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, one of the nation's largest accounting firms, said Thursday in Orlando it will promote and market Microsoft Corp.'s Windows NT computer system to corporate customers.The Big Six accounting firm said it is forming a consulting group devoted to NT, Microsoft's high - powered operating system for big companies.
Like the hoarder, PETA believes that their actions, in this case promoting the killing of pit bulls, is the highest form of love and protection that they can provide to an animal in the face of a future that they can't control.
The National Canine Research Council states that despite a lack of concrete evidence linking specific breeds to a higher rate of dog bites, as well as an outright lack of success in reducing the number of dog - bite related injuries, BSL is incredibly expensive for the communities affected by it, draining resources that could otherwise be used to promote more humane and effective forms of population control and in turn, reduce overcrowding in shelters.
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Giorgio Cini Foundation share the statutory aim of promoting art and encouraging its diffusion in all forms to the highest standard and as widely... MORE...
In 2003, a group of Cooper Union alumni formed an organization to maintain and promote the artistic legacy of «Bruce High Quality,» a fictional artist who died in the 9/11 attacks.
What the artists of the Modernist Left shared above all was the desire to advance the practice of non-figurative art and to promote that art as a species of realism; that is, a higher form of realism that encompassed the democratic and progressive potential of abstract art to provide an image, as the art historian Martin James put it, of an implicit order of a future society.
Welcome to the Seattle Electric Vehicle Association Wiki Archive WebSite Chapter Members of the The Electric Auto Association «Promoting the use of electric vehicles since 1967» «To convert a gas car to electric is the HIGHEST form of recycling.»
Hot, but chaotic and ill - formed ideas, divorced from the «hero» who proposed them, would draw interest from those who wished to promote them because of their merit to the next higher CMM level.
Litigation partner Steve Baughman was named Vice President of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Bar Association on March 22, following an election held at the organization's second annual conference in Washington, D.C. Formed through the collaboration and financial support of more than 45 law firms, including Paul, Weiss, the PTAB Bar Association serves as a forum for communications between the PTAB and other stakeholders, and aims to preserve and promote the highest professional and ethical standards among lawyers and stakeholders who appear before the PTAB.
The LSC was formed by Congress in 1974 to promote equal access to justice and to provide high quality civil legal assistance to low - income persons.
IGMA was founded to promote fine miniatures as an art form; to increase awareness and appreciation of high - quality workmanship through public education, to recognize and honor qualified artisans and encourage work of highest quality, to encourage the development of new artisans; and to coordinate and serve.
Starting in 2014, we have formed partnership with the Soong Ching Ling Center for Child Development, a division of China Welfare Institute, to help promote a simpler and deeper way to understand and enhance the quality of early education in the high pressure, high stakes context of Chinese education.
We know there is personal marketing value for those who can promote themselves as having an REIC designation, but where are the anecdotes that substantiate some practical value to consumers — if the anecdotes existed, they should form part of the impetus to move the general industry towards a higher and better general standard.
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