Sentences with phrase «rather than textbooks»

This library card - inspired book bag is perfect for shopping — even if it is shoes rather than textbooks you're lugging around these days!

I always believed that you can only learn from those that have been there, rather than textbooks.

Why would one go to movies and drama, rather than a textbook?

First and foremost, I liked that Strike was a regular bloke rather than a textbook «hero» with various special attributes that placed him head and above the other characters; plus, all of his interactions and reactions felt very realistic to me.

Here you'll find more photos of the outdoor display, as well as the content that our ninth grade students were able to tackle through project - based learning rather than textbook - directed learning.

I found it was more of a refresher for value investing rather than a textbook for it.

K - 12 education and college education for non-science majors should be laboratory rather than textbook science.

It lacks the gripping narrative of Gwynne Dyer or Gabrielle Walker, both of whom have the ability to make scientific information feel like a mystery novel rather than a textbook, but it is enjoyable nonetheless.

Not exact matches

Lost jobs; a leaky classroom ceiling that required 21 buckets; and stapled textbooks rather than the usual hardcover — it's not just future retirees that will suffer if investment returns from state - sponsored pension plans continue on their downward trajectory.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

Regrettably, she does little more than provide us with a reminder of a textbook example of eisegesis (reading «into» the biblical text one's own ideology) rather than exegesis (reading «out of» Scripture with attentiveness to historical and literary context, even if it conflicts with one's own personal views).

Go buy a used 6th grade Biology textbook rather than posting your uninformed opinion on news articles.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

Cooperstown is going to become even more of a bland high - school - history textbook than it already is, distilled to names, numbers, and nothing more, with prominent figures and events removed to keep the idea of sanctity alive and well, rather than risk telling a story someone might not want to recall.

am tired of fans selecting textbook teams rather than watching ao arsenal really play.

Rather than using standardized textbooks, Waldorf Grades students create their own main lesson books — writing text and illustrations from their classroom learning and sometimes outside research.

Quite apart from the potential loss of income when a parent is home full - time, any textbooks, art supplies, writing materials, musical instruments, and so on must be paid for, rather than supplied by the school.

Rather than using textbooks, teachers give the students a meaningful experience, building a picture out of it, and the students themselves arrive at the concepts.

If your kids are the type to engage in games rather than read their textbooks, then JumpStart may be the best way to teach them at home.

He liked biology but was keen on discovery and experiments rather than the scripted lectures and textbook material his teachers presented.

Because I teach from personal experience rather than formal training, my teaching style is untraditional, creative and completely upside down compared to traditional textbook academia.

In every surface aspect, it's a textbook New York underground indie (though shot on 16 mm film rather than video), enamored with repellent details (Laura is introduced mid-crying jag, blasting a mucus strand from her nose and reflexively snorting it back in) and sporting just - get - it - done technical credits.

With Augmented Reality products like Elements 4D by Daqri, students manipulate and combine elements — like mercury — right from their Android or iOS devices, rather than just reading about them in a textbook.

Such lengths include the release of new guidelines to create better textbooks, including the use of high - quality colour photographs and measures that support pupils learning rather than simply teaching them how to pass tests.

Here's another tip: use the pre-test data to further target your instruction so you are focusing on the necessary skills and knowledge not yet mastered by the students, rather than «covering the entire lesson» simply because it's on the pacing schedule or within the textbook.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

It is curious that Mr. McShane presents the OER movement as an effort to disrupt the textbook market rather than as a widespread effort to create, share, remix, and reuse learning content.

Textbooks often make sure students understand what multiplication means rather than offering exercises for learning multiplication facts.

In ten minutes, students can walk to Thomas Edison's laboratory, the Wright brothers» bicycle shop, and dozens of other buildings where they can immerse themselves in America's history firsthand rather than simply reading about it in textbooks.

The district found that the majority of teachers still used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.

While Burack argues that global education's believers «exercise a strong degree of influence among textbook publishers,» many of the problems he describes with the treatment of global diversity are a reflection of the textbook production and marketing process rather than the result of a conspiracy among educators.

It's easy to understand the differences between Ionic and Doric architecture here: rather than relying on textbook descriptions, those differences come to life before her eyes.

Gary Bryant, from ITSI, a blended learning solution that combines the traditional academic rigour of digital textbooks with the flexibility of technology, discusses why the textbook has a prejudiced repute and explains why an effective teaching resource should support teachers, rather than replace them.

With intuitive algorithms guided by well - researched learning processes, rather than electronic mock - ups of out - of - date textbook approaches; much of what «is imagined» is happening in classrooms today.

The field continues to be dominated by twentieth century introductory textbook concepts, including such dichotomies as formative versus summative assessment, criterion - referenced versus norm - referenced testing, quantitative versus qualitative assessment, informal versus formal assessment — distinctions that often hamper rather than promote clear thinking about assessment.

Just as preschoolers learn math by operating a pretend store instead of doing work sheets, he suggests high schoolers learn government by staging a mock Congress rather than reading a textbook.

A new book published by the Council of Chief State School Officers offers educators ways to respond to two criticisms of history instruction: its failure to promote democratic values and its heavy reliance on textbooks rather than original - source materials.

The result is textbooks and instructional materials that offer a little bit of something to everyone, rather than a well - structured, cohesive, and effective program.

In fact these «new» methods were rebottled versions of earlier progressive schemes going back at least 100 years — as Diane Ravitch has documented in her recent book Left Back — schemes such as multi-aged groups in which each child goes at his or her own pace; individualized assessments instead of objective tests; teachers as coaches rather than sages; projects instead of textbooks.

After looking at many revision resources, every textbook and online information, I have compiled this booklet which summarises many points for DISCUSSION rather than basic points that students simply regurgitate and score no marks for.

Rather than spend unreasonable sums of money on textbooks, students can access learning materials for free, in the virtual classroom.

The typical visual learner prefers to read information in a textbook or on a whiteboard rather than listen to a lecture.

The interactive whiteboard is still largely a whiteboard, albeit including a large TV screen in its capabilities; feedback to students and parents still takes the written form, even if it is emailed or recorded electronically rather than posted or written in exercise books; and of course textbooks are still textbooks, whether in digital or print format.

The plan is also likely to spur criticism for its use of about $ 10.3 million in one - time rather than recurring dollars for school textbooks and digital materials, despite long - standing complaints from districts and school leaders that classroom resources have fallen woefully behind in the last decade.

There is a focus on whole - class interactive teaching at a brisk tempo, rather than teacher explanation followed by slower individual group practice, and textbooks, rather than worksheets, are used.

I even brewed coffee so the classroom smelt pleasant rather than vomit, urine and moldy textbooks.

Underneath that, the principal found idiosyncratic instruction pegged to textbooks and teacher interests rather than to the current state standards or the newly adopted Common Core standards.

They are inclined to rely on prescribed textbook scope and sequences to determine the curriculum calendar, rather than on a foundational understanding of the mathematics series.

Rather than applying systematic alignment methods, which often require extensive training and expertise, many districts seem to use a more «eyeball» approach to alignment (as they have revealed to me in discussions for another project about district textbook adoption practices).