Sentences with phrase «school case method»

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During most MBA programs, business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies of many different kinds of companies, analyzing the cost of bringing new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.

That's the kind of reasoning that used to get you into trouble in legal method courses during the first year of law school for failing to distinguish between the actual holding of a case and the obiter dicta of the judges.

Although Case gave some of the clearest statements of the implications of the socio - historical method, the man who best typifies the Divinity School and most influenced its development through the first three decades of this century was Shailer Mathews.

To be precise, competitive equity is simply a different method used to determine which playoff divisions each team is placed, and in most cases, replaces a school's enrollment total.

In these cases, hiring a professional tutor is a great support method for home schooled children.

«It's time the government stopped blaming parents and accepted the case we've been making for a new focus on teaching reading using tried and tested methods, with a test after two years in primary school to ensure our children are being taught properly.»

Jonathan Miller, MD, a neurosurgeon, Director of Functional and Restorative Medicine at UH Case Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, and colleagues, tested a potential alternative method, called the «Electric WADA,» with patients who received deep brain implants.

The tool itself, which projects a worse - case scenario of 14,176 Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone by October 26, is currently built on a model developed by a Toronto - based team of medical and public health researchers, although HealthMap may try other methods down the road, says John Brownstein, HealthMap co-founder and an associate professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.

A diagnostic MRI followed by one of three MRI - guided biopsy strategies is a cost - effective method to detect prostate cancer, according to a new study out of Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center.

«The method we developed enables, for the first time, the simultaneous detection of two different MRI contrast agents,» said Chris Flask, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Pediatrics, and Director of the Imaging Resource Core at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

«We are seeing more and more cases of orthorexia nervosa,» Peter H.R. Green, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical School, explains to Michael Specter for The New Yorker, discussing the method of progressively abstaining from specific foods.

As events unfold, the film makes a compelling case for old - school journalism and its methods.

In cases of depute over payment between the school and the parent, alternate payment methods can not only provide proof of payment, but a sense of accountability.

Staff were also asked to indicate how often their school had used six intervention methods in actual cases of bullying (direct sanctions; strengthening the victim; mediation; restorative practice; the support group method; and, the method of shared concern) and their effectiveness.

The new course, Thinking and Acting Like an Education Reformer, will use the case method to understand leadership and policy challenges in high schools.

Her book, Windows on Teaching Mathematics: Cases of Secondary Mathematics Classrooms (Teachers College Press), represents work in mathematics education and the case method while her involvement as a case method teacher of school administrators exists in her Cases in Educational Administration (Longman).

Katherine Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education, and the case - method of instruction.

On Thursday, April 2, 2015 HGSE will welcome Rakesh Khurana, Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School and Dean of Harvard College, for a Master Class entitled, «Know Thyself: Can the Case Method Help Understand Oneself?»

The first step toward this core curriculum was the creation of a new course, Thinking Like an Educator (TLE), which utilizes the case method, an approach that has been successful in other professional schools, yet has remained largely untried in education.

Where a school converts by the sponsored method, any debt built up by that school generally remains with the council, whereas with the converter method, this is not always the case.

Because the case method approach encourages prospective teachers to examine many possible responses to a particular situation, and to evaluate the merits and drawbacks of each of these responses, they are able to understand the complexities of home - school relationships.

To do this we use cluster analysis, a statistical method designed to group objects of study (in this case, schools) based on similar qualities.

As part of Master Class, a series that began at the Ed School a year ago as an opportunity to celebrate and investigate great teaching happening throughout the Harvard University campus, Higgins» session, «Learning to Lead through Case Discussion,» peeled back the layers of what it means to teach using the case metCase Discussion,» peeled back the layers of what it means to teach using the case metcase method.

In 2007 they approved funding for the first public Waldorf methods high school, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aschool, in the Sacramento Unified School District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the aSchool District; and (3) Three key findings on urban public schools with Waldorf methods: (a) In their final year, the students in the study's four California case study public Waldorf - methods elementary schools match the top ten of peer sites on the 2006 California test scores and well outperform the average of their peers statewide; (b) According to teacher, administrator and mentor reports, they achieve these high test scores by focusing on those new three R's — rather than on rote learning and test prep — in a distinct fashion laid out by the Waldorf model and (c) A key focus is on artistic learning, not just for students but, more importantly perhaps, for the adults.

To make the material come alive, we are using the case study method, and sharing experiences and knowledge from outstanding school and business leaders from across the country.

The five school cases are part of the firm's analysis of the adequacy of Vermont's school funding system Using the Evidence - Based Method to Identify Adequate Spending Levels for Vermont Schools, which will be posted soon.

This isn't actually the case; there's no evidence, for instance, that charter schools use particularly innovative methods, and certainly the «no excuses» charter schools are often criticized for not meeting students» emotional and affective needs.

Merseth's work concentrates on charter schools, teacher education, mathematics education and the case - method of instruction.

The case of Clintondale High School is described in detail on the school website, where you can find more information on flipped education based on a specific example, the opinions of students and teachers about the method, and, most importantly, the materials created by teaSchool is described in detail on the school website, where you can find more information on flipped education based on a specific example, the opinions of students and teachers about the method, and, most importantly, the materials created by teaschool website, where you can find more information on flipped education based on a specific example, the opinions of students and teachers about the method, and, most importantly, the materials created by teachers.

One of the most spectacular examples showing the benefits of using the flipped classroom method was the case of the American Clintondale High School in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan.

Howard does a great job of explaining his methods and outlining the case that «it's fair to say that the Achievement School District has been a disappointment in the last two years.

The schools would still be public, governed by a special board in some cases, and tend to focus on a particular study area or learning method.

Researchers used a comparative case study method to examine an Artist - in - Residence program conducted in eight urban schools spanning third through eighth grades.

The author makes his case based on achieving 90 % and above proficiency rates in urban schools that follow his method.

But the flawed «Robin Hood» method of school finance keeps that from happening in many cases.

Using case - study methods in New Orleans, I find school leaders» positions in the socially constructed market hierarchy and in a social network of competitors influenced their course of action, which further determines their market positions.

In case we needed any, the way Utah's alternative high schools were graded by the Legislature in September is clear evidence that the new statewide grading system is deficient, not only in its methods but also its motives.

If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

He noted that districts had some local control until the 1970s, when a series of court cases found California's method of school funding violated the equal protection clause of the U.S. Constitution.

Past court cases, such as the Horton case, argued that Connecticut's method of funding schools mainly through local property taxes was unfair to towns and cities with a limited ability to pay for public schools.

A veteran teacher suing New York state education officials over the controversial method they used to evaluate her as «ineffective» is expected to go to New York Supreme Court in Albany this week for oral arguments in a case that could affect all public school teachers in the state and even beyond.

This flexibility can lead to better or worse teaching methods in different cases, but over time schools will avoid inferior approaches.

Through THE SUCCESS CASE EVALUATION METHOD ® Learning and Performance Experience the Institute develops school district leaders to support schools in developing ESSA - required Logic Models and evaluating interventions to establish their evidence of outcomes and results.

This 18 - month, mixed - methods, exploratory study, conducted in partnership with the Consortium for Policy Research in Education, will have three phases: 1) Qualitative inquiry across K - 8 schools in Philadelphia; 2) Latent class analysis to identify «profiles» of school disciplinary approaches, coupled with event history analysis to examine student outcomes in context; 3) Case studies to examine contextual themes in depth.

Other states use a variety — and in some cases a combination — of different methods, from general fund revenues to sales, property or other special taxes or lottery proceeds to pay for school construction.

«In other cases, we've seen innovation from charters, such as virtual education, that has spurred our traditional schools to examine their own methods and explore new ones.»

However, for the most selective admissions methods may include auditions, on - site exams, standardized test scores, interviews, essays, or place of residence (zoning) and, in some cases, a combination of these methods (New York City High School Directory, 5).

Harcombe provides case studies of two high school teachers who learned and experimented with constructivist methods during a year in the program, then carried that knowledge back to enhance science teaching at their home school.

I was schooled on the «title case» and «sentence case» methods.

I can definitely see the case though for having some vehicle for teaching practical lawyering skills (which are not taught by law schools in any meaningful way), whether through articling, LPP, or some other method.