Sentences with phrase «see academic work»

You can see her academic work in the journal The New Hibernia Review and the essay collections The Theatre of Martin McDonagh: A World of Savage Stories from Carysfort Press and Martin McDonagh: A Casebook forthcoming from Routledge.
The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

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As these tools evolve over the next decade, the academics we work with expect to see radical change in training and workforce development, which will roll into (although probably against a longer timeline) more traditional institutions of higher learning.»
Contact community groups and local schools to see how you can work with students who could use extra academic support.
Again, the University does not see such subjects as exclusive Christian reservations but believes in bringing the Christian intellectual heritage back into the mainstream of American academic work.
The normal form of this retreat is seen in those who are content to do work in their own field, fulfilling the norms of the academic guild and ignoring wider responsibilities.
I have seen Christians in both academic and pastoral work attracting admirers who then progressively lose the power to distinguish between devotion to their human teacher and loyalty to their divine Lord, and I don't want anything of that kind to happen to me.
But advanced academic work does have a point to it; there are great riches in the Christian tradition, and it's often only the trained theologian who will see the dangers to which an argument might lead or remember the beautiful passage from one of Augustine's sermons that best illumines a point.
Many of us find the more refined gossip of the novel a greater help in seeing our lives accurately than the work of academic ethicists.
Maybe I'm a romantic, but I feel like there is still a lot of hope for the church and the main reason I do the specific academic work I do is because I want to do my part to see the church do better.
-- Discover what eurythmy reveals about human development — Work your way through the development of the child by means of exercises appropriate to each developmental phase — See how the Waldorf curriculum comes to life through movement and gesture — Learn about the interplay between eurythmy and academic experiences — Acquire the language and understanding to talk about eurythmy to Waldorf parents in a valuable way — Work, play, laugh, and have fun!
It was a really great day and bought together all strains of practitioners, campaigners, bloggers and academics working in this area and supportive of progressive political aims (you can see how it panned out by following our twitter hashtag here).
By working in partnership with retail organisations we will see benefits for academic research, the sector itself and ultimately for society at large.»
This will come about as a result of a cultural change whereby the university is not only seen as «a marginal phenomenon», a place to practice skills, but instead as an academic meeting place which offers a stimulating and pleasant working climate for everybody who works there.
OK, perhaps the first two are more likely, but some of the more senior academics will have some impressive contacts, so work out what you want to do this summer and see if they can smooth your path to the perfect placement.
There are also opportunities for academic researchers to see their work directly applied to real - life situations.
And thirdly, and most important, it was the only way that I could see to fund the academic work that I do.
By the time they finish their Ph.D. s, many see few alternatives to academic work.
Kinzig, for example, worked in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (see box) helping to distill academic science into policy - relevant information.
Edinburgh now has one of the best developed systems in Britain for turning the work of its researchers into licensable patents, with ex-businessmen going native among the academics to spot hot prospects (see «Waiting for the gold rush»).
As Sankaran Thayumanavan, a chemistry professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, explains, academics are often only interested in — or only funded for — solving basic research questions, while corporations like to see that a drug or device works in animals before stepping in.
Reading up on research conducted by renowned academics, I've yet to see any scientific paper (published by an online dating site that claims scientific matching or any related academic) showing how its «recipe» really works, i.e. proving they can offer enduring, long term relationships (or marriage) with low divorce rates.
No time for friends, no time for any recreational activities and no time to have fun — either we are stuck with an irrevocable thirst to produce great academic results or irresistible temptation to see our ambitions fulfilled thereby resulting in a complete submission to work and career.
The Academy is working closely with leading Ford authorities, enthusiasts, experts and Academics throughout the world to bring the legacy of Ford back home to Ireland (see details on the Symposium below).
Teachers who are engaged in service - learning tend to be more positive about the work they do, and we also see a higher level of parental involvement, which is key to academic achievement.»
And now let's take another step back and consider the alignment between the work done by those outside of the classroom — including principals, central office administrators, and superintendents — and the desired goal of seeing deeper learning structures, like rich academic discourse, experienced by all students.
In academics, we saw students engage in the complete writing process, especially in revising their work and incorporating their peers» feedback.
Social and emotional learning is not seen as a soft skill: «We believe that that's going to drive them to incredible academic success,» says Daren Dickson of the Compass work that students do.
Even more troubling is that 45 per cent of girls do not see the relevance of the skills they learn in PE to their lives and ultimately, issues with confidence, self ‑ consciousness, the pressure of academic school work and lack of encouragement from teachers and parents, all hold teenage girls back from being physically active.
In our schools and in our consulting work, we get to see direct evidence of what can happen when teaching and learning is approached with innovative models that emphasize collaboration, critical thinking, and academic mindsets.
Another project saw # 1.1 million provided to Computing at School — a community of teachers, IT professionals, academics and parents — to help train primary teachers already working in the classroom through online resources and school workshops.
Few realize that Coleman himself saw that work as a «detour» from his main line of research on how academic games could be used to foster student engagement, effort, and — ultimately — achievement.
99, knew she had her work cut out for her when she saw the computer lab at Burley Elementary School in inner - city Chicago, where she had been hired as the first - ever technology specialist one week before the school opened for the 2000 — 2001 academic year.
When schools put up student work for all to see, they send a powerful message to students that educators respect their academic effort and their intellectual contributions.
«I have been privileged to work with some of the brightest college students, yet it pains my heart to see so many students foreclose on college for a slew of reasons,» he says, expressing his commitment to improving college readiness, retention rates, and academic success, as well as striving to create more equitable systems for all students.
BENEFITS • See if a student is frequently visiting the bathroom to avoid work so you can provide extra academic support.
«It was very helpful in the learning process to have this hands - on work and see the reality that program evaluation is a lot messier than academic literature describes it,» Bickar says.
Add to this nebulous college entrance environment the challenge presented by the proliferation of four - year high schools, whose numbers skyrocketed from 2,526 in 1890 to 10,213 in 1910, and it is easy to see why the trustees of the Carnegie Foundation felt the need to define college: «An institution to be ranked a college must have at least six (6) professors giving their entire time to college and university work, a course of four full years in liberal arts and sciences, and should require for admission not less than the usual four years of academic or high school preparation, or its equivalent, in addition to the preacademic or grammar school studies.»
The standards» organization will help teachers focus on the big picture and see how their work with students is connected to a child's academic past and future.
Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.
The alliance had been waiting anxiously to see whether these standards would lead to even more academic work at the expense of recess, art, music, and make - believe play.
The project brought together academics, industry and policymakers to map out what they saw as the 21st century skills students need to develop to be prepared for the future of life and work.
Now in its sixth year, that turnaround approach is seen by some as a first of its kind — both for its academic results and, education experts say, for the inclusive and pragmatic way it got traditional public schools, charters, nonprofits, and families to work together.
The best study of this approach, using evidence from Charlotte, North Carolina (see «Solving America's Math Problem,» features, Winter 2013), shows that pushing students into course work for which they are ill prepared actually harms their subsequent academic achievement.
But beyond just the academics, we saw a decrease in behavior referrals as well, and we credit the MCLs working more closely with teachers for that.....
Just as an emphasis on the whole child consistently yields higher academic outcomes, happier students, and increased positive behaviors, we have seen that attention to the social - emotional needs of adults leads to productive, happier teachers who enjoy their colleagues and their time at work.
Suzanne is often seen on school campuses, working with principals and teachers to determine the academic and building needs of each school.
I do not see section 2 as a threat to the education system, but as an opportunity for schools and colleges to work together to develop new and, in some cases, stronger partnerships, which offer a rich blend of academic and technical education that every student can benefit from.
Close Analytic reading incorporates academic language vital to EL's and struggling readers, a focus on work study so that students begin to see how words work together, fluency so that all students are on the same footing for discussing text and writing from text using evidence.
I hope to see real academic growth along different measures: Our own standards - based aligned assessments; student work; writing samples; math assessment; diagnostic assessment — ELD assessment; ELPAC and SBAC for state and SRI for district.
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