Sentences with phrase «taught using textbooks»

In some schools, the faith is taught using textbooks which haven't been granted an imprimatur.

Those students who were taught using a differentiated curriculum that supplemented the textbook curriculum and were placed in various groups according to their performance level demonstrated significantly higher achievement on the post-test than did high - performing students who were taught using the textbook curriculum and whole - class instruction.

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I learned conversational Korean, studied everything from string theory physics to ancient Greek and even taught myself the basics of computer programming without the internet, using textbooks.

Despite being pushed out of the companies he founded, he used his time in prison to teach himself how to code, without the internet using textbooks and his # 2 golf pencil.

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.

As for the conclusion of Aidan O'Neill QC, that schools will be within their statutory rights to dismiss staff who refuse to use stories or textbooks promoting same - sex marriage and that parents who object to gay marriage being taught to their children will have no right to withdraw their children from lessons, does that sound at all unlikely, given the cases of the Strasbourg four, which were considered by the European Court of Justice in September?

I recently taught a 10 - week course in Bible study at two local churches here in CA, and used the Bible as the primary textbook (funny thought, huh?).

This is your standard school - type English 11 textbook, of the sort I haven't used since I taught English 11 in public school twenty - three years ago.

Children in German schools were using Nazi textbooks with statements in them like this: «The teaching of mercy and love of one's neighbor is foreign to the German race, and the Sermon on the Mount is, according to Nordic sentiment, an ethic for cowards and idiots.»

He did not remember teaching evolution, but he had used the standard textbook, Hunter's Civic Biology, which contained a short section on the subject.

We'd like to give you an affordable plan for teaching one child or many, using the entire Scriptures as your foundation and primary textbook.

At the September workshop, the teachers became the students as they read a research article under the guidance of Sally Hoskins, a professor at City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

How good are the textbooks used to teach physics to middle schoolers in the United States?

I developed and host a web interface to the modtran model of atmospheric infrared radiation, an early example of a line - by - line code which I downloaded and use to teach and as part of a textbook.

This textbook is designed to teach healthcare practitioners how to use nutritional therapy as an alternative or adjunct to conventional medicine.

Books When Tim Oates, director of assessment research and development at exam board Cambridge Assessment, was asked to use his school curriculum expertise to lead the government's review of the national curriculum, his international research highlighted the importance of high quality textbooks in realising the aims of national curricula and supporting effective teaching.

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.

Their bright colourful Core Textbooks, one for each year group, are very pupil friendly, contain lots of graded exercises, and are capable of being used in both a group work arrangement, AND as a whole class teaching resource, thus allowing for Mastery teaching to take place.

If you have a textbook on the drainage basin then this can be used to encourage reading and research however, the lesson can be taught without one.

However, teaching mathematics using a problem solving approach, especially one that is based around making connections with the real world, can be demanding — certainly harder than teaching out of a textbook.

«Quia is an easy - to - use way of preparing educational activities that are specifically related to my area of teaching and specific to the textbooks that I use.

Page numbers refer to Expo 1 Module 1, but the activity could be used with other textbooks as long as adjectival agreement has been taught.

Jeff Schwartz, an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher at Lincoln (where Monastero used to teach), says Private Watkins's presentation gives students «something they don't get from a textbook.

Some of the high school texts were absolutely first - rate, and new - math - era textbooks like Mary Dolciani's «Structure and Method» series for algebra and geometry continue to be used by math teachers who understand mathematics and how it is to be taught.

Many high schools use textbooks and that helps align their teaching, we don't and subsequently had a bit of «choose your own adventure» happening at times, or folk who were a bit lost.

It is difficult to emulate that kind of dynamism using traditional methods of textbook and whiteboard based teaching.

And it taught them how to use the textbook as a manual.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

Often they have learned English from a non-native speaker who teaches with the use of a textbook, scripted dialogues -LSB-...]

Therefore, if only Singapore Math textbooks are used, MCPS would have to provide additional materials to teach measurement.

Districts and schools can also use them to evaluate the effects of particular textbooks, teaching units, and professional development activities.

These notes have been taken from a variety of textbooks and history books; they are the perfect aid for teaching this unit or could be used to supplement existing knowledge.

Check out this book on iBooks Year 8 Maths Data Representation and Interpretation The following interactive textbook has been designed to teach Year 8 students in accordance with the following ACARA headings: Investigate techniques for collecting data, including census, sampling and observation (ACMSP284) Explore the practicalities and implications of obtaining data through sampling using a variety of investigative processes (ACMSP206) Explore the variation of means and proportions of random samples drawn from the same population (ACMSP293) Investigate the effect of individual data values, including outliers, on the mean and median (ACMSP207)

In a decision that underscores long - standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after complaining that it does not encourage students to memorize multiplication tables and solve problems without calculators.

Check out this book on iBooks Year 8 Maths Chance Nathan Richards https://itunes.apple.com/au/book/year-8-maths-chance/id925645621?mt=13 The following interactive textbook has been designed to teach Year 8 students in accordance with the following ACARA headings: Identify complementary events and use the sum of probabilities to solve problems (ACMSP204) Describe events using language of «at least», exclusive «or» (A or B but not both), inclusive «or» (A or B or both) and «and».

Using data that has nothing to do with grades, teaching techniques, pedagogical approaches, teacher training, textbook series, administrative style, curriculum evaluation — in short, data that has nothing to do with what goes on inside the school building — Tiemken has been able to predict the proficiency rate for a school.

Teacher - learners reported using a range of instructional strategies to teach concepts and knowledge, including United Streaming videos (a video subscription service, now called Discovery Education streaming), interactive science notebooks, textbooks, teacher demonstrations, worksheets, and research.

Among the changes sought: a redesign of the teacher and principal evaluation system, and acquisition of more digital textbooks so that teachers can use more modern teaching strategies.

Many of these schools use Christian - based textbooks that fail to teach students about modern advances in biology and genetics, misstate the theory of evolution and even make the claim that dinosaurs and humans once co-habited the Earth.

When you as a substitute are familiar with the subject at hand, you can typically use the textbook as a basis for a lesson about the topic currently being taught.

The Department for Education says the mastery approach to maths teaching, as it is known, involves children being taught as a whole class and is supported by the use of high - quality textbooks.

Secondary school teachers are not used to teaching children who can not read properly, because the syllabus is based on textbooks.

A single textbook is no substitute for a district plan that encourages the use of a combination of resources and provides teachers guidance on the order in which standards should be taught, how much time should be spent on them and how they fit in the larger context of the grade - to - grade buildup of knowledge.

Of the many changes that occurred with the shift to teaching Common Core State Standards perhaps the most noticeable to students, parents, and teachers alike was the move away from using textbooks in English Language Arts and Mathematics.

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.

Project 2061's publications are widely used in teacher education courses, and its research studies shed light on how textbooks, teaching practices, and professional development can best be coordinated to improve student learning.

Participants were 11th and 12th grade students identified with learning disabilities in reading and writing from two intact, self - contained social studies classes.During the three weeks of the study, students in the experimental group received content regarding the Industrial Revolution via a conceptually framed, computer - adapted text, while students in the control group were taught the same content using the district adopted textbook.

For another fifty minutes a day, half of my students are in social studies classes run by exceptional teachers recently trained in teaching literacy skills using history textbooks.

Zack Kopplin, a student activist who favors rigorous science education, has found more than 300 voucher schools across the U.S. that teach the Biblical story of creation as science; some also instruct children that the world is just several thousand years old and use textbooks describing the Loch Ness Monster as a living dinosaur.

Many educators would say that these materials should be used as resources and assert that teachers who only follow a textbook's contents are teaching in a limited way (as did Hamachek, 1969; Romberg & Carpenter, 1986).