Sentences with phrase «teach focused writing»

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Business schools taught entrepreneurship, but they focused on how to write business plans, which sounds useful but has limited utility once you actually start exposing products to the market.

Even before the gospels were written, Paul established a breakaway sect that dismissed the importance of the Torah and made no mention of the teachings of Jesus, focusing rather on the Christ as Paul understood the concept following his personal revelation.

But there are people who are so devoted to writing and teaching, neglecting all else, that they may well do more and better work than I — not because I couldn't match them if I were as narrowly focused as they, but because my energies and time are diffused more than theirs.

Well, by inference, since the apostles and prophets laid the foundation for the church through writing Scripture, the pastor - teacher should focus on teaching Scripture.

Up until a few months ago, the entire focus of my life was to read, write, study, teach, and talk about grace.

The second is about the teacher / coach / mentor who teaches disenfranchised youth to love math and writing or focus their despair at living into poverty into a sports scholarship to college.

When determining which parent has been the primary caretaker, courts focus on direct care - taking responsibilities, including grooming and dressing; meal planning and preparation; health and dental care arrangements; and teaching of reading, writing, and math skills.

Focus on What Really Matters I just wrote this post about the tools I use and recommend for teaching online.

When asked about the political implications of the rally, Moskowitz, a former city councilwoman, painted herself as a school leader who focuses on teaching children how to read and write rather than navigating politically complex situations.

He explored teaching - focused faculty posts (these, too, he learned, typically involve writing papers and grant proposals, though not as much), running science - outreach programs (ditto on the grant proposals), business development, and management consulting.

I decided to organize a series of seminars focusing on specific careers and career issues, including scientific writing / editing, dressing for interviews, teaching careers, patent and intellectual property careers, and getting a postdoc position.

WET involves five trauma - focused sessions in which individuals are asked to write about their traumatic experiences followed by scripted instruction, while CPT is a 12 - session program in which patients are taught to recognize and challenge dysfunctional cognitions about their traumatic event and current thoughts about themselves, others and the world around them.

It was a Choose Joy Yoga retreat, as that is the main focus of my teaching, writing and way of life...

She started in the business world, focusing on cross-cultural communication and technical writing, and is now infusing the teachings of yoga with modern life, blending two of her passions... yoga and writing.

Meditation I've previously written and cited many other articles, as have others, and have even taught whole classes on the specific benefits of meditation on focus and memory.

David Savage wrote in the L.A. Times that «what was unclear from the argument was whether the justices would rule broadly in favor of church schools or focus narrowly on the playground because it had nothing to do with worshiping or teaching religion.»

Hopper discerns that speaking and listening skills are generally assumed to have been learnt before school, and so do not need to be taught, leaving the focus on writing and reading.

Teachers who teach writing across the curriculum and feel uncomfortable assessing the how can focus their feedback on the what since that is the part of the writing they'll feel most comfortable assessing.

I've used Haiku Deck to share teaching points, give short writing prompts, and just switch it up from my usual presentation style by focusing on images as opposed to text.

The South Australian Education Department has told school principals that teachers are to place a greater focus on teaching numeracy to lift mathematics skills, in line with their reading and writing ability.

He has also written extensively on what it would take to improve American education, with a particular focus on the professionalization of teaching.

Currently, she focuses her writing on digital teaching and learning, business collaboration and team communication.

Her subject matter focus was English and writing, but she also taught basic literacy and math skills.

Focus is on developing empathy and then peer teaching and discussion, followed by empathetic writing.

«We've done some work around what we call Focus Correction Areas, so that instead of looking at a range of factors across every piece of writing that is done, we look at short, sharp, one or two criteria, three tops, that we've just finished teaching explicitly.»

Whilst the new curriculum focus on spelling and grammar and phonics is important, it must not come at the expense of encouraging writing for enjoyment by teaching the writing process and encouraging children to write for purpose and audience.

After «sobbing and sobbing» as she wrote her speech, Bokamba says she was focused on the power of teaching and educators to impact people's decisions, outlooks, and every aspect of life.

This can be edited and will help many teachers out with what activities / teaching / assessment bands to focus upon this term (this was written in April so the children are achieving ELG's by this point).

2 differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of chapter 5 of Animal Farm for the new linear specification (9 - 1) Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources are planned around the new specification and provide opportunities to: - explore context - dictatorship - analyse writer's methods - language focus - explore character presentations - write imaginatively - develop skills for new specification language paper

It contains a Do Now focussing on photos / pictures (some are my own holiday photos), a starter (exam question focussed), main activity (differentiated and students teach each other), a written question and a plenary.

4 fully differentiated (by colour) lessons to support the teaching of chapter 1 of Animal Farm for the new linear specification (9 - 1) Differentiation: purple = lower blue = middle yellow = higher Resources are planned around the new specification and provide opportunities to: - explore context - analyse writer's methods - language focus - explore character presentations - write persuasively - develop skills for new specification language paper - use mark schemes

Teaching social - emotional skills was also seen as a way to move schools away from a narrow focus on test scores and to consider instead the whole child, writes Kate Zernike in the New York Times.

Donna Foote, in her book on Locke written a few years before the takeover, focuses on four teachers who came through Teach For America (TFA), which had sent a good number of young teachers to the school.

Reading instruction typically focuses on teaching written letters, and how these correspond to spoken sounds.

«The writing itself has caused me to reflect and focus my thinking and my responses to a host of teaching and learning challenges.»

Learn as you teach KS2 Level 1 Primary French series empowering primary teachers and TAs teaching the 8 - 11 age range to both learn and teach alongside their pupils whilst making strong links with literacy - this unit focuses building a writing template for a simple thank you letter in French.

She writes, «We must focus less on how to rank and fire teachers and more on how to make day - to - day teaching an attractive, challenging job that intelligent, creative and ambitious people will gravitate towards.»

A focus on developing student writing skills shouldn't just be confined to the English classroom - this school is using a team teaching approach across three subject areas.

Bergey, who teaches fifth grade at Twentynine Palms Elementary School, in Twentynine Palms, California, told Education World that teachers and administrators at her school decided to focus on student writing during the coming year.

The renewed focus in these curricula in English on comprehension and essay writing is putting new constraints on classroom teaching and learning, with teachers being forced more and more to to «teach to the test», despite their good instincts that this limits what their students can gain from their learning.

As a result of this daily focus on reading nonfiction and writing in response to argumentative, informative and narrative prompts, we have witnessed greater gains in our students» writing, analytical thinking skills and confidence than we have ever experienced before in over two decades of combined teaching.

This webinar will focus on deepening how we teach writing to help students overcome the prior - knowledge problem and widening how we teach writing to increase student content knowledge.

In this study, 72 secondary English teachers from the Santa Ana Unified School District were randomly assigned to participate in the Pathway Project, a cognitive strategies approach to teaching interpretive reading and analytical writing, or to a control condition involving typical district training focusing on teaching content from the textbook.

Teachers, however, do need to teach more intensively, focusing attention on how students can apply more writing skills independently, in combination, and in response to increasingly complex texts and tasks.

Seidel's teaching and writing for the past decade have largely focused on arts education and the improvement of teaching and assessment across elementary and secondary settings.

In a brief we wrote with Christen Holly and Gillian Locke for the Center for American Progress, Giving Every Student Access to Excellent Teachers: A Vision for Focusing Federal Investments in Education, we suggest four ways the federal government can dramatically increase access to excellent teaching and transform the profession:

We specifically focused on ELA teaching in the context of combining a new literacies graduate level course for in - service teachers with teaching in a writing camp in order to understand how the two may have contributed to teachers» understanding and willingness to adopt new practices with technology.

This set of teaching resources focuses on creative writing responses about the story's main character.

Dr. Marchand - Martella is chair and professor of educational psychology at the University of Oklahoma, teaching classes in academic remediation with a focus on reading, writing, spelling, and mathematics interventions.

Many of the more than 20 WWC practice guides focus on instructional challenges such as improving student writing at the elementary or secondary level, teaching beginning reading, or providing algebra instruction.