Sentences with phrase «teaching by experimenting»

Some school districts have tried to inspire better teaching by experimenting with performance pay for teachers.

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Microsoft's (msft) ill - fated Tay bot experiment in which online commenters taught the bot — basically software that takes on human characteristics powered by artificial intelligence — to say racist and sexist things also illustrates this point.

This issue of trading being taught vs. it being a natural gift was first made popular by the famous experiment by Richard Dennis and Bill Eckhardt who had an ongoing dispute in mid-1983 about whether traders were born or made.

One can imagine the comparative results of an experiment where a group of children were removed from their parents and taught the language only by teachers.

Comments by participants in other cycles of this course: «When I put the principles taught in the TSS course into action in the classroom, I found the students enthralled by both the experiments and the conversations about them.

You'll teach her how to approach problems that crop up in her life by brainstorming possible solutions and experimenting with different ideas.

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Record your teaching experiments in your tenure dossier; buttressed by evidence from improved student or faculty evaluations, evidence of creativity in teaching is precisely what tenure and promotion committees are looking for.

The designation of UChicago as a National Historic Chemical Landmark joins the University's 2006 designation by the American Physical Society as an historic physics site to commemorate the work of Robert Millikan, who received the 1923 Nobel Prize in physics for experiments conducted at the Ryerson Physical Laboratory building, 1100 E. 58th St.. A plaque commemorating that work hangs in the first - floor lobby of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center, 5720 S. Ellis Ave.

Morgan and University of Liverpool archaeologist Natalie Uomini arrived at their conclusions by conducting a series of experiments in teaching contemporary humans the art of «Oldowan stone - knapping,» in which butchering «flakes» are created by hammering a hard rock against certain volcanic or glassy rocks, like basalt or flint.

How much flexibility you'll have will be influenced by various factors, including your course load, whether you're a teaching assistant, the types of experiments you do, and possibly your mentor's availability and expectations.

By addressing parental concerns, discussing the different newspaper stories and linking student experiments to real - world situations, Rowe and her colleagues are, in effect, teaching the kids how to do science.

In a series of experiments with middle school and high school students, Blikstein is trying to understand the best ways to teach math and science by going beyond relatively primitive tools like multiple - choice tests to assess students» knowledge.

The experiments were consistent in supporting the idea that sensations arising from twitches are not filtered: And without the filtering provided by corollary discharge, the sensations generated by twitching limbs are free to activate the brain and teach the newborn brain about the structure and function of the limbs.

But Miklósi didn't fully accept this; he thought that the experiment needed to be adjusted by teaching the dogs more explicitly.

«We did a lot of the work by recruiting undergraduates, teaching them how to do experiments and how dedicated you have to be to get results.

Grand is experimenting by teaching a simple robot, called Lucy, and hopes that robots could one day develop complex intelligence by mimicking the way humans learn.

On the one side, I was attracted to the freedom and challenges of academia but was daunted by the prospect of juggling so many tasks: writing grants, hiring and mentoring students, developing and teaching courses, publishing papers, devising research themes and experiments, buying and stocking up a fully functional lab, and managing academia - related politics.

Darwin describes the Tierra del Fuegan children's gleeful tossing of Western clothes and teachings in a way that suggests he's amused by the experiment's failure, and even draws some instruction from it.

The film introduces us to Koko soon after she was brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment — she would be taught the basics of human communication through American Sign Language.

It's 1974 and Professor Joseph Coupland (Jared Harris) teaches at Cambridge University by day, but by night he's conducting a little science experiment.

It's called Project Nim and tells the story of Nim Chimpsky (seen above), the chimpanzee who in the 70's was raised from birth by humans and taught sign language as an academic experiment at Columbia University.

By articulating to herself the purposes of experimental work for her students» learning, Beale is able to reassess the way she teaches experiments.

Elizabeth Hope, who teaches science for the Children's Hospital School in Leicester, has also been awarded a grant of # 10,000 for her fantastic project «Science by the Bedside» which brings live science experiments directly to the bedside of sick children in hospital.

This is a powerful way of not only getting to know your students, but also tying in the backpack's contents with a class novel, science experiment, or any standard that you're teaching — simply by aligning items in the bag with what students need to know.

A lot of ways were experimented but the transdisciplinary teaching and learning still are obstructed by the disciplinary structured system of education and the poor knowledge of the teachers about the transdisciplinary methods (didactics).

This randomized - controlled experiment examined the effects of project - based economics curriculum developed by the Buck Institute for Education on student learning and problem solving skills in a sample of 7,000 twelfth graders, taught by 76 teachers in 66 high schools.

The undergraduates beef up their physics skillsand knowledge base by designing and buildingthe experiments and teaching the concepts toothers, as well as cultivating the patience andgenuine goodwill required to hack it as a LittleShopper.

Mark Schlager, Tapped In's director, explains, «Through Tapped In, educators can attend activities hosted by education organizations, conduct their own activities, take online courses, bring students online, experiment with new ways to teach, or expand their circle of colleagues by participating in community - wide events.

The second is «inquiry - based teaching,» in which students are given a more prominent role in their own learning — for example, by developing their own hypotheses and experiments.

Westwood's plan calls for dividing the school into multi-age, multi-grade «families» to create a sense of belonging in a large school, implementing a community building component called Township 2000 that mimics a small city, and experimenting with new teaching and assessment strategies that promise to raise standardized test scores, within a year, by 3 % for average students and double that for low achievers.

By gradually experimenting with technology and continuing to use applications that proved effective, the teachers learned to seamlessly weave technology into their teaching, sometimes by planning ahead and other times by using it spontaneously to meet students» needs in the momenBy gradually experimenting with technology and continuing to use applications that proved effective, the teachers learned to seamlessly weave technology into their teaching, sometimes by planning ahead and other times by using it spontaneously to meet students» needs in the momenby planning ahead and other times by using it spontaneously to meet students» needs in the momenby using it spontaneously to meet students» needs in the moment.

The well - known Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project funded by the Gates Foundation reports results from experiments that also address the validity of value - added at the middle and high school levels.

They have been fiercely opposed by Labour and teaching unions, who say they are a dangerous experiment which will fracture England's school system.

The Nashville experiment, known as POINT (Project on Incentives in Teaching), doled out the $ 15,000 bonuses to those teachers whose students performed «at a level that historically had been reached by only the top 5 percent of middle school math teachers.»

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

In the former approach, videos can serve as an initial model by allowing student teachers not only to dream and draw inspiration, but also to identify the proper teaching standards to be attained and to see image - based proofs that help them determine whether those standards are respected in simulated educational settings or in actual practice (e.g., the pioneering experiments in microteaching by Allen & Ryan, 1969).

In her work as TA for this course over a three - year time period, she helped Dr. Hatch experiment with innovative teaching methods by developing a website and Twitter account that support student - directed learning.

Not every teacher participant was fully prepared to embrace the study and teaching experiments called for by the MELAF professional development leadership.

Teaching in Expeditionary Learning schools fosters curiosity about the world by creating learning situations that provide something important to think about, time to experiment, and time to make sense of what is observed.

Taught by Sabrina Ricci, an indie author and ebook developer who has worked for Simon & Schuster, NBC Publishing, and The Experiment Publishing.

Taught by Sabrina Ricci, an indie author and e-book developer who has worked for Simon & Schuster, NBC Publishing, and The Experiment Publishing.

The OHS knows that physical and psychological suffering by animals is incurred in experiments in the fields of psychology, toxicity testing, biomedical and drug development, wildlife research and teaching.

The show features works by Charlene Broudy who finds inspiration in the vibrant colors of Costa Rica, new works by Carolyn Fox featuring luxuriously wide flowing lines suggesting rock, water, sand and sky, and Steven Gilbar, a self - taught artist who experiments with mixed media and collage on paper and canvas, drawing from this histories of both mediums.

After moving from North Carolina to Connecticut in 1950, Albers continued to experiment artistically, supplementing her work by the occasional teaching, as well as writing what would go on to become some of the seminal texts of modern fibre art.

The idea of working with everyday objects and composing them to jewelry was developed throughout the process by experimenting with materials, comparable to Josef Albers teaching methods:

Visitors will also be able to experiment with Albers» theories and teachings by exploring the Interaction of Colour iPad App, recently launched by Yale University Press, with innovative interactive features that allow users to test their own colour perceptions.

That's why I love the ongoing experiment in learning being conducted by Margaret Rubega, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut and has employed Twitter as a learning and communication tool in her ornithology syllabus.

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

Usual work activities performed by these professionals are conducting lab experiments, teaching theory, assigning homework, grading tests, and answering to student inquires.