Sentences with phrase «toward rote learning»

Researchers believe growth in the time kids spend on computers and watching TV, plus a trend in schools toward rote learning and standardized testing, are crowding out the less structured activities that foster creativity.

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Becoming a «flipnotist» isn't as easy as learning a few rote behaviours that you can incorporate around the office, as when some salespeople lean slightly toward their clients to signal both an emotional connection and subservience.

Teachers who once traveled to town to instruct a heterogeneous room full of passive learners on matters of rote memorization have come to adopt new roles and philosophies toward learning.

Memory has long been viewed as a key aspect of learning, but as the emphasis in educational standards has shifted away from rote memorization and toward the knowledge and skills needed to process new information, working memory is increasingly taking center stage.

She is a key figure in the movement toward Escuela Nueva, a «new» model for primary education begun in Colombia in 1975 that emphasizes students» independent and active learning, rather than rote memorization, as they move toward understanding of concepts.

At its higher levels, the taxonomy «moves you more toward project - based learning that requires synthesis and problem - solving, as opposed to rote recitation, where you told me the answer, I memorized it and I recited it back to you,» said Santa Ana Unified School District Superintendent Rick Miller.

Not only would the standards be much more difficult than those in place in many states, they would move away from rote memorization toward inquiry - based learning.

The Common Core State Standards were designed to shift instruction and learning away from passive intake and rote repetition and toward deep content knowledge and critical thinking.

This research is particularly timely, as k - 12 education shifts from an emphasis on rote learning and standardization toward more experiential learning that emphasizes the acquisition of deep content knowledge and 21st century skills.