Sentences with phrase «use the textbook as»

The district found that the majority of teachers still used the textbook as the primary resource for instructional planning, rather than the district curriculum or state academic standards.

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

[ii] We dropped the 20 percent of students whose teachers reported they did not use a textbook, an additional 30 percent whose teachers did not use their textbook as their primary curriculum, and limited the sample to textbooks that at least two teachers reported using.

In other words, if schools use textbooks as the key curriculum content provider, then students need textbooks that they can read accurately, fluently, and with high levels of understanding.

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.

Not exact matches

Although textbook testimonials aren't used as much as before, they still work to some degree.

uSell, an online marketplace for used electronics, wanted to see whether it should expand into items such as used textbooks, clothing, and video games.

«The edX course was used as a sort of new age textbook,» says edX president Anant Agarwal.

Combined, his books have been translated into 15 different languages and are used as textbooks at many schools including Stanford University, Boston University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and The University of Texas at Austin.

Just like federal loans, they can be used for school - related expenses such as tuition, textbooks, and housing.

FACT: Product Idea to Product Success is now read in over 14 countries, and used by major universities as a textbook.

Powell's will buy used books online, as will Amazon. Bookscouter.com, which allows sellers to compare price offers on used textbooks from more than 50 buyback vendors.

This should not be surprising because the bible was not written as a textbook, applying consistency and technicality in how it used terms; moreover, we are talking about a number of different writers.

Strikingly, our catechists these days often just use apologetics tracts as their textbooks for catechism class, giving the faithful mere leftovers of what was actually prepared for others who do not yet share our faith.

In an issue of the Intercollegian as late as 1948, Paul Popenoe, author of the widely used textbook Applied Eugenics, warns readers that «too large a proportion» of children are «born in homes which can give them the worst start in every way.

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?

This has led Arthur H. Robinson, professor emeritus of cartography at the University of Wisconsin and author of the most widely used textbook on cartography, Elements of Cartography (John Wiley, 1984), to describe the Gall - Peters land - masses as «somewhat reminiscent of wet, ragged, long winter - underwear hung out to dry on the Arctic Circle» («Arno Peters and His New Cartography,» The American Cartographer, October 1985)

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?).

A textbook I use for my introductory poetry classes, the classic Western Wind, defines sentimentality as «emotion in excess of its object.»

The books used as pupil textbooks, in contradiction to Canon Law, usually carry no imprimatur.

The Compendium should be used as a textbook with the higher age groups of primary schools and with all ages in secondary schools.

When it is used as a source book, it becomes the means of the Spirit that gives life, but when it is used as a textbook, it can become the letter that kills.

He never says that it is to be used as a science textbook.

The full - time Formula One driver, who skipped the Monaco Grand Prix to race at Indianapolis, executed a textbook pass of defending race - winner Alexander Rossi where he used the draft to slingshot to inside of Rossi and then by as they raced down the frontstretch and into Turn 1.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

Medela produced an image to demonstrate the new findings and many textbooks and internet sites now use this image as a resource.

Anne Elliott has a publishing company called Foundations Press and they are dedicated to helping homeschooling families use the Bible as their primary textbook.

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.

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A policy and research think tank, VIAM Africa Centre for Education and Social Policy, has pooh - poohed the Ministry of Education's response to the brouhaha over the textbook that depicted the human head as a part of the human body used for carrying objects.

Since not every textbook author can also be an expert in linguistics, computational linguistic tools as we used them in our study can in principle also support authors in the selection and composition of texts.»

The most widely studied set of quantum numbers is that for a single electron in an atom: not only because it is useful in chemistry, being the basic notion behind the periodic table, valence (chemistry) and a host of other properties, but also because it is a solvable and realistic problem, and, as such, finds widespread use in textbooks.

The textbooks did promote uncertainty when addressing the causes of climate change by using verbs such as could, may or might.

When attributing information to scientists, the textbooks used verbs such as believe, think or propose, but rarely were scientists said to be drawing conclusions from evidence or data.

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.

I would divide distance education via the World Wide Web into three categories, each of which incorporates the previous category: The Web can be used as an electronic textbook to disseminate information for users to read (my own personal Web site is a good example); as an electronic textbook with quizzes, which also fosters interactions between the user and the machine, typically in the form of multiple - choice or true / false tests; and as an electronic conference, which goes beyond the electronic textbook to foster interactions between users and teachers.

Heaney, Balete, and Rickart are also authors of a book about the mammals of Luzon Island, just published by Johns Hopkins University Press, that will be used in the Philippines as a college - level textbook.

David Griffiths of Reed College, author of a widely used introductory quantum mechanics textbook (the second edition of which gives a version of antitunneling as a student exercise), calls it «a very sweet paradox.»

But I think one of the things that scientists and other people concerned about science education in the country need to do is make it clear to publishers that as citizens and voters, wherever they live, whatever state or town that they live [in], they will make sure that their elected officials know that textbook X, Y or Z is not to be used in this district because of its bad science.

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.

As a result, they have provided an exemplary account of the global water budget that is being used in textbooks and encyclopedias.

Men often display the textbook symptoms of depression (such as sadness, fatigue, appetite changes, feelings of worthlessness, and a loss of interest in things they used to find pleasurable).

Using a word like «bioidentical» was simply redundant and unnecessary for biochemistry textbooks, as it should be today.

Using a word like «bioidentical» was simply redundant and unnecessary for a biochemistry textbook, as it should be today.

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

I study style magazines like I used to study college textbooks for new, updated ways to translate fashion trends into functional style in my life as a mostly at - home mom.

As a college student, paying her way through school, eating Ramen and searching for used textbooks, that just wasn't an option.

The movie stands as a textbook demonstration of why they don't — and probably shouldn't — make»em like they used to.

Rotten: The movie stands as a textbook demonstration of why they don't — and probably shouldn't — make»em like they used to.

Bahrani's story focuses on the brutality of these legal confrontations and their subsequent emotional trauma, using Dennis Nash's (Andrew Garfield) family (his son and mother, played by Laura Dern) as a textbook example of the failed American Dream.