Sentences with phrase «used textbooks at»

One answer is not to use textbooks at all.

We recommend using this textbook at KS4 level or for sixth form / college students.

[Side note: they still do use textbooks at universities, don't they??? Jeez, I feel old...]

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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.

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?).

The Heritage of World Civilizations: I picked up the seventh edition of this college textbook for $ 4 at a used bookstore because I liked the pictures and because it was stressing me out that I was losing to my little sister in the history category of JEOPARDY.

Haddad recognized Hawkins's deference to the scholarship of Miroslav Volf, whose textbooks are also used at ABTS.

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.

Rather than using textbooks, teachers give the students a meaningful experience, building a picture out of it, and the students themselves arrive at the concepts.

«We are going to pilot the use of electronic textbooks at the junior and senior high level and if this pilot is successful then we will expand it across the board... We shall expand the progressive free SHS before the end of my term and also extend it to cover boarding students,» he added.

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 textbookAt 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 textbookat City College of New York who studies such educational methods and teaches biology courses that use primary literature in lieu of traditional textbooks.

Instead, to accommodate my desire to start at home, Sly put me on an exercise program that helped me gain 10 pounds of muscle just using a pull - up bar, a backpack full of college textbooks, and my own body weight.

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.

Set in 1920s New York, «Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them» is an expansion of the «Harry Potter» universe that centers on magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne), whose textbook is later used by Harry, Ron, Hermione and the other students at Hogwarts.

It's the name of a textbook Harry, Ron and Hermione used in their years at Hogwarts.

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.

Links to past exam questions, however, it does not come with lots of questions as at that point of practice, I use our S1 textbook.

HUNDREDS OF ACTIVITIES TO COVER ALL 12 TOPICS IN GREAT DETAIL - I have covered as much vocabulary as possible (including the majority of the vocab lists in the textbook) and all key grammar points including MA grammar such as subjunctive / personal a. Theme 1 (ks3 revision / family / relationships / free time / customs and festivals)- over 45 activities Theme 2 (home and local area / social and global issues including healthy eating / travel and tourism)- over 85 activities Theme 3 (studies / life at school / post 16 options and future careers)- over 85 activities Key grammar - all 8 tenses, prepositions, personal a and 3rd person opinions, regular and irregular verbs practice in all tenses including irregular past participles, questions, connectives, time expressions, using different tenses simultaneously.

People use Khan Academy because it's better than looking at the answers to the odd problems in the back of the math textbook and trying to reverse engineer solutions.

Currently, textbooks used in public schools in states like Texas and California must first be approved at the state level, a process in which various stakeholders get the chance to pressure publishers into addressing their concerns.

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.

Notwithstanding these errors, however, the difference between the current slew of textbooks and those from the new - math days of the 1960s is definitely worth noting: Accomplished mathematicians wrote many of the texts used in that earlier era, and the math — though misguided and inappropriate for the lower grades and too formal for the high school grades — was at least mathematically correct.

John Warriner, author of one of the most widely used English textbooks in American education, died last month at the age of 80.

I asked a group of students at one school how they were using their devices, and they told me that they now had their textbooks on the iPad.

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.

And lest you think this is a New York - only problem, Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, recently filed over three thousand Freedom of Information Act requests simply to find out what textbooks are being used by school districts in four states: Illinois, Florida, New York, and Texas

Remember the textbooks we used to have at school?

Solution: Describe how the upcoming week's curriculum meets state standards, and offer the parents a textbook to use as an at - home reference (almost all classrooms have a few extra copies lying around).

We got all the language arts textbooks in use and went through them carefully, jotting down every topic, subtopic, skill, and subskill we could find at each grade level.

It could be used alongside the class textbook Outcomes: To identify what mediation / sanctions / humanitarian aid and use of force are To describe the actions the UK can take using examples To evaluate if all actions are suitable looking at current affairs (ie.

You will need professional development, your colleagues should be on board, you have to exchange textbooks for authentic materials, and the target language must be used in the classroom 90 percent of the time — at the very least.

However a long gone is the time where learning at school primarily revolved around the use of blackboards, chalks and textbooks.

He can look at his textbook online, or just use the Internet.

Instead of courses consisting mainly of textbook learning and lectures, classes built using game mechanics such as badges, experience points, levels and leaderboards, boost student engagement by allowing students to choose from «quests» and progress at their own pace through a series of educational activities.

Parents could then use their ESA to pay for tuition at a private school, to take individual public school or public charter school courses, to pay for special education services and therapies, to purchase textbooks and curricula, to pay for online classes, and to otherwise craft a tailor - made educational experience or their child.

His look at the use of textbooks by teachers is a refreshing departure from the sensationalized reports done by so many of the self - styled «experts» on the topic.

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».

The main also looks at questioning the Brandt Line using the Avery Hill textbook.

[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.

He is also devoting his time at his nonprofit, Student Achievement Partners, to create checklists other schools can use to find good textbooks that match the Common Core.

Parents use the card at participating vendors, such as private schools, tutoring services, or educational therapists, or use PayPal to make purchases online for textbooks or for payment to virtual schools.

Despite the presence of Blaine Amendments in the state Constitution at the time of its decision, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of a program in which public funds were used to purchase, among other things, textbooks for parochial schools.

Given the way textbooks are often used — what I have called «assign and assess» usage — we might profitably consider purchasing content textbooks written at students» independent level of reading proficiency (Budiansky, 2001), where students misread just 1 or 2 words in every 100.

Despite being treated to that «I'm the decision maker — so I don't need to listen to anyone,» it sounds like there was widespread excitement at the prospect of getting new textbooks to use in the classrooms of Bridgeport's school.

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.

Of those who did respond, about one third of the Christian non Catholic schools used Abeka, Bob Jones or ACE textbooks for at least part of their curriculum.

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.

Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used high school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.