Sentences with phrase «who reads textbooks»

Kindle DX targets people who read textbooks and periodicals.

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This is no less true of Warren's literary criticism, whether in such ambitious works as the famous essay on The Rime of the Ancient Mariner («A Poem of Pure Imagination: An Experiment in Reading»), the more modest but nonetheless incisive essays on such writers as Eudora Welty and Katherine Anne Porter, or in the textbooks themselves — just hardheaded practical sense for anybody who loves literature and believes it is an autonomous discipline and not a substitute for anything else.

Indeed, in my experience, visiting the Bodies exhibit was much more like reading the scientific writings of a J. Henri Fabre or an Erwin Straus (in short, of scientists who reveal beauty, order, and meaning in the natural world) than like reading a clinical biology textbook.

Gunter's essay once and for all sets to rest the most popular criticism of Bergson that is made by process philosophers and repeated in textbooks and popular media by writers who do not bother to read Bergson for themselves.

A real weekending girl who gets to sleep in -LCB- ish -RCB-, read -LCB- my textbooks -RCB-, and cook at my leisure -LCB- recipe development -RCB-.

One recent study (pdf) found that among a representative sample of U.S. science students, those who said their science teachers had them read textbooks more often had higher test scores.

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.

What he did have, however, was the arrogance and swagger of somebody who'd read a few muscle magazines or kinesiology textbooks and now considers himself an authority amongst an otherwise «uneducated» group of gym grunts.

For someone who'd only read about military conquest in history textbooks, Steven Spielberg's World War II painted the missing horrors and chaos of war with his opening D - Day sequence on the beaches of Normandy.

It also suggests that technology can be empowering for students who may, for whatever reason, not benefit from traditional study techniques such as reviewing notes, reading paper textbooks or participating in study groups with peers.

Mismatched textbooks and an absence of support for students who read well above or below grade level have negative effects!

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

Senior leaders assign teachers to grade levels, give them textbooks and curricula, buy and set up their technology, lay out their schedules, create disciplinary policies they need to follow, and choose programs for how they will work with students learning English, and students with disabilities, and students with reading difficulties, and students who are homeless.

A teacher who reads about an interesting approach for, say, teaching fractions, has to contend with a textbook and test materials that might focus on a different approach to teaching fractions.

My students who are concentrating in secondary school mathematics education will be reading and discussing this textbook next semester.»

Students who struggle with reading comprehension in middle school often lack the academic vocabulary the need to understand grade - level textbooks and other instructional materials.

Even students who read on grade level may have trouble learning from their textbooks.

Secondary school teachers are not used to teaching children who can not read properly, because the syllabus is based on textbooks.

If you are interested in the ideology behind the fundamentalist Christian textbooks and the interviews with children who felt they had been deprived of an education, read the article.

Additionally, science textbooks have tended to be written above the typical student's reading ability (Budiansky, 2001; Chall & Conard, 1991; Merzyn, 1987) and have been especially difficult for students who are reading below grade level (Curtis & Millar, 1988).

Bringing more nonfiction into students» lives will require many educators to stretch a little — from English teachers who love to inspire others through their favorite poems to science teachers accustomed to relying on textbooks to kids whose reading of choice is fiction, fiction, and more fiction.

Some legislators said the change could be unfair to college students who buy textbooks online and that the... [Read more...]

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Don't think their developers have actually spoken to anyone who uses inkling for textbook reading and annotation, otherwise they'd realize how annoying the system is.

Instead of reading just dog training books (written by people who want to sell you their stuff), you can verify my position on this by reading college textbooks and other research papers on behavior.

Terry Spencer, DVM, MEd., who heads up the program, «While there are textbooks you can buy and guidelines you can read out there, we designed our program to really explore the topics with leading experts in the sheltering field.

Thus please, before you accuse someone of trying to mislead, just read some textbook about emissions / absorption spectra or ask it anyone who has knowledge of such things, who you may trust.

To someone, like myself, who has yet to read a climate science textbook, the adjustments beg for a justification.

This is a guy who wrote a textbook on climate science that college students read.

For people who are actually interested in finding out how this stuff works in detail a short reading list of 3 - 5 textbooks would be a * lot * more useful than a mass of code.

Chicago - Kent College of Law, for example, has been experimenting with digital casebooks since the 1990s.160 Other professors argue that reading in digital format is inevitable.161 In general, those who call for more integration of technology into legal education suggest, besides digital textbooks, the use of online course management; use of listservs, blogs, and email to facilitate collaboration and communication outside of class; and the use of video - based instruction and electronic legal research aids.

We are a non-profit, national organization, representing tens of thousands of Canadian creators and publishers who work tirelessly to create the textbooks, novels, poetry, plays, children's books, magazines, newspapers and more, that Canadians read everyday.

If you were sick and needed to go to the doctor, wouldn't you rather go to one who's an expert instead of someone who's only read one medical textbook?