Sentences with phrase «with meaningful tasks»

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Getting uncomfortable means that we stop focusing inwards on our fears, our perceived failings and our shortcomings and get on with the task at hand, which is living a rich and meaningful life.

However, trying to deliver meaningful reform in the UK's relationship with the EU is an almost impossible task, especially given that what Cameron claims to want — a little less EU interference in British affairs — is completely at odds with what the eurocrats in Brussels want — ever - increasing EU interference in everyone's affairs.

It is good that priests are able to work at good honest labour, in another revolution, perhaps priests will be assigned meaningful tasks and work shoulder - to - shoulder with evolutionary biologists.

Here the ethic, which in Buddhism is also identical with the teaching of salvation — perhaps even more than it had been in the Brahmanic system — has much more latitude; it has a task that is metaphysically meaningful — suspending at one point the cosmic law, unraveling it, as it were.

In fact, the task of the philosopher appears to me here to be distinguished from that of the theologian, in the following manner: biblical theology has the function of developing the kerygma according to its own conceptual system; it has the duty of criticizing preaching, both by confronting it with its origin and by reorganizing it in a meaningful framework, in a discourse of its own kind, corresponding to the internal coherence of the kerygma itself.

Fedorschak, Karuna PARENTING, A SACRED TASK Hohm Press, 2003 A thoughtful book on the spiritual journey of parenting, Parenting, A Sacred Task, is a meaningful discussion of being attentive to your child's wants and needs and the importance of raising children with flexibility and an open mind.

«We're dealing with two days» notice for a task force meeting which has been billed as a way of seeking meaningful input from school board members and others on Common Core concerns,» said Lorraine Deller, executive director of the Nassau - Suffolk School Boards Association.

«We can identify autism and its severity with meaningful accuracy within less than 10 minutes using a test that is completely non-verbal and entails no task to follow,» Sobel says.

Competitors have been tasked with discovering the unknown genetic basis of the disorders faced by three pediatric patients and, in the process, create best practices for interpreting and presenting genomic sequence results to patients and their families and physicians in meaningful ways that can help guide healthcare decisions.

THE LURE OF POLITICALLY CORRECT DIETS For some high - minded teenagers, anti-saturated fat dogma may dovetail rather conveniently with pro-vegetarian arguments, 12 particularly because the search for «meaningful moral standards, values and belief systems» is a critical developmental task during adolescence.13 (It should be noted that moralistic claims in favor of vegetarianism often prevent earnest vegetarian teens from coming face to face with underlying farming realities — including the fact that sustainable farming requires enriching soil with animal products such as bone meal and manure.12) Recognizing the fact that adolescent boys also can be preoccupied with physical concerns about weight or athletic prowess, it is perhaps not terribly surprising that a sizeable proportion of teenage boys appear to be persuaded by advice that vegetarianism is a «healthy» lifestyle.

There was the audience's in the pure fun of the film, based on Tony Stark's in the physical exhilaration of flying, the mental exhilaration of finding a task to engage his mind and spirit so entirely, and the spiritual exhilaration of meaningful and sustaining engagement with the world.

When Final Fantasy XV works, however, it works very well: Lucis is a nicely crafted open world filled with optional dungeons, side - quests, and beautiful locations, and Noctis and his friends manage to make tasks that may seem absolutely pointless (I'm looking at you, frog collecting quest) feel meaningful.

Small schools can also help boost graduation rates among these underserved students by providing them with a new version of the three Rs - rigorous academic coursework, meaningful relationships with instructors who can help them meet high standards, and relevant learning opportunities through internships, community partnerships, and real - world tasks.

We know that when students are provided with opportunities to undertake meaningful tasks to solve real - world problems, engagement soars.

Arts integrated tasks support meaningful interaction with academic standards.

Rigorous and meaningful assessments for all students — Ultimately, good teaching together with good tests will prepare our students for the tasks they will encounter in college and beyond.

In this study, a synchronous, online unit on teaching and learning data analysis and probability with technology was designed with these types of meaningful tasks and discussions in mind.

Bundle makes it easy to incorporate Color Tiles into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

However, as a result of low reading scores, a task force was formed and has recently adopted a more balanced reading approach that includes building phonological awareness along with the reading of meaningful and engaging texts.

All 18 lessons incorporate Pattern Blocks into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

KEY Teacher Leaders serve as members of an elite team of HISD's best teachers tasked with developing meaningful learning opportunities for teachers, by teachers.

Bundle makes it easy to incorporate Cuisenaire Rods into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

Bundle makes it easy to incorporate Snap Cubes into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

He attacked a task force charged with setting meaningful high school graduation requirements for how its «biggest thought on how to fix the problem turned out to be another task force,» and called it «a kind of a spoof.»

In new learning cultures, teachers design learning environments to cultivate creativity and the imagination, offer flexible boundaries, and support learners in undertaking meaningful, challenging, and collaborative tasks — playing with rich resources and making collective contributions to their culture.

It can not be forced by incentives that distract from the most important work teachers do with students: fostering genuine curiosity and love of learning around rich content and meaningful tasks with that content.

The first step in implementing meaningful tasks begins with a series of questions for you and your colleagues to answer.

Because our teacher education programs have always required students to carry out tasks associated with meaningful professional development, we assumed that introduction of the edTPA would have minimal effect on our programs.

The authors recommend an approach of four successive steps that teachers can take with students to instill in them the ability to work independently and gauge the quality of their work: (1) establish clear learning goals and teach students to analyze the demands of tasks and learning goals; (2) provide students models of high - quality work and discuss what makes something exemplary; (3) teach students to monitor and assess the quality of their work; and (4) provide specific, meaningful feedback.

Bundle makes it easy to incorporate Geoboards into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

All 18 lessons incorporate Cuisenaire ® Rods into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

With that said, the delicate and time - consuming task of turning nonreaders into readers can be a trying one that frankly takes time and personal attention to make meaningful gains.

All 18 lessons incorporate Base Ten Blocks into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

All 18 lessons incorporate Geoboards into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

All 18 lessons incorporate Cuisenarie & reg; Rods into math activities in meaningful ways that help students grasp concepts with greater ease and apply this conceptual understanding to real - world tasks and challenges.

Facing History uses the LDC CoreTools to help teachers create engaging and meaningful teaching tasks to pair with our rich content resources.

Our six - and seven - year - olds learned valuable and complex lessons about economics by engaging with difficult and meaningful tasks.

Therefore a motorcycle engine / design not only fails to produce the meaningful values of (inertial and composite) torque where it is needed in order to perform the tasks of heavy vehicles - but the torque it does produce is largely combustion - force dependent, and as such (even with modern gearbox design approaches) is still too susceptible to changes in weight and vehicle ascension / gradient for the tasks required.

Monica is the author of Tasks Before Apps: Designing Rigorous Learning in a Tech - Rich Classroom (ASCD), #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin), Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality (Corwin), and co-author of Taming the Wild Text: Literacy Strategies for Today's Reader (Shell).

«The Prize is very meaningful to me because I believe my task as an artist is to make connections — to connect worlds that normally are unconnected, like art and politics, like the experience of the lost lives of victims of political violence with the experience and memories of the viewers who approach or contemplate the work — and I think the Prize will widen this audience,» said Doris Salcedo.

Rather, it tasks us to examine why exactly parts of the science have become so tied up with ideology, and how to re-frame and depoliticize the physical science itself (the policy response, alas, will always be somewhat hostage to ideology, but a better acceptance of the basic science will at least engender a more meaningful debate).

Choosing meaningful tasks is about aligning them with your values.

It means to accomplish more tasks in your current role in order to beef up your profile with relevant and meaningful accomplishments.

Independent worker with a proven ability to prioritize tasks and achieve meaningful results in often fast - paced environments.

• Recognize a potentially explosive situation between two family members and intervene before the problem could get out of hand • Hold 15 training workshops to assist participants in learning life skills to assist them in leading a meaningful life • Assess practical and emotional needs of clients by listening to their concerns and problems • Assist with domestic tasks such as cooking, cleaning and washing • Provide assistance to clients in handling budgeting duties and determining how to spend their money • Advise clients of practical issues by providing dedicated counseling services • Provide deep therapy services to assist clients in handling drug or alcohol problems

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.

She also enjoys working with couples in that she finds successful and meaningful relationships to be the most difficult task we undertake as human beings.

Results highlighted a) through exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, a meaningful six - factor model (emotion expression, task utility self - persuasion, help - seeking, negative self - talk, brief attentional relaxation, and dysfunctional avoidance); b) satisfactory internal reliabilities; c) test - retest reliability scores indicative of a satisfactory stability of the measures over time; d) preliminary evidence of convergent and discriminant validity with CERS - M being very weakly linked to verbal skill and moderately to emotion regulation strategies measured through the Flemish version of the COPE - questionnaire; e) preliminary evidence of criterion validity, with CERS - M scores predicting math anxiety, and to a lesser extent, students» performance; f) preliminary evidence of incremental validity, with the CERS - M predicting math anxiety and performance over and above emotion regulation measured by the COPE - questionnaire.

Mt task now in view of the recent rulings by the Competition Bureau is to find ways in which we can supply our clients with non Internet data and meaningful information that will set a undisputed VALUE to the services we provide.

Members of the FLC contribute to the work of NIC committees and task forces, get the chance to develop volunteer leadership skills, and have ample opportunity to form meaningful professional relationships with current NIC leaders while functioning as an extension of the Board.