Far from being a liability, the rabbi said, Assyrian architecture could serve an instructional purpose, particularly as Tishah b'Av approaches — the holiday, which begins Monday at sundown this year, in which Jews observe the destruction of the first and second temples in particular, as well as the loss more generally of holy places and things held dear.
Earliest professional development programs focused on hardware and software use, but soon shifted to emphasize the instructional purpose of the technology and the impact on education (Makrakis 1991), as well as the need for an improved quality and nature of teacher-training (Hannifan, et al. 1987).
Mr. Bloomberg complained that the Board of Education spent only roughly half its budget on "instructional purposes".
The inch was subdivided for instructional purposes into 3 barley corns.
It had described it as being for assessment and instructional purposes only, and not for any college admissions purpose.
The test, which will be available to schools next fall, is intended only for assessment and instructional purposes and has nothing to do with college admissions, College Board officials said.
For purely instructional purposes, consider the clip below, in which Abdul joins Simon Cowell and Sharon Osbourne as an auditions judge for the British talent show "The X Factor".
"I don't know of a program anywhere in the country where they're able to use the Internet for instructional purposes," said Chris Tracy, a former Windham superintendent.
Randi Weingarten, the president of the United Federation of Teachers, sent a letter to Mr. Levy on Jan . 26asking the chancellor to retain any teachers who would otherwise be laid off, using them to lower class sizes or for other instructional purposes.
It was also used as the original basis for the medieval English inch, which was defined for instructional purposes as the length of 3 medium-sized barleycorns placed end to end (about 2.54 cm).
And, yes, a real doctor makes a brief appearance to retrieve a life-size plastic cast of a head made for instructional purposes, but found in a shopping bag and misconstrued to be a real dead head -- chopped off, that is.
