Lowell Smith, a principal dancer for the Dance Theater of Harlem who used precise mastery of classical ballet and exquisite expressiveness of body and face to convey emotions from tranquility to charged passion, died on Oct. 22, in Los Angeles.
At the Stuyvesant program, 23 students took three weeks of classes in math, literacy and biology, and were assessed by teachers and received individual feedback, though they did not take tests or receive grades because the "focus was on content mastery, not on test preparation," said Eric Contreras, Stuyvesant High School's principal.
One of the principal characteristics of traditional Polynesian cultures is an effective adaptation to and mastery of the ocean environment.
His The Adoration of the Magi, the principal panel of the Caraccioli Altarpiece, is a splendid example of his mastery of Renaissance style in its clear organization of figures, careful perspective, and distinct rhythm.
Originally, value-added scores accounted for 50 percent of teacher evaluations; that has been reduced to 35 percent, with an additional 15 percent consisting of other goals (like the students' mastery of certain skills) collaboratively arrived at by teacher and principal.
In this intervention, four principal sources described by Bandura were used to enhance self-efficacy: sense of mastery, vicarious experiences, verbal persuasion, and management of physiological and emotional states.
Light, fast, and maneuverable, it was the principal naval vessel with which Persia, Phoenicia, and the Greek city-states vied for mastery of the seas from the Battle of Salamis in 480 bce through the end of the Peloponnesian War in 404.
10 It should be noted that Bloom's theory of mastery learning anticipates the idea of deep learner models by considering two principal student characteristics: cognitive entry behaviors and affective entry characteristics.
An OECD/PISA study finds that most teachers and principals "acknowledge that the socio-emotional development of their students is as important as mastery of school subjects.
A similar sense a hundred years ago gave birth to the progressive movement, a broad-based effort at reform whose principal historical project was to devise the theory and the institutions of activist government -- to substitute drift for mastery, as Walter Lippmann once described it.
Some mastery, some inaction!
