What's the difference between teachable and teachless?
Teachable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being taught; apt to learn; also, willing to receive instruction; docile.
Example Sentences:
(1) The teachable moment is the time when a learner is ready to accept new information for use conceptually or in practice.
(2) AQA's apologists, staggering out of the committee rooms in which these bizarre choices have been hatched, will no doubt contest that one criterion for their selection is that the works should be eminently "teachable" i.e.
(3) Nevertheless, the mixture of knowledge, skills, and attitudes are collectively unique as applied by the family physician, and are teachable, learnable, and subject to critical inquiry and research.
(4) Young people have valuable soft skills making them a teachable fit for many of the technical skills required in each job," said Mark Cahill, Manpower UK's managing director.
(5) The subject-matter has to be fragmented in order to be teachable, but somebody has to put the whole person together again.
(6) Composed of teachable components, transformational factors are similar to leadership qualities described in magnet hospitals, offering positive implications for nursing administration and professional nursing practice.
(7) These parallel conditions provide opportunities for both organizations to work closely together to identify successful models to serve the "teachable moments" of all health care practitioners.
(8) The purpose of this approach is to provide a parsimonious means of organizing and verifying clinical information, thus making the assessment process both manageable and teachable.
(9) This technique represents a reliable, rapid, and readily teachable method for the surgical management of tricuspid insufficiency.
(10) It is important to teach when a "teachable" moment has arrived.
(11) A child's visit to a physician for these illnesses represents a "teachable moment" to screen for household smokers and to counsel parents regarding the health effects of passive smoking.
(12) Given recent studies identifying environmental tobacco smoke as a risk factor for children by being associated with an increase in the incidence and severity of respiratory tract and ear infections, family physicians should be routinely screening parents, especially during visits that provide teachable moments for counseling and intervention.
(13) It then presents a teachable developmental theory weaved from threads of numerous known theories, and describes a process whereby "interminable" foster experience was used therapeutically for a group of handicapped homeless children.
(14) Suggestions for survival for continuing educators and librarians in "stalking the teachable moment" are discussed.
(15) Twelve practice principles for the primary physician are discussed, touching on such issues as style of communication, recognition of the "teachable moment," utilization of the longitudinality of the physician-patient relationship, coordination of care, and causes of failure.
(16) CDC director Tom Frieden said in a conference call with reporters on Thursday that this is a “teachable moment” for US hospitals.
(17) Some people have a natural strength with them but they’re teachable and we’re not doing that.
(18) Mother Nature provides an almost endless series now of teachable moments.
(19) Analysis of results showed easy and reproducible teachability, a high degree of acceptance by dentists and examinees, accuracy, and low cost.
(20) "Teachable" moments can occur at any time during hospitalization.