(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.
Trainable
Definition:
(a.) Capable of being trained or educated; as, boys trainable to virtue.
Example Sentences:
(1) The personnel selected for a dosing service need not have advanced pharmacy degrees but must be highly trainable.
(2) Finally, she says: “I’m un-media-trainable.” Recently, Gould found herself giving advice to a friend whose insecurities resembled her own.
(3) The purpose of the present study was to determine whether the fast-twitch (FT) fiber composition in muscle was a) correlated with performance capacities, b) related to the trainability of the subjects, and c) whether the FT fiber composition could be predicted with standard laboratory tests.
(4) Further evaluations should be carried out to discover to what degree scoliotic patients are trainable without increasing the danger of pulmonary vascular obstruction.
(5) Behaviour patterns such as temperament, aggressiveness, and nervousness showed relatively high h2-values; other behaviours like trainability, emotionality, and pre-laying showed relatively low values.
(6) Forty trainable and 40 educable retarded adolescents were shown slides containing arrays of 2, 3, 4, or 5 chromatic pictures to be recalled after varying periods (0, 18, 36, and 140 sec) of filled or unfilled activity.
(7) Experiments involving chronic introduction of ethanol (36 per cent of caloric value) as a part of a specially devised liquid ration demonstrated the trainability of rats to sharply decrease, their antistress resistance to significantly decline, especially in rats kept on a low-protein diet.
(8) The trainability of endurance seems to depend on the biological maturity level of growing children.
(9) Existing literature also does not clearly support a relationship between training intensity and the degree of cardiac enlargement, or changes in the heart's trainability with age.
(10) During the most stressful training weeks of prolonged strength training the level of biologically active unbound testosterone as well as the balance between the androgenic-anabolic activity and the catabolizing effect of glucocorticoids may be of great importance for the trainability of muscular strength.
(11) These observations together with the findings about the specific effects of heavy resistance strength and power training on the neuromuscular performance may also have some implications for the more accurate determination of the trainability status of an individual athlete at a given time in order to optimize the training process.
(12) It is shown that, using online real-time analysis, differences in the AR time-series parameters can be observed for different trainable patterns of muscle activation, at the same electrode location, even at the same ME power levels, as long as considerable cross-talk exists at the electrode site.
(13) The results indicate that visual field increases are not trainable.
(14) It can be concluded that in training for fast force production considerable neural and selective muscular adaptations may occur to explain the improvement in performance, but that genetic factors may determine the ultimate potential of the trainability of this aspect of the neuromuscular performance.
(15) Trainable retarded subjects had fewer hypotheses, and initially chose position hypotheses predominantly.
(16) Even fewer results are available on the trainability of anaerobic capacity.
(17) The children classed as educable produced more correct responses than those termed trainable for declarative, question, and single-adjectival structures.
(18) The moral judgment of 135 normal, educable retarded, and trainable retarded boys and girls (ages 6-10, 11-13, and 14-16) was individually assessed to determine the significance of chronological age and IQ on moral development.
(19) This study investigated the effectiveness of three instruments to discriminate autistic from trainable mentally retarded children.
(20) The auditory skill known as 'absolute pitch' is discussed, and it is shown that this differs greatly in accuracy of identification or reproduction of musical tones from ordinary discrimination of 'tonal height' which is to some extent trainable.