Most hands-on practice, she said, will take place during summer internships, required for majors.

Training programs usually use both classroom instruction and hands-on practice.

Massage Therapy is still a hands-on discipline, however, and students are required to come to class one day per week for hands-on practice and training.

After this there is no substitute for extensive hands-on practice on different stretches of river.

The concern is that many courses emphasize lectures and demonstrations but offer participants little or no hands-on practice.

The program may also incorporate clinical rotations to allow for hands-on practice of the skills presented throughout the course.

Such fine judgment calls can only be honed with hands-on practice.

Beyond lectures and videotaped instruction, the best courses offer hands-on practice on animals, often pigs.

"Do you have a lot of hands-on practice with babies, Ed?"

But he preferred hands-on practice and joined the Brooklyn Society in 1940 as director of social case work.