Sentences with phrase «beliefs about his colleagues»

The assessments elicit beliefs about an individual's ability and willingness to work with students who live in poverty, together with his beliefs about his colleagues» abilities and willingness to do so.

It is a tool that provides leaders with information about the gap, if any, between an individual's beliefs about himself and beliefs about his colleagues.

«2 Just as teachers» beliefs about their students affect how they instruct, teacher leaders» beliefs about their colleagues influence how they lead.

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Richard Johanson and colleagues argue here that perhaps normal birth has become too «medicalised» and that higher rates of normal birth are in fact associated with beliefs about birth, implementation of evidence based practice, and team working

Bercow's political life has a certain consistency about it; he sees what he believes is an opportunity to further his desire, he apes a person, group or organisation's beliefs, finds them unpalatable, and then rejects his colleagues or beliefs and moves on.

To test this idea, neuroscientist Rebecca Saxe at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and colleagues scanned the brains of 10 congenitally blind adults as they answered questions about the beliefs of people described to them.

In one study, Nyhan and his colleagues had volunteers participate in an exercise designed to bolster their feelings of self - worth, such as remembering a time they felt good about themselves or recalling a value that was important to them, before presenting them with information that contradicted their beliefs about political events.

«By increasing their sensitivity to mental states and engaging them in reasoning about false beliefs, we enabled young children not only to quickly apply their newly acquired knowledge to solve a problem in a social situation but also to continue to do so more than a month later,» Lee and colleagues write.

Cappella and her colleagues found that attending a middle or junior high school negatively impacted certain measures of beliefs about students» academic abilities.

With keen insight, a skilled ear, sensitivity, and compassion, she has engaged her TEP colleagues in thinking about how their purposes for teaching and learning and the beliefs and assumptions that frame those purposes influence their efforts to support all students» learning,» says Lecturer Vicki Jacobs, faculty director of TEP.

Learners know whether their friends / colleagues are likely to have the same beliefs about the effectiveness of training as they themselves have.

Efficacy is a belief about one «s own ability (self - efficacy), or the ability of one «s colleagues collectively (collective efficacy), to perform a task or achieve a goal.

With a quickly growing national network of over3, 500 educators united by the E4E Declaration of Teachers» Principles and Beliefs, E4E teachers can learn about education policy and research, network at E4E's event series with like - minded colleagues and important education policymakers, and take action by advocating for teacher - created policy recommendations that lift student achievement and the teaching profession.

When we are transparent about our work and our beliefs, our colleagues can see our limitations as well as our strengths, placing us in a position of vulnerability.

With the input of colleagues who teach writing pedagogies and linguistics courses at my university, I designed an interview protocol meant to elicit a variety of information about curriculum, instruction, beliefs about teaching writing, and the particular qualities of their students from participating teachers.

Changing the common sense beliefs of teachers about heterogeneous grouping effects on the learning of struggling students requires those providing leadership to bring relevant evidence to the attention of their colleagues in accessible and convincing ways, to encourage actual trials with heterogeneous groupings under conditions which include opportunities for practice, feedback and coaching and to help teachers generate «the kind of assessment information that will make the impact of tracking and detracking more visible» (Riehl, 2000).

Teacher leaders are often right in the middle — at the crux of important conversations about teaching and learning that can feel like they are between a rock and a hard place as they talk with colleagues and friends about altering long - standing practices and challenge established beliefs.

In this slightly bizarre, seemingly third - world and possibly post-apocalyptic setting, Coetzee uses the encounters his characters have with neighbours, officials, work colleagues and random strangers to philosophise about various aspects of life: attraction and beauty; self - belief; work that fulfils; progress; the reality of history; rules and non-conformity; power and law - enforcement; and whether philosophical non-conformity warrants punishment.

While working with my colleague, a dog trainer in Asheville we talked about crate training, and our clients beliefs on the matter.

Coming of age as an artist in Duesseldorf during the»60s, Polke was a colleague of Germany's genre - bending titan Joseph Beuys, who taught at the Duesseldorf Art Academy from 1961 to» 71; like Beuys, Polke doesn't just steadfastly reject conventional approaches and beliefs about art - making — he barely seems to notice such conventions exist.

So if a colleague of mind does something that I think has dangerous implications on a global scale, and as a result, I write to them and tell them my opinion, and tell them that I won't continue to collaborate with them in the future, and you think that is tantamount to dragging them before HUAC, blacklisting them, and imprisoning them based on sometimes completely unsubstantiated claims about their political beliefs?