Sentences with phrase «by educators as»

Her book is written to be used by educators as a guide, especially in conjunction with peer collaboration.
It was quickly derided by educators as «seats and sheets.»
«We are keenly aware of the challenges faced by educators as they work to prepare their students for new, demanding district and state assessments.
These are organized by big ideas that were identified by educators as important topics in HGSS.
For over ten years, districts across the U.S. have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic
The Intervention Tools Chart is designed to be used by educators as a resource to locate interventions, instructional practices, and learning strategies that can be used within an RtI process.
It has recently been seized upon by educators as a tool to explore our knowledge of student achievement, and ways that such achievement might be improved.
In his research visiting nearly 30 American high schools, he recognized that students weren't often being given rigorous, challenging, and meaningful work — often referred to by educators as «deeper learning.»
The plan was praised by educators as the first step toward creation of a national system allowing transfers of pension benefits.

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Workplace literacy and essential skills (WLES) strategies can range from as simple as a company supporting an employee's voluntary skills upgrading at a local literacy centre to more sophisticated efforts, such as a custom - made WLES program delivered in - house by staff educators.
By leveraging technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags to drive inventory transparency (a key tenet of omnichannel success), Lululemon uses stores as distribution centers to optimize the supply chain and improve inventory turns while enabling an elevated in - store experience for educators and guests.
Robert Mugabe is a massively divisive figure — a despot and an educator, reviled by many for his policies, but also revered as one of Africa's greatest revolutionary statesmen.
In 2004, it was recognized as the top environmental education organization in North America, for its innovative year - round programs and educational resources, by the Washington - based North American Association for Environmental Education, the world's largest association of environmental educators.
The database, known as CCLEAR publishes a daily dashboard of industry activity and is used by the media, educators, industry stakeholders, government organizations, and multilateral organizations.
If a dozen different public school systems were to embark on a five - year experiment as part of a larger nation - wide experiment encouraged by federal dollars, local teams of educators, parents and community leaders would need to devise appropriate local models.
I am sorry to vent and in no way taking away from what abused women go through, but looking back, in the name of keeping peace and wanting to do a good job as an educator, I realize now, I have been bullied, mistreated and yes, even abused by the higher ups, while the level of educational quality and my joy of teaching have been robbed by all the PC guidelines that now rule education.
Play is sometimes viewed as an instinct educator (Karl Groos); as a means of catharsis, a safety valve to vent emotions (Aristotle); as a creative modeling of situations that enables the player to better handle experience (Erik Erikson); as a means of resolving psychic conflict (Sigmund Freud), or, on the contrary, as activity not motivated by the need to resolve inner conflict (Robert Neale) 8
This edition of Gerard's autobiography comes with a very useful introduction by Michael Hodgetts, known to many readers of Faith Magazine for his work as an educator at the Maryvale Institute, as historical director at Harvington Hall and as editor of both Recusant History and of the Volumes of the Catholic Record Society.
Bad school memories were the hot topic at a recent party hosted by David Dancer for GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, with guests such as New York's, a social worker and educator of the year for 2009.
I accept Rorty's defense of the value of literature as a means of sensitizing us to the predicaments of life, but would expand upon it by reiterating my original call for a truly interdisciplinary conversation, one that includes humanists and scientists, theoreticians and practitioners, students and educators.
Not surprisingly, Ex corde ecclesia is hotly debated by Catholic educators, and BurtchaelI's book may be viewed as a salvo fired from the neoconservative camp.
The educator who tries to dominate or enjoy his pupils «stifles the growth of his blessing,» and it is the same with the doctor and the psychotherapist: «As soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.&raquAs soon as the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.&raquas the helper is touched by the desire, in however subtle a form, to dominate or to enjoy his patient, or to treat the latter's wish to be dominated or enjoyed by him as other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.&raquas other than a wrong condition needing to be cured, the danger of falsification arises, beside which all quackery appears peripheral.»
The educator, as an instrument of Creation, should derive respect and ardour for his efforts from a profound, communicative sense of the developments already achieved or awaited by Nature.
To have experienced and understood, in order to teach others to experience and understand, that all human enrichment is but dross except inasmuch as it becomes the most precious and incorruptible of all things by adding itself to an immortal centre of love: such is the supreme knowledge and the ultimate lesson to be imparted by the Christian educator.
At a time when theological educators fear being dictated to by financial considerations, the faculties in this study emerge as fully in control of education.
Members of the staff have participated in conferences of educators of the American Baptist Convention, the United Church of Canada, the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod, the Disciples of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, U.S., and the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. With the advice of denominational leaders and others they compiled a list of pastors regarded by their colleagues as «good ministers» and entered into correspondence with a number of them, chosen so as to make the whole group representative of the denominational pattern.
One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.
By the 1890s, educators had established professional societies in many of the basic fields such as history, economics, sociology, psychology, and the natural sciences.
During the last three decades, for example, organizations representing 1.5 million U.S. health professionals (doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and educators) have stated definitively that homosexual orientation is as natural as heterosexual orientation; that sexual orientation is determined by a combination of yet unknown pre - and post — natal influences, and that it is dangerous and inappropriate to tell a homosexual that he or she could or should attempt to change his or her sexual orientation.
And it is, as it had been a hundred years earlier, largely the work of clergy and religiously active lay educators, who find themselves opposed by church officials and some tendentious colleagues who give every sign of being intellectually cramped and authoritarian.
That a major examination board should regard faith in the world as a topic worthy of study is encouraging even if the grounds on which such a topic seems to have been chosen might be questioned by Catholic educators.
A great deal of what we need to do as Catholic educators, in other words, is to redress the balance not by overturning English curricula as currently instituted but by refusing to allow the Catholic voice to be expunged altogether.
It is important and relevant, and I hope that the group of us who are presently committed to its study will be joined by many other educators and philosophers, and that — as Plato's hope ends his Republic — «we shall fare well.»
Nord would accomplish his goal through special courses and by persuading, even forcing, educators to acknowledge religion as an integral part of liberal education.
As a matter of fact when counting calories, all the aforementioned educators multiply the amount of carbohydrate by 4 instead of 4.1.
A holder of WSET Level 4 Diploma, Ng is also a dedicated wine educator, recognised as a certified educator for the WSET, the Sake Sommelier Association as well as a Bourgogne Wine Official Ambassador accredited by BIVB (the Bourgogne Wine Board).
The following wine educators have been accredited by the French Wine Society and the CIVP / Provence Wine Council as French Wine Academy Master - Level Provence Instructors.
Both schools use Project Re-ED's «Re-Education» principles, developed by renowned psychologist, educator and university administrator Nicholas Hobbs, as the basis for their methods of reaching out to students.
Gordon is recognized internationally as an award - winning social entrepreneur, educator, author, child advocate and parenting expert who has created programs informed by the power of empathy.
Waldorf School of the Peninsula was established in 1984 by parents and educators motivated by the great need for a school that would address the heart and will — as well as the mind — of the child.
We know student nutrition is a vital part of a successful learning environment, but it's also an aspect of school life that's easily overlooked unless you are directly affected by it — either as a parent or an educator.
Learn more about the changing the culture of competitive youth sports, as explained by sports expert and educator John O'Sullivan.
By sponsoring or donating products to projects like the Consider Cloth diaper demo kit for childbirth educators, you can build your cloth diaper brand as you reach consumers in your target market.
The blog will also feature a behind - the - scenes look at the making of Hooked of Phonics new learning program as told by the team of authors, illustrators, educators, animators and musicians involved in the year - long, multi-million dollar overhaul (due out in August 2009).
You can get ideas for writing your birth plan by talking to your doctor or midwife, doula, childbirth educator, friends and family, as well as on - line.
As home educators we are by definition non-conformist, since the majority of families send their children to school!
Built in the 1970s, the education building, with its award - winning design, has long been regarded by educators and museum professionals as a premier setting for dynamic museum - based learning.
Informed by years of working as a midwife, doula, and childbirth educator, she is uniquely suited to instruct yoga for the childbearing year.
Gillian uses her vast experience as an educator, as well as a birth and postpartum doula, to delve into a topic rarely covered by educators: Planned Cesarean births.
An article by childbirth educator Judith Lothian entitled Promoting, Protecting, and Supporting Normal Birth should be read as Promoting, Protecting, and Supporting Midwifery Employment.
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