Sentences with phrase «change in professional contexts»

In their interviews, all of the participants in this district emphasized changes in their classroom practice, but only one teacher spoke of implementing change at the building level, and none refer to their involvement in working for change in professional contexts within or beyond the district.

Not exact matches

Programs in Professional Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education announced a new leadership development program designed for library leaders looking to gain insight on how to function effectively within rapidly changing societal and institutional contexts.

A similar approach in the context of teacher professional development requires teacher educators to adopt a willingness to change the nature, structure, and even the assumptions of their professional development programs in response to cyclic evaluation data, ongoing participants» experiences, and participants» reflections.

This campaign seeks to promote changes that span a teacher's career, starting with recruitment and preparation and continuing on through compensation and career pathways, paying particular attention to the importance of the professional context in which teachers work.

This report focuses on how a statewide reform initiative, when envisioned as a professional development opportunity, affected teachers» capacities to become change - agents in their classrooms and districts, and how individual district contexts shaped the development of those capacities.

In a lively mix of personal reflection and shrewd analysis, McGowan visits the sites of intellectual activity (scholarly publications, professional conferences, the classroom, and the university) and considers the hazards of working within such institutional contexts to effect change outside the academy.

It brought together 38 participants representing planning universities and planning professionals and aimed to: reach a common understanding on how better urban planning and design can contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation, especially in the Developing Countries context; agree on how best to equip urban planners and related professionals, especially in developing countries to deal with climate change and to conceptualize the core elements of a toolbox; and reach a common understanding on how urban planning and design schools can better address climate change as an integral part of their curricula.

But it is clear that the changes have been drawn to prevent some large consulting firm from gobbling up a law firm to supplement their delivery model... but one wonders how this will be applied in the context of smaller MDPs that compromise multiple professionals with a view to, say, render business advice that includes legal, accounting and perhaps marketing and business strategy as well.

If the changes were to be implemented might we, for example, see one of our number facing a regulatory investigation and possible sanction because an aggrieved neighbour has complained to the SRA about an interaction with the individual solely in the context of living in the adjacent property, alleging that the professional's behaviour demonstrated a lack of integrity.

She has a broad understanding of the changing contexts of legal education and law schools, and is deeply committed to seizing the opportunity before the Schulich School of Law to take the lead in curriculum reform, to increase its scholarly impact, to cultivate the professional legal community and to encourage students to work in the public interest.

In each of the above areas — entry restrictions, advertising and paralegals — the courts did ultimately inspire, if not dictate, significant change: citizenship requirements were ultimately deemed invalid by the Supreme Court of Canada in Andrews, advertising restrictions were liberalized in the context of a series of post-Charter cases finding freedom of expression protections applied to commercial speech and professional advertising, and paralegal regulation has been reviewed in provinces across Canada following the courts» attention to the issuIn each of the above areas — entry restrictions, advertising and paralegals — the courts did ultimately inspire, if not dictate, significant change: citizenship requirements were ultimately deemed invalid by the Supreme Court of Canada in Andrews, advertising restrictions were liberalized in the context of a series of post-Charter cases finding freedom of expression protections applied to commercial speech and professional advertising, and paralegal regulation has been reviewed in provinces across Canada following the courts» attention to the issuin Andrews, advertising restrictions were liberalized in the context of a series of post-Charter cases finding freedom of expression protections applied to commercial speech and professional advertising, and paralegal regulation has been reviewed in provinces across Canada following the courts» attention to the issuin the context of a series of post-Charter cases finding freedom of expression protections applied to commercial speech and professional advertising, and paralegal regulation has been reviewed in provinces across Canada following the courts» attention to the issuin provinces across Canada following the courts» attention to the issue.

The Health Psychology Section of APA Division 17 is dedicated to the science and practice of counseling psychology in health related contexts either through research with medical, rehabilitation, or related populations, direct service to individuals across their lifespan (e.g., prevention, adjustment to and recuperation from illness, healthy lifestyle changes, psychological concomitants of medical illnesses), teaching and training of graduate students or the education of other health care professionals, or involvement with health policy.

The basics of positive psychology are examined first, such as positive emotions, emotional intelligence, happiness, subjective well - being, flow, optimism, resilience, self - determination theory, meaning, mindsets, and strengths, followed by less common (and in my view equally important) topics, for example national and global well - being, the positive body, positive change, time perspectives, and a review of positive psychology applications in professional contexts, such as education, coaching, and psychotherapy.