Sentences with phrase «different subjects they were teaching»

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Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.

CNN having three guest all believing that it is a good idea to promote god or teaching about god in the schools and not a single guest with different ideas on this subject is just wrong.

If one turns to sex education, the Church does not officially and substantially teach anything different from what it taught before the Council: that any information on that subject is virtually entirely the responsibility of the parents at the secondary age.

Each year Mariology was taught from a different perspective, using a different methodology: in my first year it was taught as a subject in its own right, the following year it was taught within the Christology course and then in my final year it was taught within the ecclesiology course.

Reinforcement of subject matter using different teaching formats may be organized into a series of frequently - scheduled courses, seminars, or workshops.

Related but slightly different is the home - school cooperative, wherein a group of mothers (and sometimes fathers) pool their expertise, each teaching a subject she knows well to all the children in the group.

«A lot of my staff, when I first came here, were teaching across two or three different subject areas.

In Anderson's class, heterogeneous groups of students rotate through four workstations, two focusing on the current topic of study — locating and naming the continents and oceans, for instance — and two focusing on a subject the students have already been taught but might need to practice in a different way.

Because Paedae taught advanced math to eleventh and twelfth graders, while the Florida FCAT only tested students through grade eight, 50 percent of her evaluation was based «on the school - wide performance of students taking the tenth - grade FCAT reading test — a test in a different subject administered... to different students in an earlier grade» (p. 3).

This is an approach to the subject of Religion which has evolved over about 20 years of teaching in a number of different schools.

I think people would love to be able to teach kids rather than subjects, and be encouraged to try different things with different kids.

A range of different thinking skills activities that can be used across a range of subjects and topics to create varied teaching and learning.

«And the way a lot of the schools in the US are now teaching different subjects — they combine English with Biology and History with Chemistry.

Punch: It's one thing to know your subject matter, but something quite different to teach it to children and adolescents.

Understanding the different topics in maths lessons is important, but without teaching pupils how these topics link, to each other and to the world around them, we can't expect them to understand or appreciate the big picture of how the subject really works.

Have staff year group meetings to share what is being taught in different subjects this year so that discussion can be held to ascertain if other subjects have already engaged in these topics.

Once they have the background, you can explore a variety of different topics, depending on the age of your students and the subject you're teaching.

Many were assigned to practice teach in different subjects or grades than those for which they would be licensed.

First it is important to note that studies focus on different grade levels, subjects, and types of students taught, and in some cases the estimated effects of particular attributes are not consistent across the board.

High school interims are a mix and based on the standards taught in different grade levels or subjects.

We can develop our curricula and qualifications in different languages to meet requirements at the relevant national level in relation to bilingual or trilingual education, where at least two languages are used to teach different subjects such as science or maths.

Secondary schools require subject - specific teachers (i.e. different teachers for math, English, science), and these subject - specific teachers are more likely to be «fully utilized» at a large and fully enrolled school with a typical schedule (i.e. where you have enough students for a Physics teacher to teach 6 periods of Physics, and each Physics class is enrolled at maximum capacity).

Standards ensure that students in different schools and classrooms across the country are taught the same basic information on a particular subject.

This study needs to be replicated with teacher candidates who are training to teach in different subject areas and grade levels.

TAP uses a set of standards for evaluating teachers that is based on the work of consultant Charlotte Danielson.1 In Enhancing Professional Practice: A Framework for Teaching (1996), Danielson breaks teaching down into four major categories (planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities); 22 themes (ranging from demonstrating knowledge of the subjects taught to designing ways to motivate students to learn); and 77 skills (such as when and how to use different groupings of students and the most effective ways to give students feTeaching (1996), Danielson breaks teaching down into four major categories (planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities); 22 themes (ranging from demonstrating knowledge of the subjects taught to designing ways to motivate students to learn); and 77 skills (such as when and how to use different groupings of students and the most effective ways to give students feteaching down into four major categories (planning and preparation, classroom environment, instruction, and professional responsibilities); 22 themes (ranging from demonstrating knowledge of the subjects taught to designing ways to motivate students to learn); and 77 skills (such as when and how to use different groupings of students and the most effective ways to give students feedback).

He also ridicules the argument advanced by Common Core supporters that the differences in how subjects are taught in different states requires national standardization, noting that the Gates Foundation's namesake «would have a difficult time showing how [Massachusetts and Mississippi]-- or any other two states — treat multiplication of whole numbers in significantly different ways.»

As participants taught in different science subject areas, it was difficult to target growth in content knowledge.

For those of you who started your teaching career at a time when there was a «national strategy» for almost every part of your classroom practice — or earlier still, when there was a ringbinder of «national curriculum» content and assessment for every subject — today's curriculum and the absence of guidance from central government is a very different world.

Getting an advanced degree gives teachers a deeper understanding of one subject or a better idea of how to teach students at different levels — important parts of education that aren't always quantifiable.

Across all subjects, cross-curricular themes and skills are explicitly mapped and taught: literacy, numeracy, Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural education and the fundamental British Values of democracy, rule of law, individual liberty, and mutual respect and tolerance of those with different faiths and beliefs.

There were about 18,000 entries in the 2007 - 2008 database, representing 12,000 teachers (half of them had two evaluations, either because they taught elementary and had math and verbal or because they taught 2 different grades of the same subject).

The Praxis II Subject Assessments cover 120 different tests; the test (s) you take depend on the requirements set forth by your teaching discipline.

In secondary schools they will be taught by different subject specialists each session during the week and may have ten or more different teachers.

In addition, IB classrooms are usually trans - disciplinary in nature, meaning that subjects are taught in many different areas.

using the Ofsted subject specific guidelines [to encourage them to be familiar with it] and our own school learning and teaching priorities to create their own agreed obs criteria for one of our observations [joint one with LM and LnT leader] We too have done away with grades for our other obs [joint LnT leader and random / chosen colleague] after a pleasant Ofsted in October and want to experiment with different plans / approaches to decide which tactics will best develop our learning and teaching over the next couple of years [in the happy knowledge that Ofsted won't bother us!]

Value - added measures are said to be confounded if they are subject to change because of students» socio - economic backgrounds or other student - level characteristics, and also if teachers who are equally effective have persistently different value - added scores because of the types of students they teach.

Have not only a mentor in your own teaching department, but have someone perhaps in a different area who is not tied in with commenting on how you are teaching your subject and can give you feedback on how you are relating to your students.

This bill further provides that an educator is not: (1) Required to spend the educator's personal money to appropriately equip a classroom; (2) Evaluated by professionals, under the teacher evaluation advisory committee, without the same subject matter expertise as the educator; (3) Evaluated based on the performance of students whom the educator has never taught; or (4) Relocated to a different school based solely on test scores from state mandated assessments.

«There is no reason why in a state with our innovation, our technology, our great advances that we can't develop 10 different ways to teach algebra and geometry and biology and history and all of the other core academic subjects that too often for young people are dry and don't relate to the real world.»

Our aim is to build the capacity of teaching staff to bring their subjects to life in partnership with employers (i.e. Gatsby benchmark # 4), which is something rather different.

According to Dr. Gay, «culturally responsive teaching acknowledges the legitimacy of the cultural heritages of different ethnic groups, builds bridges of meaningfulness between home and school, uses a wide variety of instructional strategies that are connected to different learning styles, teaches students to know and praise their own and each others» cultural heritages, and incorporates multicultural information, resources, and materials in all the subjects and skills routinely taught in schools» (p. 29).

When teaching different writing styles, some subjects must be used which will not be your students» favorite, but avoid making them write about subjects they loathe.

London's Kensington Gardens, where Wylie recalls seeing dogfights in the sky as a child during the Blitz (the artist's older brothers taught her to recognize different aircraft), are the subject of Park Dogs & Air Raid, a new four - canvas painting created specifically for the Serpentine exhibition.

«His abstract paintings and pastels were stunningly different from the conventional styles and subjects being taught at art schools and academies.»

You don't get to change a person's title just because he's teaching a different course this semester or because he wrote an editorial on some subject.

These three mentors were trained to help students achieve academic success with different methods that are detached from the subject taught in the different courses: learning strategies and study techniques, personal motivation, effective use of time and tools to manage stress, amongst others.

Not only do the lines between different types of faculty members become blurred, the lines between the subjects of writing and the connected doctrinal course become blurred as well, both in terms of program design and the various ways in which the connected courses are taught together.

She's got a sophisticated energy practice in DC, but she's also been teaching, writing on the subject for a few different years.

For example, in 1870, when Harvard first began teaching Torts as a subject, it was regarded as a «radical move» because it brought together under one subject a collection of legal actions that had previously been thought to be entirely different areas of the law.13 In the same way, simply because law faculty did not teach legal writing skills in a course called «legal writing» does not mean that faculty did not teach them.

In other words, subjects that are drastically different than teaching law.