Sentences with phrase «end of a teaching career»

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After the mine ended his sniping career, he established the Marine Sniper School at Quantico, teaching Marines how to «get into the bubble,» a state of complete concentration.

He began his teaching career in Germany which ended in 1935 under pressure of the Nazis because of his Jewish lineage, even though the family had been Christian for four generations.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Toward the end of my career I completed a master's degree in criminal justice so that I could teach beyond the streets, and I wrote my master's thesis on the subject of preventing school shootings.

More than two - thirds of IRACDA graduates end up in academic careers, most of them at teaching - focused and minority - serving institutions.

Most end up in industry or government, where a wide variety of nontechnical skills are so critical to career success that they are explicitly taught and sought after.

When her career ended in injury, yoga did more than fill a missing void, it taught her to reboot the awareness of her body from the inside out.

Paulina (Unrated) Dolores Fonzi plays the title character of this crime thriller, set in Argentina, as a lawyer who abandons a promising career in Buenos Aires to teach high school in her hometown, only to end up brutally assaulted by a local gang.

When I began my teaching career, art was a noun, something that we did on Fridays at the end of the day.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan has reaffirmed her position on wanting to see more people at the end of their careers consider a move into teaching, as their experience is valuable to the classroom.

When Education Policy Management (EPM) student Michael Dabrieo found himself working on a Navajo Reservation in New Mexico with no Internet or libraries, 70 miles from the city and 12 miles from his mailbox as part of Teach For America (TFA) it could have been the end of his education career.

Speaking at the Teach First Impact Conference, Morgan responded to recent criticism of her plans to get retired professionals into the classroom, by saying she wants the knowledge and experience of those at the end of their careers to compliment the energy that young graduates bring to the classroom.

Morgan said: «I attracted some criticism recently for suggesting that those at the end of their career should consider going into teaching.

Ms Morgan also committed to her statement that she wanted to see more people at the end of their career moving into teaching.

«Our current system, in many respects, rewards mediocrity, punishes excellence by granting unlimited job security to all who teach a few years,» Berger said last March at a news conference to unveil his Excellent Public Schools Act of 2013 — which contained language that ended career status and was ultimately inserted into the budget bill passed last summer.

In addition to education, a Tennessee teaching license also requires completion of state - approved examinations, which are typically given at the end of the academic career.

We can't promise to interview everyone, but we are interested in hearing how state and local retirement systems impact the lives of individual teachers, whether you are early in your career, in the middle of it, nearing the end of a long career, or have transitioned out of teaching.

The completion of one cycle of experiential learning helped them gain a better understanding of VS, the key VS teaching skills, the VS teacher's responsibilities, and the role of technology in VS. It also helped the teacher candidates to address their preconceptions and misconceptions, which minimized their concerns about VS. What began with a motivation to acquire the required contact field experience hours ended with spurred interest in a potential career related to VS.

One of the things emerging from interviews with African American one - room school teachers is that integration often brought their teaching careers to an abrupt end.

It would eliminate a student loan forgiveness program, enacted in 2007, that encourages college graduates to enter careers in public service - such as social work, teaching, or working as doctors in rural areas - by relieving them of their college debt at the end of ten years of such employment.

By Shawnta Barnes and David McGuire In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

In their article, «Decades after civil rights gains, black teachers a rarity in public schools» USA Today noted, «Because most white communities in the 1950s and 1960s preferred white teachers over black ones, court - ordered desegregation often ended the teaching careers of black educators.»

After teaching many different grade levels and special education I ended my 39 year career as Assistant Superintendent of Grass Valley School District and administrator of Grass Valley Charter School.

Zaugg, who taught for 27 years, recently retired, ending a career borne of love of learning, knowledge and student growth.

My only fault is the book seemed to come up short at the end, I would have liked her to have explored more of her journey through completing her masters and her teaching career.

This selection of works demonstrates the continuity of Albers» austere and luminous vision, as it permeated his teaching, furniture and design objects, photography, typographical design and his writings, from his early years as a schoolteacher in Germany and the Bauhaus years to the end of his artistic and teaching career at Yale.

The fact that Mr. Dorval was near the end of his active teaching career and was only seeking a 0.6 position while collecting on pension, and originally seemed less than totally confident himself that he wanted the job or could do the job, may have all been factors.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

Skills are taught progressively, ensuring that by the end of the course, graduates are ready to make their mark on academia or attain a professional position, depending on career aspirations.

At the end of the day, teaching remains the best career of all time.

The goal of the programme is to teach players how to manage their personal finances wisely, build their income, source credit, protect their assets and invest for their future now so that when their rugby careers end they are set up with a new source of direct passive income mainly from property investment.