Sentences with phrase «faculty use teaching»

Too often, faculty use teaching methods that do not match the cutting - edge character of their biological research, said Terry Woodin, a program director in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education.

Not exact matches

Its intent is to provide «drag and drop» functionality — allowing faculty to easily use the articles, cases and other teaching materials that we will be sharing in their class discussions.

The Haskayne School of Business supports its faculty to use blended learning teaching techniques for content delivery.

Schools create «white elephants» if they don't teach faculty and students effective use of the new technologies and resources.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Experience the distinct teaching methods used by our dedicated faculty to bring challenging subject matters, such as nature studies in elementary school and platonic solids in middle school, to life.

Teaching is hard, but most new faculty members are used to doing difficult things.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

Raised on the knee of science — her father taught her and her two brothers from a young age about geology, physics, and natural history — Alice Ting now stands firmly on her own two feet among the faculty at MIT's Chemistry Department, where her objective is to «simultaneously harness the power of genetics and the power of chemistry» using new technologies developed in her lab for imaging protein trafficking, protein - protein interactions, and enzymatic activity.

Eric is also an adjunct faculty member at Bastyr University where he teaches classes on backpacking and the use of herbal medicine in the wilderness.

The New York Film Academy is a purveyor of great cinematography of any genre, but faculty staff at the filmmaking school particularly enjoy a good film noir, especially when using it to teach students the nuances of expressionism.

The videos became such popular teaching tools that faculty requested their use in two additional courses.

Course evaluation is used to improve the quality of teaching and learning through feedback to both individual faculty members and promotion committees.

Responses also serve as one measure of the quality member's teaching that is used to evaluate faculty for promotion and tenure.

But as soon as principals lead the creation of that shared vision and use their administrative authority to insist that all faculty use the available technology to support teaching and learning, those teacher leaders start to look like life preservers.

Held this year on March 19, 2016, the TLT Symposium is a showcase of the innovative ways technology is used to enhance teaching and learning at Penn State, featuring an exciting keynote speaker, engaging sessions by Penn State faculty and staff, and a variety of networking opportunities with Penn State peers.

«The College recognized that technology use was increasing on campus and realized that someone was needed to work with faculty on how best to integrate technology tools into their teaching,» Nelson told Education World.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

The subject of the seminars, led by a liberal - arts faculty member and one from the college of education, is the teaching style used by the liberal - arts instructor.

To meet the integration goal, teacher education faculty members are called upon to explore, evaluate, and create teaching strategies that enable preservice teachers to use technology in K - 12 classrooms.

Quarterly, the faculty will use portfolios and assessment rubrics, and conduct collaborative inquiry protocols to closely examine student work and identify how to modify teaching practices based on that critique.

All faculty members in each state university, other than those persons who teach courses that are conducted primarily in a foreign language, shall be proficient in the oral use of English, as determined by a satisfactory grade on the «Test of Spoken English» of the Educational Testing Service or a similar test approved by the Board of Governors.

The OET provides faculty members with a variety of methods for increasing their technical skills and gaining knowledge of pedagogically appropriate uses of educational technologies in their teaching.

Here is a book that will describe the connection of the Common Core Standards to higher education teaching and learning and offer a process through which higher education faculty can use these standards (or their own state standards) to improve instruction and learning at their institution.

Together, the pair examines the courses taught by the faculty member to determine appropriate uses of educational technologies in the teaching and learning environment.

Many of these same faculty members also used video examples of classroom teaching as illustrations and as discussion points.

The teacher education faculty member who had his students use images in Blackboard ™ for action research continued the use of images when these preservice teachers engaged in student teaching.

Our recommendations should be shared with faculty and staff, considered with strategic planning, and used to set direction as teacher preparation programs take advantage of the rapid growth of online teaching and learning and modern advances with technology.

Indeed, the simplicity of the guided video viewing activity may help overcome the resistance that Shepherd and Hannafin (2008, as cited in Rich & Hannafin, 2009, p. 64) encountered from teacher education faculty, preservice teachers, and cooperating teachers to using video annotation tools for analyzing the teaching practice of student teachers.

Participants commented on the faculty's commitment to teaching kids to learn as teachers, themselves, were also learning how to use new technology and aligned it with North Carolina's state standards.

In 1997, a task force of National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) on technology in teacher education found that college faculty members were not making extensive use of technology in their own research and teaching.

Our faculty use cutting - edge teaching methods and classroom management techniques in the social studies classroom and implement inquiry - based and multicultural social studies curricula, while supporting students in becoming educational leaders who practice social responsibility and work for more caring and just societies.

The second is to educate individuals in the nature of cooperation and constructive conflict resolution through the use of cooperative learning (formal cooperative learning, informal cooperative learning, and cooperative base groups), cooperative schools (cooperative teaching teams, school - based decision - making, cooperative faculty meeting), constructive controversy (academic controversy to increase quality of learning and decision controversy to increase quality of decision making), and peacemaking (problem - solving negotiations, peer mediation, violence prevention).

Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a) meeting for 1 hour a week in study groups; (b) meeting in cross-grade groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study groups; (d) considering research - based «best practices» in study groups; (e) completing action plans in study groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h) meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making effective use of the internal leadership team.

We believe the primary task of teachers and faculties is to equip themselves with a variety of teaching models they can use for different purposes, adapt for different learners, and combine artfully to create classrooms and learning communities of variety and depth.

Among other things, the legislation would impose continuing education requirements on college and university faculty, require specific content in subjects like classroom management and using data to inform instruction be added to undergraduate curriculum, and revise the student teaching experience.

It can not be assumed that methods faculty have a direct influence on how preservice teachers use technology in their own teaching; rather, the relationship must be proven.

The first step in accomplishing this task is determining how preservice teachers» perceptions of using technology in teaching are affected by teaching methods courses taught by faculty who are effective models for technology integration.

The term is also applied to schools or teaching faculties that use small - group collaboration as a form of professional development.

Increasing faculty use of technology in teaching and teacher education.

As a university faculty member whose research and teaching focus on PBS, I observed and documented how the faculty at Hoffman Glen used this approach to transform their school.

«After using the Briggs / Cochran Calculus ebook that uses beta CDF technology, many faculty members have told us, «This is how calculus should be taught,»» said Bill Hoffmann, Executive Editor at Pearson.

For the faculty and particularly for those who are into teaching engineering or computer science, the iPad can be used to build applications specific to the courses they teach.

If you want to use Microsoft's Cloud Platform Windows Azure for teaching purposes, you can apply for a «Windows Azure Educator Grant» which offers a 12 - month free subscription to Windows Azure for faculty, and a 6 - month free subscription for students.

The person filling the newly created faculty position will work closely with colleagues in the Veterinary Medical Teaching Hospital to promote the use of digital tools to remotely examine and diagnose animal patients.

Virtual Assistance: The Webmaster requests that web guests refrain from using email to seek the advice or opinions of the faculty regarding problems in personally owned animals that are not patients in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

In the February 2017 digital edition of Clean Run magazine, KPA faculty member Sarah Owings writes about teaching for stimulus control without the use of extinction.

The Clinical Microbiology / Immunology group provides laboratory diagnostic tests and consultation for clinicians, develops diagnostic tests, supports faculty research, and teaches students how to use appropriate laboratory tests and how to interpret test results how to best care for their veterinary patients.

We also house more than 450 student team games in our faculty - maintained game library, as well as a number of board games that our faculty use to teach introductory game design concepts.