Sentences with phrase «for teacher study»

Provide time and a structure for teacher study groups to reflect on their current practices and discuss new strategies (Marcia D'Arcangelo, «The Challenge of Content - Area Reading: A Conversation with Diane Ogle»).

The leader and inspiration for this teacher study tour offered for professional development credits is Dr. Mary Ann De Mello, Assistant School Superintendent in Hopkinton, MA who recently completed her doctoral dissertation titled: «The Impact of Study Tours in Developing Global - Mindedness Among PK - 12 Educators» (2011).

Not exact matches

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

«We found the teachers in our study were able to teach uninterrupted for almost twice as long after the outdoor lesson than after an indoor lesson,» Kuo commented.

For the study, the research team asked teachers to prepare and deliver identical lessons to groups of third graders.

In some universities, you can go from enrolment to graduation without requiring paper for anything other than exams — study guides, textbooks, assignments, teacher assessments are all executed and delivered digitally.

Other education related initiatives include resolving the issue of the Alberta teachers» pension plan shortfall and preventing a teachers» strike for five years; creating 1000 new spaces for post-secondary education students in energy, the environment, and economic studies; and creating 6000 new apprenticeship seats.

Alberta's civics, social studies, and citizenship teachers are welcome to apply for the Teachers Institute on Canadian Parliamentary Deteachers are welcome to apply for the Teachers Institute on Canadian Parliamentary DeTeachers Institute on Canadian Parliamentary Democracy.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Drawing on its historical strength in Christian studies and its significant resources in global religious studies, Harvard Divinity School educates scholars, teachers, ministers, and other professionals for leadership and service both nationally and internationally.

Indeed, the fundamental object of study is not the music on the page or the teacher's prowess but our imperfect fingers trying to play that music and to own it for ourselves.

There are many additional «color of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color» of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and control.

And he's a highly regarded meditation teacher, designing meditation courses for much of the recent scientific study of the practice.

So much for the Bible study teacher caring for «spiritual matters» while the finance chairperson keeps an eye on «the real world.»

The Azhar's traditional pattern of instruction was for the students to choose their teachers according to their inclinations and the standards they had achieved, continuing their studies for an indeterminate time with no examinations until they were ready to graduate.

He was not the only minister and teacher to defend the newly discovered scientific study of the Scriptures, nor was he the only one to be tried for it.

Teachers and pupils do not judge the desirability of various studies and learning activities by the pleasure, comfort, or satisfaction they yield; their sole concern is for the contribution made to the development of right habits of thought and conduct.

While it is a wonderful idea to have times set aside for the uninterrupted study of Scripture, every pastor - teacher should also have times where people can drop in for a visit, or where the pastor goes out to visit the people where they are at.

This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).

J. Dwight Pentecost, who has spent his life studying and teaching Scripture, writes that «The parables of Jesus have long challenged expositors and stimulated teachers, for in their simple form the deepest truths have been revealed.»

One of the most disheartening things for a pastor, or a Bible study leader, or a Sunday school teacher to see, is somebody in his congregation or class get that empty - eyed, slack - jawed, bored - out - of - their - mind, wake - me - when - he's - done look in their eyes.

Get a Bible and study it for yourself, the great Teacher is there to illumine.

The Church, teacher of humanity, never tires of exhorting people, especially the young of whom you are a part, to remain watchful and not to fear choosing «alternative» paths which only Christ can indicate... Jesus calls all his friends to live in sobriety and solidarity, to create sincere and disinterested emotional relationships with others... From you, dear young students, he asks for honest commitment to study, cultivating a mature sense of responsibility and a shared interest in the common good.

As this Age of Great Enlightenments contnue onwards the Kingdom Domains of God does progressively teach one and we are taught from its outward creviced distances toward almost absolute finiteness or the very very smallest of distinguishable degrees, God will allow our students and teachers of such studies to meaningfully create manly made biologic mechanisms for the betterment's welfare of all our physical needs and trade orientated desires.

All of the work of the congregation — the committee meetings, the youth groups, teacher training meetings — are occasions for Bible study and meditation guided by Scripture.

The Academy of the Lay Ministry offers opportunity for service in several categories: volunteer group counselors, grief therapists, coffeehouse workers, teachers of parent - study groups, psychodramatists, pastor's assistants.

It is heaping up for yourself more and more teachers, more and more sermons, more and more Bible studies, more and more conferences.

When he leads persons in a study of our passage from the Sermon on the Mount, master teacher Walter Wink asks them to do the following: Bring into consciousness an enemy; conduct an imaginary dialogue with that person, in which you accuse him or her of the evil he or she seems to intend, imagining what he or she might say in response; then pray for the well - being of that person.

Such foreign study, under a broad program of regular international exchange of teachers and students, should increasingly become a normal feature of formal education for mature young people.

If I did well in a class, I would thank the teacher... or maybe pat myself on the back for studying so hard.

Non-fiction also provides an opportunity for teachers to redress the rather Eurocentric imbalance that can overwhelm English studies.

A sense of being embattled: a reliance perhaps on rules rather than answers to profound questions raised in a rapidly - changing world, a sense of the Church as a fortress rather than a Mother and teacher, a bleak landscape for Biblical studies.

And any teachers of religion who are effective are so because they have courageously refused to knuckle under to this absurd demand for detached, uninvolved, disinterested study of the ultimate questions of existence.

So seriously is it believed at McGill University that a Western student is not being offered adequate facilities for the study of Islam and for a degree in Islamics unless he has Muslims available from whom to learn, that it is formal policy at its Institute of Islamic Studies that half of the teachers and half of the students be Muslims.

Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.

When he studied the lives of those who gave themselves to the search for truth, he saw that they might be classified in four groups: the scholastic theologians, who proclaimed themselves the followers of reason and speculation; the Isma`ilis and other Shi`as who held that to reach truth one must have an infallible living teacher, and that there always is such a teacher; the philosophers, who relied on logical and rational proofs; and the Sufis, who held that they, the chosen of God, could reach knowledge of Him directly in mystical insight and ecstasy.

Such a study should prove valuable for anyone involved in the communication of Christian beliefs, especially teachers of religion in churches and schools but also those who participate In the educational process at every level.

The need for theological understanding and criticism on the part of the preacher and teacher has always been understood, perhaps especially by the churches of the Reformation though it is probably no accident that theological studies in the Roman Church have been especially developed in times past by the preaching orders.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

I'm a religious studies teacher in England and make this for my class of 15 year olds doing Jewish studies.

Teacher's licenses are difficult earn, expensive in education, and the jobs that they provide to not allow the teachers to pay off the student loans that they incur studying for said licenses.

But Gabriel, Jeremy's pony - tailed social studies teacher, was clear and recognizable, and in some way Gabriel's singularity made Steinman aware of his own role: warming up for the pleasure of the crowd, the latest leader of Ashland Football.

Between Fleck's four years as a wide receiver at Northern Illinois and his two seasons playing for the 49ers, he spent a few weeks as a sixth - grade social studies teacher in DeKalb, Ill..

For now, at least, it may be enough to know that for the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behaviFor now, at least, it may be enough to know that for the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behavifor the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behavior.

For Yeager, the conclusion to draw from the study is not that teachers should start slapping high - expectations Post-its on every piece of work they hand back to students.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Once I had accepted my limitations, I asked my teacher for help, I formed study groups with my friends; I formulated new ways of studying which made profound differences down the road.

A former NCAA athlete and high school social studies teacher, Jim currently advises the Positive Coaching Alliance, working to transform youth sports by helping to create a more positive and character - building experience for young athletes.

Our community includes Green Meadow Waldorf School (400 students, grades K - 12), the Pfeiffer Center (environmental education, biodynamic agriculture, and organic beekeeping), Eurythmy Spring Valley (movement art), Sunbridge Institute (Waldorf teacher education and adult anthroposophical studies), the Otto Specht School (Waldorf education for children with learning differences), the Fiber Craft Studio (healing senses and soul through work with plants and natural fibers), the Fellowship Community (home for the aged), and the Hungry Hollow Co-op Natural Foods Market.

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!