Sentences with phrase «for teaching colleagues»

Watching the resistance that my curious students encounter from their peers when they share ideas and questions might shed some light on why it can be difficult for teaching colleagues to celebrate one another's successes or willingly discuss learning reform.

Not exact matches

One employee gets cash for regularly teaching fitness classes for colleagues; another volunteers with the United Way in return for National Leasing donations.

Selected by Decker staffers for their poise under pressure, their approachability, and their ability to drive others, these individuals can each teach you how to be a better manager and colleague.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

In 2009, my colleague Theodor Dieter and I started teaching a two - week course every November on Luther's theology, for Lutheran pastors from all over the world, in no less venerable a location than Wittenberg itself.

The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that new faculty — though very smart and well read (and probably better educated than most of their senior colleagues), though religiously observant and already experienced in teaching, though flexible, open and good - humored — have not found a vocation, do not know what purpose they want to serve.

As writing opened up opportunities for me to speak, my husband, my parents, my sister, my friends, my church, my mentors, my colleagues, other churches all agreed: self - selected or not, preaching and teaching were part of my calling.

I have also found myself looking into the faces of that diversified company of informal students embracing, for example, my colleagues teaching in other fields, as well as those other friends from all walks with whom I spend sustaining nonworking hours and who, ever and again even in the midst of play, put me back to work with «simple» innocent questions about the Bible.

My sympathy and apology go: to my teaching colleagues who have had to put up with my barrage of «Niebuhrisms» at the midmorning faculty coffee break for the last several months.

I gladly record my debt to Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Jr. and Anton Boisen, whose course, «Experience and Theology,» in The Chicago Theological Seminary opened up the relation of theology to psychology for me; to Seward Hiltner, Granger Westberg, and my present colleague, Earl Loomis, with each of whom I have taught courses on the relation of psychiatry and theology; and to William Oglesby of Union Seminary, Richmond, not only for his encouragement in the project I was undertaking, but for helpful criticism of the lectures.

From that shocking conviction of faith, Luther was able to go forth teaching, preaching, raising a family, running from authorities, sulking in protective custody in two castles, translating the Bible, writing hymns, eating and drinking with students and colleagues, maladministering the new congregations of evangelicals, struggling for freedom, devising pragmatic polities for the churches, becoming a public and political figure, defying pope and emperor and developing a Christ - centered theology.

This short introduction to the Old Testament is designed for colleagues in teaching as well as formal and informal students including working clergy persons and lay persons.

James Keenan and Peter Black, for example, have criticised those who «look more for consistency with previous teachings than to the critical tradition itself» -LCB- Studia Moralia 2001, p. 326), describing them as «colleagues who haveleft our enterprise» (ibid.).

Having taught in a faculty of education for 21 years, I can attest to its dominance in everyday discourse among student teachers as well as among many of my colleagues.

Madeline Levine, author of «Teach Your Children Well» and «The Price of Privilege,» has been working with her colleagues at the nonprofit organization Challenge Success («Success is measured, not at the end of a semester, but over the course of a lifetime») to create strategies for schools and parents working to send our children a different message.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

As for unions, Tristram Hunt does part - time teaching without joining one and recently showed himself willing to cross a picket line of his colleagues at Queen Mary College.

Hurricanes that devastated areas of the Caribbean last fall impeded science research and teaching, but new networks for aiding colleagues and new avenues for research have emerged from the response efforts, according to several speakers at a recent conference co-hosted by AAAS.

Topics included Evaluating Effective Tactics for Protecting Colleagues at Risk, Teaching Human Rights in Science and Engineering Courses, and Indicators for Human Rights.

As part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation, he and his colleagues have posted ample resources on how to make such videos and use them for teaching.

Careful development of course and teaching portfolios can be invaluable for educating your colleagues about your teaching.

Some of her colleagues at Emory — where she taught in sociology and women's studies — «seemed incapable of not mentioning the difference between me and them,» she recalls, adding that her last job at Emory was glorified clerical work for the Institute of Liberal Arts.

Stains and her colleagues have authored a new study showing that traditional lecturing remains the most common teaching style for undergrad classes in science, technology, engineering and math.

Stout told Discovery News that Morgan and colleagues» study «adopts an experimental approach to questions that have otherwise been addressed largely through intuition or «common sense,» for example, the question of whether teaching and language are important for learning Oldowan tech.»

I'm not placing blame — we all act out of how we were taught and what was modeled for us, and these messages are deep - rooted and all around us — in movies and TV shows, in the lyrics of songs we hear on the radio, in our conversations, sarcasm, and jokes with friends and work colleagues.

I was going about my usual routine, teaching proper form, technique, and pushing everyone to their physical limit, when my friend and colleague Aaron Ortega popped in for a chat.

Physical therapist Nancy K. Latham, PhD, of Boston University and colleagues taught people who had finished rehabilitation for a broken hip how to do simple exercises at home.

For the past year I'd been hearing big praise from my colleagues for the neuromuscular repositioning techniques taught by the Postural Restoration InstituFor the past year I'd been hearing big praise from my colleagues for the neuromuscular repositioning techniques taught by the Postural Restoration Institufor the neuromuscular repositioning techniques taught by the Postural Restoration Institute.

Attending a «career night» for a class that a colleague of mine teaches (shout out to any DU students reading this!)

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

This course booklet contains all of the: - worksheets - chunking / terminology activities for each lesson - homeworks - associated mind map and revision activities - revision activities - literacy activities - differentiated word searches and crosswords I issue each student that I teach with this booklet and we work through it with the associated PowerPoints (these can be supplied upon requested but they have been put together with the assistance of my colleague, so I will not be putting them on for sale).

Set aside time to plan (with colleagues and / or a mentor) how you might begin to use current student data and curriculum content to individualize teaching for students in a blended learning model.

Slack is a great app that allows for easy communication with your teaching colleagues throughout your school.

EW: In addition to completing three portfolio entries that demonstrate their actual teaching practices, candidates for national certification must complete an entry documenting their work with students» families, the community, their colleagues, and the teaching profession as a whole.

«Teaching at HGSE is such collective work and I am grateful for this opportunity to say thank you to all the people — course participants, faculty colleagues, and administration, operations, and staff — who make teaching here soTeaching at HGSE is such collective work and I am grateful for this opportunity to say thank you to all the people — course participants, faculty colleagues, and administration, operations, and staff — who make teaching here soteaching here so joyful.

My HGSE colleagues set an incredibly high standard for teaching, and are constant sources of inspiration and aspiration for me,» said Brennan.

School leaders use frameworks that define the components of good teaching such as Danielson's Framework for Teaching or national standards or develop their own expectations with colteaching such as Danielson's Framework for Teaching or national standards or develop their own expectations with colTeaching or national standards or develop their own expectations with colleagues.

After reading the syllabi for the 20 new courses that my new colleagues are teaching this year, I have no doubt that they are finding effective ways to implement these suggestions.

The Florida native was a Teach for America veteran from New Orleans's Ninth Ward, where one of his colleagues routinely slept through class and a student showed up at school with an AK - 47 under his arm.

For the past 5 years I have taught geography alongside my best friend and colleague.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

A few years ago, my colleagues at Cesar Tarrant Elementary School in Hampton, Virginia, discussed ways in which we might improve behavior, academics, and retention rates for the boys we taught.

Martin is one of six teachers in the UK to receive a 2016 Teachers of Physics Award from the IOP for his outstanding work teaching physics and was nominated by his colleagues, after the School achieved a record number of students progressing to study A-Level physics.

The question for my colleague Jo Inglis, Head of Learning & Teaching was «Was it possible to make changes to classroom pedagogy in educational technology?»

Teaching is about engaging students in a passion for learning and working collaboratively with colleagues, explains John Hattie in a discussion with Education Week's Elizabeth Rich.

The event not only gave me the unique opportunity to learn skills I could immediately share with my colleagues, it also renewed my passion for teaching.

For David Sloane, a doctor at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and an instructor at Harvard Medical School, the best part of his work has to do with what he calls the «teaching moments» — the times when he's helping patients, medical students, and even colleagues understand complex information or new ideas.

A big thank you to my amazing teaching colleagues who demonstrated the physical activities for the videos.

«I'm honored to be selected for the Radcliffe Fellowship, and am very much looking forward to learning in the vibrant Radcliffe community,» Mehta said, noting that he will miss his Ed School colleagues and teaching...

Described by her colleagues as an «amazing maths and science teacher,» Shelly has been employed by Education Queensland for 18 years, teaching across Years 8 to 12.