Sentences with phrase «great teaching efforts»

To work in a well - liked and well reputed school and to achieve good progress in my career through all my best subject knowledge and great teaching efforts.

Pope John Paul II himself has said that «a great teaching effort is needed to clarify the substantive moral difference between discontinuing medical procedures that may be burdensome, dangerous, or disproportionate to the expected outcome»» what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls «the refusal of «over «zealous» treatment» (2278)»» and taking away the ordinary means of preserving life, such as feeding, hydration, and normal medical care.»

Not exact matches

The great majority of Muslim learned men hold, with good reason, that the Prophet's teachings follow either the directive of divine, though nontextual, inspiration or, if it was a personal, purely human effort, he applied the very essence or spirit of the law of the Qur» an.

In ancient civilisations there were plenty of slaves to carry out laborious work, and so there was no incentive to build machines, but in the Middle Ages Catholic theology taught that unnecessary work was unworthy of the dignity of man, and so great efforts were made to develop labour - saving machinery.

They have to spend more time and make a greater effort to learn English, which can affect their learning of the specific material taught in subjects such as Science, History and Geography,» the researchers explain.

No Place to Learn says universities must re-establish undergraduate teaching as their first priority and recognize it as «a complex and important activity that demands broad reading, disciplined thought, and great effort.»

This is a great teaching point, too... A for effort, not perfection.

Meaningful progress depends on informed modesty about the likely returns on current efforts; greater specificity and more emphasis on context in the curricula and school - level approaches to teaching soft skills; and the development and use of practical assessments that are closely aligned with a specific framework for teaching and learning.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

For green conscious schools who invest a lot of time and effort into teaching students to use less electricity, walk to school instead of driving, and take shorter showers (all great initiatives), this information may come as a surprise.

One learns a great deal in Foote's book about the remarkable effort TFA puts into recruiting the best possible students for its enterprise, the energy and resources it devotes to evaluating its recruits, and the awesome effort these young people put into their teaching.

Our results confirm that students in tracked classes seem to have benefited from more - focused teaching and perhaps also from greater teacher effort.

Dan contributes analysis of great teaching, provides content design, and leads the team's efforts to strengthen schools» access to and support with TLAC resources.

«Now we know that we can identify and take up multiple perspectives on what great teaching looks like,» said Vicki Phillips, who heads the Gates Foundation's college readiness efforts.

Although these results are based on a single state, they should encourage efforts to promote greater diversity in the teaching workforce, which remains overwhelmingly white.

Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion, and Steven Farr, author of Teaching as Leadership, talk with Education Next about their efforts to identify what great teachers are doing in the classroom and to share these techniques with new teachers.

While the decision reeks of censorship, an unanswered question is whether the effort to remove Animal Farm is part of the greater shift toward the Common Core which frowns upon using fiction to teach English and language arts.

But with the ability to reward excellence in teaching and to spur creative efforts to find the best ways to reach students who aren't succeeding in existing schools, they hold great promise for kids who today are falling through the cracks.

While some students have greater knowledge of a certain topic than others at the outset of a lesson, if teachers are successful in their efforts, all students should, at least, have the same baseline knowledge once a lesson has been taught.

We heard that the best efforts will not only include recruiting, developing, and retaining great educators with the skills to teach all students, but will also build strong school leaders, create supportive working conditions, and address inequities in resources and supports for teachers.

Students taught by such teachers were more likely to report that those same teachers cared more about them, made learning more enjoyable, and encouraged them to make greater effort in their studies.

Holding hundreds of conversations with thousands of teachers and other stakeholders across the country which helped form the basis of the Department's RESPECT project (Recognizing Educational Success, Professional Excellence and Collaborative Teaching) to transform the teaching profession and inform policy efforts to support great teachers and Teaching) to transform the teaching profession and inform policy efforts to support great teachers and teaching profession and inform policy efforts to support great teachers and leaders;

The move towards collaboration in places such as Delaware offers great potential for improving teaching and learning conditions, but efforts to spread PLCs run the risk of being labeled «another policy fad» if we fail to provide educators with the support and autonomy necessary to make PLCs worthwhile.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for teaching in schools organized for success.

Peter Jennings Award Honors Rhonda Kalifey - Aluise, Kira Orange Jones, and Sarah Usdin for Education Efforts in New Orleans Teach for America — May 8, 2012 Three New Orleans education leaders received Teach For America's prestigious Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership: Rhonda Kalifey - Aluise, the Executive Director of KIPP New Orleans Schools, recently elected BESE member Kira Orange Jones, the Executive Director of TFA of Greater New Orleans, and Sarah Usdin, founder of New Schools for New Orleans.

«AACTE is excited to join with NCTAF in launching a collective effort to support great teaching which, of course, begins with great teacher preparation.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for teaching in schools organized for success.

I have felt that the leaders of Great Hearts make extraordinary efforts to train their teachers in the best teaching practices and provide many opportunities for them to re-ignite their love of learning through extra seminars with fellow teachers on exciting topics.»

But just like great teaching, great feedback requires deliberate effort and dedication by observers.

She has led joint efforts to create guiding thought pieces for the field, such as Coaching for Impact: Six Pillars to Create Coaching Roles that Achieve their Potential to Improve Teaching and Learning, produced in partnership with Learning Forward and the University of Florida Lastinger Center, and Time for Action: Building the Educator Workforce Our Children Need Now, a call to action produced in partnership with the Center for Great Teachers and Leaders and the Council of Chief State School Officers.

School leaders make the greatest impact on the progress and achievement of learners by using their educational expertise and management skills to focus the efforts of everyone in the school on improving the quality of teaching and learning.

A great deal of effort has gone into teaching the basics of reading to all students in U.S. schools.

To ensure great teaching is the norm and that Board certification is the expectation for all teachers, we need policies that strengthen the coherence of the teaching career continuum.The team's policy and advocacy efforts work with federal, state and local lawmakers to advance this mission.

More clinical experience in the classroom, greater emphasis on classes that build teachers» subject knowledge and teaching skills, and better efforts to recruit promising students should be top priorities in any reform efforts, they say.

In Urbanism Without Effort, he combines the two in unique fashion to show us how unplanned places can often teach us more about great placemaking than planned ones.»

Whether you do this at home or in a classroom, it's a great way to keep fresh flavor and nutrition in your diet with minimal effort, and to teach young ones about where food comes from.

It will celebrate local bicycle - recycling efforts in the area by Boston Bikes» Roll It Forward, the Worcester Earn - A-Bike and Bikes Not Bombs, another group that, among other things, does great work teaching Boston children how to ride and repair bicycles (and another fine organization that we support!).

From the knowledge gained from 5 years» of working in the recruitment industry prior to career and life coaching, Zeta will teach you everything you need to know about how to maximise your job - searching efforts, write a great CV, and excel in interviews.

Our three Webwise Safer Internet Day Ambassadors Pauline, Caitlin, and Rebecca went to great efforts to celebrate Safer Internet Day 2018, even creating a really cool video on cyber-safety and taught multiple lessons on internet safety on the day to all the first and second - year students.

It is recognized by PTI that there is great learning potential arising from one's own teaching and publishing efforts and continuing education credit is given for these.