Sentences with phrase «in teaching as a career»

The purpose of the California TOY Program is to honor the teaching profession and to heighten interest in teaching as a career.

Will increased scrutiny affect attrition or interest in teaching as a career?

By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)-- and as research by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a career (Ingersoll, 2001).

Not exact matches

Throughout his career, he's developed deep ties with China, serving as a board member at both China Unicom, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and has taught at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

As a result of the similarities between the two, a lot of what I learned in my career playing professional basketball transferred to the startup world and taught me a tremendous amount about how to run my company, CoachUp.

And in this episode of the podcast, you will hear from Tony and Ray as they discuss the evolution of Ray's career, the catastrophic mistakes he made that almost destroyed everything he built, and how the lowest points in his life taught him his biggest lessons.

Melissa left behind a successful career as an award - winning V.P. in marketing to be of greater service by inspiring and teaching professionals and business owners the key strategies needed to identify their purpose and discover their unique value.

Women are taught that their importance comes only through having a husband who holds the priesthood (which they have erroneously been denied) and having lots of children and not from obtaining their education as their career should «be solely in the home».

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

And, in case three careers sound like too few, he is also a church leader, having served as Bishop of Durham, England, before his current teaching post at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

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.

Pellettieri began her career in brewing as a chemist and microbiologist at the Siebel Institute of Technology and World Brewing Academy in Chicago, where she also taught sensory management.

Billie Jean King has been a dynamo as a tennis champion, promoter, television commentator, businesswoman and feminist, but she may be even more compelling in her latest career: teaching

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

Yalda's former career as a Senior VP at MGM, in film production, informs her perspective that media content has great power to socialize children, to inspire and teach as well as to be used inappropriately.

Linda began her career in Waldorf teaching after entering the Steiner school as a parent; after several years of parent volunteering and anthroposophical studies, she enrolled in the full - time elementary teacher education program of Sunbridge College, where she earned her teaching certificate.

Realizing that he needed to professionalize his teaching career, he studied education and got his license as a teacher in 2003.

Pachnik, who grew up in a single - parent household, said Mr. Nystrom also taught him lessons he took with him in his career as a police officer.

I've been considering completing my studies and going into teaching as it will mean that I can have a career that will fit around Sausage when she starts school, but really, my heart isn't in teaching, and I think it's one of those professions that you should only go into if you're passionate about it.

Dr. Cox began his career in the classroom as a high school physical education and health teacher so he truly understands the importance of teaching kids to develop healthy habits.

Should every child also be taught where hockey pucks come from in preparation for careers as pro hockey stars?

I began my career sixteen years ago as a city lawyer in London but after having my children, and discovering the power of touch and the benefits of baby massage, I left my job and started to teach infant massage and yoga.

I gave up my successful career in law as a solicitor over 15 years ago to teach infant massage & yoga and it was the best decision I have ever made.

«This isn't about trade union leaders - this is about dinner ladies and teaching assistants and people in local government who feel as though they've worked hard for 30 years and suddenly are being stung at a late stage in their career - predominantly low - paid women,» he told the Independent on Sunday.

She has also worked as provost of Johns Hopkins University in a teaching career that started in 1985 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Treyger began his teaching career as a paraprofessional in 2005 and became a teacher at New Utrecht HS the following year.

Following a diverse career with jobs in teaching, travel writing and currently as a web consultant, Greenwood is said to be a committed campaigner and a founder member of the pressure group Defend our NHS.

It was a big reason why Bill Walsh moved to Washington, D.C., and joined the National Guard as a young man — only to be surprised when his father followed him to Washington when he was elected to Congress in 1972, Jutton said the children may not have realized it at the time, but their father was always teaching them, and probably the biggest influence behind their careers in public service.

Bloomberg said the burden of paying back student loans from top colleges sometimes causes those interested in teaching not to consider it as a career choice.

To address the critical shortfall of skilled young and beginning farmers and ranchers, the Young Farmer Success Act would provide incentives to those perusing careers in agriculture by adding farmers to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which currently includes professions such as government service, teaching and nursing.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — After teaching middle school English, he spent decades in politics, serving as a U.S. Congressman and Hamburg Supervisor and council member, but Jack Quinn says taking the job as Erie Community College president brought his career, and personal life, full circle.

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As a starter, see science writing and editing, teaching, careers in zoos and museums, entrepreneurship, industry careers, and patent law.

It also provides higher level categories: sector — academia, government, for - profit, nonprofit, or other — and what it refers to as «career type» — primarily research, primarily teaching, related to research but not directly involved in it, not related to science, or a temporary training position.

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... I fully support her career and often use her as an example in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota on careers and the role (s) scientist [s] can play in affecting public policy and development.

Just as research and teaching are considered when evaluating a department, activities that serve to promote MSE careers among the local population should also play a prominent role in these evaluations.

The consensus prevailed among the members of the Ringberg Circle that the quality of teaching should be evaluated in standardized terms and that the results of this evaluation should contribute to the career of university teachers in the same way as scientific success in terms of publication numbers.

What they should also be doing is preparing students for their professional careers by teaching them basic knowledge, tools, and skills as well as a new breed of interdisciplinary education in entrepreneurship.

There's more than one path to policy — if Science's Next Wave teaches anything, it's that when it comes to careers there's never just one way of doing things — but if you want to make the transition as painless as possible you should try to make the change in a sensible way.

Although more than 60 percent of survey respondents rated a research - oriented faculty position as one of their most attractive career paths, more than one - third rated other careers as more attractive, including research in government, established firms or startups, as well as teaching and other non-research careers.

Now, as I forge ahead in my career, two of my goals are definitely to return to Antarctica as a scientist and to focus on teaching.

I am still uncertain if an academic career is for me, but regardless of my future employment options, I think my teaching experience will be advantageous as it demonstrates to an employer that I have the ability to present data to a group of people in a logical manner.

This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»

Begun in 1997, UTeach is also making STEM faculty rethink their traditional view of precollege teaching as a second - rate career.

Schmid College Fellows are outstanding early - career scientists who provide innovative teaching and mentorship to undergraduate students in our Grand Challenges Initiative (http://www.chapman.edu/GCI), as well as advance independent research in collaboration with a member of the faculty.

As scientists, we are all taught early in our careers how to minimize variability between experimental and control groups.

«He began his career as a creative and meticulous researcher, but he became more and more involved in teaching, to which he was absolutely devoted.