Sentences with phrase «including teaching matters»

With over 50 partner organizations (including Teaching Matters, which works to develop and retain great teachers in urban school districts), the new coalition, known as TeachStrong, offers a nine - point prescription.

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Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

In a statement, it outlined its issue with Bishop Alan: «The continued failure to admonish the Bishop of Buckingham, despite his refusal to uphold the teaching of the Church and guidance of the House on matters of sexuality, whilst also allowing him, without criticism, repeatedly to describe Conservative Evangelicals as homophobic, including those who themselves experience same - sex attraction but seek to live celibate, God - honouring lives.»

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Education is what mattered most in the West, with the schools teaching the classical curriculum, including Greek and Latin.

But in a religious situation that includes matters both good and evil, teachings both true and false, he may indeed use things and teachings that are good or of indifferent value as instruments of salvation.

Parenting Pointers - Parents Matter Most 5 Essential pointers to keep kids connected and safe, including how to Problem - Solve Aim for Balance and Health 7 Keys for a balanced life 6 Warning signs of obsession Parents Fears and Childrens Needs 8 Fears of parents and 8 needs of children Safety First Entertainment Software Ratings Board (ERSB) Codes 16 Cyber-safety recommendations Benefits of Internet and Gaming 20 Academic, social and life - skill benefits of internet and video / computer games Part Two Teaching Digital Intelligence Babies and Toddlers 0 - 2 yrs Brain Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, and Experiential Learning Preschoolers 3 - 5 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, Learning Styles, Acknowledging Feelings, Advertising, and Virtual Worlds School - Agers 6 - 12 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, Sibling Fighting, Online Learning, Inactivity, Overeating, Cyber-bullying, Netiquette, Critical Thinking, Surveillance Programs and Luring Protection Teenagers 13 - 19 yrs Development, Usage, Parents Role, Safety Tips, How to Reduce Screen Time, One - time Consultation, Sharing Values, Boundaries, and Online Learning Be a Part of Their World The most important gift that children need and can not be provided virtually

Don't swallow any of it whole — no matter what you teach you need to make the course your own — but a quick look at these sites (and other resources) can help you make wise choices as to what, and how much, to include.

Integration of the broader societal perspective can also provide the contextual framing of the subject matter which I have found, in a survey performed at the University of Copenhagen, that many students would like to see included in the teaching.

Audible.com features more than 100,000 titles including science books you've been meaning to check out like Kevin Dutton's The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success and Richard Panek's The Four Percent Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality.

First taught to teachers in special training sessions, then disseminated to students in the context of health classes, the subject matter includes such topics as recognizing suicidal behavior, providing immediate assistance to prevent an attempt, and how to obtain further help and counseling.

This product includes over 90 pages of foldables, activities, and pages to teach and reinforce matter, basic chemistry, forces & motion, and energy to your late elementary or middle school science students.

These books supports the teaching of various topics / units including: Speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, energy transformations, atomic structure, ionic bonding, covalent bonding, energy resources, states of matter, magnets, terminal velocity, volume, elements, periodic table, genetic, diseases, floating and sinking, pressure, chemical reactions, enzymes, cell division, combustion, momentum, smoking and much more....

This led to a variety of activities including faculty seminars on teaching practices, student retreats, and HGSE - wide workshops on diversity - related matters.

Proof of subject - matter competency may include a combination of teaching experience, professional development, and knowledge in the subject garnered over time in the profession.

In science lessons, at key stages one and two children are taught the following topics: plants; animals, including humans; everyday materials; living things and their habitats; states of matter; and electricity.

To make matters worse, 40 percent of all public school teachers, including those teaching in Colorado, are not eligible to participate in Social Security, placing even more weight on a system that isn't serving the majority of its members well.

He suggests that the subjects for bargaining may include many «non-salary» items, such as teaching loads, class size, curricular and program choices, questions of student discipline, and selection of administrative personnel — matters traditionally decided heretofore at the local level.

Coleman concluded that teachers did not matter because their characteristics (including years of experience in teaching; localism of teacher; teacher's own education; and vocabulary score) explained only a small amount of the variation in achievement.

Options might include testing reading annually, but eliminating stakes; testing decoding up to grade four; or substituting subject - matter tests to encourage teaching across content areas.

Knowing pedagogy appropriate for teaching particular subject matter, including transforming the content for teaching and adapting instruction or materials based on students» characteristics, skills, and knowledge.

Front matter, including Table of Contents and Preface Introduction: The School Zone SECTION ONE: FOUNDATIONS Chapter One Time to Learn Chapter Two Time, Growth, and Learning Chapter Three Using Time Wisely SECTION TWO: OBSERVATIONS Chapter Four Floating on the Surface in Seventh Grade Chapter Five On Your Mark, Get Set... Seven Years Old in First Grade Chapter Six Working to Be «All There at Once» SECTION THREE: TRANSFORMATIONS Chapter Seven Changing School Time Chapter Eight Changing the Structure of Time in Classrooms Chapter Nine Changing the Use of Time in Classrooms Chapter Ten Time to Teach Afterword: Heros in the Classroom Appendix A: Standards Appendix B: The Responsive Classroom ® Notes References Acknowledgments Index About the Author Northeast Foundation for Children, 1999, 336 pages, paper ISBN: 1 -892989-01-8

Further complicating matters, Hayes says, are the many bureaucratic rules and traditions enforced at the school, district and state level, including teacher evaluations based on student test scores, extensive federal reporting requirements, and curricula that «tell teachers what to teach and when and for how long no matter who the students are in front of them.»

Silver is the author of several articles and books on instructional tools and strategies, including a number of bestsellers with ASCD: The Core Six, The Strategic Teacher, The Strategic Teacher PLC Guide Series, So Each May Learn, and Teaching What Matters Most.

Rick's work has been reported in numerous media, including ABC's Good Morning America, Hardball with Chris Matthews, National Geographic, and Good Housekeeping magazines, What Matters Most: Teaching for the 21st Century, and The Washington Post.

By lessening the emphasis put solely on testing, teachers have greater latitude to use creative teaching techniques and to include subject matter that can supplement core material.

He is the author of several books, including Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Advanced, Average, and Struggling Readers, Grades 7 — 12; Reading for Academic Success, Grades 2 — 6: Differentiated Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers; and Teaching What Matters Most, as well as the author of many articles.

Harvey Silver, Richard Strong, and Matthew Perini have collaborated on a number of recent best sellers in education including So Each May Learn: Integrating Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences and Teaching What Matters Most: Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement, both published by ASCD; Reading for Academic Success: Powerful Strategies for Struggling, Average, and Advanced Readers, Grades 7 — 12 for Corwin Press; and Thoughtful Education Press's Tools for Promoting Active, In - Depth Learning, which won a Teachers» Choice Award in 2004.

License teachers based on demonstrated performance, including tests of subject - matter knowledge, teaching knowledge, and teaching skills.

It is time spent on and for teaching that matters most (which includes planning and professional development).

Other researchers, including Pierson (2001), Mishra and Koehler (in press), and Zhao (2003), have provided additional support and direction for the importance of the development of TPCK as an important body of knowledge for teaching specific subject matter and for the importance of integrating its development within the coursework in teaching and learning, as well as within coursework directed at developing subject matter knowledge.

In fact, the work of the many researchers Brill approvingly cites — including Kane, Staiger and Stanford's Eric Hanushek — shows that while teaching is the most important in - school factor affecting student achievement, family and neighborhood characteristics matter more.

Based on an exchange agreement with nine other states, teachers who have completed an approved teacher education program can teach for two years while completing any licensure deficiencies, including subject - matter assessments.

It provides specific insights and recommendations on teacher skills and understandings, including knowing how people learn, how children acquire language, and how to deliver strong subject matter teaching.

According to Gaudelli and Martenson, «GCC courses include a variety of activities that encourage collaboration with colleagues, co-development of work products, dialoging across and about difference, inquiring into complex subject matters that defy facile explanation, experiencing life in another part of the world and working with colleagues to translate all of this into their classroom teaching.»

And she describes teaching approaches that lead to engagement, including explaining why lessons matter, providing choice, conferring individually with kids often, using texts at kids» levels, providing lots of time for reading and writing, and leveraging student talk through class discussions.

They addressed questions including what criteria they used to identify key practices from across the vast scope of teaching practice; how they manage the interface of general and subject - and grade level - specific aspects of instruction; and how they account for the intersection of equity and diversity issues with the teaching of subject - matter.

Donna Staten, Elementary Art Teacher, Round Rock Independent School District, TX Donna Staten is the «Pinterest Queen» in school art circles because she generously shares resources through more than 450 boards that include videos, teaching techniques, and subject matter content.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

Requirements for this certificate include: holding a bachelor's degree in the desired teaching area; passing all subject matter testing required; enrolling in a department - approved alternative route educator preparation program; completing pre-service field experience; and receiving an offer of employment from an agency.

D. Teaching Matters Director of Curriculum and Instruction [email protected] Include the subject line: Rohatyn Prize

But when flip teaching is done right, what matters is that it uses time differently and more effectively, in ways that can profoundly benefit all learners, including students with learning disabilities...»

Enactments of this condition positively associated with principal efficacy include districts providing support for principals «professional development; districts providing individualized support for principals, depending upon the challenges they face in their schools; districts holding principals accountable for student achievement and teacher contributions to student achievement; districts giving principals responsibility for responding to student data; districts providing district staff to oversee subject - matter teaching in all elementary schools; districts providing a curriculum with supporting professional development for principals and teachers.

By prioritizing and privileging connections between technology and subject matter and pedagogical content, preservice, novice, and experienced teachers will be better prepared to identify technological uses across their profession, including use of technology by the children they are teaching.

Other niche markets include non-fiction surrounding nearly any topic you can imagine — gardening, marketing, pets, dating, and business are all markets that offer you the ability to narrow the subject matter down to something truly «niche,» like my quickly created examples of: «How to Teach Your Dog to Bring You Beers in Two Hours» or «How to Get a Date in One Day.»

Mr. Gordon has more than 22 years of experience as a personal coach in money matters including risk assessment, small - business development and portfolio management, and he has taught finance in Mexico, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan and the U.S.

While teaching in higher education, Amy became a nationally renowned speaker, authored various publications, including 5 textbooks, and became one of the industry's leading subject matter experts in veterinary technology education.

The problem persists in a lower key in other works of the period, including pictures made in 1953, while Diebenkorn was teaching in Illinois: the Urbana series, like the Albuquerque paintings, often gives the viewer the illusion of looking down at a distant landscape, as though from the harness of a parachute, rather than across at the matter on the canvas.

1 Gaines went on to become a highly regarded conceptualist artist and educator, teaching an alternate art history, one that included black artists and demanded the same consideration for the artist's product no matter their skin tone, leaving a strong impression on many of his students at CalArts, including Mark Bradford.2

Mr. Fisher has taught classes on international technology transactions at the Georgia Institute of Technology, and has authored articles and presentations on international and technology - related matters including: Selected Issues on International Technology Transactions; Foreign Deals: 10 Traps for the Unwary in an International Transaction, COMPETITIVE EDGE, JANUARY / FEBRUARY 2003; and The Extraterritorial Reach of U.S. Export Controls, CURRENTS: INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW JOURNAL, Summer 1996.