Sentences with phrase «like teaching for understanding»

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The company sells software subscriptions to schools and businesses that help teach financial literacy (understanding mortgages and credit, for example), responsible college behavior (involving hazing and alcohol consumption), corporate compliance (like sexual harassment and diversity training), and other programs.

Now as a Christian I follow the new testament, and so striving to be Christ like as a Christian I accept everyone for who they are, I love them and do not presume to know the right way for them to live their life, instead I simply open my arms to others and know that all people of all faiths are just fine it doesn't matter to me what you do with your life all that matters is the way that you do it... that was my understanding of christs teachings anyways

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

If our reading, studying, and teaching of Scripture is not leading us to look, act, and love more like Jesus, then we are not properly understanding or reading the Scriptures and should probably just put them away for a while until we learn to love others more like Jesus.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.

But as we are taught by our deepening insight into the dominant role of love in the world and the central place of man's response to that love, and as a consequence of our better understanding of human nature in its psychological depths, we are beginning to see ever wider implications of the truth that God wills and works for men to become men and in freedom to act like men.

Unfortunately, almost none of that could be said to come «naturally» in a society that doesn't always teach men to fully respect or nurture their partners, doesn't provide universal paid parental leave for all parents, doesn't ensure that all healthcare providers understand what it means to support mothers» efforts to breastfeed, doesn't teach people what it looks like to establish a nursing relationship, and pushes mothers to put all sorts of other things (financial obligations, social pressures to entertain guests and / or «get their body back») ahead of their postpartum recovery.

I understand the need for real - life examples when teaching subjects like genetics, especially to children.

They may look fancy, but what they really mean is that I understand how to teach people like you to heal yourself through proper nutrition and how to cook the right foods for your body.

Elani McDonald will also address the demands to incorporate IT into advancing teaching of maths and science as a process of bettering understanding of STEM subjects.Middlesborough College's Richard Spencer, finalist of the secondary Global Teacher Prize, provides his top tips to get students interested in science, while there will also be a seminar exploring what «outstanding» levels of science looks like and how you can replicate this for students — from primary to A levels.

Some of the high school texts were absolutely first - rate, and new - math - era textbooks like Mary Dolciani's «Structure and Method» series for algebra and geometry continue to be used by math teachers who understand mathematics and how it is to be taught.

While I am not a critic of these ideas and understand the need for goals like this ~ with my teaching hat on ~ I rarely use them.

Educational movements like Understanding by Design and organizations like Teaching Tolerance are slowly finding a voice in the education world, bargaining for more authentic and active educational opportunities for our students and their mentors.

This like all of my introductory lessons is very thorough and has plenty of material, superb examples and teaching slides, embedded questions for testing understanding, learning objectives, key words and plenary.

While agreement is growing over the understanding that quality teaching is the most important variable in student learning, I find all too often school leaders responsible for observing teachers on the job don't know what quality teaching looks like.

Like other researchers, we found that participants» close observations of students» engagement and understanding prompted teaching decisions and, hence, provided opportunities for developing teacher knowledge (Courduff et al, 2016; Park & Oliver, 2008).

The growing trend of entering pupils early for exams like maths can reduce time for teaching and learning and students can end up sitting exams with an incomplete understanding of the subject.

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FEATURES Unlimited virtual shapes Easy to add, drag, rotate, and remove shapes Convenient triangular grid (for fractions) and square grid (for transformations) Snapping for easy placement and alignment Pen tools for annotations and labels File saving Common Core teaching ideas Includes 1 Single - User, 1 year license MATH TOPICS Understanding Fractions Equivalent Fractions Mixed Numbers Adding Fractions (like denominators) Adding Fractions (unlike denominators) Subtracting Fractions Dividing Fractions Patterns Ratios and Proportions Congruence Similarity Lines of Symmetry Tessellations and tiling

In fact, programs like Teach for America focus on attracting the most talented college graduates into the classroom in order to prepare leaders who understand the challenges of public education not to prepare career teachers.

I like your idea about more gifted individuals going into teaching — having «been there, done that» can go a long way with understanding and compassion for gifted children.

Typically taught in early algebra classes, the topic of polynomials is critical to understanding higher maths like Algebra and Calculus, so it's important that students gain a firm understanding of these multi-term equations involving variables and are able to simplify and regroup in order to more easily solve for the missing values.

Research has shown above - average effects for leaders who believe their major role is to evaluate their impact, who get everyone in the school working together to understand and evaluate their impact, who learn in an environment that privileges high - impact teaching and learning, who are explicit with teachers and students about what success looks like, and who set appropriate levels of challenge and never retreat to just «do your best.»

While I am somewhat new to the design thinking process, it feels remarkably like kin - folk to Harvard Project Zero's Teaching for Understanding (TfU, a curriculum design framework my colleagues and I used at North Oakland Community Charter School).

In order for instruction to improve, leaders need to better understand what powerful teaching looks like and learn how to lead the work.

The goal isn't to teach one thing or to have people learn the ins and outs of one industry, but rather allow people to discover for themselves what an entrepreneur looks like, and understand how incredibly different we all are.

Training comprises teaching dogs ESL (English as a Second Language)-- teaching dogs human words for doggy behaviors and actions, so that they understand how we would like them to act.

Although my work doesn't look on the surface much like his, I think he taught me about using iconic signifiers and figures that I could project myself into for emotion and as an avatar in paint (like Scott McCloud describes in his amazing book, Understanding Comics, that we do as comic readers), and create figurative narrative allegories that hopefully resonate deeper than most political cartoons and relate to Goya and other art historical uses of politics and allegory as much as the imagery could relate to underground comics and contemporary worlds.

For a well - written cover letter, use strong, clear action verbs from the professional camp counselor cover letter sample like coached, communicated, coordinated, encouraged, guided, instructed, motivated, and taught, so your hiring manager can understand your talents.

Experience has taught me that in situations like these the wisest approach is not to bury hurt, anger or even rage, but to seek counseling for fuller understanding and awareness, a reliable road to forgiveness that also offers sound direction.

Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award - winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to: • Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive • Better understand your spouse's behavior • Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions • Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following: • Irresponsible • A workaholic • Controlling • Uncommunicative • Verbally abusive • Physically abusive • Sexually abusive • Unfaithful • Addicted to alcohol or drugs • Depressed Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful.