Sentences with phrase «n't teach faculty»

Schools create «white elephants» if they don't teach faculty and students effective use of the new technologies and resources.

Not exact matches

They are not only practices of teaching and learning, but also practices of raising funds and maintaining the school's resources; not only practices of governing various aspects of the school's common life, but also practices of various kinds of research; practices not only of assessing students and when they should be deemed to have completed their courses of study, but also of assessing faculty and judging when they should be promoted and when terminated; and so on.

Similarly, if teachers employed by the public are assigned to teach on parochial school premises, they tend to come under the administrative aegis of the parochial rather than the public school (not that they teach religion, but that they otherwise function to some degree as adjunct faculty, increasing with tax funds the staffing resources of the parochial school — a consideration apparently underlying two 1985 decisions but not well articulated by the Supreme Court)

A churchly school should not teach religion as if all religions were equally true or false, or appoint a critical mass of its faculty from secularists, and undoubtedly in certain situations a functioning magisterium will say so with force, but such mandates are nevertheless mere preliminaries.

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.

Institutions that must staff courses given at distant sites and odd hours are especially tempted to lean heavily on occasional teachers rather than regular faculty, many of whom don't like to move around or to teach after dinner.

More and more these part - time and adjunct faculty not only supervise field work, as they did in the past, but also teach core courses.

As Robert Iosue, president at York College, has pointed out most persuasively, faculty members aren't very productive» assuming, that is, that productivity is related to the number of teaching hours in a week.

But a heartening sign in the present situation is the increase of interest among these librarians in their work as teachers and the increase of concern among faculties for the development of school libraries as teaching centers)-- to enter into conversation with a continuous if not identical group of thinkers.

Whether this means that team teaching must be the order of the day, or whether individual faculty members can retool themselves to draw on their colleagues» expertise, is not as clear.

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.

For resolution of the problem they look, not to the recovery of a single subject matter whose inherent structure could unify a course of study, but rather to reformed teaching and differently trained faculty.

His influence was not only through his teaching but also through his insistent efforts to create a community of open critical reflection in both the faculty and the student body.

More recently we have attempted to enlarge further the shared experiential base of faculty and students by having courses taught in local churches — not just practical courses, but Bible and theology.

Both academic and athletic administrators did not believe they had the authority to question how a faculty member structured and taught a course.

In the morning the academic faculty teaches a college - prep curriculum, emphasizing creativity and treating subjects not as collections of facts for memorizing, but as networks of questions for exploring.

Failure to invest in CUNY faculty and staff represents a political decision not to invest in the people we teach.»

Establishing a lab in Turkey can take a bit longer than in other places because new faculty members there usually don't receive start - up funds, getting supplies and attracting good postdocs can be difficult, and teaching loads tend to be heavy.

«These faculty are typically not on the tenure track and focus on teaching, not on research.

He explored teaching - focused faculty posts (these, too, he learned, typically involve writing papers and grant proposals, though not as much), running science - outreach programs (ditto on the grant proposals), business development, and management consulting.

He joined the teaching faculty at Brooke, preparing doctors and nurses headed to combat zones for the horrific facial injuries they'd see — and the frustration they'd feel when they couldn't repair the damage.

IRACDA postdocs may fill in for a professor at the partner institution who is away on sabbatical, or teach courses that partner - institution faculty members aren't prepared to teach.

Contingent faculty members constitute 71 % of GMU's teaching staff, not far from the national rate of 75 %.

For example, teaching eight courses a year, a load much heavier than a tenure - track faculty member has to handle even at most teaching - intensive schools, will not lift a family of four above the poverty line.

If you don't TA, you can ask faculty and friends in a journal club to critique your presentations with an eye toward improving your teaching style.

Examples include but are not limited to students who are not officially enrolled as a registered student at the Licensee institution but are taking a Massive Open Online Course («MOOC») or other course or program taught by Licensee faculty or that is offered by the Licensee in partnership or affiliation with other institutions or corporations).

She and her fellow teaching faculty «are on the whole treated very well,» even though «we are not exactly on equal standing with the tenure - track faculty.»

All of these activities can be viewed as benefiting the postdoc in some way, such as gaining experience in teaching or grant writing, but the benefits to institutions and their faculty contributed by postdocs can not be disregarded.

Like Morton, Lynn Hannum (introduced in Part 1) says that even though her teaching experience (at Lewiston - Auburn College) was a wonderful opportunity (and helped land her a faculty position at Colby), she didn't have much time to do research.

«Most faculty members aren't taught how to teach,» she says.

Such positions are not that rare: Currently, five out of the 30 or so faculty positions in his department are teaching - only positions, Moctezuma says.

Not that this was the prevailing attitude: Many faculty members I knew enjoyed teaching and took their teaching obligations very seriously.

«I don't ask young faculty hired at an assistant professor level to perform service, and I don't have them do any teaching, particularly professional classes, during their first year.

«Extension faculty can teach homeowner's how to manage their technology and tell them it doesn't have to be a scary, unknown thing that is outside and not thought about,» she said.

«In the traditional science track, you learn to do one thing very well, but there's no real opportunity to develop teaching skills,» explains Bockholt, who «turned down faculty positions and took the job at CELL to really broaden my skills... skills that I couldn't get in a research position.»

In April, Harvard psychology department faculty voted not to allow Hauser to return to teach at the university in the fall.

Between teaching, research, grant writing, and other departmental service commitments, I don't see how junior faculty balance family and career.

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Too often, faculty use teaching methods that do not match the cutting - edge character of their biological research, said Terry Woodin, a program director in NSF's Division of Undergraduate Education.

When faculty, students, and parents know that they are valued, achieving a shared vision becomes everyone's shared responsibility — not to teach testing, but to help every student achieve success in learning.

Although the pay might not be high and the fringe benefits are nonexistent, substitute teaching still provides a dynamic teaching adventure that attracts aspiring classroom teachers, retired teachers, mothers who have deferred careers to raise children, retired policemen and firemen; part - time university faculty, writers, musicians, and magicians, among others.

On his first attempt to transfer, members of Stuyvesant's faculty were able to persuade him that he was not up to the task of teaching the accelerated Stuyvesant curriculum.

«Elyse Terry is not only an outstanding student, but an exceptional practitioner in the field of teaching,» says Senior Lecturer Kay Merseth, faculty director of TEP.

Short of waving the magic wand that would reduce teaching load — a step that most institutions can't feasibly take — how can colleges make teaching a satisfying, positive aspect of the faculty experience, rather than a burdensome and unrewarding obligation?

Whether you are looking to set the tone for the term or give teachers a much - earned respite during the year, faculty retreats not only can improve teaching techniques, but build staff morale and cohesiveness as well.

For almost as long, Mr. Haberman has been arguing that schools of education can not prepare enough effective teachers for America's city schools because faculty members themselves have virtually no urban teaching experience.

Second, the expertise that most traditional faculty members have is not in fact in teaching and learning.

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Where the traditional universities have it right is that for the foreseeable future, research faculty will continue to teach doctoral students and those grappling at the upper bounds of subjects that are not yet well understood or codified.

Things like including more people within our circles, recognizing how we sit during faculty conferences, and addressing how we speak to children who may or may not look like us (and how we teach them to approach others) all go a long way towards deconstructing racism.