Sentences with phrase «of education faculty members»

In order to improve the reflective practice of preservice teachers before they enter their internships and the teaching profession, a team of education faculty members at a large, private, not - for - profit university in the southeastern United States opted to create an in - house simulation to enhance teacher candidate awareness of real world situations involving diversity they may encounter as future teachers.
In summer 2003, 13 College of Education faculty members received funding for individual curriculum development with support from graduate assistants, for a total of 82 faculty workdays.
This past spring, a number of Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members, students, and alumni were recognized for their hard work and achievements with awards and fellowships.
Several Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members discussed education in America at the recent Institute of Politics 18th biennial Program for Newly Elected Members of Congress held at the Harvard Kennedy School.Although members of the Ed School faculty have participated in prior years»...
Several Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members were honored at the 2009 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) in San Diego last week.
The Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members participating in an Askwith Forum panel discussing the controversial documentary Waiting for «Superman» expressed mixed emotions about the film's emphasis on charter schools and teachers unions, and agreed it's a small glimpse of a large and complicated education problem.
Dean Kathleen McCartney announced today the appointment of two Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members to endowed chairs.
In addition to Scholastic's own suggested remedies, Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members Joe Blatt, Nonie Lesaux, and Catherine Snow compiled a comprehensive distillation of literacy research into a short guidebook titled Encouraging Your Child to Read.
We asked Harvard Graduate School of Education faculty members Holly Lem and Josephine Kim to share their perspectives on the complex issues (mental health, sexual assault, intense relationships with friends) the show raises.
Northam and Reutzel asked College of Education faculty member Kate Muir Welsh and then - SER staff member Sarah Ramsey - Walters to develop a proposal to launch the process.

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What it's like: Ron Owston, dean of the Faculty of Education at York University in Toronto, was initially surprised at how much time he spent on human resource issues, such as dealing with the concerns of faculty members and mapping out the academic year so professors can handle their course loads.
The majority of responses came from faculty members in departments such as Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Education and Nursing.
The first step in this move was to count faculty participation in contextual education as a full course, one of the four offered yearly by each faculty member.
Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.
I'm a little pessimistic, because faculty members come out of graduate schools with a loyalty to a particular field, and it's very hard to get their attention or arouse their passion for larger sets of problems, such as pedagogy or the reform of theological education.
To the extent that seminaries imitate what American higher education expects of faculty members, they will require that faculty members be scholar teachers within the parameters of a specialized field, such as social ethics, or New Testament, or American religious history.
Faculty in those fields who are members of departments of religious studies receive their doctoral education in the same graduate schools as do faculty in theological schools, and faculty move back and forth between the two contexts.
The thrust of education at Southern Seminary, therefore, has been solidly academic, and faculty members often drag their feet when someone suggests more deliberate attention to the cultivation of piety.
It pairs students with experienced faculty members for conversations about the meaning, practice and purpose of theological education.
The crucial element in theological education is who the members of the faculty see themselves to be — i.e., their principal identity.
He was a founding faculty member of the Sage Hill School where he was the Dean of Students, taught art and physical education, and started the aquatic programs.
Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.
Our Faculty: Rudolf Steiner College in all cases seeks faculty members who have knowledge of the work and writings of Rudolf Steiner and Waldorf education.
In a pilot venture with SiriusXM Satellite Radio, Stanford is launching two talk programs hosted by faculty members: The Future of Everything, focused on engineering, science and technology, and School's In, focused on teaching, learning and education.
A master adult education teacher, Jana is a highly experienced class and music teacher and a longtime faculty member of Green Meadow Waldorf School.
Liz is a member of Sunbridge's Elementary Teacher Education faculty; she is also sixth grade teacher at Green Meadow Waldorf School where she has been a class teacher since 2006 and is a member of the school's Collegium and the Teacher Development Committee.
Jana has been a faculty member of Sunbridge's Elementary Teacher Education program since 2002 and its program director since 2009; she also directs our Elementary Music Teacher Education intensive and oversees our World Language Teacher Education intensive.
In addition to being a master adult education teacher, Jana is a highly experienced class and music teacher and is a longtime faculty member of Green Meadow Waldorf School, where she currently teaches lower school music and singing and is lower school chair and co-chair of the Festival Committee.
Eileen Landy is the Statewide Secretary of United University Professions, the union that represents faculty and staff at the State University of New York, and she is a member of the committee that created the Campaign for the Future of Public Education.
Success Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz, one of the nation's most influential charter school leaders who has been a vocal supporter of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and defender of President Donald Trump, recently told a group of faculty members concerned about her alliances to the new administration that she is limited in how much she can advocate politically.
Joseph Krajcik, Ph.D., is a Writing Team Leader for Next Generation Science Standards, director of the Institute for Collaborative Research in Education, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State UnEducation, Assessment, and Teaching Environments for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (CREATE for STEM) m and a faculty member in science education at the Michigan State Uneducation at the Michigan State University.
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That's a big source of stress,» C.N. Le, a senior lecturer (a contingent faculty member with a stable though «indefinite» appointment) at University of Massachusetts, Amherst, recently told The Chronicle of Higher Education.
* Having previously served as a faculty member, a division chair, and an academic administrator, Dr. Trower is currently a researcher at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
Nelson's report corroborates a recently released study by the U.S. Department of Education that emphasizes the disproportionately high number of male S&E professors.10 The report also cites the salary advantage men of all racial groups enjoy over women.10 While the unadjusted salaries of African - American faculty members were lower than those of whites, when variables were controlled, the wage gap disappeared.10 However, the study cautions that the markedly lower numbers of tenured and working African - American faculty at doctoral institutions could obscure racially biased salary discrepancies.10
Speaking to his advisory board, Collins discussed a story this week in The Chronicle of Higher Education about former Emory University faculty member Charles Nemeroff.
Believe it or not, many faculty members and administrators are genuinely receptive to improvements in graduate education and often welcome the suggestions and input of students and postdocs.
Leading the group's work are two faculty members, Elizabeth Watkins, dean of the Graduate Division and vice chancellor for student academic affairs at the University of California, San Francisco, and Peter Espenshade, associate dean for graduate biomedical education at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
«We also found that most palms do not need any phosphorus in their fertilizer to be healthy, and by not applying this element, we can eliminate one possible source of water pollution in Florida,» said Broschat, a faculty member at UF's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center.
Bell, a faculty member with the School of Education, is the lead author on the report, which is co-authored by Department of Kinesiology Ph.D. students Eric Post and Stephanie Trigsted; Scott Hetzel, an associate researcher with the Department of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics; Timothy McGuine, a senior scientist and research coordinator with the UW Health Sports Medicine Center; and Alison Brooks, a medical doctor with the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
Last year, the UAB postdoc office established a Council for Postdoctoral Education — which includes department chairs, six or seven faculty members, seven or eight postdocs, and the associate dean of biomedical research.
«That means that researchers who might be looking for genes to target for citrus greening resistance now can search through the many genomes of tolerant types and compare with sensitive types,» said Gmitter, a faculty member at the UF / IFAS Citrus Research and Education Center.
All the sites Scherr studied have at least one champion who is a member of the physics faculty, and about half have a champion with a partial appointment in the College or School of Education.
The development of ShakeAlert has shown that a dense network of seismic stations, swift transfer of seismic data to a central processing and alert station, speedy paths for distributing alert information to users, and education and training on how to use the alerts are all necessary for a robust early warning system, said Monica Kohler, a Caltech research faculty member in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering.
Nearly 30 per cent of all female, full - time faculty members work in non-tenure-track posts, compared with 14 per cent of all male full - timers, according to the Education Department statistics.
But for favored faculty members, academic stardom can translate into other rewards as well: astronomical pay, fancy digs near campus, second homes in exclusive vacation spots, and celebrity far beyond the boundaries of one's discipline or campus, according to a pair of intriguing articles by Christopher Shea in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
In addition to killing termite colonies in less time, scientists showed they need tiny amounts of the active ingredient in the insecticide to kill them, said Chouvenc, who along with Su, is a faculty member at the UF / IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center.
This second round of inquiries, two of them directed to individual faculty members at the University of New Mexico (UNM) in Albuquerque, deepens concerns among some education groups and scientists that personal information revealed in the investigation could make researchers the target of extremist violence.
The quality of our education, research, and patient care programs was confirmed with the awarding of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Robert Furchgott, a member of our School of Graduate Studies faculty since 1956.
Prior to her return to UNC, she served as a clinical faculty member in education and as the Assistant Dean of the College at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia.
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