Sentences with phrase «of teaching initiatives»

A set of teaching initiatives decisive for the development of students» profiles were presented.

The Department's Office of Teaching Initiatives reviews candidates» transcripts and supporting materials to determine if they meet the requirements.

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In a relatively short amount of time, Saujani has gotten the likes of Twitter, General Electric, Square and Google to sign on to her initiative: two - month long programs that teach young women to code and offers mentorships.

Chile's initiative is impressive, says Steve Blank, a longtime Silicon Valley entrepreneur who now teaches at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business.

The Teach video segments are available for download as windows media files for use as part of non-commercial, investor education and protection initiatives.

The Hunter Hub is the University of Calgary's new initiative to engage and immerse students, faculty, staff, alumni and the community in a culture of entrepreneurial thinking, challenging them with a new and bold approach to teaching, learning, discovery and knowledge - sharing.

The additional $ 10 - million gift from the CCMF to the centre will strengthen its teaching and research activities and could include enhanced programs, curriculum development and the recruitment of new faculty, among other initiatives.

The Office of Teaching and Learning supports and promotes several initiatives on both an as - needed and recurring basis.

Chapter 13 contains resources that will teach you the importance of social media with regard to an SEO campaign, how it fits into your overall marketing initiative, how to execute a successful social media campaign, and how to measure and track results using specialized analytics.

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Because I have just completed thirty years of teaching at a Christian university in Canada, I was most interested in his exploration of educational initiatives undertaken by ordinary Christians against long odds.

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

Yet if we truly believe that the Incarnation is the crowing glory of creation, of history and of humanity, then we have no need to fear that Church teaching will somehow rob us of our intellectual initiative or suppress our true selves.

Recently, thanks to my Rock Songbook, Facebook, and by the initiative of my wife, I got back in touch with Mr. Pacilio, and it has been an occasion to look back with gratitude upon his teaching.

One possible way is an initiative the editor advocated years ago when teaching «late vocations», which means mostly young men of 18 to 24 with inadequate English.

And, of course, while the encyclicals are central, they are but a small part of the many other teaching initiatives of this pontificate, including the production of the monumental Catechism of the Catholic Church.

Even though I did not receive teaching from a Church setting but rather from a marketplace ministry setting where they taught us «Externally Focused Church, Organic Church, which was really a good thing (new wine skin initiatives) but when we implemented and embraced it, we found that its not quite effective and in the end the leaders abandoned the project and most of us were in the dark on what is the next good program or system to follow.

I am wholeheartedly in favour of initiatives which support parents in teaching their own children about puberty, at home and in the way they feel is most appropriate.

LDEI Atlanta provides thousands of dollars of funding and numerous volunteer hours to local organizations each year, focused on helping organizations working in the areas of: green tables / farming, global culinary initiatives, the culinary community and programs that teach cooking, nutrition or support anti-hunger work.

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.

We aim to lead by example with community harmony through initiatives that facilitate effective parenting, counselling, teaching and community development based on the principles of mutual respect, cooperation, encouragement and social interest.

Twenty - one schools of nursing, in Mali, Niger, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Mauritania and The Gambia, were the focus for a joint PRITECH (1)- WHO initiative to introduce a training package, which included teaching modules and a work book for use by students during work placements.

The Empire State Excellence in Teaching Program aims to reward teachers who «foster creativity, instill a love of learning, and inspire independent thinking and student initiative,» according to an announcement from Cuomo's office.

Among Paladino's gun - related initiatives are: Repeal of the Assault Weapons Ban, elimination of the Combined Ballistic Identification System (CoBIS) and a push for passage of legislation to make it possible for to teach gun avoidance techniques to school children with the Eddie Eagle GunSafe Program.

«CodeLagos is an initiative of the Lagos State Ministry of Education aimed at educating Lagos State residents for the future of work — by teaching how to write code and creatively solve problems.

She has served on many executive committees including the American Association of School Administrators, the New York State Council for School Superintendents, the Association of Small City School Districts, and the New Standards Project, a national initiative that launched the transformation to standards - based instruction, a concept that remains the framework for teaching and learning across the nation.

During a tour of P.S. 57 in Clifton, one of seven schools in the city that launched an initiative to teach children with print - based disabilities, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña said the classes will help students deal with their condition.

Topics included Kerik and how Dietl reconciles his criticism of Mayor de Blasio's «corruption», Kerik's comment that children should be specifically taught how to safely interact with police, the continuing possibility of Dietl running in the Republican primary and possible union support, the «raise the age» initiative and mayoral control of schools.

As part of County Executive's initiative, Dutchess County has partnered with Anderson Center for Autism in Staatsburg to offer «Autism Supportive Environment» training, teaching local businesses and organizations how to better serve, understand and support local residents with autism spectrum disorders; increasing the opportunities for them to enjoy local establishments; and raising awareness throughout Dutchess County.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan also sung the praises of the initiative, which sees schools run independently of local authorities and exempt from teaching the national curriculum.

«We want a teaching profession with renewed morale and confidence, no longer struggling under the yoke of monthly government initiatives and ever - demanding bureaucratic requirements,» he said.

Principal Ellen Sherman of the Academy of American Studies High School in Queens said, «Governor Cuomo's initiative is an innovative approach to teaching government that will allow students to get their questions about government answered directly by elected officials via webcast.

Roth said that the goal of the Oneida County Children Care initiative, an initiative of civic engagement, is to take the learned lessons these agencies teach and apply them in their communities.

on what good record of achievement will he base his re-election on?No security of lives and properties of Nigerians, roads are death traps nationwide, teaching hospitals are mere consulting clinics while president Jonathan failed to provide any employment generating initiative to give jobs to millions of unemployed graduates and youths.

Memorizing the expression «atoms are not created or destroyed» and balancing chemical equations — a common approach to teaching chemical reactions — has proved to be insufficient for helping students explain how living things gain mass, said Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061, a long - term initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science to improve science literacy and education.

One of Mayor's early initiatives, the Science Teacher Improvement Program, assisted other organizations to strengthen the qualifications of science teachers and reform teaching materials, as well as increase student interest and understanding in science.

Project 2061, a long - term AAAS initiative to increase literacy in science, mathematics, and technology, has released an outline for its Green Schools Energy Curriculum, which utilizes real - time data on energy generation and consumption from green school buildings to teach middle school students the science of energy.

Six of the 15 have received funding through the university's Trans - Institutional Programs initiative, which facilitates research and teaching collaborations across disciplines and are a core pillar of the university's Academic Strategic Plan.

He is an award winning architect, specializing in green yoga studios and retreat centers; co-founder of karmaNICA ™, a charitable organization for impoverished kids in western Nicaragua; and for three years, taught yoga at the White House for Michelle Obama's anti-obesity initiative (2011 - 2013).

He spoke about the technique during a videotaped message he prepared for the launch of the David Lynch Foundation's «Operation Warrior Wellness» — a nationwide initiative to teach TM to the tens of thousands of veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

But, I must admit that this month also marked some pretty awesome accomplishments — I won a small grant to push forward a Teaching & Learning initiative I've been trying to get off the ground, I was able to help my two new masters students submit their research proposals without their heads exploding, I got to collaborate with one of my very favorite vintage shops Word from the Bird, and finally started bringing to life a new dress that I've been creating in my head for months (which I'm really excited to make a reality).

Lance Rutter has spent the last 30 + years of his career devoted to graphic design, working on projects in his Chicago design studio, teaching design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, serving on the national board of the AIGA, and presiding over the 2008 and 2010 Chicago International Poster Biennials, among other public design advocacy initiatives.

«Our professional development programme is inline with the curriculum demands, as well as government food teaching guidelines in schools, and will equip teachers to be able to implement engaging food lessons and healthy school initiatives, for the benefit of all their students.»

«There are a lot of initiatives in existence that focus on building parent capacity, parent universities, or workshops thinking that if we can only teach parents how to better respond that everything will be fine.

One of the initiatives I am working with now is to improve our blended learning programs and to differentiate our staff development for our teachers, as well as to teach them how technology can differentiate for their students.

The World Wildlife Fund has launched a national environmental education initiative to teach students that their lives are interconnected with those of plants and other species of animals.

This issue is at the heart of transformational teaching — finding ways to move effective educational practices and initiatives past the tipping point into the realm where teachers, administrators, and policy makers acknowledge their positive impact and agree on the need to integrate them into school systems.

Speak Up, a national initiative of Project Tomorrow, surveyed students, teachers, parents, and others in fall 2010 to determine the benefits of certain types and uses of technology for teaching and learning.

Although I immersed myself in as much of the arts - related research as possible while planning this program (and explored the many large - and small - scale art initiatives), I knew I'd eventually have to tackle — and really understand — my deeply rooted assumptions about teaching and learning if I wanted to form a truly well - rounded program.

One such initiative is the launch of our Network of Teaching Excellence in Computer Science; a joint initiative with Computing At School.