Sentences with phrase «of generations of teachers»

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

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The title of «owner» beats out in popularity classic gigs like teacher, assistant, and sales rep — and its prevalence on Facebook shows exactly how strongly this generation self - identifies as entrepreneurial.

«Christy Clark needs to apologize to parents, teachers, and especially the generation of B.C. children who have spent their time in overcrowded and undersupported classrooms.»

Many of the great Liberal Protestant teachers of the tradition in the last generation have become disillusioned by the loss of their cherished conceptions of critical inquiry, courtesy, and academic standards.

This generation loves to listen to the lies of teachers or scientists telling them what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....

Also possible in a later generation would be a conception of the risen Lord of the church speaking thus of the Christian missionaries and teachers.

It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

On the other hand the present form of the apocalypse of Mark 42 is held by some scholars to indicate its composition in the late fifties, and the emergence of the earliest gospel is widely held to have been most probable at a time when the first generation of Christian teachers was beginning to die out, c. A.D. 60 - 70.

There is, of course, not one way or one method which, once developed, could be handed down from one generation of teachers to the other.

After seminary, purely by accident, I stumbled onto James Muilenburg at Union Seminary in New York, arguably the most compelling Old Testament teacher of his generation.

Those who bewail the abstractions of theology teachers will be surprised to know of these churchly concerns in systematics classes, as will the Atlantic readers who were recently led to believe that «the hands that shape the souls» of the next generation of pastors do not hold hymnals.

But within each of the natural sciences is a variety of workers: the technician carrying out routine operations, the teacher training a new generation, the research expert making new discoveries or developing industrial applications.

In high school, college, or university the science teacher is helping to prepare the scientists of the next generation.

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality — even in a Hindu context — just as it was the encounter with Christianity that prompted Gandhi (and many of his generation) to revise the dominant understanding of Hinduism.

The distinguished Cardinal Schönborn is frank in the Foreword of this book: «the period following the Second Vatican Council was one of confusion in... the Church,... not least in the educational sphere... teachers, professors, and administrators lacked an adequate understanding of their role as evangelists, charged with transmitting the faith to the next generation.

People of this generation are simply collecting teachers for themselves who will say whatever tickles their ears... if you want to believe Christianity is evil... then there are people who will sell you that «reality.»

Last year Yale Divinity School bid farewell to a teacher whose intellect and character shaped generations of students who sat for his lectures, sermons and seminars.

With growth in Catholic colleges and universities that take their faith seriously, and with schools like Aquinas College forming a generation of teachers, there are more than enough reasons for hope.

After the battles over ecclesiastical control of the seminaries subsided, there was a generation of teachers whose inner lives still evidenced the marks of piety.

In this essay, Wach noted that there was no one way or method which could be handed down from one generation of scholars and teachers to the next, because the approach will have to be adapted to the specific needs of each generation and different conditions prevailing in different countries.

They would have paid their bloodtax, done their own part in the immemorial human warfare against nature; they would tread the earth more proudly, the women would value them more highly, they would be better fathers and teachers of the following generation.»

In explanation of the phenomenon it may be said that an unusually brilliant group of teachers happens to be at work today in this field; yet such reasoning does not carry very far for these teachers had their peers in previous generations.

My question concerns, rather, their contribution to forming the next generation of, precisely, believing and practising Catholics... It is simply not possible... either now or in the currently foreseeable future, to expect vocationally committed Catholic teachers to be forthcoming on the scale required - notably in religious education, but not only there.

I mean, I was of the generation that went trick - or - treating on our way home from school, stopped in to scramble to do any little bit of homework that any witchy teachers dared to assign on Halloween, then it was back out with my friends to keep filling our bags with treats.

I was a staunch supporter of public schools, having both been educated in them and having many generations of teachers in my family, and I was also of the ilk that I would / could never homeschool.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

We have gone from a time when adults were always right, teachers were always right, and we never talked back, to a generation of sassy back talkers that don't seem -LSB-...]

The question of identity has grown more pressing over the course of the last 15 years as the number of Waldorf schools has grown and as a new generation of teachers has moved into positions of responsibility within the schools.

By creating homes that emphasize compassion, empathy, and courage, we can raise up the next generation of coaches and pastors, police officers and district attorneys, teachers and doctors, men and women who are unable to turn away from sex abuse (suspected or confirmed) without doing something.

The education - based program will aim to connect local teachers and students to the importance of animal care and conservation and show them how the next generation can take a hands - on approach to help preserve animals and the environment.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

report, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is shameful indictment of the economic and social policies of the last five years, being continued by the Government, that young people have the worst economic prospects for several generations.

«Art is Why» will highlight the artwork of art teachers within the Buffalo Public Schools network, and examine the processes that influence networks of students, spanning generations of creative leadership within the Buffalo Public Schools System.»

«Art is Why» will highlight the artwork of art teachers within the Buffalo Public Schools network, and examine the processes that influence networks of students, spanning generations of creative leadership

«The failure to protect the progress that schools, teachers and young people from minority ethnic communities have made over recent years risks leaving another generation of young black and Asian people unable to maximise their potential and their contribution to society.

Chris Keates, general secretary of NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, accuses Michael Gove of introducing policies which will create a lost generation.

Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beingsTeachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beingsteachers» union, said: «Schools are communities that work together each and every day to teach the next generation to think carefully and critically about discrimination and to empathise with other human beings.»

Generations of students, teachers, and residents fondly remember his kindness and big heart.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

Rather, we are replacing unqualified people who are unfit to be called teachers to save the future of the next generation,» he said.

«Nurses, teachers, postmen, firemen and train drivers could soon conduct «the biggest wave of industrial action in a generation», union bosses warned yesterday.

The legislation, signed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in August, received support from the Police Athletic League, civics education group Generation Citizen and the Association of Teachers of Social Studies.

Jaye Bea Smalley, a longtime disabilities advocate who serves as co-president of the Citywide Council on Special Education, will join the Upper West Side's Community Board 7; the Rev. Keith Fennessy, a fifth - generation New Yorker and pastor of St. Columba Catholic Church in Chelsea, will join Community Board 4; and Sabrina Francis, an opera singer and music teacher at Round the Clock Daycare, will join Harlem's Community Board 9.

With the adoption of Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) by nearly 20 states, teachers are being asked to rethink the science content they teach and how they teach it.

Yet programs that augment the nation's capacity to train the next generations of scientists, scientific leaders, and teachers are essential.

Microassaults are especially damaging when they come from a high school science teacher, college mentor, university dean or a member of the scientific elite who has been awarded a prestigious prize — the very people who should be inspiring and supporting the next generation of scientists.

For too long a nation has benefited from the dedication and enthusiasm of our scientists, engineers, and technologists in higher education, training the next generation of teachers, scientists, and technologists on a pittance.

«PhDs prepare the medical doctors for a healthy society; the engineers to build the roads, bridges, dams, hospitals and schools; the agriculturalists to ensure food security; the educators to shape the next generation of teachers, not to mention economists, lawyers, scientists, business specialists — all contributing to the development of a «knowledge» society,» he writes.

We contribute to the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers, collaborate with K - 12 teachers on ways to improve science teaching using an inquiry - based approach to learning, and improve the science literacy of the community at large.