Sentences with phrase «of practicing teachers»

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SHEG is collaboration of practicing teachers, undergraduate volunteers and interns who are interested in issues of how history is taught and learned.

From these we constructed a teacher survey which was piloted with two waves of practicing teachers.

Course assignments are relevant to the work of practicing teachers and can be completed in teachers» own classrooms.

... And I'm talking about voices of practicing teachers that maybe wouldn't have been involved in the union [without teacher voice organizations].

The nine chapters here — some written by or including the voices of practicing teachers of color — examine the distinct interests and needs of these young teachers.

It's time to start taking risks on the problem - solving power of practicing teachers.

While researchers explore ways to use technological tools such as SEGs in the classroom and their impact on learners, this information rarely makes it into the hands of the practicing teachers who typically do not read the research journals (Sprague, 2004).

So, simply put, evidence of what works is fragmented and anecdotal in terms of international cooperation to improve the quality of intake to the profession, reduce turnover and improve motivation and performance of practicing teachers.

The resources on their site were built by a talented group of hundreds of practicing teachers (a.k.a. the LearnZillion Dream Team) for teachers everywhere.

Second, school budgets are going to be flat (or falling) for the foreseeable future — and looming deficits in retirement and pension funds almost certainly mean that the take - home pay of practicing teachers will see no real - dollar growth and could well decline.

• Classrooms open to teacher colleagues for observation and analysis In order to articulate a problem of practice teachers must make use of instructional data which they collect through observations of their colleagues» classrooms and contrast current practice with their shared expectation of effective instruction for the identified learning problem.

Over the course of a year - long paid apprenticeship, IndyTeach apprentices undergo 3 key stages of transitional development to gain the knowledge and skills of a practicing teacher.

Not exact matches

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- A small but growing number of science and math teachers aren't spending the summer at the beach or catching up on books, they're toiling at companies, practicing the principles they teach.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

While such practices have their place, as a society we should be aware that these practices change how teachers think of students: not as budding learners, but potential shooters; not with the potential to grow and flourish, but with the potential to enact lethal harm.

Nor is it fair to compel a child from a home that embraces historic Christian sexual norms to attend a school in which the teachers portray homosexual practice or open marriage as just one of many equally acceptable lifestyle options.

The faculty hopes this program can provide the means of integrating theological learning and practice — something every seminary teacher knows is largely lacking.

And he's a highly regarded meditation teacher, designing meditation courses for much of the recent scientific study of the practice.

A teacher of religion, for example, must foster in the young people the central Christian experience; hence he ought to be able to help them through his own religious practice without asking them to invent anew everything belonging to the Christian life, which leads to nothing anyhow in ninety - five per cent of the cases.

These include practices concerning the regular scheduling of the community's time and conventions governing the patterns of relationship, mutual expectations, and responsibilities between students and teachers.

The theory and practice of recovered memory were discredited in the late 1990s — not before thousands of fathers, grandfathers, brothers, uncles, and teachers had been jailed, sued, or just estranged over recovered memories of pedophilic abuse.

It serves little purpose to examine the Sistine Chapel ceiling with a microscope or to read a play of Shakespeare with minute analysis of phrases (which practice prompted Whitehead to call for teachers of English to be «prosecuted for soul murder»).

(Modern Postural) Yoga is part of my personal fitness strategy, and I practice a martial art invented and transmitted by animists, my most recent teacher included.

The analyst - patient relationship may, in fact, be an I - Thou relationship similar to that between the teacher and the pupil, and it is probable that in practice the success of any analytic cure is due quite as much to whether or not such a relationship exists as to the technical competence of the doctor.

Along with my partner, author and teacher Marc Gafni, we are developing a new series of books, courses and practices to bring further clarification to these issues.

In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians control over the curriculum, over the admissions of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment of teachers.

Where Catholic schools are concerned it is not good enough to have teachers of sex education whose personal beliefs and practices are not Catholic.

[15] Focusing on the cup, Cyprian writes that he has been constrained to address this issue because of the «ignorance or naïveté» of some people, who in consecrating the Lord's cup and in its administration «do not follow the precepts and practices of Jesus Christ our Lord and God, the Author and Teacher of this sacrifice» (1.1).

He called you by your last name (a practice I use to this day), he had a way of instilling fear into kids who would goof - off and cause distractions in other classes (a practice I was very much unable to duplicate during my one - year stint as an 8th - grade English teacher), and you had to run the gauntlet of sentence - diagramming grammar, which advanced to a pretty complex level, before the more «cool - teacher» aspects of Mr. Pacilio were unveiled — and even then, the tests on those rock songs were no joke!

Indeed, whether we look to the teachers of ancient Israel or to the Platonic academy or to Augustine at Cassiciacum or to the medieval university or to Pico's disputatious Florence or to the small colleges of early nineteenth - century America, we find learning flourishing in communities formed by the conscious practice of spiritual virtues.

Those who follow teachers who give them what their itching ears want to hear are those who are content to gather more and more teachers, listen to more and more sermons, gaining more and more knowledge, and being so busy with Bible study, theological learning, and the accumulation of knowledge, that one never has a chance to put any of it into practice in the world.

As in the case of theological education, professional work in institutions preparing teachers is likely to include further liberal studies of particular relevance to teaching along with the study and practice of effective teaching.

Could it be that we gather around ourselves a multitude of teachers so that we don't have to put into practice what we already know?

To be initiated into a craft, an apprentice must learn from the teacher, and then from continuing self - education, how to identify mistakes in applying the standards recognized to be the best available in the practice of that craft.

This orientation offers a framework of assumptions and principles within which a counselor - therapist - teacher can develop her or his unique, integrated approach to the practice of the various healing grow - thing arts.

The city episcopate is well on the way to monopolizing the rite of the imposition: of hands in ordination, a practice once associated with both pagan teachers and Jewish elders and rabbis and by now projected into apostolic times as the unique function of the apostles qua bishops.

It was a week full of soccer practices, Kung - Fu classes and parent - teacher conferences.

The teachers have been practicing yoga, meditation, chanting and Ayurvedic cooking for many years and had a wealth of knowledge to share about this lifestyle.

Later that year, at the PGA at Valhalla, Norman and Harmon got into a dispute over Harmon's clothing contract, and Norman fired his teacher in the middle of a practice round.

Before coming to Stanford, Yeager had taught English at a low - income school in Tulsa, and he was especially motivated to find ways to translate some of this innovative research into practices that could help teachers improve the lives of their students.

It helped me with an assignment for teachers to be aware of in their classroom practice.

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.

In addition to his private therapy practice, he is also a speaker and consultant to public and independent schools, and a teacher of parenting classes and classes for daycare teachers.

MBCP teacher training is firmly grounded in the principle that the authenticity and effectiveness of one's teaching can only come through one's own personal mindfulness practice.

Bullied and bludgeoned by weeks of intense public debate over a longer school day, Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis fought back Friday by filing an unfair labor practices complaint against Chicago Public Schools leadership and accusing Emanuel of trying to intimidate her in a profanity - filled tirade recently at City Hall.

Outside of her work as a doula and yoga teacher, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family and friends, cooking, reading, checking out the restaurant and live music scene, traveling and working on her personal yoga practice.

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In addition to mommying to two magical girls born in 2000 and 2003 and expecting twins in Jan of 2010, Suzanne co-owns a holistic health center with her husband Shawn in St. Louis, Missouri where she practices as a physical therapist, Certified Educator of Infant Massage and health education teacher.