Sentences with phrase «of teachers concerned»

In response to the voices of teachers concerned about the stress and tensions that their students have expressed about their family members» immigration status, Californians Together is offering a one - day «Trainer of Trainers» Workshop.

While they are interpreted differently according to the context or experience of the teacher concerned, they do prescribe a set of expectations which all teachers must meet at a level appropriate to their phase of development.

Personalized education for teachers: One application of the teacher concerns model, Austin, TX: University of Texas, Research and Development Center for Teacher Education.

Not exact matches

As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent - teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns of a bunch of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out - of - control idiots.

Shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Fresno County Employees» Retirement Association in California accused Facebook of concealing internal concerns about how growth in mobile devices might reduce revenue, even as it quietly warned its banks to cut their forecasts.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

First, a move to negate the communal - denominational approach to educational enterprise and to make intellectual dialogue among concerned teachers and post-graduate students of different religious and secular ideological faiths for exploring a new relevant common anthropology and social ethic in a pluralist India, central to the Christian college.

Gareth Cheeseman from the Christian charity Acet UK which runs sex education classes said: «Our concern at the moment is the number of young people who don't receive any relationship and sex education because their teachers are untrained and they don't have the curriculum time to cover it, anything that can help tackle that issue has the potential to be a positive force.»

The good pastor is teacher, just as the good teacher is pastor (insofar as a good teacher loves his or her students, and is concerned just as much as the good pastor with the well - being of their whole person, not just their minds).

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

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.

When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

(It is fitting that his first major publication, the introductory chapters of the Niebuhr festschrift, Faith and Ethics, and his last completed lecture, read for him at Harvard during his final illness, both concerned the work of this teacher he so admired, even when he disagreed with him.)

And then this happened: in the summer of 1933, the German church, to which I belonged as a member and a teacher, found itself in the greatest danger concerning its doctrine and order.

The teacher must also be concerned with the end of the passage.

It suggests the image of Jesus as the teacher who instructs or persuades men concerning the meaning of love.

Teachers and pupils do not judge the desirability of various studies and learning activities by the pleasure, comfort, or satisfaction they yield; their sole concern is for the contribution made to the development of right habits of thought and conduct.

Unfortunately, many of us in the ministry are not well - equipped to be «teachers of teachers» in the sense of being knowledgeable concerning recent developments or even basic principles of Christian education.

The teacher does not have to be continually concerned with the child, but he must have gathered him into his life in such a way «that steady potential presence of the one to the other is established and endures.»

In the second place, as one community agency among many, the school also serves the ultimate social objectives indirectly, insofar as its immediate concern is to teach men who will be able to guide and carry on the activities of other agencies; so it functions as a community of teachers.

abortion as a standard part of health - care provision, insisting on programmes of sex education that promoted a range of sexual activities and downgraded marriage... all this and more gave great cause for concern and brought together a group of doctors, teachers, social workers and others anxious to take some action.

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

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.

This society of scholars and teachers is concerned that we not only have an understanding, but above all a critical understanding of things.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

I decided not to have a sign contest because of some copyright concerns and because my mom — a fourth grade teacher — insisted that everyone was a winner.)

Though instruction concerning principles is the science teacher's primary function, he is also cast as interpreter of the scientific enterprise.

His teachers were concerned that he not become so insensible as to make such easy identifications with the kingdom of God as characterize the promotional theological literature of our burgeoning churches.

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.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

Moreover, since his concern as a teacher was to root doctrine in the inmost affection of the heart, he learned from the rhetorical tradition recovered by Erasmus and Budé how to use language to move the hearts and affections of his readers so that their piety might be built up within them.

National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) has accused the Government of fueling the decline in the subject, Ed Pawson, Chair, NATRE said: «While it's encouraging to see a continued increase in the number of students taking the full course GCSE in RS, the overall decline in the number of entries is a major concern.»

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

The program aims to form faculty in every discipline as outstanding teachers of people preparing for ministry and as groundbreaking scholars who can connect work in and across disciplines to the concerns of everyday ministry.

As commentators from Jacques Ellul to Peter Leithart have pointed out, the Teacher in the book is not concerned so much with «Vanity» or «Meaninglessness» as he is with the evanescence of all things around him.

Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central realities of our faith.

Jesus Christ in that idea of Christianity plays the part of the great teacher and prophet who enunciated the truths with which Christians are concerned, but who is not Himself the center of their worship and their service.

The regulations in the shari`a concerning the categories of people among whom the zakat should be distributed are, however, only applied to the collectors of zakat, and to the poor and destitute, among whom are also included religious teachers because their activity is not considered to be a means of living.

Natural Family Planning Concerning the formatting of Key Stage 4 materials and how natural family planning and contraception are presented and examined in the teachers» book, the authors were not aligning the two.

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.

He flew to New York to see a teacher named Mooji who specializes in a Hindu philosophy that helps adherents find a sense of self through liberation from worldly concerns.

There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared teacher to do quite badly.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Ask the teacher to write down all of her concerns.

If the teacher has concerns about your child, try not to become defensive — this could make the teacher hesitant to discuss any problems for fear of confrontation.

Most of the times, she will be concerned in pleasing her teachers.

Discuss the concerns shared with you by the teacher and say that you want to get help for your child but before you go to your child's physician, you would like the school to do a full psycho - educational assessment of your child so that you will have all of the information that your child's doctor will need to make a thorough assessment.