Sentences with phrase «of teachers today»

So what then is the proper organization of teachers today?

A recent CoSN study found that, while school districts are actively improving broadband connectivity in schools, 75 percent have no data on their students» home connectivity, even though 70 percent of teachers today say they assign work that requires broadband access.

You know, teachers have put their heart and soul into teaching these standards — I mean, we heard from some of these teachers today — for four years.

The survey shows that more than three quarters of teachers today (including more than 70 percent of new teachers) say that, absent the union, their working conditions and salaries would suffer.

But as the data shows, only a small percentage of teachers today will actually stay long enough to meet pension requirements.

There is considerable and growing evidence that 1) at least half of teachers today will not qualify for even a minimum state pension benefit; 2) state pension funds now carry roughly $ 500 billion in debt and are eating up larger and larger shares of teacher compensation; 3) most teachers would have a more valuable retirement if they participated in a traditional 401k plan; and, 4) today's teachers, to their own financial detriment, subsidize the pension of currently retired teachers.

PALO ALTO, Calif. — Three - quarters of public school teachers surveyed support the Common Core State Standards, yet just 27 percent said their district has provided them with the tools and resources necessary to teach the standards, according to the results of a poll released by the American Federation of Teachers today.

Members of the United Federation of Teachers today ratified by a more than 3 to 1 margin a new contract that gives members an 18 percent pay raise, including full retroactive pay.

The United Federation of Teachers today filed a Freedom of Information Law request to ensure that the Department of Education preserves documents and emails vital to public understanding of how decisions were made during the Bloomberg era.

A report issued by the American Federation of Teachers today purports that Paul Tudor Jones, Peter Kiernan, Ken Langone, Daniel Loeb and Dan Senor support the replacement of defined benefit plans because of their association with StudentsFirstNY.

Not exact matches

One of her teachers insisted that her parents put her back into school — and in 1937, she sat where you are sitting today and received a Berkeley degree.

Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

Sam Sommers, a teacher and researcher of social psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, also argues about the power of hello in a blog post on Psychology Today.

He and Johnson went on to win the competition with their business idea, and today they're cofounders of a Watertown, Mass., start - up called HighWired.com, which creates free Web «campuses» for students, teachers, coaches, and guidance counselors.

They're the policemen, they're the firemen, they're the teachers, they're the civil servants of America today who have their money in public pension funds being managed in the U.S. equity market.

Just today, five - year - old VIPKid — which reportedly raised $ 200 million in fresh funding last summer at a $ 1.5 billion valuation — listed openings for thousands of U.S. teachers, from Jacksonville Beach, Florida, to Saint Joseph, Missouri, to Carmel, Indiana.

2015.07.30 Teacher, neuroscientist and lawyer: These are a few of the RBC students leading change scholarship winners RBC announced today its 2015 RBC Students Leading Change Scholarship recipients, recognizing 15 of Canada...

Today is World Teachers» Day, which is held annually on 5 October as part of a UNESCO initiative to appreciate, assess, and improve the educators of the world.

January 25, 2018 — MILFORD, MA — Today, Consigli Construction Co., Inc. hosted more than 40 teachers, guidance counselors and administrators from 11 local high schools at its Milford headquarters for a professional development workshop in partnership with the Blackstone Valley Education Foundation and the Association of General Contractors (AGC).

«Jack Canfield is one of the most insightful speakers and teachers in the world today.

Clearly, the Teacher of long ago knew something of the laborious process I go through each time I approach my computer today.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

So today, if a teacher begins to argue from Scripture that Jesus was either not fully divine or fully human, we'll rehearse the biblical passages and the traditional interpretations of those passages that have stood the test of time.

Teachers of Christian origins today are faced with a problem not unique to them — it is shared in some fashion by all teachers in the humanities — but nevertheless of pressing Teachers of Christian origins today are faced with a problem not unique to them — it is shared in some fashion by all teachers in the humanities — but nevertheless of pressing teachers in the humanities — but nevertheless of pressing urgency.

Bringing to the results of the work of Jeremias insights derived from her own teacher, E. Fuchs, Miss Linnemann both interprets the parables historically and also applies the results of this interpretation to proclamation and instruction today.

His work as a teacher and writer of history and as an administrator in the Ministry of Education of the Government of Egypt has made him one of the most highly honored scholars of Egypt today.

Today teachers of prophecy talk about satellite communication, space travel, television, world communism, the breakdown of the family and of church authority, abortion and the re-establishment of Israel's nationhood as all pointing to that return.

Moreover, it has almost changed its nature today because in human life it has widened so enormously, whereas the Church, being simply the teacher of the universal natural law and of apostolic tradition, can not do more than proclaim general principles.

But even today I believe these lay teachers might go at their task differently if they knew that the product of their efforts was to be appraised, in some proper way, and that this appraisal too was part of the teaching and learning process.

So, today's doubters need to be pressed hard as to why, if the alternative versions of Jesus (mystic, moral teacher, misguided healer) advanced over the last few centuries can be taken seriously, it never occurred to any sceptic in the ancient world to make these very obvious challenges.

This is the line of Isocrates, Cicero, Isidore, the artes liberales of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance humanists, the vision of Matthew Arnold, of some teachers of the liberal arts today, especially humanities teachers and, of course, many religious colleges.

Most of the teachers I have heard do not think it is possible for us to commit this sin today.

This lack of agreement, even along the most general lines, is a characteristic feature of the situation today and accounts in a large measure for the low educational status of the ministry The work of the lawyer, the physician, the teacher, the artist, the writer and the engineer, is clear - cut and rather sharply defined (at least in the mind of the average man), so that when a young man chooses one of these professions he has some idea of what he is getting into.

The appointed Scripture readings for today are: Acts 20:28 - 35 Titus 1:1 - 9 Luke 10:1 - 9 We pray: Almighty God, You called Titus to the work of pastor and teacher.

These teachers are charged with using a biblical faith as a basis for illuminating today's world, and they are frustrated by the difficulty of interpreting first - century Eastern literature to a twentieth - century technological society.

This is not to say that the droves of young people uncomfortable with the rigidity, dogmatism, and strange beliefs of their parents» religions are all awakening like the greatest teachers of antiquity, just that the guardians of the dogma back then sounded just like Mr. Miller today.

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

One can well imagine a wisdom teacher like Jesus, son of Sirach, having much the same attitude towards those of his fellow Jews who were fascinated by apocalyptic, as an orthodox churchman today may feel towards some of the stranger Christian sects.

What convincing, confirming signs can those teachers of today point to to say that they have more authority than Moses and the prophets and that we should accept their message and call Moses and the prophets delusional?

Many of us today are sisters and seminarians, teachers and writers, fathers and mothers.

Ironically, many theologians, pastors, and teachers today fail to realize that much of our «traditional» understanding of God came not exactly from Scripture, but from Greek philosophy.

Today, the pupils of the original form critics are prepared to accept elements of the tradition their teachers rejected.

However, half of all Americans (51 %) and two - thirds of Republicans (64 %) do want a Sunday school teacher — or at least someone who shares their religious beliefs, according to a study released today by the Pew Research Center.

There were people with the spiritual gifts of «pastor - teacher» but they did not function the way most «Pastors» do today.

Professional education for college teachers should also include considerably more attention to the art of teaching than do most of today's graduate programs.

Daniel Hugill, Chair, National Association of Teachers of RE (NATRE) said: «It is clear that not all students receiving their results today were offered the chance to study this important subject, which is reflected in the decline in entries.

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.

If Bible study has become a specialty or series of specialties today the reason is not to be sought simply in the development of specialization among teachers of theology but in the loss of a controlling idea in theological education — an idea able to give unity to many partial inquiries.

Yet one of the most important developments in universities today has been the devaluation of what it means to sit under a master teacher.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.