Sentences with phrase «of teaching as a career»

«Worsening the real and relative value of teachers» pay will reduce the attraction of teaching as a career, damaging this vital profession and our economic prospects.»

A first challenge is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession.

One of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession, writes Professor Geoff Masters AO.

Creators say the $ 17 million program, underwritten by the Lilly Endowment, the Annenberg Foundation, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, is intended to raise the profile of teaching as a career and to overhaul teacher education itself in the long run.

In my recent Teacher article «Big five» challenges in school education I argue that one of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession.

The Christa McAuliffe Ambassador for Education Program is established to provide salary, travel, and other related expenses annually for an outstanding Florida teacher to promote the positive aspects of teaching as a career.

«I think the best way to raise the perceived professionalism of teaching as a career is to let students highlight what they have learned at school.

The MPs» recommendations include allowing young people to try out teaching at an early age, something they say that would give students a better idea of the benefits and drawbacks of teaching as a career, improve the quality of applicants and lead to a lower drop - out rate.

Not exact matches

Throughout his career, he's developed deep ties with China, serving as a board member at both China Unicom, and Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, and has taught at the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing.

Bush describes the model as a public health version of Teach for America — participants are placed with with nonprofits, government agencies, and local health care providers, with the hope that the fellows» experiences inform their careers.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

As the founder of Codecademy, an education company that teaches users technical skills, including how to code, Sims is looking to help people take their career to the next level.

The growing supply of potential teachers — as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — meant Teach Away could pursue more placement opportunities abroad.

As a result of the similarities between the two, a lot of what I learned in my career playing professional basketball transferred to the startup world and taught me a tremendous amount about how to run my company, CoachUp.

And in this episode of the podcast, you will hear from Tony and Ray as they discuss the evolution of Ray's career, the catastrophic mistakes he made that almost destroyed everything he built, and how the lowest points in his life taught him his biggest lessons.

Melissa left behind a successful career as an award - winning V.P. in marketing to be of greater service by inspiring and teaching professionals and business owners the key strategies needed to identify their purpose and discover their unique value.

Women are taught that their importance comes only through having a husband who holds the priesthood (which they have erroneously been denied) and having lots of children and not from obtaining their education as their career should «be solely in the home».

As Matthew presents his account of the career of Jesus, these teachings and pronouncements were made after Jesus and his disciples had left Galilee and were on the road to Jerusalem.

Before the flourishing of Bultmann's career, New Testament scholarship had been dominated by literary criticism, which attempted to uncover the secret of how the texts were compiled; by investigation of the Hellenistic background, especially the mystery religions surrounding the early church, as part of a sociological critique of the history of religion; and by excitement about the apocalyptic content of the teaching of Jesus as a first century Jew.

So though we can understand why Mark could come to this curious view (perhaps at the close of a career as an apostle that did not have the success he had expected), we must reject it as a true reflection of Jesus» mind, and as out of keeping with the other things we know about his teaching.

Says Daniel, «I know a fair number of people who spent 18 months as associate pastors, then left to do Ph.D. work, and spent teaching careers disparaging the local church ever after.»

-- but also of his whole remarkable career, dedicated as it has been to the study of what Christians down the centuries have believed, taught and confessed.

I would reject as uncalled for and unsound the skepticism of those scholars who hold that we have no trustworthy indications whatever as to the character, the teaching and the career of Jesus of Nazareth, but I would be inclined to agree that there are not many particular points where we can feel absolute assurance, We can be sure that Jesus said a certain kind of thing, but not that he said just this thing or that.

This is the fact that the resurrection is as truly a part of the event as the career and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth.

Any pattern of thought that in any way abstracts God «himself» from this person, from his death or his career or his birth or his family or his Jewishness or his maleness or his teaching or the particular intercession and rule he as risen now exercises, has, according to Nicea, no place in the church.

His teaching career includes Oxford, Columbia and the Universities of Chicago and Minnesota, as well as visiting professor of genetics at the University of California at Berkeley and professor of biology at the University of Sydney.

And, in case three careers sound like too few, he is also a church leader, having served as Bishop of Durham, England, before his current teaching post at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

As Holly progressed into higher education, her unbelief solidified into atheism, but when she began a career teaching literature and poetry she suddenly found herself undone by the power of what she was reading, especially within the Christian tradition.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Pellettieri began her career in brewing as a chemist and microbiologist at the Siebel Institute of Technology and World Brewing Academy in Chicago, where she also taught sensory management.

While I don't agree that the church's «message should be one of... finding a partner, getting married and sticking together» — given the many ways to live well today, that's an extremely narrow and heteronormative view — the book does speak to the ways the church is a place of support, friendship and guidance for men, whether by offering engaging activities (at the risk of sounding cliche, group sporting events for example) or teaching classes to build marketable skills or acting as an employment center to help them find meaningful careers with decent wages or offering essential mental health counseling.

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.

Emma is a part time marketing consultant as she makes a career change into teaching Elementary School and is a single mom of 1.

With a teaching career spanning 10 years, the River Trails Park District has been proud to have Monika Janikowski as part of the Trail Blazers staff for three of those years.

Linda began her career in Waldorf teaching after entering the Steiner school as a parent; after several years of parent volunteering and anthroposophical studies, she enrolled in the full - time elementary teacher education program of Sunbridge College, where she earned her teaching certificate.

I've been considering completing my studies and going into teaching as it will mean that I can have a career that will fit around Sausage when she starts school, but really, my heart isn't in teaching, and I think it's one of those professions that you should only go into if you're passionate about it.

Dr. Cox began his career in the classroom as a high school physical education and health teacher so he truly understands the importance of teaching kids to develop healthy habits.

Facilitator Information: As a Certified Positive Discipline Trainer, Kristin combines a career of teaching and serving with her passion for creating mutually respectful environments for families, children, classrooms and schools.

I began my career sixteen years ago as a city lawyer in London but after having my children, and discovering the power of touch and the benefits of baby massage, I left my job and started to teach infant massage and yoga.

She has also worked as provost of Johns Hopkins University in a teaching career that started in 1985 at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Silda Spitzer, wife of former Gov. Eliot Spitzer who had a long career as a lawyer, is now focusing her professional work on teaching women how to invest money.

Following a diverse career with jobs in teaching, travel writing and currently as a web consultant, Greenwood is said to be a committed campaigner and a founder member of the pressure group Defend our NHS.

Bloomberg said the burden of paying back student loans from top colleges sometimes causes those interested in teaching not to consider it as a career choice.

To address the critical shortfall of skilled young and beginning farmers and ranchers, the Young Farmer Success Act would provide incentives to those perusing careers in agriculture by adding farmers to the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program, which currently includes professions such as government service, teaching and nursing.

As I talked to this fellow about his son, I realized how long it has been since I actually believed — and taught — this traditional piece of career advice.

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... I fully support her career and often use her as an example in teaching courses at the University of Minnesota on careers and the role (s) scientist [s] can play in affecting public policy and development.

Authors Marisa Allison, Randy Lynn, and Victoria Hoverman — all of whom have experience as adjuncts — conducted an online survey of GMU contingent faculty, asking more than 300 questions about working conditions, course preparation, career aspirations, personal finances, motivations for teaching, job satisfaction, future plans, and more.

The consensus prevailed among the members of the Ringberg Circle that the quality of teaching should be evaluated in standardized terms and that the results of this evaluation should contribute to the career of university teachers in the same way as scientific success in terms of publication numbers.

What they should also be doing is preparing students for their professional careers by teaching them basic knowledge, tools, and skills as well as a new breed of interdisciplinary education in entrepreneurship.