Sentences with phrase «on teaching for understanding»

His Project Zero involvement began in the mid-1990s as part of a northern European international schools consortium that took on the Teaching for Understanding framework.

Additional chapters survey Gardner's recent work on teaching for understanding, performance - based assessment, and model MI school programs and student outcomes.

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Armed with a greater understanding of what's behind the apps that we all use on our smart phones, Buchanon went on to successfully develop and launch two of them — Vite Exclusive Events, a sort of Tinder for parties across the country, and New Money Bash, a Candy Crush-esque game that teaches financial literacy.

Valdis Krebs of Orgnet explains that «Schools are still stuck on teaching 20th century math for building things rather than 21st century math for understanding things» and suggests that curriculums focus less on the mathematics of engineering (e.g. algebra and calculus) and more on the mathematics of patterns (e.g. set theory, graph theory, etc.).

Google has been working for years on teaching machines to understand language, make sense of images and videos, and navigate real - world environments.

What fishon fails to realize is the teachings of the NT (synoptics for sure) are based on teachings of the Torah (5 books of the law)... he does not understand law and the debating of law for the formation of understanding the idea better.

In our time and place the media will almost always be on the side of those who claim conscientious freedom; they will seldom be able to understand sympathetically a church's need for a magisterial voice to articulate and sustain its public teaching.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

At the same time, when proposing an alternate understanding, we must never accuse those who believe in the traditional view of believing in «Scripture plus tradition» while we believe in «the Bible alone» for even a «new view» is based in some way on previous traditions, and as soon as it is taught, becomes a tradition itself.

I have always understood the need for theology based on the admonition of Paul's Epistles, but I have come to prefer the translation «salutary teaching» to «sound doctrine.»

Theologies of play and of the body could be understood as the church's teaching on these topics, although in fact they tend to call for some shift in Christian thinking as a whole based on attention to what can be learned as one takes play or the body seriously.

Biblicism falls apart, Smith says, because of the «the problem of pervasive interpretive pluralism,» for «even among presumably well - intentioned readers — including many evangelical biblicists — the Bible, after their very best efforts to understand it, says and teaches very different things about most significant topics... It becomes beside the point to assert a text to be solely authoritative or inerrant, for instance, when, lo and behold, it gives rise to a host of many divergent teachings on important matters.»

In his encyclical letter on the importance of St. Thomas» work, Pope Leo also alluded to the Church's need to maintain a deep study of science: «When the Scholastics, following the teaching of the Holy Fathers, everywhere taught throughout their anthropology that the human understanding can only rise to the knowledge of immaterial things by things of sense, nothing could be more useful for the philosopher than to investigate carefully the secrets of Nature, and to be conversant, long and laboriously, with the study of physical science.»

Gustav Aulen's contention, for example, that the New Testament teaching on Christ's death is teaching simply about his conquest of the devil — the «classic motif» falls into this category as does Karl Barth's understanding of evil conveyed in his term das Nichtige or Karl Rahner's «supernatural existential.»

Cahill correctly points, for example, to Luke's understanding of Christian poverty, friendship, communal living, and care for the stranger or enemy as based on the teaching and example of Jesus and carried on within the early Christian communities.

Within the traditional understanding of the teaching function of the church, it is possible for authoritative noninfallible teaching on specific moral issues to be wrong.

One of the phenomena most difficult for the Catholic Church to understand, as Gilfeather O'Brien points out, is how the Guatemalan cofradias (religious fratemities based on the syncretism of Roman Catholic and ancient Mayan teachings) have been unable to compete with Pentecostal groups that offer «personal transformation of the kind the Catholic Church has desired but never achieved over the centuries.»

Among Jews of that period it was well understood that a disciple was responsible for remembering and faithfully handing on the teaching of his master.

The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

Education for chastity, on the other hand, can teach boys to grow to be «real men», offer them a noble understanding of their own masculine sexual identity, and give them a chance to avoid falling into the cycle of sexual addiction offered by pornography on their camera phones and computers.

The blog goes on to say that in the Church's schools, the subject will be «rooted in the teachings of the Church», including «the importance of trust, loyalty, fidelity and the Christian understanding of marriage as the context for sexual relationships, as well as the understanding of abstinence and celibacy as positive life choices».

The emphasis in seminary teaching seems to focus on retrieval of traditions interpreted in a contemporary light, and leaving room for hope of a more ecumenical understanding of Christian faith.

I am glad to hear from both of you and I appreciate your comments on me... unfortunately some muslim's action does not reflects what Quran tells a muslim to be... and ppl take these incorrect actions as the teaching of Islam... i was referring to go and read, sometimes reading will not be enough for you to understand as it is translation... sometimes translation does not give you correct as the quran was revealed in Arabic language... i would recommend if you don't understand some then please go to someone you know who has a real knowledge and not to show off....

But this distinction is lost on many Muslims who lack the theological context for understanding nuanced Christian teaching on the Trinity.

But we should be confident that if we reflect more deeply on deeper themes connected with the Gospel — creation, providence, marriage, celibacy, sin, redemption, resurrection, etc. — we will find the resources for understanding Paul's teaching on homosexuality, even though Paul himself does much less than many of us would like to explain the reasons behind the prohibition.

Best of all, this book closed with several chapters on pertinent theological questions for today, such as how to reconcile the Bible and science, how to understand the violence of God in the Old Testament, and how to make sense of what the Bible teaches about women, homosexuality, and the fate of those who have never heard the gospel.

Reflective teachers often consider how they might improve their teaching» the sort of assignments they give, for example, and how they lecture» but irony «disrupts my normal self - understanding of what it is to teach (which includes normal reflection on teaching).

As a deeply spiritual act, it's important for people to understand what the Bible teaches (and doesn't teach) about sex, to be able to speak openly and honestly with their ministry leaders regarding sex, and to find solid, biblical teaching on sex.

But he also highlights significant weaknesses, for example: «Argumentation to justify fundamental Catholic and Christian positions on sex education is lamentably absent» and, it invokes «secular rhetoric in explaining the aim of understanding the Church's teaching on contraception and pregnancy as becoming «able to make informed choices»».

M.d religion is about man there is alot of man in the evangelical church as well as other churchs however the Holy spirit is the one we lean on to teach us Gods word he reveals the scriptures just as though Jesus was teaching his disciples in his day.Often after speaking in parable his disciples would ask what he meant and he would give them insight into the messages.I find for me if i struggle understanding a topic i ask the holy spirit to help me if you havent received him just invite him into your life if you have already confessed Jesus as your Lord and savior.We can not live a christian life without him.He is the one who empowers us to live righteously rather than according to our old nature.In the last year or so he has been showing me extraordinary insight into the word its new its fresh he is amazing.brentnz

The modern difficulty in understanding the Church's teaching on married sexuality stems in large part from a failure to distinguish between lust and what is (or should be) normal sexual desire, i.e. between assertive and unregulated sexual desire, bent foremost on physical self - satisfaction, and simple sexual attraction, which can include a desire for union and is characterised by respect and regulated by love.

I'm simply asking for the reference to the actual teaching on which he basis his understanding.

instead of blaming religion we should stop being blind followers and start doing our part, namely that what God told us to do, to read for ourselves, to question what is being taught under prayer and based on knowledge of the Bible, knowing that If He really is God, and the Bible is His word, it can not contradict, and if it seems to do so, then maybe i should question my understanding of it before questioning Him!

Throughout history, people disagree on what Scripture actually teaches, and so doctrinal statements were written to serve as a guide for the proper interpretation and understanding of Scripture.

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Some of it was about Sufi like teachings on meditation and going only within and I will have to admit it was borderline a bit too mystical for me to understand... but then I tried to picture how they may have been influenced by Eastern meditation and that not by having the knowledge we have today, perhaps that made more sense then and perhaps even for some people it makes sense today.

I have been reading, teaching, and writing A LOT these past several years on the violence of God in the Bible, and this book also provides the beginning place for understanding these violent, bloody texts in Scripture.

As we open the living Word, as we pray for the Holy Spirit to guide us and teach us and open our eyes that we might see and our minds that we might understand, He unfolds Scripture to us in ways that we never would have seen on our own.

Ask for forgivness for your sins, and take off your old self and put on the new in Jesus and he will fill you with the Holy spirit and allow you to understand the teachings of the bible.

Being on the side of someone who was constantly being judged, believing that life teaches lessons, and being empathetic towards others produces understanding and respect for others and what they believe.

On your last sentence, by the understanding of the teachings of jesus, none of these so called disciples are good enough for all show a peity low wanting of love from jesus towards themselves more so then the next man... lust!

But it's much more likely, based on the evidence we have and continue to gather, that natural evolution is what brought us to life as we know it, and that without teaching that or teaching it saddled with another totally unprovable theory, our children will have no basis for understanding life sciences.

If Paragraph 26 is calling on the Ukrainian Greco - Catholic Church to cease from encouraging the people of Ukraine in the face of Russian aggression (and that is precisely what it seems to be saying), ignoring clear Catholic teaching on just war, then this paragraph can not be understood as anything but a clear victory for Vladimir Putin.

Since the teaching of Pius XII on sacramental signification clearly derives from St Thomas (S.T. III, q. 76, a2, ad 1, q. 78 a. 3, ad.1), recalling Catholics to Mediator Dei is once again to underline the Church's debt to St Thomas for her understanding of the issue.

We are looking for someone who will teach from an understanding of Waldorf education and Rudolf Steiner's indications on child development.

On this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanitOn this call, API founders Lysa Parker and Barbara Nicholson talk with Lu about how: — our «flaws» are actually pathways to raising resilient, secure, connected kids; — without an awareness of how our story drives our fears, our kids re-enact it; — without self - understanding and empathy, parents then tend to manage rather than engage, control rather than connect, in a chronic practice of «defensive parenting»; — we can turn our old wounds to new wisdom and free our kids from repeating our stories; — the gift of our anger, fear, doubt, chaos, anxiety, struggles, and conflicts is that they can shed compassionate light on our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humaniton our old wounds and we can use this light to «heal» our inner conflicts, and pave our path for ourselves and our kids; and — doing this paving work «keeps our light on»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humaniton»... and our children's light on, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humaniton, and teaches them the power of forgiveness, humility, and humanity.

In 3rd Grade, the main lesson block on The Farm includes a weekend working farm trip and is an integral experience in teaching understanding and respect for the land and the animals who live there.

They actually look forward to «making room» for new toys as they understand that the old «loved» toys are going to other kids that will love them just as much as they did... also, if you don't teach them early on, you are creating little «hoarders» (that's just my personal opinion).

Plus, sadly, we know that some adults prey on children, and teaching your daughter about consent early on can help her understand her rights, know when lines are being crossed, and when to go to you for help.»

He has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to innovative classroom instruction, and is the author of Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's gold award, and Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline.