Sentences with phrase «reflection on their teaching»

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).

We welcome you to view a short iRest video: Reflections on Teaching Meditation with Richard Miller, PhD:

EW: The five candidates for national certification who journalled their experiences for Education World readers this year remarked frequently on the benefits of the process itself — an increased reflection on their teaching practices and an increased awareness of education standards, for example.

«The best people in the world work in education,» says Merrow, author of numerous books on education including The Influence of Teachers: Reflections on Teaching and Leadership.

It is not a reflection on my teaching or who I am as a human being.»

Reflections on Teaching An elementary computer lab teacher writes about California education policy, Web 2.0 tools for the classroom, and provides insights into teaching.

Mentors will be trained on how to move new teachers through basic reflection and into more complex reflection on their teaching practices.

A resource that offers original topical prayers and ideas that provide space for spiritual reflection on teaching and for the organization of prayer experiences at school sites.

Not surprisingly, Betty became disappointed in the lack of participation from her fellow first - year teachers and eventually ranked the tool least likely to encourage meaningful reflection on her teaching.

This provided an opportunity for instant reflection on their teaching practice.

Through these technology tools, beginning teachers can engage in reflection on their teaching practices and use these reflections to improve their teaching skills and knowledge.

Electronic portfolio development, online discussions, and videotaping teaching are three technology tools that may encourage reflection on teaching as it naturally occurs in a beginning teacher's practice.

The course differed from the LLMT course in that it did not include opportunities to conduct video - enhanced, detailed analyses of student thinking and learning nor structured reflections on teaching and learning.

Overall, the technology tools provided an avenue for reflection on teaching and a structure for novices to think and talk about their work.

Her reflection on the teaching and learning happening in her classroom captured our attention and our wonder.

But in schools that intensively applied the principles of PLC's — collective ownership of student results, deliberate reflection on teaching practices, explicit intervention for struggling students, and clear strategies for extending learning for students who need it — the format dramatically improved results, and those improvements were greater the longer the schools implemented these collaborative practices.

This is my blog to contain my reflections on teaching, exciting things I learn, good (and BAD) lesson reports, material and generally my journey as a teacher.

Not exact matches

Danny Iny, CEO and founder of Mirasee and author of Teach and Grow Rich: Share Your Knowledge to Create Global Impact, Freedom and Wealth, shares his reflections on how values can enrich an entrepreneur's life as well as become a core competitive advantage.

To look upon those prayer wheels not (as some of us were taught) as instruments of «vain repetition,» but as outward and visible signs of the intention to pray without ceasing, can perhaps lead iconoclasts to more compassionate reflection on the sacramental impulse and on the place of objects — statues and stained glass and candles and altar cloths, beads, bouquets, and kneeling cushions in needlepoint stitched by some faithful woman as her own act of participation in the prayers of the church.

Or was it only an event in the lives of the disciples — a change in their outlook as they came to realize through further reflection upon their dead and buried Teacher, that his influence still lived on, that his teaching had been true, that his life must be their example and his character a pattern for themselves to follow, that although he was dead he must still be revered in their memory as their Lord whose spirit could still be recreated in themselves in so far as they dedicated themselves to the aim of following in his footsteps?

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.

Ordinarily, when students are asked to write theological reflection papers on ministry experiences, they often fail to address the assignment — seminaries have taught them theology, but not how to reflect theologically.

Meanwhile, here's a brilliant man exploring the teachings of Jesus for reflections on living a good and moral life.

Intending no disrespect to the great Jesuit theologian himself, the way Trinitarian theology has been taught, with admittedly a few honourable exceptions, has left many of us unaware of the preceding 2,000 years of reflection on the matter.

For all that, of course, anyone who supposes that an academic life is chiefly one of leisured reflection and friendly conversation need only read your pages on teaching at Notre Dame and at Duke to begin to see how intensely politicized is the contemporary university.

As we explore these issues our itinerary will be as follows: (1) we shall look first at several ways in which reflection on science has contributed to the feeling of cosmic exile and therefore to our environmental carelessness; (2) then we shall examine how theologies from our own Christian tradition that have hovered closely, even though critically, around modern scientific cosmologies have perpetuated the same feeling of cosmic exile; and (3) finally we shall look briefly at how a cosmological understanding of religion centering on the notion of adventure can both reconcile us to the evolving universe and at the same time allow us to embrace the feeling of religious homelessness present in religious teachings.

If theology is a way of life and a lens through which life is perceived and not simply a set of propositional statements, then teaching theology in the church should involve reflection on the life of the church — on worship and sacraments, ministry (ordained and lay) and mission.

This past year has taught me a lot about the limits and dangers of social media, so while I'll share some reflections on motherhood from time to time, I won't be posting pictures or details about the little guy himself on my public media channels.

From this reflection emerges an anthropology that is grounded in the dignity of the human person and which provides the philosophical foundations for the Church's teaching on marriage and family life.

To these remarkable examples of magisterial teaching I can not provide here a full - blown commentary but only, as it were, a mere footnote: All I want to do on this site is to provide a brief reflection on how St. Paul uses the word body in his letters.

Hence, at this point the book moves from the method and doctrine of theology to reflection on the relevance of Christian teaching for the structure of the political order.

The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»

The discourses of Jesus, for example, upon Baptism (3) and upon the Eucharist (6) reflect the same fundamental conception of the significance and necessity of these two rites; that this conception was that of the evangelist is plain, e.g. from 3:16 - 21, where Jesus» words have passed insensibly into the evangelist's reflection upon them; if the evangelist was the son of Zebedee, it would be natural to accept his accounts as substantially correct records of incidents and discourses from Jesus» ministry, but, if he was not, a comparison with the synoptic gospels and with the teaching of Paul and others on the sacraments would suggest doubts as to the historical value of both discourses.

Steps is an intensive discipleship program that consists of daily Bible study and reflection, one - on - one discipleship, sharing in small groups, and a large - group teaching time.

Paul teaches us much about what moral reflection and teaching is, and about what a human moral agent is, avoiding a narrow legalism or a concentration on natural law that each ignore the need for grace and so run the risk of being closer to Pelagian ethics than to Catholic moral theology.

IN THIS ISSUE THE INTERVIEW Confluence editor Chip Romer interviews Betty Staley on celebrating her 50th Anniversary as a Waldorf educator: A Life Devoted to Waldorf Education TEACHINGS Jack Petrash offers a teacher's reflection on Election... more

Volume IX, Number 1 Rudolf Steiner and the New Educational Paradigm — Christof Wiechert Teaching as Learning in a Steiner / Waldorf Setting — Christopher Clouder Education towards Health Is Education towards Freedom — Johannes Denger The Stranger in the Mirror: Reflections on Adolescence in the Light of Movement Education — Jaimen McMillan Pulling the Grass Doesn't Make It Grow Any Faster — Gerald Huether The New Generation of Children — Renate Long - Breipohl

«With numerous reflections on the games impact on certain students and a resounding final chapter highlighting his classs 2012 visit to the Pentagon, Hunter proves the value of «slow teaching» in this important, fascinating, highly readable resource for educators and parents alike.»

We need a time of serious reflection and consultation on the best way forward for the future teaching of millions of children.

Desikachar not only taught yoga according to this method, but also reflected on the theory behind it, writing a number of books which collected these reflections.

Forgetting to set your alarm and waking up to sunlight streaming in through your bedroom window, the feeling of soft green grass on the soles of my bare feet, crisp cool morning air before a hot summer day, steel cut oats with sweet granules of melted brown sugar, the glittery reflection of sunbeams as they softly touch the water, the smell of the forest after it has rained, mornings spent curled up in a hammock loosing yourself in a book, walking everywhere because it's sunny and you can, teaching a first grader how to do a cartwheel, watching the sunrise with someone you love, skinny dipping in the ocean, braiding daisy chains into your hair prior to discovering a spider!

Critical reflection on controversies, challenges, teaching goals, contexts and student learning.

Teacher reflections on the practice of teaching computer science, as well as broader educational issues

Follow Ann Michaelseon on Twitter @annmic or read more of her reflections on her blog, Teaching Using Web Tools.

However, in claiming that meaningful preparation is yet to be found, he not only sidesteps my argument that teachers should be taught to think through intellectual and moral issues related to pedagogy, but also a long history of reflection on the aims, methods, and content of education.

Couple this pop culture inundation with the growing pressure on teachers to teach from a scripted curriculum, excluding discussions or even reflections, of kindness and other important lifeskills evoking critical thinking from children, and the fertile ground for growing a community focused on kindness is scarce (Darling - Hammond, 2012).

The start of my resources for the New specification A (8062) It includes Course outline, Christianity Beliefs, teaching and practices Topic checklists / reviews, a student assessment tracker and reflection sheet, 12 mark q breakdowns, worksheets and activities on the Nature of God, The Trinity, Heaven and Hell and more!

Jo Earp: For the last three years school leaders and staff at Jordan River Learning Federation Senior School have been focusing on evidence - based teaching and reflection.

As part of HGSE's Teaching and Learning Week, Senior Lecturer Joe Blatt offers a personal reflection on one of his former teachers.