Sentences with phrase «spent on teaching»

NC State CVM graduates annually rank their time spent on the Teaching Animal Unit (TAU) as one of the best aspects of their education.

However, increasing the dollar amount spent on education does not guarantee that more money will be spent on teaching children.

There were also concerns that the 60 % cuts to schools» capital budgets would mean schools having to find cash for repairs from budgets that should be spent on teaching.

«Many times precious time is spent on teaching the fundamentals of learning, from holding a pencil correctly to learning basic personal hygiene, yet we find a way to still teach the grade - appropriate standards and benchmarks,» she wrote.

The latest data for schools in England shows spending on supply teachers accounted for 6 % of the total amount spent on teaching staff wages.

School leaders now have «compelling evidence» to make sure the # 4bn spent on teaching assistants each year is used in ways that improve results for pupils, the chief executive of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has said today.

As part of an international study collating results from surveys covering 3,328 primary and secondary teachers in the UK, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Brazil, the US and Australia, the report shows that the 11 hours is considerably more than those in the US (nine per cent) and Australia (seven per cent) where the time spent on teaching is typically higher.

As part of its «Benchmark Best Practices» series, COACHE surveyed faculty at its member institutions — more than 200 colleges and universities across the United States — about their satisfaction with the amount of time they spent on teaching, the number and level of courses they teach, and how the teaching workload is distributed, among other questions.

Many have welcomed the pared - down approach, saying that millions of pounds were wasted under the previous programme on unnecessary consultant fees and extravagant design statements that could have been spent on teaching.

This is significantly more than those in the US (9 %) and Australia (7 %) where the time spent on teaching is typically higher2.

While it never hurts to start early learning activities while your baby is in the fetus stage, more time should be spent on teaching your child once he becomes responsive to activities around him which begins around 12 weeks after birth.

In his research looking among several states, Elliott found that the most time any state was able to spend on teaching the standards was 81 percent of the time students were in school, and special education teachers covered even less of the content and standards.

The study also found that OSPI's annual Report Card greatly overstated the amount Washington School Districts spend on teaching: «NCES data shows that Washington spent 60.2 percent of its education dollars on classroom instruction in 2009.

Directed by the Washington State Legislature to conduct this study, CWU learned how much of the workday teachers spend on teaching related duties and how much on duties not directly related to teaching.

We also know that although it may take a long time for our kids to learn these lessons, they are some of the MOST IMPORTANT LESSONS they can learn in life and they are worth every extra second, minute, hour and day we spend on teaching them.

Not exact matches

I had hoped to be on holiday by now, but I'm woefully behind because I've spent so much time chasing that damned Elder Scroll (spoiler: it teaches you how to defeat a particularly bad - ass dragon).

He's spent his career lecturing to and on the aerospace industry, having taught for several semesters at George Washington University while publishing countless papers and research reports as well as one book on the industry.

After scoring a 760 on his GMAT exam, he spent a couple of years teaching test prep courses for Manhattan GMAT.

While at Stanford, Spiegel sent emails about advising his frat brothers on how to get sorority girls drunk (Jell - O shots) and spent a lot of his time wondering whether his teaching assistant had even been urinated on during sex.

After spending 10 years behind the camera watching survivalist Bear Grylls overcome challenging conditions and teach crucial survival skills on shows like «Man vs. Wild» and «Running Wild with Bear Grylls,» Paul Mungeam, who goes by «Mungo,» has learned how to stay alive in the wilderness.

I grew up on a farm in Cornwell, Conn. and after majoring in environmental science in college, I spent several years leading high school students on expeditions into the woods to teach them about the environment.

Stop searching for shortcuts and secrets; focus instead on the simple things your parents and grandparents taught you, such as not to spend more money than you make.

The best way to understand why she was drawn to it, she says, is to look at everything she was doing before it came along: She spent time organizing the 2012 SOPA protests against internet censorship; her graduate work at Harvard University included research on the spontaneous organization on the Internet; and she's taught classes at Stanford on the Internet copyright wars.

As a matter of fact, spending two minutes on the site taught us more than we would ever learn in a lifetime in other brokerage sites.

A student credit card designed to teach good spending habits and reward students with bonus points for on - time payments.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- A small but growing number of science and math teachers aren't spending the summer at the beach or catching up on books, they're toiling at companies, practicing the principles they teach.

As the gospel of FUNdamentalism (accent on FUN) teaches, we are not here to earn God's love — we're here to spend it!

A church that is centered on the Word will spend time in the Word, preaching, teaching, and explaining the Word.

I'm looking to eventually teach theology, but in between my personal studies, an obsessive reading habit, and spending far too much money on coffee, I started a blog called New Ways Forward as an outlet for some of my random thoughts and a way to interact with others who share a passion for theology, Biblical studies, and social justice.

For one whose whole ministry has been spent theological teaching it may seem presumptuous to speak on the subject of preaching.

However, it seems you come on to my blog, and without spending more than a few minutes reading what I believe, accuse me of failing to adequately read what Calvinists teach.

But taking the fruits of exegetical method that was taught here at RMS, I got three methods as a short primer on what to do with the exegetical work in terms of preaching / teaching: 1, preach off of the exegetical outline (no time to prepare); 2, use the proper by the book method (Homiletics training); 3, use Pauls method of explaining the passage doctrinally for up to half, and spend the rest of the time in application.

In fact there are many on this board who have spent years studying and teaching the scriptures.

Spending more tax payer dollars and resources on fighting over what to teach them.

I read, wrote in my diary, taught some classes, served on committees, went to church, tried to sing and to swim, and spent time with my grandchildren.

If you claim that hindu's or muslims or buddhist's are not serving the right God and therefore will spend an eternity being tortured just based on the fact they were born into a certain culture and taught a different religion by their peers, I don't think that would qualify as a «choice».

The second and third will draw on the semester she spent teaching silent contemplation to young black criminals in a Boston jail.

I typically spend about 8 - 10 hours of preparation time on every sermon or podcast I teach.

It is perhaps no surprise that someone who has spent a lifetime opposing the teaching of his own church on so many different issues (to the complete confusion of Protestants such as myself, I hasten to add) should choose to end his life in breaking one last church taboo.

I imagine the crowd wanted Jesus to teach about the evils of the Roman government, the wasteful ways they spent their money on luxury and wars, and how Jewish tax - collectors were traitors of the Jews, traitors of God, and condemned to suffer for eternity in hell.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

I never belittled another faith and could spend quite a bit of time pontificating on the charitable teachings of Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, and many others.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

Also islam believes that if you do not follow the prophet mohammed and his teachings that you are not a true follower of god and deserve punishment for such «crimes» Meanwhile christians are just simply waiting for jesus to return and believe that when that happens god will pass his judgement on the earth and we all will die and only those who are worthy of gods love will ascend to heaven and that those who do not believe in christ (who also happens to be gods only son in their eyes) will spend eternity in hell for their non-belief.

The book covers some familiar ground: professors» emphasis on research over teaching, the domination of science over the humanities, the unseemly connections between college presidents and corporate boards, the eye - popping sums spent on athletic programs.

I spent the past weekend at Together for Adoption, which was a strong and refreshing dose of teaching and instruction on gospel - centered adoption.It's been a while (too long, too long!)

I definitely know that my job and spending time with my wife and kids is ministry and there is lots of teaching go on there, but I also feel an urge to write and blog.

Other options include the Bhagavad Gita, Teachings of the Buddha, or, if you plan to spend your summer on a deserted island, The Talmud.

For the person who spends six or seven years (^ 1) in weekly Bible study, learning about Christ, before commiting to Christ, then Jeremy is also spot on, becuase the individual will have a good foundation upon which to start learning what the Bible teaches.

The rest of the world can spend time talking about how they were treated or what they were taught on their religion.