Sentences with phrase «study school discipline»

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My first strong sense that there was a wide and growing gap between the discipline of New Testament studies and its intended purposes came after I joined the faculty at Yale Divinity School.

Clearly, the proposal that a theological school's study be focused through the lens of questions about congregations does not mean that somehow congregations become the sole or even the central subject of disciplined inquiry.

The school was not only a school of spiritual discipline based on the study of the Bible, its theology was also a missionary theology.

The central aspect of the school was its spiritual discipline and Bible study.

If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined study of other «subject matters,» and if study of those subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing in their interconnectedness and not in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to study them as elements of the Christian thing construed in some particular, concrete way.

All of the disciplines actually employed in the study of various subject matters in a theological school are also used in a variety of types of schooling that do not claim to be and are far from being theological.

Moreover, in its examination of problems of government in theological schools, the study continues in the tradition of the University of Berlin by voicing a powerful protest against patterns of school governance that «seem to have little confidence in the power of God to establish the victory of truth» and an eloquent plea for the freedom of inquiry that disciplined critical inquiry requires.

It may well be that, in addition to requiring a coherent picture of ministry, recovery of unity in a course of study requires profound changes in the way in which critical inquiry is conducted in disciplined ways within theological schools.

Every summer the Witherspoon Institute offers a seminar on the Moral Foundations of the Law, open to rising 2L and 3L students in law school, as well as those in LLM and JSD programs (and we've been known to have students in the seminar studying jurisprudence in other disciplines, like....

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

For theological reasons, all these disciplines, and probably more, are needed to make rigorous a theological school's pursuit of its threefold questioning of the subject matter it studies.

But the theological colleges for graduates aimed mainly to give a year or so of disciplined study and prayer to men who had already laid the foundation of general theological knowledge in school and university.

The difficulty is that, while not the cause of the fragmentation of theological schools» courses of study, the differences among the disciplines have come to be a major force to preserve the fragmentation.

Some students just don't have the discipline or study skills to tackle high school courses in middle school.

My son does not go to a Montessori preschool, but he goes to a preschool which has studied all these different disciplines and has incorporated a lot of the Montessori methods within the classroom environment, but it's not specifically a Montessori school.

Democrats in both houses expressed concern with the bill because it lacked an assault - weapons ban and armed school personnel, a measure that was especially concerning to black lawmakers who cited studies that show racial discrimination in school discipline.

Preventing a tragedy is understandable and good, but we have to do this in ways that are sensible rather than just reactionary,» says Kupchik, an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice at the University of Delaware, Newark, who is leading a study of discipline in American public high schools.

Instead of single - discipline schools, there was, for example, the School of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, where I studied.

So important is the discipline to the Chinese Communist Party that cadres in its Central Party School in Beijing are required to study it.

In 2001, the California Board of Education set standards at each grade level for what students should know and be able to do in music, visual arts, theater, and dance, but a statewide study in 2006, by SRI International, found that 89 percent of K - 12 schools failed to offer a standards - based course of study in all four disciplines.

To prepare for his new role as school disciplinarian, Lester studied the districts discipline policy and relied on personal experience.

Outgoing Chief Scientist Professor Ian Chubb highlighted the fact that although the need for STEM expertise is growing, data show the number of youngsters opting to study STEM disciplines in secondary school, and going on to tertiary level studies in these fields, is declining in Australia.

«One major new study shows that 54 of 64 school variables — attendance, grades, discipline, test scores, and so on — are better with a year - round calendar than with traditional calendars.

The high school curriculum is much more discipline bound, largely because of state requirements, but we still infuse global and international studies into almost everything we do.

A two - year research project aimed at improving student participation in STEM - related disciplines, and encouraging them to consider further study and careers in STEM, involved schools partnering with industry professionals.

A brand new study out of the University of Arkansas, like research before it, found that most racial disparities in discipline come from differences between schools, not within them.

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

A five - year study by the University of Wisconsin's Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools found that structural school reform only works when (1) students are engaged in activities that build on prior knowledge and allow them to apply that knowledge to new situations, (2) students use disciplined inquiry, and (3) school activities have value beyond school.

The CPRE study noted school personnel systematically reported lack of staffing and space as key barriers to implementing the discipline reform — when they needed to remove students from the classroom but lacked staffing and space for in - school options, they continued to rely on out - of - school suspension.

Two recent studies of discipline reform in Philadelphia point to the importance of school context in implementing a district - mandated discipline reform, and to the importance of evaluating implementation alongside outcomes.

In any case, the Philadelphia results point to the importance of looking at a range of outcomes beyond discipline rates by race, and to allowing for heterogeneity at the school level when studying district - level reforms.

In a new study, Steinberg and Lacoe use data from Philadelphia schools, relative to counterparts elsewhere in Pennsylvania over the same time period, to study a 2012 district reform restricting the use of exclusionary discipline and emphasizing positive approaches.

To frame those exams and the courses that prep kids for them, the College Board appoints committees of professors from the relevant discipline, as well as some high school teachers (most of whom had studied with such professors).

A study by the University of Pennsylvania's Matthew Steinberg and Mathematica's Johanna Lacoe, and published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, also found a differential response to school discipline reforms in Philadelphia, with high - poverty schools mostly ignoring the district's new policy and / or suspending even more students for serious infractions.

Establishing a coherent lesson study programme can change the culture of a school, and if it allows teachers from different disciplines to see each other teach, so much the better.

The 2014 letter declares that «Studies have suggested a correlation between exclusionary discipline policies and practices and an array of serious educational, economic, and social problems, including school avoidance... decreased academic achievement... increased likelihood of dropping out; substance abuse; and involvement with juvenile justice systems.»

(If they even follow the mandates — our new study on Philadelphia discipline reform by Matthew Steinberg and Johanna Lacoe found that many of these schools simply ignored the new rules.)

Montpelier High School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics School uses the concept of sustainability to make curriculum connections across a wide variety of disciplines at the school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics school, from students studying nutrient cycles in biology class, to learning about sustainability through the lens of economics, or even looking at how energy is sustainable in physics class.

Or Chicago, where a 2015 study found that changes to its discipline code were associated with a decline in student and teacher perceptions of school safety.

CCDD Lab (Word Generation, with C. Snow) Outreach to public schools in Massachusetts and Baltimore on discipline centered (social studies and history) reading for understanding (deep comprehension).

And in numerous experimental studies, voucher parents express far more satisfaction with their child's education than do their public - school counterparts — particularly in areas such as discipline and safety.

In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive behavior that would warrant higher rates of exclusionary discipline than white peers.

While the need for STEM experts is growing, the Office of the Chief Scientist reports that the number of students studying STEM disciplines in senior secondary school has been declining in Australia, leading to fewer students pursuing post-secondary study in STEM fields.

This one volume brings together in readable, concise language the authoritative research on effective classroom practices in all major disciplines currently taught in elementary and secondary schools: the arts, foreign language, health, language arts, physical education, mathematics, social studies, and science, as well as generic practices that apply across all disciplines.

Middle - school students in a study circle brought up a discipline issue they felt was unfair to African - American students, said Landesman.

Researchers from several social science disciplines have studied teenagers» decisions about whether to persist in high school and earn a diploma.

Within the site you will find detailed, practical, straightforward information on lesson planning, learning objectives, teaching methods, home schooling, instructional grouping, teaching and values, classroom management, assertive discipline, study skills, thinking skills, job searching, education reform, discussions, contrary opinions, direct instruction, and a whole lot more.

Moreover, in most areas studied (such as student discipline and curriculum), the majority of SIG and non-SIG schools both reported that they lacked primary authority.

In fact, a handful of studies have shown that black and Latino students are less likely to receive exclusionary discipline in schools with higher concentrations of black and Latino teachers.