Sentences with phrase «taught by the academics»

It offers free online courses taught by academics at leading global institutions such as Yale, Princeton and Edinburgh.

By working together, CTE and academic teachers can transform learning and teaching through career pathways that integrate academic and technical curriculum, facilitate team teaching by academic and CTE teachers, require students and teachers to undertake rich multidisciplinary projects, and connect classroom to work - based learning.

Inspired by the radical politics of the late 1960's and frustrated by the limitations of art taught by the academics, he decided to embrace different, modern sculptural practices.

We have over 180 years» experience educating students in a wide range of disciplines, spanning the arts, humanities, education, health, science and technology and postgraduate programmes are taught by academics actively involved in research or consultancy projects.

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Ranked in the global top 10 by the Financial Times, Rotman faculty have been honoured by leading academic associations for their outstanding research and teaching, and for their life - time scholarly contributions.

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A remarkable flourishing of spiritualities has combined thoughtfulness with passion, often by women who also write in other genres (academic and nonacademic), such as Loades, Soskice, Grey, Coakley, Hampson, Jantzen, Ursula King (a German teaching in Bristol), Sarah Maitland, Monica Furlong and Elizabeth Stuart.

When we view the domination of the university by academic disciplines based on modern metaphysics, and the domination of the world by policies that derive from the theories taught there, it is hard not to become deeply discouraged.

Of the 1990 apostolic constitution, Ex Corde Ecclesiae, Curran writes: «The document theoretically limits academic freedom by truth and the common good, sees local bishops not as external to the college or university but as participants in the institution, and includes canonical provisions for those who teach theology in Catholic higher education.»

Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong: Moral Illiteracy and the Case for Character Education by William Kilpatrick Simon & Schuster, 336 pages, $ 23 Reclaiming Our Schools: A Handbook on Teaching Character, Academics, and Discipline by Edward A. Wynne and Kevin Ryan foreword by James S. Coleman....

The reality of the Easter event is not established by academic scholarship performing autopsies on those Gospel narratives that bear witness to the Easter event but rather by engaging in those activities prescribed by them, that is, identifying with the hungry and the poor, obeying the teaching of Jesus, and devoting oneself to liturgy.

This theoretical turn was widely accepted by the leading figures of the mainline's teaching ministry — academics, denominational leaders and curriculum writers alike.

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

Here's another, scarcely less oratorical in character, from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith: the title of this document (another wonderful example of Vatican bogus academic language when what is needed is a competent journalist used to writing informative headlines) is «Considerations regarding proposals to give legal recognition to unions between homosexual persons» (2003): The Church's teaching on marriage and on the complementarity of the sexes reiterates a truth that is evident to right reason and recognised as such by all the major cultures of the world.

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.

For example, academic camps backed by corporations, taught by college professors or well - known business executives as well as camps taught at leading college institutions can cost well over $ 1,500 for a one - week daytime session.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

The Professional Education Committee has created an AT Teaching Tips video series to recognize and share innovative teaching and learning ideas by academic professionals in the field of athletic tTeaching Tips video series to recognize and share innovative teaching and learning ideas by academic professionals in the field of athletic tteaching and learning ideas by academic professionals in the field of athletic training.

Classes blend academic subjects with hands on exploration and are taught by NCSD faculty.

In a document titled: «Strike Bulletin No. 1», which was signed and issued by Ogunyemi, ASUU said the strike action was to be a total, comprehensive and indefinite action whereby no form of academic activities including teaching, attendance of any meeting, conduct and supervision of any examination at any level, supervision of project or thesis at any level should take place at any of the nation's universities.

However they have also shown the same thing about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism, the teaching of which stands in more urgent need of well - funded academic research by virtue of their more recent arrival on the curriculum.»

The new Regulatory Task Force on Academic Policy, which is being led by Phil Weinberg, the deputy chancellor for teaching and learning, will report twice a year on how closely schools are complying with graduation requirements.

The IAF - NS closes the gap between research and practice and enriches the teaching and scholarship of academics, while also benefiting policymakers by exposing them to cutting - edge scholarly research.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

I've focused almost entirely on research and teaching and let many of the other details of academic life — optional dinners, receptions, and evening lectures — pass me by.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

The institute helped the conservative Louisiana Family Forum (LFF), headed by Christian minister Gene Mills, to pass a state education act in 2008 that allows local boards to teach intelligent design alongside evolution under the guise of «academic freedom».

Action to increase academic salaries would help, they suggest, but beyond that, «it is not always a pleasing prospect to spend upwards of 10 years learning how to do good research only to get drowned by teaching and administrative duties in a lectureship.»

By learning how to teach — by developing good teaching practices — you may be acting in the best interests of your academic careeBy learning how to teach — by developing good teaching practices — you may be acting in the best interests of your academic careeby developing good teaching practices — you may be acting in the best interests of your academic career.

A study by Swansea University researchers has found that student academic integrity is not a core concept taught to academics in Higher Education.

The academics said these youngsters need to be taught how to use morphology in a highly - structured step - by - step way to help them improve their literacy skills.

And these adverse effects are becoming more and more of a problem, given that more and more CRS are taking on teaching responsibilities to plug the gaps left by academics who have been diverted into administrative and management tasks.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

«Whereas in academia, a young investigator is often heavily distracted by the need to fund a laboratory, do research, and teach to demonstrate a contribution to the academic community.»

This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

The conflict between the public's belief in teaching and the academic belief in research makes the central problem of the university unique; there's no other great social institution afflicted by such a radical division between public expectations and professional goals.

School - aged children can be taught to better their mental health through intervention programmes delivered at school, suggests a new study carried out in east London and led by an academic at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).

Penn - Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PennPORT), an NIH sponsored, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award (IRACDA) postdoctoral fellowship, supported by the NIH division of NIGMS awarded August 2007.

The review, entitled Scientists must be taught to manage, was written by husband and wife faculty members who attended the February 2012 workshop, gives their personal perspective on why the skills they learned are so important and why more workshops like this are needed throughout the academic and scientific communities.

July 1, 2011 Pritzker School of Medicine, Medical Center announce 2011 Teaching Awards The end of the 2010 - 2011 academic year for the Pritzker School of Medicine was celebrated with the announcement of several teaching awards voted on by medical students and Teaching Awards The end of the 2010 - 2011 academic year for the Pritzker School of Medicine was celebrated with the announcement of several teaching awards voted on by medical students and teaching awards voted on by medical students and faculty.

Co-sponsored by the German - American Fulbright Commission and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) the Summer Academy aims to offer professional development in areas relevant to the teaching of German including German language, literature and culture as well as in professional and higher education.

«Three lessons rarely taught» by Dr. Piotr Wasylczyk [1] describes important concepts about research work and the traditional academic career, that he learned during his extensive education.

It's called Project Nim and tells the story of Nim Chimpsky (seen above), the chimpanzee who in the 70's was raised from birth by humans and taught sign language as an academic experiment at Columbia University.

Enacted in 2001, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), for instance, emphasized academic competence by requiring that prospective teachers either graduate with a major in the subject they are teaching, have credits equivalent to a major, or pass a qualifying test showing competence in the subject.

Academic discourse is not something that comes easily to most students; rather, it is something that needs to be taught, modeled and recognized by both teachers and students.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

The research, which was carried out by academics including Becky Francis, director of the UCL Institute of Education and Louise Archer, professor of sociology of education at King's College London, found 120 secondary schools which taught lessons in ability sets.

18 — Early childhood: Academic Teaching Conference Series: From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development, sponsored by the Judge Baker Children's Center and Children's Hospital Boston, for teachers and school administrators, at the Judge Baker Children's Center in Boston, Mass..