Sentences with phrase «taught by their graduates»

She pushed for peer - led learning by inviting undergraduate instructors into these classes, which were traditionally taught by graduate students.
Skills such as financial management, strategic planning, writing for a lay audience, interpretation of patent law, and management of people are rarely taught by graduate programs or mentors, but these skills are exactly what will be needed for a career outside the lab.
«We were surprised that a principal recommendation of the report was to judge the effectiveness of a teacher preparation program by, among other things, the test scores of students being taught by its graduates,» Weingarten said in a statement.
The council said it didn't measure programs based on the performance of students taught by their graduates, because not enough states gather such data.
The most contested of the rules is one calling for teacher training programs to track the performance of students taught by their graduates.

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He graduated from - and later taught at - the US Military Academy at West Point, an institution guided by the motto «Duty, Honor, Country.»
Angela grew fascinated by this «extra something» in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at UPenn.
It was a book called Corporate Lifecycles, by Ichak Adizes, a consultant who also teaches at UCLA's graduate school of management.
On February 1, I gave a guest presentation on homelessness to a graduate seminar class on housing policy taught by Steve Pomeroy at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration.
Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.
In the Fall of 2011, the University of Nebraska - Omaha, College of Business, offered the first «Genius of Warren Buffett» course taught by Robert Miles in their graduate executive MBA program.
Once, my chapel lecture was boycotted by the Bible faculty who believe that Scripture prohibits women from preaching or teaching men, even while whole communities embraced the Gospel through their female graduates.
When I learned that they were graduate students at the university and that they were enrolled in the southeast Asia program, of which I am a member by virtue of the Indian philosophy seminar I teach, I felt that I ought to restrain my impulse to close the door.
It was not until a few years into my teaching career that I was able to indulge my fancy by teaching a trial course at the seminary and graduate levels.
Schools would be improved primarily by making inner - city teaching vastly more financially attractive to the very best college graduates.
Kernan was a graduate student in 1951 when William F. Buckley, Jr.'s God and Man at Yale created a sensation by (in Kernan's words) arguing «provocatively and brilliantly that the administration and faculty of Yale, despite Yale's having been founded on religion and being still supported by free enterprise, were systematically teaching atheism and socialism in the classroom.»
These PERMANENT NOTES, as Professor Burch has entitled them, cover a period extending from 1919 to 1943 and consist, mostly, of class notes, reading notes, and papers composed by Burch while he was an undergraduate student, graduate student, and teaching assistant at Harvard University.
Clearly, the ethos of specialization is much more intense in large graduate programs staffed by research - oriented specialists than in small undergraduate programs in which most faculty members teach some introductory courses.
Having graduated from Moody BIble Institute in the «old days» when this was taught and believed by most of the faculty anyhow; I still believe I have an inerrant Bible today.
While some evangelical supporters of homeschooling, private school, and charter school options are celebrating a school choice advocate's appointment to this all - important role (and a graduate of the evangelical liberal arts school, Calvin College, at that), other conservative Christian public school parents and advocates are disheartened by DeVos's limited personal history with our nation's public schools (she has mentored in public schools but not attended, taught, or sent children to public schools).
It is amazing how the attestation / stratum analyses used by the Jesus Seminarians, e.g. Professors Crossan, Ludemann, Borg and Fredriksen, agree with what is currently being taught in graduate theology classes at many large Catholic universities (e.g. Catholic U, Notre Dame).
This class is taught as a «graduate» class and is usually filled by those who have taken the Mindfulness - Based Childbirth Education course.
Sunbridge Institute's programs are recognized by the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America, qualifying graduates to teach in Waldorf schools worldwide.
«The first is at the level of teaching which should prepare the students for post graduate life by equipping them with life sustenance skills, especially technical and entrepreneurial education.
Financial incentives of up to # 20,000 per student to attract the best graduates into teaching subjects such as maths, chemistry, physics and computer science in Wales, have been announced by Education Secretary Kirsty Williams (Mon 3rd April).
Graduate students interested in trying their hand at outreach or high school teaching should look into teaching fellowships offered by the National Science Foundation.
In one powerful example of the new capabilities around that time, Carnegie Mellon graduate student Dean Pomerleau used simulated images of road conditions to teach a neural network to interpret live road images picked up by cameras attached to a car's onboard computer.
Postdocs do the bulk of the hands - on teaching that goes on in labs — by training graduate students, medical students, and technicians, for example.
According to decisions disclosed yesterday, November 1, by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), New York University's graduate, teaching, and research assistants have won the right to form a union.
The concept is described in a paper in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, co-authored by Kyocera Professor of Ceramics Yet - Ming Chiang, Pappalardo Professor of Mechanical Engineering Alexander Slocum, School of Engineering Professor of Teaching Innovation Gareth McKinley, and POSCO Professor of Materials Science and Engineering W. Craig Carter, as well as postdoc Xinwei Chen, graduate student Brandon Hopkins, and four others.
A budding new Japanese graduate school backed by the likes of Nobel laureates Sydney Brenner, Susumu Tonegawa, Jerome Friedman, and others has cleared the last hurdle required to start teaching.
In 1984, as a graduate student at Brown University, Yang Wei took a course in materials science taught by a new assistant professor.
It says bright graduates are turning away from careers in science because researchers in academia are paid too little; science teaching in schools is often poor; and good research which takes time to show its worth is being nipped in the bud by short - term pressures.
The PI may provide a stipend, although many graduate students are supported by fellowships or teaching assistantships.
The paper was co-authored by Joseph Simons - Rudolph, a teaching assistant professor of psychology at NC State; Christine Brugh and Eileen Schilling, graduate students at NC State; and Chad Hoggan, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and human development at NC State.
At many universities, graduate students are employed by their university to teach classes or do research.
Many institutions depend heavily on graduate student teaching: a 2003 report by agitators for a graduate student union at Yale, [16] for instance, claims that «70 % of undergraduate teaching contact hours at Yale are performed by transient teachers: graduate teachers, adjunct instructors, and other teachers not on the tenure track.»
There are long days conducting research, teaching classes, and guiding graduate students, followed by long nights writing research papers and grant applications.
Veronica Segarra was inspired by her graduate school experiences to pursue a career that combines bench work, teaching and outreach.
Courses will be taught by Georgia State University faculty members, post-doctoral research associates, and graduate or undergraduate student teaching assistants.
The program will require graduate students to complete a course in actinide chemistry, taught jointly by the University of Notre Dame and WSU.
Written by a highly respected team of specialists in plant biology with extensive experience in teaching at undergraduate and graduate level, this textbook will be invaluable for students and instructors alike.
A mathematician by training, after he graduated from Princeton in 1978 and earned a PhD in math in 1981 at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, he taught managerial economics at Harvard Business School from 1981 to 1990.
As a 200 Hour YTTC graduate from Rishikul Yogshala, you not only gain the privilege of evolving as a sincere, enhanced yoga practitioner but also get to exercise the accreditation of teaching the science of yoga on a global scale as a 200 RYT, by virtue of Yoga Alliance.
These classes are taught by Prana Flow graduate Cassandra McDonough.
She was taught by Mittsuki Kikkawa himself and graduated a certified Shiatsu therapist in 1983.
Ithaca, New York About Blog Cornell's Baker Program in Real Estate offers a comprehensive, professional graduate level curriculum that educates the next generation of real estate industry leaders taught by the largest on - campus real estate field faculty in the country.
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.
Harvard and MIT Release Working Papers on Open Online Learning Harvard Gazette, 1/21/14 «Led by Andrew Ho of Harvard's Graduate School of Education and Isaac Chuang of MIT's electrical engineering and computer science and physics departments, the effort was in service of a mutual goal — «to research how students learn and how technologies can facilitate effective teaching both on - campus and online» — part of a mission statement established when MIT and Harvard joined to form edX, a nonprofit online learning platform, in May 2012.»
This limited pool of physics teachers is further depleted by the fact that 40 per cent of physics graduates who teach immediately after graduation leave the profession within three - and - a-half years.
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