Sentences with phrase «taught me loads of»

Furthermore, with a teaching load of three classes per term, he says that «there is zero time budgeted [for research] during the academic year,» so his research often gets shoved into the summer months.

«I left Intel to work at a predominately undergraduate institution, where I can combine teaching and research,» he says.So far he has managed to sustain his HTS research program despite a teaching load of four or five courses each year thanks in large part to a collaboration with Lobb.

In the absence of well - considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher «mentor» who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need.

According to the most recent data provided by the OECD the average teaching load of junior high school teachers in Finland is about half what it is in the United States.

Given a teaching load of five classes of 35 students, a one - hour writing assignment requires almost nine hours of grading if the teacher averages three minutes each.

My humans are teaching me lots of commands and manners and I even went to this really nifty class that taught me loads of stuff.

I taught him loads of tricks — fetching his toys by name and putting the toys away in his toy basket for example.

The other two, Fresh Tracks Snowboarding and Euro Soccer have done fine, paid for themselves, and taught us a load of stuff in the... Continue reading →

Volunteering can teach you loads of valuable skills.

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But Corbo found that when reps were out of the loop of what Manco was trying to teach back at headquarters, some made bad decisions, such as loading retail customers with too much inventory.

This resource will also teach you about the types of investments, such as no - load mutual funds, closed end mutual funds, and mutual load funds.

Even though Bergoglio was their superior and carried a heavy administrative and teaching load, he also chipped in, taking the role of community laundry man.

Each year at Oregon State, part of my teaching load is an introductory level course on the Bible.

So mixed with all that «love» you say he teaches, there's a whole boat load of senseless violence.

I am grateful to my own Department of Religion for giving me a reduced teaching load to complete this project.

We taught Simon AND the kids how to make some healthy and delicious recipes with loads of secret hidden vegetables.

He ditches the winter training, gets wrapped up warm inside with a load of melting ice creams and just teaches himself to not say «bwoah».

Well it has been another forced hiatus for us here at The Science of Sport as Ross's duties to the and my teaching load take center stage in our professional lives.

I spent as much of a whole day as I could teaching him, encouraging him, rewarding him, loading him up with fun beverages, and asking the current state of his underpants.

It's absolutely shocking how many people graduate from college, saddled in debt, loaded up with specialized knowledge, yet have never been taught financial literacy and the basics of entrepreneurship.

Don't think for one minute that you need a boat - load of fancy toys to teach your child (or keep them busy).

But, the baby being «taught to sleep» or «self soothe» or «self - settle» (whatever you call it, it's a load of rubbish — you may as well «teach» an immobile baby to ride a bike!)

It can be loads of fun playing dress - up with baby, teaching baby new things, and spending lots of time taking selfies.

Professor Teachout advises she's very busy these days teaching summer school and attending «loads of activists meetings.»

On top of a booming research lab and a full teaching load, not to mention a growing young family, why would I take on this new venture?

A final - year PhD student with this load highlights, «very few taught postgraduates have any practical ability, so they take up a great deal of my time to train them to carry out the work.

All this travel is possible because in her department, intensive teaching loads are concentrated in short periods of time, and her administrative duties, including the running of an undergraduate programme, do not require her to be available at a specific time.

Even at research - active PUIs, summer is when most of the research gets done, since teaching loads are too heavy to allow productivity during the school year.

An overall increase in the number of students in Higher Education without a commensurate increase in funding is placing another burden on PhD students which is making it difficult for them to get on with their research: An increasing teaching load is falling on them.

Another change brought him to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where for the next 5 years he taught a heavy load in earth science, paleontology, oceanography, and sedimentology as Visiting and Adjunct Professor.

«This kind of service is like a godsend to faculty members and professors because they're already swamped with research, teaching, and administrative loads,» says François Carrier, director of the Office of International Research at McGill University in Montreal.

As for the researchers» teaching load, the FJI recommended that «mechanisms for the proper recognition and regulation of such duties must be introduced.»

For teaching, your CV should list all courses taught; involvement with graduate students (lab experiences, theses, dissertations — as a committee member and adviser) and noteworthy research accomplishments of undergraduates; supervision of postdoctoral scholars and researchers; curriculum development; advising load and work with student groups, committees, or task forces; teaching and research awards and other major accomplishments.

Italian academics lrallied outside Italy's higher education ministry in Rome to show their disapproval of the government's plans to eliminate tenure and increase teaching loads.

In addition to his teaching load, he's working on the second edition of a textbook about natural disasters.

How much flexibility you'll have will be influenced by various factors, including your course load, whether you're a teaching assistant, the types of experiments you do, and possibly your mentor's availability and expectations.

Despite the challenge of teaching heavy loads while continuing to conduct research, these postdocs are all grateful that they were able to find good jobs in academia.

For example, in the future, it is hoped that universities will be able to offer different teaching loads in accordance with the profile and career aspirations of the individual scientists.

For example, teaching eight courses a year, a load much heavier than a tenure - track faculty member has to handle even at most teaching - intensive schools, will not lift a family of four above the poverty line.

Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D. s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.

Despite being busy with a full load of classes and teaching assistant duties, Cham says, «I somehow thought it would be a good idea to draw a comic 5 days a week.»

But a smaller school — especially a small college where teaching loads are already high, departments are small, and there's little overlap between professors» areas of expertise — has less flexibility.

And speaking of Swarthmore: Research plans sent to predominantly undergraduate institutions should be carefully designed to coexist with substantial teaching loads and to benefit from the participation of undergraduate students.

I had been asked a couple of times before but for personal reasons (a small child, a very heavy teaching load) had always said «no.»

But after a trip abroad, he returned with loads of English textbooks and apologized for having taught him all the wrong subjects.

• In News & Analysis, Yudhijit Bhattacharjee wrote about troubles at the Lick Observatory near San Jose, and other California observatory facilities, after a decision by the University of California's (UC's) Office of the President to cut off funding for the salaries of 11 faculty and staff members at the University of California Observatories system who are perceived by some to enjoy privileged status, with a lighter teaching load than other UC scientists and an 11 - month contract instead of the 9 - month contracts of other UC faculty.

More common are other benefits, says Anita Levy of the American Association of University Professors in Washington, D.C., such as «stopping the tenure clock» or offering a reduced teaching load and fewer committee assignments to free up fathers» time for family duties.

«Our observations show that large loads of plastic fragments, with sizes from microns to some millimeters, are unaccounted for in the surface loads,» says Cozar, who teaches at the University of Cadiz in Spain, by e-mail.

Also, the teaching load was very heavy and the release time was not sufficient for the intensity of research I aspired to.