Sentences with phrase «teach local history»

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I encourage educators to use this exhibition to teach our students, especially those in the Capital Region of New York, about our rich local history.»

If you are feeling pain, and want to take positive action, you should consult your physician, and if agreed by your physician, explore your options with a local yoga teacher, who teaches a gentle styla and has a history of helping yoga students with ailments.

The state curriculum mandates that third - grade students learn local history, and in Woodstock, the vintage school is an important teaching tool.The original Old Quasset schoolhouse was built some time before 1738.

In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women, recognizing that concern, persuaded a local school district to hold a Women's History Week to promote the teaching of women's hHistory Week to promote the teaching of women's historyhistory.

Each chapter narrates one episode in the American history of teaching: how teaching became a feminized profession; initial movements toward the unionization of teaching; early teaching in segregated black schools; McCarthy - era attacks on teachers for their politics; conflicts between (mostly white) teachers and (mostly black and Latino) local control advocates; and then on through A Nation at Risk, No Child Left Behind, and Race to the Top.

What are real problems that people in my field — ecology, biology, local history — grapple with that are related to the content I need to teach?

Design and implement effective teaching strategies that are responsive to the local community and cultural setting, linguistic background and histories of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Before joining the Student Social Support R&D Lab, Adan served in the 2013 Teach for America Corps as an 8th grade American History teacher in East Los Angeles and as the Executive Director of the Lennox Educational Advancement Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) local organization.

The Teaching American History Evaluation: Final Report (2011) provides findings on a study of the Teaching American History (TAH) program, which provides funds to local school districts for developing and operating three - year professional development projects to improve instruction in this subject.

This article provides one example of how an elementary teacher and a teacher educator have used local resources and problem - based learning to teach a fourth grade unit about human communities and the history of the local area.

Since its implementation, the presence of Facing History at Prepa Ibero has impacted other Mexican schools and encouraged an increased commitment to teaching difficult local and global histories in Mexico.

As they do, these technologies will reinforce powerful teaching by allowing teachers to deepen curricular content, highlight conceptual frameworks for historical understanding, and connect to local history.

A born and bred local — Edward guides us around Cusco, he teaches us the Inca culture, history and interesting facts that only a local can tell you.

For example, Luka brought his former classmates to the Anne Frank House and led a workshop on prejudice, Hajart and Nisrin taught girls about history and discrimination at sessions in their local community centre, and Dzifa and Mimi helped strangers to get to know each other on Amsterdam's bustling Leidseplein square.

Your local guide will be with you the whole day, teaching you about the history and culture of the Dominican Republic.

Group Activities - New York Artist Union, the WPA, and the Art Workers Coalition Teach - in - Working Conditions Seminar with Precarious Workers Brigade (London), UKK (Young Art Workers, Copenhagen) and a representative of the Chilean Ministry of Culture - Ongoing discussions with representatives from local unions and working centers such as UWA, IWW, Teamster, Writer's Guild of America East, New York Taxi Workers Alliance, and others - Monthly book club on labor law, organizing, workplace occupations, and radical history - End Sotheby's Lockout Solidarity Action at the Whitney Biennial with Occupy Museums, Occupy Sotheby's and Arts & Culture - Joining other OWS labor affiliated working groups such as Labor Outreach Committee, Occupy Your Workplace, and 99 Pickets, as part of the Labor Alliance cluster

She teaches studio art and art history courses at local universities including Lipscomb University and Belmont University.

As a Canadian in New York for the past four years, Jen Hoyer helps make things go at Interference Archive and teaches about local history at the Brooklyn Public Library.

They should prioritize the teaching of natural history, learning in outdoor settings, and studying local ecosystems, while refraining from instilling «ecophobia,» a focus on huge global environmental disasters which makes kids feel even more removed from nature.

If you are ever invited into a local classroom to speak about the Supreme Court's role in our nation's history, you may first want to visit Landmark Supreme Court Cases, a site developed to support educators in teaching about landmark Supreme Court cases.

Possible topics about pedagogy include: • Structuring statutory drafting courses • Simulation courses designed using mock legislatures or committees • Course linkages with real - world legislators and special interest organizations • Service learning or clinical opportunities for law students • Courses focused on law reform efforts • How to employ Plain - English principles in statutory and rule drafting • Theoretical perspectives on statutory drafting • Involving political realities in law school drafting courses • Teaching practical aspects of drafting that addresses theories and principles of statutory interpretation and construction Possible topics about practice include: • Unique challenges of drafting laws and / or regulations in specific areas such as criminal law, environmental, health law, etc. • Lawyering for non-profits, federal and state agencies, local governments, and other clients in frequent need of rule - drafting • Practicing in employment law, health law, environmental law, and other heavily regulated fields where private clients require rule and policy drafting • Non-legal drafting opportunities, such as sports league rules, industry trade group policies, and university rules Possible topics about politics include: • Political influences affecting legislative drafting • Direct democracy and the unique challenges of drafting initiatives and referenda • The implications of special interests driving drafting decisions • Polictics and its influence on legislative history • Lobbyists as legislative drafters.

For example, if you're a history undergraduate considering careers in teaching, law or accountancy you might join the university debating society, stand for election to become treasurer of the choral society and spend a morning a week in term time volunteering at a local school.

Bon Secours Health System — Midlothian, VA May 2013 — Dec 2014 Midwife • Manage the care of normal antepartum cases including teaching, counseling and support • Perform pelvic examinations • Manage labor, including teaching and support • Take health history • Perform and record the obstetrical physical assessment • Perform local anesthesia