Challenge implicit biases by identifying your own,
teaching colleagues about them, observing gap - closing teachers, stopping «tone policing,» and tuning into such biases at your school.
The sisters have been
teaching colleagues about creating developmental rubrics and using Guttmann Charts to find their students ZPD's.
Talking with... Woody Mosten, Part 2 Woody and carl Michael talk about educating the public vs.
teaching our colleagues about Collaborative Practice and the depths to which that public education can go, even toward preventing conflict; and Woody shares a bit about his own journey into Peacemaking, how the paradigm shift manifests, and about various expansions to meet clients needs while still remaining focused on peace, including incorporating litigation consultants and talk of potential outcomes in court.
From
teaching colleagues about social media to volunteering at events to leading a listings caravan that raises the team's collective knowledge, Kim Mullan's dynamic spirit has been an asset to many of her colleagues.
Not exact matches
A
colleague might ask you whether he should
teach a class at a local college; what he really wants to talk
about is how to take his life in a different direction.
When networking at a meal meeting, your networking purpose might be to further develop the relationship, to help a
colleague solve a problem, to learn how to refer someone in your network, to introduce your
colleague to someone significant, or to
teach someone how to talk
about your business to his own network members.
Carol Dweck and her
colleagues at Stanford
teach about the importance of a growth mindset — how individuals who believe they have unlimited capacity to learn throughout their lifetime outperform those who believe that intelligence is fixed.
Reading Old Testament books in the light of this principle, which was long ago expressed in the jingle «the New is in the Old concealed, the Old is in the New revealed,» I find in their
teaching about God and godliness a significance which a Jewish
colleague would miss.
I have also found myself looking into the faces of that diversified company of informal students embracing, for example, my
colleagues teaching in other fields, as well as those other friends from all walks with whom I spend sustaining nonworking hours and who, ever and again even in the midst of play, put me back to work with «simple» innocent questions
about the Bible.
Catholic theologians who have questions
about the
teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their
colleagues something more than liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.
He was excited when he arrived on campus because, after years of working in other environments, he thought that he was finally
about to learn, from his
colleagues on the faculty, how one could
teach science in a way that was integrated fully with the faith.
She also seemed anxious
about how her friends, extended family and former
colleagues at Haugan Elementary — she's
teaching at other CPS schools this year — would feel
about her yearlong secret.
Although they voiced more negative opinions
about unionization than their nonscientist
colleagues did, their actual experiences «
teaching and advising [unionized] students... were no different than in the humanities or social sciences.
Careful development of course and
teaching portfolios can be invaluable for educating your
colleagues about your
teaching.
Given this fact, how can you document your
teaching efforts to
colleagues who will be making decisions
about your future?
Identify
colleagues — they may be in other departments — who truly care, and with whom you can talk,
about teaching practices.
The team named the new species in honor of a deceased
colleague, John E. Olney, who studied and
taught courses
about marine fish larvae.
While living these experiences, I discovered that I love
teaching when surrounded by students who are eager to learn and
colleagues who care deeply
about their
teaching and their students.
He
taught me a lot
about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research
colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously
teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.
I was going
about my usual routine,
teaching proper form, technique, and pushing everyone to their physical limit, when my friend and
colleague Aaron Ortega popped in for a chat.
She cares deeply
about empowering her patients to take control of their health, and is passionate
about teaching effective, conservative tools and strategies to her healthcare
colleagues.
When I think
about it, most of the designers that I admire most and who have had stellar careers are also self
taught, so I remind myself of that fact all the time and am constantly educating myself by asking tons of questions, learning a lot from my workroom vendors, talking to other designer
colleagues and reading a ton.
I, as a woman film critic who is concerned
about the future of our planet and our species, don't agree with many of the
teachings delivered via big screens and small, and have found similar concerns — explicit or not — among female
colleagues.
When they told their
colleagues about it, the sixth - grade teachers put in a few extra days over winter break, implemented some plans on the fly, and reopened in January with team
teaching in place.
Classroom flow: Find a
colleague or student who has a free period when you
teach, and ask him or her to come and observe how you and your students move
about the classroom.
Edward M. Davey, right, works with his PLC
colleagues, from left, Kathryn Harper, Ramille Romulus, and David Vincent, to devise the best ways to
teach students
about reading and understanding historical texts.
'' [Prior to attending the institute,] I'd heard excellent reports from
colleagues that have participated
about how good the
teaching and perspective is,» Schmelz says.
To keep your
teaching fresh and effective, learn
about colleagues, build community, expect the unexpected, and remain present, involved, current, and curious.
Not long ago, my
colleague Michael Horn wrote
about a new study out of Columbia Teachers College that analyzes the student performance results of
Teach to One during the most recent school year.
After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective
Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer -
colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for
Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for
Teaching (PDF) and Learning
About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.
Not surprisingly, they and their underqualified secondary
colleagues, take the easiest approach and
teach «from the book» without engaging students in what mathematics is really all
about, which is the formulation and solution of problems.
At the blended high school where I currently
teach, my
colleagues and I were surprised
about the lack of knowledge the average student had in regards to something as basic as search engines.
Teaching is
about engaging students in a passion for learning and working collaboratively with
colleagues, explains John Hattie in a discussion with Education Week's Elizabeth Rich.
With keen insight, a skilled ear, sensitivity, and compassion, she has engaged her TEP
colleagues in thinking
about how their purposes for
teaching and learning and the beliefs and assumptions that frame those purposes influence their efforts to support all students» learning,» says Lecturer Vicki Jacobs, faculty director of TEP.
The success that my
colleagues and mentees achieved provided me a window into what is possible when the behavioral patterns, systemic dysfunctions, and entrenched ideologies that impede progress are faced with a creative, solutions - oriented mindset and a shared vision
about teaching and learning.
• Believe in the value of what you are
teaching and make sure your students understand why it is important; so preparation is paramount • Show your students you care
about their wellbeing and progress; that is your job; there is nothing they despise more than a teacher who doesn't care • Admit when you don't know or when you're wrong; they need to see you're a learner too • Collaboration with your
colleagues is powerful support and very rewarding.
Importantly, they also included feedback for teachers from
colleagues about their
teaching.
He made sure academic and technical teachers talked to each other daily, asked questions
about what their
colleagues taught and looked for ways to connect and support each other's instruction.
... But my
colleagues have also written
about teaching reading at the Kindergarten level using poetry,
teaching fiction writing in First Grade, approaches to
teaching mathematics in the middle grades.
Our analysis also suggests that interacting
about teaching with nearby
colleagues supplemented more formal interactions.
Formally organized meetings with
colleagues teaching the same grade were important in supporting interactions
about teaching, she said, but proximity was critical to engage in unplanned exchanges with her
colleagues:
What struck me most
about the book was the status of the
teaching profession before Shanker and his
colleagues won the right to collectively bargain in 1960.
These were my
colleagues who shared a passion
about teaching and wanted to help each student to find that spark that would stimulate their desire to succeed in an online class.
She credits a former
colleague from an international school in Venezuela with
teaching her
about the importance of relationships.
However, if you ask most
teaching colleagues and parents to share memories of learning
about poetry, they recall, often with pained expressions, intensely studying a small number of poets in high school, where they had to analyze poems word by word.
You will learn so much from just talking with
colleagues about what projects and lessons they are using with their students.I
teach at a summer program for gifted and advanced students, where I work with other teachers of gifted in the school district, and I always pick up new ideas and methods from hanging around them.
So I turned to my Finnish
colleagues for their insights
about building robust
teaching and learning communities.
He first came to the United States in the early 1990s looking for all the great approaches to
teaching math that he and his
colleagues in Japan had learned
about from American researchers.
Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers
about the frequency of visiting another teacher's classroom to watch him or her
teach; having a
colleague observe their classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a
colleague to get advice
about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from
colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their
teaching practice from
colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their
teaching practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful feedback on their
teaching practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).
And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my
teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting with the new technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my
colleagues; to be more open to my
colleagues» feedback
about my
teaching.