Sentences with phrase «teachers the power of»

Quick Key's quiz app for Android is by far the least costly way to give your teachers the power of digital assessment.

Geographically distant classrooms can be a ripe learning space for teacher educators who want to show preservice teachers the power of technology in the English classroom.

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That's because a silver bullet, no matter how large and well - intentioned it is, won't magically change years of social and economic inequality, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told CNBC's «Power Lunch» on Friday.

According to Ralph Heath, managing partner of Synergy Leadership Group and author of Celebrating Failure: The Power of Taking Risks, Making Mistakes, and Thinking Big, failure and defeat are our best teachers, but many people, especially those in conservative corporate cultures, avoid going there.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

Sam Sommers, a teacher and researcher of social psychology at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, also argues about the power of hello in a blog post on Psychology Today.

We're looking to use technology to unlock the power of a teacher.»

The First Vatican Council included language like (the Pope) «is the true vicar of Christ and head of the whole Church and faith, and teacher of all Christians; and that to him was handed down in blessed Peter, by our Lord Jesus Christ, full power to...» This transfer of power depends on the Roman Church's understanding of the Office of the Keys which I do not agree with, but their statements make it clear that the Pope's authority as the Roman Church understands it is derived from Christ's.

As Albert the Great, medieval philosopher, scientist, and teacher of Thomas Aquinas, remarked: «In the natural sciences we do not investigate how God the Creator operates according to His will and uses miracles to show His power, but rather what may happen in natural things on the ground of the causes inherent in nature» (In I De caelo et mundo, tr.

I always thought taljung to a person of the cloth was to instill some sort of hope — all these born again Christians see is forgiviness, A right and power their teachers told them they aquired by proclaiming themselves as such - I got news for you, they lied.

Fred, as I see it, most of the people lamenting the state of the church are those who have been in institutional churches where actual teachings of the Bible were ignored in favor of the concepts power - hungry teachers liked.

This is the kind of power that parents and teachers want to exercise in relation to youth.

In order that he may have the power to give the condition the Teacher must be the God; in order that he may be able to put the learner in possession of it he must be Man.

The Church, and the papacy in particular, has broken with the «Constantinian» model of power in order to become, in accord with the vision of the Second Vatican Council, the «teacher and evangelist of culture,» a role that retrieves and renews the New Testament task of Peter to «strengthen the brethren.»

An event of a highly distinctive kind and of incalculable creative power occurred in first century Palestine; it was remembered as centered in and taking its character largely from a certain Jewish teacher and prophet.

And now, after the chain of continuity going back to the apostles has been broken, how on earth can anyone identify those following the true Way approved by Jesus Christ, with so many aggressive false teachers claiming to be approved by Christ and holding and gaining such incredible fame and power?

And the mistaken belief that a transfer of information from teacher to student will in itself convey a sense of the power of ideas recalls Whitehead's widely quoted indictment of education:

I have seen Christians in both academic and pastoral work attracting admirers who then progressively lose the power to distinguish between devotion to their human teacher and loyalty to their divine Lord, and I don't want anything of that kind to happen to me.

Yet despite their suspicion of the public and doubts about the government's willingness to defend their religious rights, tribal leaders across North America are increasingly critical of Native and non-Native «medicine teachers» who proclaim themselves the carriers of revelation and special power.

Because he alone has the power to invest human endeavour and enrichment with positive aspirations and a positive objective, the Christian teacher alone is in a position to fulfil, both in the consciousness he employs and the consciousness he transmits, the total function of the educator.

Teachers have a primary duty to serve their pupils and not to gratify themselves, whether by a sense of power over the lives of others, by the enjoyment of their students» affection and respect, or by the intrinsic stimulus of interesting studies.

School boards, superintendents, principals, and teachers ought also to be related to one another in a scheme of authority and subordination with carefully articulated limitation and separation of powers, checks and balances, means of representation, individual and minority rights, and maximum delegation of responsibility.

My argument was that Pure Land Buddhism identified its founder with a mythical figure, Dharmakara, that there are advantages in connecting one's tradition to historical reality, that the emphasis on other power or grace is clearer in the Christian tradition than in most Buddhism, and that Jesus could function as an historical embodiment and teacher of grace.

Parents and teachers can teach the democratic principle of the limitation of powers by carefully defining the areas of adult responsibility for the young and by making plain the widening dimensions of liberty for those who learn to accept the disciplines of responsible freedom.

Even the most highly organized churches which insist on the importance of «legitimate» orders recognize with the Church of England that» «there always remains the power of God to give to the Church prophets, evangelists and teachers apart from the succession,» and even the most spiritualistic groups will elect certain men to interpret the sense of meetings in which anyone moved by the spirit is allowed to speak.

What makes this psychology so prevalent is that those who have the power - agents of government, parents, teachers, business managers, and religious leaders, who also define what's right or wrong - totally support it.

It symbolizes a unity which is not simply a formal bond that circumscribes the unfolding of individual powers in an always equal manner, but rather a process of unified development which all individuals go through together [«On the Concept and the Tragedy of Culture,» by Georg Simmel, in The Conflict in Modern Culture, translated by Peter Etzkorn (Teachers College Press, 1968), p. 28].

Last time I talked to the Supreme Power, he said, they are all a bunch of false prophets and teachers, out to make money off of a bunch of his ignorant children.

If our people do not learn from their teachers and shepherds the covenantal nature of marriage and the power of reconciliation in the Gospel, from whom will they learn?

Others see him as a great teacher, a healer or rabbi of extraordinary power, a holy man or prophet who proposed a new covenant between heaven and earth.

Why don't you god - teachers show us god - deniers how it's done, seeing as you have the indwelling power of god within you and we haven't that wonder - working power within us?

Calvin also learned from Paul in 1 Corinthians 1, however, that the true teacher of the gospel is not to use eloquence in a way that detracts from the power of the word of the cross.

In this work, Thurman made the compelling case that, despite Christianity's historical use by dominant powers to affirm their dominance, «the basic fact is that Christianity as it was born in the mind of this Jewish teacher and thinker appears as a technique of survival for the oppressed.»

One of the best pieces of advice I had from Mary Ellen Chase, that superb teacher I was privileged to study with in college, was that anybody who was seriously considering writing as a profession must be completely familiar with the King James translation of the Bible, because the power of this great translation is the rock on which the English language stands.

Jesus is the eschatological Teacher, who upon the foundation of the sacred Jewish Law but with special commandments (relating to poverty and obedience) and with divine power leads his followers to the gates of the Kingdom of God; he is now exalted at the right hand of God, and is soon to come on the clouds of heaven» as the judge of all mankind.

The sad reality is that these false teachers are not just led astray themselves by the lure of power and riches, but also lead astray spiritual children who have not been grounded in good doctrine.

These writers believed themselves to be inspired by the Spirit and called as teachers, and their writings, argues Wright, «were not simply about the coming of God's Kingdom into all the world; they were, and were designed to be, part of the means whereby that happened... Those who read these writings discovered, from very early on, that the books themselves carried the same power, the same authority in action, that had characterized the initial preaching of the «word.»

Studying media texts is now an integral part of the school curriculum and teachers are used to drawing attention to the power of manipulative language when looking at advertising.

Truth can not contradict truth, so when I read about the recent discovery of gravitational waves I was both excited, as a physics teacher, and delighted as a Catholic, seeing in this another sign of God's creative power and wisdom manifested in the universe.

Does it make me power hungry if I'm a good teacher and lots of people come to my classes?

The teacher, as an enabler or equipper or coach, no matter how expert he is as a scholar, is in his teaching function asked to help the student to release and develop powers of observation and reasoning that will serve him as a continuing learner.

Long before the process was completed there had been a class of rural presbyters whose sacerdotal powers were only ad hoc and who lost their status whenever the municipal bishop or the town presbyters happened to make a visitation (Neocaesarea, canon 12).122 The earliest reference to rural presbyters (and also rural teachers) is in a letter of Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria (c. 247 - 64).123 Whether these numerous Egyptian presbyters also had only delegated ad hoc sacerdotal powers (baptism and Eucharist) is not certain but probable.

Defoe gives us a conversion «without a church community or a teacher to aid him, sheerly from the power of the divine text itself on an individual conscience.»

Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

The mother of three children and a teacher of many more, she truly believes in the power of using small moments throughout the day to build character and make the world a better place.

Niri has been featured on Boston.com, Syracuse.com and India New England; and has worked on several charitable projects while harnessing the power of blogging like ending teacher funded classrooms, Rwanda Path2Peace, building playgrounds with Kaboom and the End Child Hunger campaign.

Additionally, the teacher nurtures the children's power of imagination through storytelling and free play.

As individuals, we are a group of parents, teachers and helping professionals who have experienced the transforming power of insight and organized ourselves into faculty, staff, facilitators and volunteers to help pass on this insight to others involved with children.

Paul Tough's How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character is an outstanding book with many invaluable insights for parents and teachers.

We single moms are superheroes, chefs, magicians, teachers, and wielders of power beyond the understanding of the average mind.