Sentences with phrase «teaching career more»

Gov. Mike Pence voted against NCLB and has «expressed his support for making the teaching career more attractive.»

I began my own teaching career more than 35 years ago, in the summer of 1978, when I entered a teacher training program.

The U.S. Department of Education, in part through its Race to the Top competition, has pushed states to find ways to reward teachers for their performance in an effort to make teaching careers more attractive and retain those who are most effective.

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And that's not just about teaching more kids to code, in the hopes that more of them will make tech their careers.

This one from McMaster University via Coursera is focused more on career issues, and the topics covered sound like a top hits list of common work questions: «Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence.»

The growing supply of potential teachers — as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — meant Teach Away could pursue more placement opportunities abroad.

Skillcrush is an interactive learning community that teaches tech beginners the digital skills they need to launch better, higher paying, and more fulfilling careers with real mobility.

From a training and career perspective, it is more efficient to teach a young SDR to do a specific and fundamental function of the sales very well before moving on to their next role.

Some background: Rachel Held Evans has made a career out of undermining fidelity to the teachings of Scripture by ridiculing simplistic or non-existent notions of biblical interpretation (hermeneutics), while practicing a flawed hermeneutic of her own that often seems to be little more than an extension of her own ideology.

He had an extraordinarily active and successful career, among the fruits of which were the distribution of over two million copies of the Scripture text, in different languages; the equipment of several hundred missionaries; the circulation of more than a hundred and eleven million of scriptural books, pamphlets, and tracts; the building of five large orphanages, and the keeping and educating of thousands of orphans; finally, the establishment of schools in which over a hundred and twenty - one thousand youthful and adult pupils were taught.

Regarding presentation, more Snow Days, courtesy Winter Storm Grayson, than we have had since I begin my teaching career 15 years ago meant that my weekday lunches looked a little different than they do on my art room desk at school.

Billie Jean King has been a dynamo as a tennis champion, promoter, television commentator, businesswoman and feminist, but she may be even more compelling in her latest career: teaching

I know of hourly workers performing menial jobs who make significantly more than my teaching parent has ever made in her career.

Available free of charge on MomsTEAM's new SmartTeams concussion website, the #TeamUp4ConcussionSafetyTM program, developed by MomsTEAM Institute as part of its SmartTeams Play SafeTM initiative with a Mind Matters Educational Challenge Grant from the National Collegiate Athletic Association and Department of Defense, is designed to do just that: to increase reporting by athletes of concussion symptoms by engaging coaches, athletes, parents, and health care providers in a season - long, indeed career - long program which emphasizes that immediate reporting of concussion symptoms - not just by athletes themselves but by their teammate «buddies» - not only reduces the risk the athlete will suffer a more serious brain injury - or, in rare cases, even death - but is actually helps the team's chances of winning, not just in that game, but, by giving athletes the best chance to return as quickly as possible from concussion, the rest of the season, and by teaching that honest reporting is a valued team behavior and a hallmark of a good teammate.

I've spent the last 20 years of my career looking for — and then sharing — a more gradual way to teach children to sleep well.

Women are less present in positions of power because they are taught, from an early age on, to shun particularly «male» careers and give priority to others, more focused on care and communication, for instance.

The initiative claims to better prepare students for college and careers by requiring instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

It primarily requires instructors to teach more non-fiction and more rigorous math to students at a younger age and is intended to better prepare them for college and careers.

The initiative aims to better prepare students for college and careers by requiring instructors to teach more non-fiction and rigorous math to students at a younger age.

• More than 100 new University Technical Colleges and the creation of a new «Teach Next» organisation for successful career switchers to teach maths and sciTeach Next» organisation for successful career switchers to teach maths and sciteach maths and science.

«The more we talked, it seemed that she could use her exceptional skills, enthusiasm and experience to have an impact by teaching,» Craik wrote in an email to Science Careers.

•» [M] en are more hopeful than women regarding their career prospects in general, and in particular about finding a research position, teaching position or a professorship in academia.»

A more relevant role model for scientists is Konstantin Tsiolkovky, who is recognized for developing the basic principles of aeronautical science during his long career teaching math in a Russian high school.

«To make precollege science and math teaching more competitive with other career opportunities, resources must be provided to compensate teachers of mathematics, science, and technology comparably to similarly trained S&E professionals in other economic sectors,» Challenge declares.

But you will benefit from teaching experience and training even if you intend to pursue a career that's more focused on research.

More than two - thirds of IRACDA graduates end up in academic careers, most of them at teaching - focused and minority - serving institutions.

Just Some of the Away - From - the - Bench Careers Featured on Next Wave - Careers With an MBA - Patent Law - Science Broadcasting - Science Journalism - Teaching - To see many more, click here Alternatively, if you can't quite bear to leave the academic safety net, there are many other courses of study to pursue.

A new study in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching indicates that undergraduates who participate in mentored research not only graduate more often with science degrees, but also attend graduate school and pursue STEM careers at higher rates.

To understand whether their career goals require taking a couple of courses or spending a few years getting more training, scientists should first figure out what aspect of cybersecurity they're interested in, says Diana Burley, a professor of human and organizational learning who teaches in GW's PISCES program.

Authors Marisa Allison, Randy Lynn, and Victoria Hoverman — all of whom have experience as adjuncts — conducted an online survey of GMU contingent faculty, asking more than 300 questions about working conditions, course preparation, career aspirations, personal finances, motivations for teaching, job satisfaction, future plans, and more.

Some jobs might be just teaching, while others might be more involved in curriculum development, and the different roles may be more or less integrated into the department, so applicants need to know both what their career goals are and how the different opportunities may or may not meet their requirements.

There's more than one path to policy — if Science's Next Wave teaches anything, it's that when it comes to careers there's never just one way of doing things — but if you want to make the transition as painless as possible you should try to make the change in a sensible way.

Although more than 60 percent of survey respondents rated a research - oriented faculty position as one of their most attractive career paths, more than one - third rated other careers as more attractive, including research in government, established firms or startups, as well as teaching and other non-research careers.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

C. Emily Feistritzer, the program's director, says that the main reason most people (including scientists with advanced degrees) go into teaching as a second career is because it affords them more time with their family or to otherwise pursue their other interests.

I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.

This led him to speculate that if academic careers were less linear, defined less by narrow metrics such as citation counts and grants and more by wider societal benefits such as outreach activities and teaching quality, «there would be more diversity and thus innovation in the system.»

«He began his career as a creative and meticulous researcher, but he became more and more involved in teaching, to which he was absolutely devoted.

From teaching classes after work or on my days off, pursuing a yoga teaching career on the side of my full - time job has contributed to my self - care practice in more ways than one.

Hey Doc I started training at the age of 13 and literally never stopped ever I have had major knee surgeries 5 or so years ago I have had countless stressful jobs I could not stand I finally said enough is enough and pursued by Personal training career I have an unbelievable passion for the fitness / nutrition lifestyle I'm 26 now at the age of 22 - 23 I achieved body fat percentage of 2 percent while working a back breaking job and literally sleeping 2 - 3 hours a night due to my hormone imbalance I didn't have a spoil meal in 8 months I was finally achieving the look I've been longing for for the 10 years I was already training and it was due to proper training times and nutrition little did i know I was already deep in a over trained zone for years before that I used to spend 3 - 5 hours a day in the gym from the age of 14 through 19 years old i just loved it so much and though more was better as I got older I got smarter I studied non stop this all leads to my decline at age 23 I look back and I know every little thing I did wrong basically al all started at work 3 years ago to make a very long story short I had continued dizziness lack of sex drive for years insomnia all of the above to the 10th degree I know I've abused my body not many can say they have done the work i have done in gyms over all these years I left work one night with sharp pains in my abdomen got blood work done got called back a week or so later and was notified in A very unprofessional way that at the age of 23 I had a testosterone level of 73.6 I have all the blood work to prove it from then on I was treated horribly by doctors none believing what I havenput myself through in the prior years basically going into every appointment and teaching each person endos euros physicians etc..

When her career ended in injury, yoga did more than fill a missing void, it taught her to reboot the awareness of her body from the inside out.

Despite being really passionate about fashion styling and trends, I never thought that I will go into the fashion industry as I was taught since young that being an academic is a more practical career choice.

Glenn Close's career - defining performance poignantly illustrated that there's more than a little Albert Dobbs in all of us, and taught us to embrace our inner Albert with all our heart and soul.

For those that stay on will receive two more payments of # 5,000 in the third and fifth year of their teaching careers.

Application of the new methods has also lead to more reasonable estimates of all kinds of important quantities from children's rates of achievement, to the duration of the doctoral career at HGSE, to realistic assessments of the positive impact of the GED on entry into the workforce, the duration of the teaching career, and so on.

Meeting this first challenge requires an understanding of why teaching is currently not more attractive, what high - performing countries have done to raise the status of teaching, and what strategies are likely to make teaching a more highly regarded profession and sought - after career in Australia.

«These bursaries will make it easier for those considering a career change into teaching to take that step, bridging the gap in employment and making a move into teaching a real possibility for many more people.»

They are the beliefs that: 1) the training one receives while getting certified is so useful that the uncertified will be relatively ill - prepared; 2) certification weeds out unsuitable candidates; and 3) certification makes teaching more «professional» and therefore a more attractive career.

What's more, I've shared nearly everything in my teaching career via blogging, Twitter, or Google +.

A first challenge is to raise the status of teaching as a career choice, to attract more able people into teaching and to develop teaching as a knowledge - based profession.