Sentences with phrase «teaching colleagues about»

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.

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.

The sisters have been teaching colleagues about creating developmental rubrics and using Guttmann Charts to find their students ZPD's.

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.

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.