Sentences with phrase «teaching efforts toward»

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The Lutheran pietists were pleased with Luther's efforts to reform church teaching and subsequently wanted to see ministers and laypeople reform their actual lives toward a more biblical vision of piety.

Scheidt says that efforts to downplay the theological interrelationships of paternity (God the father) and maternity (mother Church embodied in Mary) have «taught the seminarian to be insecure and embarrassed — or even suspicious and hostile — toward facets of the divine mysteries that give ultimate meaning to his life as a man and, one day, as a «Father.

Toward High School Biology is designed to align closely with a new set of science education standards, called the Next Generation Science Standards, which were developed with help from 26 states and organizations like AAAS and the National Research Council, in an effort to teach students to read scientific texts, analyze data and construct coherent explanations of scientific phenomena.

While the decision reeks of censorship, an unanswered question is whether the effort to remove Animal Farm is part of the greater shift toward the Common Core which frowns upon using fiction to teach English and language arts.

«The whole effort of the last two decades has been toward minority - teacher recruitment, and it's been an unheralded victory, really,» said Ingersoll, who has been researching the changes in the country's teaching corps of nearly 4 million.

The $ 2 billion dollars that once went toward strengthening educators» efforts will be lost, and with it the opportunities to bring crucial advancements to the teaching profession.

First, our teaching and learning department began an effort to move teachers away from textbook - based curriculum content and toward standards - based instruction and assessment instead.

Efforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizEfforts to continuously improve teaching quality will not only affect the greatest number of students, but such efforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizefforts also hold promise for redirecting teacher evaluation away from «identify and punish» tactics toward collaborative studies of improvement grounded in evidence of student learning, thus revitalizing schools as effective learning organizations.

It was through 20 teachers out of 33 choosing a pathway toward Accomplished Teaching that transformed individual efforts into a collective group's shared vision... a true Professional Learning Community.

Programs vary in focus — ranging from efforts to identify potential leaders very early in their teaching careers and develop leadership skills with an eye toward longer - term potential to intensive residency - based programs that place aspiring principals in embedded - training programs in schools with the goal of moving to a full - time principal position immediately upon completion.

Two members of the District B team were new to workshop teaching and spent much of their study time and classroom change effort moving toward a basic workshop classroom.

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

My therapeutic effort includes a push for clearer boundaries, increased flexibility in family interactions, practice more empathy toward others in the family, and most importantly to teach modifications of the dysfunctional structure.