Sentences with phrase «teaching for understanding which»

However, positive attitudes come with quality teaching for understanding which often isn't the case with many traditional approaches to teaching mathematics.

Not exact matches

Philosophy as taught, he thought, had long ago been «forced out of the context of teaching and living»» which is to say, teaching for living, philosophy understood as «a life that poses the questions of the true and the good.»

Sometimes the wound is apparently random and meaningless; to teach us there isn't a reason for everything, that we can't get our heads around it all, that not understanding and just trusting is the essence of faith — faith that takes us beyond our concept of God, which is always limited, towards a place of knowing the unknowable.

It was because these events were so understood, that the little kingdoms of Israel and Judah, which grew out of the invasion of Palestine, made a fertile ground for the later prophetic teaching about God's revelation in history.

His ontological understanding of the priest as the one standing in for Christ who teaches, protects, leads and sanctifies led him to question many of the initiatives in the 1980s which sought to extend to the laity tasks traditionally the function of the priest.

This concentration in Jesus» teaching upon his action made it possible for the disciples to conceive of his death also as divine action, which in turn led to the primitive Christian sacraments as custodians of «Jesus» understanding of himself».

A case in point is its GIST (Gerontology In Seminary Training) program, which provides teaching resources for seminarians who will one day be pastors to the elderly in their congregations, and who must understand their special needs and circumstances.

You do not understand everything the Christian church teaches, you say, and some things that you think you do understand you do not believe, but you at least see enough in the kind of faith and life for which Christianity stands so that you would like to do something about it.

The search by the Hebrews for a true understanding of God, from Abraham to Egypt, from the Promised Land to exile, witnesses as a whole to the love of God and to the requirement for justice on our part, and forms the matrix out of which Jesus» teachings developed.

Catholic schools have a wonderful opportunity to invite trained NFP instructors to teach this part of the programme which will enable girls to gain a fuller understanding of their bodies and their fertility, while at the same time assisting young men better to understand and appreciate the miracle of fertility, the special role played by the woman, and the implications for her physically, psychologically and spiritually as the natural cycle plays out in her daily life.

Jesus used a traditionally accepted form of teaching in a non-traditional way to teach paradigm - shifting and theology - shattering truths which were «too much» for most people to hear, understand, or comprehend.

One particular boat which is really quite solid if one takes the time to study and understand what it really teaches, not what hearsay or urban legends say it teaches, is the boat of the Catholic Church... a boat that has weathered stormy seas already for almost two thousand years.

Yet in the press of busyness there is neither time nor quiet for the calm transparency which teaches equality, which teaches the willingness to pull in the same yoke with other men, that noble simplicity, that is in inner understanding with every man.

It is true that Muslims have for a long time known the way in which primitive people come to understand Islam and have been able to teach them the Faith.

Reflective teachers often consider how they might improve their teaching» the sort of assignments they give, for example, and how they lecture» but irony «disrupts my normal self - understanding of what it is to teach (which includes normal reflection on teaching).

The modern difficulty in understanding the Church's teaching on married sexuality stems in large part from a failure to distinguish between lust and what is (or should be) normal sexual desire, i.e. between assertive and unregulated sexual desire, bent foremost on physical self - satisfaction, and simple sexual attraction, which can include a desire for union and is characterised by respect and regulated by love.

I'm simply asking for the reference to the actual teaching on which he basis his understanding.

«Do nt listen to YEAH he is only there to insight and has no understanding, he could care less about you or the Bible or gays for that matter» — LIE, which again proves Bob doesn't understand even the basic teachings of the Bible.

He has written and lectured extensively on issues pertaining to innovative classroom instruction, and is the author of Understanding Waldorf Education: Teaching from the Inside Out, Covering Home: Lessons on the Art of Fathering from the Game of Baseball, which received the National Parenting Publication's gold award, and Navigating the Terrain of Childhood: A Guidebook for Meaningful Parenting and Heartfelt Discipline.

She is author or co-author of books for both parents and professionals, including «The Labor Progress Handbook,» «Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide,» «When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women,» «The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and All Other Labor Companions,» She has developed teaching materials for birth classes and produced several videos for educators, doulas, and families, the latest of which is for siblings - to - be, «There's a Baby.»

First off, you need a detailed understanding of your institution's tenure process (timelines, procedures, clock - stopping policies, and so on); criteria (the particular balance of the three key criteria — research, teaching, and service — and what counts for which); standards (the performance threshold for each criterion, especially research); and the evidence needed to document your accomplishments (what needs to be in the tenure dossier).

The University of Birmingham and Twycross Zoo has a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), which promotes teaching, research and other activities for the mutual benefit of both parties.

The human body is an intricate mechanism which requires an intense understanding of each and every limb that makes up the human body for fine - tuned teachings.

And for those of you who have a basic understanding of the work that we teach here at the Institute for the psychology of eating, you know that anything which is stressful creates the physiologic stress response in the body.

My celiac disease has taught me to listen to my body, to understand which foods work for me and which do not (despite diet and nutrition trends).

Julie Gudmestad is a physical therapist, founder of Gudmestad Yoga in Portland, Oregon, and frequent contributor to Yoga Journal and Yoga International, She is well known for her unique anatomy - based teaching style which applies the principles from anatomy to facilitate our understanding of the factors that impact or even hinder alignment in yoga poses.

«This finding supports the argument that it's not just a few students who are having trouble using retrieval - based strategies when they are expected to do so, and the prevalence of this problem suggests that researchers need to stop looking for explanations that are based on cognitive deficit, which are thought to originate with the child, but focus more on understanding how teaching practices can contribute and even hinder children's development of basic number fact fluency.»

Residentials can provide a context for students and teachers to explore new ways of teaching and learning (e.g. experiential and context - based learning), which help develop students» understanding and facilitates their engagement with, and progress in, learning.

All teachers were evaluated by five structured classroom observations aligned to the district's Teaching and Learning Framework, which defined domains of effective instruction, such as leading well - organized, objective - driven lessons; checking for student understanding; explaining content clearly; and maximizing instructional time.

An activity which could be used to support your children in preparing for the KS2 GPS assessment, or could be used to assess their understanding of tenses, or as a teaching activity.

Providing time and a place for doing homework, reading with a child, making sure homework is understood and finished, talking about what is being done at school, and continuing to learn how to help are just a few of the ways in which parents «teach.»

Based on these statistics it becomes easier to understand which technique is more suitable for teaching, or which subject needs more attention.

«We need,» said Blair appointee Estelle Morris just before resigning in 2002 as secretary of state for education, «a shift in understanding away from the old model of teaching as transmission of facts and figures towards one which captures the teacher's role as expert practitioners in advanced pedagogy.»

These classes are therefore typically taught completely in English either as a pullout supplement to the mainstream classroom, in which case the emphasis is on teaching the English language itself, or as a substitute for the mainstream classroom, in which case all subjects, including math, social studies, and science, will be taught in English at a pace the children can understand.

As a result of his teaching and research activities at Harvard over the last four years, he created and directed the Globalization, Languages and Cultures program, a HGSE - CERI cooperation, which culminated late April 2012 with the publication of the book Languages in a Global World - Learning for Better Cultural Understanding (Paris: OECD).

Mathematics can be challenging for students to understand because the concepts are abstract, which is the main reason it's important to provide visuals and manipulatives to students when first teaching a concept.

Dr. Jane Bluestein: There seems to be an enormous need for support, encouragement, and understanding in the teaching profession, including a real practical, effective, nuts - and - bolts approach to classroom successes (much of which are not measurable on current achievement tests, by the way) and problem prevention.

There are seven lessons for teaching students which we suggest you first skim to fully understand the resources needed, expectations, and time commitment.

What's the meaning When I first went into business in the early 1990s, I was taught the magic power of three incredibly important words that still run through the core of what I do — «Which Means That» — the understanding that the concept being offered must have reason and meaning for the recipient in order to have a positive outcome.

The purposes of the observations were to gain an understanding of the instructional activities in the schools, which should assist us to better place the student achievement outcomes within a context; provide some corroboration for the claims made by the various district and building interviewees about the teaching and learning conditions in the school; and provide a basis for discussion during the teacher interviews that would follow the observations.

The extent to which principals have a shared vision and deep understanding of high - quality teaching is the extent to which they can lead for instructional improvement.

McCaffrey will take up the topic of value - added modeling (VAM), and will help us understand the ways in which VAM might — and might not — be useful for assessing the quality of teaching and teacher preparation.

The Government needs to understand the FE sector better and resist the compulsion to impose constant structural change which leaves turmoil in its wake and makes it hard for staff to focus on the quality of teaching and learning provided to students.

Author Karin Chenoweth reports on her «observations of educators who understand how to confront the ways in which schools have been traditionally organized and change them in ways that sometimes seem very simple and yet have profound implications for teaching and learning.»

Schools Week understands the trust was confident of securing funding for the schemes — which they planned to expand significantly after the first year — under the Department for Education's # 75 million Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund (TLIF).

Authors Amy Heineke and Jay McTighe provide the answers by adding a lens on language to the widely used Understanding by Design ® framework (UbD ® framework) for curriculum design, which emphasizes teaching for understanding, not rote Understanding by Design ® framework (UbD ® framework) for curriculum design, which emphasizes teaching for understanding, not rote understanding, not rote memorization.

At the beginning of every grade level the curriculum includes a section called «Preparing to Teach a Module,» which outlines a process for understanding the instructional sequences of that section — essentially the «plot» of the math «story» being told.

Improving outcomes for these students requires a system - wide focus on the foundations of effective teaching which begins with a deep, practical understanding of applying purpose in instruction.

For example, what good is legislation SB - 191, which focused so many efforts on understanding and improving the effectiveness of teachers, if teachers don't see excellent teaching rewarded financially?

Understand and develop skills and strategies within the context of contemporary issues which include sustainable schools, student centered vision, use of data and sound teaching and learning for all students.