Sentences with phrase «teaching load»

To reduce workload, we need to consider reducing teaching load to one - third.

My humans are teaching me lots of commands and manners and I even went to this really nifty class that taught me loads of stuff.

On top of a booming research lab and a full teaching load, not to mention a growing young family, why would I take on this new venture?

For example, in the future, it is hoped that universities will be able to offer different teaching loads in accordance with the profile and career aspirations of the individual scientists.

As crazy as it sounds, many young (tenure - track) scientists with teaching loads as large as six courses per year are still expected to earn research grants and publish.

At a minimum, a moderate to large teaching load will keep you from pursuing multiple lines of scientific investigation.

The survey also found that about one - third of the 86 women who had children did not request a lighter teaching load after giving birth.

But the reality is that they have very high teaching loads, and have to manage with a very small number of staff.

Residents in this training program have a substantial teaching load.

This was a significant discovery, because an academic position in most Canadian universities would entail a significant teaching load.

Your (new) department will be very eager to provide you with a nice teaching load and administrative duties which will leave little room for the old project to be finished.

Each will examine teaching loads, search committee membership, and benefits, along with salaries, space, and award issues.

I have a lighter teaching load due to my leadership role at the school and I can really work from anywhere.

It's why you have job security, teacher tenure, preparation periods, maximum teaching loads, premium - free healthcare and much more.

Well that's another story for me to put up here some day, but that experience taught me loads about debt consolidation services.

Will the expectations and practices of legal academics regarding teaching loads and scholarship evolve significantly?

This entrenched culture and structure has promoted declining classroom teaching loads and a high level of focus on traditional legal scholarship.

A small handful of states mention a reduced teaching load or extracurricular duties.

Within their heavy teaching loads, community college faculty members implement innovative teaching strategies, pursue special projects, and even do research if they choose — and if they can find the time.

More commonly, special education teachers — who already have a full teaching load — are in charge of overseeing transition plans.

Women had higher teaching loads and were under more pressure to serve on committees than their male counterparts.

According to Kiernan Mathews, the director of the COACHE initiative and the author of the white paper, the joy and relief of tenure can fade quickly in the face of increased teaching loads, greater expectations for service and advising, a more competitive market for grants, and the disappearance of mentoring programs that supported them as early - career faculty.

Finally, we would not want to end without quoting from Dr. Margarita Salas, research professor at the CSIC and a molecular biologist known world - wide, published in volume 19 of Unelibros in 2009 (4), who says that the heavy teaching load at Spanish universities (240 hours per year), makes conducting research unfeasible, and «those who do [conduct research as well as teach] are heroes.»

According to the most recent data provided by the OECD the average teaching load of junior high school teachers in Finland is about half what it is in the United States.

I found when I had my own classes and was working in high schools on a full - time teaching load, I would probably read to my students for pleasure at least three times per week.»

These include stronger reporting requirements and capping teaching loads for core subjects at 135 pupils.

The position includes a full - time undergraduate teaching load of 12 hours per semester, with expectations of publication, student advisement, and participation in departmental, university, and community committees.

One irritant was that supervised ministry assignments demanded a great deal of work from faculty, yet were considered an extra activity, over and above the regular teaching load.

, its speech codes, its teacher evaluations conducted sub secreto pontificio, its heated debate over the minutest matters, its hair - splitting fights over teaching loads and research assistants (tenure as benefice!)

Establishing a lab in Turkey can take a bit longer than in other places because new faculty members there usually don't receive start - up funds, getting supplies and attracting good postdocs can be difficult, and teaching loads tend to be heavy.

All this travel is possible because in her department, intensive teaching loads are concentrated in short periods of time, and her administrative duties, including the running of an undergraduate programme, do not require her to be available at a specific time.

Even at research - active PUIs, summer is when most of the research gets done, since teaching loads are too heavy to allow productivity during the school year.

They have research and travel support, quite reasonable teaching loads, lab space when needed, and good collegial acceptance in the department they are visiting.

My wife, meanwhile, fought her way through the usual challenges faced by young scientists working at small colleges: learning how to teach courses she never took; starting up a research program while managing an oppressive teaching load; dealing with tenure pressures and associated political shenanigans.

In conversation with a colleague from a research university, I describe my six - course teaching load and a laboratory staffed only with undergraduate students: no technicians, no grad students, and no postdocs.

Although temporary teaching jobs look very attractive to new Ph.D. s looking for teaching experience, Nyhus warns that the heavy teaching load makes it very difficult to remain competitive in terms of grants, publications, and job applications.

But a smaller school — especially a small college where teaching loads are already high, departments are small, and there's little overlap between professors» areas of expertise — has less flexibility.

Despite his considerable teaching load, Hoffmann remained active in the laboratory, publishing more than 50 journal articles, primarily on the development and aggregation of dopaminergic neurons and the neurotoxicity of amphetamines.

Management expert William G. Ouchi wants to let educators in on a secret: The key to improving student achievement is lightening teaching loads.

«Sometimes mentors will... need direction as well on how to help particular mentees, so having somebody in the school that teachers can go to and approach, and have the time that's part of their role (they have a reduced teaching load enabling them to do that), that was the lynchpin really, that was really critical.

MCLs will still teach students directly but are assigned teaching loads that enable them to perform team leadership functions, as well.

Sizer (1984) suggested they include, «altered teaching loads, new student activities, diplomas based on achievement, and curriculum simplification».

The mentees, who have a greatly reduced teaching load while this is going on, a period of one to two years, spend their time watching their mentor do master lessons in teaching and being critiqued by their mentor when they are themselves teaching.

At Suffolk County Community College (SCCC) and many other institutions, grant money can only REPLACE teaching load.

Chase is also one of the CIRES Faculty who teach at the University of Colorado Boulder with teaching loads equivalent to those of CU faculty rostered solely in departments and programs.