Sentences with phrase «teaching matters more»

High - quality teaching matters more to student achievement than anything else schools do.

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The collapse of a business taught one founder that the character of the people he hired mattered more than their skills when the crunch came.

What can matter most is what you've published and your reputation, and weirdly those things can matter more than what your teaching experience is or how you've been reviewed as a teacher.

As a matter of fact, spending two minutes on the site taught us more than we would ever learn in a lifetime in other brokerage sites.

«He's taught me to be more charitable and to never do anything in business, or life for that matter that you wouldn't want published on the front page of your local newspaper.»

And where more than in the Gospels» teaching about love do we see that famously estranged pair, matter and spirit, melt and flow together?

Yet despite the churches» traditional teaching on the subject, the demand to reject all forms of discrimination seems likely to lead to growing acceptance of different lifestyles and patterns of relationship, although this is already a divisive matter between conservative and more liberal Christians.

Viewed from the perspective of the taught (rather than from the authority of the teacher), teaching is much more a matter of having one's eyes opened to dimensions of reality previously opaque.

What the Bible MIGHT say, according to one or more interpretations matters NOT to what is taught by Preachers and understood by their Flocks!

Would they say you teach them more about what it means to live with purpose and love well, or would they say you get easily caught up in petty and unimportant matters?

An American bishop teaches that going to Communion is less a matter of whether one is in a state of grace, and more of deciding whether «God is calling» one to do so.

In some ways it's more a liturgical matter than a theological one — by modeling a predominantly narratival / typological rather than ahistorical / doctrinal approach to life, I've been able to pack a lot of teaching into relatively few moments.

I should be happy to be taught how to put the matter more precisely» (1948, 38).

But the Christian scientist as such in his own sphere is bound as a matter of principle and method by the Church's magisterium as the higher and more comprehensive authority, in the sense that even as a scientist he may not affirm as established with certainty by his science something which would involve a definite contradiction of a doctrine taught officially by the Church as certain (Denzinger 1656, 1674 ff., 1681, 2085).

The aim was consciously ecumenical, following the directive laid down by Pope John XXIII for the Church to make clear its teachings in those essential matters so as to make itself more understandable to the separated Churches of the Orthodox and the ecclesial communities of the Reformation.

The fundamental problem in connection with knowledge of the teaching of Jesus is the problem of reconstructing that teaching from the sources available to us, and the truth of the matter is that the more we learn about those sources the more difficult our task seems to become.

Jesus... gathered together and, so to speak, condensed and concentrated ethical teachings in such a fashion as to make them more prominent than in the talmudic Haggada and Midrashim, where they are interspersed among more commonplace discussions and worthless matter.»

They may find that they object much more to Jesus» followers than his actual teaching If anyone illustrated a willingness to lay down his life for his beliefs it was John Galt (and for that matter Ayn Rand).

Unlike God's work and teachings in this later era, where compassion and kindness for one's fellow man are the whole of the law (by word, but more importantly, in example after example, that when we think we know God's law and set forth to make prey on our fellows using it as our succor, that indeed, no matter the crime, the answer is to treat each other with dignity, humility and love).

For this reason I have realized this: a chimpanzee does not understand math (regardless of how many hours I spent trying to teach them this) because of it's anatomy, yet I do understand math because of my anatomy (and education of course), I as a mere mortal (unlike yourself) know that my faculties must be somehow limited and that there are concepts that no matter how much I try to use my retarded brain I will never understand them because I don't have the god lobe in the ole brain like you do, none the less I keep on thinkin» in a finite fashion hoping that my future children might have a little more range than I since they too will be a «tarded snapshot in a timeline of cognitive evolution.

Jesus, of course, taught that the attitude and motives of the heart mattered more than outward conformity to tradition, but He didn't really bring up that point here.

They call for increased use of case study teaching methods and of the practicum, for more attention to pressing social issues, for more deliberate globalization of the context of teaching, and for more care to teach students and not simply to teach subject matters.8

The Catholic intellectual tradition and, more specifically, Catholic social teaching long predate our historical moment, as, for that matter, does reflection on «the moral foundations of democracy.»

But no insurrection is ever right, however right the cause it seeks to promote... it generally harms the innocent more than the guilty... I am and always will be on the side of those against whom insurrection is directed, no matter how unjust their cause;... Those who read and rightly understand my teaching will not start an insurrection; they have not learned that from me.

If a guru, teacher, or matter makes you feel that you aren't «yet» enlightened and still have more to «learn,» «release,» or «let go of» before getting there, then they're not doing a good job of teaching you who you truly are, or you're misunderstanding them.

It happened when Liberty University invited Donald Trump to speak in chapel because devotion to the GOP matters more devotion to the teachings of Jesus.

A Matter of Basic Principles also quotes Gothard's teachings that all Christian men should undergo circumcision and that uncircumcised men are more promiscuous...

The weekend of events is aimed at teaching each attendee, no matter their wine tasting background, from novice to aficionado, more about the wines the Napa Valley is famous for.

Not to give up on the title, though, but to give us more chance because if the last 20 years have taught us anything it is that no matter how good the spuds are or how bad we may be, the end of the season table will see us above our north London rivals.

to give us more chance because if the last 20 years have taught us anything it is that no matter how good the spuds are or how bad we may be, the end of the season table will see us above our north London rivals.»

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.

One «crunchy» mom talks about green changes in her family's life as part of the Care.com Interview Series.Though Brittany isn't keen on telling her kids what to do to be green, she also believes in teaching her kids why their actions matter when their family makes... more

Whether you FF or BF, allow them to have some junk food occasionally and watch tv, it matters more what you are TEACHING them.

What Japan's crisis — the unlikely product of an earthquake, a tsunami and more than a little bad luck — taught the United States, he said, was that no matter how many contingencies an agency plans for, there can always be an assembly of forces that takes you by surprise.

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When it's more accurate that the hard times they went through taught them what really matters and they've embodied those lessons to a «T».

No matter what kind of day I'm having, making room to practice or teach yoga / meditation creates more balance and less anger / stress in my life, and I think the lives of my students as well.

It's fine to talk about more technology in our classrooms, smaller class sizes, new teaching and learning strategies, teacher training, and higher test scores, but few of these discussions get us to the heart of the matter — the roots of our current system.

Creating authentic products that have to meet high external standards teaches young people more convincingly than a teacher's words or grades ever can about why written conventions matter, why presentation is critical, why we need disciplined methods of inquiry, why «facts» need to be scrutinized.

These children have been taught from a very young age that their «grades» matter more than the actual purpose of the assignment — just like «subjects» trump true learning.

The benefits are that portions of class time are no longer spent taking the register so teachers can spend more time on what really matters, teaching their pupils.

In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

However, I believe, a more casual everyday use of music can have as much power as explicitly teaching music as it relates to one's subject matter.

These books supports the teaching of various topics / units including: Speed, velocity, acceleration, forces, energy transformations, atomic structure, ionic bonding, covalent bonding, energy resources, states of matter, magnets, terminal velocity, volume, elements, periodic table, genetic, diseases, floating and sinking, pressure, chemical reactions, enzymes, cell division, combustion, momentum, smoking and much more....

You will be much more credible and you will always be the first choice among candidates who are self - taught designers, no matter how skilled they are and how much experience they have.

In the classroom, rules matter, but as many of us have learned after a few years teaching, relationships matter much more.

Weve finally come to grips on a national level with the research - backed idea that learning mastery is a matter of thinking critically about the vital concepts we want our children to understand ~ and weve come to realize that this is a more effective approach to teaching and learning.

99, knows that teaching is tough and no matter how hard you work, there's always more to do.

In «The Logic of Interdisciplinary Studies,» a research report by Sandra Mathison and Melissa Freeman presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association in 1997, the authors wrote, «Interdisciplinary, integrated, and integrative studies represent an opportunity to have more meaningful relations with students; teach cognitive skills associated with «real life» (e.g., cooperation, problem solving, ability to see connections); motivate students; increase student achievement; promote positive attitudes toward subject matter; create more curricular flexibility; diminish scheduling problems; and integrate new and rapidly changing information with increased time efficiency.»

And from NCTAF's 1997 report Doing What Matters Most: Investing in Quality Teaching, authored by Darling - Hammond: «More than 200 studies contradict the long - standing myths that - anyone can teach» and that - teachers are born and not made.»»