Sentences with phrase «teaching practices on»

PICCS promotes the continuous improvement of professional teaching practices on a peer - to - peer level.

Employing information on in - class time use provided by a nationally representative sample of U.S. teachers in the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS), we estimate the impact of teaching practices on student achievement by looking at the differential effects on the same student of two different teachers, using two different teaching strategies.

... The last bit, which closes the loop, is to adapt your teaching practices on the basis of keeping the things that have worked better and changing or stopping the things that have not worked so well.

On the in - class time use measure: Because we wanted to look at the effect of teaching practices on a large - scale, we had to rely on self - reported measures of in - class time use.

Learning about her own condition alerted her to the prevalence of spinal asymmetries in others and inspired her to focus her teaching practice on working therapeutically with back issues.

Not exact matches

My yoga practice has taught me the power of mindfulness and how to train my mind to focus more on the present moment.

«Teach them the skills they'll need in real life, and give them enough leash to practice those skills on their own,» said Lythcott - Haims, who based her conclusions on the Harvard Grant Study (from No. 2, above).

Whether it's the type of mindful meditation he teaches or simply taking a half - hour to sit quietly, Scheinman says one of the most powerful ways to ward off stress on a daily basis is to engage in some sort of regular contemplative practice.

I frequently rely on the mindfulness and meditation practices he teaches to offset the additional workload and demands of running a second business.

Our preliminary data already show the importance of certain beliefs for success in physics courses and a student's inclination to continue in or drop out of physics, and it shows that most teaching practices have a detrimental impact on all of these critical beliefs.

As a clinician, he teaches as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF Medical School, and practices as a psychologist focusing on executive coaching.

I would very much like to do this strategy and I saw that in your blog you have other articles on links bild, I'll take a look, because your tips seem very interesting to practice, I will understand what you are teaching.

Even Warren Buffett enrolled in a public speaking class to help manage his stage fright — the billionaire also taught a night course on investment principles to practice talking in front of strangers.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP)-- A small but growing number of science and math teachers aren't spending the summer at the beach or catching up on books, they're toiling at companies, practicing the principles they teach.

Courses typically are taught with hands - on labs where you can practice concepts taught within the course.

Others are even more adamant, however, in saying that the Church can not change a practice that is based on the doctrine of Jesus, the apostles, and centuries of authoritative teaching.

Based on Jesus» teachings and the perennial practice of Christians until the 1500's, divorce, bigamy, polygamy, etc were all forbidden.

In fact, even if LDS Church members don't practice plural marriage on earth, their scripture still teaches that in heaven it is possible.

When I would teach / preach on «tithing» as a New Testament practice, I would ask the listener (read: giver - to - be) the following question: «If in the New Testament we find no reference to «tithing» let alone a stated percentage to give to the «church», and if it is our understanding (perhaps even our practice!)

Report on Candler School of Theology's attempt to provide the means of integrating theological learning and practice — i.e. teaching theology in context.

The Christian Post: Paganism and Witchcraft Placed Alongside Christian Studies in UK Schools A U.K. school system has included the study of witchcraft and druidry on its official religious education syllabus for the first time, meaning pagan practices will be taught alongside contemporary religions, such as Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

The purpose of the Faith Movement, in harmony with the Trust Deed of the Faith - Keyway Trust (registered charity # 278314 in English Law) made on July 13th 1979, is to advance the Catholic Faith in the modern world, by working together to attract many to discipleship of Jesus Christ in a living, sacramental practice of their faith, and above all, through this same activity and as the means to achieve it, humbly to offer within the Church a new development of, and further insight into, the Catholic Faith which she herself teaches us through Scripture and Tradition.

The verse that is most widely used to defend the modern practice of preaching where a person gets up on stage on Sunday morning to teach for 30 - 40 minutes from Scripture is 2 Timothy 4:2.

The primary purpose of the previous section of Matthew is to teach the disciples how to practice discipleship and to carry on the work of the Master.

What must be done is to keep insisting on the right to teach the Bible as history and as literature in the public schools until this not only is permitted but becomes as widely practiced there as in the state universities.

They are not only practices of teaching and learning, but also practices of raising funds and maintaining the school's resources; not only practices of governing various aspects of the school's common life, but also practices of various kinds of research; practices not only of assessing students and when they should be deemed to have completed their courses of study, but also of assessing faculty and judging when they should be promoted and when terminated; and so on.

The practices that involve these transactions can not be neatly separated from the practices through which are taught and learned concepts bearing on understanding God.

Such a view is plausible only on the assumption that the school's practices of teaching and learning through which it seeks to understand God are relatively disengaged from its practices of governance and self - maintenance.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

His teachings gradually commingled with the beliefs and practices of various evolutionary religions and finally developed into those theologic systems present on Urantia at the opening of the first millennium after Christ.

And there are still sects of this cult that secretly practice this pedo lifestyle!!!!!! And, most distressing of all, given that we're talking about someone who could become the most powerful man in the world, the Mormon church teaches that Mormons can lie if it suits their needs to impose their «religion» on others!

Jesus teachings that christianity is based on are not practiced by many of its followers.

Most people in the world today believe that God expects them to perform a wide variety of religious practices, such as going to church, attending mass, tithing, going to confession, giving up tobacco and alcohol, and a list of other rules that are variously taught in churches and on television.

The priest, however, must exercise other functions besides administering the sacraments and institutional means can not empower him to fulfill these duties; hence he needs to practice spiritual discipline, cultivating all the Christian virtues; he also needs to study, for «how can he teach unless he himself possess knowledge» and have gained a «full grasp of the Catholic teaching on faith and morals?»

The Apostolic Truth Tabernacle posted a statement on its website that says in part: «The Pastor and members of Apostolic Truth Tabernacle do not condone, teach, or practice hate of any person for any reason.»

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Having rejected some of the scribes» teaching, having just praised a sympathetic scribe's response, Jesus here turns to a criticism of their religious practice, making a devastating attack on religious professionalism.

«24 Tellingly, Lovelace turns to texts teaching on human sexuality more generally, only after he has considered the specific passages prohibiting homosexual practice.

The practice of embracing spirituality, prayer and digging into the teachings of Christ has helped keep him on the path to personal recovery.

In this, her second book on marriage during a career in Adult Religious Education in the Diocese of East Anglia, Anita Dowsing seeks to bite a very big bullet indeed: the gap between the Church's teaching on key aspects of marriage and the actual beliefs and practice of many lay Catholics today.

As much as I hate to agree with you on this, Edweird69, I have to because I grew up in a Christian neighborly atmosphere and school and saw nothing but the farthest thing of what Jesus taught us to do being practiced in those places by those folks.

Luther spoke in 1537 of justification as the «first and chief article,» which can not be «given up or compromised,» for on it «rests all that we teach and practice against the pope, the devil, and the world.»

As for 5th graders knowing more about the world, they don't respect 2 Timothy 3:15 and hence do not know Romans 12 - 2, as any practicing Christian would remind you that we are suppose to focus on the teachings of Jesus Truth and not the ways of this world.

We ought to seek a fuller understanding of the Church's teaching on sex and marriage, particularly why practices such as contraception, abortion and IVF go against the dignity of the human being and are therefore morally and intrinsically evil.

We should have gotten people (and) taught people how to read their Bible between services (and) how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own.»

Or is that just a cool story someone came up with because Ike Zinnerman taught you to practice guitar sitting on gravestones in the middle of the night?

This particular movement within Islam owes its inspiration and teachings to Muhammad ibn Abd al - Wahhab (1703 - 1787) of Arabia, who in the 18th century called on Muslims to return to the pristine teachings and practices of early Islam.

Studies of 19th - century topics (with concern for contemporary relevance) have been undertaken by Gayle Carlton Felton, who examined Methodist baptismal teaching and practices in the previous century (Duke, 1987), and by Carol Marie Norén, who studied the doctrine of Christian perfection as expressed in the preaching of a Swedish - American Methodist preacher of sanctification, Nels O. Westergreen (Princeton University, 1986) A dissertation on 19th - century Methodist services for marriage and burial is currently under way at Notre Dame by Karen Westerfield Tucker.

Drawing on the humanists» assumptions about teaching and learning, the Reformers viewed the catechism as a kind of classic text to be internalized through imitation and practice.

It is quite staggering how many students do not understand some of the most simple doctrines and liturgical practices and, indeed, do not accept, or feel uncomfortable with the Church's teaching on moral issues.