Sentences with phrase «teaching rank high»

Hughes, Burroughs - Wellcome Course Launches Initiative in Career - Skills Education 1 July 2005 Management, project planning, grantsmanship, and teaching rank high on the fields considered useful — even essential — for aspiring scientists.

Management, project planning, grantsmanship, and teaching rank high on the fields considered useful — even essential — for aspiring scientists.

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A high - ranking officer taught his cadets a hand signal meaning «Jesus Christ» and called upon them to display it at various assemblies.

Top - flight coaching staff with experience spanning years in the high school and college ranks teach new skills and help hone existing ones.

As for non-credit schools and classes, the basics rank high among hot topics to be taught this fall, says veteran teacher Jean True, owner of True Cuisine in Glen Ellyn.

In an attempt to diversify its teaching ranks, the Buffalo school district is partnering with the Buffalo Teachers Federation and SUNY Buffalo State on a new program that will recruit students while they are still in high school and offer them incentives to pursue a career in education.

To attend to the meeting are Commissioners of Health in all the states of the federation, Chief Medical Directors of Teaching Hospitals, high ranking officials of the Ministry of Health and other necessary stakeholders.

Although IndependentVoting teaches that partisan election systems produce bad government, they have also been generally supportive of New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg, the nation's highest - ranked elected official who is a registered independent.

At the end of his second year, Hébrard decided that he didn't really like engineering and chose to do another preparatory year; at the end of his third year, he ranked high enough to join the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris, a grande école dedicated to research and teaching.

Simpson's paradox is one of statistics most well - know paradoxes (I teach it yearly to a new batch of psychology students in Groningen) and PNAS is a high - ranking journal with an impact factor of nearly ten.

Back in 1991, a younger Ming (Chen, The Twins Effect) and Yan (Yue, Initial D) are recruited to work in a program for the criminal underworld, taught by Sam (Tsang, Partners), a high - ranking member of the Ngai triad.

In a new international study1, the UK ranks among the highest in terms of time teachers spend on admin, which could otherwise be used teaching in the classroom.

In a study that examined whether some countries are particularly effective at teaching students from disadvantaged backgrounds, Eric A. Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann find little difference in the rank order of countries by the performance of students from families where a parent had a college education and the rank order of countries by the performance of students whose parents had no more than a high school diploma.

It is also instructive to note that teachers working in private schools quit teaching at a much higher rate than their counterparts in public schools, and almost two - thirds of these leavers rank an increase in salary to be very or extremely important in any possible decision to return to teaching.

The average SAT scores of first - year teachers in 2008 was 8 percentile rank points higher than the average score among those who entered teaching in 2001.

Teach For America, an organization that recruits high - achieving college students to make a two - year commitment to teaching in the inner city, was ranked by college graduates as one of the 10 most wanted employers.

When I taught 8th grade science, I was consistently ranked the 2nd or 3rd highest public school in the state.

Again, the relationship is virtually flat: with each percentile point improvement in measured teaching value - added, a faculty member is 0.067 percentile points higher in the h - index ranking.

[xiv] The typical tenured faculty member teaching first - year students ranks a bit below the average h - index for all tenured faculty (averaging at the 44th percentile) This is consistent with the recent finding by Courant and Turner («Faculty Deployment in Research Universities,» NBER working paper 23025, January 2017) that faculty members with higher research output teach fewer undergraduate students and undergraduate courses in research universities.

Kent Pekel is taking a break from teaching global studies at a Minnesota high school to spend some time with experts on the subject: high - ranking officials of the Central Intelligence Agency.

But they are disproportionately assigned to high - poverty, struggling schools, and they leave the teaching ranks at a faster rate than white teachers, according to Richard Ingersoll, an expert who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania.

$ 19.4 M Federal SEED Grant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools

$ 19.4 M Federal SEED Grant Will Grow Ranks of Accomplished, Board - Certified Teachers Teaching and Leading in High - Need Schools ARLINGTON, Va. — October 6, 2015 — The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been awarded a $ 19.4 - million grant from the U.S. Department of Education through the 2015 Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) grant competition.

For example, those ranking a school based on its graduates» earnings value high salaries over professions such as teaching, social work, or other important, but not lucrative, jobs.

He has also called for a sharper focus on teaching, saying schools should only be given the highest rating - outstanding - if they are ranked outstanding for teaching.

Videotaping teaching began the study with a mean of 1.4, the highest ranking given to any tool throughout the school year.

Additionally, the proposal would allow only programs ranked «effective» or «exceptional» to be eligible for TEACH grants, which are available to teacher candidates who plan to work in a high - need field in a low - income school.

A chief goal of the «Common Core State Standards Initiative» is to align states» academic standards with what's being taught in the highest - ranking nations around the world.

These ranking and assessment schemes offer little that can be used to promote high quality teaching.

The dues - collection model of revenue embraced by the two unions effectively forces them to focus more on growing the teaching ranks and keeping them employed than on improving professionalism and holding members to high, well - defined, and metrics - driven standards.

The School reports that its strongest and highest ranked programs include: teaching and learning research, cultural contexts of education, language direction, quantitative research methods, and practitioner inquiry.

Now, despite duplicitous official rhetoric that speaks of the importance of multiple measures to assess learning and teaching, high - stakes test scores are being used to quantify, rank, and judge everything in public schools.

Michael W. Smith, a professor in Temple University's College of Education, joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English.

Duke University's research, medical, and teaching efforts are all among the highest - ranked in both the United States and the world.

It's your job to teach it that biting and chasing high ranking human pack members is unacceptable.

The Auburn Veterinary Teaching Hospital had the highest ranking among the 26 veterinary medical teaching hospitals surveyed in the followinTeaching Hospital had the highest ranking among the 26 veterinary medical teaching hospitals surveyed in the followinteaching hospitals surveyed in the following areas:

The hospital's caseload remains consistently high, and ranks as the largest caseload of any veterinary teaching hospital in the country.

Some people mistakenly think they need to teach their dog that their children are a higher ranking pack member.

In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, the School was rated «double 5 *», the highest possible research ranking and in the most recent Teaching Quality Assessment, it was awarded an «excellent» rating.

This is highlighted by our Gold ranking in the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) in June 2017 and our shortlisting as a finalist in the Higher Education Academy (HEA) Global Teaching Excellence Awards 2017.

Some of those I went to elementary and high school with in the»60s and»70s who remained in the tweedier parts of Victoria to teach, or to work in the ranks of the B.C. provincial government, have now retired, and joyfully brag every few weeks on Facebook about doing nothing.

Meanwhile, a Michigan State University initiative launched November 2 tracks the teaching of legal services innovation and technology at 38 American law schools and ranks Chicago - Kent one of two schools performing at the highest level.

When I finished my career there, I came back and I was actually able to teach kids how to play baseball and I volunteer in little league and the high school ranks.