Sentences with phrase «than colleagues teaching»

Teachers in high - minority schools are paid on average $ 2,251 less per year than their colleagues teaching in low - minority schools in the same district.

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

Not exact matches

Without a doubt, the meetings with my baby - boomer assistant, daily conversations with my Gen - X boss and other interactions with clients and colleagues taught me and challenged me more than I could have ever imagined after spending most of the previous four years around people my age.

I have been taught this less by my feminist professional colleagues than by the students who have attended my classes on passes from hospitals or after therapy sessions, in which they are being treated for wounds inflicted by men (and sometimes women) who abused them as children or as adults.

In 2009, my colleague Theodor Dieter and I started teaching a two - week course every November on Luther's theology, for Lutheran pastors from all over the world, in no less venerable a location than Wittenberg itself.

The reason for this, I'm convinced, is that new faculty — though very smart and well read (and probably better educated than most of their senior colleagues), though religiously observant and already experienced in teaching, though flexible, open and good - humored — have not found a vocation, do not know what purpose they want to serve.

Some years ago, when I was teaching at a theological seminary in South Africa, I had a very peculiar experience; as with the bear in James Thurber's «bear that could take it or leave it alone,» the experience was somewhat more frightening to my colleagues than is my normal, somewhat cynical self.

Catholic theologians who have questions about the teaching owe the Church, themselves, and their colleagues something more than liberal posturing and point scoring in intramural debates.

James Keenan and Peter Black, for example, have criticised those who «look more for consistency with previous teachings than to the critical tradition itself» -LCB- Studia Moralia 2001, p. 326), describing them as «colleagues who haveleft our enterprise» (ibid.).

Although they voiced more negative opinions about unionization than their nonscientist colleagues did, their actual experiences «teaching and advising [unionized] students... were no different than in the humanities or social sciences.

In one recent study of more than 10 million images, Oliva and colleagues taught an artificial network to recognize 350 different places, such as a kitchen, bedroom, park, living room, etc..

Female scientists spend demonstrably more time teaching, mentoring, and participating in community outreach than their male colleagues, just as there are far more female #scicommers on Instagram than male.

They are also likelier than their conventionally trained colleagues to teach in the higher grades, with 44 % of those from alternate - route programs teaching grades 5 through 8 and 30 % teaching grades 9 through 12.

A survey of roughly 23,000 full - time undergraduate teaching faculty at four - year colleges and universities revealed that faculty in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields leverage inclusive teaching methods less frequently than their non-STEM counterparts, said Espinosa, citing research by Sylvia Hurtado and colleagues with the Higher Education Research Institute (HERI) at the University of California, Los Angeles.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

Running for nearly 20 years, English School of Canada has educated over 30,000 students from more than 50 countries.Students appreciate and are engaged with the multicultural student body they study with at our fully accredited school.Finally, the third class will illuminate how to write various academic, business, professional, and functional compositions.In addition to these practical objectives, this class will show students how to put themselves in the correct mindset to write, how to plan to write as well as how to implement editing and revision strategies.The program also teaches students the specific language skills and vocabulary needed in a health care workplace.It covers speaking, listening, and reading on a wide range of topics from technical skills to ethical concerns, from communicating with patients to discussing issues with colleagues.

He is less concerned here, unlike, say, «Secrets & Lies» and «Vera Drake», with following a driving narrative than with minutely observing Poppy through her relationships with others, whether it's the kids she teaches at her primary school, her repressed driving instructor (Eddie Marsan, excellently playing a heavy - duty bag of hang - ups), her close friend and flatmate Zoe (Alexis Zegerman) or her older, more settled colleague Heather (Sylvestra Le Touzel), whom she joins at flamenco lessons after work.

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

High school teachers are far more reluctant than their colleagues in the lower grades to embrace new teaching techniques, the National Science Foundation survey found.

• Believe in the value of what you are teaching and make sure your students understand why it is important; so preparation is paramount • Show your students you care about their wellbeing and progress; that is your job; there is nothing they despise more than a teacher who doesn't care • Admit when you don't know or when you're wrong; they need to see you're a learner too • Collaboration with your colleagues is powerful support and very rewarding.

Thirty countries do better than the United States at teaching math to the talented, my colleagues and I reported this week.

I'd taught third grade math for many years and could provide tech tools for math instruction, but I couldn't give high - level examples other than what I had observed from colleagues in the field.

Andrew Griffiths, my colleague and mentor at Woodcroft College, taught me to realise the importance of the learning process — to focus on the journey rather than the end result.

My colleague Erika Dietz said that although T.C. had more money and resources than did the California district where she taught before, «at times, having so much was stunting. . . .

If teachers are to be valued professionals, they need time to carefully prepare lesson plans and consult with colleagues on teaching strategies rather than babysit in the cafeteria.

NQTs who began their careers in London were also more likely to leave teaching than colleagues based elsewhere.

Since 1979, he and his RBT colleagues have taught in - depth professional development programs centered on the knowledge base of teaching to educators in more than 200 school districts each year in the United States and other countries.

Whitford and her colleagues found that TFA teachers were often more effective than those who came out of schools of education, particularly when it comes to teaching science and math.

It's no secret that American teachers spend many more hours teaching than their colleagues do in higher - performing nations.

Secondary math teachers who enter the profession through TFA helped their students learn more in mathematics than colleagues who entered teaching through a less - selective fast - track program or a traditional, university - based program.

However, minority teachers are more likely than their non-minority colleagues to work in hard - to - staff schools, and are also more likely to leave those schools or the teaching field overall.

On the other hand, the fact that Teach for America's teachers did no better than their more experienced colleagues in this latest study points to how difficult it is to improve students» test scores by improving the quality of instruction.

These roles may include, for example: team leader, who takes responsibility for team and student growth; reach teacher, who takes responsibility for larger - than - average student loads with the help of paraprofessionals; master educator, who develops and leads professional development and learning; peer evaluator, an accomplished educator who coaches other teachers, assesses teachers» effectiveness, and helps his or her colleagues improve their skills; and demonstration teacher, who models excellent teaching for teachers in training.11 According to the Aspen Institute and Leading Educators — a nonprofit organization that partners with schools and districts to promote teacher leadership — teacher leaders can model best practices, observe and coach other teachers, lead teacher teams, and participate in the selection and induction of new teachers.12

Not entirely surprisingly, primary heads report spending significantly more time on teaching, planning and marking than secondary colleagues.

The study showed that teaching staff in publicly operated prekindergarten programs had higher educational qualification sand received higher pay and benefits than their colleagues in privately operated programs, and that there was greater teaching staff stability in publicly operated prekindergarten programs than in privately operated programs.

The countries that Cheng and his colleagues studied are very likely, in my judgment, to do a much better job of teaching the 21st century skills than most of our schools can, because they are building on a foundation most of our students simply do not have.

Professor Alan Smithers (pictured right), one of the report's authors, said the difference could be explained by trainees in schools being more committed to teaching, and schools selecting trainees «more carefully» than universities given trainees are future colleagues.

One key cluster of leader moves in teacher collaborative spaces centers on the teacher leader's creation of a climate where their teacher colleagues experience looking together at student work data as a learning opportunity about what students know and how students think rather than as a critique of their teaching ability.

More inexperienced teachers are in today's classrooms than ever before and they are more open than their veteran colleagues to performance - driven options for how they're evaluated and paid, according to the results of a new survey conducted by the Boston - based nonprofit Teach Plus.

I asked a colleague teaching a course focused on access to justice about who is in that course and learned that class is also more than 75 % women.

Most are paid significantly less than their colleagues who teach other required courses.

If your boss is more than happy to expose you and your colleagues to anger from higher management, they're showing that they'd rather save their own skin than lead and teach by example.