Sentences with phrase «than students taught»

More than a decade of research from across the country confirms that students taught by Board - certified teachers learn more than students taught by other teachers.

More than a decade of research from across the country confirms that students taught by National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) learn more than students taught by other teachers.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Students who received PBL scored significantly higher on problem - solving skills and in their ability to apply knowledge to real - world economic challenges than students taught economics using traditional methods.

Many of her recruits are teenagers — young women not much older than the students they teach — who live at home with their parents.

Not exact matches

It may be that students seeing the new pictures of the oil industry will think better of Standard Oil than did their fathers who were taught in terms of the Rockefeller trust and gushers.

I currently teach more than 5,000 students from 80 countries about the stock market and about how to trade.

Since opening about a year ago, Bello says he's taught more than 2,000 students how to work their dough.

Instead, we're teaching those students that we still think of schools as industrial - style factories with a premium on rote memorization and repetition rather than rigorous reasoning and problem solving.

Everyone wants to be more global, to infuse ethics and integrity into the curriculum, to teach students to be more entrepreneurial and innovative, and to put more of a challenge into MBA programs that, at some places, have become little more than a two - year search for a better job.

The Director of Clinical Operations for the Penn State Heart & Vascular Institute, Ettinger is described as «one of the best students I have seen in more than 30 years of teaching Executive MBA students» by Dennis P. Sheehan, the school's faculty director for MBA programs.

The online learning and teaching marketplace has more than 40,000 courses and 12 million students.

Milyutin — who confesses that he struggled with math in primary school — cited a 1984 review by the late Benjamin Bloom, which reports that students who received one - on - one tutoring performed better than 98 % of students taught in a conventional classroom.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Two damning reports appeared in 1959, condemning American graduate management education as little more than vocational colleges filled with second - rate students taught by second - rate professors who did not understand their fields, did little research and were out of touch with business.

«I've been in education for more than 30 years, and we teach our students to do what you can to help other people, don't just think about yourselves, so that's what I wanted to do,» said Sister Margret.

And most teach far more students than do the distinguished Protestant scholars whom Prof. Turner mentions.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Having taught a number of years at an undergraduate institution within the evangelical world, I observed on more than one occasion students who wrestled with the particular brand of Christianity in which they had been raised.

Such a model of teaching is patently not perfect, but it does a better job than did the classical paradigm of bridging the gap between the discipline of New Testament studies as it actually exists and the students we actually face.

Or am I contributing to the problem by helping support this institution - one that has some amazing people but are dedicated to teaching students more about how evolution is wrong than in following the call of Jesus to love your enemies.

If there is more than one, do they shape different aspects of the school's common life (one shaping its teaching and learning, another its life of worship, perhaps another its common life as a community of students, faculty, and staff)?

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.

Counseling, chaplaincy and other forms of ministry to groups and organizations are also attractive, and more than a quarter of entering students are headed for teaching, social service or administration.

In my own teaching of theology I find it best to use, rather than a single textbook with a single point of view, a reader which presents several angles of interpretation on specifics and on the whole because it forces students confronting a plurality of systems to decide for themselves what the Scriptures say.

Any student should know that James Petrigu Boyce had a much different set of beliefs than what the Southern Baptists teach today.

A student's encounter with hubristics often begins in his first composition course, Hubristics 101 if you will, where he or she may be taught that clear communication has less importance than authentic self - expression and ideologically approved thought.

To begin with, more Americans than ever go to college, and college students are taught by their overwhelmingly liberal professors to consider American exceptionalism a provincial embarrassment.

Instead, the revolution is technical: «Our technology enables our partners to teach millions of students rather than hundreds.»

First of all to my parents, my father, Remus Muray, and my mother, Marianna Muray, for their part in bringing me into the world, and their love, understanding, and encouragement throughout my life; to John Cobb, my theological «godfather» who first introduced me to process thought, and to whose friendship, inspiration, encouragement, and intellectual stimulation I am more grateful than I could ever express; to David Griffin, who taught me how to think critically; to Jay McDaniel and Kevin Clark for their enduring friendship since our student days and perpetually intellectual stimulating conversations; Nancy Howell, without whose encouragement this project may not have been undertaken; William Dean, whose work has proved to be so liberating; to David and Rosanne Keller, for their friendship, the opportunity to work and play with them, and for their living relationally; Josephine Bates, for her friendship, encouragement, and support in this endeavor; the Rt..

The current arrangement of the theological curriculum makes no more sense, he explains, than if a medical school were to claim that it had to keep students away from patients in order really to teach them about medicine.

The work of the Tertio Millennio Seminar is to equip our participants with the rich resources of Catholic social teaching, and to do so in a setting that underscores both how high the stakes are (one would be hard pressed to find anywhere a more poignant reminder of man's horrific capacity to abuse himself than in the rubble of the Birkenau crematoria, which our students visit), and, more importantly, the realistic hope that mankind can, and must, do much better.

Thus, although it should be easier to teach Western students about Islam than about Hinduism or Buddhism, for there is much in common, the burden of our neighborhood quarrels — not always impartially recorded — and the subtle differences of interpretation make Islam the most difficult religion to present fairly.

But to place a higher priority on challenging students» faith than on teaching them how to defend their faith against attack is simply imprudent.

One result of this is that the wissenschaftlich pole of theological education has become more an exercise in communicating to students the results of critical inquiry than an exercise teaching them to engage in critical inquiry themselves.

My fiancé teaches elementary school and her students seem to know more about science than you.

Good administrators and professional people can be driven out not solely because their salaries are lower than they can command elsewhere but also because they may be deprived of the challenge of teaching students and / or doing some research.

Now he must teach, and preach, and express what he had so far been able only to set down in the margins of his textbooks, or give to his students, or express informally to his brethren, who were not always either interested or in agreement, though never less than aware of his gifts.

With more than 120 years of teaching experience, Le Cordon Bleu is the leading Global Network of Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Institutes, training 20 000 students of more than 100 nationalities every year.

Students would absorb these new procedures, Stigler and Hiebert wrote in The Teaching Gap, by «practicing them many times, with later exercises being slightly more difficult than earlier ones.»

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

How do you ensure that your teaching embraces rather than tries to solve complexity for students?

Last year, Sheridan Shore Sailing School taught more than 400 students from 27 communities, the website says.

Each discipline is further enhanced by Main Lesson Seminars, which requires more faculty and student involvement and commitment than teaching and learning in a traditional classroom.

In today's society, he would be viewed as data - driven, and he taught his students to simply describe observable symptoms rather than try to interpret them.

Starting Monday, the Chicago Park District will host the 2nd annual Spring Break Swim Blitz, a follow - up to the swimfest last year that taught more than 13,000 students to swim.

She passes that lesson on to her German students at Sandburg High School in Orland Park, where she teaches more than a foreign language.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

The Nature Museum teaches over 5,000 students and community partners through more than 200 workshops each year about Monarch butterflies which emphasize the importance of creating Monarch habitats, and fosters personal connections with this vibrant, recognizable insect.

With more than a decade of experience as elementary school teacher and parent educator, Amanda Morin has discovered that teaching is more than just lesson plans, it's an interactive process that involves parents, teachers and students working together to create a base of knowledge.