Sentences with phrase «university teaching teachers»

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He failed his university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) university entrance exams twice before gaining admission to Hangzhou Teachers University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) University in 1984; after graduation he spent five years teaching English for 120 yuan (about $ 15) per month.

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

As Schulich puts it: «Having been at university and seeing that half my professors are involved in research and had no interest in teaching and were therefore lousy teachers, we try to incentivize teaching.

Despite very modest beginnings (he was an English teacher who reportedly earned only $ 12 a month teaching at university), Ma founded Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce colossus, where he now serves as executive chairman.

The course: This specialization created by Wesleyan University consists of four courses, each taught by a teacher below, and covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir.

He received a recent teaching award as one of five of the top university teachers in Ontario.

Whitehead took another tack and concentrated on university administration, local and national education committees, and lecturing teachers on how to teach mathematics (see DRW).

If this teacher is fired, I will invite him or her to Boston University, where I now teach, to explain what he or she was trying to accomplish in challenging students with this assignment.

The Lilly Foundation funded a gathering of a cross-section of theological teachers and administrators from seminaries, university divinity schools and colleges to explore the subject of theological teaching.

English is my university discipline, and I was an English teacher for years, but I have to agree with the statement by one teacher: «If we had to teach them to speak, they'd never learn.»

In the universities, the scholastic teachers struggled to reconcile Aristotle's writings to the traditional teachings of the church.

He has been quoted as saying that «to be a Catholic college or university, one must reflect the teaching mission of the church and be consistent with those who are the teachers, the magisterium — the holy father, the bishops — who reflect the traditions of the Church.»

Now with the world becoming one, if it remains, and with our leading Western universities importing religious teachers from the East to teach students the religions that brought forward views like reincarnation, not to mention the success of missionaries in our midst from non-Christian religions, we Christians had better think long and deep concerning these religions, not only to be honest with ourselves, but to do justice to the central realities of our faith.

The Bible Literacy Project offers serious competition with the publication of The Bible and Its Influence, which is to be accompanied by a teaching manual and a university - based, online teacher - training program.

The winner must demonstrate exceptional ability as a teacher at an at accredited college or university, be an active teacher when nominated with not less than a total of 10 years of active teaching preceding, and have been a member of the American Dairy Science Association for at least five years.

She has worked with UWSP and Transformational Teaching to develop a Public University Waldorf Teacher Training Master's program.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

Steve has taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and adminisTeachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administeachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration.

Wright State University recently analyzed three large, at - risk schools in urban, rural and suburban locations, and found a 39 percent reduction in verbal and physical aggression in eight months when teachers implemented monthly character themes and taught specific character skills.

She later graduated from the University of Munich, did her Waldorf Teacher Training at Emerson College in England, and taught at the Edinburgh Waldorf School before moving to Chapel Hill in 1998 to teach at Emerson.

He has also taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and adminisTeachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administeachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration.

Dr. Crenshaw has taught graduate courses in counseling and play therapy at Johns Hopkins University, Teachers College, Columbia University and Marist College.

United University Professions President Frederick Kowal quickly called the report flawed, incomplete and failing to tap the experience of SUNY education professionals who teach and mentor future teachers across the state.

I have noticed a qualitative difference between Graduate Teacher Programme (GTP) students who have been trained on the job, and those who've been based at a university for their training, who tend to have much better preparation in the relevant theories and teaching strategies.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

The signatories include philosophers and RE professors, consultants, advisors and teachers, including professors from Britain's top universities, leading national voices on RE, and classroom teachers already teaching their pupils about humanism and objecting to its exclusion in the draft criteria:

She handled day - to - day aspects for two federally - funded programs, GET SET (Global Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering, and Technology) which engaged students, teachers, and parents in a suite of learning activities designed to increase student interest in pursuit of advanced course - taking, and careers in engineering and other STEM areas, and DC ACTS (DC Advancing Competencies in Technology and Science), which provided CEU's from George Washington University to teachers furthering their science education and teaching pedagogy.

One of those in the audience, an Englishman teaching EST at a French university, stood up and said that the article was far too difficult for EST teachers and that they could not be expected to possess the requisite scientific knowledge.

Another recommendation called for reform of undergraduate science and engineering curricula — what is taught and how it is taught — arguing that too many university teachers and professors are ill equipped to present science and engineering material in an interesting and engaging manner for a wider variety of students.

And according to Gerald Stancil, a Johns Hopkins physical chemistry Ph.D. who recently retired from a teaching career at New Jersey's Orange High School, the benefits and salary earned by a high school teacher with a doctorate compare favorably with median earnings at colleges and universities — although teacher salaries and reward for advanced degrees vary greatly in different parts of the country.

Many had stories about friends, often in the humanities, who were overworked as teaching assistants, or paid months late; the collective bargaining a union offers could potentially lead to a contract with the university that addresses such issues and helps student teachers in such situations.

He and his colleagues prepare lesson plans and teach just as if they were high school teachers but within a university setting.

Teachers respond by attempting to teach a topic a week, says education professor Marcia Linn of the University of California, Berkeley, an adviser to the TIMSS study, but that approach «denies students the opportunity to find out what it is like to have a deep understanding of any subject.»

Anyone teaching a course at a university is likely to have a notion of what face - to - face teaching should look like through his or her experience as a student, as a teacher, and through depictions in media.

A collection of sample teaching portfolios from K - 12 teachers to professors from the University of Virginia

In a recent study at Edith Cowan University in Perth, researchers worked with 20 primary teachers who were reluctant to teach science.

The consensus prevailed among the members of the Ringberg Circle that the quality of teaching should be evaluated in standardized terms and that the results of this evaluation should contribute to the career of university teachers in the same way as scientific success in terms of publication numbers.

Include any information relevant to course development, including workshop participation, consultation with your university's teaching center, meetings with former teachers, and meetings with students.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

All teacher education in Canada takes place in universities, and entry into the teaching programs is based on a combination of your grade point average (GPA), essays, and interviews.

Examples of SEPA projects that have been funded include CityLab, a Boston University mobile teaching laboratory, and the University of Washington's Brain Research in Education Program, an online distance learning project to enhance the neuroscience skills of K - 12 teachers.

Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach science and train future science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher priority on research productivity than on student learning.

As a science teacher, you may be asked to teach a subject that you have not studied since first year at university.

For 15 years, one of the biggest suppliers of alternatively certified science and math teachers to the Chicago Public Schools system was a program called NU - TEACH, run by Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Gabrielle Kristofich, an aspiring STEM teacher studying economics and elementary education at the University of Colorado, said the Noyce Summit expanded her own network as she heads into her first year of teaching, and her awareness of new ideas in STEM education and the complex processes involved.

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.

The money for what's dubbed Teacher Learning for the Future is being taken from its Noyce fellowship program, which supports undergraduate science majors who promise to teach, and its Math Science and Partnerships program, which links university researchers and local school districts.

The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.

This radical programme, which began in 1987, seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way in which science is taught in American schools, not by «top down» reform — restructuring the curriculum and then expecting teachers to adopt the new improved version wholesale — but by establishing partnerships between science teachers and professional scientists working in universities and industry.

Torero, who was born in Peru and now teaches at the University of Queensland (UQ), St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, had come to investigate a crime that shocked the world: the disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa Normal School, a rural teacher's college near Tixtla, Guerrero.