Sentences with phrase «whose teachings focus»

Under the heading, «Founders of these schools are influenced by Fethullah Gulen, a prominent Turkish Muslim scholar,» Concept says some of its founders and staff may be inspired by Gulen, whose teachings focus on social justice, tolerance and education.

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While we have not been able to buy into any of these titles in our common sense reconstruction, we do use the messianic title of «the Christ», redefined to mean the one through whose life and teachings we interpret God, the one through whom we find focus and meaning for our lives.

Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose previous research focused on art and human evolution, used photos and film to study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.

Businesses in the public and private sectors teach people to recognize phishing, but those efforts often fail or don't work for very long because the training ignores users» habits and instead focuses exclusively on how users process information, says Vishwanath, whose latest research on email habits and phishing outcomes is published in the Journal of Computer - Mediated Communication.

Ms. Levine made a brief analysis of the current state of research in Spain, and among other things, she said that, «The [Spanish] universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.»

But if we look further, the latest analyses show that between 2000 and 2008 more than 60 percent of scientific production in Spain was carried out in universities (2), despite the fact that their professors are ``... civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research».

The universities are saturated with civil servants whose focus is on teaching rather than original research.

Pupils are entitled to be taught by those whose working conditions enable them to focus on teaching and learning.

When I see professionals like Colin Hegarty, a teacher nominated for the international Varkey Foundation Award for his ground breaking approach to teaching maths; and Luke Sparkes, Principal at Dixons Trinity Academy in Bradford whose focus is on seeking out what pupils don't know rather than affirming what they do, I know that the teaching profession is fizzing with bright new ideas as well as passionate teachers and leaders who are committed to driving up educational outcomes.

Similarly, in the schools we studied whose plans reflected a belief that teaching and leadership affect student achievement, achievement gains were three times greater than they were in schools whose plans reflected a focus on student demographic characteristics as the primary determinants of student achievement (Reeves, in press).

Teachers whose preparation programs focused on the work of the classroom, provided a supervised clinical experience, and gave them the opportunity to engage in the practices of teaching were able to drive greater learning gains for their students once in the classroom than those who did not receive the same kind of clinically oriented preservice training.56 Prospective teachers who had a longer clinical experience reported greater confidence in their teaching abilities and were more likely to say that the length of time they spent as a student teacher was adequate, compared with their peers who had shorter clinical experiences.57

The author describes three such highly effective urban teachers, the strength of whose teaching came from a focus on student - empowering social justice.

As a university faculty member whose research and teaching focus on PBS, I observed and documented how the faculty at Hoffman Glen used this approach to transform their school.

The focus of the audit was teaching and learning processes, whose purpose was to ensure that the University produces quality and holistic graduates in diverse fields.

Hiwa K: This year's edition of the Power 100 features a specially commissioned artist project by Berlin - based Hiwa K, a largely self - taught artist born in Iraqi Kurdistan, whose work focuses on knowledge gained from experience, whether through storytelling, music - making or engagement in political processes, often all at once.

[3] In 1902 he enrolled in a painting class with Robert Henri, whose teachings lead Pène du Bois to focus more on everyday life in his own artwork.

«When I came here,» says Longhauser, «I was taken with the fact there were so many important artists living here, working here, teaching here whose work wasn't so well known within the larger context of contemporary art, so that became the focus of this program.»

We seek a highly creative and interactive scholar whose research and teaching interests are focused on innovative approaches for theoretical, empirical, and computational analyses in Earth and Environmental Sciences and whose research addresses dynamics at any scale - from individual organisms to the entire globe.

Several law schools have experimented with introducing foreign and international issues into basic LRW instruction.68 Some have responded to these arguments by creating either upper - class elective seminars with a global LRW focus, 69 or by creating a specialized foreign / international section of the basic LRW course.70 Typically, this has been accomplished in a largely ad hoc fashion through the creative efforts of individual instructors, who sometimes offer a special «international» section of the basic LRW course.71 Additionally, LRW professors whose primary responsibility is to educate foreign students have naturally gravitated toward incorporating global dimensions in their problems and assignments.72 Faculty specializing in teaching legal English have observed that English is increasingly the language of choice for transnational negotiations and legal instruments, even in circumstances where the underlying transactions do not involve Anglo - American law.73 Consequently, they also emphasize a transnational approach that responds to the needs of their students.

Ann Pelo is a teacher - educator, program consultant and author whose primary work focuses on Reggio - inspired, social justice, and ecological teaching and learning.

Ann Pelo is a teacher - educator, program consultant and author whose primary work focuses on social justice, ecological and Reggio - inspired teaching and learning.

David Schouela, RYT - 500, is a Kripalu Yoga teacher whose current primary focus is teaching yoga to teens and adults with complex trauma and chronic treatment resistant PTSD.

Parents whose parenting goals have undergone a positive shift from participation in family - focused interventions (i.e., they ideologically embrace the new parenting skills being taught) sometimes report frustration at not being able to consistently utilize the new skills that they have gained through intervention participation.