She followed up with the purchase of a handgun, enrolling in a range of shooting and self-defense courses, teaching more than 7, 000 other women to shoot, and writing four books about why women should arm themselves.
How do they transition hundreds or even thousands of educators and courses from legacy teaching methods and materials?
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These professionals are responsible for teaching courses in childcare, family relations, finance, nutrition, and related subjects pertaining to home management.
Since 1998, Bittermann has been assistant adjunct professor of communication at the American University of Paris, teaching courses in broadcast news and documentary film, among other subjects.
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Mr. Cole has been a member of the adjunct faculty at Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on public corruption law and legal ethics, and has lectured at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.
These included post-degree teaching courses in Mathematics, Science and English, leadership training for school heads and teachers, and other courses under the Malaysian Technical Co-operation Programme, he said during a debate in conjunction with the 184th Unesco executive board session.
Recruited in 1999, Harl has now published eight courses with the Teaching Company, including The World of Byzantium and Rome and the Barbarians. (Harl recently whipped up a curriculum on Vikings because Hidalgo's research suggested that it would be a popular course.) Harl admits he earns more from his courses sold by Hidalgo (and related speaking engagements) than from Tulane.
Courses are available nationwide teaching people how to forage, what to look for, and then turning their discoveries into three-course meals.
His university had been teaching such courses for years, he noted.
Or, for even better value, students might look to Europe where fees tend to be minimal and where growing numbers of universities are teaching degree courses in English.
Example: A business school graduate starts her career at a bank, then goes to work for a museum and winds up teaching nonprofit finance courses at a business school.
After being so completely moved and inspired by her own experience, Marturano invited her friend Saki Santorelli to co-develop a mindful leadership curricula and together began teaching retreats and courses at General Mills that combined the basics of mindfulness with the training of leadership excellence.
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Instead, the near perfect separation between research and teaching causes their courses to largely rely on dangerously simplified generalizations of popular insights, at a time that the corporate pitfalls that rocked our economies over the recent past epitomize a clear need for more sound management in favor of popular fads.
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So now I am a law professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law, teaching business and sports courses, international business transactions, and movie law.
Groves is a Professor of Law at Florida Coastal School of Law, teaching business and sports courses and director of The Center for Sports and Social Entrepreneurship.
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Progressive thinkers such as Piaget and Young have been squeezed out of the teacher-training curriculum, as first the Tories and now Labour have insisted that courses put more emphasis on practical teaching tips.
The MIT Sloan School of Management and Harvard Business School have developed training courses covering topics such as course design, teaching techniques and the case study method.
In a typical semester, about a dozen Cornell faculty members and graduate students make the two hour round trip to teach the courses, aided by 40-50 undergraduate teaching assistants.
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That may cover cheap courses in bad universities, but will not pay for expensive teaching in good ones.
The report also says the government should commission online training courses for teachers to help them find the right techniques for teaching literacy.
They better start teaching economics early in grade school, and require courses in the role of stock markets and investment and the history of money.
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Some business schools, accused of teaching nothing so much as greed, now offer ethics courses.
Degree courses are supposed to last five years, but strikes by unpaid teaching staff and riots by angry students mean the academic year often runs late, sometimes a whole year late.
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Bill Currie of Deloitte, a consultancy, says Canada could produce managers more comfortable with risk by making university courses for businesses and engineers broader and more creative, and by teaching more economics in secondary school.
But Mr Gove has also announced that from autumn 2015, teaching will begin for "new" re-vamped GCSE courses in English, maths, the sciences, history and geography.
During the same period, teaching loads for an overwhelming number of our professors were reduced from four courses a semester to three, and then to two courses per semester.
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The report looked at the various routes in to teaching and found nearly 80% of trainees were on university-led courses, while about 5% were on what are known as school-centred courses.
Her courses include Cultural Anthropology, Global Cultural Diversity and Gender through Comic Books, which she is teaching this spring as a massive open online course (MOOC) via Canvas.net.
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The framework document is also expected to review how the quality of university courses is assured - and in his speech Lord Mandelson will call for "ways of incentivising excellence in academic teaching".
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