Real-estate magnate Sam Zell also puts a high value on teaching curiosity and observation.
We had planned on teaching for two hours, which we knew would turn into three or four.
There will be a range of special seminars with information on teaching, veterinary science, medicine and law.
But again, the whole point of the lectures is to enable much more hands-on teaching during the day.
As such, schools might want to "grasp the nettle" by spending on teachers and making savings on teaching assistants.
Brian also oversees Inmates to Entrepreneurs, a community outreach program focused on teaching ex-offenders to start low-capital businesses.
There will be 2, 400 mentors in place by the end of the school, helping "teachers to concentrate on teaching".
The Army and Navy have focused on teaching "resiliency" to troops in hopes of helping them cope with stress.
Its goal is to improve educators' ability to reduce disruptive classroom behaviors so that they can focus on teaching.
They allow coaches to concentrate on teaching instead of winning, which is supposed to be the point of youth sports development.
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The researchers found that the Israeli scheme had much less effect on teaching methods in middle schools than in elementary schools.
The extra pay was three times more effective in boosting student test scores than spending the same money on teaching materials.
And German voters heartily approve of Ms. Merkel's insistence on teaching the overly-indebted nations the virtues of German prudence and hard work.
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Instead, they focused on teaching me vital life lessons like how to elbow your way into a crowded tapas bar or prepare a proper whiskey highball.
Working closely with both Republicans and Democrats in the Texas legislature, the governor ensures that every school district in that state concentrates on teaching reading, she said.
Professor X has entwined his take on teaching with episodes in his personal life involving the purchase of a house he could not afford and subsequent marital tension.
That meant instead of concentrating on teaching and learning you had people who were being trained again and again to clear the hurdle of the examination along the way.
Cognitive behavioral therapy that focuses on teaching practical skills that help people get through crisis moments was shown to reduce suicide attempts by half in big 2005 trial on civilians.
"Heads want flexibility but they have no wish to spend undue time with their governing bodies calculating grades and salaries when they should be focused on teaching and learning, " he said.
The Louisville native first attracted public attention in 1908 for his book The American College, which condemned higher education for its reliance on lectures versus small classes and hands-on teaching.
And once we educate everybody about the Laffer Curve, we can then concentrate on teaching them about the equivalent relationship on the spending side of the fiscal ledger, the Rahn Curve.
Washington, a freed slave who walked 500 miles from the mines of West Virginia to study at Hampton, who argued that these colleges should focus on teaching blacks skilled trades and vocations.
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But high-stakes standardized testing actually pushes these schools to destroy themselves, wiping out the programs that actually do deliver value to these high-aptitude students and instead focusing on teaching to the tests.
Whatever the reasons, the stress on multiple disciplines, on crediting what people already know and moving people through new learning quickly, and on teaching something within the context of its relevance are all good ideas.
When teaching numeracy, the facilitators focus on teaching numbers and the idea of quantity, grouping and interpretation of measurement units, arithmetic operations, special forms and orientation, and content interpretation, such as reading tables and graphics.
The move away from modular exams towards those taken mainly at the end of two years of study would ensure there was better focus on teaching and learning and greater depth of study, Mr Gove said.
The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and Nasuwt say the reverse is true, that by not doing routine tasks such as photocopying or having "unacceptable levels of meetings", teachers can focus more on teaching and learning.
It is to the great credit of the staff that they carried on teaching in those appalling conditions all through the war and that they were able to enter us for public examinations with good results.
According to the report schools which did less well often showed "a lack of clarity about the intended impact of the spending", did not monitor the effect properly and often spent the cash "indiscriminately on teaching assistants".
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Spitznagel and Taleb ran another fund Empirica together from 1999 to 2004, but Taleb has now retired from trading to concentrate on teaching the world how to hedge against trickier black swans like nuclear power crises and sovereign debt crises.
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