As part of these efforts, the foundation has provided grants for schools-within-schools initiatives, as well as teacher effectiveness research and integration of technology in schools.
The research suggests teacher trainees in arts subjects such as history and English were more likely to have good degrees than those training to teach maths or science.
Under its mandate, UNESCO supports scientific research, teacher training, the preservation of memorial sites and archives and the promotion of cultural interaction, so that everyone may grasp the stakes of this history.
They were working on a research project their teacher Megan Wiggins had assigned: Create a simulated Facebook profile for a U.S. president.
The meeting brought together 55 ASPnet students and teachers from 4 countries (Andorra, Portugal, Spain and United States of America) to launch the 2010 International Year of Biodiversity with students and a teacher from each country presenting their research on topics including Evolution, Biodiversity and Sustainability, Sustainability of the Systems of Animal Production, Public Health and Fight Against Poverty and Protected Areas and Biodiversity Maintenance.
But as many a Christian high school teacher can attest, a little historical research shows Christians at the time of Darwin were not at all unanimous in rejecting his theory.
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While insisting she was not advocating a "soft and fluffy" style of teaching, she argued that research showed that a good teacher had to engage with "the powerfully charged emotional relationship between teacher and pupil".
His research deals with several fields related to teacher education, intercultural education, education sociology and comparative education.
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Mr Gates pretended to release a few malarious mosquitoes into the conference hall, but the main part of his talk was to ask what qualities it takes to make a teacher great, and to bemoan the fact that so little scientific research has been carried out into this vital and rather obvious question.
According to John Geake, a former teacher who is now a cognitive neuroscientist, a shake-up in educational research is long overdue.
But there is no mention on the walls that Woods co-founded the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture or even that he was a deeply respected teacher.
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His father was a left-wing history teacher who moved the family from Brooklyn during the blacklists and got a job at Acoustic Research.
His recent research has concentrated on ICT4D, focusing on its use in the context of teacher training in Africa, on a critique of budget support mechanisms in international aid, and on the use of partnerships in ICT4D practice.
His recent research has concentrated especially on ICT4D, focusing on its use in the context of teacher training in Africa, on a critique of budget support mechanisms in international aid, and on the use of partnerships in ICT4D practice.
The research, based on the US-wide National Education Longitudinal Survey, found that a teacher's gender had "large effects on student test performance".
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