And expectations differ across those scholastic landscapes: A professor at a teaching-heavy liberal arts university, for example, might have four or five times the teaching load, course planning, and grading of one at a large research-oriented institution but less in the way of sweating late nights, winter breaks, and most summers over hitting research grant deadlines.
"For example, one of the very hard things about teaching chemistry is explaining that molecules have shape, " King said.
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For example, teaching and government saw waves of hiring in the 1960s and '70s and many of these workers are retiring now.
One thing is certain: Those looking for changes when it comes to the Church's teaching on sexual ethics - on abortion, for example, or homosexuality, or condoms, or women priests - are likely to be disappointed.
On most of the sensitive areas of Church teaching - women priests, contraception and homosexuality, for example - he was uncompromising.
As a North-South-South example of collaboration, the outcomes could be of immense significance to the quality of journalism teaching and learning in the participating institutions and far beyond.
Professors at most U.S. universities, for example, must publish in addition to teaching to be granted tenure, and the basic research done at universities is often the basis for many new products and technologies.
There seems to be no correlation between student perception of the effectiveness of teaching (as measured by RateMyProfessor.com) and faculty compensation, for example, but professors who teach a lot get paid somewhat more than those that do not.
Nonetheless, progress is being made in other countries: for example in Ghana, the number of female teachers among the new recruits is higher than in the current teaching force.
Let the dogs know who's boss, he says, teaching Mr. and Ms. Kapus, for example, not to let their dogs walk ahead of them.
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One up before the Highbury magistrate's court on August 10th for looting, for example, was a 31-year-old teaching assistant.
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