Grounded in a teaching philosophy that banishes lectures and encourages hands-on exploration, the course represents a collection of best practices gleaned from decades of teaching experience and studious visits to college physics classrooms nationwide.
The Regents are looking for academic programs that would be grounded in practical teaching skills and would require teachers to commit to working in a high-needs school for four years.
Today's learners require the flexibility offered by online learning, but only when well grounded in sound teaching-learning principles.
The course is grounded in microeconomic concepts taught in AEM 2600 in terms of discipline, and draws from corporate finance, marketing, human resource management and organization science.
With these and other changes — such as asking students to analyze documents key to the nation's founding — College Board officials said they want to make the SAT more accessible, straightforward and grounded in what is taught in high school.
Her research interests are grounded in her various teaching experiences and a desire to center students in the classroom.
The money is intended for "evidence-based" approaches to reading, which federal officials, like California, are defining as grounded in the systematic teaching of phonics and related skills.
In all disciplines, DBER could be enhanced by linking to other bodies of relevant research (including DBER in other disciplines), being explicitly grounded in theories of teaching and learning, using standardized measures for assessing learning gains and student attitudes, and conducting research on a larger scale than a single classroom and over longer periods of time than a single course.
Grounded in contemplative awareness, MBSR teaches us how to be awake and aware of our right-this-minute reality.
At a time when Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism is trying to de-emphasize writing and reporting -- the core of traditional journalism education -- and put more emphasis on topics that will give students a broader background, like political theory and statistics, the CUNY school will be grounded in the old-style teaching of journalism as a craft.
