Made to be Gracious

“For the Lord God is a sun and shield: the Lord will give grace and glory.” Psalm 84:11 KJV Made to be Graciou

The Lord will be Gracious

Our trials may be significant, but our passage today reminds us that we serve a God who will surely deliver us. Posting about quiet trust in our Savior from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ has implications for the entire world. http://inallthings.org/the-lord-will-be-gracious

"We Need to Be Gracious to Ourselves, We Need to Be Gracious to the Students" : English Teachers' Experiences and Opinions about Distance Teaching during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Finland

This MA thesis examines English teachers’ dynamical opinions and experiences about distance teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic in Finland. Distance teaching in general has been a research subject for a long time, but during and after COVID-19, the studies about the topic have multiplied. However, the dynamic, possibly changed experiences and opinions of teachers have been missing. Previous studies have also usually concentrated on higher education, and in this thesis, the focus is on comprehensive school and upper secondary school teachers. The main aim on the thesis is to find out how English teachers’ experiences and opinions about distance teaching have changed through all distance teaching periods from spring 2020 to autumn 2021. In addition to that, the focus is also on the themes of positive and negative sides of distance teaching, the usage of time during distance teaching and its planning, ICT and support gotten for distance teaching, distance teaching working methods, test arrangements and grading and also learner differences in distance teaching. The theoretical background of the thesis consists of distance teaching and its description, differences between distance teaching and contact teaching and distance language teaching in particular. It also includes previous studies about distance teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic and discussion about the technological and digital aspects of distance teaching. The material for this thesis was collected by seven English teachers’ interviews. The interviews were semi-structured, and they covered the themes which the focus of this study is on. After the interviews, the material was analyzed qualitatively. The results of the thesis show that teachers’ experiences and opinions about distance teaching changed dynamically for the better. The teachers felt mostly insecure about their own ICT skills in the beginning of the first distance teaching period, but as the time passed, their skills got better and they learnt new technological and pedagogical things, and this changed their feelings about distance teaching to more positive. However, the teachers found more negative than positive things about distance teaching, and the biggest reason for that was that they were concerned about their students’ coping and well-being during distance teaching periods. The teachers also noticed major differences between different learners and their studying during distance teaching. The most important finding of the study was that the teachers used more time when planning lessons and courses in distance teaching than in contact teaching, since this is not in line with previous study results about the topic. Also, the dynamic positive change of experiences and opinions is an important new finding since it has not been studied before. The limitations of this study have to do with the small number of participants. In the future, research could focus on learner differences in distance teaching or the pedagogical aspect of distance teaching

The Unlocked Door

The Father\u27s home on high is ever on latch to the returning and repentant prodigal. By night and by day, in sickness and in health, in the sunshine of prosperity and under the dark cloud of trouble, he is always waiting to be gracious, and ready to receive us back. Not yet, blessed be God! not yet is the door shut.https://place.asburyseminary.edu/ecommonsatsdigitalresources/1233/thumbnail.jp

How to be Gracious about Political Loss—The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies

Accepting defeat in political decision-making is crucial for the health of democracies. At the same time, being a good loser is challenging. How can citizens be motivated to be gracious about various types of political loss? In this paper, we study whether political leaders can play an important role in boosting the perceived quality of decision-making processes among losers in policy conflicts. We propose and test the impact of a simple intervention post-decision: good loser messages delivered by co-partisan leaders that remind citizens about the rules of the game. Three survey experiments on probability samples of the Norwegian and Swedish population (total n = 4700) show that good loser messages can indeed boost the process evaluations of policy losers. These findings emphasize the potential of procedural messaging to build loser’s consent between elections.publishedVersio

How to be Gracious about Political Loss - The Importance of Good Loser Messages in Policy Controversies

Accepting defeat in political decision-making is crucial for the health of democracies. At the same time, being a good loser is challenging. How can citizens be motivated to be gracious about various types of political loss? In this paper, we study whether political leaders can play an important role in boosting the perceived quality of decision-making processes among losers in policy conflicts. We propose and test the impact of a simple intervention post-decision: good loser messages delivered by co-partisan leaders that remind citizens about the rules of the game. Three survey experiments on probability samples of the Norwegian and Swedish population (total n = 4700) show that good loser messages can indeed boost the process evaluations of policy losers. These findings emphasize the potential of procedural messaging to build loser’s consent between elections

Volume 14, Number 07 (July 1896)

Description of Last Island Mme. Clara Schumann Commendable List of Music—Grade I to X Hints About Memorizing Outside Helps to Young Musicians Letter of the Law Why Some Pupils Hate Music Golden Rules of Vocal Teachers How to Hold Pupils Music as a Social Factor Chat with Students Music and Manhood Be Gracious Word About Two Popular Composers Power of Persistence Anecdote What is Classic Music? Bicycle Craze and Music Edward Schuett Edmund Neupert Idealhttps://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/etude/1405/thumbnail.jp

Person to Person in Japan

While still in the midst of their study abroad experiences, students at Linfield College write reflective essays. Their essays address issues of cultural similarity and difference, compare lifestyles, mores, norms, and habits between their host countries and home, and examine changes in perceptions about their host countries and the United States. In this essay, Jackson Decker describes his observations during his study abroad program at Kanto Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan