Practicing What They Preach? Physical Activity Promotion among Clergy

Are we practicing what we preach?

the modus operandi in the classroom has been integrating activities. Instead of assigning one specific activity to each skill area, we take one activity and stretch it (without stretching the point too much) to include all the skill areas. For example, instead of focusing just on the speaking/listening skills by having learners discuss a topic, we expand the activity to include a reading and a ...

Why Don't They Practice What Ee Preach?

One of the most intractable problems in software is getting engineers to consistently use effective methods. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has worked on this problem for a number of years and has developed effective methods for addressing it. This paper describes these methods and shows what they have accomplished with several hundred students and working engineers. After first descr...

Full-text publication of abstract-presented work in physical therapy: do therapists publish what they preach?

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Professional meetings, such as the American Physical Therapy Association's (APTA's) Combined Sections Meeting (CSM), provide forums for sharing information relevant to physical therapy. An indicator of whether therapists fully disseminate their work is the number of full-text peer-reviewed publications that result. The purposes of this study were: (1) to determine the f...

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.

The ideals of group living homes for people with dementia: do they practice what they preach?

In the Netherlands, as well as in other countries, nursing home care has been traditionally modeled on hospital care. However, in the last decades of the twentieth century, realization grew that, unlike hospitals, nursing homes needed to serve as literal homes to people. As a consequence, the concept of group living homes for older people with dementia has taken root. Group living home care was...