Sentences with phrase «do teachers control»

Do teachers control the economic struggles of their student's families?

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As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent - teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns of a bunch of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out - of - control idiots.

Jesus often refeared to the scriptures when he would say «it is written» when He was under attack from the devil and the teachers of the law, they used the scriptures as a weapon to control the people and they tried the same strategy with Jesus and when it did not work the plotted to shut Him up.

These databases are extremely useful and valuable, but there does not appear to be a ton of oversight or quality - control over the available materials, and it would certainly behoove teachers using them to think as critically about the assignments they're downloading as they would about the assignments they're writing themselves.

New teachers graduate college with a background in courses based on things like classroom control, following federal standards, legal issues pertaining to what teachers may and may not do and, possibly, a few classes on a specialty subject.

Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym teacher, not the director of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.

When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code of conduct than children since child bullies do not have control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position of teacher or coach.

Lunch may be packed from home, but you have no control over what they actually eat or don't eat and teachers often throw - away the remainder.

Cuomo, noting that the state teachers union didn't endorse him in either of his two races for governor, said overhauling the education system would be as important to his legacy for him as winning approval of gay marriage and enacting strict gun - control laws.

Cuomo — who noted that the state teachers union didn't endorse him in either of his two races for governor — said overhauling the education system would be as important to his legacy for him as winning approval of gay marriage and enacting strict gun - control laws.

We believe that our academy and free school reforms will empower schools and teachers by freeing them from local authority control and government interference to do what they do best - educate.

Nor has it got anything to do with «giving control to teachers».

Democratic lawmakers in that chamber already have a number of issues they have to get done: rent control, monitoring the regulations for the new teacher evaluation law and an extension of mayoral control for New York City schools and criminal justice reform, just to name a few.

The governor in New York does not directly control education policy, but earlier this year Cuomo inserted into the state budget the requirement that new teacher evaluations be more dependent on standardized tests.

But cuomo did nothing for gun control in NY, instead he went after the teachers in NY.

Yet Mayor Mike Bloomberg did huge horse - trading (including huge teacher - pay hikes) to win and then to renew control.

Teachers don't hire themselves and they don't control the disciplinary process,» added Hawkins.

Cuomo has not been accused of any wrong doing, the education department is not under the control of the governor, though Cuomo has inserted himself into arguments with the state's teachers unions.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Most teachers will focus on the mind as the obstacle; however, the true process is to first purify and discipline your body, then bypass (not control) the mind through several techniques so it doesn't bother you.

Even as a yoga teacher, the art of surrendering to what is, releasing control, and trusting the Universe is an ability that doesn't come naturally for this head strong, go - make - it - happen Leo with control issues.

Many early IES studies were underpowered, meaning they didn't have enough teachers or students to pick up a contrast between the treatment and control groups.

Our team also observed control - group classrooms to gather information about what business - as - usual social studies instruction was like, and to determine whether any control - group teachers used PBL (none did).

Obviously early career teachers, when they go into teaching they don't have a great deal of agency in terms of control over what they do, the way they teach and certain decisions, and so over time they are assuming more control over what they teach and how they teach, although sometimes allocation is never really in the control of any teacher.

In doing this the teachers really have a significant amount of control over their professional learning in the school.

Education World: How do you respond to teachers who say that teaching self - control is not part of their job?

Teachers don't have to be concerned about whether teaching self - control is their job or not — they are already doing it.

For one thing, the teacher still controls the grade book — entering and tracking data in the spreadsheet doesn't change a student's grade.

Oddly enough, teacher preparation programs occasionally argue against being held accountable for things like placement rates because they don't believe they have any control over how many of their teachers receive jobs.

R & B argue that teachers have lower cognitive abilities than other college graduates and therefore traditional comparisons using education controls do not adequately control for ability.

Many teachers associate a wide variety of challenges and concerns with group work: kids goofing off, copying from each other, and letting one student do all the work, as well as issues around the teacher not feeling in control.

Only when they omit any education controls do they find that teachers earn the same wages as other workers; this they adopt as their preferred estimate and conclude that teachers have the same annual wages as comparable workers.

These indicate how well a teacher's students did relative to other teachers» students, controlling for prior student achievement and for student and family background characteristics (for example, age, race and ethnicity, disability, free or reduced - price lunch status, and parental education level).

While standardized test scores are typically the measure of student learning used by VAM researchers, studies show that test scores are subject to numerous factors that teachers do not control, according to Audrey Amrein and David Berliner (PDF).

Every year new teachers do a lot more than stay in their classrooms too late and struggle to control classrooms.

Like many lesson - sharing sites, this one appears to have little by way of quality control, though it does attempt to allow teachers to «align» these lessons to standards, including the Common Core.

As they do this, it will require that teachers gain comfort with ceding some control to students and computers.

(She lists five other «solutions» that simply amount to rolling back reforms: Ban for - profit charters and charter chains; eliminate high - stakes standardized testing; don't allow «non-educators» to be teachers, principals, or superintendents; don't allow mayoral control of the schools; don't view education as a «consumer good.»)

Teachers in this group show healthy motivation with respect to the positive motivation factors, they do not lack perceived control, are not overly anxious, and are not inclined towards performance avoidance strategies.

Though teachers have little control over a child's move, there is much they can do to help that child, as well as the other students in the class, cope.

These teachers appear to have a very healthy motivational profile; they know what needs to be done in order to succeed in their work (low uncertain control), and they are not anxious or inclined towards performance avoidance strategies.

On the other hand, if you do control for student income or race, you could be attributing to students» background any systematic differences in the quality of teachers assigned to such students.

[In] turning over control of the video collection process to teachers, you don't forfeit your opportunity to identify the teachers who are struggling.

As a result, we effectively control for any characteristics of the teacher that do not change over time.

All teachers of science can make it relevant to the lives of students by doing a range of things, including using their students» interests as the context, sharing intellectual control, making the tasks open - ended and using age - appropriate equipment, all of which help to make for engaged and motivated students.

A successful undergraduate teacher in, say, introductory biology, not only induces his or her students to take additional biology courses, but leads those students to do unexpectedly well in those additional classes (based on what we would have predicted based on their standardized test scores, other grades, grading standards in that field, etc.) In our earlier paper, we lay out the statistical techniques [xi] employed in controlling for course and student impacts other than those linked directly to the teaching effectiveness of the original professor.

The principle at work here is that teachers can not be held accountable for pupil performance if they do not control resource allocations and must instead follow standardized instructional procedures.

Participating schools, regardless of group assignment, received program materials, teacher training, and substitute teachers to fill in for teachers during regular teacher training; control schools received these benefits for classrooms that did not participate in the study.

«These children are often getting in trouble for things that they can't control and they don't understand why then begin to believe that their teacher doesn't like them,» she said.

They do not introduce controls from tax returns to see whether the explanatory power of teacher value - added for later earnings, college attendance, and other factors, falls.