Sentences with phrase «few teachers like»

Few teachers like to hear the sound of their own voice for an entire class period.

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Your logic is like calculating the necessity of education by the abuse done by a few criminal teachers.

Though most scholars and Bible teachers agree that Jesus is the fulfillment of all the Messianic hopes and promises, and some may even agree that fulfilled and completed Israel herself, few seem to recognize that just as Jesus shows us how to understand what God is like, so also, Jesus shows us how to understand what Israel was supposed to be.

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.

It was so bad that a few months into school the teacher actually wrote me a note saying she thought Lucas would like to try something new for lunch.

While I'd hoped that his teachers would be right, that maybe he just needed to be pushed a bit more, so far, it seems like each day he's having more accidents, not fewer.

These include homework - free weekends like the one coming up over Thanksgiving break, encouraging teachers to economize on assignments by, for instance, assigning fewer practice problems in math (10 can serve just as well as 25), and creating a centralized homework calendar that will allow teachers to coordinate big assignments, so that kids don't end up with a lot of tests or projects due on the same day.

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I had a bad moment with the teacher yesterday, but it turns out there's a student teacher in the classroom a few days a week and my son seems to like her a lot.

Sure, I've met a few that seemed burned out and dogmatic just like my daughter's first second grade teacher, but just like most 2nd grade teachers actually enjoy children and teaching, so most IBCLCs aim to provide sincere information and assistance.

they used theirs up * As to longevity — again — they used theirs up v quickly but a teacher friend of hers said that theirs went a little jello like after a few weeks, so they just blitzed it in the microwave again to make it all smooth again!

The Governor's speech was warmed - up Bloomberg leftovers — ignore the real problems, blame the teachers for everything that's wrong, and toss in a few failed schemes like individual merit pay.

Bulging class sizes, stagnant salaries, fewer teachers and limited supplies of everything from books to copy paper: That is what the reduction in per - pupil state funding looks like in thousands of classrooms around the country since the Great Recession — despite a much vaunted economic recovery.

Beth Cooke is an internationally recognized New York - based yoga teacher who works with celebrity clients like Lena Dunham, Stela Maxwell, and Abbi Jacobson, to name a few.

It could be worth trying a few different classes / teachers to find a style that you really like.

There's no question that teacher training is a powerful and challenging experience, so a few months after finishing training, a lot of yogis feel like they've hit a plateau in their practice.

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Kinda like how everyone hates Common Core yet few — besides teachers — could really tell you what it is or what means for the future of education in America.

I have had some very exciting experiences in life and met some very interesting people throughout my time as an English teacher which took me to places like Japan, Thailand, Poland, Turkey to name but a few.

When you throw in a few interesting cameos from the likes of Rosamund Pike (who plays a potential romantic interest for Steven) and Pierce Brosnan (an old teacher from years ago, named Guy Shepherd) the entire atmosphere gets a little giddy, reaching its fevered pitch by the time they all stumble into a pub named The Beehive.

Like Henderson's drama teacher, Miguel has few lines, but there's a moment toward the end of the movie where he runs into his father interviewing for the same job, and in their faces you can see a whole history of striving and unrealized dreams and ambitions playing out all at once.

In the third grade, I had a German music teacher who taught us a few German folk songs like O Tannenbaum.

But I'm betting that it's Galileo - style heresy; with proper teacher training in place, a few years from now people like Peltz will be seen as prescient.

As much as I'd like to blame a few people in OUSD for putting up barricades to what I'd like to offer the children, teachers, and administrators in this district, ultimately I can't blame any individual.

Today, only about 25 percent of U.S. classrooms have teachers whose students learn enough to close achievement gaps in a few years and make further progress like the world's top students.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

Sure, the President will call for a few small - scale programs that Republicans will oppose, like extending Race to the Top (for districts this time, not states) and recruiting 100,000 new math and science teachers.

A few weeks prior, teachers rank their preferences for which community they would like to learn about based on the students in their classes and the cultural groups they feel less knowledgeable about.

Either way, you will make a teacher feel like a king or queen with just a few words of gratitude.

PBS Teachers: Learning.Now Checking out the well - crafted entries on this site is like a one - on - one with a patient mentor: lots of wisdom, few wasted words.

Teachers should limit homework assignments over vacations and holidays and assign a few family - based projects over the course of the year like researching your family tree.

For example, for a play set during the gold rush, teachers can ask students to consider what it would be like to move across the country, and, if they could bring just a few possessions, which they would choose.

But for the past few years, DPS has treated the innovation school authorization process much like the charter authorization process, and new innovation schools have looked far more like charters — with a year to plan, clear visions and strategies, and careful hiring of teachers.

If you are fortunate, you had a few creative teachers — ones like those who challenge students to write long division raps, choreograph geometry dances, perform World War II radio commercials, and paint literary quotes on ceiling tiles.»

Only a few of our data points (like teacher - employment policies) are apt to affect achievement directly.

At the time, like today, far fewer individuals were being prepared to be mathematics teachers in California than the state needed.

A few caveats: First, some of these provisions aren't in current law — some were in the stimulus bill (like Race to the Top), some are in Arne Duncan's conditional waivers (like teacher evaluations), and some are in one of the bills passed this month (like Title I portability).

One teacher desk might not seem like it would take up much space in a classroom, but removing it allowed me to give a few extra feet back to the students so that they weren't so bunched up.

Many district leaders who have recently adopted the idea say that it gives them an advantage in competing for teachers, who understandably like the idea of the same pay for 20 percent fewer days at work.

In addition, we know that young men face social pressures to conform to particular masculine ideals — because there are few male teachers teaching, it's not really perceived as something that's masculine to do and young men might be more likely to choose career paths like, say, becoming a personal trainer or entering business.

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

Since these competencies aren't generally taught in mandatory professional development courses or teacher preparation programs (there are a few exceptions like San Jose State University in California or The University of British Columbia in Canada), we can not assume that all educators have them in equal measure.

Very few of us were prepared to do something like this to teachers, state workers, and university employees unless we were prepared to do it to ourselves as well.

Glatter: I saw a story a few months ago that one in four teachers within Chicago Public Schools misses at least 10 days every year, which seems like a lot of time.

We designed a teacher coaching model that allows even brand - new leaders to think, talk, and act like instructional experts a few days after beginning the program.

And, since we haven't yet figured out how to clone our best teachers, a few schools around the country are trying something like it: Stretching them across multiple classrooms.

The district has rehired about one fourth of the group fired in April, but have hired NO first year teachers who aren't TFA, except a few trained in shortage areas like special education, math, science, etc..

But like any organization with 300,000 members, some teachers disagree with the CTA's positions on issues and a few, like Liz Sanders, an English teacher who happens to be a local bargaining leader, are willing to speak out.

Here's the problem: if the reason can't be disclosed, it was probably soft: the decision - maker didn't «like» the teacher, or simply wanted to exercise managerial power, in one of the few situations where a site - level, or more commonly district - level, administrator still has absolute authority.