Sentences with phrase «teachers at the school often»

Teachers at the school often say they're «teaching kids to teach themselves» and rarely answer questions directly; instead they ask students to consider other sources of information first.

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Teachers in Ecuador's public schools often must contend with overcrowding (60 students per class), a dearth of books — even at the university level — and students fainting from hunger (according to the government's own figures, half the nation's children suffer from malnutrition)

«We become, in effect, an educational arm of the charity, working with teachers, often at a school assembly, and then following up in the classroom.»

Certainly there are not parties every day at school or birthday cupcakes but candy is actually handed out quite often at my daughter's school as a reward by her teacher and this may be enough to make the kids not eat their fruits and veggies.

Teachers are often somewhat isolated from one another in schools, each working in their own classrooms, so teachers may not even know that they are assigning work that will all be due at the saTeachers are often somewhat isolated from one another in schools, each working in their own classrooms, so teachers may not even know that they are assigning work that will all be due at the sateachers may not even know that they are assigning work that will all be due at the same time.

As a teacher, I often hear parents lament that their children, when asked what they did at school today, reply, «Nothing.»

Since tics often occur at school it may be necessary to coordinate with the classroom teacher.

I believe we can and do all agree on two points: 1) really, no one — not teachers, not other parents, and not school staff should be feeding our kids things we don't want them to eat or which could harm them (particularly at younger ages) and 2) that there is much too much unhealthy food being served way too often in schools.

Teachers and school nurses often remark at how exhausted some children seem these days.

When you see mothers exchanging information on the playground, for instance, it may look casual — but they're often earnestly collecting information that will ensure the well - being of their offspring, such as the name of the best teacher at the local school and whether strep throat is going around.

«How often do school teachers write a senator or state legislator at the behest of the teachers union?»

I am often asked what I do, and when I reply with a great deal of satisfaction that I'm a teacher, the most common remark is «I don't know how you can manage; when I was at school I used to cause all sorts of trouble.»

«Too often, the assessments new teachers use have very little to do with the standards they are expecting students to meet,» said McCann, principal at Western View Middle School, in Corvallis, Oregon.

Most Finns, including students and teachers, are happy with one examination given at the end of high school rather than more frequent tests and the side - effects that often come with them during the course of schooling.

«Often, a person who is acting out wants to make amends for what they've done,» says Josh Heisler, a teacher at New York City's Vanguard High School.

My friend noted that teachers often worry about students surfing the web when they are supposed to be working or not showing up to school at all if their blended - learning program affords them flexible school hours.

At big schools with lots of grades, teachers often work themselves into silos.

Teachers told me that most NovaNET courses are comparable to textbook - based courses in length and content — a comeback to critics who talk of watered - down curricula at alternative schools — but that many students move through them more quickly, and often finish high school a semester early.

The way in which children and teachers interact at Mission Hill has an intimacy that I often see in the best classrooms but rarely see pervading a total school environment as it does here.

«Secondary teachers are often too subject focused, not student centered enough,» Pommerening, principal at Kellogg (Idaho) Middle School, told Education World.

We noted how often schools and systems assumed that any teacher in a supervisory position would know how to observe a class and give constructive feedback aimed at improvement.

When we think about retention in a remote Indigenous context, our first thought is often the students — how do we keep them at school when high teacher turnover is disrupting continuity of learning?

I travel often and do site visits at schools, which allows me to engage with teachers, administrators, and students to hear about their day - do - day work and understand how policies and innovative practices are being implemented in local schools.

Gallagher recommends that today's digital parents communicate often with teachers about how the school uses devices, how much exposure children have, how they are learning to use technology, and how devices should be used at home for school.

«I... [often] call parents of a kid who rarely gets noticed,» said Maddox, a teacher at Horace Mann Arts and Science Magnet Junior High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.

However, Malcom Trobe, Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) acting general secretary, argued that whilst predictive grades were often higher than actual grades «teachers are looking at the best possible outcome for the student» and are predicting their «maximum grade».

A Teacher's Influence Is Often Lasting Attending the funeral of a former teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high Teacher's Influence Is Often Lasting Attending the funeral of a former teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high school.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Lessons in Education, from Overseas Vancouver Sun, 12/12/15 «Pasi Sahlberg, a visiting professor from Finland at Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of Finnish Lessons, told the gathering that teachers in Finland are not necessarily the top performers academically — they're often athletes, artists, and community workers.»

A Teacher's Influence Is Often Lasting by guest editor Kristen Spruill Attending the funeral of a former teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high Teacher's Influence Is Often Lasting by guest editor Kristen Spruill Attending the funeral of a former teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high teacher prompted freelance writer Kristen Spruill to reflect on lessons learned from all of the special teachers at her junior high school.

Whether they'll be working with student teachers or teachers at their own school, Nat and Alison and Katie and Kiley and students across the country often come to school at 7 a.m. or stay late to become Gen www.Y students.

As the bulletin boards go up and the chalkboards, whiteboards and Smartboards get dusted and polished for another intense school year, some of the newer teachers (at one point, this was me, too) scramble to remind themselves of the tone they need to set in the classroom, and how their own routines will often mirror students» routines.

This will reassure the dedicated teachers and leaders in such schools, who are often at the heart of rural communities.

Students Leaving School for Summer, Teachers Leaving for Good Huffington Post, June 26, 2012 «But as [Professor] Susan Moore Johnson at the Harvard Graduate School of Education states, it's also true that until a few decades ago, women and men of color were often closed out of other careers.»

When it comes to recruiting we often enlist the help of higher education partnerships and invite trainee teachers who have completed their teacher training at the school to apply for unfilled positions.

Many authorities turned to temporary solutions, otherwise fondly known as «huts», and whilst the huts of 2015 provide good classrooms, there is still the tendency to send either the Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) or the long service teacher out to the hut but they do not solve the problem of needing to integrate them into the school as a whole and so they often stand detached and forlorn at extremes of the playground with teachers and pupils having to brave the elements to gain access to the main buTeacher (NQT) or the long service teacher out to the hut but they do not solve the problem of needing to integrate them into the school as a whole and so they often stand detached and forlorn at extremes of the playground with teachers and pupils having to brave the elements to gain access to the main buteacher out to the hut but they do not solve the problem of needing to integrate them into the school as a whole and so they often stand detached and forlorn at extremes of the playground with teachers and pupils having to brave the elements to gain access to the main building.

Secondary schools Most secondary school music teachers will have followed a music course at university, and may well be accomplished performers; but often they come with a great deal of «baggage» which produces the unconscious elitism we discussed in Part One of this feature which appeared in EB 17.5.

For many parents (and some teachers), they were taught a process for solving problems — often by rote — with little understanding when they were at school themselves.

Because of the size of city school districts — New York City is the nation's largest school system with 1,189 public schools and 78,100 teachers — urban educators often teach large numbers of at - risk students.

Let's Fix Math Education By Redefining Math National Geographic, 3/24/16 The secret of countries such as high - performing Finland may be quality primary school teachers, who often have deep math training, according to Pasi Sahlberg, a former math teacher who has chronicled the Finnish success story and is now a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.&school teachers, who often have deep math training, according to Pasi Sahlberg, a former math teacher who has chronicled the Finnish success story and is now a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.&School of Education.»

Susan Lower, a science teacher at River Hill High School, in Clarksville, Maryland, has found that the first step — whether it's checking the tire pressure or switching to compact fluorescent lightbulbs — often leads to a second and third action.

At the secondary level, this often requires supplanting an elective in a student's schedule to provide explicit reading instruction, which can present a dilemma for middle and high school leaders and teachers.

There are some challenges teachers often face at the beginning of the school year, and I have suggestions for administrators on how to solve these challenges even before they occur.

Secondary schools usually employ specialist teachers to deliver their curriculum, who deliver their lessons at specified times during the school week, often resulting in missed opportunities to identify connections between STEM subjects.

Programs at the district level often involve redefining how teachers and school resource officers (SROs) interact with students.

In the absence of well - considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher «mentor» who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need.

Students at Pangburn's school have a 50 - minute silent period during regular school hours where homework can be started, and where teachers pull individual or small groups of students aside for tutoring, often on that night's homework.

The world is at war with youth unemployment as such, why would scientists want to put «teaching» in the extinct - career list?Most people's cherished recollections of school often include a common factor, the human teacher!

For example, teachers often see themselves as teachers of particular year levels; textbooks are written for each year of school and encourage timed, lock - step progression through curriculum content; and all students are assessed at the same time to establish how much of the delivered curriculum they have mastered.

Chris Smith, head of Target Tracker at EES for Schools said: «The lives of both teachers and parents are becoming increasingly busy and they are on the move more often than not.