Sentences with phrase «teachers in both groups did»

Teachers in both groups did give similar responses when asked whether they felt they had a chance to help students succeed, both in and out of school, and whether they thought the job was personally fulfilling.

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«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

I worry that they might confuse me with a preacher or a teacher or a message - bringer, when the thought of speaking to groups of people makes me very nervous, and don't get me started about fill - in - the - blanks being developed or book clubs convening, and I sort of resent the idea of being a mascot or, heaven forbid, a spokesperson or representative for anything.

Teachers can be encouraged to become aware of the ways they gear their activities and materials to girls and boys on the basis of sex, like letting the boys do the active things and the girls the quiet ones or grouping the girls in the doll corner and the boys in the construction corner.

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The Sunday schools set about to do this for all age groups under the direction of voluntary teachers; thus they were, in reality, only a continuation of an earlier ideal.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

If your teen is doing poorly in more than one subject, see if you can set up a group meeting rather than visiting the teachers individually.

As does inviting more kids than you can manage (the one - per - age thing has to do with group dynamics and function, and I'm not a trained teacher so fewer than that is more in line with my ability to dodge meltdowns and deal with bathroom emergencies).

NYSUT insisted politics played no role in its decision to honor Kennedy, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the teachers have been at war with her ex-husband, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and were one of the few groups to actually advertise against him during the budget battle (not that it did them much good in the end).

The result won't do much to allay the fears of New York teachers» unions that Cuomo's real aim is to transform traditional public schools into charter schools, since charter groups were among those chosen by Massachusetts education officials to implement turnaround plans in chronically underperforming districts.

Anti-tax cap groups, including the state United Teachers, are disappointed in the Democratic - led Assembly's version of the cap, which keeps the 2 percent ceiling on the growth of taxes, but does include some narrow exemptions for pensions

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Cuomo's truculent relationship with the teachers union is nothing new: The labor group NYSUT did not endorse him in 2010, nor did the union back his re-election in 2012.

As the Times reported on Wednesday, teachers unions along with other labor groups are not, as they did in previous years, launching major attack campaigns on the governor for his proposed cuts to education and other programs.

In the next group, a second student learned how to make the tools by simply watching the first subject and trying to duplicate what he or she did with no interaction at all between them; in the third group, subjects actively showed each other what they were doing but without gesturing; in the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessarIn the next group, a second student learned how to make the tools by simply watching the first subject and trying to duplicate what he or she did with no interaction at all between them; in the third group, subjects actively showed each other what they were doing but without gesturing; in the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessarin the third group, subjects actively showed each other what they were doing but without gesturing; in the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessarin the fourth group, gesturing and pointing were allowed but no talking; and in the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessarin the fifth group, the «teacher» was permitted to talk to the «learner» and say whatever was necessary.

A lot of teachers are wary of teaching evolution because of the controversy, and I was in that group — I didn't know if I could cover it, what I could say or couldn't say.

Thanks to Rich Bradley for working hard in 1987 to make the 40 foot functional for the first groups of teachers, and the telescope mechanics for keeping it that way, Carl Heiles for inspiring us to observe neutral hydrogen, a true staple of our educational programs for teachers and youth, Bill Radcliffe (do you remember the time you single - handedly took the front end off the telescope???), Nathan Sharp, and Dave Woody for coming to the rescue when the 40 Foot needed a technical swift kick, Skip Crilly for updating the telescope and getting rid of pesky RFI, and all of the astronomers who have enlightened teachers and students over the years.

Her friends are now enemies, and they do things like knock things off her desk when the teacher isn't looking to embarrass her in front of the class, whisper about her (while looking right at her) at the lunch table, and start group texts about her that the kids talk about at school.

The Blackboard Jungle — Glenn Ford stars as the prototypical do - gooder teacher with Vic Morrow and Sidney Poitier as the leaders of his group of prototypically delinquent students in this prototype of the inner - city teacher movie.

The teachers are caring and encouraging, and all their teaching is done one - on - one or in very small groups.

It's a three year project, every year we've been conducting individual interviews with out - of - field teachers, we've had group interviews with the teacher and a mentor (where they've had them) and I have to say in some of our schools they don't always have one so we haven't been able to do that.

That's what one group of students and teachers in Oklahoma did.

Sometimes, schools in transition have a group of teachers who don't agree with the administrator.

My students were everything a teacher could ask for — they were eager to learn, present in the moment, collaborative within their group, respectful of those we met, and open to trying and doing new things.

Teacher pension plans do work well for certain groups of teachers who stay in the profession for their entire career.

Special education teachers are expected to do quite a lot: Assess students» skills to determine their needs and then develop teaching plans; organize and assign activities that are specific to each student's abilities; teach and mentor students as a class, in small groups, and one - on - one; and write individualized education plans in parent - friendly language.

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.

She adds when she started working with Do, they deliberately selected topics that weren't specifically highlighted in the curriculum or assigned to a particular year group to allow teachers more of a «sense of creativity» and get them to think of mathematics more broadly — and in turn encourage students to think creatively.

This is not surprising since schools often tolerate environments in which both teachers and peer groups keep in - check those who say and do things that are off - script, incorrect or inappropriate.

In his 1975 book Schoolteacher, sociologist Dan Lortie explained that teachers have had little say over policy because, as a group, they do not believe they possess specialized technical knowledge out of the reach of nonexperts.

Not surprisingly, the cumulative expected contributions for the novice teacher are much smaller than for the other groups, owing to the fact that many novice teachers do not remain in the system until the late - career stage.

And in New Orleans, a substantial group of African - American voters believed that the financial harm done by firing thousands of teachers after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 undermined the economic base of the black community, hurting students more than the school improvements helped them.

Imagine that a group of teachers has been divided into introverts and extroverts and given a task to do with markers on butcher paper in a set time limit.

However, he sounded a much more generous note in accepting the Thalberg award at the Oscars in 1992, going out of his way to thank «a group of devoted individuals who, apart from my parents, have done the most to shape my life — my teachers.

When teachers talk about their first impressions of lesson study, that is often what stood out to them: I do nt want a group of people in my classroom, watching me.

And so one of the things that our group is doing right now is we're engaging with teachers from all around the country, in fact all around the world, to try to learn from them what they're doing in their own classroom practice to instill a growth mindset in their students and to help students see intelligence, and to see their academic ability, as things that they can grow.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

We thought to put him in with his age group, but the district saw that he'd do better in first grade (he actually tested past second), and his new teacher ran her literacy program using flexible grouping so that all the kids could continually excel as was appropriate.

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioIn a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioin Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give directioin three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

It didn't matter whether the teacher was working in a rural school in the south west or an inner city school in the north east, the national pay scale ensured that every good teacher teaching broadly similar groups of children would receive an equivalent salary.

I certainly was out of milieu, but still had things to say and to remind people about - about what teachers want to do, and need to do, and what kids want to do, and need to do, in order for both groups to be engaged and effective.

The teacher should think through what the project requires students to do, both in terms of academic tasks (such as writing an editorial, creating a poster, summarizing an argument) and in terms of the process of completing the project (discussing ideas and making choices in a group, giving constructive feedback on others» work, or making an oral presentation).

In 2010, one principal stated, «When I enter my own school library I see a social network — students and teachers doing all manner of things — everything from reading, promoting, quiet games, social skilling, researching, working on the computers, group planning, the list becomes quite endless.

Another sign that we are making a difference: A group of educators from a school in Sofia that focuses on math and science recently wrote a proposal for teacher training, and, after securing funding from the federal Ministry of Education and the local government, they invited our lab to provide the instruction — the first time the teachers themselves hired us to do the training.

When I was in I think it was Narrabri, I was in a consultation group there where what seemed to be very much alive and well was a very substantial and significant in - school professional development program — I think it was in a cluster of schools — a strong partnership between a regional university, some really good academics had done very appropriate and relevant research, and a school which was committed to that, to teacher development, and had made it a priority in a very targeted way.

«Then twice a week the whole class would be in the computer lab with the robot and the teacher, and that was the time for them to share what they'd done, ask questions and get help from the teacher, and she would also show them things in that whole group setting.»

One group of local citizens — teachers and other employees of the school district — has an intense interest in everything the district does: how much money it spends, how the money is allocated, how hiring and firing are handled, what work rules are adopted, how the curriculum is determined, which schools are to be opened and closed, and much more.

Most of the research that is positive about tracking or ability grouping compares two conditions: 1) heterogeneous settings in which teachers do little to attend to student differences, and 2) tracked or grouped classes, where the teacher teaches at the perceived readiness level of the students.

«The provisions dealing with teacher quality in No Child Left Behind have done a wonderful job of focusing attention on the issue of teacher quality in the United States,» said Jack Jennings, the director of the Washington - based Center on Education Policy, a nonpartisan advocacy group that sponsored the gathering.