Sentences with phrase «teachers spend much»

However, it is somehow also seen as normal that teachers spend much of their evening and weekend marking and planning, and on a regular basis.

He explains how, as a district literacy coordinator, he has seen teachers spend much time and mental energy wrestling with score agreement.

Teachers spend much time on parental engagement, via e-mail, phone calls, and meetings.

Teachers spend much of their time circling a feedback loop, sharing and receiving information across multiple channels — students, parents, supervisors, and central offices.

Traditionally, language teachers spend much of instruction time running through grammar rules and vocabulary.

Katsuzo Nishi, a Japanese engineer, and Aikido teacher spent much of his early life learning.

Not exact matches

I just try to spend as much time in God's Word as I can, whether it's reading the Bible or sitting at the feet of teachers like these two.

Far too many Christians spend way too much time sitting at the feet of a very popular teacher called television.

Having spent much of my life as a teacher I have come to realize that no - one really teaches anyone anything.

Perhaps his problem was not that he had spent too much time with literature and too little with mathematics but that he had not had the advantage of teachers like Lionel Trilling, Norman Rabkin, and Frank Kermode, who might have helped him turn Balfour's peripety back on himself.

Wyclif spent much of his life in Oxford and was an outstanding teacher in that university.

They are full of student discussions and group activities large and small; teachers guide the conversation, but they spend much less time lecturing than most public school teachers do.

We thought the rest of our lives were pretty much going to be spent in a parent - teacher conference, like we were stuck in some existentialist play: You just think you're at back - to - school night, but really you've died and gone to hell and you're never leaving.

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.

Teachers say they spend as much as the first three months of school re-teaching the skills kids lost over the summer months.

What's the right «thank you» for that favorite teacher who's spent so much time with your children,...

What's the right «thank you» for that favorite teacher who's spent so much time with your children, giving them new skills, encouraging them, helping them when they're floundering and helping us to weather the occasional adolescent storm?

Deciding factors may include how much time your child spends in the teacher's class, how directly the teacher works with your child, how much of a darn the teacher gives about special students, how pushy the case manager is, and whatever else is preoccupying the teacher that day.

Or maybe teachers could spend the time educating kids about the gazillion dollar a year agricultural industry that drives much of our country's economy.

But much of that added spending is tied to backing Cuomo's education policy changes, including more stringent teacher evaluation measures and strengthening the state's charter schools.

Both proposals are more than Gov. Andrew Cuomo's plan of a $ 1.1 billion spending hike for education aid, with much of that money tied to approving the governor's policy proposals, including bonus pay for high - performing teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

Cuomo's spending plan could boost education spending by as much as $ 1.1 billion next year, but much of that money is linked to enacting tougher standards and evaluations for teachers and a strengthening of charter schools.

After years of complaints from teachers, parents and students alike, the Obama administration announced new guidelines toward standardized tests, saying kids spend too much time taking «unnecessary» exams in schools.

The appointment of Betty Rosa as the new Regents chancellor in New York signals a big victory for the statewide teachers union, NYSUT, in the battle over the direction of education in New York — a battle waged with millions of dollars in campaign spending and brute political tactics from both sides over much of the past decade.

The mayor spent much of the winter leading a full - court press, angrily complaining about state government's unfairness to the city and loudly insisting on the repeal of «LIFO,» the state law requiring that teachers with the least seniority be fired first.

Members of the group say students spend too much time on tests and they aren't a good way to evaluate teachers.

New York State teachers say too much time is spent on test prep and some parents want their children to opt out.

«After watching teachers unions spend $ 60 million over five years to protect their interests, we are proud to serve as the much - needed voice of students in Albany.»

Since the syllabus was open - ended, these teachers felt they had to spend too much time designing a suitable series of lessons and gathering an extensive range of materials and equipment.

While still an Indiana girl at heart, Jennifer is a yoga teacher in San Francisco who loves to laugh until it hurts, eat good food, travel to wherever the sun is shining, snuggle with her Labradoodle, Ruby, and spend as much time as possible with friends and family.

If your yoga teacher spends too much time looking at herself in the mirror during class — move on.

I used to spend so much time and effort on my Valentine's box and making sure I picked out the perfect card to give to each of my friends or teachers.

«However, I see too many teachers spending too much time on preparation for the test and not enough time on developing mathematical understanding.

A common pattern is that much more is spent on teacher salaries than on materials like textbooks, paper, and pencils.

Accounting systems make it impossible to track how much is spent on a particular child or school, and hide the costs of programs and teacher contracts.

So, they spend a lot of their time having dialogue and discussion with teachers but they don't actually change much.

In the attached table and figure, one can see just how much is being spent in each state by the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

Many principals spend so much time on strictly administrative tasks that they lose touch with teachers and students and with the learning thats actually happening in the classroom.

Instead of the teacher spending as much time on background and stage setting, I think there'll be more close reading and analysis of text and how it was written.

Specifically, spending increases associated with court - mandated reform are much more strongly related to improvement in measured school inputs (e.g., student - to - teacher ratios, length of the school year) than ordinary spending increases.

We found that time pressures and a focus on reading and maths means parents and teachers aren't spending as much time as they would like to working on handwriting with young learners.

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, for instance, spent some $ 700 million on teacher - quality initiatives alone, much of it on attempts to set up improved teacher - evaluation systems in a handful of school districts.

(According to district budget figures, New York City, for example, spends as much on teachers who no longer teach as on those who still do.)

If you have to spend too much time managing your courses or fixing bugs, then this does not a smart online teacher make.

Neither of the nation's two major teachers» unions has trouble finding fault with the many provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act nor with how much the Bush administration is spending to help states and districts implement the law.

While the rationale is perhaps a bit misguided (some evidence suggests that our students already experience as much instructional time as their peers ~ and other research confirms that teachers in the United States spend more time on instruction than teachers in other nations do) ~ there are certainly reasons to focus on the issue ~ not least of which is the summer learning loss that disproportionately impacts our nations most disadvantaged youth.

When teachers don't have to spend as much of their time on these activities, they can focus their expertise on engaging students with content and providing needed social and emotional support that computers are unable to replicate.

The concept is teachers spend too much time focusing on students who misbehave and ignore those who behave.

Over the last eight years, the district has spent $ 32 million on the hardware systems necessary to track student demographic and performance data districtwide, and another $ 2 million on additional computers that allow teachers to access the system; much of this funding has come from the federal E-Rate program, which has allocated more than $ 10 billion toward Internet infrastructure in K — 12 schools and libraries since 1996 (see «World Wide Wonder?»