Sentences with phrase «why hold the teachers»

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I've been that last kid stuck in the room with the teacher, holding up everything because a task is taking you longer than it took everyone else and you don't know why you're so much slower than everybody else, but you're really trying.

When you think about what your child does at a typical day of preschool — painting, playing singing, reading, eating snacks — you may question why your child's preschool teachers are holding parent / teacher conferences.

That's why they are obsessed with preventing evaluations from being used to hold teachers accountable.

I could write about outdoor Pre-Grounded yoga that works, why you should teach professional development yoga for pre-school teachers, sweet family classes on Saturday afternoons with mamas and daughters holding hands in Savasana, weaving in story, how to overcome the naysayers and teach 0 - 3, how to rock a library story time — the few sweet successes I've experienced so far.

It's the reason why we built buildings called schools and required children to come from miles around to sit in a room with the knowledge held in teachers» brains and captured between the covers of textbooks.

This is why we held our first every Schools» Autism Awareness Week (14 - 18 March) and joined forces with Ambitious with Autism to call on the government to make sure that all teachers are given the training they need to teach autistic children effectively.

As a STEM teacher and frequent user of games, I have to wonder why something as trite as gaming has such a fantastic hold on such a large number of students.

Urban schools reinforce the student perception that teachers bear final responsibility for what they learn.By allowing passive witnesses, the schools support these student perceptions that all relationships are (indeed rewarding) students for being essentially authoritarian rather than mutual.As youth see the world, they are compelled to go to school while teachers are paid to be there.Therefore, it is the job of the teacher to make them learn.Every school policy and instructional decision which is made without involving students — and this is almost all of them — spreads the virus that principals and teachers rather than students must be the constituency held accountable for learning.In a very real sense students are being logical.In an authoritarian, top - down system with no voice for those at the bottom, why should those «being done to» be held accountable?

And why are teachers and administrators being held accountable for students» scores, and only them?

You might question why teachers are holding kids back in algebra if their grades are decent.

Why should teachers be held accountable when they can not influence the results by improving how they teach or what they teach?

Dr. Anthony Muhammad contends that in order to transform school culture, we must understand why teachers continue to hold on to models or beliefs contrary to those put forth by their school or district.

How can we expect to hold teachers accountable for teaching students to read when we don't know why some youngsters teach themselves before they ever start school and others never learn to read well until they are eight or so?

That's why Liberal Democrats will require every teacher to hold Qualified Teacher Status, will support the Royal College of Teaching and will invest in high quality professional develteacher to hold Qualified Teacher Status, will support the Royal College of Teaching and will invest in high quality professional develTeacher Status, will support the Royal College of Teaching and will invest in high quality professional development.

While not yet acknowledging how holding teachers accountable for their students» test scores, while ideal, simply does not work (see the «Top Ten» reasons why this does not work here), at least the federal government has given back to the states the authority to devise, hopefully, some more research - informed educational policies in these regards (I know....).

It's ironic that Newsweek points fingers at failing teachers [«Why We Can't Get Rid of Failing Teachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reteachers [«Why We Can't Get Rid of Failing Teachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reTeachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reporting.

Why not hold principals accountable for the success of their schools — and give them the tools to be real managers, bosses, executives — and let them decide to what degree and how they use student test scores in assessing their teachers?

If you remove Common Core from everything else — the new teacher evaluation plan, the perceived charter - Pearson - TFA cabal, increased testing, whatever — I can't see why anyone would oppose a more rigorous curriculum that holds students to a higher standard.

This is just a snippet into the lives of teachers, but perhaps you will see why we are so scared, angry, and frustrated at having our livelihoods held captive by just a few students who have little to no desire to succeed, who are attending merely to be able to keep their driver's licenses, and who understand that their teacher has no authority to make them do a single thing if they choose no to.

ASCD's second Whole Child Symposium, held Wednesday, December 3, 2014, in Washington, D.C., examined the topic of teacher leadership by bringing together prominent education thought - leaders and practitioners for a vibrant conversation about the what, why, and how of teacher leadership.

In addition to other factors that may play a role in a teacher's success — such as a teacher's enjoyment of teaching and motivation and inspiration to teach10 — developing expertise in any field requires intense, sustained, and deliberate practice designed specifically to maximize improvement.11 This is true for professionals as diverse as elite athletes, surgeons, 12 musicians, chess players, computer programmers, and scientists.13 Why wouldn't the same hold true for teachers?

SEL STANCE IN THE CLASSROOM: Morgan talks about how he holds and SEL stance as a white male teacher and gives examples of how and why incorporating appreciations into each class is important to create positive climate.