Sentences with phrase «about teacher freedom»

08.15.16 National Employee Freedom Week: Association of American Educators Spreads the Word about Teacher Freedom of Choice

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The opposite of compulsion is not freedom but communion, says Buber, and this communion comes about through the child's first being free to venture on his own and then encountering the real values of the teacher.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

If you speak to heads, teachers and cooks about the school meals they provide, they want to be given a little bit more freedom to make their own choices.

StudentsFirstNY submitted a Freedom of Information Law request to the de Blasio Administration in November 2015, asking for more detailed information about the Absent Teacher Reserve (ATR).

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

Freedom Writers tells the true story of teacher Erin Gruwell and her students — a class of left - behind ghetto kids nobody cared about or believed in — who, in working together, overcame the negative expectations of a school system that had given up on them.

To help them better understand those and other issues, teachers were issued books about creating democratic classrooms, which includes holding class meetings and presenting lessons on First Amendment freedoms in class.

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«If you speak to heads, teachers and cooks about the school meals they provide, they want to be given a little bit more freedom to make their own choices.

Some teachers set loose guidelines about what must go into the binder or folder, but the students are given a lot of freedom over what to include.

When students are working together in teams where they feel secure their individual contributions will be recognized and assessed, the teacher has the freedom to move about working more as a facilitator and less as a «sage on the stage.»

Unions have claimed the new freedoms for schools to decide details regarding teacher wages has led to a «wild west» situation, whereby inconsistent guidance and budget pressures has meant that less teachers are being told about their pay awards.

Much has been written about the trust and autonomy Finnish schools provide teachers, but I would like some firsthand examples of how that autonomy extends to students having freedom or involvement in the learning process.

That's about how students and teachers respect each other, build trust and promote student freedom.

«Critical thinking» thus requires adherence to Macedo's political credo, and teachers should be alerting their students to how, for example, Catholic teachings about abortion and the male priesthood «run afoul of» equal freedom for women.

In larger schools, students and teachers will need to share spaces, requiring new ways of thinking about scheduling and coordination, not to mention allowing for more freedom of movement for students.

As per Weingarten: «Over a year ago, the Washington [DC] Teachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograTeachers» Union filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to see the data from the school district's IMPACT [teacher] evaluation system — a system that's used for big choices, like the firing of 563 teachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT prograteachers in just the past four years, curriculum decisions, school closures and more [see prior posts about this as related to the IMPACT program here].

What's more, pressure on teachers to focus on and worry about the potential for every «bump, germ or bruise» limited children's freedom and distracted from «real issues».

And when implementation is done well, which I strongly believe requires that you use teachers to help you develop an implementation plan — teachers feel excited about the standards and believe they have more, not less, freedom in their classroom.

As a result, they have more freedom and flexibility to make decisions about curriculum, scheduling, and teacher selection to meet the needs of their students.

But then I think about the state of education right now with the strict grade - level standards, Common Core and standardized testing — teachers really don't have the freedom or time to attend to the divergent thinkers, non-standard learning or much of anything that veers from what they are required to cover in the classroom.

National Employee Freedom Week (NEFW) is a national campaign aimed at educating teachers and other employees about their options regarding union membership.

The principals of 227 struggling Los Angeles schools may be about to get a coveted freedom: the ability to hire the teachers they believe will best educate their students.

The corporate education reform industry, riding high off a successful anti-teacher tenure lawsuit in California, is targeting the single most important element of academic freedom and working conditions for public school teachers and now the only Democratic governor in the nation to propose doing away with teacher tenure is saying that his abusive language about teachers «Wasn't about them.

When talking with teachers who have the freedom to plan their lessons and projects so that students make many choices about what, how, and when they learn, this driving question is unnecessary.

Many teachers are concerned about what they see as a lack of freedom in curriculum planning and personal teaching style, and fear being evaluated based on their students» Common Core test scores.

New teacher polling shows nearly half academy leaders are sceptical about academy freedoms and schools are increasingly using pupil premium to plug wider gaps.