Sentences with phrase «about teachers and students»

Executive Director Jane Ehrenfeld talks about teachers and students as changemakers.

Russakoff tells inspiring stories about some teachers and students doing remarkable work in impossible circumstances, and the much - ballyhooed KIPP charter schools actually seem to be living up to their reputation in Newark.

«Our work with Harvard will provide us with critical information about our teachers and our students, information that will enable us to make greater strides in improving teaching and learning.»

This led me to think about teachers and our students (of course), and the limits we place on them, consciously or subconsciously.

Tests of these theories have relied primarily on information about teachers and students in college and graduate school.

So often movies about teachers and students are warm and fuzzy, but the opposite is the case with Whiplash.

Unlike many Hollywood films about teachers and students, Monsieur Lazhar resists a happy ending, instead emphasizing the real world consequences of issues like immigration, bureaucracy and death.

«For me what that really means is you are being really intentional and thoughtful about teacher and student placement and the supports you give teachers to help them grow.»

Listen to anecdotal stories about teachers and student debt on NPR.

When introducing the teacher unions (NEA or AFT) into education discussions as an equal participant in the development of education policy, the assumption is that all unions are equal... which is the same WRONG assumption we are making about teachers and student learning.

That might not be feasible in every school, but the underlying principle is an important one: To be responsive to individual students, schools may have to be flexible about teacher and student assignments and groupings.

However, we find that strengths - based, evidence - driven conversations about teacher and student development can be exactly what teachers need to tune their practices for the rest of the year.

Not exact matches

Knowing how hard we work, how seriously we take our role, and how deeply we care about our students, it is disheartening to hear the harsh judgments that many people so frequently make about teachers.

That software, called Kickboard, allows teachers to make notes about their students throughout the day, noting, for example, discipline problems, difficulty in grasping key concepts, and positive behavior as well.

«This system was designed decades ago,» Gates continued, «and it doesn't reflect what educators have learned about helping students and teachers do their best work,» namely, that students learn far more effectively when their instruction is tailored to their specific needs.

It's also rolling out a student version so kids can send anonymous tips to teachers about weapons, drugs, and bullying.

In fact, these days, the students are more quickly becoming the teachers as companies going through the millennial workplace revolution are getting their 18 to 35 - year - old employees to teach generation Xers and baby boomers a thing or two about integrating tools like social media and crowd sourcing into their modus operandi.

This is what Albom's book did for me: It got me thinking about how fortunate I have been to have wonderful people guide me during my career and helped me refocus my efforts on being present as a mentor, a guide, a teacher, and a student.

And when you talk about your startup as a student, your teachers get much more excited.

By the end of the four days, the educators know intimately about the monetary policy process, and they can teach other teachers and their students much more accurately.

Irene Lanzinger, president of the BC Teachers Federation, echoed the call for public investments and stricter regulation of banks, and added particular concerns about schools, women and students.

During a press conference, sophomore Lydia Hester from Madison East High School asked state lawmakers, «How do you expect students to be successful when kids have to worry about themselves, their friends, and their teachers being shot?»

Earlier in the day, about two dozen teachers at Stoneman Douglas waved signs in front of the school and said they did not want to be armed with guns in order to keep students safe.

About 250 people joined Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students, survivors, and teachers for the «I Stand With MSD» Walk for Solidarity on Saturday, March 10.

The best response to secular irony is testimony by current and former students, as well as teachers and officials familiar with such cases, about their experience in the sexualized world of undergraduate life.

In the midst of the national conversation about arming teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun control laws, a high school teacher...

Johnson's challenge, as a teacher, is to introduce students to a tradition they should have learned elsewhere and to enable them to engage in critical thinking about that tradition.

«I was not just having difficult conversations with students, but other teachers and administrators also emailed me to tell me I shouldn't be talking about white privilege,» Taylor said.

For many of his students and friends, though, nothing on paper quite captures the Hans Frei we knew, and loved: the devoted teacher; the faithful friend; a man stubborn about his ideas but genuinely, sometimes unnervingly, modest about himself; prone nervously to stay up the night before a presentation to rewrite his lecture.

Students» questions about religion are usually handled with the utmost caution and are referred back to parents and ministers for answering, for fear of reactions by representatives of organized religion to any treatment of religious matters by teachers of another affiliation.

OR How about the teachers schedule their exams around religious holidays and the students are then allowed to skip attending school during their identified religion?

It's less about religion and more about the fact that teachers and students would either take off or skip school in order to celebrate with their families.

Confusion about Vatican II and poor understanding of the Church's central teachings were also identified as issues among both teachers and students.

The project requires that the scientific establishment commit itself to a strategy of indoctrination, in which the teachers first tell students what they are supposed to believe and then inform them about any difficulties only later, when it is deemed safe to do so.

Finally, a vertical group composed of two trustees, administrators, teachers, parents, excellent students, and failing or dropout students is held on the theme: «Our schools: What I like and don't like about them, and what I want them to be.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

«Basically the thing [the Islamic - studies teacher] did is that he is so approachable and he does not talk about the textbook Islam,» one student told us.

With a few exceptions teachers and students do not engage in a denominationally restricted discussion but participate in a Protestant and a Christian conversation or debate about the ultimate problems of faith and life.

All religions have been left in the dustiness sideroads where Truth does prevail upon many of mankind's teachers and their students of Bio-Cellular Technicalities wanting to willingly know about the Kingdom Domains of God which lay upon the insides of all celestially nomenclatured biological life forms and life formations.

This an excellent book for students of Scripture, preachers, and teachers, especially when you are looking for ways to preach and teach about the «giant» passages in the Bible.

But all can include personal activity by students: thinking through problems, writing about them, discussing them with teachers and other students.

This is a sermon about God's presence because theologians and pastors, theological teachers and theological students now have to think more seriously and more critically about God's presence than we have had to do for a long while.

Thus the clinical and theoretical material is integrated; psychological and theological understanding is related; and the student is helped to think critically about his own work, to benefit from the insights of his peers as well as those of his teachers, and to honestly face the problems involved in his relationships with others.

If a denomination turned to a specific faculty with a specific question, requesting guidance in thinking about it, that faculty could organize itself in such a way that students and teachers could work together over a period of years to come up with ideas that would often be genuinely helpful.

The Houston Press: San Benito Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YTeacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to Yteacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.

I shall be reflecting largely from my own experience, as process thought enables and indeed requires us to do; but the nature of that experience is essentially that shared by all who nurture — whether, for example, single social workers, middle - aged adoptive parents, teachers who care about their students or, I suspect, those artists and poets who cherish and give birth to the world.

To this day, many teachers care about their students as individuals and seek to support their personal development.

There he gathered about him in intimate friendship a circle of students and younger teachers, won them to complete dedication to Christ, and put them through the Spiritual Exercises.

I argued against evolutionist teachers and students, but I never really cared about science except to defend my faith.

Instead, students sit under technocrats who have been given licenses through the Ph.D., and the question about what constitutes a master teacher has on the whole been ignored.