Sentences with phrase «absent teacher or student»

But veteran teachers are also concerned that longer days don't work for the youngest students, and that an absent teacher or student also loses a larger fraction of the school week.

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Citizen Ed has reported on some of the hearings and has posted some videos of the presentations, noting that parents, students, and teachers have been mostly absent, and that the NAACP's special task force, which is supposed to be weighing the evidence, seems misinformed and / or confused about what charter schools are.

The collection of dedicated assessment options includes the unique Q+A module which allows one - to - one, group and peer assessment for teachers to assess students» understanding — plus the Student Journal revision aid helps with post-lesson review or can be shared with absent students to ensure they do not miss out on any key learning points.

Some students whose teachers were absent never got a teacher — school aides stayed with them; some students joined other classes, doubling their already large size; and others spent the day with school administrators, taking them away from their duties at the school or district office.

As soon as the Report Card is turned into a test in which a teacher learns not that a student is having trouble making friends but rather that the student is at the 18th percentile for the district in terms of sociability; or not that four particular students in her class are frequently late or absent but rather that the classroom is at the 40th percentile on the dimension of student timeliness, the function of the Report Card is lost.

«When a single student misses a day or more of instruction, the teacher can review the recently presented material for the student who missed it, in which case the absent student's peers lose out on valuable instructional time, or she may move forward with new material and risk having the absent student fall behind.»

The upsides, if we figure this out, are huge: it becomes much easier to differentiate and customize instruction; learning doesn't stop when a single teacher is absent; students can skip objectives they already know; kids don't fall behind when they're absent; students can proceed through material as quickly or as slowly as is appropriate; and so on.

So every year, at least 800,000 teachers in the U.S. are chronically absent, meaning they miss about 9 million days of school between them, resulting in roughly 1 billion instances in which a kid comes to class to find that his or her time is, more often than not, being wasted (or if you prefer, about a billion hours of wasted class time, since students in the early grades don't have «periods»).

Based upon teacher referral and review of attendance records, Boze and her staff identify students with chronic attendance concerns, including excessive tardies, 12 or more days absent in a year, and multiple absences in a month (not related to legitimate illness).

The Flip started when these teachers began supplying absent students with an online lecture they could watch from home or from wherever they had access to a computer and the Internet, including school or the local library.

However, students often are passive, or even absent, during traditional parent - teacher conferences.

But the newly formed E4E forced its way into the conversation and sought a middle ground, proposing an alternative that took into account such things as how often teachers had been absent, whether they were actually in front of students or in nonteaching «reserve» roles and also factoring in performance ratings.

Since the voices of students and teachers are mostly absent from the literature, Esteem was imagined as an active site of inquiry, collaboration, and expression, that had the potential to help graduate students rethink their own conceptions of self, while making connections and sharing the knowledge of those who have inspired them to be educators, researchers, scholars, or activists.

Teachers or administrators can guide parents of chronically absent students in developing and carrying out this attendance improvement plan.

Having a chronically absent student, or having a student who previously has been, can present serious difficulties to teacher trying to educate students, particularly with mathematics.

There are some techniques that teachers can use, however, to discourage absenteeism or deal with frequently absent students.

A June 2014 report released by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.Teacher Quality (NCTQ) claimed that, «When teachers are absent 10 days, the decrease in student achievement is equivalent to the difference between having a brand new teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.teacher and one with two or three years more experience... Worse yet, a number of studies have found there to be a disproportionately high rate of teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.teacher absenteeism in schools serving low income and minority students, providing yet another obstacle to closing the achievement gap.»

The students never have homework or if they do it's only one page; then the teacher is absent the next day.