Sentences with phrase «actual need for teachers»

«It is welcome particularly in areas like primary where we think the allocations understate the actual need for teachers but in all my years I've not known this to happen before,» he told Schools Week.

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We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

Rules like the so - called comparability loophole — which allows districts to use average instead of actual teacher salaries for budget calculations — mean federal dollars are not getting to the schools and students who need them the most.

In summary, the nature of its content and the design of the SWAP interface address the need for teacher candidates to explore, in a variety of ways, actual student writing and professional teacher interviews from different grade levels and linguistic backgrounds.

To improve the culture of teaching, McVickers believes, it's critical for everyone to be honest about actual needs, to measure and plan based on what's best for students, and to make it possible for teachers to lead planning with administrators acting mainly as facilitators.

We provide the actual content teachers need for their lessons, rather than just a framework or outcomes.

Although Herbst et al. (2013) found that animations have the same impact on preservice teachers» ability to reason about content and pedagogy as do video clips, more research is needed on how animations can be used in mathematics methods courses as an alternative to videos of actual classrooms, how different animation software provide different affordances or constraints for PSTs» reasoning, and how these animations impact PSTs» abilities to reason about students» approaches.

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS • Successfully adapted already administered curriculum to adapt to the individual needs of students, 4 years in a row • Conducted rigorous training sessions to help other teachers translate lesson plans into actual learning experiences for students • Established standards of behavior for students which helped achieve a functional learning atmosphere in class • Implemented a program dubbed Students First, which proved influential in assisting students solve health, attitude and learning problems