Sentences with phrase «actually know their students»

The activity pushes staff to look beyond their lessons to reflect on how well they actually know their students, driving them to build real connections that can make a difference in a child's future.

The activity pushes staff to look beyond their lessons to reflect on how well they actually know their students, driving them to build real connections that can make a difference in a child's future.

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And when I say procto - parents, I mean parents who are totally into minding their kids» and everyone else's business, but don't know the first thing about effective education, or how to build the kind of self - sufficient, self - starting students that we actually do need to compete in the global marketplace.

An alarming number of students are Facebook friends with people whom they don't actually know.

It's funny — as people's technical skills get more specialized, the world is actually demanding individuals that can see across silos, and so I think our students actually know what they're doing when they're trying to get a broader education.

GREENBLATT: Well you know I taught at Columbia as I mentioned for the last 22 years and so I tell my students that first day of class actually, I tell them that you know I don't think there's a lot of social value in being an investment manager, it's not that I don't think investors who do work set help set prices and allocate capital and all those things, but I just think A, they're not very good at it, and B, it'll get done without you.

Your average college student surely knows that the real trick is to use Wikipedia to find the sources that are actually allowed by college professors: they are helpfully linked at the bottom of every article.

Any high school teacher and most college professors know that what goes into our students» ears and what they actually hear are not quite the same words.

I'm a first year seminary student and I have come to realize that there is a extrodinary gap between knowing and actually doing.

Yet the present population of the country, especially the student population, actually knows less and less about the Bible.

I'm a student and eating healthy in a college campus is TOUGH, so I would be so excited to use it for morning smoothies before class that I actually know the ingredients of and not the bottled ones they sell in the dining hall!

Students who know nothing of football are responding in a bit of disbelief when I share some of the recent club decisions (or lack of decisions if you prefer), one fellow actually said «no way, you're making this up, right?».

I actually do not know what my district did about nonpaying students.

Do we know how many schools are implementing these programs and how much produce they're actually getting on students» plates?

These studies didn't double - check whether kids actually ate the healthy foods they picked, but we know from other research that when students are exposed to nutritious options, they do eat them — and like them.

The bottom line facts you need to know: under the new school food law passed last year, school districts must bring the price for a paid lunch (that is, a lunch purchased by a student who does not qualify for free or reduced price meals) into line with what the meal actually costs, eventually charging an average of $ 2.46 per lunch.

Holmer said it's unclear if any students actually drank the concoction, but it was «given to some other students who claimed to not know what they were given.»

Since very few students actually know their member directly, interns get to write the glowing recommendation.

Touring Newcastle, Nick Clegg - who, as we now know, was a keen childhood actor - told students he was: «the only one of the three leaders who actually comes from one of our great cities in the North.»

I think that PhD students need to know that leaving a PhD half done is ok, it's not the end of the world, (and it could actually be the beginning of good things).

However, the one student I knew who actually followed that path was considered an outcast for working for the «enemy.»

On most courses, each group also has a «mentor» (previously known as a «young manager,» for those whose Gradschool experience — like mine — dates back to the early»90s...), who is there to participate in all the activities just like the students but who is supposed to offer the benefit of their accumulated wisdom having actually been in the workforce for a while.

In this regard, Associate Professor and supervisor Jesper Abildgaard Larsen encourages the students to work methodically and only change one thing at a time so they know what works — and so they don't change anything that is actually working.

«We can't stop students from using weapons if we don't know about the weapons that are actually out there.»

«But for the kinds of questions that measure conceptual understanding, even if the teacher knew the scientific explanation, that wasn't enough to guarantee that their students would actually learn the science.»

«What I had noticed, even before we did this study, was that the most amazing science teachers actually know what their students» wrong ideas are.

«And because we could actually work with them on their research project, we could get really hands - on with some of the students and really get to know some of them really well, and at the same time get some intellectual property back.»

The result is a little like knowing the number of students and distribution of grades in a particular school, but having no idea if the student who sits in the third row actually likes math.

The students were probably exerting a type of defense mechanism that's known, in science - speak, as «devaluing temptation» — or, in other words, thinking that something isn't nearly as appealing as it might actually be.

We now know that the spaces in - between postures are actually the magic key to giving your students 2 - 3 times the results, safety and power!

Kaith (Texas), added to this vision, writing, «In my own opinion students wouldn't find the need to cheat if they knew that they had the right undivided attention towards them from their teachers and actually showed them that they care about their learning.

«The approach I use allows me to investigate what factors actually lead to the discovery and use of more efficient strategies, including retrieval - based strategies — by that I mean direct retrieval, just knowing the answer and stating it — or using decomposition strategies, where students partition numbers to make use of the facts that they do know,» Hopkins says.

The consortium, known as AIR / MAP, made the extraordinary claim in its November 2002 proposal that its study would answer the question, «What does it actually cost to provide the resources that each school needs to allow its students to meet the achievement levels specified in the Regents Learning Standards?»

However, it's one thing for a teacher to know this and quite another to actually create a space where students feel safe and comfortable.

However, most of the videos they are watching are about things like «funny cats» and not many students actually know HOW to watch educational tutorial videos.

Schools need to know that they're going to get this funding for five years so they can actually put some really good programs in place, and know they're going to be able to sustain it to see students through their years of schooling.

My students know that in some areas I actually do have all the answers.

The notion of the teacher as a researcher who strives to learn as much as possible about what their students know and how they make meaning is a very demanding notion to actually implement.

This alleviates students» false belief that they know information when they've actually just guessed correctly.

They believe that the Common Core will limit the flexibility that teachers have to teach what they think is best (though the Common Core actually establishes guidelines for what students should know and be able to do while allowing educators to use their professional expertise to teach in the ways they think will help students meet those guidelines).

We do think we know about our learners and we make a lot of assumptions and during the last five years that I've been doing action research, if you actually stop and really investigate what students are saying, thinking, feeling, their knowledge, then your action research is going to have such a big impact.

And I'm worried that I won't actually know how well my students are doing.»

But Ginsburg says those gains are actually no greater than the ones students had been making in prior years, when superintendents Paul Vance and Clifford Janey were in charge.

A big challenge with blended learning is knowing how many students are actually experiencing it.

I no longer had the fiddlers, or the eraser throwers (I actually did not allow cap erasers after the throwing incidents), or students writing on their desks in their «spare time.»

Readers of this study simply have no way of knowing whether the researchers» 13 measures of teacher expertise actually correlate with improved student achievement.

The lack of information on numbers experiencing blended learning has created challenges at multiple levels — from understanding if the phenomenon is actually scaling to contextualizing if bumps on the road, like the recent demise of Amplify, are mere blips or catastrophic events, and from understanding where policymakers and philanthropists can make the most impact to knowing whether the blended learning that is occurring is a good or bad thing for students.

If the students forget or do not know how to create Vlookups or If statements then I direct them my Youtube channel which actually has a tutorials on how to do both of them.

The scenarios are based on the historical Pilate and some of the decisions he had to make, so if you know the background you can explain what Pilate actually did and student can discuss whether he was a good or bad ruler.

** Yes, I know, NCLB doesn't actually require 100 percent of kids to get to proficiency, once you consider the excepts for some special ed students and once you bake in the safe harbor provision.