Sentences with phrase «against the teaching profession»

His latest commentary piece, «The greatest «crime» committed against the teaching profession» was featured on Valerie Strauss» Washington Post's education blog this week.

Not exact matches

The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate issues of life but also with the ultimate concerns of faith through which the particulars of life gain their deeper significance.

Against these latter people, he confessed he had been more violent than his religion or his profession demanded — but then he did not set himself up as a saint, nor was he disputing about his life but about the teaching of Christ.

It is against this background of endless change that the workload issue has become a central pre-occupying concern within the teaching profession.

Efforts to create rigorous standards for teachers, to evaluate them against such standards, and to offer differential or «merit pay» fly against the egalitarian ethos of the teaching profession.

The need to incentivize the teaching profession is the most popular argument against teacher's unions, since unions supposedly protect bad teachers.

For the past 25 years, the National Board has advanced the teaching profession by establishing and maintaining the definitive standards of accomplished teaching and certifying more than 100,000 teachers across the country against those rigorous standards.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

«Government needs to work with the teaching profession, not against them, if we are to give every child the best possible start in life.»

Mr Twigg also hit out at the government, saying it has «pitched itself against» the teaching profession, «against the very people it needs onside to deliver the sort of change that our education system needs».

I mentioned some of what I'd like to see happen in question 1, but we must recognize that teacher burnout, violence against teachers and the increasing risk to a teacher's reputation as a result of a possible DCF referral or social media attack by a student or parent also plays a role in whether someone will enter and stay in the teaching profession.

Tellingly, it does not appear that the BC College of Teachers has had much success (if any) in dismissing graduates from TWU from the teaching profession on the grounds that they actually discriminated against gay or lesbian students, which suggest that, in fact, TWU graduates are not generally homophobes.

I have a tough constitution, and my profession taught me how to compete against long odds and big obstacles.»