Sentences with phrase «appears as a school teacher»

David Arquette also appears as a school teacher who, in a prologue and epilogue, tries to avoid having to tell his students where babies come from.

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Retired Broward teacher Joe Carrier taught a woodworking class at Cross Creek while Cruz attended the school, and remembers Cruz as «a quiet kid» who kept to himself and appeared to be «mildly autistic.»

Though this ringing silence on the subject would have been typically Lutheran — as Luther saw it, the works of humankind appear attractive and good, but they are likely to be mortal sins — I suspect that my Sunday school teachers weren't holding back out of any Reformation - based fear of «works righteousness.»

The movie depicts a young and creative teacher battling what appears to be the unthinking authoritarianism of the school as well as his students» (at first) uncomprehending resistance to his teaching method.

Hannah Fidell first caught our attention with her unnerving second feature, «A Teacher,» which cast her frequent star Lindsay Burdge (who also appears in «The Long Dumb Road») as a high school teacher driven mad by her affair with a male sTeacher,» which cast her frequent star Lindsay Burdge (who also appears in «The Long Dumb Road») as a high school teacher driven mad by her affair with a male steacher driven mad by her affair with a male student.

But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign schools to allow students to achieve what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.

Deals on school construction, after - school programs, and hiring new teachers appeared to be in jeopardy, as the Senate approved a temporary spending measure to keep education programs funded at current levels until Nov. 14.

Overall, we find that high - poverty schools appear to improve as a result of teacher turnover, though as in all schools, not all turnover is the same.

In fact, having emotionally close relationships with child - care providers as a toddler has been linked with more positive social behavior and more complex play later as a preschooler.3 Kindergartners with close teacher relationships have been shown to be more engaged in classroom activities, have better attitudes about school, and demonstrate better academic performance.4 Thus, teacher - child relationships appear to be an important part of children's social and academic success in school.

As importantly, it appears that existing survey - based measures of non-cognitive skills, although perhaps useful for making comparisons among students within the same educational environment, are inadequate to gauge the effectiveness of schools, teachers, or interventions in cultivating the development of those skills.

First, using years of school as a measure of quality, it appears that the education level of teachers has declined relative to the schooling of other workers, no matter how skilled.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

The initial motivation for young white teachers entering urban schools appears to be the same as the people I interviewed, that is, they are concerned about racism as a moral issue and they want to make a difference.

Rather, the American Federation of Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher Teachers, or AFT, recognized these districts as having a lengthy track record of innovation, and because they appear to have institutionalized a long - term collaborative partner - ship between administration and the local teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher teachers» union centered around school improvement, student achievement, and teacher quality.

Just for starters, it would appear that the waiver «winners» just promised to adopt narrow, prescriptive teacher evaluation and school improvement policies that apply to charter schools as well as district schools — but not even charter authorities are entirely clear on how this will play out in reality or if these commitments should be taken any more seriously than so many empty promises in the Race to the Top applications.

Looking back at it 5 years later as it is appears as a «seminal article» in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, I find myself reflecting about what has changed and what has remained the same with regard to technology in K - 12 schools and the challenges faced by teachers in realizing the full potential of technology in K - 12 classrooms.

Childhood was viewed as a positive time for the arts for most of the beginning teachers; however, the teenage years appeared negative for the majority of respondents because of teacher criticism, negative school culture towards the arts, and competing subjects.

As our state considers issues of school finance equity, teacher certification and teacher retention, our leaders can avoid unforeseen unequal outcomes from policies that may appear to have no effect based on race or ethnicity.

Charter schools appear to offer the choice and competition — which we have idealized — we believe can raise the quality of education, but increasing funding of charter schools proves to be as flawed as teacher merit pay.

If fewer than 16 tests are available to apply to a teacher's score, however, which appears quite likely in many cases this year, districts will have to produce an alternative rating method, such as using the scores of other students in the school.

The quote you attribute to the California Federation of Teachers president did not appear, as the editorial implies, during the effort by the school board to stop the petition but nearly a year earlier, before the bill became law.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said teachers are often scapegoated to explain low - student achievement when policymakers refuse to properly fund K - 12 education — and she doesn't appear to see unions as the driving force behind keeping less - than - stellar teachers at low - performing schools.

The accounts for K - 12 schools first appeared in 2011 in other states and are popular among conservatives and opposed by Democrats and teachers unions as a new version of a taxpayer - funded school voucher.

The questionnaires appear in separately timed blocks of questions in the assessment booklets, such as the student questionnaires, or, as in the case of questionnaires for the teachers, schools, and students with disabilities or who are classified as English language learners, they are printed separately.

First, as an evidence - based school leader, De Luca et al's research helps you «walk the talk» in as far as it provides some evidence of the factors that appear to promote or inhibit collaborative inquiry along with evidence of the positive outcomes for both teachers and students of collaborative inquiry.

This post originally appeared on Success At The Core blog, an organization that focuses on strengthening leadership teams» ability to define quality instruction and advocate for it in their schools, as well as offering teachers practical methods to implement a shared vision of quality instruction in their classrooms.

I have seriously considered removing myself and my children from NY state in recent months as a result of these poorly designed policies that appear clearly intended to shift much needed money from the schools and teacher and into the coffers of industry.

Bangladesh has a program which covers 80 percent of teacher salaries in private schools.15 Vouchers or various other financial support structures from the government appear to be widely available in and embraced by developing countries as a means of increasing enrollment at the bottom end of their socioeconomic ladders.

We did not have the option of evaluating what teachers actually do, as the geniuses in Albany and DC, many of whom send their children to private schools where this nonsense does not apply, appear to have determined that teachers teach tests rather than students.

«As incumbent members of the local school board, and survivors of four years of attacks by the national charter school and voucher movement, we are skeptical of organizations that appear to promote vouchers or unabated charter school growth at the expense of students, parents, teachers, and taxpayers,» the letter stated.

While further research is necessary to determine the extent to which one can claim this marketing as «saving» the school, AACA does appear to have worked to maintain attractive through various measures, including improving their pupil - teacher ratios from the 2009 - 10 school year to 2011 - 12.

The question here, really, and that I wish defendants would have posed, was whether the students in these schools caused such teachers to appear less effective when in fact they might have been as equally effective as «similar» teachers teaching more advantaged kids across town.

Perhaps she could have continued her schooling as her teacher tried to encourage, but it appeared that there really wasn't a choice because of the culture and their feelings about a girl who had been «spoiled».

Two weeks ago, we published the first lesson in curve manipulation taught by German school teacher and would - be scientist E.G. Beck: How to make it appear as if the Medieval times were warmer than today, even if all scientific studies come to the opposite conclusion.

President Donald Trump appeared Saturday to begin refining his proposals for combating school violence, tweeting that arming teachers as a deterrent against such often deadly violence — an idea he championed in recent days — is «Up to States.»

As an elementary school teacher, if you are looking for a job in another school, this template aids you by providing a general layout of how the resume should appear.

Children who experience higher quality early child care characterized by better relationships with their care providers have subsequently better relationships with their teachers in school.30 Positive teacher - child relationships appear to persist over time, as shown by links found between the quality and style of early relationships with child care providers, subsequent relationships with care providers and preschool teachers, and relationships with kindergarten teachers.

Alongside parents» cognitive support, global measures of the affective quality (e.g., warmth, positivity, responsiveness) of parent - child interactions appear positively related to: (i) preschool children's early academic skills (as measured by tests of language ability and parent - rated school - readiness)(Leerkes et al., 2011); (ii) literacy, mathematics and teacher - rated academic competence in middle childhood (e.g., NICHD Early Child Care Research Network, 2008); and (iii) academic achievement in adolescence (Jimerson et al., 2000).