Sentences with phrase «are these teachers trying»

«Amidst the feeding frenzy of leaked reports, numerous investigations, politicians taking chunks out of each other and months of rumour and speculation, what has been forgotten is that in the middle of all this are teachers trying their best to support children and young people, many of whom are taking critical exams.

Much more commonly observed, however, is the teacher trying heroically — yet unsuccessfully — to fully engage each of his 30 students in the lesson he stayed up half the night planning.

If you're a teacher trying to create order out of the deluge of training possibilities, it's important for you to know what delivery method works best for you.

Are you a teacher trying to understand how the Student Perception Survey aligns to the Danielson Framework for Teaching?

Not exact matches

The British response to the Dunblane massacre was clearly driven in part by emotions — the murder of 15 children, only 5 or 6 years old, and their teacher, who apparently tried to shield them, is clearly emotive.

As Schulich puts it: «Having been at university and seeing that half my professors are involved in research and had no interest in teaching and were therefore lousy teachers, we try to incentivize teaching.

It wasn't until my high school math teacher suggested I give engineering a try that I even considered it as a potential career.

Beigel, a geography teacher, was killed as he tried to usher students back into his classroom when the shooting broke out.

The impetus behind the company can be traced to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck's co-founders — all former classroom teachers — encountered while trying to keep their students engaged.

Although I'm usually quick to head out and avoid the people traffic (typical Type - A personality), I try to thank the teacher after every class because I am truly thankful to them for guiding me through such a great workout, and it boosts my self - esteem tremendously.

Robinson said if governments tried to strengthen education qualifications for teachers, the proposed WTO restrictions on regulation could mean these governments would be challenged for creating a restriction on trade in education services.

Within a couple of months of trying my first class, I was on my way to teacher training in Denver and have been teaching ever since.

«If you had a teacher who was adept with the firearm, they could end the attack very quickly,» he said, stating that schools could arm up to 20 % of their teachers to stop «maniacs» who may try and attack them.

Democrats tried and failed to pass amendments to the Florida Senate's school safety bill, including a provision to allow teachers to carry guns in schools if they receive training and are deputized by a sheriff's office.

Paul Critelli, one of the program's teachers, told me that many parents feel overwhelmed trying to get two or three kids ready for school each morning, and that their instinct is often to «sacrifice the anxious kid» in order to avoid morning hysterics and keep the family train running on time.

I feel like he is trying to frame the issue to make himself appear that he is on the side of the teachers, when in reality, many support this bill because it supports the mental health of some of our most vulnerable students.

In B.C. schools, they have broken the law, cut resources and were caught trying to provoke a teachers» strike.

S.Lewis» «I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: «I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept his claim to be God.»

Indeed, the fundamental object of study is not the music on the page or the teacher's prowess but our imperfect fingers trying to play that music and to own it for ourselves.

Cheese I once had a teacher that would shoot down the class clowns with the line «If you are trying to be a smart ass, it would work better if you were actually smart.»

We thought it was just a game, but our teacher was trying to show us how to explore the world, how to ask the right questions, put together clues, hold back wild guesses and be patient, waiting for the right conclusion to emerge.

If you feel I've mischaracterized the guidance, I'd be interested in how you think divine guidance can influence decisions without interfering with free will (try something other than the teacher analogy).

Did you know that many of the New Testament letters are actually dialogues between the author and a teacher he is trying to refute?

He may also be faced with incomprehension and hostility when he tries to persuade the school not to support «Red Nose Day» or «Jeans for Genes»; when he suggests that asking pupils to stand at the front of the class and shout out the names of intimate body parts is an invasion of their modesty; when he objects to the non-Catholic geography teacher's presentation of solutions for over-population, the «gay rights» agenda seeping in through text books, the chaplaincyco - ordinator's failure to get abortion agency leaflets removed from the library, or the school nurse's distribution of cards with information on how to get the morning - after pill.

Or if some one of the authorized teachers of that city sought him out secretly, in order to try his strength with him in argument — is he the learner?

If I am a teacher instructing children about how to read, and every child in the room has learned to read but one, should I just say «tough toenails, kid» or should I try different ways of instructing the child (that doesn't include punishing or killing them) so that the child understands?

If this teacher is fired, I will invite him or her to Boston University, where I now teach, to explain what he or she was trying to accomplish in challenging students with this assignment.

I studied harder and harder and sought out teachers and ministers trying to find a way around what I found to be the pin I would eventually pull to free myself of the self hatred.

We see caring and capable teachers focusing their efforts on the students who are trying to succeed, apparently unable to keep Tracy from following her self - destructive path.

John Scopes, a high school science teacher, was tried for violating a Tennessee law that prohibited the teaching of evolution.

So often, what students seem to learn from their theology or exegesis course is that this sort of thing is too hard to do without the teacher's help - so they give up trying to do it after graduation.

Pastors and other Bible teachers have noticed this connection, and many have gone into great hermeneutical contortions trying to explain how it would be a good think to light your enemy's head on fire.

I just try to spend as much time in God's Word as I can, whether it's reading the Bible or sitting at the feet of teachers like these two.

It's hardly rocket science, is it, that those who claim to be followers of Jesus of Nazareth should try to look a bit like the one they claim is their master, Lord, saviour, teacher and friend?

He was not the only minister and teacher to defend the newly discovered scientific study of the Scriptures, nor was he the only one to be tried for it.

Bible teachers (I consider myself one) are always trying to protect others from the difficult potions of Bible (of which there are many).

For what received more publicity than the booklets was the infamous American trial in 1925 when a school teacher, John Scopes, was tried and convicted for teaching biological evolution in a Tennessee school.

The man kneels before the teacher, a genuine act of reverence, showing that he is in earnest and not trying to trap Jesus with his question.

To the teacher of the law who tried to trap Jesus asking the question «who is my neighbour?»

Those who are teachers necessarily tell their own parables, and the penetrating realism of Jesus is a proper example of what teachers in their lesser ways are trying to do.

The ones listening have not been the «establishment», or the intellectuals but, by and large, the humble and grateful people of God — loyal priests desperately trying to hold the line in their parishes, seminarians despised by their professors, Anglican converts seeking the clear truth, devout teachers in our schools, prayerful parishioners, and members of the new movements have been enthusiastic for this teaching.

The one who is on the right Way is not the Arhat, not the Pratyeka - Buddha, who is trying to win as soon as possible for himself and by his own strength the Truth that was once discovered by the Teacher.

We are not at all prejudging anything about chronology, that is, about establishing the dates of the teachers and writings of the Mahayana schools — their roots are in the earliest times; rather we are trying to give the psychological and objective points of departure in which the speculations of the later schools were grounded and out of which they are therefore to be understood.

They came trying to figure out what kind of teacher Jesus was, and now He has plainly told them.

I am a school teacher trying to memorize luke 6:39 - 42 with my third grade students, yes so far we've enjoyed the humor in the text, but now I realize there's much more to it... and It's my prayer that the Holy Spirit will help us to digest all of it!

Jesus often refeared to the scriptures when he would say «it is written» when He was under attack from the devil and the teachers of the law, they used the scriptures as a weapon to control the people and they tried the same strategy with Jesus and when it did not work the plotted to shut Him up.

But, since I accept it as binding even on a philosophizing theologian, I hope it is at least clear, especially to my esteemed teacher, that I have in my own way tried to be faithful to it.

Loving her new back story and the glimpses of her personality — even her flirting with the new teacher, Danny Pink is so much more endearing instead of off - putting like when she used to try to flirt with Eleven.

Any RE teacher who tries to explain the Faith to teenagers knows this.

Thankfully, the teacher knew the kids were average students, so she had them try the test again — this time, testing them on sequencing a food they're culturally familiar with.