Sentences with phrase «as teachers of teachers»

«We assembled an advisory committee of active teachers, as well as the teachers of those teachers going into primary schools, to ensure we were absolutely meeting the needs of as many classes in Australia as possible.»

It guides my preparation as a teacher of teachers, as I am tasked to exhibit the fundamentals while exploring them with my class.

Not exact matches

This April, I partnered with the Council for Economic Education (which educates thousands of teachers annually, providing financial and economic curriculums for K through 12 students) to ask 28 entrepreneurs, editors and economists for their top tip for saving money as part of a social media campaign titled #MySavingsTip.

As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent - teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns of a bunch of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out - of - control idiots.

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

As a teacher of leadership and entrepreneurship, I'm interested in what we can learn from others» success to create success for ourselves.

Shareholders led by the Arkansas Teacher Retirement System and Fresno County Employees» Retirement Association in California accused Facebook of concealing internal concerns about how growth in mobile devices might reduce revenue, even as it quietly warned its banks to cut their forecasts.

Jurors were also shown photos of a young Tsarnaev smiling as he learned how to dance, did classroom chores and cradled a teacher's newborn.

In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

In the wake of the mass shooting last week at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, we have heard a familiar refrain from those steadfastly opposing any kind of gun reform: To stop armed students, put armed guards — or teachers «adept at firearms,» as President Trump proposed — in schools.

Burnout was first identified in the 1970s in studies of overworked, overstressed «helping professions,» such as health workers and teachers, who found all their efforts never slowed the flow of pain and despair.

SCHILDKROUT: I spent the first part of my career in education, mostly as a high school teacher at a charter school in the Boston area.

When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

When I was caught, I was often scolded for doodling by my teachers, which was thought of as a sign that I was not paying attention.

This role — part strategist, creative director, technologist and teacher — is now recognized at the highest levels of management as it's squarely at the intersection between traditional marketing and the growing number of software tools used to make sense of companies» vast amounts of data.

Students, parents and teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.

An advocate for a local teachers union also expressed concern to the New York Times Magazine about the quality of the education, arguing Bridge focuses less on getting poor students to the baseline as enticing public school students to switch to Bridge schools.

But some of the principles behind the Teachers team's approach could be just as valuable to someone managing a college - savings kitty or a 401 (k).

The title of «owner» beats out in popularity classic gigs like teacher, assistant, and sales rep — and its prevalence on Facebook shows exactly how strongly this generation self - identifies as entrepreneurial.

The two men — an American identified as Kevin King and an Australian man identified as Timothy Weekes — were abducted outside the American University of Afghanistan in Kabul, where they work as teachers.

While Noah projects the righteous ardor of a campus activist, British - born Oliver comes across as an exasperated high school teacher.

Many of our teachers describe this as moment «when the lights go on» behind a student's eyes.

When Grom launched, teachers were just beginning to build out lesson plans that included social media as part of the regular curriculum.

For example, 71 percent of businesses with 11 to 100 employees allow them to take time off from work for children's school activities, such as parent - teacher conferences.

«A Pew Research poll showed that viewers of humorous news shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report exhibited higher retention of news facts than those who got their news from newspapers, CNN, Fox News, or network stations,» points out teacher Sarah Henderson in Edutopia.

Granted, downloading a set of textbooks and teacher guides isn't the same as taking classes; then again, for many people self - paced learning is the best kind of learning.

Her reputation as a conciliator was part of her appeal during the 2013 leadership contest, a skill she's used to make peace with public school teachers angry over wage - freeze legislation and appointing herself agriculture minister to mend fences with communities upset over decisions to cancel the slots - at - racetracks program and the installation of industrial wind turbines.

Ask all the questions you want, give them all the tests you can think of, call their parents and kindergarten teachers as references, you still won't know exactly what you're getting until they have been with you for several weeks or months.

The decision comes after head teachers across England had suggested that they could go on strike as a result of forced academisation.

«Education used to be thought of as a teacher sort of opening up a kid's brain and pouring in the knowledge,» Dr Meghan Groome, Executive Director of Education and Public Programs at the New York Academy of Sciences, said.

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

«Take, for instance, the undervaluation of female - dominated jobs like school teachers, who affect the long - term productivity of children as they grow up and become workers themselves,» Bahn tells Fortune.

Yu Chen, a former science and humanities teacher, dreams of bringing home the Golden Briefcase for UCLA as part of the Challenge For Charity.

«As technology continues to change education in remarkable ways, and hundreds of entrepreneurs, teachers, and investors put their minds to harnessing its promise, it's still worth reading Sal Khan's description of his serendipitous entry, unpretentious philosophy, and profound impact on the world of education.

The growing supply of potential teachers — as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — meant Teach Away could pursue more placement opportunities abroad.

The education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts, earning as much as US$ 70,000 - a-year tax free; the successful applicants didn't need to speak Arabic, but they had to be comfortable in an unfamiliar culture.

The no - holds - barred piece draws on recent research published in Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as older reviews of the scientific literature on so - called digital natives, to review whether the recent mania for tech in education has solid scientific foundations.

The right - to - work drive in Michigan is the latest of a series of setbacks for labor unions in the United States, beginning in 2011, when Wisconsin's Walker pushed through the legislature limits on public sector unions such as teachers.

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But managers who think the point of electronic tracking is to police their employees are being as shortsighted as teachers who think the point of the Internet is to make it easier to catch students who plagiarize.

As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

May 2 (Reuters)- He thinks of himself as a teacher, and to many he is an icon.

Hall of Fame baseball player Cal Ripken Jr., is in the Twin Cities, and speaks about honoring teachers from around the U.S., as well as his best advice for saving money.

I know of one former Canadian social worker who went to Japan as an English teacher and went on to become a highly paid executive recruiter in Tokyo.

The education measures have been promised by the Liberals as part of the benefits of restraints on wage and benefits for 9,600 unionized teachers.

There are plenty of people out there who have pretty positive self - assessments: Ninety percent of drivers think they have above average skills behind the wheel, an even higher percentage of college professors think they're better than average teachers, and, as we all know, every single child in Lake Wobegon is above average.

With the great success enjoyed by SQC in Japan, and through his own abilities as a teacher and promoter of quality control and related management approaches, Deming became the iconic figure in the field, the «father of quality control.»

Years ago, as a new classroom volunteer, I watched in awe as my child's kindergarten teacher, Mrs. Endicott, kept a class of 26 5 - year - olds in order.

The Art of Charm might be described as a self - improvement podcast, where «curious, hungry, self - motivated people come to learn from an unparalleled mix of teachers, thinkers and mentors.»

The Academy is in the midst of a growth spurt offline as well, with an excess of 1 million registered teachers around the globe incorporating the supplemental teaching tool into their classrooms.