Sentences with phrase «asked by my student teachers»

I am often asked by my student teachers: How do you become a great teacher?

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The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The editorials, assigned by UNC English teacher Moira Marquis, asked students to research a contemporary social issue for young adults and share their findings.

The teacher engages in dialogue with the students by asking prompting questions and encouraging students to ask questions.

Teachers have created classroom projects by asking their students to write to men and women serving their country in distant lands.

When your child starts to write complete sentences, the teacher might have her do «fill in the blank» exercises, such as completing the phrase «I feel happy when...» Some teachers encourage writing skills by asking students to keep a journal or to write down new words they've learned in class or at home.

The letter, written by a top Cuomo aide, says the student test scores are «unacceptable,» and asks Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch and outgoing Education Commissioner John King what to do about an evaluation system that rates just 1 percent of all of the teachers in the state as poorly performing.

State Senator Ken LaValle (R - Port Jefferson) has asked local superintendents to meet with their school's community members — including parents, students, teachers, and PTAs — to organize their comments and questions relating to Common Core, teacher evaluations, standardized testing and student privacy, and submit them to his office by last Thursday.

It can help teachers to decide which demonstration to do in class, and to start the lesson by asking students to predict what's going to happen.

In one study, after reading about each infraction, the teachers were asked about their perception of its severity, about how irritated they would feel by the student's misbehavior, about how severely the student should be punished, and about whether they viewed the student as a troublemaker.

According to Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at Thomas More, Dawn and Julie's method of presenting the material and asking the students to pick a theory and debate it, based on the evidence, is a method of teaching that's supported by the judicial concept of academic freedom: that teachers and students have the right to pursue knowledge, wherever it may lead.

We are asking our students and teachers to join the challenge by creating a team under yoga moves MS and than send this request to friends and family.

While there, Brown is asked to fill in as detention monitor after the teacher in that position is scared off by her troubled inner city students.

When she receives a call one day from John Pressman (Rudd), a teacher at the alternative academy New Quest, asking her to visit the campus to meet a promising student named Jeremiah (Nat Wolff), she's completely blindsided by John's suggestion that the gifted teen is the child she gave up for adoption nearly 20 years earlier.

Just by asking these kinds of questions teachers can create a classroom culture where student voice is valued, where students feel their needs will be attended to, and where students begin to trust their teacher.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

When asked to give an example, students shared that their input was often sought out by teachers regarding course content and how they would be assessed.

A teacher can build trust with students by asking them to anonymously «evaluate» his / her teaching and use the results to reflect on his / her practice.

Teachers, like hypnotists, can string along a series of requests by asking students to do something most are already doing, then waiting for 100 - percent compliance, and finally issuing another directive, etc..

Imagine an interactive class, where students read lecture material sent by chatbots to their favorite IM app and ask for live chat support from their teacher when they stumble upon a problem they can't solve.

Students analyze whether their thoughts about the problem are permanent («I stink at math and will never get good at it») or temporary («I was distracted by my friends»), and whether they blame themselves («I didn't ask for help when I was confused by my math assignment») or others («the teacher doesn't like me») for the problem.

This guide, published by UK organisation MESH, poses several pedagogical questions teachers could ask to develop their students» visual literacy skills.

In the research by the pair, teachers were given a dozen hypothetical multiple - choice questions where they were asked for help by students, teachers, and administrators.

You also should ask 5 - 7 additional teachers to help you with this project by allowing a small group of students into their classrooms for a look - around and being available for a five question survey.

But a newer option is also generating a lot of the funding: Crowdfunding via online platforms allows teachers to raise money by asking their friends and families — and sometimes their students» families — to donate.

The students were attentive, but it seemed a bit like a substitute showing a video on the teacher's day off — that is until the onscreen lecturer called on a student by name and asked for the answer to a multiple choice question.

Further, the particular forms that are viewed as socially desirable vary from culture to culture and setting to setting and thus have to be learned by students (e.g., interrupting teachers to ask questions or to express opinions is standard practice in American classrooms whereas Japanese students are expected to be very quiet during class).

Before meeting with others in their grade, teachers are expected to examine their students» results and fill out a benchmark analysis form, provided by Edison, which asks what standards are not yet mastered, which students are not proficient in those areas, and what teachers plan to do about it.

When asked by administrators, teachers, or parents, I would confidently proclaim that I was indeed differentiating content, process, and products for all my students, and doing it well.

One way the program enables the latter is by asking students to «applaud an educator» by making their gift in honor of a favorite former teacher or professor.

An alternate form of this activity would involve asking pairs or small groups of students to put in order a shuffled set of teacher - created 3 - inch by 5 - inch index cards (or slips of paper), on each of which is written a step or stage in the star death process.

«Some students are very intimidated by the whole notion of giving a teacher feedback, so I often ask a leading question in the comments section to get the ball rolling.

Commentary on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-..By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff The new study by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-..by Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff asks whether high - value - added teachers (i.e., teachers who raise student test scores) also have positive longer - term impacts on students, as reflected in college attendance, earnings, -LSB-...]

It is also crucial for students to deepen their knowledge by generating their own questions and for teachers to pay close attention to the questions that students ask.

By marked contrast, Common Core asks teachers to think carefully about what children read and choose grade - level texts that use sophisticated language or make significant knowledge demands of the reader (teachers should also be prepared, of course, to offer students support as they grapple with challenging books).

The teacher can facilitate a follow - up discussion by asking students to share more about their «truths» either by speaking or in writing.

In a set of instructions Parlin wrote for teachers, he encourages teachers to «ask the harasser to explain what he or she meant by the comment, forcing the student to recognize the hurtful nature of his or her behavior.»

Teachers can define for themselves «what counts» as effective instruction by asking: «What evidence do I have that my students are learning?

We compared a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student reading or math achievement, one of the specific items principals were asked about, with that teacher's actual ability to do so as measured by their value added, the difference in student achievement that we can attribute to the teacher.

Many teachers who utilize flipped learning check that students have interacted with the required video material by asking individual students a series of questions about the content.

Two weeks before the conference, students prepare written invitations accompanied by more information from teachers regarding the content and process for the conference; such as, allow your child ten minutes of uninterrupted time to present his or her portfolio and then take five minutes to ask your child questions.

Here, a teacher's role is to facilitate peer - to - peer feedback by providing students with guiding questions to ask and elements to look for in each other's work.

Just before each unit we [other teachers in her grade level] sit down and we talk about what, what are the objectives, what do the students have to learn, what activities can we do to ensure... success of all that... we were doing a graphing activity and the students graphed and we [other teachers in her grade level] were discussing the graph out in the hallway and um, she happened to walk by and she just kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understanding.

Shannon Darcey, a middle - school English language development teacher at Urban Promise Academy in Oakland, California, tackles this at the beginning of the year by asking her students to create a video tour of their school, narrated in English.

Teachers are also urged to emphasise the language of fractions by asking students to write in words expressions such as: 1/2 x 1/2 (one half of a half; a quarter), and 1/3 — 1/6 (the difference between one third and one sixth; one sixth).

Students are asked what fractions are formed by folding a square in certain ways, they can investigate this in various ways as suggested in the teachers notes.

While asking the child to take the perspective of another who would be hurt by a harmful act, a teacher could draw the student's attention to the great moral traditions that have proclaimed the importance of doing so, connecting the student's personal sentiments with the earlier wisdom of civilizations.

The teacher asks a question that needs to be answered with the tiles, or says a sentence in English and the student translates it by forming the Spanish words in the correct order.

At the recent launch event for the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, David Coleman, now known as the «architect» of the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards, was asked by a member of the audience why a teacher, who cited the Common Core standards emphasis on «informational texts,» would claim that she was told to «put away her literature books and photocopy microwave instructions» for her eighth - grade students.

The promise and potential of standards - and accountability - driven reform is that, by setting clear and rigorous expectations for what students should know and be able to do, teachers can better prepare students for the more advanced work that they will be asked to do in later grades, in college, and beyond.