Sentences with phrase «at teacher value»

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This decision was reasonable at the time, de Man being a brilliant and charismatic teacher, but in hindsight it seems like another betrayal of Yale's values.

Responsible theological teachers did not take at their face value the pictures of heaven which were found in hymnody, nor did they regard the somewhat extraordinary set of images in Revelation as being an exact representation — indeed, these images, laden with Jewish eschatological conceptions of the nature of the Kingdom of God when there should be «a new heaven and a new earth» were sometimes felt to be slightly embarrassing.

But in a time when value confusion reinforced by growth - strangling faith systems often is at the center of the problems that bring people for help, it is essential that counselors, therapists, and teachers be competent and free to deal with these issues explicitly whenever appropriate.

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

Girls in the classroom need to recognize that their voice matters, that their voice needs to be heard not just by the teacher but by the boys in the room, and that they deserve a seat at the table, that they deserve to have value.

For example, the school's science teacher started using class time to introduce one new salad bar fruit or vegetable at a time, helping students understand the value of each item.

Teachers, students, parents, school nutrition professionals, custodians, and administrators saw the value in the program, which delivered on its promise to increase participation at breakfast.

PT: Kirabo is an economist at Northwestern who set out to investigate the idea of assessing teachers by what economists call «value added» — the value that teachers add to their students.

Moreover, as recently as January, the New York City teacher pension fund divested holdings in five publicly traded firearms manufacturers, for investments valued at $ 13.5 million.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

An outstanding scientist, he had spent almost his entire career at Stanford, where he was renowned as irreverent, creative and unpretentious and as a leader, scholar and teacher with high values and standards.

Perhaps most interestingly, over 64 % of former RET participants still teach the curriculum unit they developed at the CSNE, which given that teachers may change grade levels, class subjects and school districts, demonstrates an ongoing interest in neural engineering and the long - term value of this curricula.

Just accepting something at face value because you've heard it a few different times or even because a teacher or a professor says it is generally not the best way to acquire knowledge, so kudos to Melissa for asking that question and for getting some clarification.

Sadanand has been a teacher of the «Values in World Thought» program at Mount Madonna School for 28 years.

Bailey Sissom is a 3rd grade teacher turned stay - at - home mom and the creator of Simply Sissom, a blog for busy moms who value feeding their kids healthy meals and snacks, but struggle with finding the time to make it happen.

I have to say that as a Biology teacher I am very disconcerted at the non-educational value of non-anatomically correct dolls.

One of the values of flipped classrooms is a teacher's ability to provide differentiated instruction and encourage students to work at their own pace.

Among the fruits of those efforts was an update to the component weighting in the teacher - evaluation system, which now caps value - added at 35 percent and weights classroom observations at 40 percent.

«Teacher retention and a reward systems that values staff rather than penalising them are key to the long term and sustainable success of a good education system and more Trusts, as well the Secretary of State, should take note of the approach introduced at TSAT schools.»

But at face value, whether a student can or can not carry a machine around all day tells us little to nothing about a school's actual pedagogy, about the quality of interactions between students and teachers, or about the rigor of the software programs delivered through those devices.

In her testimony at the NCATE hearing, American Council of Trustees and Alumni president Anne D. Neal asked that the agency's reauthorization be denied «until it affirmatively makes clear that teacher preparation programs are not expected to judge the values and political beliefs of teacher candidates and asks that its members review and revise their standards accordingly.»

Institutions capture much of the value that teachers create in the classroom; the cost of education restricts access to those who need it most; and present e-learning solutions are mediocre at best.

I Posted this last year but thought with lots of new teachers at the forums ~ it might be of value.

The most effective teachers we see are using an interactive, multi-disciplinary approach that values and involves students at all phases of curriculum from choice of content and learning strategies to assessment.

Teachers couldn't teach without teaching assistants, and parents — who know only too well the value of the work they do — will be horrified at the way they are being treated.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.

The earnings increase is comparable to the impact of having a teacher at the 87th percentile, in terms of her «value added» to student achievement, versus a teacher at the value - added median (see «Great Teaching,» research, Summer 2012).

The Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff study finds that, on average, a 1 standard deviation improvement in teacher value added (equivalent to having a teacher in the 84th percentile rather than one at the median) for one year raises a student's earnings at age 28 by about 1 percent.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

In this lesson, learners will be able to understand and use place value for decimals, measures and integers of any size Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners.

Since then, teachers across the state have received extensive professional development aimed at Gateway preparation; they were also trained to use value - added data for instructional improvement.

Like all public workers, teachers should be paid at a level commensurate with the market value of their skills, which represents the compensation needed to attract and retain a given set of workers.

As writing teachers, we were also surprised at how highly students reported valuing their academic writing.

At the orientation sessions last February and May, one teacher commented, «It's incredible to link art, language arts, and social studies into big ideas that define and reflect culture values and experiences.»

than the value of an additional year of experience and that things like teachers» college selectivity, whether they had a math major, or their prior coursework in math had no effect at all.

At Stamford Park Primary School in Manchester, headteacher Cathy Downing and Year 4 class teacher Beth Matthews video their pupils discussing family values and choosing objects to represent these values.

The authors next look at what would happen if the existing seniority - driven system of layoffs were replaced by an effectiveness - based layoff policy, in which teachers are ranked according to their value - added scores and districts lay off their least effective teachers.

2) Growth Matters Most: The metric that no one has seen yet and that will be the most important to our teachers, administrators, students, and families at Democracy Prep is not «proficiency» but «value - added growth.»

The teacher is freed to add significantly more value by serving as a learning coach, mentor, and much more — including by bringing students together to have important discussions and apply their learning with other students at all levels of learning where that is appropriate.

The debate misses important nuances about the evolved role teachers will play in the education system of the future, as well as the value technology will provide to enhance teachers» abilities to reach all of their students and practice at the top of their craft.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

While I have consistently explained that value - added data systems have real limitations, they do provide a systematic way to identify teachers whose students are at least improving in math and reading at better - than - average rates.

There's a misleading sense that «productivity» is somehow at odds with nurturing students or valuing teachers.

His prudence coupled with a real understanding of the challenges facing teachers has led to him being very valued and respected at St Vincent College.

Reporting on the statistics The effects of this disastrous triumvirate on the education pipeline is made apparent in the NSEAD Survey Report 2015 ‑ 16, that asked how, over the last five years, has government policy impacted on art craft and design education, looking at curriculum provision in art and design, the value given to art and design in schools and colleges, professional development opportunities and the well ‑ being and workload of art and design teachers.

Over my 35 - year career as a public school teacher and educator at Expeditionary Learning, I have been obsessed with collecting student work of remarkable quality and value.

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.

Schools can also look at the data they require teachers to collect and process and consider the value of what is being done.

A sense of exclusive or proprietary responsibility at NCATE was in conflict with a culture of shared responsibility for teacher education that we value and try to cultivate.»