Sentences with phrase «by teacher isolation»

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His hair is now very short, and apparently that does not sit well with the head teacher, who says the short hair counts as an «extreme» style that violates the school's dress code and responded by putting him «in isolation,» which sounds a lot like solitary confinement on Orange is the New Black.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

«But I was also awestruck by the isolation of teachers... and the lack of collaboration or problem - solving in the structure of our educational process.»

And those gaps will be closed not by teachers in isolation, but by supportive communities that empower parents and embrace children — before they ever get to school, and when they are outside of it as well.

This time for small group instruction was not achieved by each teacher working in isolation.

Using technology in isolation is unlikely to lead to student achievement, but special education teachers can provide effective technology - based interventions by combining evidence - based pedagogical practices with complementary technologies suited to learners» individual needs and goals (Kennedy & Deshler, 2010; Smith & Okolo, 2010).

Contributing factors, as explained by district staff, were teachers working in isolation and low expectations for the newer students.

The perception that «regular» teachers are not leaders is reinforced by historical patterns of school management, such as physical isolation, exclusion of teachers from decision - making roles, and the chronic de-skilling of teachers through a constant barrage of misguided mandates (Cochran - Smith & Lyttle, 2006).

The relative isolation of Reception teachers can also mean that their particular skills go unrecognised by colleagues, including senior colleagues, who may not understand the rationale for Early Years practice.

By Renee Boss, Initiative Director at The Fund for Transforming Education, and Amy Spicer, Director of Professional Learning at The Colorado Education Initiative What happens when teachers trade isolation for collaboration?

On isolating teacher effects: «Inferring teacher competence from test scores requires the isolation of teaching effects from other major influences on student test performance,» while «the task is to support an interpretation of student test performance as reflecting teacher competence by providing evidence against plausible rival hypotheses or interpretation.»

This paper describes the design of a Web site developed to overcome many of the problems of professional isolation encountered by beginning teachers.

Despite that isolation — and despite the fact that the school has just three teachers on site — the students at Qugcuun Memorial still have access to geometry and biology classes taught by highly qualified teachers, as well as up - to - date electives like digital photography.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

The authors wanted to find out if this professional growth opportunity, undertaken by a cohort of teachers, could help shift culture in schools — where teachers were accustomed to working in isolation.

They would also provide new teachers the ability to build skills and habits in isolation, little by little, before they are asked to demonstrate all of their skills concurrently as a lead teacher in their own classrooms.

Play Video 5: Concept of Word in Text: Work with Letters and Sounds The teacher guides students to further develop their concept of word by identifying words from the previously presented rhyme in isolation.

Evidence shows that chronic social isolation predicts poor prognosis, and repeated assessment of children's peer experiences is therefore recommended for research purposes.47 As previously described, 37 2 items of the Rutter Child Scale that measure social isolation («tends to do things on his / her own; is rather solitary» and «not much liked by other children») were reported about each study member at ages 5, 7, 9, and 11 years by their parents and teachers.