Sentences with phrase «challenge teachers»

What are the greatest challenges teachers face as they begin to teach mathematical communication skills and encourage greater student engagement in the expression of their mathematical thinking?

Kids from low - income families that are forced to move a lot are among those who challenge teachers the most.

Considering the fact that classroom management is one of the biggest challenges teachers face, we are always searching for something that will work.

One of the greatest challenges a teacher faces is how to incorporate a lesson which appeals to, and can be understood by, the various types of learners participating in the class.

Solutions that administrators can implement ahead of time to resolve four common challenges teachers face as a school year begins.

Unlike many of today's parents, they would not have begun by challenging the teacher or principal who thought I had done wrong.

A second challenge teacher leaders faced was the difficulty of supporting colleagues to keep their inquiry in focus between monthly meetings.

«I just couldn't see how most of the stuff they taught us could be applied to anything, so I spent most of the time challenging the teachers,» he said.

I would also challenge teachers to rethink their classroom workspace.

Giving students good, effective feedback on their progress is one of the toughest challenges teachers face.

On the contrary, personalized learning actually challenges teachers to design and execute better, more targeted interventions than ever before.

Many of these views challenge teacher and administrator thinking about what occurs in school.

The latter should include classroom observation by trained administrators and peers, evaluation of teacher work and recognition of the special challenges teachers and students in our most affected schools face.

This short excerpt describes some of the questions and challenges these teachers raise in regard to professional development.

Professional collaboration around these ideals challenges teachers to be their best and encourages them to remain in the classroom, advancing the profession.

Over the past two weeks, I've discussed the new challenges teachers face, and how these challenges have been pushing teachers and students apart.

There appears to have been a radical shift in the way students can challenge teacher authority through the use of digital media.

One of the biggest challenges all teachers face is figuring out how to motivate their students.

Not to those of us who understand the joys and challenges teachers face every day.

Students Matter, the organization that has taken the lead in challenging teacher tenure and hiring and firing laws in Vergara v. California, has added one of the nation's leading — and liberal — constitutional scholars to its legal team: Harvard law professor Lawrence Tribe.

Leslie Hooks» new blog, Be The Change: The L. Hooks Project, focuses on challenging teachers, administrators and parents to commit to our childrenʼs futures through more engaging, real world learning experiences.

On alternate Thursdays, they bracingly challenge the teacher unions.

In a stunning defeat for California's public school teachers unions, a state superior court today ruled in favor of students challenging teacher protection laws in Vergara v California.

When I was a teenager, in Sunday School someone once challenged our teacher about whether animals were in heaven since they supposedly don't have souls (yah right!).

Fixing Broken Pipeline That pipeline is currently broken; research from the Brookings Institute last year challenged teacher preparation programs and communities to think differently about teacher diversity efforts.

As mayor, he attempted to take control of LA Unified and supported Vergara v. California, which challenged teacher tenure laws.

The result challenges teacher educators as they identify requirements to support the development of TPCK through the student teachers» program.

Since the lower court's Vergara ruling two years ago, similar suits challenging teacher job protections have been filed in New York and Minnesota.

The desire of many in the special - ed world — parents and experts alike — to «mainstream» disabled children in regular classrooms to the greatest extent possible, thereby challenging teachers to accommodate and adapt their instruction to meet the needs of these youngsters, too.

The Intentionality of Excellence in Your Classroom An extension of Principal Kafele's popular workshop and book, Closing the Attitude Gap, this workshop challenges teachers to look deep within themselves for the passion and drive that are essential for sustained teacher success; particularly with at - risk student populations.

On alternating Thursdays, they bracingly challenge the teachers» unions.

Dreise, Principal Research Fellow in Indigenous Education at the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER) says these results challenge teachers» and policymakers» assumptions around particular interventions and investments, causing one to turn around and question «whether they're delivering the goods».

Alex Derbyshire, maths teacher and rugby tour manager at Pate's Grammar school shares how he overcomes these challenges

Albee has been one of my most challenging teachers: he is not really interested in food or even toys, so our early training sessions focused on getting Albee to be excited about something — anything — so that I had a way to motivate him.

An example may be when your tween challenges a teacher about something she's learning in school.

«Combine all that with child protection issues like children showing up without eating or without access to clean water,» she says, and you see what a huge challenge the teachers there face.

When we reframe teacher voice and truly learn from students, teaching and learning become rich experiences that continually challenge both teachers and students to examine their beliefs and assumptions.

Chris Emdin's ideas about reality pedagogy challenge teachers to use dialogue and co-teaching (among other strategies) to share and create knowledge with students.

As we got to the more difficult, final stages of the Rubik's Cube challenge my teacher had to go back and brush up on his own solving skills before the lesson with me.

«Students in The Blackboard Jungle challenged their teacher to find a way to get through to them,» says Middletown (Connecticut) High School cinema studies teacher Chris Warren.

The first is by Salman Khan, the pioneer whose highly successful website challenged teachers to consider changing the traditional classroom script.

Hasty challenges teachers feeling stressed to ask themselves how they want to experience themselves with a particular class or student and then decide what they have to do to reach that point.

Justice Antonin Scalia's death earlier this year came in the middle of an education - related case — Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association — in which an Orange County elementary teacher challenged teachers unions» ability to collect fees from nonmembers.

«One of the most important challenges a teacher faces is motivating his or her students to complete reading assignments and to complete them carefully....

In The Differentiated Classroom, Carol Ann Tomlison, explains that teachers still face the same challenges teachers faced in the one - room schoolhouse and engages the reader to tackle these challenges through strategy and planning.

Since the most effective professional development is that which is targeted to specific challenges teachers confront in particular settings, collaboration within the school among administrators, teachers, and school staff is critical.

More on the federal suit filed against Connecticut, backed by Students Matter, the California - based group that recently challenged teacher tenure in the Vergara vs. California case.