Sentences with phrase «class than teachers»

Teachers in treatment schools reported better recess behavior and readiness for class than teachers in control schools.

I dropped multiple letter grades in most classes because I simply missed more classes than the teacher allowed (many of my classes stated that they'd drop your grade by 1/3 of a letter grade for every class you miss after the 6th or 7th).

Not exact matches

One of the amazing things about lateral learning is that you can often learn much more from your peers, role models, and even competitors than you can from any teacher, class, book, or lecture.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

This is a higher proportion than those that were concerned about making friends, bullying, and getting in trouble, but less than the proportions that were worried about exams, homework, having new teachers and new subjects and classes.

Well, given that many atheists are actually more informed (as studies have confirmed) than believers, a better analogy would be that it's like asking a former professional chemist now teaching an English class about chemistry instead of asking the Chemistry teacher who never made it past chem 101 as an undergrad.

She had to wear long winter underwear and heavy overshoes in bad weather; she remembers vividly how in grade school her teachers would let her start getting ready to go home five minutes earlier than the rest of the class because of all the layers she had to put on.

Within the Protestant ecclesiastical scene in California there are not many contrasts more colorful than that between Berkeley and Orange County: the University of California and Disneyland, an adult class using Bread for the World material and one deep into the Bethel Bible Series, a Georgian church building hosting the Earl Lectures (Tillich, Niebuhr, Bennett, Marty, Lehman et al.) and a 14 - story Tower of Hope hosting preachers and teachers of «possibility thinking.»

That's why there are classes on these things, from teachers who are a touch further down the road than us, and can explain the joys of proficiency in their fields.

My low point came on the day I had to fill in for the absent teacher of the Sunday school class for the teen - agers» parents, a bunch of grown - ups who were powerful, outspoken and of a very different persuasion than I when it came to politics and religion.

their relatives now say «Mark after Islam is better than Mark before Islam» — if some students are bad you don't blame the teacher or whole class..

Which in turn left me with a huge desire to read and learn more outside of school than what the curriculum taught me I was far ahead in my American and British lit class due to video games although my teacher thought it was due to reading so much.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

Both these teachers understand how intense it is to be a new mom, and teach classes to take time for yourself to honor your body now rather than an idea of getting «your pre-baby body back.»

Of the many subjects taught in the eight - year cycle of a class teacher, few are more challenging than the science main lessons of the 6th, 7th, and 8th grades.

As a home educating parent you have a much easier task than a teacher in a class of 30 or more children.

The teacher can not spend more time with this child than with the rest of the class — and if statistics are to be trusted, we should expect at least three easily distractible children in every classroom.

Some children take longer than others to adjust to a daily classroom routine or to a new school, teacher, or class, but they eventually open up.

El C took a movement class for toddlers with a teacher who knows more about little kids than almost anyone I've ever met.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

Take a prenatal breastfeeding class and talk to the teacher about the fact that you're having more than one baby so she can adjust some of her lesson to accommodate you.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

Babysitters, nannies, preschool teachers provide many different services as well: counseling / behavioral therapies (think children fighting in a sand box who need to be directed to «use words» rather than hit one another), nutritional guidance (our son's teachers have given us great ideas and resources for healthy meals), arts training (music class, creative arts class), occupational therapist (correct hand hold for four year old grasping a pencil), physical therapist (Hop on one foot, kids!

Or when her daughter took her first steps with his teacher and she taught him his first word.She's also paying for dance classes I could never afford and buying costumes that are far more detailed than what comes from my sewing machine.

Cons: Large classes and over-worked, underpaid teachers can provide a less - than optimal educational environment.

A relatively small class size, say no more than ten parent - and - child pairs, is important so you can hear the teacher and have plenty of room in the pool.

A Montessori toddler teacher once showed me an electric orange juicer she used in her class, being electric the children loved using it and they were able to make enough juice to share, rather than juicing by hand where they will tire easily (similar style here, the child still juices from the top).

If you speak with her teacher and you both feel that her inattentiveness in class could be related to attention deficit disorder rather than an inability to do the work, than you should speak to the school's guidance counselor and get a referral to a child psychologist who can conduct testing to rule out ADD.

It would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants for teacher training and class - size reduction and would reduce after - school grants from $ 1.2 billion to $ 1 billion.

He was rewarded with extra funding to cut class sizes, and subsequently there has since 1997 been a massive increase in literacy and numeracy, and there are 42,000 more teachers than in 1997, with doubled spending per pupil in frontline [clarification needed] schools (and over 100,000 teaching assistants) through to 2010.

«Motivation to listen carefully and courteously to the teacher or one's fellow pupils rests on a desire to win a free can of cola rather than from a growing understanding among class members of their interdependence as human beings,» it added.

He does addition and subtraction and he's on a level higher than his class,» said Davis, who serves as the parent teacher association president at the co-located District 75 school that serves students with special needs.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

More than 35,000 people, including many teachers and public service workers, rallied outside the statehouse in Trenton on May 22 to tell Republican Gov. Chris Christie that «he can not balance the state's budget on the backs of the middle class.»

«By working together and recognizing their shared responsibility to all Los Angeles public school students, United Teachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi WeiTeachers Los Angeles and the district were able to keep more than 4,000 teachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weiteachers in classrooms, preserve early childhood education and prevent class - size increases,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

«New York City teachers are paid less than their colleagues in the suburbs, often have larger classes, and work with children with the highest needs,» said the spokeswoman, Alison Gendar.

A teachers» union survey of New York City public schools has shown that in mid-September nearly half of the city's schools had overcrowded classes and the number of overcrowded special education classes in regular schools had more than doubled.

The new version would leave the state with the same result as did its predecessor: Charter school students would find themselves in classes taught by teachers whose training was far less rigorous than that demanded of regular public school teachers.

More than 32,000 teachers walked away from jobs in NYC classrooms in the last 11 years, with a substantial number leaving for jobs in nearby suburban systems that have higher pay, lower class sizes and better teaching conditions.

A study in the BMJ in 2012 found that having a professional therapist teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques to an entire class was no more effective than having the teacher give their usual personal social and health education classes, in terms of the effect on pupils» well - being.

For example, having someone come in to teach cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to a class is no more effective than having a teacher give the usual social and health education classes, in terms of pupils» well - being.

Their common feature is that, rather than listening passively, students spend class time engaged in answering questions, solving problems, discussing solutions with their peers and reasoning about the material they are studying, all while getting regular feedback from their teacher.

More than 1700 teachers have taken PYP Training and are now conducting classes in more than two hundred prisons, countless jails, reentry and rehab facilities, youth detention centers, womens» prisons and work camps.

It's easier to go up in weights than down, as well as you won't distract the teacher or class by having to run and grab new weights (it is a yoga class after all, and yoga etiquette still applies).

I've gone to many styles of barre classes over the years, and some are wiser than others at when to use a neutral spine versus a tucked pelvis, but I trust that you'll find the teachers that make your low back feel best.

A yogi for half her lifetime and popular yoga teacher for more than a decade, Rebecca's classes provide an expert blend of physical challenge, meditation, and inspiration.

Being a yoga teacher is far more than teaching classes.

She's better on the dvd at explaining the moves and helping you perfect your stance better than some in - class teachers I've had.

In fact, like my teacher said, I think I got more mental benefits out of that class than physical!