Sentences with phrase «concerns over the classroom»

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Out of concern over student health and food allergies, several school districts in Pennsylvania clean up their classroom parties.

At the same time, state officials this year sought to reduce the amount of time spent testing students in the classroom amid concerns over student stress.

Conservative peer Baroness O'Cathain will propose the house rejects the regulations «having regard to the widespread concerns that the draft regulations compromise religious liberty and will result in litigation over the content of classroom teaching, and having regard to the legality of the equivalent regulations for Northern Ireland».

He compared concerns over the evaluations to a recent controversy over a new, more difficult teacher certification exam that assesses prospective teachers» performance in the classroom.

«Every year there are concerns raised about «teaching to the test» and stress in the classroom over the national testing regime — NAPLAN online will end this,» Pyne said in a statement.

For example, during the last few years concerns have been raised over safety as it relates to playground equipment, football games during break, swimming, science experiments in classrooms, sports days and fêtes, and even trees and bushes, which occasionally shed a branch or may have «poisonous» berries.

One of the reasons for Barton's concern is that pupil numbers are expected to rise considerably over the next nine years leading to a demand for more teachers entering classrooms, not fewer.

Thanks to Giroux and others, the contemporary classroom - even if it falls short of the critical pedagogues» ideal - increasingly is a block - scheduled site presided over by a teacher who, at least concerning academics, is the guide on the side, eschews grades in favor of portfolios, minimizes ability - grouping, and, rather than being a content provider, is a manager of peer editing, team building, and other processes.

Summary: This article presents the results of a non-scientific survey of teachers which found that classrooms felt the impact of the divisive campaign and reflect a concern over how vulnerable populations and minorities will fare during the Trump presidency.

The principal may have legitimate concerns over scheduling problems and / or disruptions in both classrooms for partial acceleration (e.g. for single subjects).

We like most of what we've seen since Cheatham took over, though the district's student discipline policy, aimed at reducing suspensions and expulsions, remains a concern if it increases classroom disruptions.

Coleman admits in his essay, «there should be concerns raised over excessive testing and devoting too much classroom instruction to test prep.»

Requires SBEC to require educator preparation programs to provide candidates with information concerning required skills and responsibilities, expectations for student performance, current teacher supply and demand, the importance of classroom management skills, and the framework for teacher and principal appraisal (same as HB 2012, except HB 2012 adds: «the performance over time of the educator preparation program»).

But Gerard Liston, an enterprise and employability consultant, told Schools Week he had «real concerns» about a «lack of progress and lack of sustainability» at the CEC, and said its funding — # 70 million over this parliament — would be better spent on training teachers to deliver guidance in classrooms.

However, with continued concerns over the unintended (and sometimes detrimental) consequences of expanding standardized testing, policies have reemphasized the importance of more traditional, widely applicable approaches to measuring teacher quality — specifically, the quality of teachers» instruction, assessed through classroom observation.