Sentences with phrase «current educational climate»

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.

This is probably the greatest crime we commit against children in our current educational climate of testing, testing, and more testing.

In the current educational climate, they're profound.

Anyone undertaking learning of any kind in the current educational climate will undoubtedly be having an experience entirely removed from the education available 50 years ago.

In the current educational climate — when oversight and sometimes severe criticism is the lot of nearly every principal at one time or another — practicing fearlessness demands a great deal of courage.

In addition, she offers a number of tips, some of which I've modified to fit the current educational climate, including:

Absent the ability to take risks and to innovate, systems are less likely to develop deep, systemic, and sustainable approaches to change that are so needed in the current educational climate.

The current educational climate is a «perfect storm» of initiatives and policies, and it is critical that educators have the tools and abilities to use data to inform teaching and learning and change practice.

In our current educational climate, advances in technology around instruction, assessment, and data analysis reign king and changing demands for both teachers and students abound.

However, given the current educational climate, TNTP has Read more about The New Teacher Project is Now TNTP: Reimagine Teaching -LSB-...]

Teachers in the current educational climate are striving to prepare their students for high stakes testing that often requires the students to produce a writing sample.

With the primary purpose of stimulating thought, discussion, and action, she addresses the marginalization of gifted and other at - risk children in the current educational climate and provides recommendations for school counselors.