Sentences with phrase «difficult challenges for some teachers»

Setting up competences was the most difficult challenge for the teachers» team.

One of the most difficult challenges for some teachers to overcome is the mastery of a content creation tool.

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Here, the basic lesson is that such teaching has always been difficult — constrained by political forces, legal challenges, parental objections, limited class time, and understandably hesitant teachers who are ill - prepared for the complex task of teaching divisive issues.

Handling Difficult Students: Lessons from Mrs. G Educator Perri Gibbons pays tribute to teacher Deb Graudins, whose measured, consistent approach with the most challenging students — and her genuine care for them — wins respect from students and colleagues alike.

As difficult as it can be for students, the problem might be even more challenging for ELL teachers.

«This was going to place too heavy a workload on our teachers and would make it very difficult for us to differentiate teaching so that we could provide high end challenges for our more able learners.

We found that for 72.5 % of teachers, the ability to stay focussed is particularly difficult, as well as dealing with challenging situations (48.8 %) and making importance decisions (36.3 %).

«Within the most challenging schools there are educators whose love for what they do can be infectious because they see value of impacting the lives of children,» says Nadia Lopez (@TheLopezEffect) whose school is in one of New York's low income neighborhoods where recruiting and keeping skilled teachers is very difficult.

As teachers working in difficult and challenging settings, the way to survive and thrive isn't just about taking action for ourselves (going to an exercise class, say) or our students (staying after school to listen and comfort, or advocating for additional counseling services).

This challenge often comes with difficult odds — inadequate financing, teacher shortages, and inaccessible or unaffordable services for children and families.

«All of us think our children should be challenged by difficult tasks in school and that the performance of teachers in the classroom should be judged by the highest standards, but there is no scientific validity whatsoever to the use of high stakes tests as the primary instrument for evaluating children and teachers.

For many parents experiencing economic challenges, their previous experiences in school settings have not been positive — and that fact can be difficult for teachers to understand, especially if, for them, school has always been a happy plaFor many parents experiencing economic challenges, their previous experiences in school settings have not been positive — and that fact can be difficult for teachers to understand, especially if, for them, school has always been a happy plafor teachers to understand, especially if, for them, school has always been a happy plafor them, school has always been a happy place.

The Consortium for Educational Change (CEC) has developed a pair of training sessions that can help all educators — administrators, union leaders, teachers, support staff, board members — learn how to navigate difficult conversations and move those challenging discussions to a productive level.

As a 2011 DCPS Teacher of the Year, 2011 Milken Educator Award winner, and namesake of TNTP's Fishman Prize for Superlative Classroom Practice, Shira regularly shares her experiences with policymakers, but there is still nothing she'd rather do than challenge «fun and fascinating teenagers» to grasp difficult math concepts.

Richards says MPS faces unique challenges that make it difficult for young teachers to stay in the job.

Just as junior and senior members of any profession are given differing sets of responsibilities, Van Roekel said, it makes sense, for example, for more advanced teachers to take on the challenges of the most difficult - to - serve students.

The plaintiffs are challenging the state's tenure and layoff rules as well as dismissal procedures they say make it too costly and difficult to fire teachers for cause.

And there are a lot of different ways to differentiate, but I do know based on the work I've done for 20 - some years, it will cost more money, and if you're not willing to invest more into compensation systems, it's a really difficult challenge to find a different way of paying [teachers].»

This was going to place too heavy a workload on our teachers and would make it very difficult for us to differentiate teaching so that we could provide challenges for our More Able learners.

The chapter is about whether and how data derived via the Tripod student survey instrument (i.e., as built on 7Cs: challenging students, control of the classroom, teacher caring, teachers confer with students, teachers captivate their students, teachers clarify difficult concepts, teachers consolidate students» concerns) align with the data derived via Danielson's Framework for Teaching, to collectively capture teacher effectiveness.

But instead of discussing those, we're witnessing a coordinated effort to mislead Connecticut's citizens about what tenure is and a rush to throw out the valid, important and historic tenure system as way to pander to those who blame teachers for the incredibly difficult challenges that face our society, especially those in our inner cities.

For new standards to be successful in driving student achievement, we need an education system that finds ways to support teachers in this challenging and difficult work.

This is rather a timely change as our recent analysis of teacher recruitment and retention indicated that teacher supply challenges, particularly for science and modern foreign languages teachers, would make it difficult for the Government to achieve its aim in such a short time.

Rauschenberg chose red as a challenge because his teacher at Black Mountain College, Josef Albers, had said it was the most difficult color for a male artist.

Observed and assessed student performance and kept thorough records of progress.Implemented a variety of teaching methods such as lectures, discussions and demonstrations.Established clear objectives for all lessons, units and projects.Encouraged students to persevere with challenging tasks.Set and communicated ground rules for the classroom based on respect and personal responsibility.Identified early signs of emotional, developmental and health problems in students and followed up with the teacher.Tutored children individually and in small groups to help them with difficult subjects.Taught after - school and summer enrichment programs.Established positive relationships with students, parents, fellow teachers and school administrators.Mentored and counseled students with adjustment and academic problems.Delegated tasks to teacher assistants and volunteers.Took appropriate disciplinary measures when students misbehaved.Improved students» reading levels through guided reading groups and whole group instruction.Used children's literature to teach and reinforce reading, writing, grammar and phonics.Enhanced reading skills through the use of children's literature, reader's theater and story time.Differentiated instruction according to student ability and skill level.Taught students to exercise problem solving methodology and techniques during tests.Taught students in various stages of cognitive, linguistic, social and emotional development.Encouraged students to explore issues in their lives and in the world around them.Employed a wide variety of fiction and non-fiction textual materials to encourage students to read independently.

An interesting challenge for parents, child and family therapists, and teachers is finding ways to engage children playfully while facing difficult problems together.