Sentences with phrase «efforts of teachers»

Included were more women than men, three teachers and one former - teacher (also a woman of color,) and a whole lot of recognition of the efforts of teachers in general.

Similarly, we believe skilled instructional leaders must also link their accounts of their leadership and of the collective efforts of teachers to its actual or possible influence on student achievement.

Thank you, Wendy and thank you, Jonathan for all that you do in support of the noble efforts of teachers, school administrators, paraprofessionals, and all who promote the true goals of education as one of the most important institutions in a civil society.

School Reform Minister Nick Gibb welcomed the 40 % drop in early exam entries and said the changes were necessary to «correct» a system that had «worked against the best efforts of teachers and the best interests of pupils».

Despite the best efforts of the teachers to provide leadership for their school, along with efforts by the district to establish formal teacher - leadership positions, the combined effects of frequent principal turnover and frequent teacher turnover made it impossible for this school to sustain any momentum in its improvement efforts.

We could not have earned this honor without the efforts of the teachers who continuously challenge themselves professionally for the sake of their students.

Adding insult to injury, the program is constantly on the verge of being shut down thanks to the intense lobbying efforts of teachers» unions — which likely discourages many parents from applying because of its political volatility and unreliability.

But in many districts, some schools seem to consistently languish at the bottom despite the efforts of teachers and school officials.

The efforts of teachers and technology combined to improve the quality of education and learning attempts to emphasize a number of advantages.

Today we celebrate the efforts of teachers, and acknowledge the valuable contribution that they have made to the community.

Oftentimes, though, the best efforts of teachers were stymied by district or state regulations that stopped them from doing much more.

What's missing, in particular, is any discussion of the efforts of the teachers unions and their allies to maintain the status quo.

Increasing the stakes attached to the MEAP assessment also improved the academic environment by focusing the efforts of teachers and students on a good test.

The study's lead author Shannon Lipscomb, an assistant professor of human development and family sciences at Oregon State University - Cascades, said the findings point to the reason that some children develop problem behavior at care centers, despite the best efforts of teachers and caregivers.

DonorsChoose.org, which was founded in 2000 and has funded more than 328,000 projects proposed by more than 137,000 teachers in more than 46,000 schools around the country, Wednesday launched a new donor site — DonorsChoose.org/Newtown — to support classroom efforts of teachers in Newtown.

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

Last August, the company [Google] launched Google Classroom to complement the efforts of both teachers and students.

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

Italian schoolchildren have been getting an education in Meat Free Monday, thanks to the inspiring efforts of a teacher in Rome.

Spurred by the efforts of a teacher - educator at Rhode Island College, in Providence, the Pawtucket and Central Falls, R.I., districts last summer came up with a curriculum for junior high and high school ELLs, who...

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

Or if parents self - select into higher - quality schools, as detailed in one Times story, the presence of students with highly dedicated parents will have a positive impact on student growth, again independent of the individual efforts of a teacher.

The New York teachers union, an arm of the American Federation of Teachers, strongly opposed Cuomo's initial proposal to increase the weight of standardized test scores to 50 percent of a teacher's evaluation, stating that assuming a direct correlation among test scores, the effort of teachers, and success of children ignores all of the other factors that go into learning.

The collaborative efforts of the teacher educator associations representing the core content areas are designed to help ensure that those benefits are realized.

All seven schools support their ELL students with a coordinated effort of teachers and instructional services.

buzzle.com The role of a teacher is extremely important and it is the joint effort of the teacher and parent which ensures growth of the student.

Not exact matches

Burnout was first identified in the 1970s in studies of overworked, overstressed «helping professions,» such as health workers and teachers, who found all their efforts never slowed the flow of pain and despair.

«Since the tragedy in Parkland, Florida, a number of companies have decided to sever their relationship with the NRA, in an effort to punish our members who are doctors, farmers, law enforcement officers, fire fighters, nurses, shop owners and school teachers that live in every American community,» the NRA said in a statement.

The Herculean efforts and voices of the Parkland students, their devoted parents and teachers will be an exercise in futility unless they simultaneously address the malignant disease that has devoured our democracy.

While these Silicon Valley tech companies set about fixing Puerto Rico's problems, nurses working with the American Federation of Teachers have accused Trump's administration of «neglect,» while Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut last week called for an investigation into the relief efforts by the government.

Even with the promise of a special classroom, getting anxious kids to Roxbury High each morning demands a herculean effort from the program's teachers and therapists.

Despite early efforts from the House, which passed a version of the tax bill that condensed the current seven tax brackets to four and cut many of the deductions — like those for teachers» supplies and high medical expenses — the final draft of the tax bill does no such thing.

But even today I believe these lay teachers might go at their task differently if they knew that the product of their efforts was to be appraised, in some proper way, and that this appraisal too was part of the teaching and learning process.

Finally, every effort must be made to insure that persons entrusted with the office of teacher will be selected with regard to their dedication to the authority of truth and right and not of arbitrary command.

A parent owes both his child and the teacher a serious effort to understand the aims and methods of his church school.

Efforts are also under way to bring under control any individual teachers who express creationist sentiments in the classroom, especially if they make use of unapproved materials.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Instead of being diagnosed then, I was told I was lacking in effort, careless and complacent by a deputy head school teacher.

If you have been caught in error in the past, or if you are afraid of being caught in error in the future, you can mature and protect yourself from false teachers by taking time and making effort to study good biblical teaching and listen to good biblical teachers.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

Whatever the noble intentions and heroic efforts of many teachers, these unions are the enemy of the children of the poor.

He has directed his efforts to giving already certified teachers the necessary tools and understanding for this kind of teaching.

So when Paul urged the Ephesian church to «make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace,» he followed this with an acknowledgement of the Church's diversity, in which there are «apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers... so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.»

Proposed by one of the teachers, Jörg Holler, the project was supported by ProVeg Deutschland (formerly VEBU, German's Vegetarian Association) and the health insurance company BKK ProVita, under the aegis of their Pflanzenpower — Plant Power — campaign, part of an effort to help children understand the benefits of meat free eating.

Parents of achieving youngsters are involved with school, work with teachers when problems occur and tend to see failure as a lack of effort, not lack of ability or bad luck.

«Overloaded and Underprepared» is a detailed documentation of those efforts, offering a practical, research - based road map to students, teachers, parents and school administrators on how to implement similar change at their schools.

The kids and the teachers were so enthusiastic about the breakfast program, and it made us all proud to be a part of this amazing effort.

In this way, parents and teachers can work together over time, orchestrating their efforts to best meet the changing needs of the child and the class as a whole.

Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses.

Although it can be hard to watch your child do poorly on a test he didn't study for or lose out on an opportunity because he didn't put in the effort, those consequences can be some of life's greatest teachers.