Sentences with phrase «especially teachers working with»

Ask any teacher, especially teachers working with children in poverty, and they'll tell you the same thing: Some of my students don't seem motivated to succeed.

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In doing so he saw himself in continuity with the great teachers of the patristic period, especially John Chrysostom, whose works he once considered translating into French.

I have now found a new lens, Judaism, through which to carry on this work, but I am finding Karl Barth once more to be a superbly stimulating and helpful teacher, especially at the points at which I must disagree with him.

And so those kids, especially if you're not trained to work with them as a teacher, they are harder to deal with.

I have had repeated conversations and pleaded with our mayor in Salem (who is a mother herself) where I live to help volunteer, write grants, and work on upgrading the school lunch program, and even though she cares, it is not a priority — especially when budgets are tight for good teachers and other necessary school supplies.

It is important to check with your child's teacher on your child's progress and work together to develop strategies if your child is having trouble adjusting, especially at the beginning of the year.

Elia has also stressed a desire to work with parents and teachers and improve communication, especially when it comes to student examinations.

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The first two segments, starring Laura Dern and Michelle Williams, feature characteristically strong work from both performers, but it's the third, with Lily Gladstone as a lonely ranch hand mooning over law school teacher Kristen Stewart, that turns the movie into something special, and especially heartbreaking.

Instead you'd see teachers (especially those who work with our poorest children) restored, in David Coleman's lovely and apt phrase, «to their rightful place as guides to the universe.»

I find this to be especially true when working with Amanda, a beginning teacher in a Developmental Learning Program.

Pupils are more motivated, attention spans increase (especially amongst boys), teachers can tailor a pupil's programme to their specific abilities and needs, learners can be supported outside the classroom as well as during lessons, and pupils are leaving schools with a set of ICT skills that are absolutely vital to the world of work in the 21st century.

That's especially helpful when teachers are working with students far different from themselves.

«From doing consultancy work with other schools, it seems that the trend is moving towards a one - device - per - child model, especially in newer schools, taking away the need for a screen at the front of the classroom, as the work can be transferred directly from the teacher's computer to their tablets.

We have very little evidence about whether teachers are aligning their instruction to the Common Core standards (what we know isn't very promising, especially with respect to reading), or whether it's working, or whether students are learning more as a result.

The state's new NMTEACH system has been especially effective at differentiating teachers by the skillfulness of their work, with only 71 percent of teachers rated effective or better.

One reason is that it can be hard, especially with No Child Left Behind Act requirements and high - stakes testing, to find teachers willing to take on the extra work of learning a second or third year of curriculum.

«The school art teacher could lead a project like this, especially if working collaboratively with classroom teachers and if everyone is willing to put in the time to meet, plan, and do the preparatory work necessary.

In conjunction with these ideas, I explained to the teachers, I would also be informing the students about what happens in their brain, or their powerhouse, especially when they are thinking and working.

Likewise, parents especially engaged in their children's education may work to ensure their assignment to teachers with strong credentials.

«I am an English teacher, but have been involved in the arts, especially with music, in the schools where I have worked,» she says.

Fully 82 % of teachers believe it is especially important to teach foreign - born students to value the U.S. and the meaning of citizenship, and 89 % of teachers working with ELL students say the same.

Many teachers, especially those teaching in secondary schools, often work in isolation with little contact with their peers.

It then discusses some teacher behaviors that may be especially helpful in working with students with challenging behaviors.

Projects where the teachers already know the outcome won't work, especially with older students.

How Sharing Control of Learning with Students Make Differentiation Better Too often, differentiation (especially when it's called differentiated instruction) places nearly all of the responsibility and work for differentiation in the teacher's court.

Time to talk is rare with most teachers especially in the high school level in the private school I work.

One reason: trying to get overscheduled educators from one school to work with those from another isn't easy, especially when tight budgets in many states lead to demands to focus spending «in the classroom» rather than on planning and professional development for teachers.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Especially in the activity development including defining the lesson structure, the learning areas to be covered and the classroom management tricks to be incorporated, we worked with current elementary teachers to create a product that was simple, relevant, and extremely usable in today's classroom.

And I really hope that the teachers in training, especially those who learned with me, have not all decided that the way we did things doesn't work anymore.

Others have charged that poor teacher working conditions, such as low salaries and test - driven school cultures, are nudging existing and potential educators toward other professions, especially with the economy improving.

The archive also includes interviews with teachers about their approaches to teaching writing, especially the principles and practices that inform their responses to student work.

And there's the difficulty of drawing the right conclusions about teacher performance from very small numbers of student test scores, an especially tough challenge in elementary schools, where teachers typically work with a single classroom of students every day.

Some of this certainly has to do with NEA and AFT affiliates, which have worked hard to beat back any efforts at systemic reform especially in the area of overhauling teacher quality.

More importantly, it is unfair to high - quality teachers, especially younger teachers, who don't get immediate reward for their performance, have to wait 20 years or more to reap the full benefits, may not get the full benefits if they leave the profession (which is possible in an age in which one can change careers at least three times during their working lives), and must deal with laggard colleagues being paid equal pay for less - than - stellar work.

Administrators, instructional coaches, and teacher leaders working with PLCs can model appreciative listening, examining teachers» comments especially when they challenge leadership's thinking.

Commissioned by the World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), the research found that teachers» practical knowledge of teaching young people with disabilities needed to be more relevant to their working environment, especially in areas with poor infrastructure, a lack of teaching materials or large class sizes.

teachers strive for this, especially when working with students who exhibit mild disabilities.

Especially for the AFT, the ruling makes it even harder for the union, which works in the big cities that are the most - fervent hotbeds for revamping traditional teacher compensation and implementing other reforms), to keep the grand bargain it has long struck with Baby Boomers and other teachers to keep their profession the most - comfortable (as well as best - paid) in the public sector.

Collective bargaining contracts are especially problematic on three fronts: 1) they restrict efforts to use compensation as a tool to recruit, reward and retain the most essential and effective teachers, 2) they impede attempts to assign or remove teachers on the basis of fit or performance and 3) they over-regulate school life with work rules that stifle creative problem solving without demonstrably improving teachers» ability to serve students.»

«What is especially troubling about the states that failed to work with teachers unions is that, as teachers well know, the common denominator for all good schools is an environment where the adults work together on behalf of the students,» Weingarten said.

As NCTE president and as an 8th - grade teacher, I am especially proud of NCTE's support of teachers working with Common Core Standards.

Furthermore, by supporting career pathways, schools and districts can mitigate one of the primary reasons for teacher attrition: a lack of upward mobility in the teaching profession.49 Mid-career teachers are especially interested in «hybrid teaching roles,» which provide teachers with leadership opportunities while allowing them to continue working with students part - time in the classroom.50 An added benefit of hybrid teaching roles is that they expand the responsibilities inherent to a teacher's career, enhancing how teachers are perceived as professionals and providing a rationale for higher teacher salaries.

Work with NCSS members on presentations and publications focusing on teacher partnerships and classroom projects, especially in schools with inadequate resources, that teach, for example, online deliberation skills or critical evaluation of websites.

We are especially grateful for the hard work of the teachers and administrators in our public schools and encourage conversations about district improvement to begin with them.

But research released this week argues evaluations are important in making teachers better — especially for educators working with kids from preschool to third grade.

Science teachers may not be comfortable with the subject matter, especially when they work out of their certification area (e.g., biology instructors teaching physics).

The use of adaptive and differentiated elementary math programs is especially beneficial to teachers working with ELLs in mainstream classrooms, when used for individualized, independent learning.

Many teachers do not find it satisfying to work with students in especially challenging schools; they move on to less demanding environments at the first opportunity (Englert, 1993) citing the lack of psychic rewards from seeing their students succeed.