Sentences with phrase «exasperated teachers»

Too much focus on testing and test prep, narrowing of the curriculum, stressed students, concerned parents, exasperated teachers --- taken together it makes for a combustible mix of anger and frustration that leads many to the regrettable but understandable conclusion that taking a standardized test designed to measure student learning is not in the interest of student learning.

About this time, the school children were ushered out again by their exasperated teacher.

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While Noah projects the righteous ardor of a campus activist, British - born Oliver comes across as an exasperated high school teacher.

While no study is going to find you can master Beethoven or calculus by kicking back with your feet up all the time (sorry), new research is finding that rest plays a larger role in memory than your nagging mother or exasperated music teacher ever imagined.

He finds the religious portrayals of Jesus as an exorcist (Graham Twelftree), a Jewish peasant cynic (John Dominic Crossan), a prophet of social change (Gerd Thiessen), as a Gnostic teacher (Elaine Pagels), or as an eschatological prophet (E.P. Sanders) as exasperating to the befuddled layperson.

We are surprised when a psychologist enters a Sunday school room and instantly explains that the teachers» exasperating discipline problems can be solved by painting the walls a different color.

He added that stress on the individual teacher was increasing and that many felt symptoms such as rising blood pressure levels, while many were «exasperated with the level of bureaucracy that they face» and concerned that disciplinary problems were not being dealt with.

An exasperated band teacher (a hilariously perturbed Tom Noonan) stops a high school marching band from performing a crime against harmony in their disastrous rehearsal of Peter Gabriel's «Sledgehammer.»

And look for warning signs among the staff, like teachers who are exasperated, negative, or isolated in their classrooms.

After story time one Sunday, as the kids were transitioning to the next activity, Julia walked up to her teacher, got within an inch of her face (as kids will do), and demanded to know, exasperated, «What is wrong with those boys?

We spoke with frustrated teachers and exasperated administrators, well aware that they're riding the back of an AP tiger from which it's hard to dismount, especially for a public school that must weigh the priorities of parents, taxpayers, and voters.

A son and grandson of educators, I grew up witnessing my mom's joys and challenges as a teacher: the foot - high piles of student work to grade, the exasperated dinner - table conversations about distressing new state legislation, the weekend trips to her classroom to keep up with the demands of the job.

by: Leslie Postal Orlando Sentinel September 23, 2015 Florida teachers have about a week left to apply for a $ 10,000 bonus program that has exasperated many because eligibility hinges on their ACT or SAT scores, even if those college - admissions exams were taken decades ago.

What particularly exasperates Rider is that despite what teachers do at Inglewood — «We're doing everything within our power,» she declares — the school would be judged a failure by a process that seems completely remote and disconnected fom the school.

For decades, teachers have walked out regularly, battling against pay cuts, driving exasperated parents to send their kids to charters.

With exasperated parents and suffering grades, the young dog turns in a visually detailed report that gives his teacher a change of heart.