Sentences with phrase «experimenting is the best teacher»

Experience / the act of experimenting is the best teacher.

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I'm feeling pretty positive about the whole «secondary education'thing - there are some very good text - books around, and I realise that these days most science experiments have to be done by a teacher, for safety concerns, so we can probably do almost everything at home - or else find something on TV or the Internet.

The city's new Parks Commissioner, Veronica White, is best known for her controversial anti-poverty experiments, including trying to pay poor people to attend parent - teacher conferences and take their kids to the dentist.

And yet, many good teachers know that taking risks, experimenting, and not being afraid to fail and try again are some of the most important aspects of good learning for their students.

The school administration found that a good way to initiate momentum is to start with those teachers who are already willing and excited to work with technology, or who like experimenting with new opportunities and collaborating.

But then the Georgia State Board of Education balked, unwilling to back Leeper's school governance experiment, in which the teachers would be organized like attorneys in a law office's partnership, and have the power to hire and fire teachers as well as the principal.

An hour of coding is a fun beginner's experiment for teachers or parents to do with kids — these resources make it easy as well.

In a randomized controlled experiment, half of participating teachers were asked to tape themselves regularly, select only the videos they felt represented their best instruction, and submit those for evaluation.

According to Kohn, teachers should only assign homework when they can justify that the assignments are «beneficial» (2006a, p. 166)-- ideally involving students in activities appropriate for the home, such as performing an experiment in the kitchen, cooking, doing crossword puzzles with the family, watching good TV shows, or reading.

And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting with the new technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my colleagues; to be more open to my colleagues» feedback about my teaching.

He cites the landmark Perry preschool experiment of the 1960s, which was costly and of high quality, with well - trained teachers earning public school teachers» salaries and working with remarkably small classes of five children or so.

The Idea Center collects this information and makes it easy for teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, and others to share, comment on, and experiment to make CTE better for all students, whether they are in high school, community college, four - year college, or simply looking to gain or improve their skills.

One of my greatest joys as a teacher is finding ways to use new tools to best suit my students, and I'm looking forward to all the experimenting to come, especially when it comes to combining my love for building with cardboard with my love of the digital.

He suggested that science teachers are trained traditionally to experiment and to deal with open - ended systems such as GIS, and that science students have better access to computers.

Reformers have been less concerned about school closures in communities of color; more willing «to destabilize the democratic institutions»; more concerned about cutting costs; more willing to subject poor children of color to unproven experiments; less concerned about ensuring the presence of experienced, well - qualified teachers and small classes; more willing to impose test - driven curricula; less concerned about kids pushed out of school; and more willing to privatize education.

It was a tall order and we knew it was essential to equip teachers with the necessary subject knowledge and training, as well as finding the money for resources, so that they could conduct high quality experiments.

Sadly, what we found was that even when technology tested well in experiments, the attempt to scale up its impact was limited by the availability of strong leadership, good teachers, and involved parents — all elements that are unfortunately in short supply in India's vast but woefully underfunded government school system.

This unique charter school is experimenting with choosing the very best master teachers and paying them an annual salary of $ 125,000, to see whether it can reduce the achievement gap between low - income students and their middle - class peers.

By empowering teachers to experiment with their craft, charters could serve as R&D spaces for new and better practices that could then be transferred back into traditional public schools.

Related, and on this point we agree, «teacher pay incentives is one area that we know a good deal about, based on analysis of actual policy variation, and the results are not terribly promising... experiments generally show performance bonuses, a particular form of pay for performance, have no significant student achievement effects, whether the bonus is rewarded at the individual teacher level» (p. 89).

How that flexibility will impact teachers and students remains to be seen, but the experiment has the potential to do more harm than good if teachers don't speak up for their rights as the plans are written.

Wallace said she believes the freedom to experiment is good for individual schools, including teachers and principals.

Her teachers and fellow students, except for her best friend, didn't realize they were part of a social experiment.

It is built on a database framework so that teachers, students or scientists can more easily organize large numbers of experiments as well as the input and output from clmate simulations.