Sentences with phrase «few educators»

That means that there are fewer educators in schools who understand Black culture, know Black history, or share their ancestry.

Too few educators, however, understand the crucial design elements needed for successful group tasks.

Still, I think few parents, and for that matter, few educators really understand them because they have never seen an adequate explanation.

Even now, few educators lose their jobs if test scores don't rise.

You did something few educators get the opportunity to do — you followed individual students for an entire day.

What fewer educators are talking about is how the technology revolution has already altered the concept of learning time.

But the relatively few educators who know about this effort have lined up either to sing its praises or disassociate themselves from it.

Statistical controls must be used if the assessments of teachers, schools, or programs are to be accurate, even though very few educators understand the statistical principles and methods involved.

But there are obstacles to making this vision a reality: There are few tools designed for measuring these skills that support instruction in K - 12 classroom settings, and too few educators know anything about the tools that do exist.

School personnel who are adequately trained to make informed assistive technology decisions are in short supply (Edyburn, 2004; Marino & Beecher, 2008; Nelson, 2006; Puckett, 2004), and few educators understand how to integrate assistive technology into content area instruction (McLaren, Bausch, & Jones Ault, 2007).

Washington — Though education was high on the agenda at the National Alliance of Business's annual conference here last week, there were few educators among the more than 2,400 participants.

While few educators were shocked by the ruling, some did find it interesting that the Supreme Court heard the case at all considering Grutter v. Bollinger, the 2003 landmark case where the Supreme Court rejected racial quotas but supported the consideration of race as part of a «holistic» admissions review.

Even so, «My impression is that very few educators oppose the Common Core per se,» says Professor (emeritus) Robert Schwartz, C.A.S.» 68, a former president of Achieve, Inc., an independent, nonprofit created by governors and corporate leaders to help states improve schools.

Crafting Thorough Cleaning Plans Few educators may link school cleanliness with student performance, but cleaner buildings can mean higher attendance and more learning.

Because few educators today are inclined to denounce data, there has been an unfortunate tendency to embrace glib new solutions rather than ask the simple question, What exactly does it mean to use data or research to inform decisions?

THis is the source of the problem: «The writing group of 27 contained few educators, but a significant number of representatives of the testing industry.

Few educators publicly assert that working in isolation is the best strategy for improving schools.

In fact some researchers call it a «behavioral vaccine» — that's Embry's work from 2002 — and few educators appear to use it.

Few educators complain about having too little data.

The experts» tendency to complicate the use and analysis of student achievement data often ensures that few educators avail themselves of data's simple, transparent power.

In most cases, new goals and content additions are tacked onto an already overburdened curriculum, and with the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

Locally, Charles Russo, superintendent of East Moriches schools, was one of the few educators to speak in favor of Common Core testing at forums that featured then - Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., held last year and in late 2013.

Earlier this year, at the Hyde School, a private high school in Bath, Maine, dedicated to «family - based character education,» I witnessed a confrontation in an 11th - grade honors English class the likes of which, it is safe to say, few educators or scholars have ever seen.

Few educators and students would be willing to take it on.

Many IDs come and go in waves, but few educators are made aware of this.

A few educators wondered if there would be more students sleeping in class, or using the new space to socialize with friends instead of learning.

«Few educators or philosophers of education would argue that schools» sole purpose is to keep children safe,» writes Sadowski, a faculty member in education...

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

Fewer educators are using research more broadly to develop their perspectives.

Few educators would agree more with Gaynor's view of the importance of the school Web club than Marcia Cousins, a reading and computer teacher at Ballard Elementary School in Niles, Michigan.

«Few educators or philosophers of education would argue that schools» sole purpose is to keep children safe,» writes Sadowski, a faculty member in education at Bard University.

Because of the vast amount of information that needs to be covered and the pressure of preparing for standardized tests, relatively few educators are able to consistently provide the time needed to effectively integrate new learning goals into the curriculum.

«At this point,» he added, «the School of the Future exists only in the minds of a few educators.

It's no surprise that many states — and more than a few educators — are wary of mandating that those scientific explanations be taught in school as if they were, ahem, gospel.

Fall has arrived, school doors have reopened for many students across the USA, and quite a few educators face a fresh and potentially daunting assignment: Teach STEM.

Few educators would refer to substitute teaching as a «dream job,» but there are some positives.

The case has brought national attention to the issue, raising questions about whether the pressures to improve scores have driven a few educators to fudge the numbers, but also about broader consequences.

A few educators argue that the fight over the language of instruction is actually a distraction from the real dilemmas in how best to educate California's English learners.

Instructional coaches have a unique vantage point — they see things happening at the ground level and are able to offer a perspective that few educators have.

Few educators would argue the benefits of common assessments for monitoring student learning and impacting their instructional practice.

«She brings the entire world to her students, and opens their minds and hearts in a way that few educators have the ability to do.»

Since that time, our lesson study work has evolved from a tentative experiment by a few educators in the initiative to an integral part of its ongoing work.

In the past, few educators, policymakers, or parents would have considered questioning the accuracy of these tests.

Foster demand for personalized learning: Relatively few educators and parents are currently seeking access to cutting - edge personalized learning models, either because they are not aware that these models exist, or because they do not understand what these models look like.