Sentences with phrase «few teachers viewed»

I think more than a few teachers viewed actually teaching a lesson might be found less than proficient.

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Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

Why are there still so few men within Early Years in primary schools: views from male trainee teachers and male leaders?

Over the past few years, several US states and local school boards have introduced measures that would mean teachers must include the views of those who are sceptical of a human influence on climate change in science lessons.

Few are more aware of this isolationism than secondary school teachers, particularly those who teach history using standard texts that — not surprisingly — view the signal events of American history with a kind of national solipsism.

Though the commission's view of teachers and teaching has gained in popularity in recent years - witness Secretary of Education Rod Paige's recent call to dismantle the current system of training and certification - few of its recommendations have been widely embraced.

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.

Due to their abilities and intellect, teachers may view gifted learners as having few or no problems, such as bullying — this can be quite the opposite.

With the help of a few high - profile media stories and some legal cases, this view has shifted, and now most schools have an acceptable use policy covering all online communications between students, parents and teachers that impact on the school community.

Many teachers viewed the new evaluations as a threat — which, in retrospect, appears overblown, given how few teachers were dismissed as a result of new systems.

Nevertheless, the results contrast sharply with the view that the effectiveness of individual teachers is essentially fixed after the first few years on the job.

But last week, the Arizona senator sought to offer voters a more complete picture of his views on schools, outlining an agenda of higher pay for «master teachers,» school vouchers, and fewer «strings» attached to federal dollars designated for K - 12 education.

Space is too short to highlight every noteworthy feature, but here are a few that have stood time's test: E. D. Hirsch's placement of progressive education within the Romantic tradition (first issue), Joel Best's skeptical view of school violence (2002), Michael Podgursky's discovery of the well - paid teacher (2003), Bruno Manno's and Bryan Hassel's takes on the charter movement (2003), Brian Jacob and Steve Levitt's technique for catching teachers who cheat (2004), Barry Garelick's jeremiad against progressive math (2005), Frederick Hess and Martin West's exposé of school «strike phobia» (2006), Roland Fryer's identification of «acting white» (2006), Clay Christiansen and Michael Horn's vision for virtual learning (2008), and Milton Gaither's authoritative look at home schooling (2009).

Schools have encouraged the use of Apps in the classroom for the last few years but many teachers have reported problems such as content not being relevant, inappropriate adverts, in - app purchases preventing the Apps from being used to their full potential and graphical issues when viewed on large - format screens.

And Dan Goldhaber took the long view by pointing out that, contrary to the current narrative, we've ramped up teacher production significantly over the last few decades.

After viewing a few videos collected by experienced GH teachers (see them from Hugh the Teacher here) and some talk from the two of us and our technology guru, who had, in her classroom, finished a few Genius Hour projects, the real questions started.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

... Organizations such as the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, NEA, AFT, Hope Street Fellows, The US Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lTeachers of the Year, NEA, AFT, Hope Street Fellows, The US Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lteachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and learning.

In the 1990s, a few adventurous teacher education researchers enhanced video - based observation of video teaching cases by developing interactive videodisc programs that required viewers to answer questions while viewing teaching episodes (e.g., Abell, Cennamo, & Campbell, 1996; Cronin & Cronin, 1992; McIntyre & Pape, 1993).

In the next few minutes, we're going to take a bird's eye view of this national fight over teacher pay and ask, how did we get here?

Policy makers started viewing teacher evaluations differently a few years ago when Republican lawmakers began demanding accountability for teachers at the same time that the federal government began providing incentives to states to redesign teacher evaluation systems through Race to the Top and No Child Left Behind.

Teaching methods courses, perhaps, offer one of the few opportunities for preservice teachers to view new knowledge through lenses different than the ones tainted by prior knowledge about teaching and learning.

A few years later, when I decided I want to become a painter, I got frustrated that in all of these years, she, or the other art teachers I had in high school or during my one year at the Bezalel Academy, didn't teach me what I viewed as «proper skills».

The judge accepted the proposition that ``... in any event, nothing in the 1996 Act (or elsewhere) obliged teachers to adopt a position of studied neutrality between, on the one hand, scientific views which reflect the great majority of world scientific opinion and, on the other, a minority view held by a few dissentient scientists.»

The egg - heads can be viewed as unimportant teachers inhabiting backwater universities talking about topics so obscure, few can understand their work.