Sentences with phrase «few working teachers»

In fact, few working teachers knew it was going on, or had reason to care.

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Few preachers or teachers feel that they can work in the Church, or have loyalties in it apart from work and loyalty within a particular order.

Within a few decades, hundreds of thousands of people who could read had access to written works that heretofore had been accessible only to clergy, teachers and the very rich.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

While I was in Chile I worked long hours as an English teacher and rarely picked up a pencil or drew, except for a few life - drawing courses I did during one summer.

Some of them have college degrees and experience working as therapists or teachers, but others have few qualifications.

But the researchers did find two positive associations between working motherhood and well - adjusted children: kids whose mothers worked when they were younger than 3 were later rated as higher - achieving by teachers and had fewer problems with depression and anxiety.

we started being 4 months old in Snellville location and attended only for a few months (had to move closer to my work), but my daughter loved the teachers and her friends!

Remember that teachers work harder than you might realize, and before you're ready to pick up the phone and give them a piece of your mind or march into the school to correct something they've done, there are a few things they might want you to keep in mind.

Work with Workbooks Pick up a few age or grade appropriate math, spelling, or grammar workbooks from a teacher supply store or a toy store.

Teachers would have to be licensed every few years in order to work in England's state schools under a future Labour government, the BBC has learned.

A few days later, Trump tweeted that arming teachers would be up to the states, and that armed educators (and trusted people who work within a school) must be firearms adept and have annual training.

To cultivate that untapped talent, Singer said, educators have solid evidence of methods that work in STEM education — such as focusing on conceptual learning, problem - solving, and use of representations such as diagrams and evolution trees — but those methods are used in very few undergraduate classrooms where STEM teachers receive their training, Singer said.

And I train the teachers so they can continue the work — even if it is just for a few minutes each day.»

Beth Cooke is an internationally recognized New York - based yoga teacher who works with celebrity clients like Lena Dunham, Stela Maxwell, and Abbi Jacobson, to name a few.

In addition, I teach for a few other local and international training programs and offer restorative yoga immersions and adaptive trainings for teachers who work with students with movement disorders.

It took birthing two babies, becoming a certified prenatal yoga teacher, and working in the birth industry for a few years for me to realize how incredibly helpful these would have been for me.

Teacher training often consisted of working closely with a teacher, or a few teachers, over a period ofTeacher training often consisted of working closely with a teacher, or a few teachers, over a period ofteacher, or a few teachers, over a period of years.

Each of our teachers offer a different flavor to their classes and when a student (as we are all students) are working on different postures - it can be nice to get a few perspectives to feel reassurance we are moving in the correct direction.

A few years later I met B.K.S. Iyengar, a master at working with therapeutic conditions, and I knew I'd found my calling as a yoga teacher.

I could write about outdoor Pre-Grounded yoga that works, why you should teach professional development yoga for pre-school teachers, sweet family classes on Saturday afternoons with mamas and daughters holding hands in Savasana, weaving in story, how to overcome the naysayers and teach 0 - 3, how to rock a library story time — the few sweet successes I've experienced so far.

When I was still working as a teacher, I had a few sets of tailored suit and trousers and I never broke them.

I made three gift baskets for the teacher appreciation lunch, worked a few hours, did some laundry, and now I better finish this week's link party before we might lose power again.

I have a few friends that are teachers ranging from elementary to college and it's a lot of work.

Here's just a few of my favorite posts: 5 Things Teachers Wish Parents Knew My Job Has Its Perks... Like Meeting David Beckham Funny Things I Said Before Having Kids Dinnertime Questions To Get Kids Talking Working Mom Hacks to Get More Time with Your Kids

Most of these women are working in reputed positions such as government officials, office workers, nurses, students, bank employees, teachers and few are also operating small businesses.

I began my career as a Junior Primary Teacher teaching at a few Elizabeth JP schools, I loved working with year 5 to 8 year olds.

Their teacher, Mrs. Tambor, gave them a few minutes after independent work to share their methods in pairs before they gathered at the carpet to discuss the problem as a whole group and evaluate some of the different methods they'd used to solve it.

For the last few years I have been an e-Learning facilitator working with teachers and students in classrooms.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

We noted that few observers questioned their own consistency between classes and teachers and that few schools had processes in place for observers to work together to design protocols for observation and feedback.

Several years back, following an early August day working with teachers in southwest Wyoming, I took a drive through what we Mainers would call the sticks — small roads, few houses, and lots of open space.

If you're a teacher in a secondary school setting working with a class of Year 10 students, what do you do if you have a few students who really struggle with spelling?

Whatever the causes — and however they were characterized — one result of the policy shift was that few people were aware of the existence of the other studies, of the overall progress made in Chicago schools over the past decade, or of the fact that teachers and principals think the policy is working and that kids report that teachers and parents are helping them out more.

Of course, professors at Harvard make double or triple what the average K - 12 teacher earns in a year and work far fewer hours (nine hours a week of class time?

I have worked in a few different schools and visited many more, and I've always wondered about the community of teachers in each of those schools.

Very few of these teachers work on their PLCs outside of designated «PLC time» and often the topics fizzle out after a year or so of investigation.

It is even more so with teachers, as they work with students for fewer hours a day.

The teacher - directed part of the day lasts only a few hours; many children then apply their reading and arithmetic skills to church activities or to helping their parents at work.

When we look back to the nuns [and teachers] we want to remember that they were working with an «advantage» that doesn't exist now that could get us through a few decades of this schooling system.

There are few more powerful tools in the teacher toolbox than sitting, one - on - one with a student, discussing their work.

During training, more than a few teachers have said after practicing the body language of meaning business, «I tried it last night with my eight year old, and it works!

In a new Education Next article «A Bad Bargain: How teacher collective bargaining affects students» employment and earnings later in life,» Michael Lovenheim and Alexander Willén of Cornell University present the first evidence that students» exposure to a duty - to - bargain law while in elementary and secondary school lowers future earnings and leads to fewer hours worked, reductions in employment, and decreases in labor force participation.

It's familiar stuff to those teachers — still far too few — who follow Willingham's work (along with lead author Paul Bruno, he helped produce the report and spoke at the event) but it's a refreshing statement aimed at preparation programs that too often fetishize theory, teachers» dispositions toward learners, or soft pedagogical skills at the expense of subject matter depth.

From my time as a teacher, I learned how challenging and rewarding the teaching profession is, how meaningful real connections with students can be (I'm still in contact with quite a few of my students from St. Jude), and how important it is to take a growth mindset to this work.

When It Comes to Volatile Kids, Pick Your Battles Dr. Ross W. Greene, a psychologist who works with easily frustrated children and their parents and the author of The Explosive Child, advises parents and teachers that identifying the causes of a child's frustration and working with the youngster to develop coping skills can lead to fewer explosions and more compliance.

This helped to achieve low student loads — 65 or fewer per teacher, including advisories of 12 students per teacher — but, by January of our first year, the trustees and the faculty knew this leadership arrangement would not work.

Not only was Colombino working full time as an algebra teacher at Salem High School in Salem, Mass., but he was also enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Boston College and a few months away from welcoming a second baby.

I started my own blog a few years back when I was a teacher and wanted a place to catch my reflections about my work.

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.