Sentences with phrase «figures give teachers»

Facts and figures give teachers insight into the level and form of engagement present from each family.

Not exact matches

I figured I'd put the supplies to good use by giving them to Jake's teacher as extras because I know kids always run out mid year.

Comments, behaviors, and observations by your child can provide good clues about the things your teacher likes and can be helpful in figuring out the best teacher gift to give.

I was super stoked to start yoga teacher training at YogaSpace in Toronto back in March, and I'm at the halfway point of the program, so I figured I'd give everyone a bit of an update as to how it's going.

Jaleel White scores as the beloved third - grade teacher, a guy given to breaking out the old banjo as he gives his class a challenge of his own — track him down and figure out what he'll be doing this summer, based on his clues.

Not surprisingly, given these figures, the share of prospective teachers gaining formal teacher preparation (i.e., a degree in education) through a graduate rather than undergraduate program has risen sharply over time, from about 45 percent in 1990 to about 63 percent in 2010.

Jeremy Hodgen, professor of mathematics education at the University of Nottingham, said: «These lessons enable teachers to figure out some of the reasons why kids get things wrong and give them exercises that can help them overcome some of those differences.

Again, though, the new ESEA should allow states great latitude in structuring that right (for instance, they could give that choice to individual teachers, or allow a school - by - school vote); regardless, each state will have to figure out what to do with its pension obligations to teachers who switch to the new contract.

The figures paint a negative picture of the current recruitment issues that the education sector is facing and suggest these issues could continue, given the number of teachers considering leaving the profession.

That can be helped if teachers are given good tools to help them do that assessment and also figure out what to do next.

Schools of education are driving off in the wrong direction, she tells us, and no one can quite figure out in advance how to give future teachers the tools to perform well at their trade.

Asked about support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 31 % of the public express a favorable view in 2016, a figure that has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013.

Asked about their support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 31 % of those offering an opinion express a favorable view (see Figure 7b).

A look at the process, however, reveals a focus on the attributes of a given program more than on its success in producing good teachers (see Figure 2).

When asked whether teachers unions have a generally positive or negative effect on the nation's public schools, 33 percent of the public gives a negative response, virtually unchanged from the 31 percent and 33 percent who perceived a negative impact in 2009 and 2010, respectively (see Figure 1).

The graphs below, a modified version of Figure 1 from the paper, shows the total contributions that will be made into the pension plan over a teacher's working career (the solid black line) versus the actual benefit teachers would receive at a given stage of their career (the black dotted line).

So, K - 12 public education costs more than parents are paying for daycare and preschool, which is reasonable given that K - 12 education is a more resource - intensive activity, teachers typically make more, and the K - 12 dollar figure includes spending on services for students with disabilities.

Over 60 percent of respondents give the post offices and police force in their local community an A or a B, and only 10 percent give them a D or an F. Even teachers assign the local post office and police force higher marks than local public schools (see Figure 2).

As a result, teachers have been asking for more guidance and development from their districts, and districts have hundreds of different materials to sort through to figure out what is the best help to give.

Often this is due to the fact that the data teachers receive is not real - time data, but rather data from the prior year and is technically out - of - date for the specific student, and the other reason is simply because undergraduate classes just do not teach how to figure the types calculations f data that would be applicable in different given situations and then what to do with that for the data to improve student performance.

She's almost certainly going to rival Randi Weingarten as a public figure — and to give palpitations to all (regardless of party) who don't advance what she sees as the rightful — and, in her view, inseparable — interests of teachers and kids.

This would give novices the opportunity to learn on the job and figure out whether teaching is right for them, without sinking thousands of dollars into teacher training programs.

JE: The title of this particular paper mentions ventriloquism and just to let people know, when you talk about that it's not the teacher using the puppets is it, it's the student giving these voices to, well it was everything — figures, digital characters...

Are there aspects of the new idea that students can not be expected to figure out but must be given by the teacher (such as a new notation or vocabulary)?

In each of these grade - banded resource books, teachers are given activities to teach sorting, counting, learning properties of geometric figures, fractions, measurement, perimeter, area, and more.

And now, a pair of ESEA rewrite bills headed to conference in Congress would give states acres of new running room when it comes to setting student achievement goals, figuring out how much tests matter, evaluating teachers, and more.

Teacher education programs must move toward required yearlong residencies that give candidates the needed figuring out period.

To the NJEA, Wollmer said, the biggest question is figuring out what the teacher evaluations will look like and how much weight will be given to standardized test scores.

My concern is that it may end up becoming a lightning rod for criticism and give the public the idea that teachers are demanding six - figure pay.

I also disagree that CT has all the expertise it needs in its teaching force because if that was the case CT has figured out the secret formula, then what you are saying is that our for - profit universities (yes even state universities are for - profit) care more about producing highly - effective teachers than their bottom line, and those teachers have so much knowledge and expertise that the only thing they need is for administration to give more money to education.

Anybody with a brain can easily conclude that the level of teaching will sky - rocket if the teachers are given the opportunity to make a six figure income if they give up their tenure.

The Philadelphia Federation of Teachers was given no advance word of the action — which happened at an early - morning SRC meeting called with minimal notice — and which figures to result in a legal challenge to the takeover law the SRC believes gives it the power to bypass negotiations and impose terms.

Regardless, such figures are often used because they give the public easy - to - understand illustrations, that lead to commonsensical perceptions that teachers are not only widely varying in terms of their effectiveness, but also that new and improved evaluation systems are helping to better differentiate and identify teachers in terms of their variation in (in) effectiveness.

There's going to be ample opportunity for enrichment activities at the University of Birmingham school, with teachers being paid more — the figure is yet to be finalise — to give every pupil five hours of enrichment each week.

Teachers can't do something different unless they are given time to figure it out, and provided good feedback along the way.

Now as before, teachers and entrepreneurs give up a little and take a little as they figure out ways of reconciling uniformity with customization of teaching.

In these grade - banded resource books, teachers are given activities to teach sorting, counting, learning properties of geometric figures, fractions, measurement, perimeter, area, and more.

Moreover, maybe we have to figure out how to get administrators to fire ineffective teachers, too — see Rick Hess on the «missing half of school reform» — but the first order of business is giving them the ability to do so.

The addendum does not give any indication as to what this might look like — the new teacher mentioned above will have to figure it out in conjunction with school, district, and state policies.

Preservice teachers found it beneficial for their future students to achieve a variety of learning objectives in physical geography lessons by «[providing] student with detailed information that if it were to be given on a sheet of paper, could potentially be confusing» and visualizing information effectively and, therefore, «making it easier to analyze data than if a student were to have to rely on their mental maps» (Figures 4c and 4d).

For instance, when we were learning about making change, I gave the students six word problems in which each of their teachers went to the concession stand at a baseball game, spent a certain amount of money, and gave a certain amount to the cashier; the problem was to figure out how much change each teacher received.

If you are a freshman, you probably know how difficult it can be to figure out what your teachers want from you in terms of assignments they give you, papers they require you to write, and projects they want you to accomplish.

I mean, do we really have to play this game, where because I'm who I am and you're who you are, we pretend that the word «fuck» doesn't exist, and while we're at it, that the action that underlies the word doesn't exist, and I just puke up a bunch of junk about how some teacher changed my life by teaching me how Shakespeare was actually the world's first rapper, or about the time I was doing community service with a bunch of homeless teenagers dying of cancer or something and felt the deep call of selfless action, or else I pull out all the stops and give you the play - by - play sob story of what happened to my dad, or some other terrible heartbreak of a thing that makes you feel so bummed out you figure, what the hell, we've got quotas after all, and this kid's gotten screwed over enough, so you give me the big old stamp of approval and a fat envelope in the mail come April?

Your job, as your dog's teacher, is to figure out what that price is for any given behavior, and pay it.

Jean - Auguste - Dominique Ingres was the main figure of neoclassicism until the 1850s and a prominent teacher, giving priority to drawing over color.

What is a 4th grade Science teacher (or a 12th grade AP physics teacher) going to do if one of her students asks what it means for Figure 1C of the Marcott graph given the recent caveat: «20th century portion of our paleotemperature stack is not statistically robust, can not be considered representative of global temperature changes, and therefore is not the basis of any of our conclusions.»

State Sen. Oscar Braynon, D - Miami Gardens, said that teachers would now have to be included in the talk that he and other African - American fathers have to give their kids in addressing how to act around armed authority figures.