Sentences with phrase «gives teachers control»

More importantly, it gives teachers control over the iPads students are using in class.

LANSchool 7.6 gives teachers control over the computers in their classroom.

Giving teachers control of a camera, the opportunity to watch themselves teach, and allowing them to discuss their videos talk with external observers, peers and supervisors will provide be a more effective mirror than any observer's written notes.

Teachers as Owners: A Key to Revitalizing Public Education demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give teachers control of their professional activity, including full responsibility and accountability for creating and sustaining high - performing learning communities.

Not exact matches

This isn't a new argument, but it's one that's resurfaced recently: Instead of more gun control, some people believe we should give guns and gun training to teachers, office workers, and the like.

If Bible study has become a specialty or series of specialties today the reason is not to be sought simply in the development of specialization among teachers of theology but in the loss of a controlling idea in theological education — an idea able to give unity to many partial inquiries.

Although summer is traditionally a break from school, giving kids the opportunity to be «teacher» is a great way for them to learn how to control their environment or practice executive functioning skills.

The New York State United Teachers union this weekend gave its endorsement to the two Democrats running this April to fill vacant seats in the chamber — two key races that could shift control of the chamber away from Republicans.

Nor has it got anything to do with «giving control to teachers».

He also supports Mayoral control of the school system, though he believes that parents should be given input and teachers should have «flexibility.»

«Any teacher who has had to deal with challenging and disruptive pupils will recognise, that given the combination of factors that applied in this case, how such a situation can easily spiral out of control.

Key legislative Democrats, with strong teachers - union backing, have sought to give the Regents, who are controlled by the Legislature's Democratic majority, sole control over charter schools.

This limbo was largely the result of a deal that the Bloomberg administration struck with the teachers» union to give principals more control over who worked in their schools.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

Duckworth and her adviser, Martin E. P. Seligman, gave 300 eighth graders, their teachers and their parents a questionnaire about the students» ability to control impulses and follow rules.

Your yoga teacher certainly can not control your brain's budgeting process (neither can you), but she can help give your brain more relevant information to process and make better, more refined predictions.

Your training as a yoga teacher should not be a drag on your growth and instead of giving your power to a guru, it will ensure that you can take control of your life, that you are the primary player.

As schools move away from local authority control and the government gives them an increasing amount of autonomy to spend their budgets as they see fit the need for teachers, the reason for ICT heads and school leaders to visit Bett strengthens.

The statement reads: «We want teachers to be allowed to give all children the chance to love language, play with words, be bold and creative, express themselves - and to learn proper control of language alongside these joyful experiences.

By setting high, clear learning goals and giving teachers and local officials full control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.

The actual purpose of creating this tool is to give power and control to the authors, teachers, and everyone else who want to develop multimedia learning objects that are easy to adopt.

Preliminary findings of a PHD, co-funded by Education Support Partnership and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) suggest that giving teachers sufficient control and autonomy is a significant factor in reducing job strain, but that the effect is relatively small unless combined with leader and management support.

When online learning is used as the primary driver of instruction, teachers inevitably give up control over many aspects of curriculum planning and lesson delivery; and in low - quality implementations of blended learning, the teacher's professional judgment ends there.

While this might be uncomfortable to consider, it's a great area to stretch yourself as a teacher in giving up control and allowing students to take more of that control.

Rocketship leaders will fix a disconnect they see between what happens in the online learning lab and the classroom, to give teachers more control over the students» digital learning and further individualize the teaching.

• too much school time is given over to test prep — and the pressure to lift scores leads to cheating and other unsavory practices; • subjects and accomplishments that aren't tested — art, creativity, leadership, independent thinking, etc. — are getting squeezed if not discarded; • teachers are losing their freedom to practice their craft, to make classes interesting and stimulating, and to act like professionals; • the curricular homogenizing that generally follows from standardized tests and state (or national) standards represents an undesirable usurpation of school autonomy, teacher freedom, and local control by distant authorities; and • judging teachers and schools by pupil test scores is inaccurate and unfair, given the kids» different starting points and home circumstances, the variation in class sizes and school resources, and the many other services that schools and teachers are now expected to provide their students.

Mary Lau, Digital Marketing Manager at Action Storage, said: «It's interesting to see that so many survey respondents believe giving teachers and students more control over education could be the key to real change.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

Such tools give agency and control to teachers.

It is thought that these cameras give more control to teachers in difficult situations by limiting bad behaviour and instilling a sense of trust between the school and parents.

It gives teachers administrative control over student blogs and accounts.

In a controlled study now in its third year, they are looking at the effects of a new evaluation system that gives video cameras to teachers and allows them to record the lessons they choose.

Whether the much debated Digital Technologies curriculum moves forward in its present state or not, computational thinking and robotics still appeal to tech - savvy teachers who wish to give students an opportunity to play, create and control machines.

Student advice to teachers includes: Trust us; Recognise that everyone is smart and talented in different ways; Let us be in the driver's seat, put more control in our hands, step back, let go; Give us a chance to surprise you, to show you what we are capable of; Remember these are student not teacher projects; Discover what we are interested in.

When you're using any measure — student achievement or a classroom observation — to infer whether or not a given teacher is effective, you obviously want to control for students» prior achievement.

We recognised the need to give the control back to schools and help them find supply teachers without the substantial associated costs and, likewise, for supply teachers to find work without having to forgo large portions of their salary.

AP helps solve the «curve raiser» problem by setting an external standard that is not controlled by the teacher, and one that all students in a given class can potentially meet.

The DfE has attributed the study's findings to «tough new powers» introduced in 2010 that give teachers stronger powers to search pupils, remove the requirement to give parent's 24 hours» written notice of after - school detentions and clarify teachers» power to use reasonable force to control unruly pupils.

With the baseline controls in X, this gives Therefore, the teacher effect is still 0.16 percentage points.

When teachers provide constant, controlling behavioral feedback, as Arpino and Walmsley were being taught to do, they waste precious time they could be spending giving feedback related to the academic content of the lesson, which is far more powerful in terms of raising student achievement.

With the baseline controls in X and without using the quadratic terms, this gives This partition gives a substantially higher teacher effect: 0.30 vs. 0.16 percentage points (and a lower school effect).

The zone is a public - private partnership that gives principals and teachers more control over curriculum, schedules, staff, and budgets.

Second, any plan that stipulates a state must first «opt in» before that state's federal taxpayers may receive the national K — 12 scholarship tax credit will effectively give the teachers unions the ability to stop the scholarship tax credit in virtually any state that has a Democratic governor or Democratic control of either legislative chamber.

In an effort to give more control to local school districts, the state Legislature passed sweeping changes to public education, many of which affected teachers directly.

The solutions to every perceived or claimed public education problem seem to revolve around standardizing teachers and children, closing public schools, giving away taxpayer resources like school buildings to charter schools, and stripping local control from community stakeholders.

The article offers information on the significance of restorative justice in giving students more internal control and improving their relationships with teachers in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Gives control to students The way most classrooms are currently structured, teachers tell students what they need to learn — they assign lessons and homework — and students must blindly follow.

«In government, Liberal Democrats have shown we trust teachers by giving the profession control of our # 2.5 bn pupil premium; backing a new Royal College of Teaching; axing Labour's hated A * - C league table measure, and successfully fighting to implement independent recommendations on pay.

I think our teachers had to learn to give up a lot of control, and give it to their students.