Sentences with phrase «great teachers question»

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Whether your child gets a few questions wrong on his math homework or he forgets to pack his cleats for soccer practice, mistakes can be life's greatest teacher.

He «was one of the first great teachers to proclaim the basic principle of individualism» the inviolate sanctity of man's soul, and the salvation of one's soul as one's first concern and highest goal,» but «when it came to the next question, a code of ethics to observe for the salvation of one's soul... Jesus (or perhaps His interpreters) gave men a code of altruism, that is, a code which told them that in order to save one's soul, one must love or help or live for others.

35 One of them, a lawyer, asked Him a question, testing Him, 36 «Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?»

So on the great moral teacher vs son of god question, I vote for none of the above.

In many ways, the school chaplain or the religion teacher is doing much of what the church should be doing with young people — namely, taking them seriously, reflecting with them on their moral priorities, sometime challenging their values, offering them a greater perspective in which to deal with their pain, their hopes, their questioning.

When we come to the question - and - answer period, a good - looking teen - ager, his brow furrowed, asks a perceptive question which has troubled many people twice his age: «There have been many great religious teachers besides Christ, and millions of good people have followed them.

This being said, however, I must in all seriousness bemoan one very important omission, which seems to me to open the doors to those perplexing questions I referred to earlier: there is no greater and more moving passage about friendship than Augustine's description, in Book IV of the Confessions, of his «very dear» (but unnamed) friend, an acquaintance from childhood, a fellow student and then fellow teacher of rhetoric.

You can also learn a great deal from how responsive a teacher is to your questions.

Stations with self - guiding questions for reflection can be a great way to allow students to move through the writing process at their own pace, and the teacher can rotate through the stations, addressing small groups of students instead of the whole class.

Also, during the week, NSTA's Learning Center is «staffed» by teacher - mentors that can answer your questions and point you in the right direction for great resources.

Frequently, the greatest question in the minds of many teachers is not whether they should be assessed, but whether the test used to do so is fair.

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

Sadly, in Australia, the lure of Medicine and Law is so great that any student with a high ATAR score is questioned by parents, careers advisors (and even teachers) should they express an interest in teaching.

Each escape room has the following contents: ♦ Teacher Instructions with Usage Guide and FAQ ♦ 20 Multiple Choice Questions ♦ 5 Decoders for each of the 5 Levels ♦ Student Recording Sheet and Teacher Answer Key ♦ Link to an optional, but recommended, digital breakout room Important Note: Each topic utilizes the same types of puzzles American History: ♦ 13 Colonies ♦ American Heroes ♦ American Revolution ♦ American Symbols ♦ Bill of Rights ♦ Black History Month ♦ Boston Tea Party ♦ Branches of Government ♦ Christopher Columbus ♦ Civil Rights ♦ Civil War ♦ Cold War ♦ Declaration of Independence ♦ Dust Bowl ♦ First Thanksgiving ♦ French and Indian War ♦ Gilded Age ♦ Great Depression ♦ Industrial Revolution ♦ Jamestown ♦ Lewis and Clark ♦ Lost Colony of Roanoke ♦ Louisiana Purchase ♦ Martin Luther King ♦ Mexican American War ♦ Oregon Trail ♦ Plymouth Colony ♦ Progressive Era ♦ Reconstruction Era ♦ Spanish American War ♦ Texas Revolution ♦ War of 1812 ♦ Westward Expansion ♦ World War I ♦ World War II Ancient History: ♦ Ancient China ♦ Ancient Egypt ♦ Ancient Greece ♦ Ancient India ♦ Ancient Rome ♦ Ancient Mesopotamia World History: ♦ Absolute Monarchs ♦ Age of Enlightenment ♦ Aztec Empire ♦ Crusades ♦ Explorers ♦ French Revolution ♦ Inca Empire ♦ Maya Civilization ♦ Middle Ages ♦ Ottoman Empire ♦ Renaissance ♦ Titanic ♦ Vikings ♦ World War 1 ♦ World War 2

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With teacher favorite Zaption no longer available, Playposit (formerly EduCanon) has emerged as a great to to allow you to supplement a chosen video with all manner of add - ons to make it more interactive, from «reflective pauses» to audio clips to multiple - choice questions.

In our new report, Opportunity at the Top: How America's Best Teachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomTeachers Could Close the Gaps, Raise the Bar, and Keep Our Nation Great, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroom?&rGreat, Emily Ayscue Hassel and I asked a simple question: «Will our nation's bold efforts to recruit more top teachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomteachers and remove the least effective teachers put a great teacher in every classroomteachers put a great teacher in every classroom?&rgreat teacher in every classroom?»

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

That is the question that author and educator Bill Nave aims to answer in his new book from Harvard Education Press, Student - Centered Learning: Nine Classrooms in Action, in which nine teachers tell the stories of their own classrooms and how they altered their own methods to achieve greater student success.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Many schools that enjoy great relationships and rapport between parents and teachers report that there are a few evenings each year set aside for question / answer sessions.

Teachers need to be great at asking questions and astute at managing the different paths to learning that each child creates.

The discovery that teachers in some schools may have kept copies of last year's exams and used them to help students prepare for this year's tests, which ask the same questions, knocks off track, at least temporarily, state efforts to raise student achievement through greater school accountability.

«What we are questioning is whether it is worth teachers spending a great amount of time making sure pupils learn all 85 GPCs, rather than concentrating on the most frequent ones and then building pupils» vocabulary.»

Project - based learning teachers can choose from among many types of driving questions, but sometimes we get stuck when trying to come up with a great one because there are so many considerations in the design process that informs the crafting of an effective driving question.

The presentation posed a great question: «If children are experts, why can't discovering their expertise be the expertise of teachers?»

«She shares her great questions with her classmates and teachers, helping others to delve to understand important concepts and principles behind the superficially obvious.»

In all of these places, the power comes with a great deal of structure and guidance, but instead of guiding with directions, the teachers at these schools ask questions instead.

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50 Great Questions for Teacher Interviews The questions you ask during interviews are key to drawing out the personalities of applicants and selecting the right people to join yoQuestions for Teacher Interviews The questions you ask during interviews are key to drawing out the personalities of applicants and selecting the right people to join yoquestions you ask during interviews are key to drawing out the personalities of applicants and selecting the right people to join your staff.

Let's start with a great question from Phil about the role that an online teacher plays in the virtual classroom.

In this webinar, Daniel Weisberg, CEO, The New Teacher Project, will be interviewed by Joanne Weiss, former chief of staff to former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, about the key insights of The Mirage report, where the field of educator professional learning is headed, and what it means for districts to ask fundamentally different questions about what great teaching means and how to achieve it.

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Teachers can help older students by including more diverse reading and writing each day, giving students more time for tests and answering questions, providing greater access to textbooks, and using more challenging vocabulary and word retrieval games such a Scrabble.

- Teacher question / clues & answer key - 25 Task Cards correlating with the BINGO questions & answers - Student Task Card Record Sheet - Teacher Task Card Answer Key The teacher will call out a question / clue and the students must find the answer on their BINGO board - if students do not know the answer, it provides a great opportunity for discussion & problem sTeacher question / clues & answer key - 25 Task Cards correlating with the BINGO questions & answers - Student Task Card Record Sheet - Teacher Task Card Answer Key The teacher will call out a question / clue and the students must find the answer on their BINGO board - if students do not know the answer, it provides a great opportunity for discussion & problem sTeacher Task Card Answer Key The teacher will call out a question / clue and the students must find the answer on their BINGO board - if students do not know the answer, it provides a great opportunity for discussion & problem steacher will call out a question / clue and the students must find the answer on their BINGO board - if students do not know the answer, it provides a great opportunity for discussion & problem solving!

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The questions include prompts such as, «What do you think makes a great teacher?»

These schools also demonstrated a greater commitment to reading school - wide, which was evidenced by greater time spent in teacher - directed reading instruction and independent reading, higher level questioning, and increased communication between teachers and parents.

There's no question that good teachers know their subject matter, their pedagogy, and their students; but great teachers also know themselves.

Great teachers find compelling questions, provide scaffolding that fades, assess students through performance, and care deeply about their students.

«It is true that the days for «Moby Dick» or «Great Expectations» might be numbered, but the question that teachers have to ask themselves is «What is the purpose of reading this text?

We are also proud that we were able to educate more Californians about the Vergara case through TEACHED interactive screening events, introducing audiences to Students Matter lawyer Joshua Lipschitz, great teachers who explain the policies in question in our short film The Blame Game: Teachers Speak Out, and other courageous leaders like principal Bill Kappenhagen, who became a witness in the case as a result of participating in TEACHED screenings (goteachers who explain the policies in question in our short film The Blame Game: Teachers Speak Out, and other courageous leaders like principal Bill Kappenhagen, who became a witness in the case as a result of participating in TEACHED screenings (goTeachers Speak Out, and other courageous leaders like principal Bill Kappenhagen, who became a witness in the case as a result of participating in TEACHED screenings (go Bill!).

This Facebook group is a great place to ask questions and share ideas with other teachers as you implement Literature Circles!

These three best practices help to distribute school leadership amongst school leaders, teachers, and parents and serve to answer the question, «what defines great school leadership?»

The result: 60 percent of respondents said they oppose, which isn't all that surprising since the question hits on what we know, from the poll, is opponents» greatest fear: that the Core will somehow limit teachers.

And a new study from the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt University — although not studying the important question of whether teachers who receive high scores on TAP evaluations tend to produce greater gains in their students» test scores — found that a small sample of secondary schools using TAP produced no higher levels of student achievement than schools that hadn't implemented the TAP program.

Another unanswered question is whether this contract does anything of consequence to attract high - quality individuals into the classroom, reward great teachers and retain the best teachers.

Hawkes and Rosmiszowski (2001) discovered that computer - mediated discourse achieves a higher overall reflective level than do reflections generated by teachers in face - to - face interactions, recognizing the value of time independence for providing a greater chance to ask reflective questions.

The teacher's goal is to get 100 % of students processing and sharing answers to teacher - posed questions, and technology can be a great way to get students excited, active, and engaged.