Sentences with phrase «harder than their teacher»

I'm truly grateful to [Assistant Professor] Meira Levinson, who pushed me harder than any teacher I've ever had.

As a high - school principal for the past nine years, I have observed Advanced Placement (AP) teachers working harder than teachers of most elective courses, but there is no bonus for them if student scores go up and there is no loss of pay if student scores go down.

If we can get the pupils working almost harder than the teacher, then I think we are on the right track.

Under learner - centered environments, learners take control of their learning and are challenged to work harder than their teacher.

Not exact matches

By placing yourself under the leadership of people of color who are your mentors, teachers, supervisors, or pastors you may find it hard to fall into a savior complex; instead you will be constantly listening, learning, and being guided by someone you need... rather than someone who «needs» you.

Nick Gibb, the school standards minister was quoted by The Times as saying: «Thanks to the hard work of teachers and this government's continued focus on raising standards and increased emphasis on phonics, six years are reading better than ever before.»

Well I should add that my husband is high school teacher (though in a different district than IC), so it isn't too hard to follow education issues.

The bottom line: whether you're approaching the teacher or the principal, a united front of several parents is much harder to ignore than the single parent who can be written off as some wacky «health nut.»

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.

I guess the first child really is the hardest in a lot of ways because I'm in no way nervous or worried about ETot heading on to school, he's so strong willed and independent I'm more worried about his teachers keeping up with him than how he'll fare.

Claire Austin, a nurse rather than a teacher (though the SNP leader also got a hard time from them), challenged her over nurses» pay rises, how «demoralising» it was to work in NHS Scotland and the claim she had made use of food banks.

Vision, hard work and self - sacrifice by a group of dedicated New York City teachers led to the founding of the UFT more than 50 years ago.

Each class I'm reminded that I am capable of accomplishing more than the last because the teachers push me to work harder.

We made our poor teacher work a million times harder than necessary.

March 25, 2018 • Tom Rachman's new novel The Italian Teacher takes place in the art world, where a bigger than life artist named Bear Bavinsky makes it hard for his adoring son to form his own indentity.

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

Racially segregated high - poverty schools tend to be overrun with social problems, have a hard time finding and retaining good teachers, are associated with high dropout rates, and are less effective than diverse schools at intervening in problems outside of school that undermine learning.

«This equates to more than one million more pupils in good or outstanding schools than when we began our reforms in 2010, a testament to the hard work of teachers, headteachers and governors across the country.

«A significantly greater proportion of females than males were worried about finding their way around or getting lost, hard classes, hard or unfriendly teachers, getting to class on time, fitting in or making friends, negative peer group pressure, being bullied, being made fun of, older students, new and more students and riding the bus.»

Related to the first theory of «high expectations,» we find students assigned to a teacher who shares their race and gender are more likely to say their teacher pushes them to work hard, requires them to explain their answers, not to give up when the work gets hard, and accepts nothing less than their full effort.

The study, which is scheduled to be published next year, «shows how an often - discussed phenomenon — that schools serving poor children get less qualified teachers than schools in the same district serving more advantaged children — is hard - wired...

However, the heavy emphasis on keeping these schools supplied with teachers is focusing the energy for improvement on recruitment rather than on the need to change the conditions that make these schools so hard to staff in the first place.

As a result, it is harder to detect particularly strong (or weak) performance by reading instructors than by math teachers.

Unfortunately, they are often seen as the adversary themselves...» Students know that there is subjectivity inherent in teachers» grading systems, which supplies students with the ready excuse that when they perform poorly in a class, they can blame it on the teacher for being too hard or unfair, rather than taking responsibility for their own needs for improvement.

As many principals know, the only thing harder than recruiting teachers is keeping them from leaving.

(Among the arguments raised against the proposal: it would hit female teachers with children harder than it would hit men.)

, peer grading teaches them that some assignments don't matter; that they don't have to work too hard on those assignments because the teacher will never see them anyway; and that they can ease their embarrassment about their own errors by teasing those whose scores are a little lower — or significantly higher — than their own.

School Standards Minister Nick Gibb said: «This morning, thousands of pupils will find out which secondary school they will be going to this September and thanks to our reforms and the hard work of teachers, 1.9 million more children are now going to good or outstanding schools than in 2010.

«Rather than being an expert at seven different things,» notes sixth - grade science and math teacher Jon Bromfield, «I can work really hard to become an expert at two subjects.

School funding cuts will be worse than expected and children from «just about managing» families (JAMs) will be hit hardest, according to the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).

And that's where you're getting some push - back from teachers who are working hard on other matters of education reform, and they're saying, ˜Adapting our curriculum takes more time than we've been given and that's going to affect our performance against the new assessments.

Nearly three - fourths of the 25,000 10th graders surveyed said that courses are harder in high school than they were the year before, and more than half said that teachers and rules are more strict.

(Students and teachers need more than test results to motivate their hard work.)

There is probably a little more order and discipline at Calvary than in a typical public school, but Calvary's students work hard, and they learn math, history, and science from competent teachers.

If we asked our teachers what they needed, and worked hard to value and respond to those needs, we would be able to move our school farther than if we entered the professional learning with our own agenda.

Worryingly, almost three quarters (70 %) of school and MAT leaders find teacher recruitment the hardest and most stressful part of their job and more than three quarters (79 %) believe that the skills shortage in teaching will become more severe over the next three years.

Often, teachers give students group tests, which, like the class worksheets, are designed to be harder than the individual assignments.

«Thanks to government reforms and the hard work of teachers 1.9 million more pupils are in good or outstanding schools than in 2010.

This will build on the hard work of teachers and our reforms, which have resulted in 1.9 million more children being taught in good or outstanding schools than in 2010.»

However, in an increasingly data - driven world, teachers find themselves once again fighting hard to remind policymakers and our communities that our students are much more than numbers on the page.

Using various techniques, teachers can help students see that hard work and incorrect answers — the «productive struggle» crucial to real knowledge acquisition — represent steps on the path toward mastery, rather than seeing them as signs of failure.

Finding solutions is even harder when the diagnosis mistakenly suggests teachers unions — rather than poverty and segregation — are at the heart of the problem.

«Some kids were harder on themselves than the teachers were.

However, it's inaccurate to say that it is «harder» to become a teacher than a doctor, because the only barrier that's described is the low acceptance rate for applicants to university teaching programs.

In 2000, more than 30 grassroots groups and foundations found common ground and agitated successfully for contractual changes that made it easier for schools to fill teaching vacancies with outside hires and harder for unwanted teachers with seniority to bump talented first - year teachers from the classroom.

With such selective admissions — it was harder to gain entry to the University of Helsinki's teacher education program (6.8 percent acceptance rate) than the law program (8.3 percent acceptance rate) or the medical school (7.3 percent acceptance rate) in 2016 — and rigorous preparation, one might expect Finland to suffer teacher shortages not unlike those seen in the U.S..

One principal summed up the initial hesitation from many teachers this way: «Everybody's having to work harder than they ever had to work before, and the pay is the same.

Many of the preservice teachers thought that the process of planning for and implementing iPad apps in lessons was harder and more time consuming than anticipated.

In the mean time I extend my deepest admiration and respect to every teacher, school and district leader who is working harder than ever to ensure that all students are successful!

Unfortunately, teacher compensation has not kept pace with increases in salaries in other sectors.38 According to a 2016 nationally representative survey of more than 3,000 teachers, nearly half of teachers would leave teaching «as soon as possible» if they could find a higher - paying job.39 Furthermore, most teachers are not rewarded for working in hard - to - staff schools, in shortage areas, or for their excellence in the classroom.