Sentences with phrase «history is a good teacher»

Next to experience, history is the best teacher and it is a lot cheaper.

If history is a good teacher, this work will not go to waste.

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So is my mom, who is the best fourth grade teacher in the history of the world, (not that I'm biased or anything).

All these teachers are wrestling with the question how best to teach the history of religions in the undergraduate setting.

Teachers turn this time into an opportunity for additional instruction, tying in nutrition lessons with math, history, or science; there are opportunities to talk about good table manners as well.

KIPP students now sit for parent - teacher conferences that detail not just how they're doing in history and algebra, but how well they score on zest, curiosity, social intelligence and optimism.

A thorough medical, developmental and family history is essential as well as detailed information from parents, teachers and any other adult that has contact with the child in other settings.

Taking the stage on a snowy Super Bowl Sunday with a well - beyond - capacity crowd at the Mescal Hornbeck Community Center in Woodstock, February 4 to debate the issues were history teacher Jeff Beals of Woodstock, attorney David Clegg of Woodstock, attorney Antonio Delgado of Rhinebeck, business owner Brian Flynn of Elka Park, business owner Gareth Rhodes of Kerhonkson and business owner Pat Ryan of Gardiner.

The third candidate is Wes Laraway, a high school history teacher running on the «Best Choice» line.

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

With her view of the world rocked, Nadine is forced to see the people in her life, including her well - meaning but distracted mother (Kyra Sedgwick), and unlikely mentor and History teacher Mr. Bruner (Woody Harrelson), with fresh eyes and new appreciation.

The history: In his four previous Competition appearances, Haneke has been garlanded with the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury for «Code Unknown» (2000), the silver - medal Grand Prix for «The Piano Teacher» (2001), and the Best Director prize for «Cache» (2005), but the Palme d'Or has remained just beyond his reach.

Jack Ryan (Affleck) is the history teacher turned CIA agent who knows the situation well enough to see the facade, but it seems to fall on ever - deafening ears from the advisors to the President.

RJ Cyler) are not only best friends, they're each other's only friend, unless an empathetic history teacher counts.

Sherri Pritchard, the school's social - studies «learning facilitator» — there are no teachers and no principal here — said 95 percent of her online students pass Virginia's end - of - course history test, which would put them well ahead of both the Hampton school district's and state's pass rates.

One example for how teachers can contribute to making this year the best school year ever for a child is through an idea I named «Study History — Don't Live It.»

«There might be a peer who's doing really well on a cognitive skill,» says Chris Kelly, a Summit history teacher.

Programming, laptops, tables and other uses of educational technology have a long history - Seymour Papert was discussing why it was important in the 1970s, but we have only recently started talking about the best methodologies for using the technology, and the kinds of knowledge and skill that teachers need to be able to access if they are going to deploy it effectively.

We did the Willows Academy, we were learning about computer programming, and we had teachers from our language, arts and history, science and math, all wanting to become better programmers and to be able to integrate that into their classrooms.

Looking for lessons that were of high quality and free, I checked one of my favorite sites: mrdonn.org, on which teachers Lin and Don Donn collect the best free history lessons from cyberspace.

Good history teachers relate historical matters to their students not merely as facts to be memorized but as important lessons that provide unique insights into today's changing world.

I hear teachers say things such as, «Well, there could be math,» or «We could try to find history that makes sense.»

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

He also served in various roles at Urban Prep's Englewood Campus including: Manager of the Pride Program (dedicated to the students» socio - emotional well - being), U.S. History Teacher and Basketball Coach.

Rothstein says that teachers have a role to play in making sure that this history — which includes the denial of public services to certain neighborhoods, the segregation of public housing, the awarding of building contracts for developments that would exclude African - Americans, among other things — is better known.

As Stern Strom explains, after so many years, «we've been able to demonstrate what we said we were doing, in a full way,» in part because there's a much better understanding of the complex issues Facing History explores with students and teachers — issues like racism, prejudice, hatred, difference, and anti-Semitism.

She describes the history of merit pay at some length, showing how its assumption that teachers would teach better if only they were motivated by money has again and again proved false.

If we think of teacher education right now in all universities, in all colleges of education, teacher candidates will be exposed to things of importance to do with Indigenous students and their learning and I think the colonised history of Australia and experiences that parents generationally would have had... graduate teachers would be well exposed to that.

In a series of recent conversations with the mental health professionals I trust, with colleagues who have a long history of putting students» mental well - being first — and of course with students — I've assembled a list of strategies for classroom teachers to implement that might help not just treat the symptoms but also address the underlying issues.

Patrick Kilty, a Summit High history teacher, is integrating new digital tools into lessons to develop better ways to generate ongoing feedback about individual student performance.

Depending on the particular state standards involved, teachers may be expected to address ancient, medieval, and modern world history; early and modern U.S. history; geography; current events; economics; and often state history as well.

Overall this is one of my best lessons and I am a History teacher!

At best, this strategy of leaning on schools alone is inadequate; at worst, it willfully ignores a history filled with examples of reform - minded elites expecting schools to solve severe social problems and then blaming students, teachers, and administrators for failing to remedy those very same problems.

Herbert Hoover Archiving more than just Hoover history, the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum provides many excellent materials for teachers, including a detailed resource about children's author Laura Ingalls Wilder, whose daughter Rose Wilder Lane was Hoover's first biographer and good friend.

«I don't think the best approach in teacher evaluation comes from students» test scores,» said Dave Harswick, a highschool history teacher and union leader in Green Bay, Wis. «It can be part of the picture, but it shouldn't be the whole picture.»

I know that many Facing History teachers were part of the Master Teacher Institute, have taken the workshop on ethical editing and already begun to use iWitness so please share your experience as well!

This is a lesson our teachers, school leaders, and school operators must embrace in order to help all children gain the proper civics and history education they need to be the leaders and citizens their communities need them to be, as well as to continue bending the arc of the nation's history towards progress.

In what may be one of the most comprehensive, balanced, clear - eyed descriptions of the educational revolution we are currently slashing through, Allan Collins» and Richard Halverson's Rethinking Education in the Age of Technology (Teachers College Press 2009), based on the authors» history of education reform course they taught together at Northwestern, describes better than almost any book I've read what the new world of education — as opposed to schooling — may look like in the future.

The preservice teachers indicated that their experiences were positive, that digital sources had great potential for elementary classroom use in providing students with multiple perspectives, and that they gave the teacher an opportunity to make history real, challenge assumptions, and foster inquiry, as well as help the students to understand the content more clearly.

The findings in this study show that personal history plays an important role in the teacher candidates» perceptions of VS. Because they all had some form of experience with online or distance education courses, they had misconceptions and preconceptions that resulted in concerns about VS. It was necessary, therefore, to address these inaccurate ideas and to help the teacher candidates modify their preconceptions by allowing them to go through the field experience virtually and placing them with an exemplary VS teacher with whom they could observe good practice.

With a new Online History Simulator Platform, these simulations are easier than ever to administer for teachers and an even better experience for students.

Simply put, it's a history of people other than teachers making policy decisions often based on what sounds good at the time.

I would love for Andrew Morris or any other NUT stooge to stand up in front of a PTA meeting and explain to the parents that the great History teacher that is inspiring their kids is going to be made redundant because the Union believes it is objectively appropriate to retain Mr X who everyone knows is nowhere near as good.

Considering Eastern Connecticut State College's unique and spectacular history as it was transformed into a high quality small university under the leadership of President David Carter and others, it is extremely disturbing that the institution's current president would support the notion that a grade point average of 3.3 as opposed to 3.0 automatically correlates with producing a better teacher.

I know from extensive experience with the Bay Area Writing Project, the UC Berkeley History - Social Science Project, Educating for Democracy in a Digital Age, and other professional learning communities that the best way to increase the impact of effective teachers is to make sure they can work with other teachers.

DeBoer is the author of A History of Ideas in Science Education: Implications for Practice (Columbia University Teachers College Press, 1991) and The Role of Public Policy in K - 12 Science Education (Information Age Publishing, 2011) as well as numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews.

Through the Inspired Teacher Certification Program to train aspiring teachers, partnerships for standards - aligned, inquiry - based trainings for inservice teachers, and the citywide Real World History course, Inspired Teaching is building a better school experience for students.

Her responses were well researched and thoughtful,» said History teacher Trisha Lekovich.

I was repeatedly chided both by students and my teachers as to why, if I spoke about astronomy and the Medieval era, about history and so forth with such articulation, why was I not a good student, why wasn't i like one of the teachers» pets, Jane Smith, who was a very well - behaved and nice girl, straight A student, and generally almost perfect; she was on the chubby side, but that was overlooked; she was an ideal student.

What do you feel would be the best teacher employment system you could set up in terms of which would maximize test scores on the international comparison tests, i.e. which would maximize math and reading comprehension scores, essay writing ability, knowledge of science history, economics and social studies, etc?