Sentences with phrase «if head teachers»

Particularly if head teachers are frightened, if school leaders are frightened, if teachers are frightened to speak out because of fear for their jobs, fear they won't be promoted.»

The DfE's pay advice says that if head teachers think teachers should not progress, they should allow those teachers to attend the governors» decision meeting (with the right to have a union representative) and present their views before the decision is taken.

If head teachers, reasonable, respectable and reassuring, decide they want things done differently, they will be a tough group to dismiss.

Ofsted chief Sir Michael Wilshaw said in a BBC interview that «leadership is absolutely critical» in addressing this issue, ad that behavior policies can succeed «even in the most challenging areas» if head teachers are willing to get involved.

Not exact matches

They constantly talked over our head, and neither the teachers nor the students could speak to each other in the same language if our careers depended on it.

And if nothing is done, as Eric Hester (another former head teacher) has predicted in these columns [in the November issue of 2006], «then in as little as five years, outside the independent sector, there could be no truly Catholic schools remaining in England.»

According to the Daily Mail, Cardinal Vincent Nichols told a group of Catholic school head teachers in London that even if children question their gender identity, schools should not give transgenderism as a possible solution.

We say «If you attend, you can achieve» To make my visit even better the Head Teacher gave me a VIP invite to open their new playground, how exciting is that?

If you are nodding you head, these teacher tried and true homework tips are for you!

If my son picks crap like that up at school, I'm going to the teacher and head teacher to ask why a climate of sexism is accepted at the school.

You will probably have received a heads up from your child's teacher if there are behavioral issues that are plaguing your child.

She said she's tried to talk to the head teacher about the punishment, but he's refusing to offer clemency on the grounds that, «he says if he lets one student off with it the other 1,400 might follow.»

If your child has already started school, write to the head teacher and tell them you want to take your child out of school.

Talk to the head teacher, school governors or parent - teacher association (PTA) if you'd like the school uniform changed.

If you speak to heads, teachers and cooks about the school meals they provide, they want to be given a little bit more freedom to make their own choices.

Talk to the head teacher if your child isn't wearing the uniform, including PE kit, because you can't afford it.

If you think your child is being discriminated against, talk to the head teacher.

You have to get permission from the head teacher if you want to take your child out of school during term time.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

John Banks, head of education at the NUT, said it was right teachers» anonymity should be protected if they were suspended after an abuse allegation, but pointed out it was impossible to do this once a court case began.

ALBANY - The head of the city teachers union is taking aim at Gov. Cuomo's upcoming trip to Cuba, saying if the governor has time to visit the tiny Caribbean country next month he should be able to visit a classroom in New York.

Sit and stand against your teacher - wall of choice and check if all parts of your back, neck and head are pressed flat against the wall.

«I remember when applications were first being accepted and Juli asked if I had considered teacher training and I just automatically shook my head and laughed, there was no way I was good enough to go through the program.

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Head teacher Mark Elliott said: «PE and sport gives children the opportunity to excel in lots of different ways, and I think if we are able to offer them a variety of different opportunities they surprise themselves and they surprise us, and that can lead to a lifelong love of exercise and sport.»

«We wanted to find out if we could see something unique or different in the performance of the teacher when we looked through the students» eyes,» says James Gentilucci, who heads the school's Educational Leadership and Administration Program.

Charlotte Moore, Deputy Head Teacher at the school, said: «Initiatives such as this are vital if we're going to improve financial education among young people.

The new plans are being considered based on the findings of a review of youth justice by former head teacher Charlie Taylor, which found that the youngsters could be rehabilitated more effectively if education was put at the heart of the system.

«If you speak to heads, teachers and cooks about the school meals they provide, they want to be given a little bit more freedom to make their own choices.

Tutor House, a private tutoring firm in London, claims that head teachers would allow term - time holidays if teachers were taken with them.

This will pass in time, but if you are concerned, make sure that you are comfortable talking to the teachers or the head about any worries you may have.

When Stephen Colbert demands, «If we don't cut expensive things like Head Start, child nutrition programs, and teachers, what sort of future are we leaving for our children?»

If you need the push, ask the school counselor, another teacher, head custodian, or paraprofessional to log positive - contacts with you (in a friendly, child - focused competition).

I went on, «It's not hard to understand why teachers are nervous when we tell them that we expect them to teach to new, higher standards but that their heads are on the chopping block if they don't succeed.»

If that leaves you scratching your head, ask a math teacher.)

The head teacher of a London secondary school has defended a policy that places pupils in «lunch isolation» if their parents miss payments for school meals, according to a report from the Guardian.

If you are at a loss for what to say or do, please feel free to ask your student's teacher, advisor, principal or head of school, or technology director.

«So, if it's your first time in leadership, your first time as deputy, your first time as head of school — whatever role it is,» Principal Dean Angus tells Teacher.

When a student known for outlandish dress and provocative accessories (such as an Army ammunition box turned lunchbox) began carting a beach chair to classes, her teachers conferred with the principal, who remarked, «If she's doing her work and not disrupting the class, I don't care if she stands on her head.&raquIf she's doing her work and not disrupting the class, I don't care if she stands on her head.&raquif she stands on her head.»

A cooler - headed Esquith later explained the book's theme on National Public Radio: «If I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter.»

Jonathan Isaby, chief executive of the TaxPayers» Alliance, said: «Taxpayers will not begrudge an inspiring head teacher or world - class academic a good salary if they produce great results and motivate their students, but too often this is not what we find.

Something like, «Shake your head if you remember the ABC grading program we used last year,» gives teachers a chance to voice a little concern and laugh off some frustration.

Hundreds of schools are expected to remain closed today, 12 December as the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) warns staff not to come into work if it is unsafe to travel.

Mr Whiteman continues: «I'd be very surprised indeed if you hadn't heard from a head teacher or a parent expressing concerns about school funding over the last few months.»

Referencing his own experience as a head teacher at a successful comprehensive, the Ofsted Chief he wouldn't have had the same success if there had been a nearby grammar: «If you have grammar schools, you take away the most able children from the all - ability comprehensive set - uif there had been a nearby grammar: «If you have grammar schools, you take away the most able children from the all - ability comprehensive set - uIf you have grammar schools, you take away the most able children from the all - ability comprehensive set - up.

If the story of Joe Corcoran and Bill Lucas and how they came to work together has you shaking your head and humming «It's a Small World After All,» you need to sit down for Marguerite McNeely's connection to her teacher, Donald Robinson.

As Tim Matthews, Deputy Head at Oriel High School, said at the conference: «We are not going to get better outcomes if we don't have better teachers, so let's just invest in them.»

Mum was taking me off to the doctors to have my head shaved to try and find out what was going wrong in there, if there was anything, but the teachers made a difference in my life and transformed me.

One head teacher told me proudly how much his pupils were enjoying the new picnic benches on the grassy field, but if they are the only thing available what else did he think they would be drawn towards?

Susan Schaeffler, the founder and head of the successful KIPP schools in D.C. (all of them start - ups), once told me she thought she could fix one of the worst regular schools in the city if she had the power — which she has at KIPP — to hire and fire teachers at will.