Sentences with phrase «if teachers at»

I've long held that if teachers at high poverty schools could primarily focus on instruction you would see a change in the achievement - wealth connection.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.

Find out if teachers at your child's school have technology needs on their wish lists.

Not exact matches

I started to think about what would happen if there was a shooting at Midwood, and I couldn't begin to imagine how I would feel if I lost one of my friends, teachers, or anyone for that matter.

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

If you start by opening PowerPoint and haphazardly typing bullet points, you're off to a rough start, says Adam Sigel, a Boston - based product manager at New York City - based streaming TV startup Aereo, and teacher of Skillshare's Slide Chi: Advanced PowerPoint Design / Workshop Class.

If you look at Hettinger's Kickstarter campaign for her «classic spinner,» you'll notice that the prototype looks more like a hatted Frisbee than the toys tormenting teachers in U.S. classrooms.

«If you go out on the Net and look at the hundreds of tests out there, a very small percentage have validity data,» says Seymour Adler, a senior vice president at Aon Consulting and a teacher of organizational psychology at New York University.

If you naturally come alive at night and feel like a zombie before midmorning no matter what you do, you've no doubt spent most of your life being nagged by well - meaning parents, teachers, and advice peddlers to mend your ways and become a morning person.

According to the folks at Payscale, which pulled its data on the Boston area for me, if he's telling the truth, he's taking home more than a lot of teachers, nurses and even law enforcement officers.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

The teachers at Pure Barre Westport, where I take and now teach, are such rock stars and I thought, if I could do that I'd be a rock star too!

Once, during a Westglades class party, Cruz asked a teacher if he could have the leftover ice cream, according to what Guerra told his mother at the time.

She said she supported «a change that will increase all the trainings and protocols so if, God forbid, another shooting does happen, at least all the teachers will be prepared and can hopefully keep their students calm.»

You DID NOT get a proper Catholic education if your teachers and professors okayed your doing contraception and probably killing at least one possibly more children.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

The final quality required for authentic dialogue is prudence: the prudence of a teacher who is most careful to make allowances for the psychological and moral circumstances of his hearer [Mt 6:7], particularly if he is a child, unprepared, suspicious or hostile... [who] is always at pains to learn the sensitivities of his audience, and... [who] adapts himself... to the susceptibilities and the degree of intelligence of his hearers.

teachers have to walk a very thin tightrope of classroom management because if one kid even hints at a teacher molesting, improper touching, saying or doing something wrong towards that child, the teacher is automatically put on suspension and kids know this and use this to their advantage.

Although parents (and indeed governors and teachers) are often uneasy about early or explicit SRE or providing access to family planning services, their feelings are sometimes ambiguous due to a concern that, if they do not follow such a course, children will be at greater risk of underage pregnancy.

If engagements had prevented him from going to see the Teacher, so that he was brought into touch with him only at the last moment, when he was about to yield his spirit — would this historical ignorance prevent him from becoming the disciple, provided the Moment became for him decisive for eternity?

Clive Ireson, director of strategy at the Association of Christian Teachers agrees with the findings, speaking on Premier's News Hour, he said: «Children know if they've done something good or not in their work and if people say «oh that's very good», and it isn't, then it's just false.

But if we look at what the Reformation tried to do in fact, and not merely at its partly polemical images, it becomes perfectly possible to construct an image of the minister as teacher — which the Reformation should have made explicit.

But even today I believe these lay teachers might go at their task differently if they knew that the product of their efforts was to be appraised, in some proper way, and that this appraisal too was part of the teaching and learning process.

If humans had an inate understanding of their creator at birth there would be no need for religious teachers to interpret holy scriptures now would there.

So compelling, in fact, that almost on the spur of the moment you turned your back on the fishing business, left your wife and kids who were perplexed if not put out at your departure, and went off with the wandering teacher.

There are people without faith, that's ok it's up to them to believe what they want.But if you say you're a Christian at least know something about what you say your are.If you have never read the Bible at least once how can you say you're a Christian?Can you say you're a Math teacher but do not know how to add?Therein lies the point if you say you're something, know what it is you are.As it is the US is full of h

However, if we look at a strikingly similar passage from Aristotle's teacher Plato, in the Laws, we see the relationship of humans and God as well as their relationship to a community included.

For example, school would still be in session on these days, but teachers could be instructed not to have exams, quizzes, or projects due that day that would put an Islamic student at a disadvantage if he / she chose to stay home.

NYC was at one point about 25 % Jewish (and I'd guess that more than 50 % of the teachers were Jewish until pretty recently if not still), so this should come as no surprise.

You can ask high school teachers or youth workers about this if you like, but you really need look no further than your own teen years, when your interests and attention seemed to spiral out in a million directions that could be mistaken for having no direction at all.

We had one teacher at the School of Theatre who constantly reminded us, «If you're going to steal something, don't steal bad stuff.

Such teachers argue that if you want to know whether a person has eternal life or not, all you have to do is look at how much fruit they produce.

Imagine for a moment, those of you who have children in grade school, if your child came home from school tomorrow, and told you that at school from now on, the children were the teachers, and the teachers were going to learn from the children.

When Our Saviour Yeshua Mashiah came it is importnat to note that he didn't try to change the Romans i.e the government at that time as His thing was not against them, he came to help people as individuals and its only when we as people change can we begin to see change in the world and this is why God is a very personal experince and not religious, we need teachers but not the religious types, we need teachers who guide us to God with us and this is what Our Saviour did, we have the freedom to choose but we can only choose if we have what to choose from and being informed helps us to do this

If we lay aside our opinions, biases, views, mindsets... etc and honestly and objectively look at what the Bible says and teaches then we can only conclude that women are not to be pastors, preachers, or teachers over men.

Additionally, I do agree that if believer's at a given church are not effectively being taught the Word of God, and they believe they need a more effective teacher to better learn the Bible, it is their right to seek one.

[Note, because I know someone will ask: In my book, and in the weeks to come, we'll look at Paul's references to the women of Ephesus and Corinth to see if his specific instructions to those churches override an egalitarian perspective or negate the significance of female prophets, teachers, disciples, leaders, and apostles elsewhere in Scripture.]

The teaching of non-fiction texts, especially at Key Stage 3 (age 11 -14), is often a rather haphazard affair and so, if Catholic teachers are not careful, Catholic perspectives on the world can easily be written out of the curriculum here too.

I was told I would never get into shows if my work didn't fit into a consistent style and look the same year after year; one instructor at the U where I was getting my teachers» renewal units, wouldn't let my work in with the rest of the class for the end of class show because I didn't follow suit and create a piece that looked like his....

If that is too ambitious, we can at least organize groups of teachers who will develop innovative techniques in their classrooms.

And then, when the group's moderator was in the process of moving and we were struggling to gain equilibrium again if at all possible, the pastor handpicked a new teacher (to limit any «wandering theology»).

I will definitely make these, school is to commence here on Sept. 2, if the teachers strike is over which they seem to be holding out for all they can get, at the students expense.

My advice is the same my kindergarden teacher taught us about, well, everything; if at first you don't succeed, try, try again!

He says he's a teacher at heart — admitting his best playing days are behind him, but that he still has something to offer — and that he's at peace with being cut even if he doesn't want that to happen.

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

For students from well - off backgrounds, this question, if it comes up at all, is usually answered with a dismissive shrug: Who cares what my teacher thinks about me?

Parent should ask whether the classroom is teacher - led or child - focused, and whether students can work at their own pace or if they must follow a schedule, and whether they are required to participate in group work or whether they can work independently if they choose.

Indeed, if we walk students through every step of creating the journal (what kind of notebook, what sort of margins, how many words per entry, double - spaced, type - written or inked) we send a strong message about journaling and about learning in general: namely that it is a direction - following game, that the answers reside with the teacher, who will walk you through the steps to the puzzle until you arrive at the right answer.

It will add to the teacher's perspective of the child if you describe some of the behaviors you are noting at home - for example, if the child is particularly neat (or messy) about taking care of his room, let the teacher know.

An administrator might go at the request of the parent or teacher if an issue can't be resolved by the teacher alone.