Sentences with phrase «important thing a teacher»

EW: What are some of the important things teachers and other adults should know about kids this age, but don't?

Perhaps the most important thing a teacher can do to promote healthy SEL development is to prepare him - or herself.

Even for teachers with relevant student test score data available for evaluations, it is critical to use multiple measures to capture the myriad of important things teachers are expected to do.

The most important thing a teacher can know about a student is how they learn and the way their mind works.

If you're like me, you know that one of the most important things a teacher can do is to train students in how to analyze problems and effectively propose solutions or demonstrate understanding.

Unwavering Support is Essential One of the most important things teachers should do, Winokur firmly believes, is to provide unwavering support while encouraging students to accept ownership of their own learning.

We recently asked school nurses, «What's the most important thing teachers can do to help keep students healthy during the school year?»

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Bill Gates knows a thing or two about some of engineering's most complex concepts, but the Microsoft co-founder recently learned an important lesson from an elementary school teacher.

«Yes, you can fund a reasonable number of teachers, or firemen, or whatever cutesy thing you want to use to make it seem important, but spread out across the whole system it will not have a significant impact.»

There are thousands of questions we should ask our pastors and teachers, but the most important thing for us is how we approach our pastors with our questions.

Most important, the church school teacher should avoid saying those things which might cause the child to feel guilty about his feelings.

In such a situation, the important thing for the church school teacher is to recognize the severity of the disturbance and to do everything possible to encourage the parents to obtain professional help for themselves and the child.

Again, the most important thing is to try to join with the teacher if possible so that your child becomes responsible and can't deflect that responsibility to a «bad» or a «mean» teacher.

The French think this is practical for a few reasons: (i) it gives kids enough time to eat and digest their most important meal of the day; (ii) it gives teachers a proper break (they get a three or four course freshly prepared lunch (often the same thing the kids are eating) in a separate lunchroom!)

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

The important thing here is to focus on what we can do to support schools and teachers so children can be successful and schools can be successful,» Mulgrew said.

We also believe that when a child steps into the classroom, the most important thing that will determine their success is who the teacher is.

Making sure a child spends the maximum amount of time with inspirational teachers is the most important thing.

If she could take one thing back, Dr. Tisch said, it would be having rolled out the standards and the teacher evaluation system at the same time, «because I think the debate over how to evaluate a teacher contaminated the more important work.»

I think that is a particularly important thing, since a number of parents and teachers across the state told me they're too long,» said Elia.

And when I finally met my first yoga teacher I acknowledged two very important things: that I had to return to the basics of some poses and that I could go a little deeper on others — I ended up doing my very first headstand with this teacher.

The most important thing I learned from you and give my students in their teacher training is to be aware of our bodies and let the energy flow.»

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«The dean calls you and tells you that you're a teacher, an urban teacher, and we think that's important enough that we're going to make a significant investment in you; that's a really meaningful thing,» Welch says.

It's very important for me to be the best teacher that I can be for each of you, and I will try very hard to be respectful even if you do things that I don't like.

«The most important thing is for the teacher to let their imagination go,» said Fred Holmes.

«The most important thing my district does to encourage teacher use is to assign each school a technology resource teacher (TRT) to work directly in the classrooms,» Lexington, Kentucky, district technology resource teacher Mike Johnson told Education World.

Romeo cautions, however, that professional development must be balanced with two other important things — the acquisition of hardware and peripherals and the purchase of software to support teacher training and student instruction.

One of the things that's interesting about this is that we tend to be focussing on teacher quality a lot and thinking about their knowledge of content and pedagogical content knowledge and that's important.

These things are important, because it suggests that there are much larger forces at play in teacher retention decisions than whatever education cause du jour receives the blame.

Try asking yourself, «what is the single most important thing your school does for the pupils and what is the single most important thing you as a team of teachers can do to ensure your pupils get this from their time at school?»

Again one of the things I talk to my undergraduates about is how important it is that they look after themselves, that they work collegially with others because one of the things that comes out of research is that isolated teachers often are the ones that are vulnerable to, either being ineffective as practitioners or becoming stressed and demotivated.

In those earlier stages it's important to make sure you've got good facilities, well - trained teachers, and targeting teaching would be an aspiration, but it would not be the central thing.

I think formative assessment is one of the single most important things that teachers can do — and already do — for their students.

As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.

«We have learned that the one most important thing we can do to positively impact the learning of a child is to consistently provide them with a great teacher,» says Ben Rayer, Touchstone's founder and CEO, and former president of Mastery Charter Schools.

Statistics were the all - important thing now... and many excellent primary teachers decided it was time to leave.

«I think the most important thing is for principals and teachers to empower themselves by learning what's in the law and best practices for students with disabilities.»

That's why it's important that the things NNSTOY talks about here not be foisted on teachers by well - meaning advocates, but that teachers play a crucial role shaping and adopting them.

The other thing that I would suggest is you look after your own mental health — make sure you have a good diet, exercise and sleep — healthy habits rather than destructive habits are really important for teachers who find themselves in stressful teaching situations.

«Doing that is one thing I could do to let teachers know how important they are to the success and achievement of every student.»

Khan adds that freed up class time allows teachers to focus on more important things such as «interventions, simulations, Socratic dialogue, and projects.»

I think that's the single most important thing I want to give to teachers: Sure, your students may be giving you eye contact, but that doesn't mean you're engaging them.

«The important thing,» says Steiner, «was that you had there the chancellor of the Board of Regents, the chancellor of our biggest school district, the head of our biggest local [teachers union], and the two senior people from the department — that's what you need.»

These people could be teachers, administrators, coaches, parents, older siblings or friends, but the important thing is that the student forms a meaningful relationship with the charismatic adult.

One of the most important things, says Dweck, is that teachers convey to their students that they are not judging intellect, but are 100 percent devoted to their learning.

«My teachers know the seven of eight most important things I hope to see, and I ask them to focus on those things each class period.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

When important choices come up or things go wrong, these are often the teachers who act as mentors to help students find success.

«The most important thing I can give to my teachers is respect for what they do each day,» said Watson, who is principal at St. Jude School in New Lenox, Illinois.