Sentences with phrase «last thing any teacher»

«The last thing teachers want is a massive upheaval as a result of the promotion of a single fashionable technique.

Getting a master's degree is frequently something done concurrently with a full time teaching job, so the last thing these teachers want is a challenging academic program that requires real work.

We chose the acronym, in part, because mnemonics really do help with retention, and, even though the last thing teachers want is for one more thing to be added to their plate, it means they're more likely to remember the name of this form.

The last thing teachers need is one more to do during their already overburdened days, but more grading and class preparation aren't the intent or expectation of good SEL programs.

Not exact matches

«The one thing is that they really wanted me involved, instead of the teachers,» Mr. Trump said in an interview last week.

The killings in Florida have also revived the debate over whether teachers should be allowed to carry guns in schools — an idea DeVos, while careful not to outright endorse it, said in an interview last week with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt should «be part of the broader, more robust conversation about how can we avoid these things in the future.»

Peace is the last thing that is keeping these disciples company, and the appearance of their dead teacher doesn't seem likely to improve the situation.

For example, one of the charges against Honest to God, almost as soon as it appeared, was that John Robinson had said nothing in that book about «future life» — although the critic must have forgotten that not many years before the bishop had written, while still a theological teacher, a treatise entitled In the End God which is a considered and very interesting and suggestive discussion of exactly that subject as well as of the related aspects of «the last things».

The funny thing was that, maybe due to the fact that I am an English teacher, while living in Argentina, and having never stepped on French soil, I was incredibly prejudiced against the French, for me France was «the last place ever to live in.»

I thought I'd finished it months ago then last week my history teacher sent an email saying «These things need to be changed for the end of next week».

My toddler's teacher at the end of last school year told me my little girl likes the challenge of opening things and to put things in containers that require figuring out how to open them.

Simply put, schools can't be trusted to get it right for the kids because the kids are the last thing they concern themselves with after teachers unions, administrative organizational charts, bus garage projects, etc., etc., and oddball foodie notions.

Upon entering the cafeteria, the last thing she could do was focus on what her teacher needed her to do: eat.

I've been an elementary teacher for the last 16 years and every single thing in this is true.

The last thing we should be cutting is teachers.

«The single best thing that I can do,» Gov. Cuomo said last year, is «break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies»: the teachers union.

But the last thing anyone wants around is a cranky mom or yoga teacher!

I usually wear them to party - which I rarely go to (struggle of a working mom of 3) Most of my jumpsuits are tight fitted around my bottom area, and as a teacher the last thing you want is distraction -LSB-...]

Tossed off, clearly edited until the last minute, the saddest thing about Along Came Polly is that it was screened for critics in the Denver area and Disney's Teacher's Pet, possibly the one January release worth a damn this year, wasn't.

My favorite new films seen in Argentina, mostly at Pantalla Pinamar, Buenos Aires International Film Festival and Mar del Plata International Film Festival Toni Erdmann (Maren Ade, 2016) Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016) El invierno (The Winter, Emiliano Torres, 2016) Bacalaureat (Graduation, Cristian Mungiu, 2016) Sing Street (John Carney, 2016) The Carer (János Edelényi, 2016) Ucitelka (The Teacher, Jan Hrebejk, 2016) Jamais de la vie (The Night Watchman, Pierre Jolivet, 2016) I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach, 2016) Personal Shopper (Olivier Assayas, 2016) Umi yori mo Mada Fukaku (After the Storm, Koreeda Hirokazu, 2016) Busanhaeng (Train to Busan, Yeon Sang - ho, 2016) L'avenir (Things to Come, Mia Hansen - Løve, 2016) Wajib (Annemarie Jacir, 2017) Chaco (Danièle Incalcaterra & Fausta Quattrini, 2017) Una mujer fantástica (A Fantastic Woman, Sebastián Lelio, 2017) La familia (Gustavo Rondón, 2017) Last Flag Flying (Richard Linklater, 2017) Lucky (John Carroll Lynch, 2017) Taeksi Woonjunsa (A Taxi Driver, Jang Hun, 2017) Good Time (Benny Safdie & Josh Safdie, 2017)

As Robin Lake recently wrote: «Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.»

In the last few years, I have witnessed or heard teachers say additional regretful things to students.

Last month, The New York Times reported something that Latin teachers everywhere already know: This supposedly «dead language» is attracting increasing numbers of students who recognize the good things it does to their minds.

School boards and superintendents are faced with a situation where they lose enrollment so quickly that the only thing they can do is close schools, lay off teachers according to seniority not quality (thanks to «last in, first out» requirements), increase class sizes, and slash their central office staffing and support levels.

It didn't help Emanuel's relationship with CTU that nearly the first thing he did was to declare that the district was in a «fiscal emergency» and to rescind the teachers» 4 percent raise for 2011 — 12, the last year of the final Daley contract.

«Any teenage boy who is into sports, no matter how many times they tell you they're not into maths, they can quote hundreds of statistics to you about their favourite team and their favourite players, that's so natural to them... so that's the first big, important thing, showing a connection to their lives,» he told Teacher last month.

58 per cent of children and young people on the autism spectrum we surveyed last year said that the single thing that would make school better for them is «if teachers understood autism».

Teachers certainly have a role to play within society, helping all to learn about the benefits of proper integration and inclusivity, because the last thing we would want to do is ostracise anyone within our communities because they appear different to us or are not what people might consider «normal» — whatever this means.

Philadelphia — Asserting that «these kids can't wait,» the federal judge who presided over a special - education case that influenced the development of the federal handicapped - students law charged last week that educators are failing to provide severely handicapped students with the one thing they most need: specially trained teachers.

The last thing you want for your teachers and students is a one - year implementation.

But de Blasio also has an Absent Teacher Reserve pool to deal with, another Bloomberg - Klein legacy: they got the union to back down on forcing principals to hire teachers they didn't want, «one of the only good things to come out of the last contract negotiations,» says Joe Williams.

«The big thing that Peter Sullivan did throughout all of last year was to really get the teachers to engage with high challenge tasks because that was always our biggest area of concern.

Given the largely successful push by teachers unions and other opponents of public school choice to brand charter schools as a conservative, partisan issue, the last thing public charter schools need is to have the next president feed the «end of public education» narrative.

One of the issues we have, I suppose, is that we've had many reviews over the years of teacher education and the teacher workforce, and many recommendations have come out of those, particularly around the support for early career teachers, and a number of things in different states have been put into place, particularly over the last five to 10 years.

«It is the last thing they want to do but they have no other choice because they have to reduce staffing numbers and that inevitably affects the teacher - to - pupil ratio.

In the math teacher's class, students have to say what their favorite thing about math is when they get to the last piece.

«The last thing we need is for teachers and the public to lose confidence in something that can actually transform teaching and learning.

Last but not least, here's NYT columnist Joe Nocera's piece on the book (Zuckerberg's Expensive Lesson), which notes among other things that «almost half» of the Zuckerberg effort went to Newark teachers in the form of back pay, salaries for teachers who weren't assigned to a classroom, and bonuses.

According to a Gallup poll last fall, one in eight teachers thinks that the worst thing about the Common Core is testing.

Here's one last thing: the highest - performing teachers, principals, and superintendents want feedback.

«The last thing we want,» says Amy Horton, Superintendent of Student Achievement and Improvement for the Indiana Department of Education, «is to have too many standards the teachers can't teach.»

Gates: We don't usually talk ahead about what I think we're going to do, but I'll say this: Some of the things Vicki [Phillips] and I heard in the last 48 hours... about the difference good - quality [professional development] makes, and how unbelievably time - constrained teachers are,... I think we'll probably go deeper in that.

Tony: And then the last thing, number three here, is use the data to generate... that you can generate from evaluation results to plan and allocate resources for districtwide, individual schools, and individual teacher or leader professional learning.

Per you point about getting the «same» amount of money, first AF schools are not unionized and AF got a bill passed last year that allows charter schools to have up to 30 % of its teacher staff not certified — those two things raise the costs in district public schools.

And, she said, Florida just last year launched a sweeping education reform that among other things did away with teacher tenure.

But there's a sense of a partnership with students that we're working together to discover new things that people haven't discovered before or figured out the best possible ways to co-create this learning environment together, even if it's not a situation where the teacher is the perfectly polished expert who's facilitating students through a lesson that they've done for the last 20 years.

Last Friday, the Secretary of State for Education, Damian Hinds, addressed the NAHT conference where, amongst other things, he promised to help reduce teacher workload.

These claims are meant to signal to the public that at last «we» are holding our teachers and students accountable for their teaching and learning, but thereafter, again, proficiency cut scores are arbitrarily redefined (among other things), and then five or ten years later «new and improved» tests and standards are needed again.

There are unquestionably things that need to be implemented from the last parliament — for example, on curriculum and assessment — as well as challenges around recruiting enough teachers in an improving economy, creating enough school places, and dealing with tighter budgets.

Teaching is a very challenging profession and the last thing we want in our schools is for teachers to fall through the cracks when support, learning and encouragement is needed.