Sentences with phrase «less teacher»

They didn't try to organize large, open meetings to which all parents, much less teachers and staff, could come and debate their course of action.

Our older courses were more design centric, with less teacher flexibility.

Less teacher talk and more student - centered learning makes for a happy, healthy, and productive learning environment.

They are passing laws to benefit the charter school industry, to give them the financial advantage of hiring less teachers.

We would have experienced less teacher resistance if there had been consistent messaging and ongoing professional discourse among the district, administrators, and teachers.

The kids have no self - advocacy and each year, now, they have less and less teacher advocacy.

Consequently, district schools with traditional teacher certification programs have seen less and less teacher applicants from top - ranked universities.

Ronfeldt found that teachers who learned to teach in schools with proportionally less teacher turnover post higher student test score gains and are less likely to leave teaching in their first five years, with these positive effects more pronounced when the functional placement schools have a large share of African - American students.

In a radio interview on Friday, Mr. Bloomberg noted the spreading financial woes of local governments, saying, «Towns and counties across the state are starting to have to make the real choices — fewer cops, fewer firefighters, slower ambulance response, less teachers in front of the classroom.»

Activists say less funding and less teachers mean larger class sizes, special education cuts and an overworked school staff.

The Wall Street Journal editors judged the deal even more harshly, noting, «New York taxpayers will pay more for less teacher accountability and less reform.»

Considerably less teacher training goes on in universities now — PGCE programmes are being drastically cut — which I think is a shame.

Students are tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher - driven variation in reading achievement than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.

When we combine these concerns with the lack of any financial incentive to perform extra duties, we find that many are unmotivated to continue in their role and we have seen less teachers applying for roles with many educators opting to take early retirement or leave the profession altogether.

That is, if school leaders can allocate riper individual - level rewards, do we observe less teacher turnover?

We propose better recognition and acknowledgement of the positive impact teachers have in their students» lives could result in less teachers leaving the profession.

The teacher scaffolds from more to less teacher support, but does not build from simple to complex concepts.

He criticises teacher training, but this has increasingly involved less and less teacher education.

The solution to mindless rote - learning is not less teacher instruction; it is different and better teacher instruction.»

At the end of a 1 - year follow - up, treated children showed less teacher - rated internalizing and less parent - rated coercive and antisocial behavior than controls.

When I asked teachers, principals, and program coordinators to describe the impact, they took care to emphasize that they were still experimenting and learning from their mistakes, while pointing to early indicators such as increased student attendance, greater student and parent engagement, and less teacher turnover.

In California, for example, one less teacher means $ 647 fewer dollars for the California Teachers Association.

The less the teacher in the field can be expected to do research himself, the more important becomes the question of adequate text - books.

In a student - centered classroom, learning is less teacher - directed and is instead guided by student interests and fueled by student questions.

This means that less teachers will be required to mark test papers and will have more time to spend focusing on planning the next lesson.

For students to achieve the communicative practice they need, the solution is simple: The less the teacher speaks, the more students do.

Unions have claimed the new freedoms for schools to decide details regarding teacher wages has led to a «wild west» situation, whereby inconsistent guidance and budget pressures has meant that less teachers are being told about their pay awards.

There is ample scope for enlarging the kinesthetic task and making it more problem based, less teacher - led.

At 65 years old, Nicoleen never dreamed she would become a reader, much less a teacher!

And the more skilled that students become with peer feedback, the less teachers have to worry about whether or not the experience will be worthwhile.

That difference adds up, Jameria says, to better buildings, smaller class sizes, take - home textbooks and less teacher turnover.

And with less kids, that means you have to have less teachers and less class offerings.

On the institutional side, they note that schools dominated by affluent students have more elaborate and better - kept facilities, better - educated and effective teachers, less teacher turnover, more capable principals, and a richer variety of academically demanding courses and extracurricular offerings.

Early research in Washington suggests that the strategy is working — coaching is linked to more effective interactions between children and teachers, less teacher burnout, and increased teacher retention.