Sentences with phrase «less than the other teachers»

They were strongly supported for PD, but what they found was that many of them said that although they felt they needed PD in their out - of - field areas, they felt uncomfortable going to a designated PD in their out - of - field areas because they felt that they knew so much less than the other teachers that were there...

Another issue on hand is the lack of fund for early childhood educators, they earn far less than other teachers.

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Only < than 1 percent of priests have ever abused a child, far less on a percentage basis than coaches, teachers, and ministers of other faiths.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The schools they attend are likely to be segregated by race and class and to have less money to spend on instruction than the schools well - off students attend, and their teachers are likely to be less experienced and less well - trained than teachers at other schools.

After reviewing the individualized education plan, parents, teachers, counselors and other members of the IEP team may decide that the child should receive new forms of individualized instruction or needs less SDI than he did the previous year.

Cuomo has less - than - rosy relationships with other labor unions, including public - sector organized labor and the New York State United Teachers union.

«School choice is enhanced when voucher schools or other alternatives supported on the public dime report more rather than less information,» said Cowen, associate professor of education policy and teacher education.

In contrast, the alternative pathway that requires prospective teachers to take courses that are not transferable to other fields yields teachers who are less effective at boosting student test scores than either traditional - route teachers or teachers who entered the profession through other alternative pathways.

She believes that her deafness made mathematics an appealing subject: understanding it relied much less on hearing than other subjects did, and she benefited from good teachers who encouraged her natural mathematical curiosity.

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

Another theory is that California's elementary school teachers feel less well prepared and well qualified to teach science than any other subject and believe they have few opportunities to improve their preparation.

North Carolina teachers were less likely to leave their jobs in the wake of recessions in 2001 - 2 and 2007 - 9 than they were during other periods.

Teachers in these schools had slightly less experience and slightly more absences than teachers in other Teachers in these schools had slightly less experience and slightly more absences than teachers in other teachers in other schools.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

Meanwhile, teachers earn tens of thousands of dollars less than other professionals — such as accountants, system analysts, and engineers — even though nearly half hold master's degrees or doctorates.

In other words, the fact that teachers who received layoff notices were, on average, somewhat less effective than their peers is an artifact of the relationship between effectiveness and seniority.

In other words, kids learn almost nothing — and possibly less than nothing — when their teacher of record isn't there.

In other words, the observed teacher practices included in the TES evaluation system appear to capture a little less than half of the overall differences in teacher effectiveness.

Men and women who enter teaching through other than traditional teacher education programs are less academically qualified and less likely to consider teaching their lifelong occupation than those who obtained their credentials through customary paths, a new report concludes.

While the composite of other occupations gained 1.5 years of schooling, teachers gained slightly less than 1 year.

In general, math and science teachers are more likely to leave teaching.They have 1.2 fewer years of experience and are 6 percent less likely to say that they plan to keep teaching than other teachers.

For example, less than half (47 percent) of Louisiana teachers thought that «selecting texts for individual students based on their reading levels» was an instructional approach aligned with standards (it's not) compared to 70 percent of teachers in other states.

Use TAs to add value to what teachers do, not replace them — avoid assigning TAs to specific students for long periods of time and ensure students who need the most support spend no less time with the teacher than other members of the class.

Three other teachers who missed less than five days received gift certificates.

Teachers make 14 percent less than professionals in other occupations that require similar levels of education.

A student in the middle grades may now have as many as five teachers, none of which know her well — one of the reasons big schools, other things being equal, tend to perform less well than others.

First - and second - grade students in 1993 who had been kept out of kindergarten until they were older were less likely than other students to draw negative feedback from teachers about their academic performance or conduct in class.

But preliminary new research focusing on Denver's residency program showed that teachers trained through the program were less effective at improving student achievement in math than other novice teachers in Denver.

According to Hattie, teacher subject - matter knowledge had an effect size of 0.19, meaning that it was far less effective than other factors like classroom management (0.52) or effective teacher feedback (0.75).

That is, charismatic teachers who leave scores of majors in their wake, appear to be no better or worse at teaching the material than their less inspiring counterparts; teachers who are exceptional at conveying course material are no more likely than others at inspiring students to take more courses in the subject area.

A teacher with seven years of experience makes less than a teacher with 10 years, regardless of relative skills, performance, or any other factor directly related to student learning.

As reported in the Mississippi Business Journal, teacher certification requirements in the state are among the toughest in the U.S. — and the state's teachers earn less than teachers in many other states earn.

Thus it might not matter how much urban districts spend, because as long as they spend less than other districts they will get the same poor - quality teachers.

In other words, we ask, if a given student's math teacher spent more (or less) time lecturing than his or her science teacher, does the student perform better or worse on the math test than on the science test?

Similarly, there could be unobserved differences between students whose teachers rely more and less heavily on lecturing if, for example, teachers in schools serving low - income students adopt different practices than teachers in other types of schools.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, teachers earn less than other workers with the same education level in many countries, but this gap was widest in the United States.

As more time is devoted to reading and math, and as teachers are warned that the scores in these subjects will determine the fate of their school, everything other than reading and math gets less time.

It is noteworthy that four of the top five blogs address questions of direct relevance to classroom teachers, while less than half of the others do.

As a group, American teachers tend to be more supportive of free - speech rights than other Americans, but when compared to other Americans with 16 or more years of schooling teachers are less supportive of this important democratic value.

Teachers are paid significantly less than many other highly educated professionals.

If we control for education, however, we find that in each of the four decades, teachers are from 10 to 15 percentage points less likely than other Americans with 16 or more years of schooling to see nothing wrong with homosexuality (see Figure 2).

Teachers of color also can serve as powerful role models for minority students, who are more likely to live in poor neighborhoods than white students and less likely to know other adults who are college graduates.

The average starting teacher salary still hovers under $ 40,000 and the median base teacher salary sits at approximately $ 47,400,37 meaning teachers make a staggering 60 percent less than other full - time professionals with college degrees.38 Like other professionals, teachers should earn a salary commensurate with their skillset, responsibilities, and level of education.

Included in this report is a telling chart which shows that American teachers are paid less than teachers in many other countries.

Charter schools draw fire from teachers» unions and other education groups, who say taxpayer money should be spent to fix traditional public education system rather than creating schools that have less oversight from state and local officials.

Now into my second year as a blended - learning history teacher — meaning I have a group of students in my classroom every other day, assigning them to work online, at home, on the «off» days — I've found the scary parts less frightening than most fear, with far greater benefits than I expected....

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).