Sentences with phrase «little teacher control»

Standardized tests and commercial tests that allow little teacher control and adaptation were regarded as less useful and were used less often by teachers.

Not exact matches

As a physics teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.

Teachers were redeployed, leaving governors little control over appointments, and lowering the morale of the profession.

As usual, lawmakers emerged from the meeting in Cuomo's office to say little, though they revealed issues ranging from rent control and mayoral control for New York City as well as changes to the state's teacher evaluation criteria are under discussion.

Those on the other side, however, see majority members as combative enemies of teachers who have accomplished little in their two years controlling the board besides fueling division.

De Blasio's ostensible allies among the Senate Democrats are more aligned with the teachers» union view that mayoral control gives parents and local school boards too little power over city schools.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

The analysis of the results in the pretest samples of teacher and students, both in the control and in the experimental group show a medium level of exclusionism, segregationism and assimilationism with a little bit higher results on individualism and integrationism.

Although better principals may also attract and hire more - effective teachers, the absence of reliable quality measures for new teachers and the fact that many principals have little control over new hires lead us to focus specifically on turnover.

Crellin teachers acknowledge that this kind of flexibility means surrendering a little bit of control — control of their class schedule, of what the partners are going to say next, of their room, and of their time, since they may often have to return a learning partner's email or a phone call.

Too often, we focus on the negativity that surrounds the profession in the news, and conversation turns to working conditions, class size, union issues or other outside forces that teachers have little control over.

Like many lesson - sharing sites, this one appears to have little by way of quality control, though it does attempt to allow teachers to «align» these lessons to standards, including the Common Core.

Though teachers have little control over a child's move, there is much they can do to help that child, as well as the other students in the class, cope.

Let's face it, teachers are a little controlling.

There's little doubt that a Republican - controlled House will close the federal - spending spigot, including bailout dollars for schools and teachers.

Especially in education, where I fear there is remarkably little front - end quality control, it is entirely appropriate that any system of evaluation should be routinely identifying teachers as low - performing and remediating or terminating them.

When the teachers had little authority or power over instructional decision - making, or when administrators were controlled by district staff, an «assessment - as - test» mentality drove instruction.

We are also deeply troubled by the prospect that if virtually unregulated teacher certification academies with little academic quality control are allowed to proliferate, the employers of their graduates will be either charter schools, many operating in high - poverty communities, or traditional public schools that lack the resources to be selective and competitive in hiring the best - qualified teachers.

Much of this is used to fund a political agenda over which individual teachers have little control.

One of the reasons for this decline is that teachers feel they are being held accountable for things over which they have little or no control.

Sir Michael, who in the past has drawn much criticism from teachers» unions, also warned that teachers» representatives should not portray themselves as «victims who have little control or say over their own professional lives».

Since both sides believe that the reasons for the achievement gap lie almost entirely outside the classroom — and, in many cases, beyond the control of students, parents, or teachers — they also contend that education reforms focused on changing schools, helping parents, and aiding students would be of little use.

So proponents claiming the mantle of «education reform» have been quick to jump on the one - sided election results as proof - positive of widespread voter support for their ideas, which include competitive charter schools, vouchers to transfer public education money into private hands, and harsh accountability measures to punish schools and teachers for the circumstances they have very little control over.

Although the three organizations are funded primarily from local taxpayer funds and are supposed to be advocating for local public schools, all three have spent the last three years lobbying for Governor Malloy's restrictive, centralized and top - down Corporate Education Reform Industry agenda... An agenda that undermines local control of education, seeks to limit the rights of parents, denigrates teachers and turns Connecticut's public schools into little more than Common Core testing factories.

Shepard (1991) pointed out that teachers have little control over the policies proscribing accountability through «high - stakes» tests.

A school structure that requires students to move to new teachers each year, where learning is in cement blocks of 40 minutes, and where teachers have little or no control over the schedule would be a difficult structure for integrated, project - based learning.

Do they stand with Connecticut's students, teachers, parents, public school advocates and taxpayers or will they continue to turn our public schools into little more than testing factories and money pits for an industry that is gorging itself on scarce taxpayer funds while undermining the role of teachers, parents and the local control of public education.

Chris Hannah, a music teacher from Mennies Elementary School in Vineland, would just be starting his search for a new companion to bring a little joy into his life when, at the same time, «Harry Potter» found himself in the clutches of an animal control officer and wound up at the shelter.

Teachers in the treatment group reported little change in social competencies, while teachers in the control group reported declines in social competency, indicating a reduction of 31 percent in the likelihood of physical bullying perpetration in the intervention group relative to the controTeachers in the treatment group reported little change in social competencies, while teachers in the control group reported declines in social competency, indicating a reduction of 31 percent in the likelihood of physical bullying perpetration in the intervention group relative to the controteachers in the control group reported declines in social competency, indicating a reduction of 31 percent in the likelihood of physical bullying perpetration in the intervention group relative to the control group.

The school is not the problem the problem is the way how the parents help their child's to behave and to study because some parents they think the school have to do the all learning to the kids but they are wrong i like the school and I like the teachers too just the city need to help with resources because we need more people to control the lunch time in special to the little ones.