Sentences with phrase «more challenging for teachers»

With a new emphasis on understanding the interdisciplinary nature of energy, this key concept has become even more challenging for teachers and students.

Those schools have the greater struggle — more challenges for teachers who are stretched too thin, and increased reliance on scant federal and state funding.

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The challenge for those of us who've left Christendom to seek a more free flowing spirituality is to not enter the «religious rivalry spiral» but to lovingly disengage like our teacher Yeshua.

For many teachers at M.S. 45, the Turnaround coaches told me, embracing this part of the Turnaround model was much more challenging than adopting the new classroom - management strategies.

More than 500 BME teachers from across the country gathered in Birmingham today (Saturday 3 December) for the NASUWT Annual BME Teachers» Consultation Conference to discuss the challenges facing them and to engage in professional development woteachers from across the country gathered in Birmingham today (Saturday 3 December) for the NASUWT Annual BME Teachers» Consultation Conference to discuss the challenges facing them and to engage in professional development woTeachers» Consultation Conference to discuss the challenges facing them and to engage in professional development workshops.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

Conversely, when case studies portrayed boys with behavioral challenges, teachers were more likely to refer black and Latino boys than white boys for testing.

When teachers read a case study of a boy with academic challenges, meant to suggest learning disabilities, they were more likely to refer white boys than black and Latino boys for testing.

But really better training of science teachers, better pay for teachers, more investment in school infrastructure, building, science equipment — that's a huge challenge for the nation, in which we are clearly losing internationally just by every ranking; we do much less well than we should.

Going forward, the challenge will be for researchers and policymakers to develop more evidence - based online tools that teachers can implement with students in their classrooms.

A yogi for half her lifetime and popular yoga teacher for more than a decade, Rebecca's classes provide an expert blend of physical challenge, meditation, and inspiration.

Read educational articles, parenting articles, & more Children with attention deficit disorder and / or learning disabilities can be a challenge for any classroom teacher.

For more information, please read «Leading the Local: Teachers Union Presidents Speak on Change, Challenges.»

Since 1990 the New York - based Teach for America (TFA) program has placed more than 7,000 teachers in some of the nation's most challenging school districts.

A more open - ended, constructivist approach to the lesson would pose an even greater challenge for our edgling AI teacher.

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take - up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitability of different apprenticeships across genders.

A perfect storm of greater demand for teachers, fewer people entering the profession (particularly in key subjects), severe pressures on schools funding and a restrictive migration system, means that schools are having to think outside of the normal channels of recruitment to more flexible staffing models to cope with these challenges.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

The lessons and work sheets are intended to enable teachers of various grade levels to participate in the project by making it more challenging for older students and more understandable for younger students.

James Noble - Rogers, executive director of the Universities» Council for the Education of Teachers (UCET), said: «Recruitment to secondary programmes is becoming increasingly challenging, and will become more so as pupil numbers go up.

The payoff can be students who are happier and more open to learning and to accepting challenges — not to mention an easier classroom - management situation for the teacher.

In response to Morgan's plans, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said: «The workload challenge can be solved by more intelligent accountability, better planning and fewer changes from government — constant short - notice disruption is not conducive to the focus required for good quality teaching.

Of course, this takes more time for both the learner and the teacher but the addition of an essay that requires critical thinking is not a huge instructional challenge for teachers.

Beginning in 2009, we presented a vision for addressing the challenge of reaching every student with excellent teachers, using job redesign and age - appropriate technology to extend excellent teachers» reach, directly and by leading other teachers, in fully accountable roles, for more pay — but within budget.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

RV: For more experienced teachers, what are the unique challenges that they face when it comes to behaviour management?

Charlie Cobb was only 20 years old when he designed the Freedom Schools curriculum to enable students, as he put it, «to stand up in classrooms around the state and ask their teachers a real question» and «make it possible for them to challenge the myths of our society, to perceive more clearly its realities and to find alternatives and ultimately, new directions for action.»

Jerald (2007), for instance, found that teachers with strong perceptions of efficacy put more effort into planning lessons, are more open to new ideas and persevere in the face of new challenges.

First, he begins in the right place: rewarding teachers for performance and modifying the current teaching incentive structure to pay teachers more for taking on the most challenging assignments.

As difficult as it can be for students, the problem might be even more challenging for ELL teachers.

The new curriculum's focus on more intensive ICT lessons for children means that teachers who find technology a challenge are at something of a disadvantage.

As director of education for a tribal nonprofit organization in Anchorage, Ala., where she oversaw teachers, counselors, and family advocates who served more than 1,100 Native American K — 12 students, Loyd felt challenged and rewarded every day.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

So teachers struggled with the challenge of a lot more upfront preparation for these lectures per se.

When projects are interdisciplinary, it becomes even more of a challenge for teachers to critique subjects that may be unfamiliar.

A variety of text levels is provided; some texts are more challenging to allow teachers to differentiate for children reading at different levels within the class.

Overall, it seems clear that states and districts could provide more support in helping teachers move away from certain content, which we know from previous research is a challenge for teachers.

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

For more information about the Australian STEM Video Game Challenge and to download student, teacher and parent resources visit www.stemgames.org.au.

Implementation problems and teacher capacity: The new assessments set forth more challenging proficiency benchmarks for students and required substantial investments in technology, as well as increased testing time.

Instead, the challenge was building a tool that would make a successful instructional model run more smoothly and efficiently and make adopting the model more seamless for new teachers.

But many more challenges were still ahead for Deborah Bambino, an eighth grade science teacher / leader at Philadelphia's Central East Middle School.

According to Lodge, there are many ways that teachers can allow for more uncertainty and challenging situations in their classrooms, and supporting students to be okay with it is an important first step.

I'm not a gambling person, but if I had to place a bet on one sure - fire method for engaging students, increasing test scores, reaching students who fall below standards, challenging students who exceed grade - level standards, accessing students» creativity and originality, maximizing brain connections formed, applying concepts to new situations, and making the learning process more fun for the students and teacher, I would place that bet on... teaching the core curriculum through the arts.

«So, again pulling out the research about what are the goals for mathematics, what is global research about the effective teaching and learning of mathematics... while at the same time encouraging or expecting our teachers to provide our students with high challenge tasks and gradually build more and more of them into their repertoire...»

«This was going to place too heavy a workload on our teachers and would make it very difficult for us to differentiate teaching so that we could provide high end challenges for our more able learners.

There are smarter, better ways to approach the challenge at hand: expand the hiring pool beyond recent college graduates; staff schools in ways that squeeze more value out of talented teachers; and use technology to make it easier for teachers to be highly effective.

More recently I've also been designing workshops and courses for teachers and administrators interested in project -, challenge - or problem - based learning.

Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) will be replaced by a «stronger, more challenging accreditation», according to a new Department for Education (DfE) white paper.

Ambition two is closing the attainment gap by raising standards for every pupil, supporting teachers early in their career as well as getting more great teachers in areas where there remain significant challenges.