Sentences with phrase «more teacher control»

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... To have the bullet pointed at me - at my school, my classmates, my teachers, my mentors - it's just it's definitely eye - opening to the fact that we need more gun control in our country.»

If that's the case for you, Bill Duane, a Google executive and meditation teacher, offers a more practical approach to taming your out - of - control social - media use.

This isn't a new argument, but it's one that's resurfaced recently: Instead of more gun control, some people believe we should give guns and gun training to teachers, office workers, and the like.

And the White House, which shifted Trump's calls for comprehensive gun control toward a proposal that looked a lot more like the National Rifle Association's platform (including arming teachers), has been preoccupied with Cabinet shake - ups and hardline immigration rhetoric.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

In contrast, teachers were more controlling, had lower expectations, got angry more often, and showed less nurturing toward the children with difficult attachments — and who, sadly, had a greater need than the securely attached kids for kindness from adults.

A majority of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520 teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff, teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.

If we can remember to retain our role as teacher and leader and keep ourselves calm and in control, and avoid matching our teenagers inconsistent personalities all will be more successful in the end.

In a fun and creative way, Cook spins the tale of Wilma, who with the help of y = her teacher is able to feel more in control of her worries — which will help young readers feel more in control of their own anxieties along the way.

Stimulated by more positive reinforcement, kids who have been out of control can learn to rein in their behavior and enjoy more rewarding relationships with parents and teachers.

Teachers understand this, but when students run into trouble in school, Tough writes, schools often respond by imposing more control, not less, via stern discipline such as out - of school suspensions, «further diminishing their fragile sense of autonomy.»

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

While Cuomo is socially liberal on gun control and abortion, he's seen as more fiscally conservative, willing to battle teachers unions and supportive of business friendly tax cuts.

Senate Republicans not only stuck it to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio on mayoral control of the public schools, but also handed a victory to his nemesis, Success Academy charter school network founder Eva Moskowitz by allowing charters to hire more uncertified teachers.

ALBANY — The Democratic - controlled state Senate last night passed legislation to more than double the number of charter schools — infuriating teachers - union officials who immediately declared war against the lawmakers who voted for the bill.

The governor in New York does not directly control education policy, but earlier this year Cuomo inserted into the state budget the requirement that new teacher evaluations be more dependent on standardized tests.

This limbo was largely the result of a deal that the Bloomberg administration struck with the teachers» union to give principals more control over who worked in their schools.

Some want the current majority to maintain control and continue pushing for changes such as a longer school day, more charter schools and a teacher contract that holds educators more accountable for performance.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

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.

The President of the state's largest teachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nationteachers union, New York United Teachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nationTeachers Richard Iannuzzi, says more steps need to be taken to ensure that schools are safe, including «a serious tightening of gun control laws across the nation.»

Your yoga teacher certainly can not control your brain's budgeting process (neither can you), but she can help give your brain more relevant information to process and make better, more refined predictions.

Her name is Parvana (voiced with strength and conviction by newcomer Saara Chaudry), and she is allowed to visit Kabul's market square only so long as she is accompanied by her father (Ali Badshah), a one - legged local teacher whose reverence for books upsets the militant young men — including one especially spiteful former student, hardly more than a child himself — who've since seized control of the region.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

Tech - savvy teachers are able to prepare their lessons in a more strategical manner by including different types of text, activity models, and interactive controls for students.

Obviously early career teachers, when they go into teaching they don't have a great deal of agency in terms of control over what they do, the way they teach and certain decisions, and so over time they are assuming more control over what they teach and how they teach, although sometimes allocation is never really in the control of any teacher.

This technology is not new to education, but historically tends to be used more by network managers to monitor and control their school's IT from the back - office, rather than being used by classroom teachers themselves.

Only recently, teachers unions seemed to be riding high in the saddle, enjoying for the first time in more than a decade a government unified under the union - friendly leadership of a Democratic governor and a legislature controlled by the same party.

The approach requires teachers to relinquish some control and invest more trust in the students, say Enota educators.

While this might be uncomfortable to consider, it's a great area to stretch yourself as a teacher in giving up control and allowing students to take more of that control.

Rocketship leaders will fix a disconnect they see between what happens in the online learning lab and the classroom, to give teachers more control over the students» digital learning and further individualize the teaching.

In order to provide a more detailed picture of the factors that are associated with teacher layoff notices, we then examine the effects of each of these various factors on the probability that a teacher received a layoff notice, while controlling for the others.

• Although both treatment and control teachers volunteered to participate in the project, the treatment teachers were more likely to support use of video at the end of the first year, as a replacement for some or all of their in - person classroom observations.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

Giving teachers control of a camera, the opportunity to watch themselves teach, and allowing them to discuss their videos talk with external observers, peers and supervisors will provide be a more effective mirror than any observer's written notes.

It offers all the functionality educational environments require and more, such as support for up to 64 concurrent users, teacher / moderator control, wireless multi-touch control for touch displays and interactive whiteboards, and plug - and - play installation.

It has yet to become education's equivalent of the American Bar Association, which effectively controls entry into the legal profession, but it now accredits institutions that train more than 70 percent of the nation's teachers.

Mary Lau, Digital Marketing Manager at Action Storage, said: «It's interesting to see that so many survey respondents believe giving teachers and students more control over education could be the key to real change.

Our White Paper reforms will ensure we continue to spread excellence everywhere by putting control in the hands of the teachers and school leaders who know their pupils best, alongside new measures to more swiftly tackle failing and coasting schools.

After again controlling for factors other than competition that might affect a private school's demand for certain teachers, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among private schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

I see more teachers saying, «I can learn to control the physiological state of my learners much more by using music at the right time.»

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.

The challenges of instruction, leadership, parent engagement, school culture, and professional capacity of teachers are things controlled by us, Knowles noted, pointing out that they also can lead to students 10 times more likely to make substantial improvement and 30 times less likely to stagnate.

What's needed, he says, are policy changes, giving the best teachers incentives to go into the most demanding schools and allowing principals to have more control over hiring and evaluating teachers and more flexibility and control over their budgets.

After controlling for all these factors, I compared teachers in areas where parents have more choices among public schools with teachers in areas where they have fewer.

Every year new teachers do a lot more than stay in their classrooms too late and struggle to control classrooms.

Discussing School Direct, the government's new approach to initial teacher training, Taylor talked about developing relationships between schools and teacher training providers and school - centred initial teacher training (SCITT), encouraging schools to get more involved and take control of their own recruitment.

It is thought that these cameras give more control to teachers in difficult situations by limiting bad behaviour and instilling a sense of trust between the school and parents.