Sentences with phrase «most creative teacher»

As in Teachers, where one of the most creative teachers wandered into the school straight out of the local psychiatric hospital, «the message is that you have to be a little crazy to teach kids,» said Matt Price, a doctoral candidate in education at the University of Kansas.

But if our most creative teachers do not seem to be enamored of the testing regime that now dominates the schools, this is something that needs further and systematic exploration, beyond even excellent ethnographic and journalistic accounts.

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But what chaplain, campus minister, theological teacher, or YMCA campus worker — even with the most creative program possible — would ever admit that he was out to «evangelize» students — and, above all, faculty and administration?

Create an outdoor space that encourages creative, brain - building play for toddlers using basic, inexpensive materials, says Mary Kingsley, director and lead teacher at The Kinder Garden Preschool in Raleigh, a nature - based school where most of kids» time is spent outdoors.

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

Pupils can engage through creative learning, and teachers will have access to a number of resources so that students can make the most out of their visit.

I'm sorry to say that most of the law's other requirements (like «highly qualified» teachers) seem to me mostly symbolic and prone to creative (and wasteful) noncompliance or endless backsliding.

Avina is also a kindergarten teacher at LAUSD's Olympic Primary Center in Los Angeles and the driving force behind one of the most adorable and creative educational resources on the Internet.

Most schools have either Arts specialists or creative teachers, think about using their knowledge and expertise to help you shape your learning experiences, to team with you or maybe even teach the tricky bits.

«I think as money becomes less plentiful, we become more committed to being very creative in maintaining the programs that we see are most successful,» explains Moustris, who gets high marks from academy teachers for almost always finding a way to get them the supplies and equipment they need.

The co-planning process encourages two teachers to bounce ideas off each other in order to deliver the strongest, most creative lessons.

Since its inception in 2010 Intellisense has been working together with the most renowned Universities and Teachers from across Hungary, developing unique and creative STEM applications for primary and secondary education.

If we want to get the most out of our students, parents and teachers must work together, and creative use of technology can make that possible.

Talking to the teacher more, Sharif learned that because access to Creative Cloud was limited to the computer lab, they had to dedicate most of their class time to students working on their project.

So what are the most fun or creative ways principals have seen teachers use the technology at hand?

The teacher behind the most creative idea will win an unforgettable Roald Dahl experience for two to three classes (up to 70 pupils) in the form of a trip to the award - winning Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre, situated in the Buckinghamshire village where Roald Dahl lived and wrote for 36 years.

The problem stems from parents» concern that their own children might be denied promotion or graduation based on a test score; from voters» confusion when their own upscale suburban schools are deemed to be failing by state or federal accountability systems even though most of the graduates do just fine; and from frustration when parents — often prompted by teachers — conclude that the basic - skills testing regime yields too much «drill and kill,» too little flexibility, and insufficient attention to art, music, and other creative disciplines.

She had just spent the summer trying to get the most qualified and creative teachers to come to Tyler Heights.

Of course, these work rules also discourage the most adventurous and creative teachers.

For teacher teams to be successful in this work, school leaders must be creative and vigilant about leveraging the school's most valuable commodity — time.

Creative teachers find the most exciting, current content in their subject areas and use methods that encourage student discovery, exploration, and analysis.

With some creative thinking about the schedule and use of time, the PE teacher can provide natural learning opportunities that will not arise in even the most dynamic classrooms.

Collective bargaining contracts are especially problematic on three fronts: 1) they restrict efforts to use compensation as a tool to recruit, reward and retain the most essential and effective teachers, 2) they impede attempts to assign or remove teachers on the basis of fit or performance and 3) they over-regulate school life with work rules that stifle creative problem solving without demonstrably improving teachers» ability to serve students.»

Most teachers don't believe in rote learning and encourage students to be creative.»

Weed out bad teachers and incentivize better and more creative teachers, but focus primarily on providing preparation and support for «average» teachers, who in most instances are educating our children.

Most teachers stressed that, first and foremost, they wanted to offer more opportunities for their students to work together in groups for «creative idea generation» and «brainstorming and problem solving.»

We published the book using a Creative Commons license, which enables the most extensive forms of use by others, including building on and repurposing our curriculum, as we hope that this book will invite collaboration among many teachers and other educators, as well as students, who, together, build new curricula and other instructional resources, using the ideas we offer in this book as they see fit.

It doesn't serve teachers to have them «reinvent the wheel», but we do believe that providing scaffolded amounts of information can help them navigate in their own creative directions, with their students, in the ways they find most meaningful.

Rural districts, most of which offer lower salaries than urban districts, can find it especially tough to recruit new teachers, but they're coming up with some creative solutions.

«I consider Woody Mosten to be one of the world's most creative thinkers and innovative teachers in the field of Mediation Training.»

My clients have been among my most inspirational teachers on issues of courage, resiliency, and creative problem - solving.»

By Larry Harbolt A few weeks ago I attended a weekend training put on by, who I believe is the most creative and knowledgeable real estate investor and teacher in this country.