Sentences with phrase «much time educators»

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Consider how much time politicians, educators and researchers spend talking about how to teach the next generation to be innovative.

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.

Although much of the stock information here is out of date, the simulation is usable, and the site is perfect for educators who want to teach a unit on the stock market but who don't have time for a lengthy project; for students to use before beginning a stock market competition; or for individual students to use on their own.

But neither educators nor economists have known much about whether these conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can make a difference over time in high - poverty communities.

Boudett and City's Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators (2014), the latest publication to emerge from the project, recognizes the importance of meetings as the place where much of the real work of school improvements happens.

When educators spend too much time worrying about how to classify or categorize harmful behaviors, there is a tendency to lose sight of the environment that fostered these behaviors.

When students are equipped for autonomy through explicit social and emotional learning and a structured, yet flexible curriculum, they operate with much less assistance from a teacher, allowing educators to spend time doing what really matters — interacting with kids.

«There's so much that educators want to give others that it can be hard to carve out the time that's needed to take care of yourself.»

In fact, elearning can be a great resource because it frees up time and provides much richer content, and educators» roles will evolve to fit the times.

The rolling out of Internet Plus Education will be efficient and effective as most of the audience use tablets such as iPads and cellphones to use the internet, that means that there will not be too much time wasted on integrating the students or educators — accelerating Internet Plus Education's effectiveness.

«There have been waves of merit pay initiatives in the past, and every time someone recommends it anew, it's as if it's never been done before,» says Johnson, who recently coauthored Redesigning Teacher Pay: A System for the Next Generation of Educators, a book garnering much attention in the education world by advocating a radically different approach to teacher pay that encourages teacher career development through a four - tier system of promotion.

The need for a method of reporting to parents that serves the purpose of «tracking a student's development in an area of learning over time» (Forster, 2005) has been under discussion for more than a decade and has gained much traction among educators in recent years.

What matters most is not how much time a student spends in school, or the type of schedule in which he or she participates, but whether or not educators use effectively every hour that the student is there.

Some educators propose that the amount of time spent in school matters less than how much or how little of that time is devoted to appropriate instruction.

Student - teacher email accounts have also opened up the channels of communication between pupils and educators, meaning that help and guidance outside of lesson time is much more accessible.

Children can not learn in disorderly schools where educators feel powerless and teachers spend as much time on discipline as they do on instruction.

Kareem Weaver, of the Oakland Alliance for Black Educators and Executive Director of New Leaders Bay Area reflects: «Never has there been so much time structured for collaboration and, yet, there remains a nagging disconnection between adults.

I'm so sorry that we won't be able to pursue our global education projects...» Another educator and friend wrote to me, «Our school will be focusing on diversity, inclusion, and anti-bullying efforts; at this time it's just too much for us to consider global education.»

It is time to put as much focus on reading practice as we do on school culture, student - educator relationships, and socioeconomic factors.

Although further study is needed, the research suggests that much of the inconsistency results from true differences in educator effectiveness over time and contexts.

In too many schools, there is unnecessary testing and not enough clarity of purpose applied to the task of assessing students, consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students.

Over-reliance on grades to assess progress and grade inflation are issues that take up too much of educators» time.

School educators and administrators have shared that they particularly like the summative assessments because not much class time is needed (~ 5 - 10 minutes), yet they provide enough information for schools to evaluate progress and identify areas for improvement.

Sharing this information broadly will hold our state and our schools accountable for having well - thought - out assessment plans with our students» needs at their core.This much - needed transparency around student testing will also help schools and districts to learn best practices from one another about how best to gather the data educators need without sacrificing the instruction time so vital to student learning.

of error - prone, tedious, and boring tasks that prevent educators from helping students, take too much time, or may contribute to carpel tunnel

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

Recognizing the importance of his own professional development, Kevin has devoted much time and energy into growing his knowledge base through conference and workshop participation with the Association of Middle Level Education, Advanced Cognitive Coaching, Adaptive Schools Training, Michigan Association of Middle School Educators, Middle Years Program International Baccalaureate Training, Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning, and NanoTechnology — to name a few.

The sad truth is that many educators aren't allowed the classroom time to teach much - needed social - emotional skills or to test kids for these competencies; and with the exception of just a few states, we don't have policies that support schools in imparting these skills to children.

In a fact sheet on the new Testing Action Plan the U.S. Department of Education states, «In too many schools, there is unnecessary testing and not enough clarity of purpose applied to the task of assessing students, consuming too much instructional time and creating undue stress for educators and students.

Although students spend much of their personal time online, educators should not assume that this experience translates into proficiency in an education environment.

This time, however, the Times» design and the use of data also generated a strong surge of disagreement, including objections from the researchers who generated the underlying data, other educators, and data visualization experts who thought the presentation could have been made much clearer and more accurate.

Across the country, in the time of Donald Trump, educators have been declaring their opinions about our voluble president and his policies on immigration, schools, and much else.

The survey found that educators experience workplace bullying at a much higher rate — more that three times as high — than other workers.

Under the older, truancy - based approach, educators would not take note of absences - much less intervene - until students had missed a significant amount of instructional time.

To begin with, Brill extrapolates unfairly and too much from his time spent in the rubber rooms with some of New York's worst educators.

And inevitably, this is what happens in our schools: The educational facet of giftedness is addressed, although insufficiently much of the time, while the emotional, social and sensory traits of giftedness are unknown by most educators unfamiliar with gifted children.

This time spent with aspiring educators is as much for Emily as it is her students.

The much - discussed and written - about Johns Hopkins University study on the long - term positive impacts of same - race teachers reinforces what a lot of us educators — and all members of The Fellowship (Black Male Educators for Social Justice)-- have known a very leducators — and all members of The Fellowship (Black Male Educators for Social Justice)-- have known a very lEducators for Social Justice)-- have known a very long time.

Ann Wellhouse, a former educator, said she doesn't agree that too much time is spent teaching to the test.

Some U.S. educators, accustomed to thinking about professional development in terms of 2 - hour workshops, will object: «How can you spend so much time on just one lesson?»

«As educators, we often spend a lot of time focusing on academics and instructional practices, but the reality is that until we have a safe environment, those things aren't going to make much of a difference.

If educators spend so much time setting up evaluation systems, why not use that data to more effectively support teachers?

Much of the frustration that educators experience as they attempt to implement multiple instructional approaches could be avoided with improved professional development, in which teachers are introduced to the concepts and research and then supported as they implement these initiatives over time.

We have so much coming at us at one time, I fear we will lose those educators who inspire because they feel overwhelmed or under - valued.

Summary: Throughout the state and country educators say the same thing: too much testing, give us back our classroom time.

Even families who typically do not have much time or opportunity to engage in education can find ways to be involved in their children's academics with the help of school resources and initiatives.9 Then it becomes paramount for policymakers, educators, and school leaders to know how their institutions can best design their practices and services at the secondary level to maximize postsecondary student success, especially for underrepresented groups.

However, this will require intention, time, and much discussion between educators and state and local leaders to determine how to more holistically shift systems with the least amount of disruption to school operations, planning, and student learning.

At the same time, officials in Italy could not only track how much time an inmate spends interacting with an ebook using the same technology that parents and educators use for young readers, but they can also verify the user's annotations, highlights, or comments before assigning credit for having read the book.

We also built in tracking tools so educators can see how much time their students spend reading and which books they read.»

«We are excited as Managed Services is a brand - new offering from Follett, and comes in response to educators telling us they are spending too much time on operational activities, which takes attention away from their primary goal of student learning,» said Tom Schenck, president, Follett School Solutions.