Sentences with phrase «n't help teachers»

Through research, we found that five - star rating systems don't help teachers, but product differentiation was critical, so we created a platform that saves teachers time while harnessing their expertise very quickly.

Criticized as a perfunctory checklist of expectations that doesn't help teachers improve, the system awarded 99.3 % of L.A. Unified teachers the highest rating in 2009 - 10 — even though only 45 % of district students that year performed at grade level for reading and 56 % were proficient in math.

Professional development in most schools today doesn't help teachers meet the needs of their students nor does it help them grow and develop in their profession.

«If we don't get this right this year, evaluations risk becoming a highly trumpeted and expensive reform that doesn't help teachers improve their practice and as a result, ultimately fades into irrelevance,» he said.

As we support teachers in this work, we've found the Someday / Monday metaphor to be a helpful way to think about the steps we'd like folks to take.1 On the one hand, if technology doesn't help teachers make substantial changes in classroom practices — if their classroom isn't «someday» a very different place — then the technology investments often aren't worth it.

You can't coach people in a craft, especially a complex craft like teaching, unless you know the craft; you can't help teachers be outstanding instructors, which is the central role that school leaders should play, unless you understand teachers and the classroom challenges they face.

This idea that teachers have to get scripted lessons and unit plans handed down to them from their district doesn't help teachers own their profession.

You're not helping our schools, you're not helping our teachers, our nurses, our seniors.

Ms Keates said the survey showed parents were not helping teachers tackle disruptive behaviour.

It's really not helping the teacher evaluate the student anyway.

Typical of these lesson plans, it is thin on substance, leaves the students to teach themselves about civil disobedience, and does not help teachers whose own knowledge of civil disobedience is weak.

Research conducted by the Institute shows that schools spend over # 1bn each year on teacher training and development but most of it isn't helping teachers to get better.

Furthermore, 59 per cent responded stating that the baseline assessment had disrupted children's start at school, and had not helped teachers get to know their pupils (54 per cent).

It's a waste of taxpayer money, and it's not helping teachers and students.»

Simply categorizing content relative to the Common Core State Standards does not help teachers understand which «key concepts» students have mastered or struggle with.

Exit exams are not diagnostic; they do not help teachers identify what students really need» said Flores.

Stephanie Carmichael writes about video games, comics, and books when she's not helping teachers and students have fun together with Classcraft, an educational RPG.

Not exact matches

«This system was designed decades ago,» Gates continued, «and it doesn't reflect what educators have learned about helping students and teachers do their best work,» namely, that students learn far more effectively when their instruction is tailored to their specific needs.

My fourth - grade teacher didn't help when she announced I was the worst speller she'd seen in 25 years.

Gadgets in classrooms might make kids happy, but sadly it doesn't seem to help them learn (a truth top technologists, if not teachers, seem to understand — they tend to send their kids to low - tech schools).

His true vision is a platform that doesn't just fund innovative teachers — it helps them connect and share learnings to improve education for kids everywhere.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Gareth Cheeseman from the Christian charity Acet UK which runs sex education classes said: «Our concern at the moment is the number of young people who don't receive any relationship and sex education because their teachers are untrained and they don't have the curriculum time to cover it, anything that can help tackle that issue has the potential to be a positive force.»

Sometimes an adult outside the family — a teacher, pastor or school counselor — can motivate a youth to get counseling help when the parents can't.

Thus it would not be wise to say: «You have been misbehaving lately and we are going to take you to a counselor,» or «Your teacher says you are not getting along in school and you need some help.»

My college teacher used to say: «There are two things you can give your children, Roots to help them grow and wings to make them fly» Induced Coma's aren't part of it!

Those whom we call professional exegetes are then servants of the church who are to help people read Scripture in the light of their own questions not in the light of problems scholars (or their German teachers!)

One is that a lot of conscientious laymen feel guilty when they don't have the name «Jesus Christ» on their lips, and their teachers have not helped them to understand any better.

Please understand what you are writing about before posting, it helps not having to be your history and science teacher all the time.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Marianne: In my initial desire to help in the catechesis in my own parish I knew that being a teacher and a practising Catholic was not enough and that I needed training and formation.

When Our Saviour Yeshua Mashiah came it is importnat to note that he didn't try to change the Romans i.e the government at that time as His thing was not against them, he came to help people as individuals and its only when we as people change can we begin to see change in the world and this is why God is a very personal experince and not religious, we need teachers but not the religious types, we need teachers who guide us to God with us and this is what Our Saviour did, we have the freedom to choose but we can only choose if we have what to choose from and being informed helps us to do this

He is a very gifted Bible teacher, but when I saw his diary and monthly schedule, it seemed to be an enormous corporate venture and I could not help wondering if he found any time to apply his teaching gifting.

Such people could not help being a scandal in the churches, and a Christian teacher named Jude made them the object of a letter of unsparing condemnation.

Perhaps his problem was not that he had spent too much time with literature and too little with mathematics but that he had not had the advantage of teachers like Lionel Trilling, Norman Rabkin, and Frank Kermode, who might have helped him turn Balfour's peripety back on himself.

Posters from a government office urged that girls and boys be treated alike in every possible particular: teachers should not say things like: «I need two strong boys to help carry this table.»

If the Teacher serves as an occasion by means of which the learner is reminded, he can not help the learner to recall that he really knows the Truth; for the learner is in a state of Error.

I went over it a few years ago with a biology teacher but I can't seem to remember it all now... I'd help more if I could.

Cooperation as the law of the universe will lead us to restructure the school system so that teachers and students become part of a learning team, not unlike a family, with the task of helping each other learn what needs to be learned.

Allen P. Ross, in Creation and Blessing: A Guide to the Study and Exposition of Genesis (Grand Rapids: Baker, 1988, 744 pp., $ 29.99) states that his book is not a commentary of Genesis, but a guide to help teachers and preacher appreciate the richness and complexity of the narratives and to organize the theological teaching for presentation to a contemporary audience.

I ask that question not only to this ignorant lady, but to all the parents who give their children these crazy names... WHat if your child grows up to be a teacher, military commander, CEO... STOP BEING SO THOUGTLESS about the potential impact this name will have down the line... For the other parents who do the same thinking it's cute, may the Messiah help you!

Do not be swayed by this article, but seek out a true biblical scholar, teacher, or pastor to help you sort out this misleading article.

Help our teachers not to live in fear.

Such a distinction has merit in helping to bring out the full content of the message of the primitive prophets and teachers; but it would not do to identify the «preaching» with the prophets and the «teaching» with the teachers.

As a biology teacher, I just couldn't help myself in needing to correct your correction about what yeast is.

This is a quote that my nutrition teacher shared with the class and it helps to explain what I am saying: «The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts — the cells.»

This is a comment I got from a reader named Kae on the subject, so hopefully it will help: I am taking a nutrition class right now and according to our teacher, the FDA hasn't taken a stance on fiber yet because people are still debating how fiber is digested.

We not only provide training and curricula to teachers in southern Mexico and Guatemala, but we also help build local networks so educators can sustain this vital environmental education work in their communities for years to come.

If you are a teacher and like helping student succeed, then do it for the intrinsic factors and don't complain about the extrinsic factors such as money.

Not a kind comment, particularly considering that Love helped launch Harmon's career as a teacher of elite players.