Sentences with phrase «negative school culture»

Childhood was viewed as a positive time for the arts for most of the beginning teachers; however, the teenage years appeared negative for the majority of respondents because of teacher criticism, negative school culture towards the arts, and competing subjects.

During beginning months of teaching, respondents were again exposed to a negative school culture towards the arts, with little support in their teaching.

So the implication is then that the evaluation done by principals now is deficient and that contributes to negative school culture and student failure?

Not exact matches

Because of the strength of the shared values of the teachers and the close working relationship between teachers and parents, these schools are usually free of the more negative aspects of the youth culture.

The school strives to shelter younger children from the distractions of popular culture and from negative influences, particularly because it is important to nurture their magical connection to life and their sense of total safety.

«They are also penalised by the negative culture in too many schools towards requests for flexible working and the punitive financial impact of accessing their pension before 68 mean teachers have little choice but to work until they drop.»

The state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Toye Arulogun, said the fact that a school had been established at the former kidnappers» den meant that the government was interested in changing the negative image attached to the community.

The evidence is not clear cut, and there is considerable debate about the negative side effects of a test - based school culture, but there are nonetheless some positive signs.

Looking back, I can see that my colleagues and I were struggling to counteract powerful tendencies that work against high student achievement in urban schools: If teachers work in isolation, if there isn't effective teamwork, if the curriculum is undefined and weakly aligned with tests, if there are low expectations, if a negative culture prevails, if the principal is constantly distracted by nonacademic matters, if the school does not measure and analyze student outcomes, and if the staff lacks a coherent overall improvement plan — then students fall further and further behind, and the achievement gap becomes a chasm.

Conversely, in a toxic school culture and climate, learning by all will not take place effectively, and what is learned may be sustainably negative and harmful.

Despite their potential to inform teachers and students, in some schools testing has contributed to a negative classroom culture that harms student investment.

She believes a school can turn around negative student behaviors by infusing character education into its daily culture.

These excerpts address the problem of adult bullying and how it can have a pervasive negative impact on a school's culture.

Principal turnover is moderately and negatively correlated with school culture and with classroom curriculum and instruction; it has a weak negative relationship with student achievement.

Half of students found their school culture neither positive nor negative, while 18 percent called it negative.

For example, negative personal leaders have a direct effect on school culture, which in turn could affect classroom instructional outcomes.

Central Academy will build a more positive school culture by achieving a 4:1 positive - to - negative behavior ratio overall for the 16 - 17 school year.

Woven into this highly personal narrative about a boy's journey from silent sidekick to hero are themes that translate to public education: the challenges of finding the right school or instructional method to meet a student's individual needs; the impact of social stigmas on expectations and performance, particularly for «discarded students» in low - income neighborhoods, and the need for a culture of high expectations to counter those negative societal assumptions; the importance of tireless, focused, caring teachers who do whatever it takes to help students succeed; and the ability for all children — regardless of learning challenges or race or income level — to learn.

The panel touched on school climate and culture, what it means to have true and meaningful student voices embedded in your school, and how education truly frees students from negative situations.

And yet, as a teacher in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I would say the financial realities in our district and state continue to have a negative impact on my school community's morale and thus, school climate and culture.

With behavior management tools such as one - click behavior tracking, you can easily track the positive behaviors that make up your ideal school culture, as well as inappropriate or negative behaviors that need improvement.

Clearly the release of these scores had a profoundly negative impact on our school culture.

Numerous educators, writers and researchers have written about school culture that is normally divided into two basic forms: positive and negative.

Cultural mismatches between the culture of the child and that of its teacher have been empirically shown to result in a range of negative outcomes for the child, including behavioural infractions, low academic outcomes and dropping out of school.

As a result, we've transformed our school culture from being negative to being positive.»

«This announcement will encourage a culture of vicious management practices within schools which will have a profoundly negative effect on the workforce and children and young people alike.»

This report will delineate the reasons for this resistance as well as the ways in which integration can have a negative impact on the perception, resources and culture of a school.

The government now recognizes that the consequences of the Indian residential schools policy were profoundly negative and that this policy has had a lasting and damaging impact on aboriginal culture, heritage and language.

In the wake of recent figures of an 88 % increase in calls to Childline about cyberbullying in the last five years, it is crucial that school leaders understand the positives and negatives of internet culture within their communities and have the management strategies required.

There are issues of culture and cultural safety: universities and medical schools are not particularly culturally safe environments: a lot of education about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander health has been framed negatively for a long time, so, for example, case studies are often fairly negative in connotation.

Conversely, in a toxic school culture and climate, learning by all will not take place effectively and what is learned may be sustainably negative and harmful.

Incorporating these stories into the school curriculum will help build pride in our communities and cultures which can combat the negative stereotypes that reinforce powerlessness which in turn feeds lateral violence.