Sentences with phrase «never met a teacher»

Most of these kids» parents have never met their teachers.

«All the teachers are so supportive and caring, and I've never met teachers that are so passionate about teaching,» says one grateful student of Valley Prep International charter school.

When the Academy for Classical Education opened this month elementary and middle school students had already finished extensive summer reading assignments even though they had never been inside a classroom, never met a teacher, never been to the cafeteria and never met new friends at Macon's newest public charter school.

I've never met a teacher would disagree with this statement.

Not exact matches

Reflecting on the mystery of teachers one never meets or on the practical uselessness of philosophy, Schall here reminds increasingly busy people that human beings are most fully human when they are engaging in such unserious and impractical activities.

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Britney Spears, your math teacher and President Bush — maybe they'll never meet in real life, but during lunch time, all three can be the topic of conversation.

Chances are the teacher already has it, but it never hurts to provide another copy with a note requesting frequent review to ensure that goals are being sought after and met throughout the school year.

It is never a good idea to have a meeting with a teacher or principal without telling your child.

Faso was never accused of a crime or personally held liable for the improper pension contact, but the Albany Times Union cited «a source close to the investigation» in reporting that «Faso arranged or tried to arrange meetings between the investment firm Kellner DiLeo & Co. and officials at the state Common Retirement Fund, as well as the teachers, police and firefighter funds.»

«I've never seen someone come to our working meetings to get a read of what our concerns are,» said the retired teacher and educational consultant.

After all, many kids reach the end of high school having met a dozen science teachers — but never having met an actual scientist.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

The film never really divulges just how or why Halsey became a public school teacher, which would seem a nearly impossible place to meet a wealthy adult bachelor, as if it were a job one just stumbles into until something better comes along.

I will never forget the day I went to the school to meet with a teacher and found the class watching a bootleg martial arts video.

It can be a really great thing being at a big school but it can also mean that you might not have the same teacher twice or you might have a teacher that has never met you before, that sort of thing.

As a resource teacher who works with gifted elementary students inside general classrooms, I've been on a never - ending quest for tools to differentiate and meet the needs of my students.

I conducted all of the interviews for this post through Voxer, allowing me to connect with teachers and administrators, many of whom I've never met.

This most radical of choice based schools — where students and teachers never meet in physical classrooms and state funding flows on a performance - based, demand - driven model — has largely avoided the political and legal tangles that have stymied other reform efforts.

Many teachers will never meet their vesting requirements and will be forced to forfeit their employer's contributions and, in many states, they will also lose out on any interest that their investments would have accrued.

Never in a million years were we going to see forty - five states truly embrace these rigorous academic expectations for their students, teachers, and schools, meet all the implementation challenges (curriculum, textbooks, technology, teacher prep, etc.), deploy new assessments, install the results of those assessments in their accountability systems, and live with the consequences of zillions of kids who, at least in the near term, fail to clear the higher bar.

In many technology initiatives, schools have realized that they will never have the budget to hire enough support staff to meet all of the tech - support needs of their teachers, but there are lots of kids in schools who would love to help their teachers create better lessons and classrooms using technology.

But before I go, I would like to create one or two more professional learning Corwin workshops to help classroom teachers, school leaders, and district leaders carry out their all - important work of helping their students grow and succeed — the culmination of 40 + years striving to directly impact the lives of my own students and to indirectly do the same for those thousands and thousands of students I will never get to meet.

Classroom management issues and effective communication strategies present unique challenges when teachers never meet their students in person and may be separated from each other by thousands of miles.

While other teachers were tossing kids out for over an hour, never even checking in on them or documenting the time students were banished for legally mandated manifestation meetings, students came to Kris in large numbers.

Virtual school experiences over the past decade have shown that effective virtual teachers have qualities and skills that differ from traditional face - to - face teaching, such as building and maintaining a sense of trust and community among individuals who will never meet face to face.

That change has motivated some principals to offer permanent jobs to teachers they may otherwise have never met, but it has also encouraged some teachers to quit their jobs or retire.

It's good for kids that teachers are respected and empowered and not micromanaged by bureaucrats that have never set foot in their classroom, (who have) never met their kids.

In the past, «I never felt that my ability to really see what was happening in the classroom and talk with my teachers about it was good enough to meet my own expectations,» she said.

They were meeting all the time w central office and never told teachers the real deal.

«To be frank, as a [first - year Beginning Teacher] who has a never ending to - do list, the last thing I wanted to do was leave school at 4:30 to go to a 2 hour meeting, but I'm really glad that I went!»

Originally they were your family, relatives and friends, or probably other educators and fellow teachers you work with in the same institution, but now and thanks to the development of web technologies and wireless connections, the concept of PLNs has been expanded to engulf people you have never met before in real world.

When you have carte blanche to brainwash kids, utilize boarderline mental abuse, and kick kids and teachers out at the drop of a hat, you will have a totalitarian school where results are met by means that are never justified by ends.

Teachers might be even better than those in the past, but they are presented with an impossible situation, that of having to teach too many children who are resistant, disrespectful, and distracted by all the noise in the world.They are forced to meet over the top certification requirements and mandates set by those who would not survive long in the modern classroom.We have a Secretary of Education who has never taught or led a school.

I never met a dedicated teacher who didn't self - evaluate more intensely than the Danielson, SLOs, etc ever could (which we've been so doing on our own for years).

We're hopeful that the educators and administrators in the Burlington district will continue to think creatively and collaboratively about how we can use Seesaw not only to meet the standards and indicators on the teacher evaluation, but to document our students» academic growth and social and emotional development in ways that a test score never could.

If we simply had just one reading recovery teacher for example, we could never meet the reading needs of our students.

It's no secret that teachers never have enough time — they not only have to manage packed teaching schedules but also create lesson plans, communicate with parents, and ensure all students» needs are being met.

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