Sentences with phrase «of responsibility for themselves»

It is important that Form tutors / class teachers take the first line of responsibility for pastoral issues.

The ubiquity of social media, the internet, and all the innovations and new options that emerge on a daily basis make this one of the most challenging areas of responsibility for local school officials.

Second, more control by those lower in the hierarchy will lead to greater acceptance of jointly - made decisions along with an increased sense of responsibility for and motivation to accomplish organizational goals.

Schools can not divest themselves of responsibility for the nondiscriminatory administration of school safety measures and student discipline by relying on school resource officers, school district police officers, contract or private security companies, security guards or other contractors, or law enforcement personnel.

While this new law provides a great opportunity for states to tailor their education systems to meet the needs of their students — including students with disabilities — this new level of authority will also require an increased amount of responsibility for states to ensure they close achievement gaps.

Even more important, teachers and administrators in successful schools serving high - poverty students hold each other accountable through a shared sense of responsibility for the success of their students.

School resource management is a core area of responsibility for governors and can represent a considerable challenge.

This action shifted the burden of responsibility for being on time from what students considered to be an outmoded system for synchronizing time (their mobile devices do that) onto the students themselves.

Many educators and thought leaders seized on the Coleman Report's core finding to absolve schools of responsibility for student performance and persistent achievement gaps.

During the Great Depression the state assumed the major role for funding schools: «provided for the operation of a uniform system of schools in the whole State for a term of eight months... and relieved the county board of education of the responsibility for operating and maintaining the public schools of the county,» according to the 1933 School Machinery Act.

We develop sophisticated thinkers who master content and have a courageous and compassionate sense of responsibility for themselves and all people.

«We can not expect to place the lion's share of responsibility for charters on the shoulders of local taxpayers.»

The principal may have worked to redirect people's time and energy, to develop a collective sense of responsibility for school improvement, to secure resources and training, to provide opportunities for collaboration, to create additional time for instruction, and to help the school staff persist in spite of difficulties.

We prepare students to be sophisticated thinkers who master content and have a courageous and compassionate sense of responsibility for themselves and all people.

«ESSA shifts much of the responsibility for student outcomes to states, which must develop robust accountability systems that target large graduation rate gaps that continue to exist between different groups of students, as well as high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students,» said Gov. Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Repeated practice with peer assessment, and especially self - assessment, increases students» sense of responsibility for their own work and cuts down on the number of «Am I done yet?»

Students must have leadership roles in schools that carry with them a real sense of responsibility for themselves and others.

To further emphasize this reality, the Hechinger Report highlights the locus of responsibility for teachers and school leaders: A 2009 study by New Leaders for New Schools found that more than half of a school's...

Teachers already have a huge amount of responsibility for their students.

With her overwhelming political arrogance and deep financial pockets in full display, Moskowitz hired Mercury LLC, the same public relations company that is trying to help Michigan Governor Rick Snyder lie and spin his way out of responsibility for poisoning the children of Flint, Michigan.

Why do you think that teachers often find it difficult to release much of the responsibility for math conversations to their students?

Analyzing more than a decade's worth of data from Chicago Public Schools, they found that schools where adults demonstrate a shared sense of responsibility for student learning are four times more likely to make substantial gains in reading than schools without strong professional ties.

Our training days focus on the teachers» own learning, and cultivating an inquiring mind and a sense of responsibility for all of their pupils.

Students also share a sense of responsibility for the garden and the pond.

Now, the legislature will punt part of the responsibility for the new evaluation system to the Board of Regents with a deadline of June 30.

Berliner seemed to shield teachers from much of the responsibility for poor academic performance by students as he testified that conditions beyond the classroom — he mentioned about nine of them — account for 60 percent of what influences a student's scholastic achievement whereas in - school factors such as class size, curriculum, the quality of the principal and the teacher account for only 20 percent.

Donoghue focuses on children's academic and social development, engaging students in challenging academic environments and fostering in all students a sense of responsibility for themselves and their community.

If Abeigon can't even accept a tiny measure of responsibility for this problem and pledge to fix it moving forward, how can anyone expect the Newark Teachers Union to work in partnership with the district to improve the city's schools?

NKO engages students in a challenging academic environment and fosters in all students a sense of responsibility for themselves and their community.

In the end the technocrat doesn't seem as motivated by helping as many people as possible, as much as motivated by the unreasonable feeling of responsibility for «allowing» something bad to continue for someone.

The gripping stories of those individuals hold the attention of students and motivate them to look for others who share the same sense of responsibility for their community, even encouraging them to take on service projects themselves.

Key components of the CFL program were support and training for teachers, a learning management system designed to help middle school students develop a sense of responsibility for their own learning and behavior, and an emphasis on community and family involvement.

In an era that has witnessed a consistent trend toward centralization of the functions of government, local sharing of responsibility for public education has survived.

A House subcommittee approved a Republican welfare - reform bill last week that would give states most of the responsibility for administering aid programs serving millions of poor children and their families.

Prior to the 1970s, individual school districts bore nearly all of the responsibility for determining what the students within their purview needed to know and be able to do to advance from grade to grade and graduate from high school.

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

A: Building teachers» sense of responsibility for what students learn requires coordinated efforts of many school personnel.

Managing the disadvantages afferent to the advantages is a question of responsibility for the participants to that interaction.

«When I ask teachers to name the biggest obstacle to good teaching, the answer I most often hear is «my student»... Criticizing the client is the conventional defense in any embattled profession and these stereotypes conveniently relieve us of any responsibility for our students» problems - or their resolution.»

An OSHC service, although a smaller entity than a school, the same sense of isolation and weight of responsibility for others can weigh heavily on OSHC coordinators.

Over the course of this journey, they become able to: - Recall and understand the key features of Birling's character profile; - Link Birling to the social and historical context of the play; - Understand how Birling's character is significant in terms of Priestley's key message; - Read and understand the section of the play in which Birling is interviewed by the inspector; - Analyse key quotations by and about Birling in the text; - Read and understand the opening of the play; - Create a diary - entry piece in which they consider Birling's morals and sense of responsibility for the death of Eva Smith; - Peer / self - assess learning attempts.

«The Green Lane Diary program aims to cultivate environmental consciousness among elementary school children, spreading the message of responsibility for protecting earth and humanity through influence,» according to Mr. Kawamoto, who has seen the initiative spread from Japan to Sri Lanka, Australia and South Korea.

His most recent publications include «African - American Parents» Orientations towards Schools» (with K. Williams Gomez; in press) in Education and Urban Society; «High - Stakes Accountability in Urban Elemenatary Schools» (with J. Spillane; in press) in Teachers College Record; «Teachers» Expectations and Sense of Responsibility for Student Learning» (with A. Randolph and J. Spillane; in press) in Anthropology and Education Quarterly; and «Towards a Theory of School Leadership» (with J. Spillane and R. Halverson; in press) in Journal of Curriculum Studies.

Nothing is more tragic than the virtual abdication by the American high school of its responsibility for the mathematical and scientific education of the next generation, leaving U. S. 15 - year - olds below the industrial world average on math and science tests.

But the agency's leadership over the past 25 years must share some of the responsibility for its shortcomings; OERI directors have not always tried to recruit distinguished researchers or insisted on high - quality work from all of the agency's grantees and contractors.

NGA has devised four model SoDs, which represent a range of approaches: with academy governing committees; with academy councils; with cluster governing committees (reporting on a number of academies); and with so - called «earned autonomy» (variable levels of responsibility for academy committees, often depending on the school's performance).

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.

Thus, the students assume some of the responsibility for the class process.

There may be a lot of people responsible for what's wrong with The Brothers Grimm, but the bulk of the responsibility for its failure is parked square at Gilliam's doorstep — and the rest of it belongs to nitwit screenwriter Ehren Kruger, whose flavour - of - the - month status might finally be souring.

Angelina continued: «I was taken by Eric's beautiful script about a man drawn into the violent conflict with elephant poachers who emerged with a deeper understanding of man's footprint and a profound sense of responsibility for the world around him.»