Sentences with phrase «of teacher discipline»

Our firm has provided representation in school board proceedings and throughout the lower levels of teacher discipline.

Student preferences of teacher discipline styles.

According to Pratt, the reforms do not target the most cumbersome aspects of the teacher discipline process, amounting instead to changing the tenure system into one in which teachers are considered «guilty until proven innocent.»

Michigan became the latest state to sink its teeth into the question of teacher discipline and tenure Thursday, when the state House passed a four - bill education reform package.

New York's discussion of teacher discipline comes one week after the state's Board of Regents voted to adapt a new teacher evaluation system that requires districts to use standardized test scores to evaluate 40 percent of teacher review scores — 20 percent from state tests, with the other 20 precent from either district or state tests.

Not exact matches

Recent school safety proposals introduced after Parkland — like potentially arming some teachers and staff — also ignore that students of color, especially black students, are more likely to face discipline and punishment in schools than their white peers, and that many of these disparities could be exacerbated by recent proposals to arm teachers or increase school security.

Some sympathy has to go to the teachers who usually have to teach in overcrowded and very mixed abilities of students and little ability or limited latitude to discipline.

Like most moderns, I once thought all the connotations of «discipline» were about what parents and teachers did to you when you failed to conduct yourself as they thought you should.

Educational discipline, Clarke says, is just that selection of the effective world by the teacher which Buber has outlined.

Even the relationship of teacher and pupils in a school is not fulfilled so long as the instructor by duress and discipline is forcing stolid children to their work.

For example, a teacher of physics necessarily teaches logic and rhetoric, while one who teaches logic or rhetoric as a special discipline does not necessarily teach physics.

Parents and teachers can teach the democratic principle of the limitation of powers by carefully defining the areas of adult responsibility for the young and by making plain the widening dimensions of liberty for those who learn to accept the disciplines of responsible freedom.

@Jade — per your request, I Googled the TN Monkey Bill and this is what I found: «tame by comparison, merely guarantees that teachers will not be disciplined for «critiquing» the «weaknesses» of scientific theories «such as evolution and global warming.»

The bill guarantees that teachers will not be subjected to discipline for challenging the science of evolution and climate change in class, and provides guidelines for discussing «the controversy» behind evolution and climate change with students.

Accordingly, all a teacher can provide a student is indirect assistance, intellectual and moral disciplines that will capacitate the student for the student's own moment of insight.

It is a church which has lost the distinctive note and the earnestness of a Christian discipline of life and has become what every religious institution tends to become — the teacher of the prevailing code of morals and the pantheon of the social gods.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

And there are also philosophical reasons that show why living teachers can't be replaced by hardware, and why a «no nonsense» program of discipline will never sustain interest or produce mature human beings.

As White expressed it, the potential for impermissible fostering of religion in secular classrooms — an untested, assumption of the court, so far as he was concerned — paradoxically rendered unacceptable the state's efforts to ensure that secular teachers under religious discipline would successfully avoid conflicts between the religious mission of the school and the secular purpose of the state's education program.

The program aims to form faculty in every discipline as outstanding teachers of people preparing for ministry and as groundbreaking scholars who can connect work in and across disciplines to the concerns of everyday ministry.

He preferred to do without the support of philosophy when it came to theology; here, ironically he linked directly if superficially with his modernist nominalist teachers, who always insisted that philosophy and theology were entirely distinct disciplines and that theology was coherent within itself, based on revelation.

Sufism as an organized system with teachers, pupils, and rules of discipline appeared in the latter part of the third century of the Hijrah (after AD.

by Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt Brazos, 320 pages, $ 29.99 Frederick Bauerschmidt provides a valuable service to religious - studies teachers and instructors of other disciplines that require some knowledge of Catholic theology.

Those of us involved in the writing of these pages are mostly teachers of preaching, but we represent a variety of theological disciplines and write in different styles.

In 1539, he argued that the church should be constituted according to the law of the New Testament and that therefore four offices should be established: preachers, elders (responsible for the administration of discipline and for the religious and moral supervision of church members), teachers and deacons (responsible for poor - relief).

Her voice comes through the pages as the voice of my ballet teacher; as result I don't use dried basil and worry about my discipline.

Character Education: ICLS 105/5 27 - 12 (2005) requires teachers to teach students «respect, responsibility, fairness, caring, trustworthiness, and citizenship, in order to raise pupils» honesty, kindness, justice, discipline, respect for others, and moral courage» to lessen crimes and raise the standard of good character.

To help children learn self - discipline, the parent needs to adopt the role of coach / teacher rather than that of disciplinarian and punisher.

Within the Mountain Oak School classroom, teachers masterfully blend academic and artistic disciplines so that the whole child is involved in every aspect of learning.

What is needed is discipline in the classrooms, effective teachers and efficient use of time, not longer school days.

As a former teacher I understand much of what you're saying and it's very important to use positive reinforcement and discipline to obtain the desired result from children.

At the same time, our teachers show students how disciplined study of artistic principles can give them powerful tools to pursue any line of intellectual pursuit.

Teachers understand this, but when students run into trouble in school, Tough writes, schools often respond by imposing more control, not less, via stern discipline such as out - of school suspensions, «further diminishing their fragile sense of autonomy.»

Jesus did the same, telling his disciplines, you must obey the teacher of the law and Pharisees who sit in the seat of Moses, and do everything they tell you.

Chautauqua County is a magnet for writers, artists, scientists, business people, politicians, and teachers of all disciplines to share their expertise in a relaxing vacation setting.

I AM pro teacher; it's just many of their benefits, including practically taking an act of Congress to discipline — or heaven forbid fire — one, that I'm against.

The book cites contemporaries of Mr Cameron claiming that the 15 - year - old Conservative leader - to - be was disciplined for smoking cannabis after confessing his misdeed to teachers.

Commenting on the TES survey on school discipline, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said this:

«Over the last decade, a raft of measures has been introduced to enable teachers to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.

The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) welcomed Mr Cameron's focus on pupil discipline and support for teachers, but questioned some of his concTeachers (NUT) welcomed Mr Cameron's focus on pupil discipline and support for teachers, but questioned some of his concteachers, but questioned some of his conclusions.

pupil behaviour remains a major concern for teachers, with nearly three - quarters of teachers saying they believe there is a widespread behaviour problem in schools; 84 % stated that they did not believe that the increased powers to search pupils, introduced by the Government, would help tackle pupil indiscipline; 55 % do not believe that same - day detentions, a power initiated by the Government, will assist them in maintaining discipline; 52 % did not feel that the power to confiscate items from pupils would be of assistance to them.

«Changes made are minor and won't provide systemic change,» said Sarah Landes, a member of the Dignity in Schools Campaign, a collection of teachers, students and youth organizations working to reduce suspension and mandate alternative discipline methods.

three quarters of teachers (75 %) believe that their governing body would not be fair and balanced concerning staff discipline / competence;

«The union's rejection of this resolution - which called for more black teachers in schools, an end to discriminatory discipline policies and more diversity in the curriculum — only impedes the school system's progress towards racial justice,» they wrote.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Syracuse City School District's transition away from heavy reliance on out - of - school suspensions for discipline has been tough on many teachers, but a recent workshop with a former school dropout left attendees feeling hopeful.

Given he is such a big fan of «discipline» and «rigour», he may be perfectly suited to the role — only time will tell whether MPs will be as difficult to keep in line as teachers.

He pointed out how mathematics, technology, engineering design, and science concepts can all be used to help understand many currently important science and engineering problems but acknowledged the difficulties of creating such courses when most science teachers, whether in China or the United States, have been trained to teach a single discipline.

As a member of the Education & Workforce committee, I strongly oppose recent efforts to reduce federal funding in these areas, and I am the author of H.R. 258, the STEM Master Teacher Corps Act, which would award competitive grants to school districts or states to partner with colleges and universities or nonprofit organizations to establish a program which will develop, support and retain exceptional teachers in the STEM disciplines.

But psychologists had never rigorously studied the connection between self - discipline and academic success, says former teacher Angela L. Duckworth, now a psychology graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania.