Sentences with phrase «of teacher sensitivity»

In accordance with this, in a sample of children placed in a shelter with alternative caregivers, it was observed that more children formed secure attachments with the more sensitive and less detached caregivers (measured with Arnett Scale of Teacher Sensitivity; Howes and Segal 1993).

But this translation of teacher sensitivity into student achievement is precisely what remains to be demonstrated.

Not exact matches

The final quality required for authentic dialogue is prudence: the prudence of a teacher who is most careful to make allowances for the psychological and moral circumstances of his hearer [Mt 6:7], particularly if he is a child, unprepared, suspicious or hostile... [who] is always at pains to learn the sensitivities of his audience, and... [who] adapts himself... to the susceptibilities and the degree of intelligence of his hearers.

When we think of all that has come from him in the impulse toward human freedom and dignity — the challenge of ignorance and the attempt to remedy it, the concern for and conquest of disease, the sensitivity to the needs and plight of the weak, destitute, helpless, and those in every kind of suffering, the stabilizing of the inner lives of millions of his followers around the world, and the fostering of a prophetic attack on such giant social evils as prejudice, injustice, and war — when we consider the things that have stemmed from this «penniless teacher of Nazareth,» we are dull indeed if the wonder of it does not sweep over our souls.

The focus of the training, delivered via professional - development workshops and phone - coaching sessions, was the personal interactions in the classroom between teachers and students; the coaches gave teachers strategies designed to help them build a «positive emotional climate» and show «sensitivity to student needs for autonomy.»

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

Gareth Todd Jones, head teacher of Pen Pych Community Primary in south Wales, one of the participating schools, said that the «Message to Dad» project had revealed great sensitivities in children.

The importance of the teacher's own perception and sensitivity acquired through the rigors of his own practice is the single most important factor in yoga therapy.

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

For instance, a program called RULER in the United States is designed to improve the classroom atmosphere by creating a sense of warmth and mutual respect, reducing hostility, and improving teacher sensitivity to students» emotional and academic needs.

To test the sensitivity of our results to this methodological decision, we constructed a value - added indicator that measures a teacher's contribution to student achievement (accounting for a wide variety of student and classroom characteristics that could affect achievement independent of the teacher's ability).

A fifth set of sensitivity tests was possible because I have information on other policies that lead to differential pay among teachers.

He embraces principles of choice and competition always with a principled sensitivity to teachers, parents, and children.

In a Project Zero classroom, teachers are also learners who model intellectual curiosity and rigor, interdisciplinary and collaborative inquiry, and sensitivity to the ethical and aesthetic dimensions of learning.

Guiding teachers who have years of experience takes sensitivity and a willingness to learn from them at the same time.

A related misconception that many teachers labor under is that they act in a race - blind fashion; however, most teachers greatly overestimate their knowledge about other cultures, which manifests itself in a lack of cultural sensitivity in classroom management and pedagogical techniques.

The list of things that a new secondary teacher should know is vast - smatterings of adolescent development, pedagogy, content knowledge, college admission requirements, educational policy, assessment design, lesson planning, technology infrastructure, effective file naming conventions, study skills, cognitive science principles, cultural sensitivity, bureaucratic tendencies, statistical interpretation, and on and on and on.

Like the authors of «The Test Matters,» Polikoff used MET data to investigate whether large - scale standardized state tests «differ in the extent to which they reflect the content or quality of teachers» instruction» (i.e., tests» instructional sensitivity).»

These paths provide opportunities for instructors of English teaching methods courses, writing pedagogies courses, and linguistics courses to investigate with teacher candidates issues that are commonly addressed in those three types of courses, like modeling writing, machine scoring, and responding with sensitivity to writers who are English language learners.

While the shifting of responsibilities and teams always has sensitivities and challenges, we have worked through these conversations with an overriding goal of determining the right team structures to best support success for our teachers, our school leaders and our kids.

This topic also introduced the issue of the need for sensitivity training through courses that help student teachers become aware of, identify, and target their own biases to overcome them before beginning their education career.

Lacking this insight contributes to a pattern of stressful interactions that expose teachers» emotional sensitivity.

The discussions required to reduce teacher absence and claw back associated learning loss require sensitivity to the needs of teachers, the scarcity of resources, and the urgency of improving achievement overall and closing achievement gaps.

Teachers must be provided with cultural sensitivity training so that they are equipped to instruct individuals of all backgrounds.

In order to cultivate students» sensitivity and alertness to thinking, many teachers across the globe have been introducing and practicing thinking routines (patterns of action that can be integrated in different contexts).

Combining cutting - edge research findings with sensitivity and compassion for the educators charged with teaching the young on a daily basis, Dennis is highly sought - after because of his respect for teachers and administrators and his engagement with students and their learning.

VAM output are too far removed from the practice of teaching (p. 99), and this lack of instructional sensitivity impedes, if not entirely prevents their actual versus hypothetical use for school / teacher improvement.

A comparative analysis of data collected at different stages of the program looks into the development of teachers» linguistic awareness and sensitivity, and their ability to integrate subject matter instruction with language development activities at the levels of both instructional planning and instructional practice as a result of such a development.

Ultimately, the teachers» increased linguistic sensitivity was reflected in their design of a teaching unit and actual instructional practice that supported students» linguistic engagement in the process of content learning.

Formerly known as the South Carolina Character Development Partnership, PCC has established a limited liability company in order to expand the scope of activities: to provide interdisciplinary and integrated learning activities for students; to support teachers, administrators, and other staff in implementing character education initiatives; and to deliver information to the greater school community which will serve to increase sensitivity, cooperation, and understanding of both moral and performance character.

Additionally, other important qualities for teachers to have include a strong sense of organization and a sensitivity to other cultures.

See: Lockwood, J. R., Daniel F. McCaffrey, Laura S. Hamilton, Brian Stecher, Vi - Nhuan Le, and José Felipe Martinez, «The Sensitivity of Value - Added Teacher Effect Estimates to Different Mathematics Achievement Measures,» Journal of Educational Measurement 44 (1)(2007): 47 - 67.

These sensitivity checks, and the possible stratification of teachers into sub-groups serving similar students, complicate value - added analysis and may not be congruent with policymakers» wish to compare all teachers in a district.

The sensitivity of value - added teacher effect estimates to different mathematics achievement measures

Students appreciate the sensitivity of skilled teachers who challenge them within an engaging inquiry - based model.

Briggs and Domingue found strong evidence of these illogical results when using the L.A. Times model, especially for reading outcomes: «Because our sensitivity test did show this sort of backwards prediction, we can conclude that estimates of teacher effectiveness in LAUSD are a biased proxy for teacher quality.»

Audiences everywhere respond to Debbie's use of humor and sensitivity to remind them how important teachers are in the lives of children.

Our results thus provided suggestive evidence that the strength of the relationship between teachers» classroom observation scores and their students» test performance may in part be attributable to the sensitivity of the skills assessed during observation to those assessed on the test.

While Forge the painter lent sensitivity and acumen to Forge the teacher and Forge the critic, his own work runs the risk of being obscured by the success of his two parallel careers.

The depth of information obtained was constrained by the time available within schools for survey administration, lack of accompanying parent and / or teacher reports and sensitivities associated with assessing psychosocial and behavioural constructs in children by self - report.

In her role as CEO, Gully also hopes to increase the cultural sensitivity of Parents as Teachers and to reflect the diversity of the families the organization serves.

Validation of the SDQ (Goodman et al, 2000) indicates that combinations of parent and teacher information provide the most robust data with the greatest sensitivity.

Teachers» sensitivity seems to be of particular importance in helping children with less favorable caregiving experiences... at home to become engaged in corrective relational experiences, and there is evidence that interventions aimed at increasing teachers» sensitivity can be sucTeachers» sensitivity seems to be of particular importance in helping children with less favorable caregiving experiences... at home to become engaged in corrective relational experiences, and there is evidence that interventions aimed at increasing teachers» sensitivity can be sucteachers» sensitivity can be successful.

Teachers» sensitivity seems to be of particular importance in helping children with less favorable caregiving experiences

A study recently published in The Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts showed that musicians - including music teachers and soloists - exhibit a high sensitivity and responsiveness to artistic beauty.