Sentences with phrase «old role of teacher»

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Though my 9 - year - old tends to take more of a protective, teacher role in her relationship with her brother, she isn't overbearing, letting him explore the world at his own pace.

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

At 24 years old when this movie was made, she almost looked the part of a high school senior, but I found she played the role with the poise and confidence of a much older person, and I'd sooner believe she was a teacher at the school than one of the students.

Her role, a modern dance teacher who «takes a special interest in the talent of Damon» (played by Ryan Jamaal Swain), has been rewritten as a 50 - year - old African - American woman and recast with Charlayne Woodard (The Leftovers).

«We need,» said Blair appointee Estelle Morris just before resigning in 2002 as secretary of state for education, «a shift in understanding away from the old model of teaching as transmission of facts and figures towards one which captures the teacher's role as expert practitioners in advanced pedagogy.»

With regular changes to the curriculum and prescribed thinking on teaching strategies, as well as the more prominent role of IT in classrooms, retraining schemes were cited by 27 % of teachers, while a quarter (25 %) answered that a change in attitude within the education sector to become more accepting of older teachers would have a positive impact.

A recent survey in Scotland, conducted by RoSPA and the Children's Parliament with more than 200 nine to 11 year olds, found that 92 per cent of those asked felt teachers should play a role in their safety education.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

These older helpers take satisfaction in their role as «teachers» of the younger children.

Both Active and Flipped Learning encourage teachers to evolve into more of a «guiding» role and step away from the centuries - old role of being proprietors of knowledge.

Taking advantage of a three - year - old state law that allows for traditional districts to break away from state laws governing teacher salaries, evaluations and class sizes, Fulton County plans to ditch most of its central administration and largely limit the school board to a supervisory role.

Noting that «he who can does, and he who understands teaches,» Dr. Lee Shulman has adapted George Bernard Shaw's old adage to reflect the critical role of teachers in student achievement.