Sentences with phrase «on teacher discipline»

On teacher discipline, he, unlike Thurmond, clearly articulates the problem: Under the current system, it's too difficult and time - consuming to remove grossly under - performing instructors.

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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.

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.

In these situations, positive discipline teachers recommend calmly reminding the child about the rule, «you know we have a rule that we don't play with paints in the living room,» stating the obvious, «there is paint on the floor now and I don't know if we'll be able to get it out.

So when a trusted authority like a science teacher says he ate fries on a near - daily basis for six months, as well as regularly eating Big Macs, Quarter Pounders and ice cream - and that he still eats at McDonald's every day — do we think teens are suddenly going to become highly disciplined calorie - cutters?

The Act also gives head teachers a statutory power to discipline pupils for poor behaviour, including bullying, when they are not on school premises.

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

At noon, New York City school teachers gather to call on de Blasio and the NYC Council to fully fund and implement changes to school discipline programs proposed last year by the Mayor's Leadership Team on School Climate and Discipline, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

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.

New York State United Teachers president Richard Iannuzzi is calling for a three - year moratorium on using the test results for «high - stakes» decisions, such as whether to promote a student or discipline a teacher.

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.

The teacher could then discipline those pupils, as appropriate, on their return to school.

Teachers already have very clear powers to use reasonable physical force where necessary and to discipline pupils for bad behaviour on the journey to and from school.

As a young teacher in the 1980s I sometimes wondered how long it would be before a child turned that one on its end and questioned the school discipline system itself!

Donovan, who has been a middle school teacher for more than 20 years, explained that other science curriculum materials are often subject - specific, focusing lessons on individual scientific fields like biology and excluding disciplines like chemistry that can provide an essential foundation for students.

«Science teachers have traditionally been focused more on the concepts and the knowledge within a particular discipline,» he says.

Read, study under great teachers, go on retreats, and engage in the discipline every day.

TRY > There are various meditation practices, but the Australian Teachers of Meditation Association says it's broadly a discipline that involves turning the mind and attention inward and focusing on a single thought, image, object or feeling.

Most teachers will focus on the mind as the obstacle; however, the true process is to first purify and discipline your body, then bypass (not control) the mind through several techniques so it doesn't bother you.

Aware of the tremendous benefits yoga brings her she asked to pursue teacher training so she could pass on the technique and discipline to others.

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The childhood scenes are set in a Christian school that is depicted in the standard way as heavy on the discipline and little on the education, with the exception of a moment of inspiration by history teacher Garrett Walden (Jaleel White, «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer») and a few segments showing principal Michael Akers (Thomas Lennon, «We're the Millers»), and basketball coach Murray (Tony Hale, «Brave New Jersey»).

Sit down with teachers and look through the curriculum for places where a hands - on project could create learning across disciplines.

Arts and academics are not separate endeavors here; they are deeply connected disciplines, and teachers draw on the rigors of one to feed another.

De Blasio has pledged to maintain Bloomberg's focus on closing the achievement gap, but his education agenda has revised the means: turnarounds instead of closures, heavy emphasis on addressing the «root causes» of K — 12 underperformance through pre-kindergarten education and social services, less antagonistic relations with the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), and more - relaxed school - discipline policies.

«Like handling things on the fly, discipline problems (on the day Kramer visited, two students were caught stealing), teacher conflicts, listening to maintenance people, observing student teachers, working with the school nurse, budgets, and administration.

RV: So finally, if teachers were to abandon the manage - and - discipline model entirely, what impact could this potentially have on their own welfare?

If teachers concentrate instruction only on vocabulary terms specific to their disciplines, then the more general words may not be explicitly taught.

Several teachers in the Charlotte - Mecklenburg, N.C., school district face discipline for posting images and material on the social - networking site Facebook that school leaders find objectionable, including one teacher who wrote, «I hate my students!»

The most notable, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, is «a bill Monday allowing teachers to be evaluated — but not disciplined or dismissed — based on student performance.»

Working with HGSE students, she has developed case studies focusing on particular dilemmas of justice in schools and school districts like ethics of grade inflation, eighth - grade promotion and retention policies, lottery - based school assignment, disciplining socially fragile children, and teacher firings.

That is why teachers place so much emphasis on discipline in class; not to stifle intellectual activity, but to maintain an environment in which it can flourish.

The report draws on the Civil Rights Data Collection survey, with data ranging from student discipline rates, early learning access, teacher and staffing disparities, and gaps in access to advanced courses.

Along with academic proficiency data, schools also receive fascinating and useful survey data about their views and attitudes on classroom discipline, relationships with teachers, self - efficacy, and motivation.

The discipline of market economics supposedly will force for - profit schools to streamline their bureaucracies, retain and reward highly talented administrators and teachers, and raise student achievement on a variety of measures.

The Department for Education (DfE) responded to the figures by saying it had granted teachers more powers to «tackle poor behaviour and discipline», by scrapping «no touch» rules to allow teachers to remove disruptive pupils from the classroom and ensuring a school's decision on exclusions can not be overruled.

However, determining «best practices» in teaching is far from a straightforward process, as even professionals disagree over how an effective teacher approaches bilingual education, homework, student testing, student spelling and grammar, student - directed learning, «multicultural» lessons, discipline, desk arrangement, scientific inquiry, and so on.

But the relationship is actually the opposite of what one might expect: while all parents place a high value on teacher quality, low - income parents are more likely to emphasize the importance of school safety, test scores, and discipline.

First, we know that in the instruction of world languages, there are not enough teachers, so using technology to give students access to teachers proficient in other areas and other disciplines will be one way we get at the question, particularly in rural communities, on how we teach these subjects to all children.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Our teams and committees have input on everything from the budget, goal - setting, and school - wide discipline to where to hold the end - of - year luncheon and superlatives for teachers.

Based on the author's experiences as a teacher and as an anthropologist, it discusses how both using and anxiously suppressing race labels (being what Pollock calls «colormute») affect everyday and policy discussions about achievement, discipline, curriculum, reform, and educational opportunity.

Next week teacher, education consultant and author, Bill Rogers, provides Teacher with advice on classroom discteacher, education consultant and author, Bill Rogers, provides Teacher with advice on classroom discTeacher with advice on classroom discipline.

After the program, the number of teachers who spent less than 20 percent of their time on discipline increased by 18 percent.

Previous teacher evaluation policies didn't differentiate poor teachers from average teachers or great ones — much less award or discipline teachers based on their performance.

Minority teachers suffer burnout and frustration caused by on - the - job hazards such as discipline problems, school violence, and the lack of colleague support.

Imagine a high school where every course is challenging, all students choose (and are academically strong enough) to be there, discipline problems are few, teachers are knowledgeable and attentive, pretty much everyone earns a diploma, and virtually all graduates go on to good colleges.

These same elected board members, moreover, will make decisions on a gamut of policy issues, from budgets to curriculum to student discipline, that teachers have a stake in and can benefit from enormously.

He had effected some improvement in school discipline and in academic tests, «but the district kept on sending him ineffective tenured teachers who were extremely difficult to remove.»