Sentences with phrase «over classroom issues»

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Still, education remains a top - tier issue, even as the more pitched battles over charter schools, teacher evaluations and classroom standards for testing have been quietly de-emphasized in recent legislative sessions.

Ravitch, who has written about the issues and is the author of a very popular anti-Common Core blog, doesn't have anything good to say about the new, more rigorous curriculum that's taken over New York state classrooms.

When hot - button issues spill over from social media or the nightly news and into your classroom, what's the right move as a teacher?

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

They issued this BINGO PD Challenge to her teachers over the summer, and I thought it might inspire you with some other options for choice and challenges in your classroom or professional learning.

Global warming is a politically charged issue, and now disagreements over the cause of climate change are playing out in science classrooms.

Getting better - qualified teachers into California's classrooms will require improved teacher education, higher salaries for public school teachers and administrators, and elimination of emergency permits over the next five years, a state panel argues in a report issued last week.

Over the past two months, E4E - New York members have met during their lunches to tell us what issues impact their schools and classrooms the most.

United Teachers Los Angeles president Alex Caputo - Pearl says extensive input from teachers over the summer points to conditions in the classroom and the future of health benefits as among the issues most important to the union membership.

«We believe the poor treatment of teachers on a host of issues over the last few years, whether it's pay or classroom resources, has contributed to the decline of our teacher prep programs and our teacher turnover.

If a school is over 400 students then split the overall school into two sections to allow the staff to better see all the student behavior issues such as bullying and classroom disruption, etc..

The absence of African American male teachers in American classrooms is an issue that must be addressed over this next decade.

In fact, a study published in a 2010 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that a wide variety of material and delivery methods resulted in an 11 percent bump in efficiency over traditional classroom - based methods.

Designed to enhance classroom activities of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art, these thematically connected presentations will build on each other, offering students the opportunity to explore ideas from multiple perspectives over the course of the term.

For over a months» time worked one - on - one with a child with behavioral issues to keep her and her peers safe which allowed the classroom to run more smoothly.