Sentences with phrase «richer than his teachers»

By the end of high school, he was richer than his teachers.

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In Luxembourg, one of the richest countries in the world, an inexperienced teacher can expect to make more on his or her first day than teachers in nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careers.

To help our children explore their world and satisfy their curiosity, we seek educational situations that are no more than a 1:6 teacher to child ratio and learning opportunities that are rich with movement, multisensory, project based and diverse.

After her rich fiance dumps her, slacker teacher Elizabeth (Diaz) returns to her middle school classroom with even less interest than before, fending off the interest of hang - dog coach Russell (Segel), perky colleague Amy (Punch) and gullible Lynn (Smith), while the oblivious principal (Higgins) fails to notice that she's merely showing school - themed movies to her students.

Achieving greatness as a drummer is Andrew's sole focus in life; his dorm walls are covered in photos of his hero, jazz percussionist Buddy Rich, and his social life consists of little more than the occasional movie date with his nebbishy single father (Paul Reiser), a high school English teacher and failed novelist whom Andrew both loves and dreads becoming.

Teachers of concept - rich content should have an easier time coming up with project ideas and developing interesting, authentic performance tasks than their colleagues in courses such as those described above.

More than 13,500 teachers will share in the nation's richest teacher - bonus program, Kentucky officials announced last week.

I can continue to confer with my students on a regular basis, but they can start to keep each other accountable and have rich and deliberate conversation with each other, which is a more authentic healthy reading habit than being held accountable to a teacher.

«In human society there is nothing more worthy of praise, nothing greater, nothing more influential than the work of the teacher, and Australian teachers are aware that they have a rich and unbounded field of investigation.»

Teachers felt that reforms like the Common Core and the incorporation of student test scores in teacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduteacher evaluations were being done to them, rather than with them, said Rich Ognibene, a former New York State Teacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on eduTeacher of the Year who signed onto an open letter to Cuomo earlier this year protesting his leadership on education.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

«Student - led discussions resulted in more extensive and higher level discussions than teacher - led discussions... student - led discussions were typified by more student talk, higher level thinking, wider participation from group members, greater cohesion within the group, and richer inquiry.»

Rather than distill a student's growth into a single number or percentage, we've leveraged our rich data about each student to provide teachers with classroom - level strategy group support, a real - time activity feed that shares information about whether a student has demonstrated understanding in a lesson, the opportunity to experience the tasks and questions students were given in each lesson, and the ability to easily assign differentiated lessons that take into account each student's prior knowledge.

Conversations in the teacher - led groups tended to be just as rich as and, at times, richer than in the groups with an outside facilitator.

With more than 10,000 lessons in our archives and an easy - to - use search tool, teachers will find rich content to match the topics they're teaching in science, social studies, and other content areas.

Rather than hyper - focusing on the question, Is there a fair way to fire a bad teacher, we should be asking: If rich parents won't tolerate a lemon, why should poor kids have to?

Portfolio Assessments: Teacher and student portfolios that compile a variety of work — assignments, tests, projects, etc. — provide a far richer portrait of teaching and accomplishment than is possible with standardized testing.

Your dynamic speaking and content rich message was more valuable to me as a teacher (and dare say person) than all of my other experiences added up.

Confirmation of rosters, with safeguards to ensure accuracy, gives us richer data on student - teacher assignments than that which now exists in most data warehouses.

Working year - round rather than in traditional nine - month terms, teachers grow personally familiar with students» needs not only through years of consistent interactions but also regular feedback from the data - rich curricula.

Experts from our great universities and successful classroom teachers from every state ought to know more than Richy Rich and Polly Politician.

Veteran teacher Rich Nixon, one of the six plaintiffs in the suit, said the drumbeat against due process was started by lawmakers who are more determined to silence teacher voices than improve public education.

The reformers like to say that these things don't matter, but teachers know that they do — and we want nothing more than for all of our students to have access to schools with rich and vibrant music and art programs, athletics, school nurses, librarians, psychologists and counselors, and all of the other advantages their peers in the suburbs enjoy and from which they benefit.

Just Publishing Advice is maintained by Derek Haines, an ageing English teacher, author and habitual blogger, who has a long - held interest in self - publishing, as a means of freedom of expression rather than as an avenue to instant riches and fame.

Just Publishing is a blog maintained by Derek Haines, a grumpy, old English teacher, author and habitual blogger, who has a long held interest in self - publishing, as a means of freedom of expression rather than as an avenue to instant riches and fame.

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