Sentences with phrase «same issue of teachers»

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Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Unit of Teachers, commented: «This Budget offers more of the same — the foundations of economic growth eroded instead of strengthened, and more bad news for teachers and parents.This Budget does not address the pressing issues in education fundingTeachers, commented: «This Budget offers more of the same — the foundations of economic growth eroded instead of strengthened, and more bad news for teachers and parents.This Budget does not address the pressing issues in education fundingteachers and parents.This Budget does not address the pressing issues in education funding.»

This particular teacher is not at our school, but they follow the same policy of suggesting meetings only for those who have issues needing to be discussed.

This is a terribly awkward issue to raise at this moment, but the 3,000 teachers from the American Federation of Teachers who recently left Chicago after their convention made the same mistake as the 9,000 teachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in Wasteachers from the American Federation of Teachers who recently left Chicago after their convention made the same mistake as the 9,000 teachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in WasTeachers who recently left Chicago after their convention made the same mistake as the 9,000 teachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in Wasteachers from the National Education Association who met earlier in Washington.

When their students faced challenges such as needing inspiration, the teachers could relate on a personal level, because they faced some of the same issues.

At the same time that the board was debating the policy, wrangling over credentialing rules for teachers of limited - English - proficient students was pointing up sharp divisions on the issue among California teachers.

If quality education is the civil rights issue of our time, as Secretary Duncan has said, then it is worth knowing whether teachers and these minority groups are on the same page.

In the same issue, teacher Lucy Boyd wrote about the experience of creating a curriculum based on the Common Core.

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.

From comparing the results, teachers verify the credibility of their interventions as workable solutions that they can use again for other students experiencing the same academic issues.

Marietta quickly recognized that many of the issues she was facing as a teacher in rural New Mexico were the same ones she had experienced as a girl growing up in the backwoods of Appalachia.

At the same time, the cost - effectiveness of the board's approach, its focus on what teachers should know and be able to do rather than on the student outcomes or achievement associated with teaching, and its methods of assessing teacher quality, are features that have attracted strong criticism — issues we will return to later in this article.

The health and wellbeing of school leaders and teachers must be part of the same conversation; they are closely linked and employers must take some responsibility to address the issues.

The authors of the new study, Anna J. Egalite and Brian Kisida wrote for Education Next last year about three different theories of why students might perform better when they have a teacher of the same race and how their study (which was then a working paper) helps illuminate the issue.

As the recent contract dispute at the American Federation of Teachers made clear, the A.F.T. and the National Education Association are not just labor unions: They are employers faced with many of the same issues as the school districts with which their members negotiate.

Looking back at it 5 years later as it is appears as a «seminal article» in Contemporary Issues in Technology and Teacher Education, I find myself reflecting about what has changed and what has remained the same with regard to technology in K - 12 schools and the challenges faced by teachers in realizing the full potential of technology in K - 12 classrooms.

At the same time, the other teachers in the study who were able to get around the issue of access show that this barrier can be overcome when they are determined enough to use technology.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own puteachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own puTeachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

Kate Leckonby, a Wake County school teacher who took part in a panel session to brainstorm alternative teaching compensation systems at the Emerging Issues Forum, explained how McCrory's proposal would mean a teacher in her ninth year of teaching, like Leckonby, would be making roughly the same amount of money that a teacher in her first year would earn.

While the Internet adds valuable dimensions to a PBL experience, the management issues of a networked project are the same as those faced by every teacher who has embarked on an «old - fashioned, low - tech» project.

In Jordan, I found a group of devoted school leaders who were struggling with many of the same issues school leaders are grappling with stateside: Class sizes are large, student discipline is an issue, the teacher and principal pipeline is impacting human capital, funding is tight, and inequality translates into uneven outcomes for students.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

Issues in rural schools can include fewer resources for students and teachers; lack of access to professional development and student training opportunities; community isolation; students having the same teachers for multiple subjects and grade levels; and fewer extracurricular activities.

Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott appeared torn on the issue when he spoke to news channel NY1 about it: «My bottom line is to make sure that we have effective teachers in front of the classroom, we have a comprehensive view of what those teachers are doing... but at the same time, I don't want our teachers denigrated, I don't want them stereotyped.»

This past July, a pair of contrasting teacher staffing issues erupted in the same week.

Through the same initiative, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is also providing more than $ 48 million to state and local education agencies to support teachers and schools in recognizing mental health issues among youth.

As I explored the authors» thinking about discussion in student learning, I was struck by the mirroring of the same issues in teacher learning and productivity in PLCs.

Although we agreed on the importance of teacher quality, this is not to say that we were on the same page on all educational issues.

Multiple perspectives are provided not only through the newsletters, but through a range of human and media sources to gain different views and perspectives on the same issue, such as from beginning teachers, mentors, highly accomplished teachers, university lecturers, and preservice teachers.

At the point at which the authors wrote this article, besides the aforementioned data and data base issues, were issues with «multiple measures on the same student and multiple teachers instructing each student» as «[c] lass groupings of students change annually, and students are taught by a different teacher each year.»

«This year it's the top issue on our list as school districts across the state are scrambling to meet the General Assembly's mandate to lower class sizes, while at the same time trying to protect thousands of art, music and PE teachers and create hundreds of new classrooms.»

A recent report from the College Board investigates two key issues: grade inflation, in which teachers over time assign increasingly higher grades for a given level of achievement; and grade nonequivalence across schools, in which teachers in different schools apply different grading standards for the same curricular material.

The third report to be released by the end of the year will be an in depth look at teacher compensation, benefits and issues related to travel costs for school personnel which, in many cases, exceed what much larger public districts expends for the same item.

A moving article in the same issue by Norwegian educator Aase Gruda Skard, who had emigrated to the United States in 1940, told of Norwegian teachers» resistance to Nazi attempts to use the country's schools to promote Nazi propaganda.

Parents have reason to be uncomfortable with the idea of their children being handed anything with unrestricted internet access, teachers have plenty of reason to wonder if that same internet access would be abused during school hours while also having doubts that it would be possible to ensure uniform content across entire classes, and the issue of potential theft is an ever - present concern in as poorly funded an organization as your average public school.

I wonder, if they ultimately succeed in their campaign to blackball TWU and are overturned by the courts (as happened to the BC college of teachers dealing with the self - same issue, and will almost certainly happen in Ontario), will Mr. Mulligan and his ilk report themselves for failing to live up to THEIR obligations as lawyers in the province of British Columbia to protect the rights and freedoms of TWU graduates.

Teachers and therapists who work with chronically demanding children need to be aware of not only the types of distorted thinking outlined above, but also the unique set of tools required to break the entitlement cycle — children with narcissistic tendencies can not be treated the same way as children experiencing mental illnesses or personality issues.