Sentences with phrase «sense teacher stress»

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We need to bring common sense to Common Core because New York is wasting too much time and money stressing children out to prepare for these tests which are of questionable educational value instead of focusing on supporting teachers so they can do their job and teach children what's really important,» said Assemblyman Jim Tedisco, a former public school special education teacher and guidance counselor.

While at times she sounds like a conventional constructivist — endorsing, for example, the principle that children are «sense makers» — her real applause, and the most important focus of her book, is reserved for those education leaders and practitioners who stress a teacher's need to master what I would call granularity.

Janet M. Smith, a counselor at Grover (North Carolina) Elementary School, offered these five tips to help teachers reduce stress: * Keep your sense of humor.

2 — Some talk across grades, but not a great deal, collaboration is mentioned but not stressed, teachers provide specific examples of how they are collaborating within their building, some sense of positive climate.

By teaching students to use self - control, Lesson One's teachers are able to create stress - free atmospheres that provide a sense of academic safety and support a positive school climate (Schwartz, 2000).

Teachers in the restorative practices movement promote a sense of family in the classroom by having students sit in circles to discuss both curriculum - related topics (e.g., the role of genocide and war in a World History class) and noncurricular issues that bear discussing (e.g., how students might manage stress on the eve of a major state exam).

Cawley has found that understanding subtraction in this way offers teachers numerous opportunities to stress number sense and skill development.

More suspensions and expulsions occur with large group sizes, higher child - teacher ratios, and lack of supports for teachers with regard to managing challenging behaviors, as well as staff characteristics such as depression or sense of job stress.