Sentences with phrase «since teachers know»

A high degree of teacher leeway in making decisions about which textbooks to buy should be conducive to student learning, since the teachers know best how to teach their students.

The good news is that since teachers know we will be doing it again next year they can begin their projects much earlier.

Not exact matches

Day Four: Here's everything you need to know about why teachers across the state of West Virginia have been on strike since last Thursday.

It has been forty years since my revered teacher Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, popularly known as «the Rav» by his followers in the modern wing of American Orthodoxy, presented his paper «Confrontation» to the Rabbinical Council of America.

I've known ever since I was a little girl that I wanted to be writer, and so each year, my elementary school teachers encouraged me to attend the Young Author's Conference at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

I am not surprised at the misunderstanding since a well known science teacher such as Bill Nye is confused.

My mom's a teacher and I know that they already get tons of knick knacks and useless stuff, so why not a nice plate of cookies they won't have to worry about storing since it'll be gone in a few days!

He has been a coach and a physical - education teacher since 1969, and he knows precisely when he will retire.

(If you don't have a kid in US public school and don't know why lunches would be disgusting, read the blog http://fedupwithschoollunch.blogspot.com/ in which a public school teacher photographed and ate everything the kids were served since the beginning of the year.

I know it's often challenging to find the right time to talk with a teacher since they are often trying to do other things (especially during drop off or pick up times).

Holistic Midwifery is not likely a book the average expectant mother needs to read, but since I know that this blog also gets prenatal yoga teachers, doulas and childbirth educators browsing through, I thought it would be irresponsible of me to leave this book off the list.

It is important to know your kid and also use the teachers as resources since they are educated in child development and have knowledge about sensory issues or other child development topics that a parent may not be familiar with.

De Blasio touted the removal since April of 289 teachers who were working as substitutes in a pool known as the Absent Teacher Reserve.

Being his teacher, I knew his mother as well since she accompanied us on many class trips.

Since the turmoil that saw public school advocates protest across the state — New York State United Teachers decried he tests as an «erosion of local control» — the state Department of Education has revised the controversial testing, reducing the number of questions on the exams, encouraging more teacher involvement in developing them, no longer timing the tests and reducing potential teacher penalties.

You know people talk about this as if it is a recent thing, and really we've known about the standards since 2008 - 2009, and we have an incredible team of teachers and leaders in Randolph who worked really hard right away to start to look at the standards.»

If you guys listened to this week's podcast, you know I love a good quick yoga routine in the morning for getting my day (and training, as an athlete) started on the right foot... And since I'm starting yoga teacher training tomorrow -LRB-!!!)

Many well known yoga teachers (like Cyndi Lee of Om) have studied with her and since opened their own yoga studios.

Cristin has been practicing yoga since 2001 and loved it so much that she knew becoming a yoga teacher was the next step on her spiritual path.

Known as a «teacher's teacher,» David has been leading teacher training programs since 2005, with hundreds of graduates in the United States and most recently the Middle East.

The most recent figures have identified that since 1980, 319 teachers, 205 of them since 2001, have died from Mesothelioma, a disease attributed to, and only known to be caused by exposure to asbestos.

Since everyone knew the kind of professional development on which they needed to focus, during his walks around the building, King made certain teachers were following the necessary professional development and allocating time to the required two - hour morning reading block.

It undermines the argument — rather, calls attention to the contradiction — that making more teachers better or making better teachers will improve the system since the assembly line can operate no better or faster than its slowest worker.

We've written here and here about the importance figuring out as a nation how to «extend the reach» of great teachers to more students, since great teachers accountable for student learning are the one «intervention» we know can close achievement gaps and raise the bar for all students.

Journals provide good handwriting practice too; since teachers will be reading and responding to journal entries, students know they must write legibly!

Since Mary Seacole and Florence Nightingale are taught together, it is important for teachers to know how their lives overlapped and did not.

Teachers who use applied - learning techniques don't need to work so hard to motivate students since the curriculum is no longer abstract, meaningless, and disconnected from their experience.

Shanahan emphasized the complexity of this problem as a teacher, since it's difficult to know how well a student is doing or to understand all the different content being taught.

[Kyle Schwartz] Well, like I said, I have been doing the lesson since my first year of teaching, and um, it's always been a success for my classroom and I always really enjoy the experience with my students, but I didn't really share the lesson, you know, not even with the teachers in the classroom next door.

It was initially expected that new teachers who failed to advance to Level I status after their apprenticeship would be fired, since they would no longer be eligible for the state portion of their salary.

We've known since the days of the one - room schoolhouse and dunce caps that student behavior issues eat up classroom time (the BBC reported a survey suggesting that it's five weeks out of the school year) and frustrate teachers (a report by Public Agenda [PDF] suggests that one in three teachers want to quit because of them).

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

All else equal, and since we know that teacher effectiveness rises with experience, we would have expected student achievement to go down.

Since these cultural paradigms deeply permeate society, knowing these positions can help a teacher to align his or her classroom with these cultural concepts.

Many teachers that I work with say that it takes two years to learn the ins and outs of just the virtual component, since most teachers know how to teach face to face.

Examining the scholarly literature published since a seminal review in 2000, this working paper discusses the principles that underlie project - based learning, how it has been used in K - 12 settings, the challenges teachers have confronted in implementing it, and what is known about its effectiveness in improving students» learning outcomes.

Since 1987, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has sought to advance the quality of teaching and learning by maintaining high and rigorous standards for what accomplished teachers should know and be able to do.

A number of states have instituted new policies in this area since the 1990s, and the federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 contained a mandate requiring that all classrooms be staffed with a «highly qualified teacher.»

Since James had just started high school, Bennet students and teachers knew him better than the high school staff.

We knew we needed to put something out to let people know the deal was happening, but it wouldn't have been appropriate to give specifics since the teachers themselves hadn't even seen the deal.

Since the mid 1990s, Heath Vandevender was not only a teacher and well - known coach at Trinity Christian, but also responsible for collecting employee tax withholdings and sending them on to the state's Department of Revenue.

Of course, the problem is that since the evaluation system is flawed there's no way to know if you got rid of all the ineffective teachers.

It is very easy indeed for schools to «achieve» green and blue boxes on the CA dashboard — just (1) stop suspending students (leave them in chaotic classrooms to challenge teachers and steal learning opportunities from classmates), and (2) graduate everyone regardless of achievement (since there is no longer an exit exam, college entry is being made easier and former bonehead non-credit classes are disappearing.)

Since leaders can not lead what they don't know, the work begins with a firm grounding in a research - based instructional framework, in this case, CEL's 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning ™ and its alignment to Louisiana's Compass Teacher Rubric.

(That is — «OK, teachers, since we know that your students» test scores are not a sound or valid way to evaluate your effectiveness, we'll only base 30 percent of your evaluation on them.»

But since the teachers decide what to discuss during the event, it will be difficult to know ahead of time where HS math will be discussed.

Since the Apple Classrooms of Tomorrow project (Sandholtz, Ringstaff, & Dwyer, 1990), we've known that teachers with access to education technology go through a developmental process: They start by reproducing old practices with the new tools before becoming more adept at imagining new futures.

The result: 60 percent of respondents said they oppose, which isn't all that surprising since the question hits on what we know, from the poll, is opponents» greatest fear: that the Core will somehow limit teachers.

While NPR's Westervelt criticizes Kane for making a «pretty scathing and strong indictment» of America's education system, what Kane does not understand writ large is that the very solutions for which Kane advocates — using VAM - based measurements to fire and hire bad and good teachers, respectively — are really no different than the «stronger accountability» measures upon which we have relied for the last 40 years (since the minimum competency testing era) within this alleged «echo chamber.»

Since generalist primary teachers in Australia are often responsible for teaching music instead of a dedicated music teacher, it is important to understand their training in this area to know how best to support them.