Sentences with phrase «spend less time teaching»

If professors spend less time teaching tools and mechanics, then they can spend more time teaching substance.

I've heard from my elementary teaching colleagues that sometimes they spend less time teaching science in order to have more time to teach reading.

Not exact matches

Some say it is a quantity of time issue, so that those who spend the majority of their time during the week studying Scripture and teaching the Bible should get paid, while those who spend less time should not.

But she suggests that we spend less time fearing the media and more time analyzing it, and using it to teach.

My «fleshy desires» have me giving to various charities (not the church) to help educate, feed, and cloth children the world over, spending years in the field helping those less fortunate, volunteering my time teaching inner city school children, and doing my best to live in love not in fear.

(1) Teach in a dynamic, well - organized style that makes use of proven pedagogical approaches to promote student engagement in the learning process via less lecture time, fewer repetitive worksheets and more time spent working in small groups solving problems, engaging in discussions, and collaborating on longer - term creative projects.

Instead of regarding this as a negative for the family, she sees the time Charlotte and James spend together as a plus for everyone; «It works out really well because those are the times that I am usually the most tired and in need of a break — and less likely to be playing or teaching her.

When I'm in a leadership position in a university, do I really want to go to my women associate professors and say, «Please spend less time on teaching?»

Female faculty members are more likely to report spending more time on teaching and less time on research than male faculty members.

But even as your responsibility for your research increases, new responsibilities, such as teaching, committee work, accounting, and writing grants, mean less time to spend in the laboratory.

The therapy that focused on teaching parents to help their children eat normally again was about half as expensive as the family - dynamics approach, mostly because patients spent less time in the hospital.

Postdocs who do get faculty posts are far likelier to land at institutions where they will spend more time teaching and less doing research.

Teachers «are able to spend less time «teaching to the middle» and more time connecting with students as individual learners.»

At Match, we think teachers should spend more time planning how to teach — with the unique learning needs of their students in mind — and less time worrying about the basics of what to teach.

It's significant and not commented upon further than mentioning it, that Shanghai teachers spend 4 % less of their class teaching time maintaining order - we in many Australian schools experience poor student respect for authority and a poor respect for education itself.

If we want to put to rest the perception of online learning as one step ahead for technology and two steps back for pedagogy, we need to spend more time and effort on teaching and learning and less on the technology.

Teachers in well - organized classrooms in which students know and follow clearly defined rules and routines spend less time disciplining and more time teaching.

With digital record keeping, phones in the classroom, and access to local networks to communicate with parents, administrators, and colleagues, teachers can spend more time teaching and less on paperwork.

Spend more time teaching the child to take control and less on the futility of routine punishment.

Teach students a variety of activities to play during recess because they spend so much less time outdoors they haven't learned the types of activities to do during unstructured times - outside of team sports

Educators get the tools they need to create safe, respectful classrooms, so they spend less time managing behavior and more time teaching.

In 1981, the average American public - school teacher was older, had spent more time in college, was relatively less well paid, and was far less likely to choose teaching as a career if given a second chance than was the case in 1976.

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

Spend less time grading and more time teaching with autograding.

«For less than 1 percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we've convinced nearly every state in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning — the first time that's happened in a generation,» said Obama, referencing the Common Core.

Those teachers who have a good handle on these practices find that they can spend more time teaching and less time managing their students.

Spend more time teaching — And less time marking exams.

Schools need to spend less time exposing students to large volumes of knowledge, and more time teaching them the knowledge arts.

The study found that in primary schools, many teachers report that the amount of time spent on the core subjects of English and maths increases in Year 6 in order to prepare for the Sats tests taken by 11 year olds, with other areas taught less, or not at all.

Since school spending per pupil has been relatively stable in real terms for the last seven years, allocating extra curriculum time and resources to teaching EBacc subjects may have often implied diverting them from non-EBacc subjects that offer less benefit in terms of school performance, as evaluated by the new headline measures.

This could allow schools to spend less time on standardized testing and teaching to the test, and instead devote more time and resources to formative assessment designed to help develop more appropriate services and interventions for students.

The author asserts that schools need to spend less time exposing students to large volumes of knowledge, and more time teaching them the diverse skills involved in handling knowledge well — the knowledge arts.

This means Teaching Schools are free to spend more time designing and delivering great courses and less time on marketing and sales.

Their classes experienced more personalized teaching and discussion and spent less time on whole - group lecture and recitation activities.

In his research looking among several states, Elliott found that the most time any state was able to spend on teaching the standards was 81 percent of the time students were in school, and special education teachers covered even less of the content and standards.

In university programs that train teachers much less time is spent teaching would - be teachers to teach reading than is spent learning how to manage classroom behaviors.

The renewed partnership with Clever is part of Imagine Learning's overarching commitment to provide solutions that are easy to implement so educators spend more time teaching and less time on technical issues.

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Point - of - use resources and on - demand blended professional development so educators can spend more time teaching and less time planning lessons and gathering resources

Changes to the application of the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), impacting every student in grades three through eight, is as part of a broader effort to help districts spend less time testing students and more time teaching.

With instant access to a reliable, flexible system, school leaders and teachers now spend less time worrying about how to map curricula and dedicate more time to teaching and learning.

As a result of this situation, I developed a three - pronged action plan for the school that called for (1) establishing a calmer, safer learning environment to enable teachers to spend more time on teaching and less time on discipline; (2) cleaning and repairing facilities; and (3) improving student academic outcomes.

This may mean spending less time with the pets, pet segregation from certain areas of the house, teaching the pet to stay off the furniture, awakening at night, etc..

In order for us to spend as much time as possible on our creative endeavors, we learned to live on less and teach ourselves skills that would make us more self - sufficient.

But if you come to the job and you already know how to take a deposition or talk to an expert witness, that is one less thing the firm needs to spend time teaching you.

When students are better behaved, teachers can spend less time on classroom management and more on teaching.

Educators get the tools they need to create safe, respectful classrooms, so they spend less time managing behavior and more time teaching.

While children currently spend considerably less time on self - directed learning than they did fifteen years ago, research suggests that project - based investigations in the earliest years are critical for engaging children and teaching them how to critically analyze information and apply content knowledge in real - world situations.

He's just gung - ho about teaching us how to get more done, on time, with fewer resources and less stress — so that we can spend our evenings walking the dog, having a beer with friends, or reading a good book.