Sentences with phrase «spend out of school hours»

It is easy to forget that teachers take their work home with them most nights, and spend out of school hours liaising with parents and school leaders, planning activities and taking professional development courses outside of term time.

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The sense of being outside of time did not change when they departed two days early from school, when they spent three hours on the bus to Eugene staring out the window with their Walkman headphones on, when they wandered through the swirly paisley carpeted hotel hallways, or went in street clothes to have a walk around Autzen Stadium, where a sex scene in Animal House was filmed.

After spending hours researching backdrops, purchasing outfits, wrangling children, and finally snapping that perfect back - to - school picture, someone else will undoubtedly do the same thing in a way that blows my lame - ass picture out of the water.

With the proposed Buffalo school budget slated to pull millions of dollars out of thinning reserves to balance the spending plan, board members spent several hours Wednesday night looking for savings.

Despite breaking out a fresh piece of nicotine gum every half hour, I wanted to kill my boss, quit my job, skip my night - school class, and spend the rest of my life hiding under the covers.

I have loved art as long as I can remember and spent hours and hours in and out of school drawing and painting pretty much my whole life.

Primary and secondary school teachers are working almost 60 hours a week according to the DofE and a lot of this time is spent carrying out bureaucratic tasks such as form filling and general paperwork.

What would Lemov, a man who calculates the amount of teaching time lost to handing out papers and extrapolates that into hours of teaching time lost over an entire school year, make of a teacher who spends hours at a student's home waiting for a parent to return from work?

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

For every hour a child spends in school, they spend two hours out of school.

Joining a professional organisation such as the Schools Music Association can provide practical ideas and a network of colleagues for a teacher who is delivering a full academic programme, managing an instrumental tuition programme, purchasing and maintaining a range of equipment, and spending hours of out of school time rehearsing groups, practising with individuals for school events, taking groups out into the community, and so on.

... The governor of Maine, Angus King, who is a very progressive, forward - looking person, encouraged me to create a little project — made it possible to create a little project where with just ten kids, we took them out of the regular school and they spent their time — five hours a day — doing project - based work.

Just by cutting one to two hours out of my office day to spend a few minutes in each classroom and hallway of my small school district, I've learned more about the little (but often very important) things going on than I would have learned from email, phone calls or hearsay.

However, while I was clearing my credential, working with mentor teachers to reflect on my practice, and finding out how real students differed from theoretical ones, I also spent long hours after school with the speech and debate team reading philosophy and theory and talking about innovative alternatives for national defense, natural resource allocation, and, of course, education.

Millions of American parents spend countless hours trying to figure out how to help their children get better grades, better teachers or better schools.

I have spent countless hours looking into schools and trying to figure out which ones were right for each of my children.

This fall, principals and assistant principals fanned out into thousands of Tennessee classrooms in an unprecedented effort to spend at least an hour annually observing and rating every single teacher, guidance counselor, social worker and librarian in the state's public school system.

Mark Gilboard, an Albuquerque parent who had his fifth - grade daughter sit out of PARCC, said he was flabbergasted when she came home from school recently saying that she and her classmates had spent an hour sitting in front of computers to make sure that the technology was ready for the new online exams.

The schedule is designed to reduce the need for teachers to spend their out - of - school hours planning.32

Their stories noted that they at times spent more hours at school than with their families, paid for supplies out of their own pockets, and cut their own salaries to balance budgets.

Maria Morelli - Wolfe, a lawyer with Greater Hartford Legal Aid Inc., which last year filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights on behalf of children with disabilities at the public charter school, said that very often those students spend too many hours out of the classroom — suspended in school or out of school — because of behaviors they weren't necessarily able to control.

Teachers in the United States spend far more time engaged in active instruction than teachers in other high - performing countries.1 Based on self - reported data, teachers in the United States spend 27 hours teaching out of 45 hours of work per week.2 Compare this with teachers in Singapore, who teach for only 17 hours per week, or teachers in Finland, who teach for a total of 21 hours per week.3 Schools in these countries prioritize time for planning and collaboration, recognizing that developing and executing lessons take time and preparation.4 According to a recent analysis of more than 140 school districts, the average length of a U.S. teacher's workday is 7.5 hours.5 In another analysis of more than 120 school districts, the most common length of time allotted for planning was 45 minutes per day.6 In this short time, teachers must grade student work, plan for future lessons, engage with families, and complete necessary paperwork.

I had spent hundreds of hours gazing out at the calm, conquered suburban landscape surrounding my school, silently yearning for the outbreak of a zombie apocalypse, a freak accident that would give me super powers, or perhaps the sudden appearance of a band of time - traveling kleptomaniac dwarves.

Once I made it to high school I would carve out my own group of friends with similar interests, but when I was younger, 60 - hour Japanese role - playing games are how I spent the bulk of my free time.

Hours upon hours were spent with my Super NES, helping me escape from the stomach pains and fatigue that kept me out of high school for the immediate fuHours upon hours were spent with my Super NES, helping me escape from the stomach pains and fatigue that kept me out of high school for the immediate fuhours were spent with my Super NES, helping me escape from the stomach pains and fatigue that kept me out of high school for the immediate future.

Guess what, if you're spending two hours of 10 - days practicing law and that's why you went to law school and that's what you love doing, that's also not working out.