Sentences with phrase «students had power over»

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Teachers have a primary duty to serve their pupils and not to gratify themselves, whether by a sense of power over the lives of others, by the enjoyment of their students» affection and respect, or by the intrinsic stimulus of interesting studies.

It's the reason why professors are forbidden from having sex with grad students even though they are all adults — the professor holds so much power over the students that its inherently coercive.

The Management of Kaduna Polytechnic has reacted to Friday's protest by students of the institution over power and water shortage in hostels.

Over the years, 57,000 students and staff, including former President Jimmy Carter, have gone through the Nuclear Power training program in Milton and many have returned to make their home in this area.

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Under «mayoral control» of the city's school system, only Mayor Bill de Blasio has the power to dump Chancellor Carmen Fariña over the scandalous graduation of a high school student who all but begged to fail and other instances of grade - fixing.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

As a teacher of yoga for over ten years and dedicated student for over 16, I have witnessed the transformational power of yoga on my students — and myself.

Over and over, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat hOver and over, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat hover, I've seen students like this initiate a power struggle to fulfill the script of a teacher - student power dynamic: «I hate school, I'm just going to drop out;» or «This is dumb, I'm not doing this;» or a string of words that I won't repeat here.

Don't lead students to believe that contributing to curriculum decisions means that they will have sole power over every assignment, test, and project.

Evaluate students using several short quizzes that determine whether they can correctly define separation of powers and checks and balances; correctly list the three branches of the national government and identify their assigned functions and powers; correctly draw and label the checks and balances each branch has over the other branches.

There are a number of assumptions and hypotheses nested in these definitions, but I want to focus on two: 1) students will learn more if they have more power over what they learn («the path argument»), and 2) students will learn more if they have more power over when and how quickly they learn («the pace argument»).

If a student knows that the adult she's meeting with doesn't have the power to assign or change her grades, the theory goes, she's more likely to take agency over her performance at school.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

We hope our students will continue to have more power over how and where they learn.

The bureaucrats in a white - majority state were cast as having usurped administrative power over a district in which 9 out of 10 students were African American, as were many teachers, politicians, and contractors.

Minister for Education and Training Simon Birmingham said for the first time this early in the year, the data showed international student numbers had grown 12 per cent to 509,610 in the year to February 2018, on top of a 54 per cent increase over the past five years since the current Federal Government came to power in 2013.

And if we hope to instill grit in every student, a requirement for doing it at scale is competency - based learning — in which students only progress once they have truly mastered a concept, not based on time — most likely powered by digital learning through which students come to take ownership over their learning.

This process has been meaningful to parents for decades, but it's been increasingly pushed aside as school districts like CPS give standardized test scores more and more power over students, teachers and schools.

Then, for instance, when it came to me having to confront students about not completing work or give reminders about classroom rules, it could hopefully be perceived less as «Here's another white guy claiming power over me as a person of color,» but more as «Here's someone who knows me and is trying to help me do what I need to do,» which obviously makes for a more productive interaction.

When teachers hand over to students the power to shape their own learning, the learning that occurs is often more powerful than what would have transpired if the teacher had directed learning activities.

Based on data collected over the 17 months of this 3 - year project, we have evidence of the power of the P3 Scientific Village culture to increase students» interest and success with the study of mathematics and science in high school.

Over the past ten years, the policies undergirding the national education reform movement — offering more school choice, weakening teacher union power, and creating new accountability systems (with incentives like pay - for - performance and teacher evaluations based partly on student test scores)-- have taken hold in the nation's capital.

Because ESSA reins in the federal government's influence over local decisions about academic standards and accountability, states and districts will have more power to decide how best to gauge student progress toward becoming well - rounded.

White staff may show a lack of faith in the ability students of color have to control themselves when seeking to have power over their bodies.

Principals in this school district now have more decision - making power over how their school is managed and can customize education to the unique needs of their students.

I had the pleasure of attending a panel with two teachers and a student who explained the power of their approach to performance based assessments that allowed students to do research over time, develop a thesis, and present their findings to a panel comprised of teachers, administrators, parents and community members.

One of the chief obstacles for ebooks in the classroom is the hard data that demonstrates students not only prefer print books over ebooks when they have the power to self - select the texts, but also that demonstrate a possible drop in reading comprehension scores after consuming content in digital formats.

The bank providing your student loans will have great power over you, more than most any other lenders.

Imagine a man or woman being so arrogant, and selfish, that they'd take a job driving a CO2 belching truck, or dig for coal in a mine, or fish for salmon in the ocean, or fly a CO2 belching airliner, or flip beef patties that came from CH4 exhausting cows, or teaching a classroom of students all of whom belch CO2 and exhaust CH4 and whom will have offspring that produces even more of those evil gases, or working as a climate scientist in an office heated by CO2 belching FFs and occasionally traveling around the world by CO2 belching airliner — all the while using computers made from FFs and powered by CO2 belching FF power plants, or working as a Senator from Tennessee who was President of the USA for a few hours and who travels all over the world in CO2 belching airliners, or one of the millions of people who mine, process, manufacture and transport every product you have ever seen in your life and all the ones you haven't seen as well.

Photos by Michelle Kaufmann Over 4,000 students from around the world have their solar - powered homes on display for this year's Solar Decathlon.

Started in 1995 at Dallas» The Winston School, this year's event will attract over eighteen teams of high - school students who have completed a two - year curriculum culminating in the construction of a solar - powered car.

Justice Doherty noted that there were no material facts supporting the students» allegation that the Diocese knew or should have known of the ongoing abuse; there were no material facts supporting a direct relationship between the Diocese and the school or the students; there was no allegation that the Diocese founded, controlled or was involved in the operation of the school in any way; and there was no allegation that the Diocese had any power over the headmasters in so far as running the school was concerned.

«We have the power over the government as the people,» Stoneman Douglas student Katherine Guerra said.

Bullies are usually stronger, or have more friends or money, or Some other power over the student being bullied.