Sentences with phrase «talking over my teachers»

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They constantly talked over our head, and neither the teachers nor the students could speak to each other in the same language if our careers depended on it.

The Church of England carried on discussions over sexuality at its General Synod (when is it not talking about sexuality) but it was its advice to its schools which hit the front pages that encouraged teachers to let pupils cross dress.

That's talking about actually setting oneself up in the position of teacher (over men).

Here are five quick solutions to talk over with your child's teacher and try for everybody's relief.

I've spent a lot of time over the past few months talking to parents and teachers in many different settings, and they've been very responsive to the idea that character matters in a child's success.

«Not to mention the fact that over the last 16 years — between No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top — there has been this major change in how we talk about and treat teachers,» Tough said.

The Chicago Teachers Union jabbed at Mayor - elect Rahm Emanuel on Thursday over education reforms pending in Springfield, a sign that upcoming talks on a new contract might not be easy.

He's accused of breaking the rules of an executive session of the board, and telling a local paper the details of confidential talks with the teachers union over a new contract.

Talks over the evaluations broke down in the city last month when Department of Education officials refused to consider the UFT's insistence that teachers who receive poor ratings be allowed to appeal them to an independent arbitrator.

Other things to watch out for as the session comes to a close: The budget «clean - up» bill, a fight between Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos and his co-leader, Jeff Klein, over a plan to lower NYC's speed limit, teacher evaluation talks, and the home health aide program bill backed by 1199.

Rosenthal says she'd be happy to talk to the teachers and their students, if they want to come to her office when session is over for the week and she returns.

The National Union of Teachers has backed a motion to ballot members over strike action if no progress is made through talks on the issue with the new government by the autumn statement.

In Part 1 of his weekly «Mondays with the Mayor» interview on NY1, Mayor de Blasio talks to Errol Louis about a proposal on the Upper West Side to desegregate middle schools, and why he is at odds with the teacher's union over how to give teachers paid time off for parental leave.

Talk of coordinated union action over pensions may be unachievable therefore, if the government makes concessions to the unions in the local authority scheme, but not to teachers, civil servants or the NHS.

For example, you've probably heard teachers in class talk about making sure your knee is right over your ankle in warrior I and II or your hands are shoulder - distance apart in downward facing dog.

Internet safety expert Larry Burris talks to parent and teacher groups all over the world about keeping people safe on the Internet.

Over 300 schools joined the 10,000 talks movement and a further 130 schools also hosted teacher - to - teacher talks — reaching an additional 2,300 individuals.

For middle and high school teachers, I wonder if these questions could be asked by phone over a period of time, or through email or paper surveys, or in some kind of innovative Back to School Night where parents shared their thoughts and feelings rather than teachers talking to parents.

I preferred to not talk «over» the students but I could employ my «teacher voice» when I needed too.

Such variation is related to the growth in numeracy skills over a year, with greater growth in numeracy skills related to greater maths - specific talk by teachers (Klibanoff, et al., 2006).

Over time they become clearer, the knowledge that they need to know becomes clearer, they forget the things that they don't need to know anymore — one of my teachers talked about that the other day — so their knowledge is becoming more complex, refined, experience - informed, the knowledge of the task is clearer.

But we found out, by like 90/10, that if there were a federal contest, with seven hundred million dollars at stake, at a time when we're talking about laying off teachers in districts all over the place, New York State should be doing everything they can to win it.

The student teacher, having just taken over the class from her cooperating teacher, was attempting a class discussion using a protocol in which students talked to one another rather than through the teacher in the usual wagon wheel format.

Over the years, she has tried to talk to the principal and her son's teachers, but it always felt as though no one was listening to her concerns or willing to work with her to address them.

Over the years, I've also heard a good number of teachers talk about how they don't like to get any information from former teachers about incoming students.

There may be over a hundred PDF tools in the market, but this article will talk about the best free PDF tools for teachers.

Over 100 pages with whole numbers and some great ideas from current teachers, teaching assistants, home school parents, private tutors, special needs tutors providing excellent examples for successfully using these resources in developing students» skills, confidence and academic buoyancy, aiding soft skills and other life skills, generating students» thinking, talking, listening, reflecting, writing and reasoning.

Over the past year, I've had the chance to talk to teachers across the country about the ways they are turning their students into creators.

I hear parents, teachers and community members talking about their concerns over their children's online behavior, and rightfully so.

As he talked with teachers, he heard over and over that their students would do anything for time on a computer.

Harding praised Moe's efforts to talk about union incentives and behavior, accepted the notion that test scores are useful measures of learning, and suggested we can all «put our heads in our hands over the state of [teacher] contracts.»

As I talked about this space over the summer, many teachers asked how we did this with administrative holds on creativity outside of the curriculum.

«Part of the problem is that the majority of teachers don't talk to others about their situation and over time, the worry and stress festers and can develop into a potentially serious mental health issue.

Over a brown - bag lunch with students and teachers, I was invited to talk about happiness: how we can learn to take charge of our happiness, and how to increase it to be more productive and engaged both in school and in life.

And the characteristics of that teacher will be what [John Hattie] talks about: the teacher as activator, inspiring, challenging mediocrity, pushing people over the hump when learning looks too difficult... constantly providing a challenge, bringing together ideas and being an inspiring person as well as sometimes a subject content expert or a problem solver.

To get you started, we've reviewed dozens of flexible classroom blogs, interviewed over 20 teachers with experience in flexible seating, and talked to education design consultants about the core building blocks of flexible classrooms.

This summer I took hours to plan out my classroom procedures, talk them over with teachers and advisors, and determine how I'd help students know how to use these.

Over his nearly three decades in the district, he had watched as issues like poverty and mental health grew in importance, and he wanted to create a space where teachers could meet regularly to talk about student progress.

In fact, for all the talk about the «democratic values» implicit in local control, the decibel level of the past few years has been caused less by a legitimate debate about the merits of the work than an internecine fight over which faction would control the local teachers union, a mayor's race pitting «old» vs. «new» Newark (read: Sharpe revanchists vs. Cory defenders), and the aspirations of what Curvin calls the «resource distributors» — those who view the power and wealth allocation opportunities of the school system as an end in itself.

Designed in partnership with over 250 teachers and administrators, the ultimate goal of the Framework is to create a common language for talking about high - quality teaching and how classroom practice can be improved.

And when we talk about improving public education, and the very real and increasing threat that is coming from the corporate «education reform» types, who want to layoff teachers, ban or reduce collective bargaining rights, take - over public schools and transfer the care and control of our public schools to various third parties... let's not forget that many districts do not fund enough IA positions and every district fails to fairly compensate IAs for the incredible work they do.

As part of our community organizing efforts, we have talked to over 300,000 New Yorkers in predominately low - income communities and communities of color who are deeply concerned with the lack of quality schools and quality teachers available to their children.

STRATEGIES COVERED Splitting Use a friendly number Get to a friendly number Give and take Over and adjust Find the distance Keep the same distance Double Use partial products Use five times Use ten times Double and half Factor and group flexibility Multiply up Partial quotients Use relationships INCLUDES 1 Teacher Guide 2 Anchor Charts 120 Number Strings 60 Math Talks 24 Magnetic Demonstration 2 - Color Counters 64 Magnetic Cuisenaire Rods Magnetic Demonstration Rainbows Fraction Circles with Rings

STRATEGIES COVERED Subitizing Counting on and counting back Use five / use ten Use doubles Get to ten Use ten and adjust Get to ten Use known facts Splitting Use a friendly number Get to a friendly number Give and take Over and adjust Find the distance Keep the same distance INCLUDES 1 Teacher Guide 3 Anchor Charts 120 Number Strings 60 Math Talks 1 Set of 5, 10, Double 10 Frame Cards 20 - Bead Demonstration Rekenrek 120 Bead Demonstration Magnetic Rekenrek Line

It pulls together a number of themes that we've been talking and thinking about over the last five years, especially the idea that teacher experimentation is a vital part of innovating with technology integration.

Lawmakers continued to face an impasse in budget talks this week by fighting over whether to ditch teacher assistants in the state's elementary classrooms as a way to pay for teacher salary increases.

Over the past decade, we have visited and observed numerous school and classroom Web sites, and have talked to countless students and teachers who have conducted online projects.

Or teacher quality, of course that's taboo to talk about even though LA's results showed some teachers are far better than others and some young teachers provide over double the value of teachers earning more than them by our outdated and ineffective seniority - based pay system.

This is why teachers, teaching children from diverse backgrounds, often talk instead of «our school values» or «universal values» in an attempt to smooth over the potentially nationalistic and exclusionary idea of «British» values.

Ideally, we're talking maybe over the course of, and there are survey programs through the US Department of Education that do have these types of panel surveys where they go back periodically and interview whether it's parents, teachers, school principals, and students and just see how they respond differently to similar items over a very long period of time.