Sentences with phrase «taught about the accountability»

Bladow says that his experience with BloomThat has taught him about accountability, how not to be thrown by the things beyond your control and focus on what you can tackle right in front of you.

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how about teaching those teenagers about personal accountability??

The immediate and huge success of the club created a responsibility to evolve the program to teach and promote the game and skills at international standards, while continuing to help the kids learn real core values about both rugby and life, such a respect, honor, discipline, integrity, teamwork and accountability.

But teaching your child about accountability doesn't have to be impossible.

Or, a few weeks ago, Lynn Good, chief executive of Duke Energy, who told Bryant that she had an «ordinary» childhood, highlighted the fact that her parents «taught us about responsibility» and «demonstrated accountability to me through actions.»

Consequently, NAEP data should be relatively immune to concerns about accountability - driven test - score inflation, such as may result from «teaching to the test.»

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

«Duncan and his team brought to Chicago a set of ideas about how to improve teaching, learning, and leadership — not focused exclusively on accountability and governance.»

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No Child Left Behind is important in the efforts to continue this progress, and urban districts must continue effective practices that have brought about promising results: high standards, strong and stable leadership, better teaching, more instructional time, regular assessments, stronger accountability, extra resources, and efficient operations.

Each Pride leader teaches four to six daily classes of about 20 students, and each Pride is named after one of their core values: relentlessness, integrity, solidarity, accountability, selflessness, and resilience.

The results, which were generalized across subject areas, indicated that though educators knew about ASAP, their responses to it varied depending on how they understood it and how it fit with their underlying beliefs and the local conditions (material and knowledge resources, existing beliefs and ideologies about teaching, culture of accountability and authority).

An Arizona teacher who teaches in a very urban, high - needs schools writes about the realities of teaching in her school, under the pressures that come along with high - stakes accountability and a teacher workforce working under an administration, both of which are operating in chaos.

So, while the debate may ensue about the time required and benefits of standardized assessment driven by accountability initiatives, the classroom formative assessment — when applied as intended — can have powerful effects on teaching and learning.

The federal education space is currently engrossed in debates about the merits of the Department of Education46 and the need for federal protections against discrimination in schools.47 This is a departure from last year's substantive conversations around refining state accountability systems, modernizing the teaching profession, and lowering college tuition.

The SATs are not about teaching and learning, yet in too many schools the curriculum is distorted to serve the high stakes accountability system first and children's own development second.

Since 1998, the federal government has attempted to increase the accountability for preparation programs by requiring states to collect and report information about the programs, including completion rates, average scores on state and national teaching tests, and the number of student teaching hours required.

In my last blog post about the impact of heavy - handed accountability on teaching and learning, I laid out some of the driving forces behind the emerging «opt - out movement.»

Many states have relied on an accountability index for so long that policymakers may be unaware that reducing school performance to a single indicator hides more than it reveals about teaching and learning.

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Teacher Match and Hanover Research are the companies specifically named and targeted for marketing and selling a series of highly false assumptions about teaching and teachers, highly false claims about value - added (without empirical research in support), highly false assertions about how value - added estimates can be used for better teacher evaluation / accountability, and highly false sales pitches about what they as value - added / research «experts» can do to help with the complex statistics needed for the above

Today is the last day of Center for Inspired Teaching's two - week Institute, and as the rest of the country talks about the merits and shortcomings of the Obama administration's education plan — particularly its belief that external systems of accountability and extrinsic motivators like performance pay are an essential ingredient in reforming public education — I'm watching the same debate unfold here, on the ground, as a small group of DC teachers prepares for the coming school year.

Instead, we found that despite Massachusetts» detailed system of standards and accountability measures, most new teachers we interviewed received little or no guidance about what to teach or how to teach it.

She's the first MTA leader willing to listen to their agony, and to tell the truth about how teaching in an age of accountability can be, as Holyoke teacher Cheryl Cluff puts it, «like waiting tables in a busy restaurant; you're running and running and running, and you've lost your head».

Goldberg is now part of TEAch, Transparency, Equity and Accountability for Charters, a nonprofit that she said is not anti-charter but is a group educating families about charter schools.

One may even suggest this could have been brought about by the shifting sands of accountability measures, and not fully understanding the changing frameworks for teaching and learning.

The second one is concerns about the way accountability pressures in the No Child Left Behind era created pressure to teach to the test, lots of sanctions and the loss of autonomy in the classroom because quite often in central - city schools, where minority teachers are concentrated, they were moved to a scripted, teacher - proof curriculum, geared to test preparation, which is not what people go into teaching for.

Consistent with Hand2Paw's overall goals, the internship also taught him more about selflessness and accountability.

It's all about a topic named «accountability», that should be taught at modern universities, if they have not lost their source material.

As per Van Court, instead of teaching kids that life is full of invisible protection nets that safeguard them from their poor decisions, parents should teach kids that life is all about lessons learned, growth, consequences and accountability.

Some early childhood educators eschew teacher - directed lessons, believing that all teaching needs to be conducted in the context of child - initiated activities, and they worry about the effect of standards and accountability on early childhood education.