Sentences with phrase «teacher advocates often»

Blaming cheating on the test amounts to infantilizing teachers, moving teaching 180 degrees away from the kind of professionalization that teacher advocates often profess to support.

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As a math coach, I often saw myself as a liaison between staff and administration, trying to advocate for teachers while supporting them to work with administrative demands.

I often hear parents or other advocates urge teachers to accommodate students with ADHD by giving them a lengthy or indefinite amount of time to turn in assignments.

Devoted to a field of education that often goes overlooked, Jin was used to working on his own, but he says he found inspiration from his Ed School classmates, who reminded him of the importance of advocating for teachers and students who were often neglected.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

Naturally as an advocate, I meet lots of dissatisfied parents, but I also see very unhappy teachers and administrators who are equally frustrated with a special education system laden with laws and red tape that often doesn't result in even adequate educational achievement.

Another important factor on the side of charter school advocates is the greatly diminished power of the teachers union, which had often been an obstacle in earlier reform efforts.

Advocates on one side believe teachers should prepare for their classroom careers in the traditional way: attending schools of education where they learn a lot about teaching technique (but often spend too little time learning academic content).

In a field where teachers are too often treated as the recipients, rather than the agents, of reforms, Board - certified teachers are natural advocates for students and the profession.

Opportunity # 2: Both a critical pedagogy advocate and a deeper learning champion would object to the fact that many traditional classrooms emphasize the wisdom and authority of the teacher (who is often white) over the curiosity, skills, and active agency of the students in the classroom (increasingly students of color).

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten often advocates for holistic assessment systems, such as portfolios of students» work collected over the course of an entire semester or year, instead of a drawing or musical performance done in a single sitting.

Some (including, often, teachers unions) accuse charter school advocates of trying to privatize education, wresting it from local control; supporters see charters as offering critical opportunities for some of the nation's most vulnerable children.

Likewise, Democrats for Education Reform, a national group of education advocates that support a range of education options including charter schools and who have often opposed teachers» unions, has expressed concerns about DeVos.

With position allotments, advocates say, small and rural districts — which often struggle to recruit and retain teachers — can net top teaching candidates without worrying about the budget implications.

Public school teachers are often members of unions that advocate for them, while private school faculty are not usually part of unions.

«Research shows the best thing you can do to overcome bad parents or no parents or stressed out overworked parents who often come in these generational poverty school districts is four years in a row of an empathetic, well - trained, dedicated teacher,» said longtime education advocate Andy Mullins, who now works as chief of staff to the chancellor at the University of Mississippi.

In our schools, one solution often proposed by many gifted advocates, professionals and specialists to help dispel the myths and misunderstanding is teacher training — for teachers already in the classroom and for college students studying to become a teacher.

And, as one who often gives NJEA leaders grief, let's give credit where credit is due: I'm proud to live in a state where the primary teacher union advocates for historically under - served students.

All too often, school reformers try to skip this work, advocating for their preferred solutions without giving teachers, administrators, parents, and others a chance to decide whether there's a problem at all, much less what sort of problem it is.

I often wonder whether many of the absurd policy prescriptions advocated by so - called education reformers could be avoided or eliminated by sending reformers to psychologists for counseling to resolve residual trauma leftover from one or more bad relationships they had with their teachers during their own childhoods.

The question is key given that charter - school proponents are often data - driven education reformers who advocate using test - score data to rank traditional public schools and the teachers who work there.

Thus, in a single school day, Sarah would often work directly with English learners, advise teachers, and talk strategy with the principal, shifting back and forth among her roles as teacher, teacher leader, and advocate.

Educational researchers and practitioners have long advocated that collaboration between teachers should be a cornerstone of efforts to improve instruction — indeed, teachers themselves often cite collaboration with colleagues as one of the key ways they learn.

Its advocates argue that elementary school students especially lose out by getting math instruction from classroom teachers who not only have no specific math expertise, but also often do not like math themselves.

JerseyCAN and Better Education for Kids often advocate for education reforms opposed by teachers unions.

For instance, principals often «sent teachers to our program without a real sense that this would be their top math advocate in the school, and they sent them because they thought this would be just another math professional development program.»

In addition to their roles as informal advocates, many teachers became formal facilitators of professional development opportunities, often for the first time.

As a non-academic researcher (not currently attached to a university), non-educator educational advocate (no experience as a classroom teacher), and person of non-normative aesthetics (facial scars), I often find myself in the company of teachers, administrators, and higher educational scholars.

Advocates of AC programs often assert that these kinds of programs are necessary to recruit more teachers of color, providing low - cost pathways for professionals who already hold a bachelor's degree and want to enter the teaching profession (Madkins, 2011; Whitmire, 2016).

I often act as a «teacher» to clearly convey the evidence which falls into my realm of expertise, based in science and fact, to assist the judge and / or jury in understanding the evidence at hand, in essence, act as an advocate for the truth.

We are often called upon to be counsellors of a variety of sorts: advocates, teachers, mediators, guides, divorce and grief counsellors.