Sentences with phrase «teacher closes the door behind»

We have a culture in schools of radical teacher autonomy where every teacher closes the door behind them and does whatever they want, and in too many cases that means that innovation happens in classrooms, but not in departments, not in grade level teams, and not in whole schools.

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Sometimes, however, it seems like nothing but elaborate theatrics - the tearful meltdowns every morning at day - care drop - off, which (your child's teacher assures you) are over as soon as the door closes behind you.

The majority of members on the Buffalo School Board remain in an executive session discussing a proposed Buffalo teachers contract, but not everyone agreed to having the conversation behind closed doors.

«You can't do that if teachers are working in isolation behind closed doors.»

«I know if it weren't for the team setup I'd have that sense of loneliness that every inexperienced teacher has behind the closed doors of her classroom.»

Our guest believes that the days of teachers working in isolation behind closed classroom doors should be a thing of the past.

This is to say that the head of education at the leading teacher - training university in the state has offered a misleading, dishonest version of what is going on behind closed doors on the campus.

Twenty years ago, most teachers worked alone behind closed classroom doors.

Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) pushed hard for months behind closed doors to pitch a proposal to his colleagues that would have created an «achievement school district» in which some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools would be placed, teachers and staff at those schools could be fired, and the schools would be subject to the management of for - profit (or not - for - profit, too) charter school operators tasked with bringing them up into the ranks of the state's top performers.

Schools typically are organized into long, often windowless corridors, lined with 900 - square - foot classrooms — a floor plan that consigns teachers and students to working in relative isolation behind closed doors.

More and more major decisions were made behind closed doors, and more and more teachers felt micromanaged rather than supported.

Researchers usually don't know exactly what teachers are teaching behind closed doors.

She saw, behind closed doors, what the public can't: the «dance of the lemons,» a term that broadly describes controversial tactics LAUSD utilizes to cope with tenured teachers who can't teach but, under the current system, can not be fired.

So the magic of the teacher in room 101, or the remarkable success of the school down the block, doesn't stay there, locked up, behind a closed door.

This decision made 3,000 miles away and behind closed doors will dramatically impact our children and their teachers, since Malloy's education reform initiative requires that teachers be judged on how well their students do on these unfair tests.

Sometimes this entails devising «workarounds» when traditional methods don't work, but it doesn't mean each teacher doing their own thing behind closed doors.

President Donald Trump on Thursday met behind closed doors with several top video game industry executives, association representatives, politicians and others to discuss video game violence in the aftermath of the fatal shooting of 17 students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, last month.