That decline in choice is created by an increase in
teacher control of reading materials at the higher grade levels.
They perceive
teacher control of assignments even when teachers encourage students to take ownership.
Giving
teachers control of a camera, the opportunity to watch themselves teach, and allowing them to discuss their videos talk with external observers, peers and supervisors will provide be a more effective mirror than any observer's written notes.
Teachers as Owners: A Key to Revitalizing Public Education demonstrates how being an owner rather than an employee can give
teachers control of their professional activity, including full responsibility and accountability for creating and sustaining high - performing learning communities.
Not exact matches
As a grandfather, I don't have to attend parent -
teacher conferences or get pedantic notes sent home with my son or daughter addressing the latest concerns
of a bunch
of thumb - sucking, politically correct, out -
of -
control idiots.
If that's the case for you, Bill Duane, a Google executive and meditation
teacher, offers a more practical approach to taming your out -
of -
control social - media use.
This isn't a new argument, but it's one that's resurfaced recently: Instead
of more gun
control, some people believe we should give guns and gun training to
teachers, office workers, and the like.
CMHC
controls about two - thirds
of the market while publicly traded Genworth Canada has around 30 %; Canada Guaranty (part - owned by the Ontario
Teachers» Pension Plan) mops up the remainder.
That's key for classrooms, Myerson says, where
teachers want
control over what apps their students can use, and students want something with great battery life and a selection
of familiar Windows software.
With the great success enjoyed by SQC in Japan, and through his own abilities as a
teacher and promoter
of quality
control and related management approaches, Deming became the iconic figure in the field, the «father
of quality
control.»
As Parkland gun
control activists and their surrogates mock the idea
of arming
teachers, march for gun bans in D.C., and call for new gun
controls via Twitter, they risk driving Americans toward the Second Amendment instead
of away from it.
Judge Baugh sentenced Rambold to 30 days in prison, saying that the girl, Cherice Moralzez, was «as much in
control of the situation» as her
teacher was and that she was «older than her chronological age,» whatever that even means.
Jews were protected by Muslims who
controlled most
of Spain, and parts
of Sicily, serving as Doctors,
teachers, scholars, etc..
Indeed the desire
of the counter-cultural types to take charge
of the education
of their own children seemed a reasonable extension
of the kind
of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind
of oppressive social
control some
of the cooler
teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.
There are many additional «color
of authority» situations, where the person, under the «color»
of their position in the church (be it pastor, elder, staff member, Bible study
teacher, the «I've been a Christian for X years» people, the «I've studied the Bible for X years and know what it says» people, or whatever), attempts to impose their opinions and wishes on those over whom they somehow attempt to assume «authority» and
control.
In the midst
of the national conversation about arming
teachers and right before high school students around the country walked out to protest gun
control laws, a high school
teacher...
The church, while not perfect in all cases especially when false
teachers are in
control, has provided me with a loving and caring group
of fellow believers.
[4] In the 18th century, «common schools,» appeared; students
of all ages were under the
control of one
teacher in one room.
However, It is my hope that
teachers and preachers
of God's word focus on the Gospel message and not on the politics
of guns and gun
control.
The full exercise
of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect
teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor
of certain methods and conclusions
of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a
controlling influence on academic pursuits.
In schools, the Catholic authorities have meekly handed over to the politicians
control over the curriculum, over the admissions
of pupils and, in practice, over the appointment
of teachers.
Efforts are also under way to bring under
control any individual
teachers who express creationist sentiments in the classroom, especially if they make use
of unapproved materials.
Television is taking over the traditional role
of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming
controlled by a few who limit the points
of view.
Jesus often refeared to the scriptures when he would say «it is written» when He was under attack from the devil and the
teachers of the law, they used the scriptures as a weapon to
control the people and they tried the same strategy with Jesus and when it did not work the plotted to shut Him up.
The
teacher can bring out the role
of inductive and deductive reasoning, the construction
of conceptual schemes and models, idealization and simplifying assumptions, quantitative measurement and the
controlled experiment.
A «Baby Think - It - Over,» he typically lives with angsty teenagers whose parents or
teachers use him as a very loud form
of birth
control.
As a physics
teacher, I teach the therapeutic effects
of gamma radiation in radiotherapy, along with the associated dangers (radiation can cause cells to become cancerous as well as kill cells that are already cancerous), but a common misconception among students is that cancer cells are rather like viruses or bacteria, a sort
of alien cell that has entered the body, growing out
of control with little relation to the surrounding cells.
Teachers were redeployed, leaving governors little
control over appointments, and lowering the morale
of the profession.
Thus a
teacher is not and never can be a civil servant... Whatever authority he may possess to teach and
control children, and to claim their respect and obedience, comes to him from God, through the parents and not through the State, except in so far as the State is acting on behalf
of the parents.
Thirdly, in terms,
of structures, Catholic governors used to have complete
control of the three important elements in any school: the curriculum; the admission
of pupils; and the appointment
of teachers.
After the battles over ecclesiastical
control of the seminaries subsided, there was a generation
of teachers whose inner lives still evidenced the marks
of piety.
If Bible study has become a specialty or series
of specialties today the reason is not to be sought simply in the development
of specialization among
teachers of theology but in the loss
of a
controlling idea in theological education — an idea able to give unity to many partial inquiries.
Through training for
teachers the importance
of the Church's teaching on birth
control is reinforced to ensure that there is no moral ambivalence.
Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their
teachers «maximize a sense
of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings
of coercion and
control.
These experiments have their roots in a technique Cohen developed as an assistant professor at Yale in the late 1990s that he called wise intervention — brief,
controlled interactions that served to counteract students» fears that their
teachers were judging them not as individuals but as members
of a stereotyped group.
And so in these schools, where students are most in need
of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external
control, fewer feelings
of competence, and less positive connection with
teachers.
These were the responses to a
teacher's comment about wanting to address, «Very creative and out
of control cheating issues that high schools are experiencing.»
A majority
of the more than 1,385 high school students, 3,600 parents and 520
teachers of all grade levels who returned a questionnaire after this change was piloted in Palo Alto said, «If I
controlled the school calendar, I would want first - semester finals to occur before winter break»; this included more than 85 percent
of the high school students, according to Challenge Success.
These databases are extremely useful and valuable, but there does not appear to be a ton
of oversight or quality -
control over the available materials, and it would certainly behoove
teachers using them to think as critically about the assignments they're downloading as they would about the assignments they're writing themselves.
And because under the Perry program
teachers systematically reported on a range
of students» behavioral and social skills, Heckman was able to learn that students» success later in life was predicted not by their IQs but by the noncognitive skills like curiosity and self -
control that the Perry program had imparted.
Parents can also know they can
control other factors
of their child's environment: they can avoid situations that tend to result in bullying episodes, they can choose to change teams, request that their
teacher limit contact between kids, etc..
Steiner agreed but set four conditions, each
of which went against common practice
of the day: 1) that the school be open to all children; 2) that it be coeducational; 3) that it be a unified twelve - year school; 4) that the
teachers, those individuals actually in contact with the children, have primary
control of the school, with minimum interference from the state or from economic sources.
Nobody — not your child's doctor, not her gym
teacher, not the director
of the school lunch program, not even your child herself — has as much
control over what she eats and how she spends her time as you do.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that between 4 to 6 percent
of children in the United States have one or more food allergies and that approximately 90 percent
of schools have one or more students with a food allergy.4 The CDC developed voluntary guidelines to help staff,
teachers and students create a healthy school environment for children with food allergies.
When it comes to bullying, we should hold adults to a much higher code
of conduct than children since child bullies do not have
control over their target's physical or psychological health or future like adults do who may be in the powerful position
of teacher or coach.
Tough suggests
teachers assign tasks that are challenging, but not too challenging; minimize coercion and
control; and show warmth and respect for students, so they feel part
of the learning community.
In the words
of the Seneca elder Grandmother Twylah Nitsch, «In Native culture, children are regarded as
teachers because they have not yet had any experience
of having their truth and their trust chipped away by people who want to
control them.»
However, even after
control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration
of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests
of ability and achievement,
teacher ratings
of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.
We feel that it is important for public health workers,
teachers and others concerned for the emotional and physical health
of children and youth to support the adoption
of alternative methods for the achievement
of self -
control and responsible behavior in children and adolescents.»
From these statements three principles emerge about self - administration: Schools must be free
of state
control as part
of a free cultural life,
teachers must be centrally involved in the running
of the school and in decision making, and the school should be organized along republican principles in which
teachers are equal but delegate specific responsibilities to individuals and committees.