Sentences with phrase «teacher effort on»

The accountability systems encouraged all manner of dubious practices, such as focusing teacher effort on a small subset of students at risk of failing the exams rather than advancing every child's learning.

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This is what Albom's book did for me: It got me thinking about how fortunate I have been to have wonderful people guide me during my career and helped me refocus my efforts on being present as a mentor, a guide, a teacher, and a student.

We see caring and capable teachers focusing their efforts on the students who are trying to succeed, apparently unable to keep Tracy from following her self - destructive path.

The process is comparable to the modern effort of teachers of religion and morals to attempt to get their material into the movies, on the radio, or in television, which are the media of mass appeal of today.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

Despite my best efforts I'd sway all around while the teacher would go on and on about being like the mighty oak tree, roots deep into the ground, standing strong, etc..

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

«Overloaded and Underprepared» is a detailed documentation of those efforts, offering a practical, research - based road map to students, teachers, parents and school administrators on how to implement similar change at their schools.

Although it can be hard to watch your child do poorly on a test he didn't study for or lose out on an opportunity because he didn't put in the effort, those consequences can be some of life's greatest teachers.

I also actively seek out conversations with moms and teachers at my kid's schools as well as on social networking efforts like Twitter and FaceBook.

NYSUT was opposed to the tax credit, but the labor union had its hands full on other key issues, including Gov. Andrew Cuomo's effort to once again overhaul teacher evaluations, weaken teacher tenure laws and strengthen charter schools in addition to the perennial push for more school aid.

Mulgrew ended on a hopeful note by highlighting the union's efforts to move education in the city forward: the UFT's Community Learning Schools project; the union's fight to secure curriculum aligned to the new Common Core Learning Standards for every teacher; and its efforts to address the lack of lesson plans aligned to the Common Core through its new Share My Lesson website.

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

«All options should be on the table,» including military intervention, if efforts to achieve sanctions fall short or if the sanctions are ineffective, said Phillips a history teacher from Broome County who spoke on the steps of the Ulster County Courthouse in Kingston.

After his State of the City address, Mayor Brown commented on the students» and parents» efforts and says he also hopes both the school district and teachers federation come up with a solution that works for everyone.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked an effort by the state's teachers unions to strip away restrictions on political spending weeks before primary elections.

But The Daily News this morning says the call was a last - ditch effort to reach a deal on the contentious teacher evaluation effort.

The NY Post says the teachers union «broke» the governor, thanks to reports that he plans to abandon the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

Instead, she will lead an effort between the American Federation of Teachers and the state AFL - CIO focused on issues such as wage equity, education opportunities and women in leadership roles.

Padalino said the district will continue focusing its efforts internally on the academic success of its students, even as its administrators, teachers and parents continue their efforts to have their voices heard by the Cuomo administration.

Following a lobbying effort from the statewide teachers» union, many lawmakers have called for a «moratorium» on the Common Core.

Today marks the third day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

Today marks the fourth day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

Today marks the fifth day of StudentsFirstNY's effort to stress the urgency of a deal on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers.

In an effort to jumpstart all - but - stalled negotiations on a new evaluation system for New York City public school teachers, StudentsFirstNY today launched a «10 Days of $ 300 Million» campaign to highlight the negative impact of losing these funds.

The effort comes even though the tests don't affect students» records and a moratorium was agreed to last year on Gov. Cuomo's attempt to tie the results to a teacher evaluation system.

New York Communities for Change (NYCC): A vibrant community organization of working New Yorkers united for social and economic justice, NYCC has worked with the UFT on several organizing and social justice initiatives, including our historic campaign to organize New York City's 28,000 family child care providers and our ongoing effort to bring charter school teachers into the union.

FUND early intervention and prevention efforts in our elementary schools focused on educating parents, training teachers and working with students so that kids don't turn to drugs and alcohol when they are facing challenges.

In addition to being academically weak, these teachers are dissatisfied with their job and will use more effort on searching for another job than on their actual teaching.

«Despite the efforts of teachers and pupils, the value of this year's test results will be poured over and questioned and schools face the prospect of being held to account unfairly on the basis of this year's results data.

On the anniversary of the Columbine shooting, teachers and students at Columbine High took part in community service in an effort to turn the day into something meaningful and thousands of students across the country took part in walkouts to protest gun violence.

GR: What do you think about this effort on the part of some activist parents to get parents to hold their kids out of school during the standardized tests that are part of the school evaluations and the teacher evaluations that are a part of the requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act.

Five Stafford Middle school students and their teachers were on the SUNY Plattsburgh campus on Thursday to talk about their successful effort last year to get the city school board to change Columbus Day on school calendars to Indigenous People's Day.

Now he's reportedly set to give up — abandoning the effort to use student scores on state tests to help judge teacher performance.

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

Magee has become central to the statewide effort to battle reforms such as standardized testing, teacher evaluations based on test scores and penalties for schools that do not meet certain standards.

The UFT is focusing its efforts on winning the restoration of Teacher's Choice funding as final negotiations on next year's city budget get underway.

Mayor Bloomberg in his State of the City address on Jan. 12 proposed merit pay for teachers, vowed to step up efforts to remove ineffective teachers, blamed the union for the breakdown of negotiations over a teacher evaluation system in 33 restart and transformation schools and announced that he would open 50 new charter schools in the next two years.

It amounts to a great deal of effort and energy and political capital expended on one policy matter, albeit an extremely important one affecting over 1 million students, their parents, teachers, and others, while the rest of the de Blasio Albany agenda sits somewhat neglected.

It gave former Mayor Bloomberg outsize power over the system, and helped make sure that teachers, parents and advocates had to fight at meetings, on the streets and in the courts to block his efforts to close schools and establish standardized test scores as the only measure of students and teachers.

I majored in history as an undergraduate — at Pomona College in Claremont, California, class of 1963 — then bailed on graduate school and became an elementary school teacher in a vain effort to calm a boyfriend's jealousy.

In an effort to help teachers educate their students, a new report from the American Psychological Association outlines the 20 most important psychological concepts that can enhance elementary and secondary teaching and learning and offers tips on how to apply them in the classroom.

Thank you for all your efforts and knowledge you have put on this website to help Yoga Teachers, Therapists and individuals reach their goals.

I used to spend so much time and effort on my Valentine's box and making sure I picked out the perfect card to give to each of my friends or teachers.

Also, he's asking for ten healthy women for the...» The names of «non-essential» people (who can't contribute something valuable to the war effort), such as musicians or teachers, are placed on a list and then herded onto trucks bound for unknown destinations - undoubtedly concentration camps or extermination.

It does get some support from another storyline, involving the conception efforts of Alex's roommate / sister Sue (Pam Cook), an abstinence teacher, and her husband Stan (Michael Cornacchia), a newly - cast costumed performer on the type of children's show that hasn't existed in decades.

When Lisa and her friend Becky (Sarah Steele) are informally chastised for smoking pot by their English teacher (Matthew Broderick) they cruelly mock his efforts to seem hip and, as he walks away, the camera bears down upon his shoulders to show the impact their casual ridicule has on him.

Absent persuasive evidence on the impact of efforts to raise the bar, some people have speculated that the rise of test - based accountability associated with NCLB and the ongoing push to establish more - rigorous teacher evaluation systems have made teaching less attractive and thereby contributed to further decline in the quality of the teaching corps.

Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.

In a 1956 review of the research on «School Personnel and Mental Health,» J. T. Hunt, a professor at the University of North Carolina, noted that «efforts to identify personality differences between superior and inferior school personnel, to isolate a «teacher personality,» or to predict either competence or effectiveness of student teachers by means of psychometric or projective instruments, led to limited results.»