Sentences with phrase «teachers accept the challenge»

By the end of the sometimes emotionally charged meeting, three teachers accept the challenge and agree to work together on an interdisciplinary project.

One such team of sixth grade teachers accepted the challenge of finding a way to help their students perform successfully in mathematics as measured by the state assessment.

Not exact matches

Her father once challenged Kamper to read the Book of Mormon and accept the missionary lessons, visits from LDS teachers.

The grade school teacher «forms» the class of children to be a thriving community that accepts all members — acknowledging the strengths and challenges of each member and encouraging cooperation.

The payoff can be students who are happier and more open to learning and to accepting challenges — not to mention an easier classroom - management situation for the teacher.

But instead, I would like to challenge teachers to use what we know from improv and accept this as an offer to see what happens when we implement a new reading program.

That the uniform salary «schedule» for teachers is obsolete and dysfunctional is a truth widely accepted but rarely challenged.

Now Vanessa Rodriguez, a former classroom teacher herself, challenges widely accepted theories of teaching and offers a unique idea based on a simple yet empowering truth: we are all teachers.

I emphasize the word willingly to challenge the notion — accepted by many teachers and administrators — that coaching is a tool for fixing people or enforcing a program.

They are teacher who show initiative, advocate for the learning needs of their students and accept the challenge to be innovative and reflective.

Teach for America is a very selective program that accepted only 15 percent of applicants last year, but choosing those prospective teachers whose students will perform consistently better on tests than other teachers» students has proven a challenge for the group, which is now having some trouble attracting new teachers as well.

«We know unnecessary workload is one of the biggest frustrations for teachers and have done more than ever to tackle this by publishing the results of the three workload review groups on marking, planning and data collection - the three biggest concerns raised by teachers through the workload challenge - and accepting all their recommendations.»

Teachers should create activities and structures that help students feel safe accepting challenges, learning in ways that match their preferences, and confidently expressing their knowledge.

Asked if he accepted there was a recruitment crisis, based on research by the ATL that found four in five teachers had thought about leaving the profession, Gibb said: «I think it's a big challenge.»

If you decide to get into the education policy arena and have the audacity to challenge any position advanced by the teachers unions in power, chances are, you're going to be accused of accepting evil «dark money.»

This reminds me of the student who desired to make a prosthetic hand for one of his classmates, so he and his teacher accepted the Prosthetic Kids Hand Challenge and did just that.

The assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

In this framework, accountability is defined as: the assurance that all education stakeholders accept responsibility and hold themselves and each other responsible for every learner having full access to quality education, qualified teachers, challenging curriculum, full opportunity to learn, and appropriate, sufficient support for learning so they can achieve at excellent levels in academic and other student outcomes.

It begins with teachers who know each student by name, personality, interests, and learning profile, and who recognize that students need time, space, and confidence to try new things and accept new challenges.

He has presented at the state, national, and international levels on the need for school systems to accept the challenges that lie ahead, raise performance standards for both teachers and students and build solid connections between schools and their communities.

I don't mean the sort of respect that is old fashioned «teaching by authority», where you accept and memorize everything I say because I'm the teacher and I said so; I actually tell my students not to believe what I way just because I'm the teacher, to challenge it, to test it, and then when it makes sense or corresponds to their experiences in the labs (which at least spot check the concepts, although such checks can not be exhaustive) accept it and build a strong conceptual understanding.

His teacher only gave him a B - for his finished creation, but he challenged it declaring that if his design was accepted by Congress, he would receive an A. Congress accepted it in 1958, and Heft got his A.

«An ethical early childhood professional is open to new possibilities, accepting challenges and co-creating new knowledge with others» (Sarah Gandolfo, Early Childhood Teacher).