Sentences with phrase «teachers affect not»

These policies arose, at least in part, from the recognition that teachers affect not only student learning in the short - run, but also long - run outcomes such as college attendance and earnings as adults.

Not exact matches

«The bankruptcy proceeding doesn't affect our claim,» said Katie Mesner - Hage, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, nine families who had a relative killed and a teacher who was shot and survived.

But it is the school's obligation to evaluate children that they suspect have ADHD or some other disability that is affecting not only their academic work but their interactions with classmates and teachers.

As a teacher, I don't need a «study» to tell me that what kids eat affects how they act and how they learn.

Not only did it affect intake but also was a huge toll on government's purse with government having to reduce the quota given the teacher training schools.»

He stressed that his union holds the largest teacher population in basic and second cycle schools, «therefore if you want to take any decision that affects education in Ghana, you can not sidestep us.»

Beth Horler, a kindergarten teacher from Groton, says fewer staff would not only affect class size.

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.

It won't affect their child's grades or hurt teacher evaluations.

New York education department commissioner John King said in a statement released last week that he believes the latest APPR results prove the new Common Core assessments «did not negatively affect teacher ratings.»

But he says teachers will not be affected because they have gotten used to navigating the difficult political environment the controversy has created over the years.

It's not clear, however, how much the teachers funded through TIF will receive, nor how many will be affected.

At the college level, teacher subject knowledge is not a problem, the student population is far more homogeneous, and there are far fewer issues that may affect learning.

We will keep the dialogue with Yoga Alliance open in an attempt to change their minds, however, your path to becoming an impactful yoga teacher will not be affected by their decision.

Not in «Love Is Strange,» an affecting, oddly awkward movie about an artistic and surprisingly helpless New York couple — painter Ben (John Lithgow) and music teacher George (Alfred Molina).

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

With his halting French and bashful ways, the emigré at the film's centre, Antek Liebmann (Godehard Giese), seems quite far from a parading peacock: simple in look and affect, he, a school teacher, does not seem overly complicated or needy in his dealings with the friendly and curious locals.

Although we were not able to look at the ways in which all of these factors affect teachers» decisions with respect to their employment situation, we were able to examine directly the impact of salary and certain working conditions.

Teachers» views on education warrant careful attention, of course, but they're certainly not the only affected parties and they're among the most self - interested.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

These data do not separate health from other insurance costs (life and disability) for teachers, but these other components are small (approximately 5 percent of the total), so this does not significantly affect our results.

Whether these characteristics directly affect teachers» decisionmaking or indicate other less tangible factors (such as the disciplinary climate or bureaucratic environment at the school) can not be determined.

From a broader perspective, this means that our significant investment in pensions is not affecting the retention decisions for large groups of teachers.

So many people want to dismiss the findings as just what the kids think as if what students think and believe does nt affect the way they relate to their teachers, engage their academic work, or develop meaning in their lives.

Our classes are different and most are asynchronous but that does not seem to affect the relationship between teacher and student.

It will affect the way teachers understand themselves and could create a sense that they aren't just the consumers, but participating in the production of knowledge.»

Working with a student with a learning disability does not affect a teacher's ability to read, nor does teaching a student with mental retardation affect one's ability to think in abstract terms.

It's routine in the post-Columbine era for school administratorsto ask all teachers and staff to report anything thatcould affect school safety, but English teachers find they areprivy to students» psyches in ways that other educators are not.

Based on a review by independent researchers, the Education Commission of the States is discounting the conclusions of a small study that showed teachers from Tennessee who received national board certification did not markedly affect their students» achievement.

Teachers» assessment of children's academic diligence may be affected by their achievement test scores or by other information that may not closely relate to children's diligence.

It is not obvious, however, how large - scale teacher retirements, such as those resulting from an ERI, will affect student academic achievement.

This teacher ability to affect student character skills in not related to their ability to improve math and reading test performance.

Due to these struggles, teachers felt that these lessons were not appropriate for struggling, trauma - affected students.

«Many people assume teacher unions adversely affect students» performance, but this assumption hasn't, for the most part, been tested.

Of course, the latter survey doesn't indicate whether teachers are ambivalent because the unions aren't fighting hard enough against policy changes affecting job security or because they're fighting too hard to defend poor performers.

These findings also illustrate vividly the problem introduced by the Coleman analytical approach: finding that measured teacher differences have limited ability to explain variations in student achievement is very different from concluding that schools and teachers can not powerfully affect student outcomes.

She said: «I can't say definitely based on my research but we do know that teacher expectation and assessments can have a longterm effect on pupil progress, because it can affect their interaction, in terms of the groups they are put in... If you are an average - scoring boy from a lower income family, or an average - scoring girl in maths, and you are placed in a lower set then that is going to potentially depress your longterm trajectory.»

Teachers observed a positive affect on students who did not traditionally excel in the classroom.

Over two - thirds of the teachers said that the state assessment affected their instruction, even when students in their grades were not tested.

As a teacher working in a racially homogenous elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, it was not the first time that El - Amin was reminded how race - based disparities and racial stereotypes affected her students.

Moreover, the percentage of Hispanics of Cuban origin has declined during the past decade (though this may not have affected the size of the pool of qualified bilingual teachers).

In doing so, our key assumption is that these factors do play a role in shaping teachers» expectations about their students but don't otherwise affect the student's likelihood of completing college.

Such factors are normally unobserved by the analyst; however, the teacher survey includes a battery of teacher - specific perceptions of each student that might affect one teacher's expectation but not another's.

But many school administrative and support staff would be affected, as would nearly all preschool staff (who are not defined as «teachers» by the Department of Labor for purposes of FLSA).

Should the community expect teachers and administrators to deal with problems — or potential problems — that do not directly affect students during the school day?

Another possibility is that chance encounters between a teacher and a student outside the classroom might affect the teacher's expectations for that student, whether or not the behavior was typical of the student or related to his or her likelihood of completing college.

Even if we assume that the school knew of the extent of the hostilities, can we really expect teachers and administrators to deal with problems — or potential problems — that do not directly affect students during the school day?

Unfortunately, teachers were not being paid enough to affect the economy and the loss of teachers will yield no economic benefit.

According to the national charity, Dyslexia Action, dyslexia affects approximately 10 % of the UK population, yet 74 % of teachers surveyed by the charity stated that they did not feel satisfied that their initial teacher training provided them with the skills they need to identify and teach children with dyslexia.

Obviously, teacher quality is not the only factor that affects student achievement.