Sentences with phrase «teachers are in the classroom»

Neither he nor most of the group's major donors would comment on their support, though Mr. Jones said in a statement, «Maintaining the status quo is unacceptable, and that's why StudentsFirstNY and others are fighting for reforms that can give parents more choices, ensure that only the best teachers are in the classroom and make sure that the best interests of the children in the system are put first.»

Once teachers are in the classroom, they can receive additional subject - area endorsements from the state by acquiring at least a minor in each subject.

«More teachers are in the classroom.

They are much more than the building managers of yesteryear, making sure the heating system is working and the teachers are in their classrooms.

The California legislature has worked to provide fair due process protections that ensure quality teachers are in every classroom.

And if a teacher was in the classroom for less than 60 percent of the year, the SGP also doesn't apply.

(While they added 29.5 special education teaching positions during this time, it's unclear how many of these teachers are in classrooms and how many are working at the Doyle Building.)

Every day teachers are in classrooms engaging with students and therefore are the best positioned to articulate their professional learning needs.

For the 1st marking period both teachers are in the classroom with both paras.

@thebandit - Just because 75 % of students are scoring proficient / advanced does not mean that an effective teacher is in the classroom.

teacher 6402 wrote: «Just because 75 % of students are scoring proficient / advanced does not mean that an effective teacher is in the classroom.

Not exact matches

It's no joke when people say that teachers have more than one job in the classroom.

«These are things any great teacher would be able to do for a small group of students in a particular classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.

This is thanks in part to a new wave of educational startups that offer innovative ways for school districts and teachers to engage with technology in the classroom.

One more story of a classroom prank pulled by the teacher is in order.

But I discovered that these young innovators were far more intrinsically motivated, and when I looked at the pattern of what parents and teachers had both done to encourage intrinsic motivation, I found a kind of remarkable emphasis in the classrooms and among the parents of play, passion and purpose.

«You kind of feel you're bothering people,» he said, referring to his requests to sit in the back of classrooms and ask the teachers questions afterward.

The Academy is in the midst of a growth spurt offline as well, with an excess of 1 million registered teachers around the globe incorporating the supplemental teaching tool into their classrooms.

Palm Beach County voters in November may be asked to raise their property taxes so teachers could be paid more, in hopes of keeping them in the classroom.

The company's fruity name, she adds, is a pun on the «pair» part of «think - pair - share,» a collaborative activity commonly used by teachers in the classroom.

The Madison school district in Butler County is allowing teachers and other staff to take guns into classrooms.

Taseea was a classroom teacher for 6 years in New York City.

My high school teacher Dora Di Rocco - Smith was particularly interested in doing enriched math in the classroom for students who didn't have access to enrichment activities.

Adam Warner stands in front of the classroom like a teacher, but he's actually a tractor trailer driver with Walmart.

Also among his ideas is a way to allow teachers to carry guns in the classroom.

Stoneman Douglas teachers received Code Red training in January, designed for threats inside the school and classrooms that require the building to be locked down.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

It isn't scientific, so why does the subject or origins belong in a classroom unless there are biased teachers?

There were «missed opportunities to share and record problem behaviour» before a teenager murdered Christian teacher Ann Maguire in a classroom, an inquest jury has said.

Since it is not easy to draw the line between proselyting and evangelism, it may also be asserted that no teacher ought to evangelize for his faith in the classroom except through the silent witness of what he (or she) as a Christian is.

It is being used in British schools by pupils and teachers to create calm classrooms, reduce stress around exams and foster creativity.

Artistry is important because teachers who function artistically in the classroom not only provide children with important sources of artistic experience, they also provide a climate that welcomes exploration and risk - taking and cultivates the disposition to play.

A jury has gone out to consider its conclusions in the inquest into the death of Catholic school teacher Ann Maguire, who was murdered in her classroom by a 15 - year - old student.

There were «missed opportunities to share and record problem behaviour» before a teenager murdered Christian teacher Ann Maguire in a classroom, an inquest jury...

In other words, being a Christ - follower entails becoming a teacher — not a classroom teacher necessarily, but a Gospel teacher who can sit across the table and explain to someone else the basics of the Christian faith.

Read loses sight of Buber's concept of dialogue, however, when he suggests that Buber's teaching shows how to replace the inter-individual tensions of the classroom by «an organic mode of adaptation to the social organism as a whole» and when he reinterprets the teacher's concentration of an effective world as a selective screen in which what is kept in and what is left out is determined by the organic social pattern through the medium of the teacher's «sense of a total organism's feeling - behaviour.»

One can almost sense on the screen the influence of childhood classrooms in a Roman Catholic school (where Scorsese was educated) or in a Dutch Calvinist Sunday school (Schrader's Reformed tradition) in which well - intentioned teachers instilled in two little future filmmakers the idea that Jesus resisted temptation because he was God — so if you don't want to spend eternity in hell, you had better follow Jesus.

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.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Spokeswoman says 1 of 4 shot in classroom was teacher.

What follows is a glimpse of life in our classrooms, with a comment here and there from this teacher.

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.

During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious «that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned».

«We've done things like creating a fund that supports innovative teachers who are doing exciting things in the classroom that can really improve kids» ability to learn.

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This statement «Last fall, my child's pre-school teacher introduced a blessing in her classroom» should be considered child molestation.

«Last fall, my child's pre-school teacher introduced a blessing in her classroom, which is housed in an Atlanta, Georgia church but isn't religious»

He argues that the place to begin to counter the objectivist epistemology that still grips the academy is in individual classrooms where teachers, disciplining themselves first, create spaces «where obedience to truth is practiced.»

Why not let the teacher decide what should be in his or her classroom, and let the parents decide whether or not they want their children in the classroom.

Three weeks into the experiment, and already I'm realizing afresh what I knew going in: I am not a classroom teacher.