Sentences with phrase «teachers as common sense»

Phylis, an E4E - Los Angeles teacher, characterizes teachers as common sense leaders in education and urges fellow teachers to get involved in policy...

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More than a half - century after The Aims of Education appeared in print, it is still true that, as Henry Wyman Holmes once observed, «The wit, the common sense, the penetration of the essays... commend them so decisively to teachers» (WVE 633).

Conference deplores the misleading claims made by some government ministers that teachers have nothing to fear if a pupil dies or is injured as a result of participating in educational activity sanctioned by the school and where the teacher has exercised common sense.

It is important that teachers, parents and students all work together as a community to ensure they keep each other safe, and this can be achieved through open and honest communication and discussion, common sense tips and tricks, as well as implementing appropriate security technologies.

The company has earned the trust of millions of teachers, parents, and respected organizations such as Common Sense Media and The National Parenting Center.

It is common sense to interpret a teacher's annual salary as being applied to the time between when the school year starts and ends.

Simple common sense would dictate that the effectiveness of different teachers or schools should have as least as much to do with differences in what is being taught as who is doing the teaching, or under whose roof and which assessment regime.

Common - sense reforms to teacher pension systems, such as those discussed in Education Next by Robert Costrell and Michael Podgursky (see «Peaks, Cliffs, and Valleys,» features, Winter 2008), would have a similar effect of making the returns to teaching more front - loaded.

But sometimes in our quest to improve, we create something else entirely — a maze of technocratic processes and procedures that replaces common sense and removes the human element from our work as teachers.

Common Sense Education bills itself as «the nation's leading nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping kids, parents, and teachers thrive with media and technology.»

In the Common Sense report, for instance, some teachers said that even as they saw attention spans wane, students were improving in subjects like math, science and reading.

As a result, the teacher leader seeks to promote a sense of partnership among these different groups toward the common goal of excellent education.

To suggest that students in a given cohort being about half above and half below the 50th percentile is due to teacher expectations seems to fly in the face of common sense, as well as statistics.

Skills such as effective classroom management are central to teaching and require «common sense,» consistency, an often undervalued teacher behavior, a sense of fairness, and courage.

1) The «social» element of social - emotional learning in middle & high school classrooms — developing interventions that enhance teachers» and students» social perspective taking capacities (or increase their perceptions of what they have in common) as a means to improving teacher - student relationships and sense of belonging.

Professional development is crucial not only to teachers» practice but whole school improvement as well, this is common sense.

As a practitioner, teacher and consultant, she has expanded the world of animal wellness, both reclaiming, and scientifically evolving, the time - honoured, common - sense practice of nature - based animal healthcare.