Sentences with phrase «teachers explained the move»

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If you're moving midyear, ask your child's old teacher for a letter explaining what books he's been reading and what math units he's conquered, so his new teacher will know how to help him.

She's better on the dvd at explaining the moves and helping you perfect your stance better than some in - class teachers I've had.

In flow yoga classes, you may find teachers emphasizing moving with the breath and other aspects of posture like drishti (gaze) and bandhas (body locks of energy), Knowles explains.

Although the asana sequences at times move fast, and perhaps don't explain every pose in detail, any teen can follow this DVD and will easily learn the techniques with repetition or the help of a more experienced yogi, teacher or parent.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

«There is a real concern that the organizations in control of ncate are not committed to an overall reform of teacher education,» said Calvin M. Frazier, commissioner of education in Colorado, in explaining the move...

It is a way to teach material again in a new context By explaining the answers to the class as the students correct the papers, the teacher not only reinforces the lesson, but also discovers whether the students have understood the material and are ready to move on.»

For instance, a teaching intern, who attends a classroom management course I teach at the local university, explained that after an elementary student misbehaved, her mentor teacher had the student move her clip down on the chart (a classic reward / coercive move).

In the second part of this series, Dr Bill Rogers further discusses discipline plans and explains how a teacher can move into «on - task» learning time.

Indeed, Dr. Sean Kearney explained that sometimes teachers feel well supported in their first year of teaching, but as that support disappears and they move into the second or third year, they feel more isolated, and this is where retention can become an issue.

A cooler - headed Esquith later explained the book's theme on National Public Radio: «If I could care so much I didn't even know my hair was on fire, I was moving in the right direction as a teacher — when I realized that you have to ignore all the crap, and the children are the only thing that matter.»

When asked to explain why they felt they were unable to move up in their career, female teachers cited a number of reasons, including: a lack of confidence (23 per cent); employer attitudes (21 per cent); and a fear of how they will be perceived by senior management and colleagues (13 per cent).

Moreover, testing allows students to move ahead when they master a concept, rather than when they have spent a stipulated amount of time staring at the teacher who is explaining it.

For example, Brittany, a fifth - grade teacher, explained that laptops were provided at her grade level for each student because the required end - of - grade tests were only available online: «We got them [carts with classroom sets of laptops] because of the science tests moving online.

«You're competing with a lot of other districts for candidates, so you want to move quickly with high - quality talent,» explained Melva Cárdenas, regional strategic advisor at PeopleAdmin and former school district HR executive director, principal and teacher.

The fact that governments (including school districts) are major employers, especially in rural areas, along with the struggle reformers often have in explaining the nuances of teacher pay (and moving away from over-simplification that lead to Matt Damon moments) should also help the NEA's and AFT's cause.

New Jersey teacher, Rutgers graduate student, and blogger Jersey Jazzman deftly explains that even when New York set its cut scores to a very high level, the distribution of scale scores on the state exam barely moved, and that is because the decision to place cut scores is independent of how students do on the test itself and of how schools and districts and states compare to each other.

1 — Go digital and lighten the load: As I explain at the 6:30 mark of Hack Learning Podcast Episode 60 above, if teachers move most assignments to the digital world (Google Classroom or another ePortfolio), we can remove about 18 pounds from my daughter's 20.2 - pound backpack.