Sentences with phrase «teachers feel pressure»

Teachers feel pressure to help those students who are not mastering the basics.

As a result, teachers feel pressure to do test prep and to avoid any activities that might not directly lead to higher test scores.

The research focus on the IWB may have resulted in the teachers feeling pressure to utilize the device in their social studies instruction when they would not normally have done so.

It cited a systemic culture of passing students, and said that teachers felt pressured to award diplomas even if students failed to meet graduation requirements.

The report portrayed a systemic culture in which teachers felt pressured to award diplomas even if teens failed to meet requirements, all in the name of improving graduation rates.

Most teachers feel pressured to complete the curriculum and not to «waste» too much time on any one topic that doesn't allow for much investigation.

So many times, teachers feel pressured to move on with or without the students.

Not exact matches

Neither the schools nor the teachers have felt unfairly pressured to give up distinctive values or pedagogical methods in order to receive state assistance.

With our culture and our nation's emphasis on high academic achievement, the perception that in order to get into college kids need straight As and perfect test scores, increased course work and more complex curricula, teachers are feeling the pressure to cover more material, and to prepare kids for the next grade.

Students felt pressure from their parents, from their teachers, from their counselors.

But yet another conversation with Reid's daycare teachers about how many accidents he's having, (as though I'd totally dropped the ball as his mother) made me consider that perhaps the real issue here is not that I'm failing my son by not potty training him, but that I'm failing him by not advocating for him, for not standing up for the fact that he has every right to listen to his own body and to not feel pressured into trying to meet a milestone he's clearly not ready for.

By: Elizabeth Memel Given our hurried lifestyle and the accompanying pressure many parents feel to do what is right for their babies, infant specialist and teacher Magda Gerber's advice to do less and let the baby's development unfold naturally, comes as a welcome relief.

Students who feel pressure from teachers, parents and peers to get top grades and get into the «right» college are more likely to cheat.

Are students more likely to cheat when they feel achievement pressure from parents, teachers and peers?

He added that stress on the individual teacher was increasing and that many felt symptoms such as rising blood pressure levels, while many were «exasperated with the level of bureaucracy that they face» and concerned that disciplinary problems were not being dealt with.

Felder didn't return requests for comment Monday following Mejia's explosive exposé and her teacher's admission that she felt pressured to pass her.

Elia — who started her career as a social studies teacher at Sweet Home High School — has been feeling the public pressure to remove Paladino.

Teachers may also feel pressure from policymakers and school administrators to focus on literacy — to the possible exclusion of science.

There is also some evidence that the accountability pressures reduced feelings of cooperation among teachers.»

There will be many people who will come to a yoga teacher because they feel that yoga will relieve them of stress, they will lose excess weight or be cured of diabetes or blood pressure.

If you are tight in the hamstrings and therefore the hips, and if you're feeling pressured by your own ego (or even a teacher), you can easily lose your balance and critical extension in your spine as you try to place your bottom hand on the floor and twist open into the full expression of the pose.

With all the pressures to prepare for tests and stick with the curriculum, some teachers feel they are losing teachable moments.

Chris King, chair of HMC and headmaster of Leicester Grammar School, said: «The findings of this poll may surprise teachers and parents, but it will help them understand the pressures young people feel in the digital age.

These changes were described as «chaotic» by union leaders at the time, and the new survey suggests the teachers are feeling the pressure of increased workload as a result.

Becky Cranham, founder of Planbee, commented: «Our survey has shown that primary school teachers, who were already stretched to their limits, are feeling the pressure now more than ever before.

According to CASEL, teachers may feel social pressure to enable, encourage, or participate in bullying.

But I also hear from parents who, rightly, worry about too much testing, and from teachers who feel so much pressure to teach to a test that it takes the joy out of teaching and learning, both for them and for the students.»

With all the pressure that comes with being a first - year teacher, reaching out to parents early in the year can feel like your lowest priority.

«Everyone working in urban education — teachers, administrators, counselors — feel the pressure to «close the achievement gap,» or «show results» via hard metrics,» she said.

This trend coincided roughly with a teacher hiring boom here in the United States, meaning these changes happened despite districts» employing more teachers, and it's likely to continue as states and districts continue to feel the pressure from unfunded pension and health care promises, which totaled $ 1.38 trillion at last count.

If states continue to implement the standards in ways that undermine systems working to improve education in their state (like teacher evaluation, school accountability, school choice, etc.) more and more states will feel the pressure to abandon the standards.

«Teachers are at breaking point» urges The Guardian in a recent report, «it's time to push wellbeing up the agenda» in a climate where over 30 % of teachers feel stressed because of work most, if not all of the time and a staggering 53 % had considered leaving the sector within the past two years because of health prTeachers are at breaking point» urges The Guardian in a recent report, «it's time to push wellbeing up the agenda» in a climate where over 30 % of teachers feel stressed because of work most, if not all of the time and a staggering 53 % had considered leaving the sector within the past two years because of health prteachers feel stressed because of work most, if not all of the time and a staggering 53 % had considered leaving the sector within the past two years because of health pressures.

In addition, 36 % of employees in the education sector say this pressure is «significant», while only 15 % of teachers say they don't feel this pressure.

Accountability pressures on teachers, allied with concerns about inspection and the narrowing curriculum options with EBacc are fostering competitive classroom environments where teachers are feeling forced to teach to test and not to the benefit of learners or their community.

Many students feel discouraged and under pressure to meet the teacher's expectation.

Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of ATL, commented: «As these results show, support staff are feeling the pressure to actually teach lessons and to plug the gap in staff shortages when teachers leave and do not get replaced.

Primary teachers, regularly involved in training and in - servicing around literacy and numeracy, often feel pressured to focus on these areas at the sake of other learning areas.

Looping allows for a wait - and - see approach to a student who's struggling; otherwise, a teacher may feel pressured to move a student whose grasp of material is tentative into special education classes for fear of not responding to the child's needs.

The UK is leading the edtech scene in Europe where amongst the schools feeling the pressure of the teaching crisis, there are also those who are thriving — those who are able to chip away at teachers» looming paperwork, and re-establish some work - life balance through technology adoption.

A new survey has revealed that almost three - quarters of primary teachers feel under pressure to go to work when they are ill.

The report, scheduled for release this week, examines racial patterns in the aspirations and motivations of middle and high school students, as well as their feelings toward teachers and the role that peer pressure plays in their academic aspirations.

Mary Bousted, general secretary of the ATL teaching union, said: «Teachers always feel under pressure to get into work.

Some teachers reported feeling uncomfortable talking to their students about sexuality due to their beliefs or perceptions about what's appropriate — often conflating sexual orientation with sex — while others felt pressure from administrators or parents to keep tight - lipped.

There is a combination of reasons why this is the case; it is believed that many teachers are feeling pressured for their students to perform to qualify for school funding, and some parents are more eager for their children to obtain high grades than they have been in previous years.

Julia Stevens, a current master's student in the Teacher Education Program who took Donaldson Gramling's class in the fall, felt that same pressure at her public high school.

Jim Bopp, assistant principal for technology and instruction at Brophy College Preparatory in Phoenix, says teachers also feel pressure to «push content and cover topics, and so nine times out of 10, the first draft is the also the final draft and students are never given the time to revisit their mistakes and improve.»

This, added to the apparent education funding crisis, teacher retention and recruitment issues, means many schools are potentially feeling the pressure to save money where they can.

Teaching Critically Is Worth the Effort With all the pressures to prepare for tests and stick with the curriculum, some teachers feel they are losing teachable moments.»

Teacher Selection Counts: Six Steps to Hiring As principals, we feel an enormous amount of pressure to staff our buildings with strong, effective, intelligent people.

Further, teachers are less likely to encourage questions, tinkering, or deviations from the script when they feel pressure to accomplish goals that might not leave time for questions, tinkering, or deviations from the script.