Sentences with phrase «teachers of few students»

Therefore, teachers of few students should consider using learning standards that apply across classes.

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But the very best of the lot share a few common qualities: They are all supremely well educated, highly talented researchers, exceptional teachers, and, perhaps most important of all, they inspire students and their students inspire them.

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As gunshots rang out in the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, a teacher guided a few dozen students into a tiny classroom near the culinary area.

Vocational advisement, if it is to be of real educational value, should consist not in one or a few interviews on entering or leaving school, but in a continuing dialogue between the student and his parents and teachers in all fields as well as with professional guidance officers.

Fewer students every year seek a liberal arts degree, and their teachers offer a politicized and corrupted version of the liberal arts.

With a few exceptions teachers and students do not engage in a denominationally restricted discussion but participate in a Protestant and a Christian conversation or debate about the ultimate problems of faith and life.

It should be pointed out, though, that nothing in the social - constructivist position legitimates the denial of rights... Assertive gay liberationists have argued that it may be strategically wiser to concede the possibility that a few students might be influenced to become gay by having an openly gay teacher as a role model, and to say, «So what?»

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

She is one of the few teachers who take students around the borough playing against other schools.

For now, at least, it may be enough to know that for the students in Jackson's study, spending a few hours each week in close proximity to a certain kind of teacher changed something about their behavior.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

Exceptional teachers, low student to teacher ratios and inspiring children to have a true love for learning are just a few examples of why Children's Garden Nursery School is known for building a solid educational foundation for young children.

WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief Allison Dunne spoke with a few of the students and their teachers before the trip.

The vote came a few months after the state's teachers unions, closely aligned with the Assembly, claimed a victory in December when the Regents, prompted by the governor and Legislative leaders, placed a moratorium on the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Cuomo is absolutely right on a few key ideas: Teachers need to be evaluated in light of how their students perform.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018 Source: Kwabena Danso - dapaah Osei Assibey Antwi, Kumasi Mayor The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated amount of five thousand Ghana Cedis to Jackson Foundation, a philanthropist organization to help increase the number of professional teachers in the country The donation was made on behalf of the Assembly when students from Jackson Educational (JEC) under the Foundation, graduated as trained teachers to assist few in the system.

I've seen quite a few poorly - trained teachers become obsessed with drilling students for exams because they don't know how children best learn; their lessons involved a lot of copying and sedentary learning.

These cuts mean fewer teachers will be able to give the kind of individualized attention we know helps students learn better.

New research from the National Bureau of Economics confirms what teachers have always known: Money does make a difference for schools, and districts with large proportions of high - need students need comparatively more money than districts with fewer high - need students.

Which makes the governor one of the few leaders standing between New York's students and the education blob that cares more about shielding teachers than teaching children.

More than 700,000 students in more than 1,200 New York City schools — including large high schools in all five boroughs — would face higher class sizes, have fewer teachers and lose after - school academic and enrichment programs if President - elect Trump makes good on a campaign promise to pull billions of federal dollars away from public schools to pay for private vouchers, a UFT analysis has found.

Jolan Nagi, a Richard R. Green parent, said the 600 - student school has been through a lot in the past few years, including the sudden death of a teacher, but the community has been getting excited about the prospect of moving to lower Manhattan.

One of the best tips I was ever given was «ask the student to evaluate you after a few lectures and then adjust your lectures according to their responses / comments» (I forgot who gave me that advice and I am so sorry for that as it helps me every semester improve as a teacher.

Few of my students had ever experienced an English teacher with a scientific or technical background.

Each year between 2500 - 3000 scouts, students and teachers visit Green Bank, typically in small groups of a few dozen students with their teachers, for sessions lasting several days.

In first grade, the teacher desk was placed on a platform just a few inches above the elevation of the floor where the students» desks were.

Each of our teachers offer a different flavor to their classes and when a student (as we are all students) are working on different postures - it can be nice to get a few perspectives to feel reassurance we are moving in the correct direction.

Juliet is a Master Pilates Teacher; trained directly by Lolita San Miguel, a Pilates Elder and one of the few original students of Joseph Pilates.

As part of that, the administration asked a few of us teachers to be photographed with the students we teach.

Most of these women are working in reputed positions such as government officials, office workers, nurses, students, bank employees, teachers and few are also operating small businesses.

Sofia Coppola's moody thriller — in which a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) recuperates at a Southern all - girls school in 1864, inflaming the passions of the few remaining students and teachers alike to ruinous effect — examines the nuances and contradictions of longing and desire.

May 3, 2012 • For decades, teachers, managers and parents have assumed that the performance of students and employees fits what's known as the bell curve — in most activities, we expect a few people to be very good, a few people to be very bad and most people to be average.

The retelling of BEOWULF by Robert Zemeckis, Neil Gaiman, and Roger Avary stays true to the rip - snorting quality of it that has enthralled people for 1500 years or so, a few bored freshman English students at the mercy of teachers who couldn't engage their enthusiasm notwithstanding.

Since teachers with fewer than two years of experience tend to be less effective than more experienced teachers, existing mobility patterns in Texas are likely to adversely affect the achievement of disadvantaged students.

(The weights are adjusted for teachers in subjects not covered by statewide assessments or end - of - course exams and for those with fewer than three years of student - achievement data.)

Many of the thoughts that pass through students» minds would be of great value for their teachers to know, but opportunities to hear them can feel few and far between.

The third thing is that I need to spend time trying to explain what I have just taught to the few students who openly admit they don't understand it.It isn't an ideal method of learning (from either the students» or teacher's perspective).

Opting out adds noise to the data, which increases the amount of variability in the teacher performance measures because each teacher's score is based on fewer students.

If you're a teacher in a secondary school setting working with a class of Year 10 students, what do you do if you have a few students who really struggle with spelling?

DCPS teachers are not evaluated on graduation rates, but principals can base a small portion of their teacher ratings on the number of students passing courses, and a few have.

The teacher wins because going deeper on a few topics generally takes less time than marking everything, and students win because they get clear, quality feedback that does a better job of teaching them the most important lessons.

Generally speaking, schools of education are not selective, flunk out few if any students for inadequate performance, and see that many of their teacher education graduates receive teacher licenses.

In just the last few decades, there have been dramatic technological advances that are changing the nature of the classroom, how students learn, and how teachers teach.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

Because of this, a very good teacher with a large number of teaching colleagues can do less to raise school - wide student performance than a teacher of the same quality in a school with fewer teachers.

It seems obvious to me now, in retrospect, that talking with each of my students and listening individually to their needs would improve our relationships, but with the day - to - day demands that teachers face, it's easy to forget the immense value of just a few minutes of connection.

As teachers try to respond to the needs of these students, here are a few basic best practices that might help.

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.