Sentences with phrase «teachers place emphasis»

Many ICT teachers place emphasis on teaching their students skills that a business requires.

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Today, great emphasis is placed on college teachers doing and publishing «research».

Best known as the host of ABC's Gardening Australia, Costa Georgiadis is also a teacher, landscape architect and permaculturalist, who places a strong emphasis on sustainability.

«The Common Core Task Force Report has 21 common sense recommendations we've been seeking for several years including reducing the amount of testing and testing anxiety, making sure curriculum and exams are age appropriate and not placing such a heavy emphasis on teacher evaluations and student performance on the standardized test scores.»

Nick Clegg «s aides believe the Conservatives have placed too much emphasis on teachers as arbiters of authority over children in the wake of last month's riots.

The union's concerns stem from, in part, the linking of teacher performance evaluations to test performance and the new emphasis placed on classroom testing by the state.

They earlier said they planned to put in more activist Regents members amid calls by the public and New York State United Teachers, the major teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on Teachers, the major teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on teachers union, to delay the process and place less emphasis on testing.

As part of the 2015 state budget lawmakers voted to create the new teacher evaluation system that places a greater emphasis on student test scores when evaluating the job performance of teachers and principals.

«Prior to this, there has never been an easy way to measure teachers» knowledge of student thinking, while we have probably been placing too much emphasis on testing for advanced scientific knowledge.

Together Katherine and I studied with a certain spiritual teacher who placed much emphasis on past life regression.

But this emphasis on student well - being places complex demands on teachers.

This shift has placed greater emphasis on teachers as professionals who are required to make important judgements on the length, breadth and depth of the curriculum that they teach, given the changing nature of their students.

AS: Yeah, I think what this data show is that actually those countries doing well in technology skills, where you have the most technology - savvy students in a way, they've typically placed the emphasis first on teachers — trying to connect teachers, trying to build networks of teaching, platforms for knowledge creation.

«Peer Support Australia places an emphasis on working together with members of the school community, including administrators, teachers, students, and parents to develop a culture that is cohesive and supportive,» Greg says.

Rather than today's system, which focuses on «input regulations» such as textbook mandates; seat time rules; cumbersome, outdated certification requirements; and professional development units, public officials should place greater emphasis on vastly improved data systems, better teacher evaluations, curricular quality, and meaningful accountability.

However, the heavy emphasis on keeping these schools supplied with teachers is focusing the energy for improvement on recruitment rather than on the need to change the conditions that make these schools so hard to staff in the first place.

That is why teachers place so much emphasis on discipline in class; not to stifle intellectual activity, but to maintain an environment in which it can flourish.

«Firstly, even though the Australian Curriculum places some value on an aesthetic response to books, reading for pleasure is not something it strongly promotes, so if we want teachers to place a greater emphasis on reading for pleasure in the classroom, this needs curricular support.

I believe turnover in urban schools is so high because of the lack of targeted professional development to help teachers be successful in that environment, the huge emphasis placed on standardized testing, and the lack of shared leadership within most urban schools.

To help the students personally connect to writing, Mount Desert uses the Reading and Writing Project (RWP) from Lucy Calkins of Teachers College at Columbia University, which focuses on writing narrative from a personal and emotional perspective and places a strong emphasis on reading topics matched to the students» reading and comprehension ability.

Particular emphasis has been placed on making the complex topic of space science easy for any teacher to confidently deliver, giving them the tools to inspire children to read, write, draw, research, experiment and problem solve while strengthening STEM, literacy and visual literacy learning.

Our surveys have shown that 79 per cent of teachers place great emphasis on having access to 24/7 support in the event of unpredictable events affecting the trip.

Thus, in this chapter, we place particular emphasis on tools teachers can use to read nonfiction's nonnarrative forms more frequently, engagingly, and successfully.

Parents and the general public want to place much more emphasis on bullying prevention, while teachers think the matter only needs moderately more attention.

With teachers and practitioners being held responsible for delivering high - quality provision by the SEND Code of Practice, and with Ofsted placing significant emphasis on achieving progress and raising aspirations for SEND students, it's now crucial that they have very specific skills and understanding.

BL: Teachers who were seeing themselves as effective, were very aware that at the core of effective teaching practice was placing emphasis on developing positive relationships that demonstrated their beliefs in students.

The National Education Association, though a long - time Democratic sidecar, recently issued a 26 - page single - spaced denunciation of Education Secretary Arne Duncan's Race to the Top funding criteria — alleging that they place far too much emphasis on charter schools and insult teachers by suggesting that their performance should be gauged by their pupils» achievement.

With schools placing an even greater emphasis on «interconnectedness» and «global citizenship,» I can think of no better professional - development tool for teachers than writing and sharing their ideas online.

«I think one of the sources of this lack of appreciation is a misconception that high quality teaching is an individual solo act,» he explained, adding that more emphasis should be placed on the construction of systems that would empower every teacher to be excellent.

«The emphasis for so long has been placed on academic performance and academic content mastery,» said panelist Rebecca Snyder, a co-author of the NNSTOY report and member of Greater Latrobe Education Association in Pennsylvania where she was teacher of the year in 2009.

Teacher education has yet to place an emphasis on effective teaching for diversity that is commensurate with the urgent situation that currently exists in schools.

As illustrated in Figure 9, the public thinks much more emphasis should be placed on reading and math than do teachers and (to a lesser extent) parents.

The competition places particular emphasis on personalizing education for each student and «is aimed squarely at classrooms and the all - important relationship between teachers and students.»

Particular emphasis is placed on building internal capacity by training teacher leaders, coaches, and district and school leaders, and by fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

The Confucian philosophy of learning and achievement places primary emphasis on nonintelligence factors — such as personality traits (e.g., motivation, perseverance, effort) and environmental factors (e.g., parental and familial support, teacher and school instruction)-- rather than natural ability as the most important prerequisites for desired performance (Chen & Stevenson, 1995; Rosenthal & Feldman, 1991; Shi & Zha, 2000).

While districts, schools, and individual teachers use data and have been for some time now, there has been too much emphasis placed only on the performance of students on state assessments.

By contrast, American teachers place great emphasis on one - on - one interactions between children and adults, especially in helping children learn to express their feelings.

Dr. Raja's CREATE model also places an emphasis on the active participation of teachers, parents, caregivers, and coaches in each student's success.

E4E co-CEO Evan Stone argues that to get evaluation right, lawmakers must place less emphasis on testing and empower principals, teachers, and students (New...

He said more emphasis should be placed on fairly compensating quality teachers.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

Huston says that also means the General Assembly can not stop working after broadening school choices, placing more emphasis on accountability for statewide test scores and implementing a statewide teacher evaluation mandate.

· We should adopt teacher certification standards that place increasingly more emphasis on academic content, particularly in grades 5 - 12, and verbal and cognitive skills, particularly in grades PreK - 4.

During preservice teacher training, initial emphasis should be placed on identifying the distinct purposes of AT and IT.

But proponents of the new rules say the current teacher licensing process places too much emphasis on taking college courses.

The emphasis is on what the students are getting out of the process rather than on what teachers are putting into it, reminiscent of the old joke that schools are places where children go to watch teachers work.

Teachers are loath to place too much emphasis on money when discussing the value of their school's parent group.

However, teachers practicing reforms - based instruction place less emphasis on these traditional approaches and greater emphasis on fostering inquiry in student - centered ways.

This definition necessarily places a heavy emphasis on the scaffolds designed to support teacher learning.

This... necessarily places a heavy emphasis on the scaffolds designed to support teacher learning.