Sentences with phrase «teachers spend more time with»

I like helping teachers spend more time with their families and friends.

Even highly skilled teachers spend more time with those that need extra help.

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Do the conservative Protestants who were influenced by religion choose to earn less by becoming pastors or teachers at Christian schools or by taking jobs that allow them to spend more time with their family?

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

If your child is spending a great deal of time on their homework each night, more than 10 minutes per grade level, talk with your child's teacher to see if the work needs to be reduced or if there is a different approach to doing the work that your child needs to try.

The teacher can not spend more time with this child than with the rest of the class — and if statistics are to be trusted, we should expect at least three easily distractible children in every classroom.

Separation anxiety may still be an issue for some 6 - year - olds, but it will become less intense as children naturally form stronger bonds with friends and teachers at school and become accustomed to spending more time away from home.

For instance, kids in first grade are usually not expected to spend more than a half hour on homework each day; if your child is having difficulty with the workload, find out what the problem may be and schedule some time to meet with your child's teacher.

[27] That is, the amount of time that a parent or teacher is willing to spend teaching, listening to, playing with, and exploring with the child the more socially, emotionally, and educationally developed the child will become.

Mr. Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, my fellow Americans: Today in America, a teacher spent extra time with a student who needed it, and did her part to lift America's graduation rate to its highest level in more than three decades.

I remember how I spent a lot of time asking my teacher in physics and chemistry about things related to the studies, and I was never really happy with the answers he gave and I knew that there was something more behind it.

I totally agree with your teacher statement My husband is a preschool teacher and spends more time on creating fun and educational activities for the kids than most.

Inspired by an electrifying lecture by his inspirational science teacher Mr. Rzykruski (Martin Landau), Victor decides to attempt to harness the power of his town's frequent lightning strikes in an attempt to spend a little more time with his darling companion.

Teachers «are able to spend less time «teaching to the middle» and more time connecting with students as individual learners.»

I spent more time working with parents, kids, and teachers.

Second, and perhaps more critically, a teacher can spend focused time with an individual student while the rest of the class is working online.

Funders may need to be more deliberate by creating a robust entity that has the sole job of coordinating across the entire geographic cluster to make sure that system leaders, principals and other school leaders, blended learning directors, teachers, and education technology companies have frequent opportunities to network and spend time with each other learning and building in a deliberate way on each other's successes and setbacks.

Stoll: The money should be spent on reducing class size, on providing teachers with more prep time, on improving school grounds so that students have the ability to study nature in nature, on providing lessons in the humanities and in other technologies, such as plumbing, woodworking, auto mechanics, home economics.

At Match, we think teachers should spend more time planning how to teach — with the unique learning needs of their students in mind — and less time worrying about the basics of what to teach.

But the more we utilize the best recorded lectures, documentary films, and instructional technologies to replace live lectures, the more we can free up teachers to spend their time working closely with their students to foster deeper learning.

«It is necessary to integrate whatever we are doing in teacher colleges with what is happening in schools, and we need to spend more time building those bridges,» said John R. McClellan, president of the Minnesota Association of School Administrators.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

In fact, if a little time is spent on, say, Google Drive, teachers can eventually save time and paper, while collaborating more effectively with students.

Whether you wish to get deeper into student data analysis or want to spend more time with your own children, no teacher has enough hours in the day to do it all.

«Based on their study, English and King recommend that in the primary years, teachers should spend more time with the class «unpacking the outcomes» of the initial design (in this case the first test flight) and engage and scaffold students in discussions regarding areas for improvement before students move onto redesign,» Rosicka says.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

In addition, with new technologies such as PASCO Scientific's wireless sensors, teachers can simplify lab setup and remove the clutter of cables, so students can spend more time exploring and performing experiments that were difficult or impossible before.

But this will allow teachers to spend far more time focused on serving each individual student regardless of where they are in their learning; deeper learning as teachers work with students on projects and facilitate rich discussions; and developing students» social and emotional learning abilities.

Given that UK pupils now spend over 50 per cent of classroom time engaging with IT, many teachers acknowledge that it has become more paramount for them to be receiving continuous professional development into all aspects of data security.

With Success's inquiry - based approach, however, teachers actually spend more time working individually with students than at other schoWith Success's inquiry - based approach, however, teachers actually spend more time working individually with students than at other schowith students than at other schools.

Teachers can spend more time with kids who are struggling while offering challenging prompts to more advanced groups.

Teachers who spend less time dealing with discipline problems have more time to spend in direct instruction.

Members of the current K - 12 generation — called Millennials — are multi-taskers, more proficient with technology than their teachers, more diverse (36percent are classified as non-white) than previous generations, and they spend more time online than they do watching television.

Students should be provided with calculators and access to computers beginning in kindergarten, and teachers should spend less time on computational skills and more on mathematical concepts and problem - solving, according to the nation's largest organization of mathematics teachers.

With all of the high - stakes testing in our schools, and the resulting judgments and consequences for students and teachers, it is no wonder that schools are taking time away from activities like recess, breaks, art, music... to spend more time on academics.

Student teachers should spend less time in lecture halls learning educational theory and more time in classrooms, working directly with students and master teachers.

If students spend an age - appropriate amount of time learning independently with adaptive software like Amplify's, excellent teachers can gain the time to teach more students without increasing class sizes, or to help even more students by leading teaching teams and developing their peers on the job.

Jon Bergmann and Aaron Sams, two chemistry teachers in Colorado, wanted to spend more time with each student during class time, so began posting their lectures online to free up time face to face time for discussion.

With digital record keeping, phones in the classroom, and access to local networks to communicate with parents, administrators, and colleagues, teachers can spend more time teaching and less on paperwWith digital record keeping, phones in the classroom, and access to local networks to communicate with parents, administrators, and colleagues, teachers can spend more time teaching and less on paperwwith parents, administrators, and colleagues, teachers can spend more time teaching and less on paperwork.

By building in time to let students choose their own activities once a day, teachers at Humboldt Elementary in Arizona are able to spend more time working with those who need just a little extra help.

Some 43 % of teachers say they spend 60 % or more of the time administering assessment rather than interpreting what it means for individual students, with 15 % saying the proportion of time spent on administration is 80 % or more.

The explanations are illustrated so that they might be easily understood thus affording the teacher the opportunity to supply sections of the class with extra / enrichment work and then spend more time with students who are struggling.

If teachers were to spend 10 percent more time lecturing, this would be associated with a rise in test scores comparable to about 1 or two months of additional learning in a year.

Teachers spend more time in front of the screen than in front of the students, with some seriously unhealthy consequences.

With more and more young people spending more and more time on tablets and smart phones, engagement and attentiveness in the classroom is an especially pressing issue for teachers making lesson plans.

According to interviews with more than a dozen teachers and school administrators in five different districts, students in New York are taking more practice tests, and they're spending more time on math and reading — and less on other subjects — since Common Core was put into place.

The innovatively prepared principals not only feel better prepared and more committed to the principalship, they also spend more time on improving instruction and building collaboration with their teachers and their fellow principals.

Not every teacher will become a data automaton of course, but what will help teachers is that increasingly they won't have to be the ones actively collecting every piece of data; instead they will be able to spend more time analyzing and figuring out what to do about it, coupled of course with their own «data» that they collect on students from their intuition and observations.

Teachers can thus spend more time exploring issues with them that promote significant learning (for information on significant learning see the section below entitled Interdisciplinary Teaching Promotes Significant Learning).

Elementary teachers in the United States spend more time with their students than do teachers in 18 other advanced countries, the study found.