Sentences with phrase «teachers take points»

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My writing teacher always advised to use the advance as a negotiation point - offer to take a smaller advance for a greater royalty percentage.

Television is taking over the traditional role of teacher and preacher in our culture, while at the same time becoming controlled by a few who limit the points of view.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Penny, a New Zealand mother of two who blogs at Walking Upside Down, reinforced the point when she mentioned her son's kindergarten teacher told her she once took a class to farm growing cabbages and the kids asked, «Who put them there?»

I'm currently taking a lactation support class (taught by RN and IBCLC Gini Baker, who trains many doctors, nurses, doulas, teachers and other breastfeeding counselors / educators), and it has really opened my eyes to many of the points you make — including the possible relationship between fertility issues and breastfeeding issues (and between breast augmentation and breastfeeding issues).

Many schools are taking extra precautions — some focus on keeping weapons out through random locker and bag checks, limiting entry and exit points at the school, and keeping the entryways under teacher supervision.

Other points — rejiggering the teacher evaluation process, taking over failing schools — are more contentious.

Education took center stage this budget season in Albany, with teacher evaluations, testing, and tenure the major points of debate as New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and the legislature worked on the details of the spending plan, which passed this week.

Beyond probationary periods, certification requirements and evaluations, education reform leaders are looking to take on larger long - term sticking points between their groups and New York's city and state teachers» union, including merit pay.

All teacher education in Canada takes place in universities, and entry into the teaching programs is based on a combination of your grade point average (GPA), essays, and interviews.

At this point my teacher raised his voice as he said, «Do not even think of taking on this patient!

The first half concerns Brooklyn high - school student Chantel (Ariyan Johnson) as she deals with academic disagreements with her teachers (at one point getting into shouting match about the Holocaust), takes advantage of her boyfriend's wallet to go on a shopping spree, and confronts yuppies in the Upper West Side gourmet shop where she works.

And if at any point, you face a doubt or go wrong, the teacher is there to take care of that.

It's better for teachers to say, «Point your eyes toward me» and wait for compliance, instead of saying, «Stop talking, turn around, turn to page 237, take out a pencil, and head your paper with «Geology Frame.»»

Kirsty Wainwright - Noble, from Towergate's Education Division said: «Stress levels in the classroom are reaching tipping point, and it is taking its toll on retaining and recruiting teachers across the country.

Through that program, teachers who complete a semester - long series of courses in basic computer literacy and use of Power Point software receive a computer system to take home.

From that point on, students took it as a friendly challenge to catch the math teacher making another math mistake.»

Support for allowing students who fail a course to retake it online is approximately 8 percentage points higher among both parents and teachers than among the public as a whole, and support for taking advanced courses online is 5 and 6 percentage points higher, respectively.

The ideology behind the single - point rubric inherently moves classroom grading away from quantifying and streamlining student work, shifting student and teacher focus in the direction of celebrating creativity and intellectual risk - taking.

And, if you complete all the handouts, they'll take you to the point at which you'll have a substantial teacher - oriented Web presence.

There was a point when the Senate passed the Race to the Top legislation — both the charter cap lift and the teacher evaluation legislation — at a time and in a way that completely took the Assembly by surprise.

However the point is taken that opportunities to reinforce teachers expectations both in an out of the classroom either on the way to class or the staff room, moving from site to site around the school and the nature of playground duty, does provide lots of opportunites to reinforce and reward expectations around behaviour.

The biggest drop in teachers» support for Common Core (33 percentage points) took place between 2013 and 2014.

Just because a teacher has the option to get a pension at some point down the road doesn't necessarily mean she should take it.

For each six - hour day teachers in the 130,000 - student Duval County district, which includes Jacksonville, took part in the program offered by the Schultz Center for Teaching and Leadership, student scores on state tests rose by half a point.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

Measuring children's progress in learning these skills is the sort of thing that assessments like iReady's can readily do, and then point teachers and parents toward learning modules that will help them take the next step.

For many teachers, it might be a weird change to see their students taking so much more responsibility in the class, but this change of pace can be really helpful to young people looking for something different at this point in the school year.

It's true that Begle (1972) found that the number of mathematics courses taken by a teacher stopped making much of a difference at a certain point.

Willis points to the New Media Consortium's 2009 K - 12 Horizon Report, which shows that an increasing number of collaborations between universities and individual teachers and classrooms is «one of five key trends that is likely to take hold within the next year,» she says.

Kozol's next book, On Being a Teacher, takes as its starting point the crude Marxist view that education in all societies is «a system of indoctrination.»

Provide minimal handouts: Always offer teachers a hard copy of the material — perhaps bullet points of the main ideas — that they can take with them.

One major point of pushback to using test scores in teacher evaluations has been the concern that such tools, known as value - added measures, reflect student demographics more than a teacher's ability, and penalize teachers who take on more difficult students.

5 Reasons Why PBL May Not Be Working at Your School TeachThought.com Drew Perkins makes important points school leaders should consider if they really want PBL to take root, for example: «Your projects are asking questions important to teachers, not to your students» and «You haven't engaged in the collaborative PBL process as a leader but you're expecting your teachers to.»

When a national report pointed to Texas as one of the nation's three most delinquent states in the training and hiring of qualified teachers — and supporting them in their early years — Texans took it hard.

Of particular interest are the report's points about the variation in state cut scores for licensure tests (like Praxis), the need for smarter recruitment efforts for potential school leaders, and the teacher - prep path taken by Finland.

And Dan Goldhaber took the long view by pointing out that, contrary to the current narrative, we've ramped up teacher production significantly over the last few decades.

Critics of charter schools — which include many teachers who feel charter schools take money away from traditional schools — point out that the schools have generally not fared well in education ratings and have a higher cost per student than traditional schools.

But if principals were taking advantage of their pre-tenure freedom to fire at will, we'd expect to see the lower - value - added teachers leaving schools at much higher rates than their higher - value - added counterparts, and an increase in dismissals at the tenure decision point between the fourth and fifth years.

This year, we took a stand on this point by subverting the evaluation of our teachers based on standardized tests.

«[It] has come to the point where the Common Core is overstepping individual and local decision - making and taking away teacher autonomy and classroom management... society is too rich in diversity for a centralized government to dictate teaching methods and techniques.»

And no one likes to work for a company where they're just taken for granted — and a lot of teachers feel like they are taken for granted at this point in time.»

Once again I am responding to an article on teacher shortage.What this minister fails to address is the way successive governments have contributed to denigrate and ridicule teachers over the past twenty years.Now they are blaming other factors as the causes of teachers leaving and I do not see any finger pointing at Ofsted who must take part of the blame for this crisis.It seems to me that ministers must come clean by holding up their hands and admit that they are part of the problem.Teachers will continue to leave until there is a complete reversal by a society which states that this is a noble profession and one that needs to be cherished and protected instead of being constantly attacked by various members in the community.The time for attacking teachers is over and now we can see the real causes for this.Good luck to all those in the teaching profession.You do a wonderful job amidst trying circumstances.I take my hat off to you.

Still, solid research can point us in the right direction, which is why I couldn't wait for the results of the latest study in the «Good to Great» series by the National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY): Investing in What It Takes to Move From Good to Great: Exemplary Educators Identify Their Most Important Learning Experiences.

These data points indicate that there are teachers who are eligible for a pension but, for whatever reason, choose not to take it.

Forty - four states require candidates to take a test or series of tests as part of their preparation; 25 states require students to have a specific grade point average before entering a teacher preparation program.

After decades of endless empty promises to take care of educators, West Virginia's teachers and education support professionals have reached the breaking point.

So a kindergarten teacher can take «Northern and Southern Economies on the Eve of the Civil War,» say, and receive what is euphemistically called «salary - point credit» for it.

She also points out that the best mentors manage their time and resources efficiently, build trusting relationships with their mentees, stick to the basics of effective teaching, weigh in on topics for new teacher training, and encourage their protégés to take part in professional learning communities.

Jon Bergmann, one of the creators of the flipped learning model, has also made the point that it encourages students to take initiative when it comes to absorbing new material, rather than passively listening to a teacher lecture, U-T San Diego explained.