TNTP's mission is to end the injustice of educational inequality by providing excellent
teachers to the students who need them...
But I don't think it will in any way improve the equitable allocation of
teachers to students who have been traditionally under - resourced in their schools.
Ideally, in the short term, we would concentrate on how to get the highest quality
teachers to the students who need them the most.»
This report highlights the utter failure of New York City schools to provide quality
teachers to those students who need them most.
«This report highlights the utter failure of New York City schools to provide quality
teachers to those students who need them most,» Lasher continued.
Not exact matches
More than 190 representing both Christian and Jewish denominations received the waivers from the mid-1970s through the late 1990s, seeking permission, for example,
to only hire male
teachers for certain positions or
to sanction
students or employees
who had sex outside marriage.
So Schnidman Medbery,
who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided
to create software
to help
teachers track and analyze
student performance.
Students, parents and
teachers who visit www.khanacademy.org/sat will find quizzes based on the math and reading sections of the new SAT scheduled
to make its debut in March, as well as full - length practice tests written by the College Board.
«We are scholars and
teachers at Princeton, Harvard, and Yale
who have some thoughts
to share and advice
to offer
students who are headed off
to colleges around the country,» they wrote.
I argued that the opposite is true:
Teachers who respond
to a
student's question by admitting ignorance evince strength.
Teachers who knew they could do better after
students failed adjusted their methods and saw future classes go on
to excel.
In a study published in The European Journal of Social Psychology,
students who wrote out self - advice using «you» not only completed more problems but said they would be happier
to work on more in the future compared with
students who used «I.» The researchers speculated this is because second - person self - talk may trigger memories of receiving support and encouragement from parents and
teachers in childhood.
But managers
who think the point of electronic tracking is
to police their employees are being as shortsighted as
teachers who think the point of the Internet is
to make it easier
to catch
students who plagiarize.
«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts
who consult Hollywood filmmakers
to create free classroom activities for
teachers, including software and iPad apps,
to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics
to give
students the chance
to solve problems as real - life scientists would.
Don't miss: A
teacher who paid off $ 40,000 of
student loans in 1.5 years says the first step
to take has nothing
to do with debt
Students who plan
to become
teachers in a high - need field in a low - income area may qualify for a TEACH grant.
Borrowers
who believe they are eligible for
teacher loan forgiveness may submit an application directly
to their
student loan servicer after the five years of consecutive, qualifying employment is complete.
My high school
teacher Dora Di Rocco - Smith was particularly interested in doing enriched math in the classroom for
students who didn't have access
to enrichment activities.
She was planning
to go with her best friend, Meadow Pollack,
who was killed with 16 other
students and
teachers at their Parkland school on Feb. 14.
A
student who needs a break from class can visit his or her counselor or take a walk outside with a
teacher's aid
to «de-stress.»
It is that
students and
teachers should throw whatever they can at a shooter
who manages
to breach the door into the room that they're hiding in.
The bill would protect the privacy of
students who decide
to participate in a
student - organized Gay - Straight Alliance and prevent those
students to be outed
to their parents by
teachers or school administrators.
The have - nots include
teachers, policemen, and nurses, not
to mention an estimated 7,000 homeless people, including 2,200
students who attend San Francisco public schools.
It seems that nowadays they never knew the
teacher who thought the idea of education was
to crush the spiritedness of each
student through personal humiliation, and if necessary through bodily cruelty.
There are lots of examples of
teachers doing some pretty horrific things
to kids
who refuse
to say the pledge of allegiance — many caught on camera by
students.
Do you ask all
teachers (including me... a
teacher who never had a single perversion with my beloved
students)
to wallow in their (our) perverted filth?!
The preacher is the least import person in the church — he is nothing more than a kindergarten
teacher who reads the bible
to his
students instead of «See Spot Run.»
Some sympathy has
to go
to the
teachers who usually have
to teach in overcrowded and very mixed abilities of
students and little ability or limited latitude
to discipline.
One of my
teachers as a graduate
student at Harvard had been the brilliant psychologist Troland,
who happened
to be a psychicalist, influenced by a founder of his science, Fechner.
According
to the national economics standards,
students should be taught only the «majority paradigm» or «neoclassical model» of economic behavior, for
to include «strongly held minority views of economic processes risks confusing and frustrating
teachers and
students,
who are then left with the responsibility of sorting the qualifications and alternatives without a sufficient foundation
to do so.»
And so are public school
teachers across the country
who are being told via this fiasco not
to be creative as
teachers, not
to challenge their
students to think in new ways.
The other
teachers who are making a major contribution
to educating person - centered ministers are the chaplain supervisors staffing the two hundred and fifty plus clinical pastoral education centers (accredited by the Association of Clinical Pastoral Education) Clinical training is, by far, the most important single learning experience available
to a seminary
student or minister.
A jury has gone out
to consider its conclusions in the inquest into the death of Catholic school
teacher Ann Maguire,
who was murdered in her classroom by a 15 - year - old
student.
We see caring and capable
teachers focusing their efforts on the
students who are trying
to succeed, apparently unable
to keep Tracy from following her self - destructive path.
When I have
students (yes, I am a
teacher)
who tell me they refuse
to study certain units in my class because it is against their religion, then I am against religion.
Maybe we
who want
to embody agape as «creative goodwill» are being called back into action, not this time
to man the barricades or even
to carry picket signs, but rather
to initiate fresh forms of dialogue in parent -
teacher -
student organizations and town councils.
Rather, Jesus seems
to me
to be acting here as a good
teacher who wants his
student to «stand and deliver,» so
to speak.
See Between Man and Man (London: Regan Paul 1947), p. 89) Such communication by a
teacher who has a deep feeling for a religious tradition often leads
students to an encounter with the meanings which speak
to human needs from that tradition.
The
teacher who is «open»
to his
students will often sense their needs for reassurance, confrontation, appreciation, challenge, or affection.
In a war - torn climate, they brought hope
to teachers who are short on resources but strong on love for the
students.
It is like a mathematics
teacher in high school
who might say
to a
student, «Verily, verily I say unto thee, except thou canst do decimals and fractions, thou canst in no wise do algebra.»
Citing Donniel Hartman's «Putting God Second,» — A
teacher of mine used
to love
to tell the story of a famous Hassidic master
who was walking along a cobbled street in Eastern Europe some two hundred years ago, when he heard the cry of a baby coming from his
student's house — a cry that pierced the night.
Now understand, as a
student, you may have opportunity
to teach others, but the best
teachers are those
who are
students first and foremost.
The objections are spurious — but how is the
teacher to reveal their errors
to students who are at the beginning of their science studies?
Teachers who want
to recontextualize are often stunned by how unfamiliar their
students and the churches are with that heritage.
But there are
teachers who aren't afraid
to say «I love you»
to their
students and friends
who say «good job» when you mess up on your part and parents
who love the best they can and principals
who sing solos and somewhere there is a new crop of parents with bewildered babies in the public pool, bouncing up and down in the water, and in that moment at least every one is singing.
Be attentive
to the
students,
teachers, staff and class - mates
who may be very different from you; listen for God in all of them, even if you don't think you're going
to find God there.
Instead, the
teacher is basically a researcher
who needs the
student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.
Students told us that they appreciate
teachers who possess a good understanding of American life as well as of Islam: «My
teacher, he's like one of the most knowledgeable people I know, but he's not knowledgeable
to the point where all he knows is Islamic knowledge.
I am aware, by repute, of a secular — minded
teacher who penalized an orthodox Jewish
student for her insistence on referring
to the deity as G — d, and her failure
to spell the name properly.