Sentences with phrase «than great teachers»

However, historically heads have needed to be more than great teachers and educators — they have needed to understand finances, health and safety, recruitment, HR etc..

Research has shown that no in - school factor — not class size, not school attended, not facilities has a greater impact on student performance than a great teacher, and we believe that every New Jersey student should have the opportunity to learn from a great teacher.

I'm not sure he REALLY understands that a person's socioeconomic status coupled with ill equipped parents who lack parenting skills will have more of an impact on test scores than a great teacher ever will.

Not exact matches

«In my experience, you learn more from great teachers than from great syllabuses.

John is an amazing teacher with an amazing blog... just be careful not to set off «the switch» by aping some «great» investor rather than doing your own work

I have grown convinced that more often than not it is sheer ignorance, sheer lack of study of the actual records, which makes clever as well as foolish men say, «Well, of course, he was a great teacher, but I can not accept the claim that he was divine.»

Although the Church has preserved a tradition as a patron of the arts for more than a millennium, and the great mediaeval cathedrals in particular have portrayed Christianity through their paintings, sculptures, and perhaps especially their windows, Catholic teachers are now refocusing on literary, cultural and artistic beauty as a conscious resource for the transmission of the faith.

If people can find a great deal more guidance in shaping the inner life from Buddhist teachers than from Jesus and his followers, it does seem that there is someone else to whom liberal Protestants can go.

A distinguished English mathematician, Sylvester, said of Charles Peirce, that he was a «much greater» mathematician than his father, Benjamin.14 The word «great» has not been used of Whitehead as mathematician, though his pupil Bertrand Russell said of him that as teacher of that sub1ect he was «perfect.»

To say that someone is a great teacher or would be an effective leader or is a wonderful counselor and mentor but, sorry, their genetic configuration isn't suitable is nothing more than bigotry.

It would be great if everyone would live as the Bible suggests, but then how could it be expected when every other teacher, pastor, and priest is either gay or a pedophile and their leader the pope would rather shuffle them around rather than remove them from «service» to God.

I think that rather than being threatened by seeing the similarity between the way of Jesus and the way of these other great wisdom teachers, we should see the similarity as something to be celebrated and proclaimed.

Ed Pawson, chair of NATRE and head of RE at The King's School in Devon, added: «It is great news that teacher training bursaries for prospective secondary RE teachers have been brought back, although we are puzzled as to why the figure for RE graduates is less than 50 % of that offered to Geography or D&T graduates earning a 2:1 degree.

If, for example, Jesus had simply been a great moral teacher, a gentle rabbi who did nothing more than urge his devoted followers to love God... he would scarcely have been seen as a threat to the social order John the Baptist was imprisoned and executed because of his preaching... Jesus was to fare no better.

That makes him much more than just «a great moral teacher».

Good teachers must believe something: That the world is and is inexhaustibly greater than they are.

In Luke 6:40, Jesus says that a student will not become greater than his teacher, but when he is fully trained, will become like his teacher.

Jesus may still be regarded as a wise and innovative teacher who has exerted a great deal of influence during the course of the last 20 centuries, but he is now coming to be seen as one great teacher among others, rather than the incarnation of the one and only God, and the absolute Savior of all humankind.

This being said, however, I must in all seriousness bemoan one very important omission, which seems to me to open the doors to those perplexing questions I referred to earlier: there is no greater and more moving passage about friendship than Augustine's description, in Book IV of the Confessions, of his «very dear» (but unnamed) friend, an acquaintance from childhood, a fellow student and then fellow teacher of rhetoric.

It is worth noting that by 2016, 26 % of teachers in England were men; the proportion was greater among secondary teachers (38 % of whom are men) than primary (15 %).

In contrast, teachers were more controlling, had lower expectations, got angry more often, and showed less nurturing toward the children with difficult attachments — and who, sadly, had a greater need than the securely attached kids for kindness from adults.

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.

«Teachers who reinforce positive healthy behaviors throughout the day have a far greater impact on a child's behavior around food choices than nutrition information alone.»

In fact, studies show that teachers who reinforce positive healthy behaviors throughout the day have a far greater impact on a child's behavior around food choices than nutrition information alone.

Babysitters, nannies, preschool teachers provide many different services as well: counseling / behavioral therapies (think children fighting in a sand box who need to be directed to «use words» rather than hit one another), nutritional guidance (our son's teachers have given us great ideas and resources for healthy meals), arts training (music class, creative arts class), occupational therapist (correct hand hold for four year old grasping a pencil), physical therapist (Hop on one foot, kids!

Education policy should focus on making sure that every student makes great progress, rather than accountability for test scores or teacher performance pay.

Does anyone recall that the Governor came in at the last minute of the SED regulation development process on teacher evaluations and asked the Regents for changes in the proposed regulations to include greater emphasis on test scores than the original legislation prescribed?

Bloomberg expressed pleasure with the results, saying in a prepared statement, «Making tenure an earned distinction rather than an automatic right will help our teachers get better and ensure that more of them can develop into not just good but great teachers.

Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

Participants also had greater well - being if they perceived that their plans were autonomous rather than being imposed from the outside by parents, teachers or supervisors.

It makes this important research accessible to more than just cardiologists and radiologists - it can be understood by family, friends, non-scientists, patients, school pupils... I have friends who are going to use it in their high school classroom (great for physics teachers).

Of the three alternative certification pathways studied, teachers who enter through the path requiring no coursework in education have the greatest effect on student achievement, substantially larger than that of traditionally prepared teachers.

Once Feldmann returned to Denmark, it was only a matter of time before he began studying with the great Ashtanga teacher, Lino Miele, who Feldmann describes as moving «better than any dancer or yogi I'd ever seen.»

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

It also enables you to teach with greater skill than could be reasonably cultivated from just a 200 - hour teacher training.

Our jobs as teachers is to serve by guiding, offering support, props, verbal cues, care and occasionally telling a student to back off when it is clear that their desire is greater than the strength of their practice.

A gift certificate for a pedicure would also be a great addition if you are looking to spend a little more on your teachers than just the cost of this gift basket.

For example, the recent, jaw - dropping 4K scans of Borom Sarret and Black Girl pay a greater attention to image detail than the serviceable digital transfer of The Piano Teacher.

The supporting cast, Luke Wilson (more toned down than his usual stints in comedy), and Ty Burrell (Hader's English teacher who combats stereotype with ease), are great in their respective roles, but compared to the leads, they fade into the backdrop of the story.

If I were pressed to describe the thematic intention of this seemingly random, vulgar comedy, it would be to make the opposite of the «inspirational teacher movie» like Stand and Deliver, Lean On Me, and Dangerous Minds, by setting the film, not in the inner city, but in the suburbs, and making the teacher a morally challenged person rather than one of great character.

At the same time, the students of the Facing History teachers demonstrated significantly greater historical thinking skills, civic efficacy, and tolerance for others with different views than control students.

This provides a financial incentive for teachers to continue delivering the best standards of education in the classroom, because this will provide great teachers with incentives to remain as teachers rather than taking management responsibilities which come with larger salaries.

We find that insurance costs for teachers are 26 percent higher than they are for private - sector professionals, and this is partly explained by greater unionization in the public sector.

There is no better cure for the social ills of our community and no better process for the education of an immigrant class than providing a great teacher, a core curriculum, a disciplined school culture, and strong accountability.

Caroline Wright, BESA director said, «British teachers are world - leaders in the use of educational - technology in the classroom so it is of great concern that pupils are being denied access to innovative and effective digital learning because of poor internet connectivity in more than half of the UK's schools.

The union claimed that while the number of teachers opting out has «plateaued», experts are cautious about future numbers, as the level of non-contributors is still significantly greater than five years ago.

Now in its 23rd year, the ASG NEiTA acknowledges the great work teachers do in their communities, both in Australia and New Zealand and has recognised more than 30,000 teachers and distributed more than $ 940,000 in professional development grants.

Speaking on BBC news, Cameron said that he wanted to put the power in the hands of «the head teacher and the teachers rather than the bureaucrats», saying that that is the «vision for every great school».

Great teachers deserve great rewards, and nothing is more effective than praise and recognition in the form of a national aGreat teachers deserve great rewards, and nothing is more effective than praise and recognition in the form of a national agreat rewards, and nothing is more effective than praise and recognition in the form of a national award.

* For example, education graduates from UNC - Pembroke had a 24 percent greater likelihood of finding a job as a teacher than graduates of UNC - Wilmington (the green versus the red bar).