Sentences with phrase «than help teachers»

The two greatest fears teachers expressed were that principals would not be properly trained to evaluate their staff and that the evaluations would be punitive rather than help teachers improve.

«Sadly, what has changed is that rather than helping teachers help kids, some... are suing to take away the voices of teachers,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Not exact matches

Three commissioners may grant some of the nation's largest refineries a tax refund of more than $ 135 million — money Texas» cash - strapped schools and other local governments have been counting on to help pay teachers and provide other public services.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

That helps us to understand the appeal of Jesus» ministry as a healer, perhaps more so than as a teacher.

Teachers are trained in behavior - management techniques that dial confrontations down rather than up, and they are given strategies to help them create a climate of belonging and engagement in the classroom.

With this donation of $ 437,624, Staples helped 255 Boston area teachers, impacting more than 27,000 students across 96 schools.

With a heavy focus on the importance of hands - on experience for their students, rather than standardized testing, Waldorf teachers help their students to explore curricula through diverse activities, with plenty of room to customize lesson plans.

To help children learn self - discipline, the parent needs to adopt the role of coach / teacher rather than that of disciplinarian and punisher.

I am so grateful that we are helping children and teachers communicate and connect on a much deeper level than they had in the past.

To help our children explore their world and satisfy their curiosity, we seek educational situations that are no more than a 1:6 teacher to child ratio and learning opportunities that are rich with movement, multisensory, project based and diverse.

For more than 25 years, our experienced education staff has been working side - by - side with teachers in classrooms throughout Chicago, helping them become more comfortable teaching science.

In honor of Teacher Appreciation Day, we compiled a list of more than 90 discounts for teachers at bookstores, retail chains, school supply outlets and more, which can help cut down on their out - of - pocket expenses.

No group in NYC has amassed more political clout than the teachers union, which has scored a new contract for its members, helped block charter schools from expanding, pushed for the renewal of mayoral control of city schools, and ensured the city education budget continues to soar.

The core numbers hadn't changed much since Bloomberg's preliminary budget presentation in February — he's still planning to cut 6,000 teachers to help close a deficit that's still more than $ 2 billion.

Now, Pellegrino, a reading teacher from West Islip who helped found a grass - roots activist group of former Bernie Sanders supporters, had a county executive, a county party chairman and the state comptroller at a fundraiser where the turnout, at 150, more than doubled what organizers had anticipated.

Mayor Bloomberg was, uh, less than thrilled yesterday with Gov. Cuomo's plan to help the city lay off bad teachers first.

«The current system helps teachers more than it helps students,» said Thayn.

Peneston was one of seven New York teachers of the year who signed an open letter to Cuomo saying his education reform proposals would hurt rather than help public schools across the state.

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.

Speaking of the lack of extras at her school in Harlem, Kalinichenko, a second - year teacher, told the senator's legislative director that she spent more than $ 2,000 of her own money this year to help fill the gaps.

If the DOE's major focus is on penalizing its employees for their perceived shortcomings, rather than to devise a process that will help all teachers improve, it is doing a disservice to the schools and the children they serve.»

Rather than establishing bogus deadlines and threatening parents with the loss of teachers and services, they should be focusing on reaching an agreement that will actually help make the schools better.

For example, a teacher with many students trying to overcome learning disabilities may be helping students improve more than a VAM will indicate.

- Challenge pre-eminent scientists and engineers (starting with the more than 2,000 members of the National Academy) to take specific actions that will help achieve his goal, such as mentoring teachers and students in disadvantaged schools, starting a Science Festival in their city, or encouraging their university to create special programs that allow students to get a STEM degree and a teaching certificate at the same time.

Here, a referral suggests that the teacher perceives the student as having social, emotional, or behavioral skills that are problematic enough to warrant outside help, reaffirming earlier research showing that teachers perceive misbehavior by black boys as more aggressive and problematic than misbehavior by white boys.

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

«Mentor programs harm, more than help first - year teachers.»

Excited about the potential of Pinterest as a way to help share, highlight, and curate science, technology, engineering, and math education content, Science Buddies has been pinning project ideas, blog posts, and updated student, teacher, and parent resources at Pinterest for more than a year.

Throughout his tenure at UW, he has helped train more than 200 residents in PM&R and neurology, and was voted «teacher of the year» numerous times.

I've known many yoga teachers stay behind for half an hour talking to students, guiding them and advising them and coaches who will take less than half the price of a normal session in order to make it more affordable for someone who could really use their help.

She's better on the dvd at explaining the moves and helping you perfect your stance better than some in - class teachers I've had.

In my experience, this helps to keep the focus on the yoga, rather than on the personality of the teacher.

There are people of many skill levels in my teacher training but it really pushes you to be a better instructor and more than that, it has helped my personal yoga practice more than I could possibly express.

More than the physical work, the teachers are incredibly helpful and they always let students know that they're committed to helping them reach their goals.

He is more than just a «trainer» — we have gained a mentor, a teacher, and a guidance counselor to help us achieve a total body fitness level beyond what we thought was possible!»

I think you must be better dressed than some of the teachers at the school when you are helping out!

My name is Todd Beuckens and I create ELLLO to help students and teachers get DeSales University is named for a man who lived more than 400 years ago, but whose lessons are still timely and practical for today's world.

Synopsis: Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick), a well - liked high school government teacher, can't help but notice that successful student Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) uses less than ethical tactics to get what she wants.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

«I think teachers are really caught up and now a lot of their time is spent assessing children rather than helping children to learn.

But they probably know more than they think, say Fatheree and Lindvahl, who offer the following advice to help teachers:

His grant - funded project, Educating for Democracy in the Digital Age (EDDA), helped more than 100 ELA and social studies teachers in Oakland bring action civics inside their classrooms from 2011 through 2015.

Building learning from text strategies and other learning supports into the curricula that will also help teachers to teach those skills as part of what students need to know, rather than as extraneous items that compete with the enormous amount of content they need to cover.

You have to help all the stakeholders far more than you think: like parents, other teachers, and some students who don't have access elsewhere.

Breyer worried that, rather than being a help to teachers, this seeming victory would merely incite the nation's adolescents to mount new challenges.

Finally, counselors can encourage teachers to emphasize a growth mindset in their teaching, which can help students to embrace challenges, rather than feel overwhelmed by them.

«We have incentives in place to help all our teachers learn more and learn it faster than before.

And there are a variety of organisations and methods out there to help teachers do some of that, which really would be better than nothing.

So while the children in Carinto may not have access to running water and electricity at home, ConTextos has been able to provide them with access to a library and trained teachers who can help foster more than just literacy.