Sentences with phrase «think teachers understood»

I was very sensitive about my ethnicity, and I don't think teachers understood that.

«I don't think teachers understand that stress and that just puts extra stress on a young carer.

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In my graduate school days I was not aware of the importance of this aspect of Whitehead's thought, although some of my teachers had understood this all along.

Rather, teachers aim to help people think and understand and grow.

Think how much money this guy could have saved if the teacher who misled him about the Old Testament was someone that understood it.

Thus the clinical and theoretical material is integrated; psychological and theological understanding is related; and the student is helped to think critically about his own work, to benefit from the insights of his peers as well as those of his teachers, and to honestly face the problems involved in his relationships with others.

What Jesus is teaching and what I think is the authentic understanding of the priesthood in the Catholic Church is that the priest - your teacher, your leader - is first and foremost a servant,» she said.

McDonnell helps us to think about these questions within the larger historical context of the papacy's self - understanding as universal pastor, moral teacher, and peacemaker among the nations.

Other times I think that I learned the lessons that the teachers wanted me to learn, but I didn't understand fully the implications of what they were teaching me.

when people get all huffy over my misuse of words or just plain wrong use of them i laugh, because i can bet my life that you still understood my meaning but rather then discuss the issue i brought up chose to insult thru the means of an english teacher — that i care not for... my point was a valid one and it makes me sad that you think yourself so far above me that you won't even bother with the conversation... tisk tisk.

Like, for instance, telling your teacher «my stomach hurts» everyday for three months so you can go to the nurse and blank out instead of trying to understand a critical thinking concept when you can't even read.

Ed Miliband has at least taken advice and given the correct answer to the strike we do not like strikes and we think they should get around the table but we do understand why people are striking, they are striking because they are agreeing with labour the cost of living crises is attacking the low paid and the professional teachers and nurses.

But we think that the teachers understand the math better and are better able to teach it.»

I wonder if practicing «at my level of comfort» may not be an ideal phrasing... Perhaps «I understand that I have the right to listen to my body and practice in accordance with my body's needs in order to remain safe» or something like that may be less limiting (no growth in the comfort zone)... also... I agree with everything relating to the student teacher relationship but I think it could be stated more succintly — my body and mind are my own and I can expect to be treated with respect and grace physically, mentally, spiritually at all times.

I think it would be really helpful to understand how to budget for ethical clothing — i.e. I am a teacher (7th year in my profession) and make about $ 50,000 / year.

But there are thrilling passages of presentation, of Bressonian presence, that need no backstory, or back - acting — I'm thinking of John Leguizamo as one of the more troubled teachers, Emily Tremaine as an argumentative and possibly horny student who can't understand why Stanley keeps his wife in the room typing up what's being said, and Dennis Haysbert as a lush - haired Ossie Davis in scenes with William Shatner (played with unlikely restraint by Kellan Lutz) taping a TV drama from 1976 based on the Milgram case.

The school's science teacher Frank Yates (Hal Holbrook) is skeptical, too, but he wants people to understand the positives and negatives of the plan, allow them time to think, and put it to a vote in the near future.

Rifah offers teachers some important advice: «The first step should be understanding the difference between what the students actually need versus what you (the teacher) think that they need.

«He understands that teaching is one of the hardest professions, and has thought deeply about how to support professionalism among teachers.»

Teachers think about what exhibit pieces can demonstrate student understanding of the material and talk with students about possible approaches.

Design Thinking begins with understanding the needs and motivations of people — in this case, the students, teachers, parents, staff and administrators who make up our everyday world.

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The Barefoot Computing project helps teachers to understand the concepts behind computational thinking and what they mean in practice, writes Zoe Ross

The study found that teachers who have been through the Barefoot project are more confident than their peers: 84 % said they understood computational thinking, compared to a baseline of 57 % among their peers.

Computational thinking is a new idea for most teachers and is given great prominence in the new national curriculum which states: «A high - quality computing education equips pupils to use computational thinking and creativity to understand and change the world.»

The practical, hands - on workshops are designed to help teachers understand the changes to the primary computing curriculum, introducing them to computational thinking and getting them started with cross-curricular ideas for teaching computer science.

«Teachers do need to become very familiar with the content, and also to understand that for this curriculum, Digi Tech, at least probably 50 per cent of the curriculum focuses on developing types of thinking skills which support problem solving and the use of digital systems,» — Paula Christophersen.

In order to provide these lessons and aid educators, the PZC is organized around plenary sessions, study groups, and mini-courses that help teachers to encourage students» efforts to understand content, recognize and develop student's multiple intellectual strengths, help students learn to think critically and creatively, and assess student work in ways that promotes further learning.

While I applaud the desire to improve learning outcomes by encouraging schools to find more time for teachers, I think there is an implicit narrowing of understanding of the role of teachers.

Induction, at its core, should be about helping the new teachers understand what the school district really thinks teaching and learning should look like.

Instructional Strategies that Promote Student Thinking and Give Teachers Time to Observe Student Understanding

My teachers seemed to think that if they spoke in a very loud voice I would understand what they were saying.

This Presentation Includes: Well Formulated, Measurable, SMART Learning Objectives and Outcomes Engaging and Creative Lesson Starter — Spelling Bingo Overview of Vocabulary for a Spellings Lesson Flipped Lesson Part - Video - How to Learn Basic Spelling Rules Space for Peer Teaching - 10 Basic Spelling Rules Scaffolded Notes to Support the Learners - Pronunciation Symbols Collaborative Group Tasks — Think - Write - Share, Pair - Share Mini-Plenary to Test Student Understanding — 3 Quizzes Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - 4 Tasks Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Online Exercises Plenary to Assesses Learning Outcomes - Find the Word Success Criteria for Self Evaluation - My Spelling Sketch Home Learning for Reinforcement - Spelling Bee Site Map Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.g/L.8.2/L.8.2.c Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive Teachers can use this presentation to give a complete knowledge and understanding of Spelling Rules to the learners, thereby helping them to enhance their speUnderstanding — 3 Quizzes Assessment Criteria for Outcome Expectations - Rubrics Differentiated Activities for Level Learners - 4 Tasks Extensions to Challenge the High Achievers - Online Exercises Plenary to Assesses Learning Outcomes - Find the Word Success Criteria for Self Evaluation - My Spelling Sketch Home Learning for Reinforcement - Spelling Bee Site Map Common Core Standards - ELA-LITERACY.L.4.1.g/L.8.2/L.8.2.c Skills to be addressed during the Lesson - Social and Cognitive Teachers can use this presentation to give a complete knowledge and understanding of Spelling Rules to the learners, thereby helping them to enhance their speunderstanding of Spelling Rules to the learners, thereby helping them to enhance their spelling skills.

I think it's important that the teacher has a seating plan and they decide that plan on their understanding of their students within their team, and they can modify that seating plan as time goes on.

After her talk, an elementary school principal sought her out and complained that faculty members in Kentucky's colleges of education were bashing the state's reform effort and failing to train teachers to understand the new way of thinking.

Getting back to the big picture, the evidence in the paper demonstrates the critical importance, I think, of understanding teachers when studying, creating, or choosing educational technology.

Well aware of the newspaper's reluctance to criticize teacher unions, Holden provides a bucketful of contextual information thought to be important to understand the documentary.

And if we understand how this works — if you think about it, if you're in a classroom where you feel psychologically and physically safe and secure because your teacher is doing a great job of leading and developing a space that you feel like you're prepared to have a go and participate, take risks, because we need that to occur in learning.

When teachers shift the focus from right or wrong answer to an emphasis on mathematical thinking, they help students to understand that their math ability can grow.

Research has shown that performance - based assessment provides a means to assess higher - order thinking skills and helps teachers and principals support students in developing a deeper understanding of content.

I believe relevance is very important, and I also think most teachers try very hard to help students understand how what they are learning is relevant, if only that they need to pass a course to graduate, to enter college or to pursue career paths which interest them.

In a Trinidad Garza social studies class, Engelhart recalls how a teacher introduced her students to robber barons — unethical American businessmen in the late 19th century, and later big businesses throughout the 1930s and 70s: «I want you to read this information about the robber barons, and then write down two questions: one about a fact that you don't understand and what you need to know about it, and a thinking question: How?

When both students and teachers are able to voice opinions and thoughts in a quiet, respectful atmosphere, mutual respect and understanding develops.

«When I think about my own experiences as a teacher in primary school, it would have been really helpful for me to have a really firm understanding of what the experiences the children had participated in in their prior - to - school setting might have looked like.

She was one of the first people in ed - reform to understand that we weren't going to beat the teachers unions with op - eds and policy papers (as much as it pains me, a think - tank guy, to say that).

And by evaluating their peers with the same rubric the teacher uses, students gain a better understanding of the criteria for strong critical thinking and discussion.

«I think any aspiring teacher would have a big advantage if he or she were able to articulate a philosophy related to the teaching of reading and an understanding of research - based methodologies,» says Lyn McCarty.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom practice and assess student thinking.

The book contains a wide range of tasks, activities and 10 complete lesson / project plans that teachers can use to help students understand visually presented information, how and why the information was collected, research and check the validity of the sources on which the information was based and think about and share how the materials relate to their own lives.

A teacher might assess the understanding of content, how well the assignment was written, the critical thinking that was involved, and also the student's work ethic.