Sentences with phrase «time challenging the teachers»

«I just couldn't see how most of the stuff they taught us could be applied to anything, so I spent most of the time challenging the teachers,» he said.

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Coordinating teachers and sites was a challenge and often meant quite a bit of waiting time for teachers following training a la Abrakadoodle method.

Having run several multi-million dollar companies and being a certified meditation teacher, Natalie MacNeil is going to show us how to clear your mental and physical clutter to help you get started on the right foot, along with the importance of building a weekly reflection time for your goal - achieving challenge.

Having run several multi-million dollar companies and being a certified meditation teacher, Natalie MacNeil showed us how to clear our mental and physical clutter to get started on the right foot, along with the importance of having a weekly reflection time for our goal - achieving challenge.

Moreover, the programme is simply concerned to ensure that teachers are, for example, «affirmative, encouraging, to be acknowledging and to be empathetic», that they will «offer time to listen and time to challenge» [11].

I remember the challenge of balancing the demands on my time as a teenager, and now as a teacher, I watch students continuing to do so.

At home I see two children who are happy, I see a very bright little boy whose teachers take the time to challenge on a daily basis.

I also became acutely aware of the challenges public school art teachers face with large class sizes, poor quality materials, and infrequent class time.

I know it's often challenging to find the right time to talk with a teacher since they are often trying to do other things (especially during drop off or pick up times).

For example, online schools, such as Minnesota Connections Academy, allow students to learn on their own time while receiving the knowledge of state - certified teachers and challenging curricula.

, such as Minnesota Connections Academy, allow students to learn on their own time while receiving the knowledge of state - certified teachers and challenging curricula.

While the law is on the side of Texas teachers, finding the time and space to pump every few hours can be very challenging.

Claire Austin, a nurse rather than a teacher (though the SNP leader also got a hard time from them), challenged her over nurses» pay rises, how «demoralising» it was to work in NHS Scotland and the claim she had made use of food banks.

Opposition to the tests boiled up after they became more challenging at the same time the state made plans to weigh them heavily in teacher and principal evaluations.

Mulgrew took time to thank the Council for fighting to prevent teacher layoffs last year, but he challenged the lack of a significant funding increase in the mayor's preliminary budget for next year.

The former Bronx high school teacher recalled that, during his time at the blackboard, teaching 36 students had proven a challenge.

- 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.

I love that every teacher takes time at the beginning of each class to check in with everyone and that everyone gets to share challenges / joys they are experiencing.

A thoughtful high school teacher who came to yoga class recently put it so well: «Summer was a time where I was learning to be with myself in a healthy way... now my challenge is to be with other people again and this is when my yoga practice is really important.»

The disadvantage of this method of practice is that finding a studio with a convenient location, a good teacher, and with classes at the right times can be challenging.

Citizen Schools, which has 3,500 volunteer teachers and 400 full - time and part - time staffers and «team leaders,» offers its 4,500 students one of the nation's most innovative and challenging after - school courses of study.

However, he admitted that there are challenges to teaching vocabulary such as teachers not having the time to sit one on one with a student to review words and meanings, difficulty testing vocabulary, and determining what words to teach.

Challenges: Teacher training / PD and classroom resources will need to be provided to enable effective and efficient implementation; Funding for relief teachers whilst teachers administer the test; Not addressing the flaws in the UK Phonics Screening Check / inaccurately tests students; Not providing funding / resources to support students identified through the check as at risk; Additional workload for teachers including, impact on time to administer tests; Duplication of existing tests and / or additional testing burden; Stress or anxiety for students and parents; Some commented writing was a key element that needs to be in the test.

While some new or struggling teachers might need to submit daily lesson plans for many weeks or months at a time that you'll need to review and provide feedback on, others will need you in their room to help with a challenging student, or to be a thought partner on a topic they are presenting to the rest of the staff.

From PBS to KQED, from Common Sense Media to The New York Times, there are many outlets out there to help teachers tackle this challenge.

But Education Elements is smart to understand both how steep the design challenges can be for districts in moving to blended - learning models — and consequently where the action is today — as well as the opportunities blended learning presents to rethink the use of time in school, such that it can create schools that transform teaching and learning for both teachers and students and rack up some wins in the process.

Her son's new teacher actively acknowledges his challenges and devotes one - on - one time to him in the classroom.

Zaption allows the teachers to survey the students» typed answers in real time, which permitted them to immediately address any questions and misunderstandings, and to tailor the discussion to the students» demonstrated interests and challenges.

Teachers that stick with this on a daily basis find that kids read for increasingly longer periods of time, and that the biggest challenge becomes bringing it to an end and moving on.

One of the challenges of using digital tools to connect the schools in our district is the time it takes to familiarize our teachers and students with a new tool.

Particularly if you have, like many high school teachers, five classes, thirty kids in each class, and to really give a kid one - on - one feedback on their work is time - consuming and very challenging.

P.K. Yonge administrators knew it would be a challenge for their teachers, many of whom were averse to learning new technologies, or didn't have the time to think about how to implement it in their classroom.

'' In challenging times such as this, the government must take care to maintain the teacher supply base provided by university / school partnerships on which schools depend.

There were also in - school challenges, such as limited funding to support professional learning, difficulty in taking time away from teaching, and leadership or management not supporting teachers who wanted to access subject - specific learning rather than something that was a strategic priority for the school.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

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From a logistical perspective, picking a day when all teachers are available for a workshop, or locating substitutes for a large number of teachers, can be a challenge for administrators looking to use everyone's time effectively.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A bumper crop of school choice programs was passed into law in the last year, but education associations and teacher unions wasted no time in challenging virtually every new law in court.

From my time as a teacher, I learned how challenging and rewarding the teaching profession is, how meaningful real connections with students can be (I'm still in contact with quite a few of my students from St. Jude), and how important it is to take a growth mindset to this work.

Teachers everywhere are facing challenges in finding time to unpack these new standards, discover best practices for their implementation, and still provide innovative instruction for their students.

As more and more teachers are building choice reading time into their daily classroom schedules, making a variety of books available to a diverse group of students can be challenging.

Here, the basic lesson is that such teaching has always been difficult — constrained by political forces, legal challenges, parental objections, limited class time, and understandably hesitant teachers who are ill - prepared for the complex task of teaching divisive issues.

And without taking the time to invest in those relationships, teachers won't know to provide support when their students are facing some serious challenges.

At the time, I didn't know why this activity worked so well, but I was thrilled to be avoiding many of the classroom management challenges that my new - teacher colleagues were dealing with.

The twin challenges of meeting standards and testing requirements make it even more important that teachers have tools to help get the most out of time with their students.

Of course, this takes more time for both the learner and the teacher but the addition of an essay that requires critical thinking is not a huge instructional challenge for teachers.

In addition, tutors and master teachers use real - time data to challenge and support students with small - group and individualized instruction that not only leverages the technologies that students use but complements them as well.

The challenge marks the second time this year that teachers have clashed with state officials over North Carolina's...

«Teachers report that sometimes it can be a challenge to find a mutually agreeable time for a home visit,» Bonnie Schmidt, principal at the Tyron Hills Pre-Kindergarten Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Education World.

Even the most qualified and competent sub faces more challenges than a full - time teacher, so it's hardly surprising that students don't seem to learn much when their regular teacher is absent.