Sentences with phrase «traditional educators do»

Despite the increasingly impressive performance of many charter schools nationally and some stunning charter - driven turnarounds at Sacramento High in California and other sites, the Prudent Expansionists doubt that charter folks know any more than traditional educators do about turning around failing schools en masse.

Not exact matches

Next Wave profiles two scientists who made the transition from researcher to science educator, but who do most of their work outside the traditional classroom.

Although the well - meaning educator is forced to add a cautionary note to his counsel after one student causes uproar on campus, his philosophy does arm his students with the insight to look beyond the traditional approach to poetry.

Yet many online educators don't realize that the best practices in traditional environments should not be discarded simply because the participants are interacting digitally from various locations.

We are filmmakers and not educators, but what we've learned over the course of making this film is that in this country, a traditional education does not encourage thinking, instead it encourages conforming to a system that doesn't value the individual child and completely misses the point when it comes to learning.

Rarely do districts look outside the traditional population of state - certified public - school educators.

Throughout the country, many educators are going beyond traditional tests and using performance assessments in their K - 12 classrooms to gauge what students know and can do.

Although open houses are a rare chance for parents and caregivers to walk freely around the school and meet with educators, unfortunately, as Mapp points out and as the audience reaction clearly confirms, traditional open houses just don't work.

The theory became highly popular with K - 12 educators around the world seeking ways to reach students who did not respond to traditional approaches, but over time, «multiple intelligences» somehow became synonymous with the concept of «learning styles.»

«Dr. Richard DuFour's In Praise of American Educators takes a surprisingly fresh approach to the traditional education blame game by spending the first four to five chapters talking about what schools and namely schoolteachers are doing right in America's public education system.

Like educators at many traditional schools, Kahakalau said test scores do not always show how well a school is doing.

Social and emotional learning (SEL) data gives educators critical insight into why a student is struggling — information that traditional measures alone, such as attendance and behavior incidents, don't provide.

By Richard Whitmire Recent big - dollar donations from pro-charter philanthropists leave traditional educators sputtering: Why don't they just donate their money to us?

Some educators say more technical STEM activities «level the playing field» for students who don't perform well in more traditional classes, like foreign language.

By doing so, he said, educators purposefully shape their pedagogy to meaningfully capture the attention of transfer school students, who have often had negative experiences in traditional educational settings.

Such an approach provides a more efficient model for educator growth than the traditional «one and done» workshop model of the past.

But many educators in traditional public schools think that charter schools — though they, too, are publicly funded — are allowed to operate as private schools do, are not accountable to the public and are draining resources from the traditional public system.

A traditional journalist's capacity to speak freely is a liberty professional educators should enjoy, but seldom do.

Most charters are more segregatedthan traditional public schools, are non-union, and when charter educators do mount union campaigns, they almost always face tremendous opposition.

Educators today seem to be faced with a choice: continue teaching centuries - old ways of organizing the world through traditional disciplines such as mathematics and... Continue reading How Do We Prepare Students for a Complex World?

Traditional associations of educators don't want to incorporate the voices and experiences of people of color, so we always get short shrift when it comes to having a say.

Not only do traditional e-textbook companies develop course material for iTunes U, but so do educators.

While serving as a starting point for guiding the developmentally appropriate integration of digital tools in early childhood programs, the statement notes that more research needs to be done on the impact of technology, especially newer technologies, on children's learning and development, but there are ways in which educators can utilize what is known about more traditional media platforms to make smart media choices regarding new media devices.