Sentences with phrase «true as new teacher»

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He blessed that wee new girl, and her family, and it was that moment when the quiet unassuming one is revealed as their true identity in the movie, he's still a pastor, still a teacher, even after all of the deconstruction and pulling apart and rebuilding of our faith, and our understanding of church and go - go - go - programs on the premise of compounds and build - it - they - will - come, coupled with a new understanding of vocation and ministry, even with his business acumen, and the new normal life in the secular marketplace.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

Just as we suggest to our students (hopefully we do this) that they should always listen to their own sense of intuition when they practice and blend that in with what the teacher is suggesting, the same holds true for what you might hear as a newer teacher.

I refused to wear glasses and blamed it on «my glasses are old and they don't help me see anyway» excuse to my teachers, which was true as my eyes were just getting weaker and I needed a new glasses prescription.

(It's true that AP shuns a prescribed «syllabus,» but veteran AP teachers are clear as to what they must cover in order to prepare their pupils for those exams — and the College Board isn't shy about clueing in new teachers.)

But can it possibly be true, as reported in his recent post, that the Regents and the New York State Department of Education went to court with the teachers union over whether test scores would count as 20 percent or 40 percent of a teacher's annual evaluation?

JM: External research has validated TFA's findings on teacher effectiveness: a June 2004 study by Mathematica Policy Research found that TFA teachers perform at least as well as traditionally prepared and certified teachers in similar schools, while a 2006 study published in Education Next (see Kane, Rockoff, and Staiger, «Photo Finish,» research, Winter 2007) found the same to be true in New York City.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit effective new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

I've witnessed new head of school in early 40's, private school, get rid of all teachers older, and bring in young, recent college grads, who can view the head as being wise and all knowing Education Guru, despite the contrary being true, and be forever grateful for their first job and never challenge anything the head does or says.

When TFA recognizes the career teacher who is also unionized as being valuable that will be a new beginning for true public / charter collaboration.

As it becomes clear that an increased emphasis on new computerized standardized tests is the true purpose of the Common Core initiative, parents, students, teachers and elected officials, from across the country and the political spectrum, are rising in opposition.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

«Not true at all»: Blackburn said the rumors were false, pointing to his next job as CEO at national California - based education nonprofit New Teacher Center, which he said contacted him for the position in December during a national search.

The trend is that instead of having such figures with 99 % of teachers being rated as satisfactory or above (see «The Widget Effect» report here), these new and improved teacher evaluation systems are to distribute teachers» evaluation scores around a normal curve, that is more likely true, whereas many more teachers are to be identified for their ineffectiveness.

As is true with any teaching reform, educators / teachers must internalize the value of learning with a new strategy before they will begin to use the strategy.

Just as you can always learn something new from a good teacher, even in a subject about which you may already know much, the same is true for a good book.