Sentences with phrase «where teacher absences»

It also suggests a struggling school, where teacher absences and student absences feed off one another until neither group shows up.

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However, they forget that the absence of any meaningful differentiation in the past has meant that many teachers do not know where they stand.

This uncertainty motivates our third and final analytic approach, where we measure the bias in teachers» expectations as the difference between students» actual outcomes and whatever we would have expected based on everything we can observe about them in the absence of self - fulfilling prophecies.

In the absence of well - considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher «mentor» who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need.

Where possible, for longer - term placements, the class teacher should accompany the student on the first day of placement to ensure all parties are aware of the procedure for notifying of any absence, issues etc. (in front cover of «work placement diary» as well as ensuring that both parties are aware of health and safety, legal requirements from both sides and having a designated point of contact.

Writing for Education Week, Sarah D. Sparks uncovers the troubling issue of teacher absence: More than 6.5 million students in 2013 - 14 attended a school where at least half of teachers missed 10 days of school or more, according to the most recent estimate from the U.S. Department of Education.

In the event of a lead teacher's absence, a substitute or assistant teacher can pick up from where a lead teacher has left and neither students nor teachers will fall back on progress.