Sentences with phrase «which kind of teacher»

In the stride to sustain and produce quality and responsible graduates, questions should be asked as to which kind of teacher is required and what should be done to produce teachers of that quality.

Not exact matches

Parents and teachers have complained that children were becoming addicted to the multiplayer online battle game, which, according to the company, has more than 200 million users, making it the world's most popular game of its kind.

Unfortunately, we haven't seen here the kind of introspection now surfacing in the American media — or the kind of analysis you've provided in these two pieces and for which I (as a journalist and teacher) am grateful.

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

God gave us many «names» for His many facets so that all of us could find some kind of positive connotation to which we could cling — cloud, pillar of fire, father, shepherd, teacher, bread, friend, king, creator, provider, mother hen, water, rock, tower of refuge, master, physician, light, servant, prince, vine, and many others.

This places the responsibility on the teacher and the class, as reflecting the larger life of the congregation, to create the kind of interpersonal relationships in which mutual trust is possible.

... 3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5to be sober — minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:...

There we see Arthur, on the eve of his final battle with Mordred, experience a kind of Piers Plowman — like dream vision in which he is reunited with his old teacher and the talking animals of his youth.

Once of which was that I felt I was going to be able to trust a Kindergarten teacher, because all the K teachers I've ever known have been resourceful, smart about little kids, and kind.

Also noticeably missing was any in - kind support from the regional office of New York State United Teachers, which lead the way in filing petition challenges.

Baker thinks this kind of information could ultimately help teachers and guidance counselors figure out not only which students are at risk of academic problems but also why they are at risk and what can be done to help them.

Doug has seen what marriage has done to his best man Phil (Bradley Cooper), a depressed school teacher locked into a marriage which doesn't allow him to let off the kind of steam that Las Vegas will.

It's the kind of movie where teachers are shown giving lectures which directly comment on the action of the movie.

It may also seem a strange title for a film by Michael Haneke, the great Austrian director best known in America for his Oscar - nominated study of the origins of German fascism, The White Ribbon; the surveillance thriller Caché; and The Piano Teacher, which was itself a kind of love story — the sadomasochistic kind.

The kind of trust I am talking about is that which forms the most basic attitudes of the teacher and his students — it means that I, as teacher, trust the student's capacity to learn.

The Boston Arts Academy is the kind of place where students have their teachers» home phone numbers, and where music teacher Allyssa Jones's graduation gift to one student she had grown especially close with was the piano on which she herself had learned to play.

Below are kinds of behaviors which our son experienced in his classrooms and how we worked with his teachers to manage them.

Since everyone knew the kind of professional development on which they needed to focus, during his walks around the building, King made certain teachers were following the necessary professional development and allocating time to the required two - hour morning reading block.

I study a specific kind of new technology — computer aided instruction (CAI)-- which is software designed to provide one - on - one tutoring to students, with the computer acting in the role of the teacher.

Under her leadership, the school launched the Doctor of Education Leadership Program, a first - of - its - kind practice - based education doctoral program; created a universitywide Ph.D. in Education; established the Urban Scholars Fellowship which provides full tuition to teachers from urban schools; and significantly increased financial aid for master's and doctoral students.

All of that begins in teacher preparation programs which must include a focus on content, an understanding of cultural diversity and a strong clinical experience where prospective teachers can watch experienced teachers in action and practice under their supervision - kind of like a medical residency.

Sugata Mitra's «Whole in the Wall» experiment teaches us that children left alone with tech will learn on their own which kind of addresses the one big deficiency in the education system — lack of good teachers.

I would think that the state of Maryland's assessment — which is basically problem oriented, performance oriented, and graded by teachers in schools — is driving the right kind of teaching, and is having a good effect on learning.

This kind of PD by itself, which just about every teacher has experienced, rarely results in a significant change in teacher practice and rarely results in increased learning for children.

«In an era in which we are committed to helping all students think, reason, collaborate, and participate in democracy, we need to develop the kind of systems in which teachers are similarly supported, challenged, respected, and given opportunities to work together to develop deeper skills that will create a better future for their students.»

However, if students» results are to be compared directly across schools, then the broad kinds of assessment activities that teachers use, the conditions under which students complete these, and the marking schemes for judging and recording performances on these activities will need to be consistent across schools.

If you imagine each of the students in a class with some kind of a handheld computing device, which is not farfetched today — maybe it was five years ago but it's not today — and you imagine a teacher is, for example, teaching a principle in physics and asks the students to predict what would happen to the trajectory of a ball if you're rotating around in a circle and let loose the ball at a certain position.

Of course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearOf course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearof education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearof more than $ 12,000 per student each year).

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

Teacher and school improvement is driven by the notion of improving teaching and schools, which is kind of a circular argument.

«It is important... teachers develop an awareness of the ways in which the physical environment — the kind of furniture used and how it is arranged, the lighting, the decoration of a room — can promote or inhibit discussion, inquiry and interpersonal relationships.»

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

«Fringe Benefits: There is more to teacher compensation than a teacher's salary,» by Michael Podgursky This article examines the ways in which simple comparisons between teacher salaries and salaries of other kinds of workers can be misleading.

And unlike a system like Social Security, which awards lower - paid workers with proportionately higher retirement benefits, teacher pension systems lack these kinds of protections.

Rather than conceptualizing this model as a «program» or specific kind of meeting, teachers should think of a PLC as an «ongoing process in which educators work collaboratively in recurring cycles of collective inquiry and action research to achieve better results for the students they serve» (DuFour 2006).

Teacher leaders may engage in a variety of practices, which draw on different kinds of knowledge and skills.

However, the points made in this article about the kind of CPD which should be on offer are also crucial in keeping teachers motivated.

The manual for the SAT - 10, which CPS used last year to retain students, states that test scores «should be just one of the many factors considered and probably should receive less weight than factors such as teacher observation, day - to - day classroom performance, maturity level, and attitude» — just the kind of information in report cards.

Teacher leaders provide various kinds of professional development for teachers (e.g., workshops, seminars, courses) which may be multiple sessions or one - time events.

The draft accountability rules, to be released this summer, will encourage states to identify high - and low - performing teacher preparation programs across all kinds of educational models, not just those based in colleges and universities; urge a transition from current input - based reporting requirements to a focus on more meaningful outcomes; and likely limit program eligibility for TEACH grants — which are available to students who are planning to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income school — to only effective teacher preparation programs.

The survey is the first of its kind to ask for teacher attitudes and preparedness about college and career readiness for their students, which is part of the goals of the new Common Core State Standards.

In Building a Better Teacher, Green traces the development of two clubs, which I'll call the «This Kind of Teaching (TKOT) Club» and the «Classroom Efficiency Club.»

As with any measure, value - added can lead to two kinds of misclassification: putting a teacher in a group to which he does not truly belong — a false positive — or failing to put him in a category in which he does belong — a false negative.

It is designed for teachers and school leaders who wish to build solid shared understandings about the kinds of data used in schools, the different ways in which data can be represented and what they can tell teachers about student learning.

All of the «options» Florida is offering have the same issues as public education: they are only as good as the quality of programs & people - administrators, teachers, evaluators, etc. implementing them - and more importantly, in the voucher plan there are two huge issues: 1) poor and uneducated parents rarely are aware of the range of quality and number of schools available (which I am sure the politicians are counting on) 2) Even if every parent were saavy in the needs of their child and the kind of school they should look for, there aren't enough of those schools available...

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Kevin Courtney, the joint general secretary of the National Education Union, said that in the context of the «ongoing crisis in teacher recruitment and retention», the government would be «well - advised to consult with teacher training institutions, and take a hard look at whether the tests are assessing skills of a kind which it is absolutely essential for teachers to attain».

At Summer Heights, examining the current landscape involved creating a visual representation showing all classrooms in which special education teachers and general education teachers worked, with arrows indicating which kinds of educators pulled students from which specific classrooms for services.

Prospective teachers learn to use tools, doing the same kind of exploratory activities in which their own students in the middle grades could be engaged.

The adults who work there often have a long record of poor performance, having bounced around from school to school until, finally, the teachers union and the district human resources department make a deal to assign them to an alternative setting, which serves as a kind of professional exile from the rest of the system.