Sentences with phrase «with lack of autonomy»

Center for Teaching Quality CEO Barnett Berry tackles a report that describes teachers» dissatisfaction with lack of autonomy in their work.

Not exact matches

Thus play's spontaneity is not to be confused with a lack of preparation or intention, nor should its vitality be equated with the merely chaotic.33 For play is created by way of order, albeit an order which is freely embraced and which preserves the autonomy of the player.

By the year 1914 political independence from Western peoples was preserved only in the shrinking, badly weakened Turkish Empire; in Arabia, where encroachments had begun in Aden; in Ethiopia, with a precarious insecurity in its mountain fastnesses; in Persia, partly partitioned in Russian and British spheres of influence; in Afghanistan, a mountain buffer state between the British and Russian empires; in Thailand (Siam as it was then known), relatively safe because the British and the French, eyeing each other from Burma and Indo - China, would not permit either to annex it; in China, technically independent, but in fact occupied by Western powers who fixed the tariffs and whose citizens had extraterritorial status, and partially carved into spheres of influence; and in Japan, and from the 1850's into 1890's the independence of Japan had been compromised by the extraterritorial privileges of Westerners and the lack of full tariff autonomy.

So we prioritised finding a team with the expertise and experience that we lacked, we learnt to take their advice and let them have real autonomy in their areas of the business.

But while Mena found opportunities to grow as a mathematician in his native Ecuador, he was also confronted with bureaucracy and a lack of autonomy.

In addition, teens» abilities (or lack thereof) to express autonomy and maintain close relationships with friends and partners at age 18 predicted the degree of autonomy and closeness in future relationships at age 21.

Just the sheer fact of my lack of physical autonomy — the fact that I sleep with tiny humans snuggled up to me (and all over me), that my body doesn't look the same as it once did, that I've only just now been able to spend a night away from my children — has been enough to highlight just how free my life must have felt before I had children.

«Even in countries with strong national policies and laws,» says co-author Susan Garnett Russell, «several factors result in an implementation gap including lack of capacity in government schools, low levels of capacity among civil servants, autonomy of local and school administrators, and discrimination and xenophobia by the host communities.»

I have personally experienced the demands of being a teacher and observed colleagues also deal with the stressors of the job, ranging from high - stakes testing, demanding parents, increased paperwork, disrespectful students, increased diversity and differentiated learning needs, and lack of creativity and autonomy.

Some are former district staff frustrated with the bureaucracy and lack of autonomy, some are free marketers who philosophically believe (absent a whole ton of research) that the market will rescue schools, some are pro union, some anti union, some want a new union, some are well intentioned and fail, some are less well intentioned and succeed, and there is a wide range within.

These range from teaching conditions, such as class sizes and salaries, to unhappiness with administrative practices (such as lack of support, classroom autonomy, or input on decisions) to policy issues, such as the effects of testing and accountability.

According to the Shanker Institute report, attrition is «the most significant impediment to increasing the diversity of the teacher workforce,» with minority teachers» strongest complaints related not to being concentrated in urban schools serving high poverty, high - need communities, but because of «a lack of collective voice in educational decisions and a lack of professional autonomy in the classroom.»

In contrast, in their role as holders of the cloth sacks, the hooks are given a function that undermines their autonomy as self - sufficient objects, with the result that they oscillate between display modules and genuine artworks, whereas the Silos — in spite of their formal proximity to those seat - like objects seen in quasi-participational art projects (like those of Franz West)-- utterly lack the quality of sturdy usefulness and seemingly even have to be held in place by the rods of the «Gurneys».

Fascinated with the autonomy of the artifact — objects disassociated from their original function and context — Atterbury's practice considers the distinction or lack thereof between artifact, prop, model and sculpture.