Sentences with phrase «work as teachers even»

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«Even if as a teacher I had worked two jobs, that was cake compared to what I was doing,» she says.

Even the relationship of teacher and pupils in a school is not fulfilled so long as the instructor by duress and discipline is forcing stolid children to their work.

Teachers are explicitly discouraged from having major assessments on those days, which makes sense even for selfish reasons; I, as a teacher, don't want to have to schedule all that make - up work.

I thank Brent Slife for his support of my critique of the compartmentalization that prevails in the social sciences and humanities at BYU (as elsewhere, of course), and even more for his valuable work as a teacher and scholar in questioning this compartmentalization.

It's way worse this third baby than even when I was working as a full - time elementary teacher expecting Silas!

Even after adopting my own child and working for most of my life as a special Ed teacher, pre school handicapped kids, I learned so much from you.

As a preschool teacher who works with infants (6 weeks - 2 years) I think this list is certainly not overkill (and even if it were if that such a bad thing?)

You should attend school functions as you can spend time doing homework with them, visiting their teacher at open house even if it needs you to take some time out from your work.

Even those of us who spent our adolescence babysitting for other people's children or who work as preschool teachers or pediatric nurses are in for some big surprises.

«The task of schools in closing the attainment gap is made even harder when teacher supply is in crisis as a result of attacks on teachers» pay, working conditions and professionalism.

NYSUT even publicly lauded Republican candidate Rob Astorino for an open letter he wrote to teachers expressing his respect for their work after Cuomo characterized public education as a monopoly that he intends to break with stricter evaluations and competition from charter schools.

These patterns remained largely intact, particularly for Latino teachers, even after considering factors such as student performance, teacher working conditions, and other measures of teacher efficacy.

I worked as a teacher in the morning, and as a style enthusiast in the evening, haha.

That, I think, really lends itself to being recorded as a screencast or a video in some way so students can watch it over and over and over if they need to even in the classroom while the teacher is maybe working with another student.

It is even more so with teachers, as they work with students for fewer hours a day.

Within the first year of implementation, even before teachers had worked out all the kinks, Mesquite went from a «performing» school (as labeled by the state of Arizona) in 2002 to an «excelling» school, the highest ranking, in 2003.

Teachers work largely in isolation, and professionalism is defined as the freedom for individual teachers to determine what they teach, how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for Teachers work largely in isolation, and professionalism is defined as the freedom for individual teachers to determine what they teach, how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for teachers to determine what they teach, how they teach, and sometimes even who they teach; that is, senior teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for teachers teaching only upper - level courses, for example.

«If you've got four teachers working as a group and can free those people up for a half day each (a full day is preferable)... even with that relatively small intervention or investment of giving people time to work together, it then seems to have an impact on their ongoing practice.»

Soble explains that exposure to the insights and ideas of others who use Project Zero ideas in their classrooms and schools allows her to continue her own education as a teacher, even as she's working as a PZC faculty member.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

I'd like to feel that in my years of service as a site administrator, I worked to continuously be a P.A.L. for my new teachers, even when it was challenging to do so.

All preferred sheltered English immersion, even though they thought it was harder work for them as teachers.

In the K — 12 world, however, tenure remains the norm for public school teachers in the district sector, vouchsafed in most places by state law and big - time politics, as well as local contracts, even in so - called «right to work» states.

The effect the «work to rule» had on me as a student opened my eyes to the effort expended by teachers to hand grade assignments, often using their evenings and weekends (without extra compensation) to do so.

For this reason, Shakespeare studies — especially at senior student level — can become a subject area where teachers are left feeling even more constrained, as they must work against this perceived cultural distance to create a safe environment for creative exploration and interpretation of the text.

Teachers, too, can be hired to do contractual work for individuals, companies, and even nations, as they are now accessible worldwide via live streaming.

A lone worker constitutes as someone who works alone or without direct supervision; within a school, this could apply to cleaning staff or even teachers or office staff who are working late and left alone.

Now even when I look back over 30 years of teaching — what I did as an inquiry teacher 30 years ago, very different to the way I would work now.

The ATUS offers the opportunity for a much more accurate and objective comparison of teacher and non-teacher work hours on both a weekly and yearly basis, helping account for thorny issues such as the extent of evening and weekend hours and the length of summer breaks.

My request was met with resistance as the teachers explained to me it was an unnecessary use of time since they had already worked together to write the test and had even determined how many points each question was worth and typed those points on the side of each item.

One study estimated that a teacher working a 30 - year career in the same state had two or even three times the pension wealth as a teacher with the same 30 - year career who split her time across two states.

Teachers can use their strengths more often at work, even as they seek to improve weaknesses.

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

Watch millions more teachers leave as the government squeezes to get even more unpaid work out of a drained workforce.

Even though many of the practices of the most accomplished teachers in this study, such as coaching in word recognition during actual reading and asking higher level, aesthetic response questions, were mirrored in our analyses of teachers in the most effective schools, this does not mean that all of the most accomplished teachers worked in the most effective schools.

«As a society we need teachers who are allowed to get on with the job of teaching without being driven into the ground by having to routinely work deep into the evenings and at weekends.

Before joining the faculty, she worked in a number of urban settings, including as a K - 6 bilingual teacher, Even Start coordinator, literacy instructional specialist, and trainer for the Accelerated Schools Project.

Now, states say they are relying more on work by teachers, unions, school board members, principals and even parents as they design new teacher evaluations.

I haven't even heard a colleague say they could work as a Rocketship teacher for 5 years.

As I wrote in the Brookings piece, teacher compensation, working conditions, and even evaluation may all matter for the quantity and quality of the teacher supply, but seem to me have been unjustifiably neglected.

United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), California's largest teachers union, slammed Parent Revolution for touting the agreement as a groundbreaking accomplishment, arguing that aspects of the 13 - page document were already in the works for years or even ingrained in school or districtTeachers Los Angeles (UTLA), California's largest teachers union, slammed Parent Revolution for touting the agreement as a groundbreaking accomplishment, arguing that aspects of the 13 - page document were already in the works for years or even ingrained in school or districtteachers union, slammed Parent Revolution for touting the agreement as a groundbreaking accomplishment, arguing that aspects of the 13 - page document were already in the works for years or even ingrained in school or district policy.

In their internships, students serve in local classrooms essentially as apprentices, initially in an observational role and then gradually taking on responsibilities for supporting group work and even co-teaching at times with their cooperating teacher.

Even a so called «Gifted» program will not work very well if the schools simply see this group as the classes where substitute teachers can be placed when there is a shortage of teachers, or where the worst teachers can be assigned.

Learning is hard work, and it's even harder when you are doing «double the work» of everyone else.1 Teachers can mitigate this challenge for ELLs by establishing content, language, and social learning purposes (also known as learning objectives or learning intentions) at the start of the lesson and redirecting students to these purposes frequently.

I now know firsthand how uplifting and difficult being a teacher can be, and how myriad policy decisions affect the work I do every day: implementing the rigorous standards known as the Common Core; modifying No Child Left Behind / ESEA to address its shortcomings, such as simplified curricula due to testing; establishing new evaluation systems that rate teacher effectiveness and, I hope, provide us with support and feedback to get even better.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

Even if the curricula is aligned with the standards, the curricula won't work if teachers are not capable of improving student achievement, if school cultures damn some kids (notably those from poor and minority backgrounds) to low expectations, and if school operators aren't held to high expectations (as well as rewarded and punished accordingly).

The findings come as researchers working separately reported that career teachers around the country are struggling with low wages, sometimes even qualifying for state and federal assistance programs.

However, this perk also comes with additional responsibilities, as most boarding school teachers are usually asked to work more hours, taking on dorm parent roles, coaching roles, and even evening and weekend supervisory roles.

Respondents to the government's workload challenge survey cited accountability as the major driver of unnecessary workload which has led to teachers and leaders working, on average, a 58 - hour week, and school leaders even longer.