Sentences with phrase «work teachers do»

If Obama is elected for another term, he is likely to continue to drive school reform through federal grant competitions, like Race to the Top; recognize and support the hard work teachers do; and make postsecondary education more accessible and affordable.

Both unions continue to cling to an old - school model of employee - management relations that was never really a fit for the kind of work teachers do in the first place, no longer applies in the modern world of today, and definitely not workable in an age in which teacher performance can be measured, quantified and rewarded accordingly.

Sue Bredekamp on Formative Assessment aims to deepen understanding of using assessment as a resource to improve the work teachers do in early childhood education.

To address the opportunity gap, our society must rethink its view of teaching and the work teachers do.

Closing the opportunity gap requires the public to view the work teachers do as the single most important human endeavor.

Our pay is pathetic and we do all the work the teachers don't have time to do.

However, they do not allow evaluators to see all of the work teachers do after school, long - term instruction over multiple days, or the way they collaborate with their colleagues.

It can not be forced by incentives that distract from the most important work teachers do with students: fostering genuine curiosity and love of learning around rich content and meaningful tasks with that content.

Embedded in the DNA of the work teachers do every day — planning, delivering, and assessing instruction, at the lesson and unit level.

Pat Herbst is a mathematics educator whose research focuses on the nature of the mathematical work that students do in secondary classrooms and on the work teachers do to manage knowledge development.

For school boards who support the courageous work teachers do in their classrooms as they try to teach empathy, kindness, acceptance, and understanding?

Teacher appreciation should also be extended through education policies that value the work teachers do — and that includes teachers» salaries.

I hope their stories inspire those looking to enter the teaching profession and shine a spotlight on the incredible work teachers do all over the world every day.

But the intention was not to be critical of the excellent work teachers do.

In most schools, sports is one of the only settings in which we talk about what makes a strong team and an effective team player, and coaches might have strategies that could translate to the work teachers do in the classroom.

Craft trades and ministries point toward a middle way that, though less prestigious than medicine, could actually enhance the profession by better reflecting the work teachers do instead of arrogating to itself a status that strikes many noneducators as presumptuous and self - serving.

Now in its 23rd year, the ASG NEiTA acknowledges the great work teachers do in their communities, both in Australia and New Zealand and has recognised more than 30,000 teachers and distributed more than $ 940,000 in professional development grants.

«I hope his story will inspire those looking to enter the teaching profession and also shine a powerful spotlight on the incredible work teachers do all over the UK and throughout the world every day.»

Hard - working teachers do not want bad, ineffective or, especially, abusive other teachers around the kids they serve.

Family programs, such as ESL classes, encourages parents to communicate more with teachers and empowers them to help their children with homework and generally support the work the teacher does in the classroom.

Not exact matches

People who are teachers might tutor, [and] lawyers who become moms maybe can do legal work on the side,» AOL co-founder Steve Case told CNBC's «On the Money.»

«This system was designed decades ago,» Gates continued, «and it doesn't reflect what educators have learned about helping students and teachers do their best work,» namely, that students learn far more effectively when their instruction is tailored to their specific needs.

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

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

It goes beyond the core skill work we do on Khan Academy, tying it into monthly challenges that are intended to be done in a physical environment, in your math class with your teacher.

It's us being able to work with many more teachers and, frankly, they're able to do a lot of the heavy lifting around mindset, meta cognition, getting students into it, and we provide the tools.

We seek a similar vision — business reimagined — and our goal is to show you the path, walking with you as a teacher and guide, for as long as you're willing to do the work.

When your teacher threatens you with (insert social punishment here) if you don't do your work in school, you do the work.

Teachers are underpaid for the work we're doing.

How long did you have to work in the public sector or as a teacher to get these benies?

She's your favorite teacher, cracking you up while her tough love gets you to do the work to improve.»

These programs typically hinge on what you do for a living and are available to those who work for non-profits or the government, as well as teachers, lawyers, nurses, and doctors who work in specific areas.

John is an amazing teacher with an amazing blog... just be careful not to set off «the switch» by aping some «great» investor rather than doing your own work

Grondin has done substantial archival work to settle what the book's jacket calls «the facts of Gadamer's life»: upbringing, schooling, teachers, degrees, appointments, major publications, and other signal events (Gadamer's early illness, his two marriages, his arrest by East German police).

That's why the teacher (human) analogy doesn't work.

It would be like having your science teacher explain in detail what we have discovered in regards to evolution and been able to test and repeat but then ends with «Even though this is what we have observed time and again and has been peer reviewed and see no reason it should work in any other way, we just don't know how science worked 10,000 years ago.

Mr Morfin said: «We've got some fantastic teachers in our schools who are working so hard to serve these children but the reality is that the current system doesn't enable those vulnerable children to always get the education that they need.»

It always stuns me when people say that they don't want to see teachers or nurses get raises because the good ones should be in it for the love of the work.

How bout chemistry, do we need a law telling teachers to only do experiments that actually work as chemistry?

The reason for working among the dispossessed, and the reason for training teachers, preachers and missionaries to do so, while insisting on the highest standards, and the reason for fighting to get disadvantaged people access to educational and leadership resources is to equip them with epistemological possibilities not already available to them.

Clive Ireson, director of strategy at the Association of Christian Teachers agrees with the findings, speaking on Premier's News Hour, he said: «Children know if they've done something good or not in their work and if people say «oh that's very good», and it isn't, then it's just false.

I have seen Christians in both academic and pastoral work attracting admirers who then progressively lose the power to distinguish between devotion to their human teacher and loyalty to their divine Lord, and I don't want anything of that kind to happen to me.

His work The True Word largely survives because the 3rd century teacher Origen made a very longwinded response to it, Against Celsus (which definitely falls into the category of books I have read so that you don't have to).

«I did see myself as kind of a kindergarten teacher in those days, because the judges didn't think sex discrimination existed,» she says in the trailer, describing her advocacy work for women's rights in front of skeptical male judges.

I say allow the holidays, which I do not mind including but I am sure the teachers union will have a fit that they have to work two more days out of the year.

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.

How do we «have faith» for stuff when we can find it in Scripture, but biblical teachers / pastors etc tell you it doesn't work that way anymore?

1) The people, including Father Greeley, who incessantly lament the gap between teaching and the reception of teaching are typically the same people who have for years worked to undermine the credibility of the Church's teaching office; 2) Their measure of whether the Church is listening is whether teaching is brought into line with their preferences; 3) The curia in Rome coordinates and corrects as necessary, but the teachers of the Church are the bishops, priests and catechists who too often find it easier to blame Rome than to do their job; 4) Catholic Americans are about 6 percent of the universal Church, and Greeley's think - for - themselves educated Catholics who are unhappy with church teaching, usually on matters sexual, are a much smaller part of that 6 percent.

Jesus often refeared to the scriptures when he would say «it is written» when He was under attack from the devil and the teachers of the law, they used the scriptures as a weapon to control the people and they tried the same strategy with Jesus and when it did not work the plotted to shut Him up.

Religion teachers in highly competitive, academically elite institutions, where students possess considerable knowledge of history, science and computers, find themselves doing remedial work in the study of religion.