If a teacher is dealing with a student through social media and it's within the bounds of the teacher-student relationship, and it's related to school and all that, I have no comment on that.
Unfortunately, the excitement about big data may obscure this important distinction and may end up degrading, rather than improving, the quality of the teacher-student connection.
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"When it comes to attacks like this, American people can relate to the word 'terrorism, '" one student told the teacher, according to him.
Jim Keith, an education lawyer who represents several school boards in Missouri, has been giving talks to teachers in which he explains that most of the inappropriate student-teacher relationships start out on a friendship level.
During the next class, the homeroom teacher called the Korean student who had touched the trumpet without permission to come to the blackboard and meted out the punishment of holding two water-filled buckets with outstretched arms.
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At Keith's urging, they checked the child's phone bill and found 4, 200 text messages between the teacher and student.
In first grade, whenever someone made a mess in the classroom, the teacher would ask a student to get the janitor.
The student looked at his teacher pleadingly, searching for sympathy but finding only a scowl.
Infant mortality has declined, and some 100, 000 teachers have been hired to narrow the yawning teacher-student ratio.
Written by von Trier, it inverts and upends the traditional idea of a teacher inspiring his student, and its effect upon the rest of the film is revelatory.
As the popularity of Facebook and Twitter has increased, so have the complaints about inappropriate student-teacher contact.
Charter schools are the exception, beacons of success which attract many parents with the promise of low student-teacher ratios, alternative programs and proven results.
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As a professor, Ayers has written more than a dozen books on his holistic approach to learning that downplays the boundaries between teacher and student.
While I cannot say that this bill was passed with poor intentions, I believe that the bill inadvertently cripples the potential for valuable student and teacher connections.
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Particularly revealing is the scene where the evil Jade Fox (veteran kung-fu movie star Cheng Pei-pei) decries the fact that she couldn't read, while her student Jen could and therefore surpassed the teacher in achievement and skill.
To all 50 states, we said, if you show us the most innovative plans to improve teacher quality and student achievement, we'll show you the money.
Most likely a colleague of the teacher who prepared each student for the exam.
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Those pages eliminate the need for Facebook or MySpace, he says, and allow the schools to monitor all student-teacher communication.
The combination of software, broadband networks and powerful, affordable devices is making it possible to put high-quality educational resources into the hands of any teacher or student who has access to basic technology infrastructure and tools.
But if that realization is leading his team to shun "structural" reforms in favor of classroom-level changes only--merely reconstructing "the learning partnership between teacher and student" as their new materials put it--they're apt to end up disappointed once again.
Today, a Mayangna team is working with the Ministry of Education to develop pilot teacher manuals and student workbooks that are being tested in rural classrooms across the BOSAWAS Biosphere Reserve.
The teacher slipped over to the student next to Ben, and glanced at her work.
The teacher rankings were based on student test scores that were adjusted for factors such as absenteeism, poverty, race and class size.
The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
Former student is defined as any person who was at one time a student at the school at which the teacher is employed and who is eighteen years of age or less and who has not graduated.
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As an example, he said that a moment of "indiscretion" between a "23-year-old male teacher with a 17-year-old female student after a sixth form social function could land the teacher in the criminal court, facing six months of imprisonment".
At issue were the length of the school day, tying teacher evaluations to student academic performance, and potential job cuts.
Certainly we should be wary of the idea that data could substitute for the personal connection between a teacher and a student.
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When that happens, we believe that districts will be on the cusp of providing every student with an effective teacher, in every class, every year.
Clay, the student, grew in his business leadership and as an individual, while his teacher took pride in the accomplishments and impact of his work.
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