Socrative showed off a product to change the way teachers deliver quizzes.
New York and dozens of other states are overhauling the way teachers are graded, in a movement to try to identify and reward the best teachers, get rid of the worst ones and help mediocre teachers improve.
Web-based instruction for teachers is one of the most important because it can be an extremely cost-effective way to train new teachers, and it may be the only way we can possibly fill the huge demand for qualified teachers.
Girls generally wanted to copy the way their teachers behaved - such as being kind to others.
Opponents of the law say that Facebook is a way for teachers to communicate with students for legitimate reasons.
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But the real question was not so much the choice of plays on offer but the way some teachers were driven to teach them.
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Yet in regard to trying to obfuscate data that might help patients make better decisions, as a group they behave the same way as teachers.
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He or she might ask you questions about your child's development, how long your child has been behaving this way, teachers' or caregivers' perceptions of the problem, and any family history of mental health conditions.
The assumption behind what Duncan and Millman are saying is that teachers should only teach for a few years and then move on, making way for new teachers to come in and bring their energy and verve to the profession.
The theory originated in education, as a way of helping teachers and students communicate more effectively.
In places like New Haven, educators and city leaders have come together to find a smarter way to evaluate teachers and turn around low-performing schools.
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"For all the bluster, I think, in the end, my hope is that people would all come together and that we'll find a way to evaluate teachers, reward the best, give some help to those that aren't doing a great job, " he said during a brief radio appearance Friday morning.
But some real damage could be done along the way, both to teachers and to students.
As innovation increases in education in the years ahead, the way we prepare some teachers may need to change as well.
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Li was impressed enough by a talk Hedin gave in 1994 to invite him to show his teachers their way around the Web.
People who advocate new pay schemes see them as a way of attracting better teachers without having to come up with a ton of money.
As a result of the feedback, for example, Cohen learned that he needed to develop a better way for students and teachers to share videos and other content in the online communal area for a course.
Online education will allow universities to do that even better: for one, they will provide a way for the best teachers to be recognized and promoted for something other than just research, a long time concern in the APT process at research universities.
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And you have to hire all these teachers along the way and pay for all the laboratory facilities and all that, but there's nothing more important.
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Save the states a few billion dollars a year in fees and expenses by converting to all index funds, and save a few thousand teachers along the way.
Whenever I write in support of education reform -- whether proposed by Democrats or Republicans -- or, for that matter, whenever I challenge teachers in any way, I get an earful from angry and defensive educators who demand to know if I have ever been in the classroom.
Societies which respect their teachers go a long way in the development of their country and nations.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry said that if school districts decide that arming teachers is the best way to keep schools safe, so be it.
Let me say something about teachers, by the way.
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Connecticut is set to revamp the way it evaluates public-school teachers with a vote Wednesday that is expected to create a rating system based on student performance, classroom observations and, to a smaller extent, anonymous student and parent surveys.
Far from not wanting to hold teachers accountable, critics suggest that a better way would be to make teaching a better, more professional job with higher standards for teachers.
But Ann Ballinger, general secretary of the Scottish Secondary Teachers' Association, expressed concern at the way the audit had been carried out and claimed there were numerous examples of councils who failed to consult with classroom teachers or even department heads.
Many of China's university teachers are resentful of the way the state is treating them.
Indeed, teachers told that this new way of teaching has deeply changed the learning process into their classrooms.
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