The workshops are run in schools with a police officer, the class teacher and two members of Samm and are subsequently followed up with further work.
These Victorian legacies include: reliance on the generalist class teacher rather than specialist subject teachers, lower per pupil funding than in secondary schools, lower status for primary school teachers, a formal education starting age of five, and long summer holidays which are left over from the days when children were needed to bring in the harvest.
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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Rebecca Maughan, the real history teacher, offered an encouraging first-night review, saying that the stand-up stand-in teacher had kept the class engaged and interested.
She was frustrated during a recent class when the teacher went over how many times three goes into six.
Now, the teacher of this class instructed the students to ask me any question they wanted.
Walter Milancuk's public-school horror story began early, when his son Derrick spent kindergarten in an overcrowded roomful of students who regularly fought in class and cursed the teacher.
Which is why Katherine Ye Zi, an English-language teacher, selected the class of Internet trailblazers from the different ethnic groups.
In Montreal, he takes over the middle-school class of a beloved teacher who has recently hanged herself.
Both he and the legislature have poured millions of dollars into buying more textbooks, improving teacher-training and cutting class sizes, in the early grades, from 30 or more to no more than 20.
Downward doggers will appreciate her pose descriptions and the window into a teacher's thoughts about students during the quiet intensity of a class.
The biggest difference, Prof Nicolson says, is that when the class is broken down into ability groups within the literacy hour each day, the teacher has to move from one to another.
This sport was developed in 1891 to provide indoor physical activity for the boys in a teacher's gym class.
After an aerobics class at the Swarthmore Community Center, retired teacher Susan Larson told us she demonstrates against the war.
Both the teacher and the students in the class we filmed at Long Road Sixth Form College felt too much time was being wasted earlier in the education system.
"You know five, six years ago, with cell phones, we were simply worried about conversations going on when kids should be listening in class, phones ringing and disturbing the teacher while they were trying to teach, but we weren't worried about pictures, we weren't worried about text messages, " he says.
But Card told the Doug Wright Show, the way he understands it, the teacher had also been reading inappropriate material off the Internet to the class.
There is a little evidence that this could improve pupils' progress, but what may happen, given the current problems in recruiting teachers, is that a large class with an experienced and capable teacher is split into two, with half of the pupils being taken by a less experienced and perhaps less capable teacher.
If anything, parents and administrators clamor for reduced productivity per teacher, in the form of smaller class sizes.
Romney must convince us that he is the wise, strong teacher who can manage a class-full of brats, bullies and clowns with a firm look and quiet word.
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Before the Flip, the teacher looking to introduce video production into his course would have had to dedicate a whole class period to showing students how to operate the camera.
At NYC Gifted, the 90-minute class consists of 10 students and one teacher.
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When I was about 17, three years after I turned pro, my high school "careers" teacher scolded me in front of the entire class about jumping ahead in my workbook.
Then, during my 6th period art class, my teacher told me to go to the office.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott have said the resulting funding loss would mean the elimination of 700 guidance counselor and teacher positions, bigger class sizes and cuts in pre-kindergarten special education, after-school and anti-bullying programs, according to court documents.
The teacher, an American expat, spoke to the class solely in English, almost unheard-of in French schools where foreign languages are taught in French by French natives, and we were all handed a phonebook-sized block of paper, full of lists of verbs and pronouns, useful tips, press clips (largely from The Economist) and other things to learn.
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Mr. Campbell, the 14-year-old, started playing after Mr. Sokolski, his teacher at the time, introduced the game to his class in Petawawa five years ago.
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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.
"Not if they are dumped in a class untrained - and again that depends also on the enthusiasm of the teacher and the head teacher, " she said.
We do thorough vetting before nominations. (Laughter.) Of course, her recommended professions after she took these tests were to be a nurse or a teacher -- just like all the other girls in her class.
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