ever has to sit down and work out a specific set of questions for specific children to do, cos the software understands at what point of learning those children are at. also, it marks those questions, so the teacher doesn t have to sit for hours marking them in a book and correcting them as well, which i know from personal experience can consume your entire life. over the last 18 months we ve all needed as much help as we could get as our kids have flipped between school and home learning and we ve flopped into bed each night exhausted after being parents, teachers and workers. for some children, learning at home has helped them to blossom, but, for many, tech will never beat the teacher. earlier in the year, i met andria zafirakou, the best teacher in the universe and that s not just according to her pupils, mind. she won the global teacher prize in 2018. the one thing that we have to bear in mind is that,
tracks learning across subjects, so it can differentiate between a student who is struggling with a mathematical equation, and one who s struggling with how the maths question is posed. in that case, it may suggest more literacy tasks. when the pandemic hit, software like this became increasingly important as students were forced to learn from home. and during the first lockdown, united learning, one of the largest groups of schools in england, introduced another adaptive learning platform to 46 of their secondary schools. sparx maths has thousands and thousands of questions and thousands and thousands of hours of exemplification as well videos explaining how to do certain operations. now, that means that no teacher ever has to sit down and work out a specific set of questions for specific children to do, cos the software understands at what point of learning those children are at. also, it marks those questions, so the teacher doesn t have to sit for hours marking them in a book
maths question is posed. in that case, it may suggest more literacy tasks. when the pandemic hit, software like this became increasingly important as students were forced to learn from home. and during the first lockdown, united learning, one of the largest groups of schools in england, introduced another adaptive learning platform to 46 of their secondary schools. sparx maths has thousands and thousands of questions and thousands and thousands of hours of exemplification as well videos explaining how to do certain operations. now, that means that no teacher ever has to sit down and work out a specific set of questions for specific children to do, cos the software understands at what point of learning those children are at. also, it marks those questions, so the teacher doesn t have to sit for hours marking them in a book and correcting them as well, which i know from personal experience can consume your entire life. over the last 18 months we ve all
ash wednesday cross with catholic signal with the beginning of lent season off of his forehead. the teacher apologized but the school said an investigation is underway. kathy and senior columnist, kurt schlichter, welcome to you both. jim: thank you for having us, william cloud describing what happened. the teacher walked over and said like, what is that? i said it is ash wednesday and she said, know that is inappropriate, take it off. she took me aside and said, you have to take it off. so she gave me, she made me wipe it off. shannon: kurt, the teacher has apologized but is this a mistake? kurt: welcome it may very well be. we either have a diversity problem and that this teacher doesn t understand some people have different customs and practices associated with their
learning so this teacher apparently not a catholic or christian, was not aware that was a religious symbol, something the child has a right to do and took it too far, said it was inappropriate, tried to create a calm learning environment, really blue it. the school did not stand behind her, she s on leave. doesn t seem like it is going to happen again at this school and she learned her lesson. heather: they voted 10-to to settle the case about people who are homeless and large tent city area that essentially takes away the ability for law enforcement officers, belongings bear, and move people to other places but there is controversy over that. the city must take a stand for safety and decency. and dangerous street behavior.