Sentences with phrase «after teaching social studies»

After teaching Social Studies in St. Paul Public Schools for three years, David co-founded El Colegio Charter School in Minneapolis and served as start - up coordinator, board member, advisor, special education teacher, lead teacher, and executive director during his 13 + years at the school.

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Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

After two years working in Portland, I found my way to Bay Area, California where I taught 9th grade social studies for 3 years while I supported faculty in developing their capacity to hold space for critical conversations around diversity, inclusion, and equity, as well as supporting social justice curriculum reform within the network.

Nevertheless, studies have found that, after controlling for the size and structure of the school and the social background of its students, schools in provinces with external exams taught their students a statistically significant one - half of a U.S. grade - level equivalent more math and science by 8th grade than comparable schools in provinces that did not give curriculum - based external tests.

END OF THE YEAR LETTER TO MY STUDENTS: Dear Students: After 33 1/2 years of teaching at HCS and having had more than 2000 students sit in my social studies classroom over these many years ~ I have decided to retire from teaching at the end of this school year in June.

After graduation, he plans to return to the classroom, teaching social studies in an urban district secondary school, preferably, he says, in a warmer climate.

After teaching high school social studies in rural North Carolina, I shifted my focus in education to an international realm and developed teach training material in Haiti.

After graduation, the Grand Rapids, Michigan native is ready to begin his teaching career as a middle school social studies teacher in his adopted hometown of Boston, putting this lesson — and the others learned in the Teacher Education Program (TEP)-- into practice.

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

who became a teacher of AP history teachers after retiring from 38 years of teaching social studies at Scarsdale (New York) High School.

After several great years teaching middle school English Language Arts and Social Studies at Brooke Mattapan, Ms. Scharfstein is excited to join the Brooke High School community.

Ms. O'Brien joined the Brooke Mattapan team in 2012 after having taught middle school Social Studies in California.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

Two weeks after the preservice teachers designed and presented their modelactivities during the sixth week of classes in the fall semester, one student (to be named «Trent» hereafter) inquired about a set of TI - 83s to use withhis onsite, small group teaching lesson, a requirement of the practicum course.Trent had been searching for ways to improve the test scores of these studentswhen he heard during class that using the TI - 83s and StudyCards was one wayin which a teacher had reached her social studies students with special needs.These special needs students had grown - up with GameBoys and other handheldvideo games and were motivated to learn using the TI - 83 since it was a similartype of device.

After teaching middle school for 13 years in the Fort Mill, SCSchool District, where she taught middle school science, socials studies, and computer technology, she left the K - 12 environment and began to work full time at Winthrop University.

He went to Harvard, where he co-founded a summer camp for at - risk children, and then — after earning a teaching degree at Columbia University — he taught social studies in Boston for three years.

After moving to Nashville, Mrs. Iams taught fifth and sixth grade math and social studies at St. Bernard Academy before becoming a founding math teacher at Valor Voyager Academy.

Matt joined Teach For America after graduation and taught social studies and math for two years at Liberty Collegiate Academy, a charter middle school in East Nashville.

Passionate about social justice and urban education reform, Nyissia was excited and honored to have the opportunity to return to the Bronx to teach after graduating Magna Cum Laude from Cornell University with majors in American Studies and Spanish and minors in Latin American Studies and Law and Society.

After beginning his educational career in 2000 as a Social Studies teacher at Gilbert H. Hood Middle School, Joe spent one year teaching in a 5th grade classroom at Lowell Community Charter School in Lowell, MA.

This study of 65 elementary school teacher candidates enrolled in social studies methods classes examined attitudes toward currently contentious curriculum issues before and after participation in a practicum experience teaching an arts - integrated unit on Africa.

A Brookline native, she attended the town's public schools from kindergarten through high school and returned as a high school Social Studies teacher after earning a PhD in American Studies at Brown University and teaching Women's Studies, Science in Society, and the history of political movements at the college level.

After working in a local bookstore for several years, Mr. Sinclair decided to enroll in a teaching certificate program in social studies education.

Similarly, Kerri, after having taken this methods course, diagnosed that she would have taught in a way that was boring, in part, because of her lack of knowledge about social studies:

After graduating from Newcastle University with a BA Hons in Religious Studies, Tillie followed her Professional Rugby player husband around the world for a decade, becoming a teacher in between and thoroughly enjoyed teaching High School students Social Studies before putting pen to paper, and finishing her first novel.

Mr. and Mrs. B a.k.a. Bill & Kathy Bessling decided to open their own private driving school in 1996 after Mr. B retired from teaching social studies and world cultures for three decades in the Baltimore County Public Schools.