Sentences with phrase «as a middle school teacher who»

As a middle school teacher who coached, worked on multiple committees, and photographed weddings on the weekends, I paid the debt off.

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One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

I really tuned in to learn about Sam Darnold's Mom I hope ESPN does one of there 30 for 30 documentaries on her so I can learn more about her career as a Middle school PE teacher I learned Darnold is a combination of Russell Wilson, Abraham Lincoln, Carrot top, and and the Messiah Oh and he is really competitive on the field and cool California on the sidelines I really felt bad for U$ C missing their top receiver and running back and had to suffer with a 5 star top whatever replacement while we were out our top playmaker and running back and at RB we have a walk - on who just got a scholy

Hello Bettina, I am a teacher who has attempted to advocate for our at - risk students in requesting that colleagues stop giving candy as a «reward» to our middle and high school students.

Lahey is a warm, engaging writer who spent years in the trenches as a middle school Latin and English teacher.

The honorees, DeWitt Middle School technology teacher David Buchner and Ithaca High School math teacher Steve Weissburg, were recognized as teachers who:

by Walter Chaw Ben (Jimmy Fallon), a Red Sox fanatic and middle - school math teacher, falls in love with corporate minx Lindsey (Drew Barrymore), who, as is often the case in Farrelly Brothers films, is perfect.

Bigger Than Life (Criterion) Ostensibly a drama about prescription drug misuse and abuse and drawn from an article in The New Yorker, this portrait of a grade - school teacher and middle class father (played by James Mason, who also produced and helped develop the project) is as much about adult male masculinity and responsibility as a husband and father, and the pressure on him to live up to the ideal, as Rebel Without a Cause is about the emotional realities of being an American teenager.

I spent fifteen years as a middle school teacher, working hard to gain an understanding of students who vacillated between being needy children and insightful adults.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

Similarly, in a case study of four middle school math teachers who participated in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their classrooms, teachers in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and learning» in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

Wire Side Chat: Reporter Reflects on Year as a Teacher «I've come to think that only a radical change can address the deep - seated problems in our poor, inner city schools,» says Christina Asquith, a former Philadelphia Inquirer reporter who spent a year teaching in a Philadelphia middle school.

As a middle school English teacher, I know all too well how common it is to meet students who have difficulty receiving constructive criticism.

The teachers in predominantly poor, minority schools, who are reportedly mostly black and have adopted the more teacher - centered, authoritarian style of instruction that they view as appropriate for their students, are turning off white, upper - middle - class parents who want school climates similar to their own progressive homes, where problems are discussed.

Dr. Beverly Hall: I did a summer internship in a middle school in Brooklyn, New York, and was very inspired by the teacher who served as my mentor, Bill Regan.

«The format was introduced by Walter McKenzie, creator of The One And Only Surfaquarium, who conducted a WebQuest workshop for the teachers at our school as well as teachers at the Academy for the Middle Years, a nearby public school.

Adam Steiner (@steineredtech) recommends the blog post of social studies teacher Jay Barry, who notes the trend that «many boys stop reading for pleasure in middle school and those that are reading often choose books that do not challenge them as readers.»

For the 17 students at St. Johnsbury, as well as other elementary school and middle school students across the nation whose teachers have been deployed to the Middle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded withmiddle school students across the nation whose teachers have been deployed to the Middle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded withMiddle East, someone has left who not only taught them but also bonded with them.

Yakman, who holds a BS in Clothing and Textiles, has also worked as a middle and high school engineering and technology teacher and was named NCTC's STEM Teacher of the Year iteacher and was named NCTC's STEM Teacher of the Year iTeacher of the Year in 2009.

Ask any teacher who has had success using a word wall to build vocabulary and spelling skills and you'll likely hear the same explanation as that provided by middle - school staff developer Melba Smithwick: The key to success with word walls, said Smithwick, is to refer to them often, so students get in the habit of using the wall throughout the day, in all their assignments.

Economists from Harvard and Columbia studied 2.5 million people for over 20 years and concluded that those who had good teachers in elementary and middle school earned more money as adults than peers who did not.

To be considered highly qualified as a middle or secondary school teacher who is new to the profession, you must also have demonstrated a high level of competency in each of the academic subjects in which you teach.

To be highly qualified as an elementary, middle, or secondary school teacher who is not new to the profession, you must also

Marquez is an English as a Second Language (ESL) middle school teacher who throughout her first years in America barely knew English, even as a teacher.

Like the high school teacher who blames the middle - school teacher and the middle - school teacher who blames the elementary school (as a first grade teacher I often wondered what had happened in Kindergarten), our yellow schools should be among our first line of intervention to ensure schools don't eventually become persistently low - performing.

Specifically, across subsamples of Latino / a students — separated into groups of low achievers, middle achievers, and high achievers — teachers almost consistently perceived ELL Latino / a students as individuals who demonstrate less effort in school.

«I know well as a teacher that if I have five or 10 fewer students, it makes a huge difference with what I can do with kids,» said Duncan Clarke, a Washington Middle School teacher, who added that smaller classes have an effect on teachers as well as students.

As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

We got an interesting email in response to our post about LAUSD's low math scores from a Cochran Middle School math teacher named Rustum Jacob, who offers two additional reasons why scores are as low as they are: more 9th grade students being placed into Geometry, and no real alternatives for 9th graders who aren't...

* UPDATED As contract negotiations plod along between LA Unified and the teachers union, UTLA, the issue of class size reduction has taken on a new urgency for Superintendent Ramon Cortines, who plans to shrink the number of students in middle school and high school classrooms by the end of the year.

I wrote it as a guide for upper elementary and middle school teachers who want to simplify the process of setting up math centers.

The author describes a lesson on Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 conducted by a middle school English teacher, who incorporates writing as an important precursor to classroom discussion.

While the district withdrew as a defendant in the case before the trial started, she was called by the defense in an effort to impeach the testimony of a plaintiffs» witness, Nicholas Melvoin, a former LA Unified teacher at Markham Middle School in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eSchool in Watts, who had testified last month that teacher layoffs in 2009 resulted in effective teachers being dismissed and morale at the school eschool eroded.

But Tim Farmer, who spent the last two years as a teacher with Teach For America at Eugene Butler Middle School, is ramping up the network's recruitment efforts here.

My very best moment as a teacher was at Open House when one of my students, a middle schooler who had been in school for 10 years and was a non-reader, proudly stood at the SmartBoard and showed his mother the illustration he had done for a story we read, and read the text that went with it.

He served as a middle school teacher and union chapter leader, and spent seven years as a school principal, first at a district middle school and then as the founding principal of a charter high school serving over-age and under - credited students who were court - involved or in foster care He comes to Parent Revolution with a deep belief that all students, from all communities and in all kinds of situations, deserve excellent schools and the opportunities afforded by a high quality education.

As the oldest teacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend colteacher recruitment program in the country, South Carolina's Center for Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Advancement, or CERRA, facilitates a variety of programs that aim to recruit, retain, and support highly qualified teacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend colteacher candidates.64 CERRA recruits middle and high school students, college students, and career - changers by offering an array of programs across the state.65 For example, the Teacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend colTeacher Cadets Program is a high school recruitment program offered at nearly 160 schools in South Carolina.66 As Teacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend colTeacher Cadets, high - achieving juniors and seniors who express an interest in teaching complete field placements in classrooms and learn about curriculum development.67 The South Carolina Teaching Fellows Program, another one of CERRA's recruitment programs, is one of the most competitive scholarship and loan programs in the state: Through the program, select high school seniors who display a strong desire to pursue teaching receive a forgivable loan to attend college.68

The middle school teachers, unlike the elementary school teachers, weren't necessarily as eager to embrace change, said Shannon Harken, the Heartland AEA educational consultant who works with Lynnville - Sully on its RTI implementation.

Several of our former PUC Community Charter Middle School students who are now college graduates have now returned as PUC teachers.

«I was going through every piece of data I could imagine,» says Griffin, 57, who started as a middle school math teacher in Seminole in 1982 and rose through the ranks of the central Florida district to the top job.

The Southside Middle School «Students Who Achieve Good Grades Earn Respect» known as SWAGGER Recovery Team, led by Mrs. Kelli Turner, consists of teachers J.D. Craft and Kris Berry, instructional assistant Marwin Strong, Student Assistant Coordinator Kim Conner, counselors Lisa Rose and Marla Campbell, and assistant principals Phil Seale and Don Cowper.

Starting in middle school, students are assigned a «home base teacher» who serves as a first point of contact for families, makes sure students are organized and on track and even doles out discipline for misbehavior.

As a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping ouAs a former eighth grade English teacher, he saw first - hand that many gifted students who hadn't been reclassified as proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping ouas proficient English speakers before middle school were sidetracked into remedial classes where they soon became bored, frustrated, and at higher risk of dropping out.

Early on, Quinn derides Ted Ledbetter as «a middle - school teacher and single father who claimed to love woodland hikes.»

Joan Carlson is a retired middle school teacher who also works as a consultant to the educational publishing company Math Solutions.

With her experience as a middle school teacher, a university research librarian and a paralegal student who is going to be certified soon, Josie brings a unique skill set to SmartyPup!.

As someone who is currently a middle school teacher overseas as well as someone who was first introduced to travel via student exchange (Nantes, France 2003 - 2004, what what!As someone who is currently a middle school teacher overseas as well as someone who was first introduced to travel via student exchange (Nantes, France 2003 - 2004, what what!as well as someone who was first introduced to travel via student exchange (Nantes, France 2003 - 2004, what what!as someone who was first introduced to travel via student exchange (Nantes, France 2003 - 2004, what what!!)

As someone who knows the subject inside out, and can efficiently align lesson objectives with school and state standards, I will be an immediate contributor to Hayfield Community Schools, in a middle school social studies teacher capacity.

A patient middle school teacher with a creative flair who juggles students, their endless questions (and their parents) as I give pop quizzes while maintaing a sense of humor through it all.