Sentences with phrase «higher qualified teachers»

Schools Week reported on research in May last year that found higher qualified teachers were most attracted to schools with high achievement (right).

Higher qualified teachers preferred to teach in schools achieving low progress with affluent pupils, than ones achieving high progress with disadvantaged pupils.

The education bill requires «high qualified teachers» — but measured only by teacher credentials.

Contrary to what is oft - assumed, high qualified teachers are not knocking down the doors to teach in such schools.

Not exact matches

Students who plan to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income area may qualify for a TEACH grant.

Teach full - time as a highly - qualified teacher in a high - need field at an eligible low - income elementary school, secondary school, or educational service agency for at least 4 academic years.

Areas with a high need for qualified teachers often have additional help.

He is uniquely qualified as a teacher because he has experienced highs and lows in the market.

On the other hand, when teachers possess the authority of qualified experts in learning and in the guidance of learning, and when they are organized into strong professional bodies which faithfully exercise responsibility for high professional standards, they can freely teach with sole regard to individual aptitude and need and without fear or favor in respect to social class.

1) Van Gaal is a qualified gymnastics teacher, who had a playing career as a midfielder from 1972 - 1987 while supplementing his income coaching high - school gymnastics teams.

«The Coalition is fully aware of all the problems but chooses to ignore the flouting of the agency workers» directive, the failure to pay the appropriate rates for qualified teacher and the unnecessarily high charges these agencies make to schools.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test to obtain teaching certificates now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score

Physics lessons can be taught by qualified engineers, history lessons can be taught by former lawyers and maths teachers can be former City high - fliers who have chosen to change their careers; they are not prevented from teaching in these schools because they do not have a certain teaching qualification.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test in order to obtain teaching certificates, now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score on a test required for a teaching certificate.

Ramapo School official, Brian Miele, 61, the district's former assistant superintendent for human resources, was accused of doctoring records on teachers» education and professional development credits — including those of his wife and daughter — that qualified them for higher pay.

Popular for their high standards of training of Yoga and Ayurveda, these schools give the opportunity to deepen your yoga practice under the supervision of highly qualified, traditional yoga teachers who teach with their best of efforts in an intriguing way and transforms each of their apprentices into successful yoga practitioner and teacher.

Here, Josh Hartnett's overly exuberant and dubiously qualified teacher John instructs his adult students on the finer points of the high - five and the hug (accompanied by the appropriate verbal cue: «I'm a hugger, what can I say?»).

I've still got a lot of beefs with it (especially around its high school interventions and inclusion of the highly - qualified teachers mandate).

This is not to suggest, even for a moment, that candidates with «real world» experience or high GPAs are necessarily qualified or equipped to become teachers or that professional preparation for teachers is unimportant.

A White House proposal to bring math, science, and engineering professionals into public high schools to teach those subjects could bypass the «highly qualified» teacher mandate under the No Child Left Behind Act, while only temporarily easing the shortfall of mathematics and science teachers, education observers say.

Students in high - poverty, high - minority, and low - performing schools have less access to well - qualified teachers.

States are also supposed to ensure that «highly qualified» teachers are evenly distributed among schools with high concentrations of poverty and wealthier schools.

Lara Caughey is a freelance journalist and qualified secondary high school teacher.

First on the teacher - provision punch list: How do we move from the current definitionof «highly qualified teacher,» whichmost people agree is limiting and limited, toone that more accurately reflects a teacher «sexperience, content knowledge, and, perhapsmost importantly, his or her ability to educateall students to high standards?

These conditions create a vicious cycle in high - need schools that undercuts the ability of those schools to attract and retain well - qualified teachers.

If more governors had exhibited Mark Warner's excellent grasp for what it would take to improve the teaching profession, terms such as «Highly Qualified Teachers» and «High Objective Uniform State Standard of Evaluation» might not have entered our lexicon («Netting an Elusive Breed,» Feature, Fall 2004).

The situations are all too familiar: A student and teacher do not get along and the student's parents ask school officials to assign the child to a new classroom; a high - school student without the proper prerequisite course is turned away from a class for which the student thinks he or she is qualified; or, the transportation schedule has been modified and the bus driver is unwilling to stop at a corner, thereby saving a child an apparently unnecessary five - block walk.

High mobility rates and a 10 - year service requirement for teachers to qualify ensure that less than half of Michigan's new teachers will remain long enough to earn a pension

Recent studies, for instance, find that higher funding levels, smaller classes, and more - qualified teachers all have larger effects on disadvantaged students than on other students.

With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in collaboration with the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high schools.

Some skeptics argue that qualified - teacher standards are not very high.

States can develop an additional way for current teachers to demonstrate subject - matter competency and meet highly qualified teacher requirements through a process called High, Objective, Uniform State Standard of Evaluation (HOUSSE).

Labor to invest $ 400m to ensure all high school STEM teachers are qualified.

By far, improving academic achievement is an important issue, as well as reforming high schools and recruiting highly qualified teachers, particularly math, science, and special education teachers.

In fact, many of these districts even «bill» their high - poverty schools for the average teacher salary instead of the actual (and usually much lower) salaries they are paying to their often brand - new, less - qualified teachers.

While other districts, such as New York City, have sought qualified teachers abroad, the Chicago initiative is unique because the INS will issue visas similar to those used to fill shortages in high - tech fields.

She claims that Ferguson found that «every additional dollar spent on more high - qualified teachers netted greater increases in student achievement than did less instructionally focused uses of school resources.»

The news followed similar research by the Institute of Education which identified that the most highly qualified teachers were more attracted to schools serving the wealthiest and highest - attaining pupils.

There is a combination of reasons why this is the case; it is believed that many teachers are feeling pressured for their students to perform to qualify for school funding, and some parents are more eager for their children to obtain high grades than they have been in previous years.

This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district - based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of prepaTeacher Residency (BTR), a district - based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of prepateacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of preparation.

«Research states that if you can get class size in grades K - 3 down to 18 or less, and if the teacher is well qualified to teach reading, those things will impact that child in that class that year, in junior high, in high school, and in college,» the secretary told the crowd.

Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), said: «This investment to support the retraining of experienced workers as teachers will help to tackle teacher shortages, while also continuing to ensure that only fully qualified teachers are deployed in order to maintain the very high standards of learning and teaching in Scotland's schools.»

Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg is also expected to announce four other measures concerning educational policy, including the protection of spending per - pupil, a guarantee ensuring all teachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in depriveteachers in state - funded schools will be qualified by September 2016, the establishing of a Royal College of Teachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in depriveTeachers and a National Leadership Institute to promote high quality leadership in schools in deprived areas.

With U.S. schools needing to hire about 2 million teachers in the next decade, the push is on to make sure that the people who take those jobs are qualified to teach to the higher academic standards now expected of students.

Across the country, there's a high demand for qualified teachers.

A higher proportion of final ‑ year trainees on school - led routes achieved Qualified Teacher Status (QTS), 93 per cent, compared with 90 per cent on higher education - led routes.

But a new report points to a promising trend in New York City, where teachers in the highest - poverty schools became more qualified over a five - year period.

Crucial was making sure that every high school youngster graduates with a solid curriculum of what we call the basics... that every teacher ought to be fully qualified.»

A Department for Education spokesman said: «The number of teachers overall has risen by 15,500 since 2010 and the proportion of qualified teachers in schools remains high.»

Eva's experience as a teacher, college professor, elected official, Chair of the New York City Council's Education Committee and public school parent make her uniquely qualified to effectively lead the organization in establishing high - performing schools and pioneering for educational excellence.