Sentences with phrase «national teaching service»

«As well as this, we are backing schemes like Teach First and the National Teaching Service to get great teachers where they are most needed,» he added.

«A failure to commence the National Teaching Service 18 months after it was first announced doesn't inspire confidence that this government, one wedded to market economics, will suddenly adopt a diametrically different approach and start intervening in placing teachers and leaders in schools.

It pledged not to establish new «top - down initiatives or bureaucratic action plans», but instead said it would target schemes to ensure «sufficient high quality teachers, leaders, system leaders, sponsors and members of governing boards on these areas of greatest need, starting with the National Teaching Service».

This Tuesday Nicky Morgan outlined plans to tackle underachievement by creating a National Teaching Service to get «super teachers» into struggling coastal and rural schools.

He said the proposed National Teaching Service could provide head teachers with the «essential support» of senior staff and «first - rate classroom teachers».

Teach First, which has recruited high - achieving graduates to teach in challenging schools, has welcomed the proposal for a National Teaching Service.

There will also be a «National Teaching Service» to deploy the best staff to support weaker schools.

She said that the government was expanding routes into teaching such as Teach First and had launched the National Teaching Service to «send outstanding teachers into areas exactly like this».

Not to be confused with the government's National Teaching Service, which aims to place high - flying teachers in underperforming schools, the charity sets itself apart by focusing on retention over recruitment.

The department has published new standards for professional development, is helping found an independent College of Teaching and has funded the expansion of Teach First and the National Teaching Service, the spokesperson added.

A Department for Education spokesperson claimed it was investing «hundreds of millions» of pounds in teacher recruitment, offering bursaries and scholarships and backing schemes like Teach First and the National Teaching Service to boost numbers.

There will also be a National Teaching Service, with a pool of 1,500 teachers, which will target underperforming schools which can struggle to recruit staff.

This is particularly true at a regional level where teachers have been understandably reluctant to move long distances, as demonstrated by the failure of the National Teaching Service.

The government announcement this week about a new national teaching service (NTS) is therefore welcome — if it can really help get people into these schools and support them while they are there.

The National Teaching Service was abandoned last December after it emerged that just 24 teachers had accepted jobs under the scheme by the middle of last November.

The government is yet to reveal how many applications it has received for the National Teaching Service (NTS) scheme aimed at tackling recruitment issues by luring experienced teachers into under - performing schools.

The government has scrapped its flagship National Teaching Service after admitting it did not get enough recruits for its plan to parachute elite teachers into struggling schools in the north west.

In response to the question of getting enough good teachers into areas such as coastal towns, the government has announced a National Teaching Service.

It follows similar warnings over the state of teacher recruitment and retention from the National Audit Office and the Public Accounts Committee, as well as the closure of the National Teaching Service in December 2016 — designed to place middle and senior leaders in areas of high need — after too few teachers signed up to a pilot.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan claimed the landscape of English education had been «transformed» over the past five years and that initiatives such as funding academy chains in the north of England and «creating a National Teaching Service» were extending opportunities to every single child

Commenting on the announcement that the National Teaching Service will be scrapped, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) says: «NAHT welcomed the pilot scheme when it was created.

Among a number of other measures, Gibb outlined the introduction of a new National Teaching Service (NTS) which will aim to recruit high quality teachers and place them in challenging schools.

That's why today I'm announcing the creation of a National Teaching Service — sending some of our best teachers to schools in struggling areas.»

We therefore warmly welcome the National Teaching Service and hope it will have a clear focus on attracting and developing talented teachers and leaders in areas where there are the greatest challenges, enabling young people from low - income backgrounds to realise their full potential.

We look forward to working with the Department for Education to explore how the National Teaching Service can build on this work further, and give more pupils the fair start in life they deserve.»

It has been suggested to include: evidence - based initiatives and investment to tackle subject specialist shortages at both primary and secondary level; plans to focus recruitment to regions of the country in most need, particularly since the failure of the National Teaching Service; the range and performance of ITT providers in terms of recruitment and retention of teachers; and a thorough plan for the evaluation of any initiatives and how any findings will feed into future plans for teacher recruitment.

She added: «But we are determined to go further, and recognise that some schools find it harder to recruit the teachers they need, which is why we are expanding the great Teach First and Schools Direct programmes and we are launching the National Teaching Service, which will mean more great teachers in schools in every corner of the country.»

That's why we are introducing new measures to transform failing and coasting schools, funding the best academy chains to share excellence in struggling regions in the North and creating a National Teaching Service - sending some of our best teachers to the areas that need them most.»

He added: «As well as this we are backing schemes like Teach First and the National Teaching Service to get great teachers where they are most needed.»

Commenting on the announcement that the National Teaching Service will be scrapped, Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National...

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They believe too that a voluntary military and civilian national service program for young people would help alleviate the social disruption and teach important new skills and provide tutoring to disadvantaged students, help for the elderly, and improvements of public spaces such as parks and playgrounds.

• You are serving in a medical or dental internship or residency program and meet requirements • The total amount you owe each month is 20 % or more of your total monthly gross income, for up to three years • You are serving in an AmeriCorps position for which you received a national service award • You are performing teaching service that would qualify you for teacher loan forgiveness • You qualify for partial repayment of your loans under the U.S. Department of Defense Student Loan Repayment Program • You are a member of the National Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military dnational service award • You are performing teaching service that would qualify you for teacher loan forgiveness • You qualify for partial repayment of your loans under the U.S. Department of Defense Student Loan Repayment Program • You are a member of the National Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military dNational Guard and have been activated by a governor, but you are not eligible for military deferment

At the interfaith prayer service held in today for the victims of the Boston marathon bombing (including Lu Lingzi, a graduate student at Boston University, where I teach), President Barack Obama was once again called upon to play the pastor - in - chief at a moment of national tragedy.

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Lord Wei is a serial social enterpreneur, having been part of the founding team of Teach First and establishing the Shaftesbury partnership, which piloted the National Citizen Service programme.

Continue reading «Francis Maude MP: National Citizen Service will teach our teenagers about socal responsibility and help bring Britain back together»»

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

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In a 2011 interview by Lynnette Guastaferro of Teaching Matters, Darling - Hammond says that whether the national standards are put into effect in a way that is «much more focused on higher - order learning skills» (that is, progressive education classrooms for all) depends on «building curriculum materials,» «transforming» testing, and changing in - service teacher training.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

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