Sentences with phrase «actually preparing teachers»

If you are in a high need school, that's the red bar, actually preparing teachers well hugely matters for the job satisfaction.

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Then after three years obviously we'll test those four scenarios again and look to see whether they're still relevant, whether we can see indications of those stories coming true, in which case then we continue on in the same direction and look at step two - building on the foundations to shift and move the school, and what we do in the classroom and what teachers actually do to prepare ourselves for that future.

«Science teachers... they were actually preparing for a [test] that they had, so they split up the topic and grouped the students to look at a specific part... and had four or five Google Docs going.

But it remained unclear how many of the 14,000 teachers who received «pink slips» in March notifying them of impending layoffs would actually lose their jobs as school districts prepared to absorb some cuts.

Given that so few children actually speak to their teachers about money matters, there's a clear role for parents to fulfil in helping prepare their children to manage their money in adult life.

One of the most obvious ways to better prepare teachers for the ELL challenge is for states to not only require, as California does, that incoming teachers arrive prepared to instruct English learners but to also, unlike California, actually enforce those standards.

This projection varies depending on the percent of newly prepared teacher that actually enter the profession and the number of former teachers who return to classroom as re-entrants.

In addition, many of the TFA teachers were actually more prepared than over half in the novice control group: «All TFA teachers had at least 4 weeks of student teaching, while many of the control teachers (and over half the novice control teachers) had no student teaching experience at all.»

So we have schools that purchase books like Everyday Math, which eschews honest arithmetic in favor of fuzzy math and the overuse of calculators; Teachers College Writers Workshop, which downplays grammar but obsesses about the «process» of writing (a process that's not based in any research); and all manner of reading programs that fixate on «skills» while ignoring literature, history, science, and everything else that might make reading an enjoyable and enlightening experience (and that might actually prepare kids to understand what will be taught to them downstream).

Critics also question whether online resources offered up to teachers as part of their professional development will actually make them more effective educators and prepare them to teach the Common Core.

Teachers found that some tasks were better addressed through synchronous media (e.g. using chat to quickly decide on which books to read), while other tasks (e.g. actually discussing the books) were more effectively accomplished through asynchronous email, because students could spend time off - line preparing carefully thought out and constructed responses that more clearly represented their feelings, thoughts, and ideas (Lindstrom, 2003).

I mean the fact that there is so much variation across countries shows us actually teacher professionalism actually is something that is deeply embedded in the way in which we prepare teachers.

HEA governs teacher preparation programs at colleges and universities and can ensure that college students who are studying to become teachers actually receive the instruction and real - world teaching experience they need to be prepared when they enter the classroom.

In that type of situation, the standard for the best teacher, and the most conscientious teacher, should not merely be to be «better than» the other teachers: It should be to teach the children enough (or help them learn enough) to actually graduate and get the jobs they want and are prepared to have.

You can ask your child's teacher about other ways you can prepare him or her for the day - to - day routine of school, and that will make your child all the more confident when the big day actually comes around.