Sentences with phrase «among head teachers»

This battle over last summer's GCSE English results has been a rancorous, divisive episode, revealing deep levels of distrust among head teachers for those running the exam system.

The Association of School and College Leaders annual conference is taking place in Birmingham this weekend, against a backdrop of increasing frustration among head teachers about budget cuts.

Chambers added that the roots of this attitude were «complex» but agreed that often technology was not taken seriously in schools, particularly among head teachers.

He was among the head teachers summoned by the GES for allegedly charging illegal fees under the Free SHS policy.

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Also among the victims were two school head teachers and a secondary school principal, identified as Peter Dick, Ape Chia and Michael Tor, respectively.

According to Dan McConell who heads up the union, Marathon teachers are the lowest paid educators in Cortland County and among the lowest paid in the state.

Charlotte Moore, Deputy Head Teacher at the school, said: «Initiatives such as this are vital if we're going to improve financial education among young people.

The use of high - stakes achievement tests around the world have created controversy among teachers, parents, students, administrators, policy makers and heads of state.

Ofqual chief regulator Sally Collier told TES, that her organisation's immediate focus would be to ensure there was clarity among heads, teachers and students approaching exams.

UK secondary schools are being urged to put themselves forward as potential candidates for a ground - breaking pilot, which will see a Head of Wellbeing seconded to the school, in a bid to help combat rising levels of poor physical and mental health among pupils and teachers.

Against the backdrop of a national survey showing half of teachers experiencing «great stress» on the job, the head of California's teacher credentialing commission says that stress levels among the state's teachers are likely to be even higher.

Head teachers say that social mobility hotspots are also the places where schools are among the best - funded.

The head teacher said that a major area for school improvement was in the area of reading for meaning among the children and this was an area where the Harrow boys could make a major contribution, and would certainly have a huge impact.

Among the 30 head teachers on the list are Nicholas Weller, executive principal of Dixons Academies in Bradford, who has been knighted.

Among the problems identified by the Trojan Horse inquiries was that governors had been interfering in the running of schools and had undermined head teachers.

A «lack of expertise» among those procuring the buildings - often head teachers - meant there was little opportunity to lower costs or improve building methods, it found.

Aaron Pallas, a professor at Columbia University's Teachers College, told Taylor that de Blasio's reticence on school improvement, a heightened concern among residents, could «reflect that the mayor doesn't have a distinct vision for the schools heading into a possible second term.»

The department's proposed rule — the one that prompted the lobbyists» letter — affirmed that districts could decide for themselves how to distribute their money among schools, whether based on head counts, student - to - teacher ratios, a percentage increase over the previous year's school budget or anything else.

Lassen — among the group Chalmers refers to as «sociopathic child - haters who are only teachers because they got tenure after two short years» — doesn't suffer Bart's foolishness, responding to the mischievous one's skeleton - in - the - closet prank by buzzing the top of his head with clippers.

The money will also go towards developing leadership among maths department heads and professional development for teachers.

Among her many awards are an honorary doctorate from the University of Louisville, the Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Kentucky, the Award of Appreciation from the National Head Start Association, the Founders Award from the National Commission for African American Education, the Teacher for America Award from the Rockefeller Foundation - supported Recruiting New Teachers Inc., and the Women of Distinction Award from Girl Scouts.

Sam Freedman, the head of research at Teach First, which places high - achieving graduates into schools with disadvantaged intakes, said that even among teachers, there is hostility to the notion that what they do can be analysed and replicated: «The idea of learning heuristics seems bad because you're not discovering your inner teacher.»

Among the influential members of NAACP's 64 member board: Hazel Dukes, whose long (and often infamous) tenure as head of its Empire State affiliate included teaming up with the AFT's United Federation of Teachers in an unsuccessful effort to stop the Big Apple from renting space in half - empty traditional school buildings to charter schools.

Education reforms have «decreased morale and motivation» among school teachers and heads, a survey has found.

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.10, 24 — 27 This report provides a detailed snapshot of how the policies related to sexuality education in Ghana are translated into practice and what students, teachers and heads of schools think about them.