Sentences with phrase «among older teachers»

The percentage of part - time employment is particularly high among older teachers.

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Meanwhile, Tim Wilson, who is part of the conservative coalition, was among the first politicians to join the debate and used his speech to propose to his 33 - year - old partner Ryan Bolger, a primary school teacher, who was watching from the public gallery.

Simeon and Anna deliver their prophecies there, and Jesus returns when he is 12 years old to take his place among the teachers of Israel.

What the 74 - year - old Walker has done, among cither things, is coach 77 track All - Americas and eight Olympians while he was a teacher and coach at North Carolina Central University, where he also served as the school's chancellor.

Judith Tully, a 68 - year - old retired art teacher, was among the picketers.

A mentor is supposed to be not just a teacher but also an older guide to career, life, and whatever,» says Thomas von Foerster, a retired science publisher who is one among the many mentors at the Point Foundation, a national nonprofit organization that provides mentoring, scholarships, and leadership training for LGBT students in the humanities and sciences.

Among the school's 10 core values, a central theme is the importance of mutual trust and respect — between teachers and students, between peers, and between young students and the older students who act as mentors.

«Elena» was me, and I was then a 37 - year - old teacher in the same high school, teaching English to the same kids among whom I sat that September day.

Inside Out and Back Again A favorite among teachers and students, this poignant 2013 coming - of - age novel in verse centers on 10 - year - old Hà, who loses her father and must flee her home in Vietnam when Saigon falls, in 1975.

New York — Meditation, assertiveness train - ing, avoidance, but above all, the old - fashioned remedy of being able to bend a sympathetic ear — these were among the ways of «coping» with the problem of job - related stress suggested to teachers by a panel of experts during a two - day «Stress and Burnout» conference last week at Columbia University.

Emily's maths teacher Graham Harvey said there was a gender imbalance among higher - level maths pupils, but said older pupils were good role models.

She went on to say that the report «reminds us of the rates of wastage have increased among younger teachers and older teachers alike in the last five years» and that «the government must work with the profession to find solutions to the teacher supply crisis».

This survey was conducted online within the U.S. by Harris Poll on behalf of University of Phoenix between March 29 - April 3, 2017 among 1,001 U.S. adults aged 18 and older, who are full - time employed as teachers in grades K - 12 with at least an undergraduate degree.

Among them are a focus within preschool programs on teaching pre-academic skills; the conceptualization of the role of the adults who provide center - based care as that of a teacher; a bias towards delivering pre-K services through school districts; a press towards common standards and curriculum across pre-K providers; accountability regimens that are tied to children's performance on measures that correlate with later school success; disproportionate spending on four - year - olds as opposed to younger children; and marginalization of the family's responsibility.

Schools can struggle to pull off a shift to personalized learning, especially among more veteran teachers wedded to old ways.

Also key to the pre-K program's success, says Gonzalez, was preparing teachers through specialized training, which focused on issues such as managing classrooms of 4 - year - olds and how to encourage good attendance among families, a particularly tricky issue for half - day programs.

The new evaluation system, which the TEA has been piloting for over a year, would replace the 20 - year old method known as Professional Development and Appraisal System, which consistently produced results reflecting over 95 % ratings of excellence among teachers in spite of student achievement.

PSHE teachers deal with the thorns of the subjects every day, and they find ways to manage conflict among the 11 - year - olds they teach.

And this approach does not differentiate among experienced and novice teachers, old or young, male or female.

In all three years the percentage of teachers with a summative performance rating who were rated below proficient was higher among teachers age 50 and older than among teachers younger than age 50.

Declining teacher salaries were partially driven by compositional effects, as the teacher workforce became more junior due to increased retirements among older workers.

The receiving classroom teacher in an accelerated setting can help the younger student find a niche among the older students.

Duncan's announcement comes in the wake of mounting pressure to address the timing misalignment among the implementation of the Common Core standards, the ongoing administration of old state tests aligned to previous standards, and teacher evaluation requirements that straddled the two.

In 2009, eighty - five - year - old art professor Ludka Zeilonka gets drawn into a political firestorm when her grandson, Tommy, is among a group of gay Massachusetts teachers fired for allegedly silencing Christian kids in high school classrooms.

Significant relationships between students» democratic experiences and teachers» perceptions of the prevailing social - emotional climate, however, were only found among older students.

Strong genetic effects on cross-situational antisocial behaviour among 5 - year - old children according to mothers, teachers, examiner - observers, and twins» self - reports.

For example, maternal depression during infancy predicted poor social functioning among a group of 5 - to 8 - year - old children, as rated by teachers (Wright et al. 2000).