Sentences with phrase «among teachers at the school»

Technology can facilitate useful communication among teachers at the school, district, state, and national levels.

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At least this high a percentage would be found among church school teachers.

Many active young Catholics — we see this among those who attend FAITH Movement events — have been so bored with Religious Education at school that it simply wouldn't occur to them to become teachers.

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.

«We shared pros and cons in small groups, and then as a whole group, and it was unanimous among the teachers that [BIC] would be a great addition at our school.»

A slow, one - school - at - a-time approach has also helped with stakeholder buy - in among teachers, custodians, and administrators.

«Freedom comes at the high price of, among other things, abandoning national pay and conditions of service for teachers and allowing all schools to select their pupils.

Participants took part in a real - time electronic poll which explored their views on a series of issues relating to their profession: Among the results were: over three quarters of BME teachers considered themselves to be ambitious, yet stated they are being held back by racial discrimination, and the attitude of senior colleagues; nearly two - thirds (62 %) of BME teachers felt their school or college was not seriously committed to addressing their professional development needs and aspirations; 63 % of BME teachers said their employers were not committed to ensuring their mental and physical wellbeing at work, with workload cited as the single most negative factor impacting on their wellbeing; the vast majority of BME teachers felt the Government does not respect and value teachers and does not understand the day to day realities of teaching (99 %); three quarters of BME teachers said they were not confident that their headteacher will make professional and fair decisions regarding their future pay.

The idea is simple enough: A VAM looks at year - to - year changes in standardized test scores among students, and rates those students» teachers and schools accordingly.

After three men are discovered hideously mutilated — their faces have been removed — and strung up among New York City's high - tension wires, Detective Klaski (Bruno Campos) stumbles upon a link: Each of the men knew entomologist Remy (Alix Koromzay), a teacher at an inner - city high school.

The highest level of satisfaction with regard to improvements was among teachers at city technology colleges, with 67 % saying works had been carried out and their environment had improved, while on average a third of schools had not seen any works carried out in the past year.

In contrast to rules, which are (usually) teacher generated and work best when introduced on the first day, norms are «an agreement among members of a classroom or school about how they will treat one another,» according to Gary Borich, Professor of Educational Psychology at The University of Texas at Austin.

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.

All this movement of teachers among schools obviously affects the composition of the teaching force at particular schools.

If a school won a bonus, money was distributed among teachers and other school personnel by a committee consisting of two administrators and two teachers union representatives at the school.

A consistent focus on student engagement within and across AL projects at CPAHS has been influenced by Munns, Sawyer and Cole's Teachers for a Fair Go3, an action research project on student engagement among low - SES primary school students in Sydney's South West.

State health officials concluded, in their investigation into probable causes of a high rate of birth defects and miscarriages among teachers and staff members, that at least some of the health complaints at the school were related to an insufficient flow of fresh air, according to Robert G. Dickie, the principal.

Chosen from among the nation's more than 2.5 million elementary and secondary school teachers, Ms. McBrayer received the traditional crystal apple from U.S. Secretary of Education Richard W. Riley at a dinner on April...

However, the aim of experiments is not to explain all sources of variation; it is to probe whether the school reform idea makes a difference at the margin, despite whatever variation exists among schools, teachers, students, or other factors.

Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a teacher or another adult at their school believed that they would be a success.

But the small yet growing numbers of public school teachers who teach about religion say religious belief, at least among their students, is as shallow as it is wide.

Among other things, he's brought in Monica Higgins, an associate professor at the Ed School, to organize a series of 90 - minute roundtables every three to four weeks in which outside policy experts and practitioners meet with Duncan and his top deputies for an open discussion on a particular topic — teacher performance, turnaround in schools.

This allows administrators to easily monitor student performance at specific schools, compare general progress among neighboring schools, or track an individual teacher's qualifications and workload.

The lead teacher at Grand Rapids University Prep Academy, a 6 — 12 school, was among the district's first participants to attend a program at Harvard.

After teachers like Joseph - Charles and Philkhana began applying the Rutgers techniques in the classroom, students showed more interest in math, and the math test scores at what were among the lowest - performing schools in the state began to soar.

Earth, Inc., created by teachers at Desert Sky Middle School in Glendale, Arizona, is among the projects published by SSEC.

Last year, as a master's student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the importance of collaboration among teachers was a mantra.

Positive comments from some recent users of this book include: Most schools are full of documents and data... Dr Slater is among the first to show how they can be used to compare what is said on paper and in interviews... The results will shock you... Dr Slater is a successful high school teacher and an award winning author... and here's why... Fantastic little book, punches well above its weight... Makes it seem so simple... the art of the genius... As an advocate of the What Works agenda, I think this book really is a wake - up call... A fantastic insight into the potential for using documents in research... Nails twenty years of research in twenty minutes... Worth every dime... Every student in my class (6th form) has been told to buy this book... and it's easy to see why... Shines a great big light on the power of documents in research... Surely this is the best book in its field... First class... I kept referring to this book in my presentation last week and the audience was ecstatic... Education research, usually has little effect on me... Until now... This book is formidable... Crushes the concept that education research is rubbish... fantastic insight... Blows you away with its power and simplicity... Huge reality check, senior school managers at good schools tell the truth, other's don't, won't or can't, and their students suffer.

The study, issued last month by the Louisiana Education Policy Research Center at Louisiana State University, paints a picture of frustration and low morale among new teachers in the state's 64 parish school systems.

It's the profile of 165 free public secondary schools in the United States, many of them in big cities known for sky - high dropout rates, low test scores, metal detectors at the schoolhouse door, and rapid turnover among teachers.

The guidelines were released in June, shortly before The Wall Street Journal published a front - page article detailing charges by students, parents, and teachers that numerous students at Taylor Allderdice High School had offered money for homework, stolen tests, or used open dictionaries in taking college - admission tests, among other allegations.

Across the country, at Mountlake Terrace High School, in Mountlake Terrace, Washington, geometry teacher Eeva Reeder began implementing performance - based assessments when she recognized a disturbing pattern among her students: They could pass a test with flying colors but had considerable difficulty transferring knowledge and skills from one unit to the next.

Among middle - school teachers, the difference is slightly less but still important, at 20 percent of a standard deviation.

Putting students in charge of their own parent - teacher conferences has helped students feel more confident in their accomplishments, and led to greater engagement among both students and parents at this Chicago school.

For instance, at the start of the school year, an elementary school teacher might want to identify students» strengths and weaknesses among the eight intelligences.

More can also be done to align working conditions of preschool and primary school teachers; increase flexibility and responsiveness to individual communities, families, and children while at the same time strengthening coherence of services; overcome structural and informational roadblocks to co-operation and continuity; and to better facilitate collaboration among staff, managers, parents, and the community based on reciprocal communication, inclusivity, mutual trust, and respect.

Bringing parents and teachers — and sometimes students — together in a book discussion group has enhanced communication, understanding, and cooperation among parents and staff members at one Illinois elementary school.

«I think stress levels [among teachers] are very high because expectations are high and demands are much higher,» says Albert Madden, a guidance counselor at Stevens Elementary School in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, who has conducted stress - reduction workshops for teachers.

Utilizing an in - depth consultation protocol, attendees will conduct a thorough analysis of the practices and accountability of teachers at their school, leaving with a plan that improves leadership among teachers, instructional practice, student and adult connections, and motivation and engagement strategies.

Variation at the state - level — involving tuition rates, state scholarships, and licensure requirements, among other things — makes it important for school counselors, teachers, and other academic advisors to be aware of the opportunities and restrictions available to DACA - enrolled young people in their localities.

This seems to me to be grasping at straws, given the lack of any differences among participants and non-participants in teacher rated social / emotional outcomes, and given otherresearch showing no association between kindergarten retentions and later school performance.

Among our cases, Forest Elementary provides the clearest example of a school in which the overall pattern of leadership distribution corresponded to an additive pattern, at least in a formal, bureaucratic sense (teachers attributed little actual influence to those in formal positions of leadership responsibility).

«Among them: partnerships between school districts and colleges to help communities grow their own teachers and align recruitment to high - need fields; competitive salaries as well as incentives, financial and otherwise, for hard - to - fill positions; the creation of strong mentoring programs and professional learning communities that make schools places teachers want to be; and effective leadership at the school level to maintain a supportive, collaborative school environment.»

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

The Ohio Education Association, a teachers union that has been among the most outspoken critics of charter schools, has testified against them in the state legislature and supported litigation aimed at toughening oversight.

As teachers at Randleman Elementary School bid farewell to summer, readying their classrooms with supplies and materials that many bought with their own hard - earned cash, Principal Laurie Sypole cited one thing that she couldn't find among the desks...

It's at the level of the school building that most of the action around teacher evaluation and its consequences occurs, and truth be told, most economists are not devoting much attention to the interior of the school or the social relations among school leaders, teachers and students.

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Insight in action At the onset of a district effort to identify teachers leaders in each school, one middle school principal dedicated half of the school year to increasing understanding of teacher leadership and its importance among the school's entire instructional staff.

First, despite findings from existing and emerging research for educational effectiveness in terms of instructional effectiveness and its impact on teaching and learning, there is a disturbing level of ignorance among school leaders and teachers at all levels of educational provision related to what works and why — especially as they relate to the teaching of literacy and numeracy.