Sentences with phrase «as a high school teacher whose»

Nicolas Cage stars as a high school teacher whose wife (January Jones) becomes the victim of a brutal rape.

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This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

The main story follows Noah (Jeff Branson), the swim class teacher and his bout with depression; Jordan (Jess Weixler), a girl who works part time in a casino and part time as an exotic dancer; Amy (Paget Brewster), a high school math teacher whose husband left her for another teacher; and a young man (I never did catch his name) who seems to live at the casino where Jordan works and who meets and beds Amy.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when a former star student returns after failing as a playwright in New York City.

Brittany Snow stars as Donna Keppel, a high school student whose family was brutally murdered by an obsessed former teacher (Johnathon Schaech), while she was at the movies with a friend.

The film stars Julianne Moore as a high school English teacher whose life takes a turn when one of her favorite students (Michael Angarano) returns to his...

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

The answer is yes, as proved by Donelle McInerney, a PE teacher at Newton Moore Senior High School in Bunbury, Western Australia, whose Indigenous Yorgas Sports Academy has increased girls» high school completion rates seven-fHigh School in Bunbury, Western Australia, whose Indigenous Yorgas Sports Academy has increased girls» high school completion rates sevenSchool in Bunbury, Western Australia, whose Indigenous Yorgas Sports Academy has increased girls» high school completion rates seven-fhigh school completion rates sevenschool completion rates seven-fold.

John Porter, whose 40 - year career in education includes experience as a teacher and as an administrator and principal at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in Alexandria, Virginia, says providing the opportunity for such observation, or the opportunity to observe a middle school science or math teacher at another school in the district, can lessen teacher frustration.

The high priest (or, as McLaren puts it, «inaugural protagonist») of critical pedagogy is the late Paulo Freire, whose view of conventional schooling (a teacher instructing students in the canon of established academic curricula) was captured in the title of his seminal 1970 book, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed.

From the initial sorting of all principals whose teachers rated them as either high - or low - scoring, there were five elementary schools and five secondary schools in the top 20 % of all schools whose principals were rated high on Factor 1 and who also had high mathematics achievement.

This is especially true in schools whose students come from high - poverty households, where teacher turnover rates are especially high and where it is often very difficult to recruit effective new teachers who are as effective as those who left.

In a recent article, Zachary Wright, a high school teacher, wrote, «As a White male teacher, whose goals are to not only teach, but also learn from my students, I need to be aware of, and need to name, the privilege that...

Jennifer Eldredge, a Spanish teacher at Oconomowoc High School whose district is a member of the regional Cooperative Educational Service Agency # 1, which is committed to establishing personalized learning as the prevailing approach in southeastern Wisconsin.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

While the high value - added teachers who choose to teach in higher needs schools for two years (with $ 20,000 bonuses to boot) were likely wonderful teachers in their own rights, the same study results would have likely been achieved by simply choosing teachers with more than X years of experience or choosing teachers whose supervisors selected them as «the best.»

Cara Johnson, a former high school anatomy teacher in Allen, Texas, who now works as an instructional coach, has even seen students whose teachers have not adopted a flipped model approaching their peers in flipped courses to get their videos.

I am holding you responsible for the 9 - year - old student who came to school with hardly any sleep after witnessing his mother administer Narcan to save his father's life, only to then take a three - hour test and I am holding you responsible for the autistic child whose parents opted him out of the test but the school counseled him back into... I hold you responsible for not passing legislation that allows for a public - school TEACHER to serve on the Board of EDUCATION, yet the chair of this Board, Paul Sagan can contribute $ 600,000 to a campaign that sought to charterize, segregate, and create a two - tiered system of privilege using high - stake test scores as the ammunition.»

The Troy School District, whose 23 teachers serve just over 250 students in one elementary school and a shared middle and high school building, faces many challenges as it works hard to serve its commSchool District, whose 23 teachers serve just over 250 students in one elementary school and a shared middle and high school building, faces many challenges as it works hard to serve its commschool and a shared middle and high school building, faces many challenges as it works hard to serve its commschool building, faces many challenges as it works hard to serve its community.

Furthermore, teachers in schools whose students achieve in the highest and second - highest quintiles award significantly more relative influence to staff teams; teachers in the highest - quintile schools award significantly more relative influence, as well, to individual parents and to groups of parents.