Sentences with phrase «as a math teacher at»

There, Bill works as a math teacher at a fancy prep school, while Wes tries to fit in with his upper - class peers.

Merseth began her career as a math teacher at the junior high and high school level, eventually leading to a position as a K — 12 math coordinator.

Austin served as a math teacher at Roxbury Preparatory Charter School, and was nominated for Massachusetts Teacher of the Year.

If you love math and can make math come alive for others, then a career as a math teacher at an independent school might be the perfect fit for you.

Kayty Himmelstein is a second year New York City Teaching Fellow; she works as a math teacher at West Brooklyn Community High School.

Kellaway, herself a Now Teach recruit who started work as a maths teacher at Hackney's Mossbourne Community Academy last September, is «delighted» with the funding to help the charity expand in its second year of operation.

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When she finished in January 1945, her calculus teacher showed her a flier soliciting women mathematicians to work at the University of Pennsylvania, where women were working as «computers» — humans who performed routinized math tasks — mainly calculating artillery trajectory tables for the Army.

I'm a high school math teacher that also works at Inside Edge as a remote video scout for MLB games.

Notice, it's bringing materials home, it's handwriting, it's math calculation — get an idea of what's going on, so that you can go in and meet with your child's teacher and be able to let them know what you're seeing at home and be able to start working as a partnership together.

Prior to coming to Brooklyn in 2016, Steve was a longtime faculty member at Hawthorne Valley Waldorf School; during his 26 years there, he served as a class and high school teacher, middle school math and arts teacher, and Council of Teachers chairperson.

At best, the harvest of salad greens (for example) can make a nice big salad that every student in one classroom can enjoy as part of a class lesson (and here the teacher's creativity comes into play — the lesson can be math, with the kids figuring what percentage of the salad is romaine and what percent arugula, or it can be science, or even spelling.)

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

At the end of October, the WSP community will say goodbye to 6th grade teacher Cynthea Frongillo as she heads into retirement, and plans new adventures with her husband Alex, our former math and recorder teacher.

The rebels are fuming at a recent snub to King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, as the rebel MP (played by Bruce Alexander) laments that his leader «can't stop being a protestor» while his lackey Ollie (played by Joseph Prowen) criticises the party steward's «maths teacher» attire.

In January, arguing to increase the weight of test scores, Mr. Cuomo cited the small number of teachers who were rated ineffective, noting that at the same time only about a third of students were reading or doing math at grade level, as measured by state tests.

Haubold arrived at Riley 5 years ago as a math teacher after graduating from Indiana University in Bloomington.

At the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, for example, mathematics educator Jim Lewis has developed The Mathematics Semester — a concentration of pedagogy and mathematics courses for undergraduates preparing to be elementary school teachers — as well as Math in the Middle, a graduate program for middle - school math teacherAt the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, for example, mathematics educator Jim Lewis has developed The Mathematics Semester — a concentration of pedagogy and mathematics courses for undergraduates preparing to be elementary school teachers — as well as Math in the Middle, a graduate program for middle - school math teacherat Lincoln, for example, mathematics educator Jim Lewis has developed The Mathematics Semester — a concentration of pedagogy and mathematics courses for undergraduates preparing to be elementary school teachers — as well as Math in the Middle, a graduate program for middle - school math teachers.

Excited about the potential of Pinterest as a way to help share, highlight, and curate science, technology, engineering, and math education content, Science Buddies has been pinning project ideas, blog posts, and updated student, teacher, and parent resources at Pinterest for more than a year.

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.

They are an excuse to look as if the teacher is giving interesting fun things but I have yet to see them improve a student's ability at say maths or anything else.

She looks at the classroom board, her eyes moving slowly over the words of a problem that her teacher projected there as the students came in from recess and sat down for their math lesson:

One New York City teacher can not be paid more, or less, than any other teacher at the same level of seniority, regardless of the particular teacher's talents and effort or the difficulty of recruiting a teacher for a hard - to - find position such as math or science.

Created for classroom teachers, the focus of the Maths Rescue series is on the reinforcement of «the basics» in maths, as well as activities aimed at developing understanding of mathematics concMaths Rescue series is on the reinforcement of «the basics» in maths, as well as activities aimed at developing understanding of mathematics concmaths, as well as activities aimed at developing understanding of mathematics concepts.

For eight years, Kamras has worked as a 7th and 8th grade math teacher at the John Philip Sousa Middle School in Washington D.C..

She explains that teachers who warmly embrace mistakes, praise effort and strategies, and avoid labelling their students as either good or bad at Maths have the best chance of fostering a growth mindset.

Michelle says that teachers who warmly embrace mistakes, praise effort and strategies, and avoid labelling their students as either good or bad at Maths have the best chance of fostering a growth mindset.

Gabbard, a math teacher at Jackson County High School in McKee, Kentucky, uses the slips as a class opener to focus the students on the topic of study, to provide direction for the period, and to review important skills needed for the lesson.

There is no evidence, for example, that female math teachers were given larger classes or were less likely to hold the proper subject - specific qualifications, such as proper state certification or a subject - specific degree at either the undergraduate or graduate level.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

He began his career in education as a high school math teacher at Barnstable (Mass.) High School and also taught special education for Framingham (Mass.) High School.

A final way in which seniority - based systems may have consequences for student achievement is that strict adherence to seniority would require at least some districts to lay off teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, such as math and special education.

Taillefer began as a Match Corps tutor in the second cohort and went on to be director of development as well as a math teacher and dean of students at Match Middle School and Match High School.

For the past eight years, Kamras has worked at Sousa as a social studies and math teacher, coming in early and staying late to maximize learning opportunities for his students.

We compared a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student reading or math achievement, one of the specific items principals were asked about, with that teacher's actual ability to do so as measured by their value added, the difference in student achievement that we can attribute to the teacher.

So teachers who excel at their jobs or teach hard - to - staff subjects, such as math and science, are paid the same as if they were mediocre or could be replaced easily.

We find a positive correlation between a principal's assessment of how effective a teacher is at raising student achievement and that teacher's success in doing so as measured by the value - added approach: 0.32 for reading and 0.36 for math.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

We have the potential, here, to solve two problems at once: the reputation of our subject as elitist and boring (by portraying a wider range of activities in maths) and the shortage of good maths teachers (by encouraging a stronger pipeline of diverse mathematicians at every level from early years to teacher training and beyond).

As an advocate for passion - based learning, Rafranz uses her experience as a secondary math educator to help teachers integrate technology using innovative teaching strategies aimed at empowering students to be autonomous learnerAs an advocate for passion - based learning, Rafranz uses her experience as a secondary math educator to help teachers integrate technology using innovative teaching strategies aimed at empowering students to be autonomous learneras a secondary math educator to help teachers integrate technology using innovative teaching strategies aimed at empowering students to be autonomous learners.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

As a former fifth grade math teacher, I vividly remember having some students in my class at a second - grade level, some at an eighth - grade level, and everything in between.

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

Let's Fix Math Education By Redefining Math National Geographic, 3/24/16 The secret of countries such as high - performing Finland may be quality primary school teachers, who often have deep math training, according to Pasi Sahlberg, a former math teacher who has chronicled the Finnish success story and is now a visiting professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.»

Speaking at a special forum as part of the National Science Teachers Association's 42nd annual meeting, Leon M. Lederman, a physicist and the director emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., said he supports a national effort to revise the curriculum into a «pyramidal» model with a strong foundation of math and physics.

Whether they teach math or reading, TFA teachers seem to learn at the same pace as traditionally certified teachers.

As a former high school math teacher in Mongolia, Maine native McIntyre is excited to be close to home and also able to take advantage of the students and faculty at HGSE.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Americans balk at some market - based reforms, such as paying more for teachers who work in fields like math and science, where quality teachers are in scarce supply.

I have heard from his teachers and principal at Annapolis, Maryland's Wiley H. Bates Middle School about the academic benefits of arts integration, how various forms of artistic expression (PDF) are employed to learn math and science as well as language arts.