Sentences with phrase «as occasional teachers»

Johanne Ouellette found she got a surprisingly large lift from taking on a part - time job as an occasional teacher when she retired from running her own insurance business at age 53.

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Most adults only have to deal with other adults in their jobs, but our teachers have to juggle with work issues with colleagues as well as the occasional student problem.

There's an occasional lesson, which many students and teachers see as a break from the main timetable, but it's not taught in a practical way that could give young people the knowledge and experience of playing an active role in society.

I can cite my direct observations of the hundreds of victims of my occasional efforts over the years as a teacher of physics and writing.

Achieving greatness as a drummer is Andrew's sole focus in life; his dorm walls are covered in photos of his hero, jazz percussionist Buddy Rich, and his social life consists of little more than the occasional movie date with his nebbishy single father (Paul Reiser), a high school English teacher and failed novelist whom Andrew both loves and dreads becoming.

Teachers also get to use modern - day technology tools in everyday practice, not just as occasional add - ons, and they get to master a form of teaching that's likely to reach millions of new students each year in the United States and abroad.

You may use this list and the exercises as occasional reviews, worksheets for substitutes teachers, extra credit, or as part of an organized and structured curriculum.

As many teachers know, the national discussion on education is overcrowded with opinions on teacher training, salaries, tenure, and unions — with occasional detours through iPads, textbooks, and national policy.

Teachers in these schools may also design occasional projects that focus on literature or applied math, as long as they are still following the guidelines of their literacy model.

While everyone makes occasional errors, such as miscopying numbers from a text, more highly skilled teachers were less likely to make computational mistakes and to use math terms inappropriately.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

The hallways that teachers describe as «chaos» four years ago are now quiet, save occasional bursts of laughter.

Strong technical skills, particularly in integrating technology in the classroom to drive academic achievement Demonstrated volunteer or community service At least one (or more) of the following: o National Board Certificationo TAP Experience (sign on bonus for TAP certification) o Core Knowledge Experienceo Experience with Blended Learningo At least two years of successful teaching in an urban environment ESSENTIAL POSITION FUNCTIONS: An Elementary School teacher is required to perform the following duties: Plan and implement a blended learning environment, providing direct and indirect instruction in the areas of Social Studies, Science, Language Arts, Health, and Mathematics based on state standards Participation in all TAP requirements, focusing on data - driven instruction Create inviting, innovative and engaging learning environment that develops student critical thinking and problem solving skills Prepare students for strong academic achievement and passing of all required assessments Communicate regularly with parents Continually assess student progress toward mastery of standards and keep students and parents well informed of student progress by collecting and tracking data, providing daily feedback, weekly assessments, and occasional parent / teacher conferences Work with the Special Education teachers and administration to serve special needs students in the classroom Attend all grade level and staff meetings and attend designated school functions outside of school hours Establish and enforce rules for behavior and procedures for maintaining order among the students for whom you are responsible Accept and incorporate feedback and coaching from administrative staff Perform necessary duties including but not limited to morning, lunch, dismissal, and after - school duties Preforms other duties, as deemed appropriate, by the principal Dress professionally and uphold all school policies

Older students aren't included in the policy change, and teachers can assign younger students the occasional special project — such as book reports or extra work on classroom projects.

As Edutopia writer Andrew Miller states in his post Creating a Culture of Inquiry, it's not enough for the teacher «to simply state that their classroom is inquiry based, and doing an occasional inquiry - based activity is not enough.»

Longtime middle - school teacher and occasional librarian Kathleen Isaacs has worked in schools and colleges in Baltimore, Washington, British Hong Kong, and China as well as the Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore.

More Than You Wanted to Know About John Baldessari presents Baldessari as storyteller, moralist, teacher and occasional gadfly, always concerned to accomplish what he describes as the central task of art making: to communicate in a way that people can understand.

I deeply appreciate my teachers: Jack Kornfield, Daniel Goleman, Norman Fischer, the late Rabbi Alan Lew, John Kabat Zinn and Saki Santorelli have all been invaluable in opening me to the fullness, spaciousness and emptiness of silence as well providing for me occasional glimpses of essential wholeness of being human.