Sentences with phrase «as school history teachers»

The history education program is tailored for graduates to work as school history teachers, but is applicable to many other professions in areas of culture and history.

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You've accused me of not knowing jewish history by quoting the bible, as if that's the only authority on jewish history and I should ignore my judaism professors, parents, rabbi, peers and sunday school teacher in favor of this horribly contrived and unreliable book.

As a teacher of Global History and U.S. Government to public high school students, religion is an explicit part of my curriculum.

Farrington's research background, plus her history as a teacher in high - poverty neighborhoods, helped her think differently about what happens to students when they're at school.

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Kevin began his career as a high school history teacher and coach, first at Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., from 1985 to 1987, and then at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass., from 1987 toschool history teacher and coach, first at Moses Brown School in Providence, R.I., from 1985 to 1987, and then at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass., from 1987 toSchool in Providence, R.I., from 1985 to 1987, and then at Concord Academy in Concord, Mass., from 1987 to 1995.

I go to school with Chinese exchange students that became very defensive when the history teacher described the Dalai Lama as «peaceful».

It has caused good schools to be labeled as failing and puts undue pressure on students and teachers to focus on passing standardized tests instead of engaging in other subjects such as the sciences, history, art, or music.

I majored in history as an undergraduate — at Pomona College in Claremont, California, class of 1963 — then bailed on graduate school and became an elementary school teacher in a vain effort to calm a boyfriend's jealousy.

Participants will examine their personal strengths, fears and cultural histories in relation to their role as a teacher, understand the needs of students and schools, learn classroom management techniques, write lesson plans and practice teaching Bent On Learning's yoga curriculum for primary, middle and high school students.

I have observed my journey unfolding, taking me from one end of a very mainstream spectrum teaching high school English, History and Psychology for two years, through the middle as a personal trainer, fitness competitor, and too many 50 + hour weeks of management at fitness facilities, to the opposite end, the beginning of a very off the beaten path spectrum where I landed after becoming a certified Yoga teacher in June 2009.

Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for

2018-04-07 16:56 Colorado Public Radio (CPR) produces and curates in - depth and meaningful news and music, establishing thoughtful connections to Colorado for listeners Designed for high school and college teachers and students, History Matters serves as a gateway to web resources and offers other useful materials for

The childhood scenes are set in a Christian school that is depicted in the standard way as heavy on the discipline and little on the education, with the exception of a moment of inspiration by history teacher Garrett Walden (Jaleel White, «Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer») and a few segments showing principal Michael Akers (Thomas Lennon, «We're the Millers»), and basketball coach Murray (Tony Hale, «Brave New Jersey»).

The nine - hour limited event series stars James Franco as a high - school history teacher who travels back in time to stop the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The film stars the unlikely comic duo of Hailee Steinfeld (TRUE GRIT) as high - school junior Nadine and Woody Harrelson as her sardonic history teacher.

While she complained, according to Education Week, that the school district should have granted her a leave of absence, a letter writer to the newspaper reminded the teacher of her history: «While civil disobedience and legal protest have long been used as ways of attracting attention to a cause, civil disobedience is unique because it has always carried with it the obvious risk of arrest and possible imprisonment.»

Freedom at last For the first time in history, school leaders, who were trained as teachers, have been given significant freedoms.

As a new high school history teacher, reaching a diverse array of learners posed my biggest challenge.

When I became a middle and high school history teacher, I took that narwhal experience to heart — or forehead as it were.

The bottom line, as phrased by Education Next's Paul Peterson, Martin West, and Michael Henderson, is that «everyone wants more emphasis on just about everything in school, except athletics, though the general public is especially eager for more emphasis on reading and math, while teachers see greater needs in history and the arts.»

A History of Hunger As teachers and educational leaders will tell you, the National School Lunch Program and the newer School Breakfast Program, introduced in 1966, may provide the only nutrition some school children receive eacSchool Lunch Program and the newer School Breakfast Program, introduced in 1966, may provide the only nutrition some school children receive eacSchool Breakfast Program, introduced in 1966, may provide the only nutrition some school children receive eacschool children receive each day.

But as we began to visit schools, we noticed a pattern: Often, in core disciplinary classes like history and science, instruction was teacher - centered, tasks were unchallenging, and students were frequently passive and often bored.

As a history and economics teacher at John Muir High School's Arts, Entertainment and Media Academy in Pasadena, Calif., Rustin recently received the prestigious Milken Educator Award.

«I'm shocked by their lack of knowledge,» says history teacher Jennifer Norton of Argonaut High School in Jackson, Calif. «As a pretest, I asked...

He took classes he enjoyed, like social sciences and history, and also picked up work as a substitute teacher in the public school district.

As schoolchildren absorbed lectures on state history during tours of the Capitol here last week, California lawmakers were making history of their own by passing a school reform package that will raise the stakes for teachers, administrators, and students.

The rosy picture of the heroic Great Emancipator is probably not the full story, as high school social studies teacher (and rising YouTube star) Keith Hughes of HipHughes History explains in this excerpt.

After students had wondered why the water in the stream behind the school was orange, teachers and administrators learned that the discoloration was due to the area's history as a mining town.

History and Geography have replaced Studies of Society and the Environment (Queensland) requiring twice as much time as before and new to all primary school teachers.

L&T faculty scholarship covers topics as diverse as «causal reasoning» and the brain; the study of black and Latino family engagement with schools; school reform and teacher leadership; the history of American education; using collaborative data inquiry to improve teaching and learning; and how an understanding of social psychology can improve teaching and learning in the classroom.

It offers high - school and university students as well as teachers or professors the opportunity to learn more about the chemical elements - from classification to element features to their history of discovery.

Monastero, half of the Los Angeles - based sketch - comedy duo Ten West, taught for seven years at Santa Monica's Lincoln Middle School, five of those as an eighth - grade U.S. history teacher.

Wheeler, as the school's curator (in addition to being on its advisory committee), encourages teachers interested in starting a similar program to collaborate with their state or local historical society (see «How To: Breathe Life into History»).

He began his career as a history teacher and later went on to Columbia law school.

As a rookie high school history teacher, with the best of intentions I often told my students that a single upcoming test or assignment would significantly impact their overall grades.

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.

Following commencement, he worked as a teacher and principal, and cofounded two schools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lschools — including the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leSchool of the Arts, a redesigned urban high school that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool that made Colorado history when 100 percent of seniors were admitted to 4 - year colleges — and the New Leaders for New Schools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school lSchools, a national nonprofit that recruits, prepares, and places outstanding urban school leschool leaders.

«Teacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» hTeacher identities and professional histories; departmental structures; differentiated roles, such as reading specialists and literacy coaches; lack of teacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» hteacher preparation to teach literacy skills; arguments over whose responsibility literacy instruction is; competing factors such as motivation and engagement; disparities between in - and out - of - school literacy practices; and the increasing demands of reading to learn all contribute to the stagnation in literacy achievement,» he says.

After working as a middle school and high school ancient history teacher, the New York native enrolled in the Ed School and graduated with her master's inschool and high school ancient history teacher, the New York native enrolled in the Ed School and graduated with her master's inschool ancient history teacher, the New York native enrolled in the Ed School and graduated with her master's inSchool and graduated with her master's in 2003.

He also founded and directed a K — 8 school in Bedford - Stuyvesant, N.Y, served as the founding director of Teach For America in New York City, and was a teacher of African History in Botswana.

Tuesday morning questions and uncertainties swirled about in my mind as I trudged back to school; the concerns of the 120 16 - and 17 - year - olds I work with each day as a public high school American history teacher were far from a priority.

As a history and economics teacher at John Muir High School's Arts, Entertainment and Media Academy in Pasadena, Calif., Rustin recently...

Veteran Actor Tony Danza Steps onto Classroom Stage Years after studying to be a history teacher, actor Tony Danza decided to try his skills in the classroom as a high - school English teacher in Philadelphia.

Yeager started his career as a history teacher at George Washington Middle School in 1965, a time when the building housed high schoolers.

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The ESSA would also establish a new program known as Presidential Academies for the Teaching of American History and Civics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the cHistory and Civics, which would provide professional development to improve the teaching of history and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the chistory and civics to between 50 and 300 teachers annually, selected from public and private elementary and secondary schools throughout the country.

The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust.

But the American Federation of Teachers has rated the state's English standards as clear and specific only at the middle school level, while its social studies / history standards are clear and specific for middle and high schools.

Says Givens, Woodson saw the week as an opportunity to bring about «an epistemic shift in schools» — for teachers to illuminate the way racial power operated in America, and for students to reimagine the ways knowledge and history were constructed.