Sentences with phrase «by other new teachers»

First, the teachers it recruits are in fact good teachers who produce achievement gains for students that match or exceed those accomplished by other new teachers who have been prepared in other ways.

Not exact matches

There are certainly some great insights into what it means to be Christian given to us by other New Testament writers and by ancient teachers.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Schwartz made One, Two, Three and a Zing Zing Zing for Folkways Records four years ago, but it was picked up first by teachers and playground instructors and is used in teachers» courses at Bucknell, Teachers College at Columbia, New York University and other cteachers and playground instructors and is used in teachers» courses at Bucknell, Teachers College at Columbia, New York University and other cteachers» courses at Bucknell, Teachers College at Columbia, New York University and other cTeachers College at Columbia, New York University and other colleges.

In a classroom setting, teachers help children strengthen their language skills by introducing new vocabulary during art, snack time, and other activities.

The husband of a New Jersey teacher killed along with a student in a school bus crash that also injured dozens of others says he's «in shock, devastated and totally crushed» by the tragedy.

Those teachers and others also would receive new «transition scores» calculated by the state, based on information provided by local school districts.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

The state's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has been on the job just over a week, and she's been traveling the state on a listening tour to reach out to teachers, school boards and others who've been buffeted by an intense political climate during the most recent legislative session.

Commenting on the DfE announcement of a new # 2m fund to tackle homophobic bullying in schools, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is a great pity that on coming into office the Coalition Government not only withdrew all the excellent advice which had been produced by the previous Government on homophobic and other forms of prejudice related bullying, but also removed the requirement on schools to log incidences of bullying.

find agencies in their area both by postcode or by name; rate agencies using a simple star rating system on levels of pay, quality of training, ease of finding work and support received; write reviews, explaining their experiences, both good and bad, of the agency, or agencies, they have used; read reviews written by other supply teachers, including viewing their star rating and seeing the average levels of pay that are offered; add new supply agencies as and when they open; and participate in regular polls, highlighting the key issues that affect supply teachers.

«With the Board of Regents having become so political and dominated by NYSUT (New York State United Teachers), I wouldn't expect any other decision,» Quinn said.

To ensure that the City and the state's other districts fulfill New York's promises to its schoolchildren, we request that you introduce a back - stop measure that requires districts to develop teacher evaluation plans by August 31, 2012.

The Assembly is dominated by lawmakers from New York City and has traditionally been aligned with teachers unions and other left - leaning groups.

New York's controversial teacher evaluation system should be «a blueprint» for other states, according to a report by the Brookings Institute, the Washington, D.C. - based think tank.

The reform agenda touted by Mr. Cuomo has put the governor at odds, not for the first time, with teachers unions — who have often been allies of Mr. de Blasio and other New York City politicians.

Pension costs for teachers and other professional school staffers are expected to rise about 10 percent in the 2018 - 19 school year for districts on Long Island and statewide after three years of reductions, according to estimates by the New York State Teachers» Retirementteachers and other professional school staffers are expected to rise about 10 percent in the 2018 - 19 school year for districts on Long Island and statewide after three years of reductions, according to estimates by the New York State Teachers» RetirementTeachers» Retirement System.

Once again, the political winds on the Buffalo School Board are shifting, with Tuesday's election putting an end to the current majority and replacing it with a new one backed by the teachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up foteachers union.Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up foTeachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

North Country school districts will receive 1,700 new books donated by publishers through a partnership with the New York State United Teachers, their national affiliation and other agencinew books donated by publishers through a partnership with the New York State United Teachers, their national affiliation and other agenciNew York State United Teachers, their national affiliation and other agencies.

New York State's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has been on the job just over a week, and she's been traveling the state on a listening tour to reach out to teachers, school boards and others who've been buffeted by an intense political climate during the most recent legislative sessiNew York State's new education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has been on the job just over a week, and she's been traveling the state on a listening tour to reach out to teachers, school boards and others who've been buffeted by an intense political climate during the most recent legislative sessinew education commissioner, MaryEllen Elia, has been on the job just over a week, and she's been traveling the state on a listening tour to reach out to teachers, school boards and others who've been buffeted by an intense political climate during the most recent legislative session.

WHEREAS the private equity funds established and managed by Steven Klinsky, preeminently New Mountain Capital, solicit major investments from teacher retirement and pension funds, public employee retirement and pension funds, union retirement and pension funds and other retirement and pension funds from the not - for - profit sector; and

The following Science Buddies posts are designed to help teachers think about the new cohabitation of scientific method and engineering design processes both conceptually and through concrete, side - by - side, comparison of the methods and what it means to have a student complete a project following one approach versus the other:

I can confirm that a strict fruitarian diet can certainly lead to low protein levels... as a strict fruitarian for a number of years (2 - 3 I estimate, but actually 5 if i count the time i ate minimal amounts of salad materials as well...), I had blood tests done at the end of this time and indeed my protein levels were low... Total protein was at 6.5 when the ideal is supposedly 7.5... And apart from this, my sports performance as judged by my teachers, was suffering (though I did not feel this in my own body — I was used to performing at that level and felt it as normal for me... and i was newer to the sport than a lot of them... i had great, better than most endurance... which was very satisfying... but apparently I just did not have the physical strength that others with less endurance may have had...) something which immediately improved as I added more protein to my diet....

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

But the New Mexico system is different in two critical ways from other states» efforts: its design and launch have been especially mired in political and legal challenges, and its implementation and application have been especially effective at differentiating teachers by the skillfulness of their work.

According to a 1955 Education article by Leon Mones, then an assistant superintendent in Newark, New Jersey, and a former principal, Symonds and others were openly advocating that the emotional life of the teacher become the focus of teacher preparation, since «it is the teacher's personality that is the tool with which he works rather than the content in which he gives instruction.»

A new research - based practice guide, released today by beyondblue, seeks to provide teachers, families and other professionals with everyday strategies to build resilience in young people and teach them to think positively.

In addition to improving students» fluency in the language, the UCL Institute of Education, in collaboration with other providers, aims to have trained at least 100 new qualified Chinese teachers by the end of the programme.

The Barefoot training workshops are run by volunteer professionals from the IT / computing and education sectors, these events introduce the new computing curriculum to teachers and explain the support available to them through Barefoot and other related projects.

The guide, which has been created by the NLA and supported by National Union of Teachers (NUT), National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and ourselves, aims to help teachers and other professionals looking for a central and objective source of information about materials (books, software, new technologies and multi-sensory resources) for supporting and encouraging children's lTeachers (NUT), National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), and ourselves, aims to help teachers and other professionals looking for a central and objective source of information about materials (books, software, new technologies and multi-sensory resources) for supporting and encouraging children's lTeachers (NASUWT), and ourselves, aims to help teachers and other professionals looking for a central and objective source of information about materials (books, software, new technologies and multi-sensory resources) for supporting and encouraging children's lteachers and other professionals looking for a central and objective source of information about materials (books, software, new technologies and multi-sensory resources) for supporting and encouraging children's literacy.

The teacher then selected one other student from the rest of the class to give them a new «unnamed» image of one of the princesses that was selected by the initial six students.

Classical 100, the new, government ‑ backed initiative from music exam board ABRSM, Classic FM and record company Decca Classics, was introduced by ABRSM strategic director Lincoln Abbotts: the resource is built around 100 recordings of classical music pieces which teachers can draw upon in lessons, school assemblies and other school activities, alongside which there is information about the composer and stories behind the music — it is free to use and open to all schools in the UK.

All Our Children Learning: A Primer for Parents, Teachers and Other Educators, by Benjamin S. Bloom (McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10020; 288 pages, paper $ 6.95).

«We meet both before and after school to discuss new policies, evaluate existing ones, organize fundraisers and co-curricular activities, and discuss books and articles suggested by the principal and other staff members,» says teacher Geri Williams.

New and more established teams will have a chance to assess their own collaborative habits, learn from other educators, discover more powerful collaborative strategies, and practice a step - by - step process for implementing teacher rounds as a strategy for building a stronger professional culture.

Enter Usable Knowledge — a project that will take new ideas and innovative solutions generated by our faculty and our students and put them in the hands of teachers, principals, superintendents, policymakers, and others who can have a real impact on students, schools, and education more broadly.

In the end, the teacher professionalism agenda has functioned like a black hole, sucking in much of the available energy, attention, and funds and leaving little for other reforms - not just other teacher - related reforms (such as those urged by the Excellence Commission), but also a very different list of changes (technology, choice programs, preschool, new curricula) that might prove more effective and economical as strategies for boosting pupil achievement.

Among other findings are that dismissed teachers who were subsequently rehired by a different school are more likely to be dismissed again than other non-tenured teachers in their new school.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

Though the decision received wide coverage (per above) and throws New York school districts a curve (they are supposed to have an evaluation policy in place by September 1), it's not clear that the decision will have any major implications for other states that are considering linking teacher evaluations to test scores (except as inducement to make sure their regulations correspond to their laws).

Given the new demands levied by the Common Core standards, teammates and ’14 master's degree graduates Taylor Percival, Michelle Skinner, and Jessica Yarmosky are busy with CommonLit, a free online library for middle school teachers to help them easily find news articles, poetry, and other short texts aligned with the Common Core curriculum that help build reading skills across a wide array of abilities.

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

Some of these might be categorized as efforts to build the capacity of the current system by simply paying for professional development sessions on particular topics; others might be thought of as attempts to change the system by developing new approaches to hiring, compensating, and evaluating teachers.

For many teachers, this is exciting stuff, but for others — particularly new teachers who already feel overwhelmed by planning, grading, and management — it's worrisome.

Senior leaders or even business managers can and have taken driving roles in creating a new school by bringing together a team of teachers and other professionals and using their knowledge and experience to help bring an outstanding education to more students across their local area.

If a teacher is teaching how to write a topic sentence for a paragraph, some students will find this a simple question of mastering one new chunk of information while others will be swamped by a confusing mess of words.

A handful of school districts and states — including Dallas, Houston, Denver, New York, and Washington, D.C. — have begun using student achievement gains as indicated by annual test scores (adjusted for prior achievement and other student characteristics) as a direct measure of individual teacher performance.

A citizens» panel appointed by Gov. Toney Anaya of New Mexico has recommended boosting teachers» starting salaries from the current average of $ 14,800 to $ 25,000 by 1989, in order to make teaching competitive with business occupations and other higher - paying professions.

Similarly, while some teachers adopted new instructional techniques suggested by consultants, others did not.