Sentences with phrase «career working as a teacher»

Melvoin started his career working as a teacher for two years in LA Unified's Edwin Markham Middle School through the Teach For America program.

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The growing supply of potential teachers — as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — meant Teach Away could pursue more placement opportunities abroad.

In 2009 and 2010, as jobs in the U.S. grew increasingly scarce, applications from aspiring teachers — younger people who saw little opportunity to land a full - time gig at home, as well as professionals from other fields who wanted to switch careers and work abroad — poured in.

He began his career as a college English teacher and then worked as a church planter and pastor for twenty - four years.

Becoming a mother completely changed the direction of my life's work from pursuing an acting career to devoting my life to children — as a mother and a teacher — and to supporting families.

Following a 30 - year career at Green Meadow Waldorf School as a class teacher (1986 - 1991) and as Director of Physical Education and Athletics (1991 - 2016), Will is broadening the spectrum of his work in movement education to meet the growing needs of our time.

Geoffrey began his career as a teacher in Paterson New Jersey, and after working in education, transitioned into developing grassroots voter contact strategies for progressive campaigns.

Conference notes that this growing phenomenon includes: (i) management - led working practices which have not been workload impact assessed; (ii) coercive practices such as insidious threats to career progression; (iii) the de facto lengthening of the school day through the expectation that teachers will deliver extra lessons outside of the normal timetable; (iv) the loss of lunch breaks for teachers and students alike; (v) the bullying of teachers into running «booster» and revision classes after school, at weekends and during holiday periods and (vi) the consequential compromising of the teacher's work / life balance.

Before starting her political career, Marshall, a graduate of Queens College, worked as a teacher and later became the director of the Langston Hughes Library on Northern Boulevard, which she founded in 1969.

Fedor's career experience includes working as teacher with Toledo Public Schools.

Although I had never previously considered being a teacher, it appealed to me as a professional career with a clear pay structure, good working conditions, and job security.

As part of his NSF CAREER award, Henry has been leading a summer outreach program where African - American and women undergraduates, high school music teachers, and high school students are working to convert the vibrations of atoms into sound files.

Before starting her writing career, Tanya Brown worked as an eighth - grade language arts teacher.

I work as a nanny / teacher and I plan to go into a career that involves children as well.

I began my career as a Junior Primary Teacher teaching at a few Elizabeth JP schools, I loved working with year 5 to 8 year olds.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

Prior to his radio career, Schmitz lived and worked in China — first as a teacher for the Peace Corps in the 1990s, later as a freelance print and video journalist.

Mads Mikkelsen, in a career - best performance, plays Lucas, a teacher in a small Danish town, left lonely after a poisonous divorce, and working as a classroom assistant after his old school shuts down.

Join noted researcher and former elementary school teacher P. David Pearson as he takes us on a personal and professional tour of his career's work: exploring changes in how we think about, teach, and assess reading comprehension, with a special emphasis on its role in the Common Core State Standards.

Since school administrators work for many years as a teacher and then receive a substantial boost in pay at the back end of a career as they move into administration, they fare much better than a senior teacher.

He began his career in the field as an AmeriCorps Volunteer in 1996, and worked as a teacher, camp director, VP, principal and coach before joining Newark Public Schools as Assistant Superintendent in 2012.

However, that scenario only works for the teachers who stick around for the duration of their career — and teachers themselves may not view it as a fair trade.

There was no way to advance your career or expand your reach while working as a classroom teacher.

But Chester, earlier in his career and after working as a teacher, completed his doctoral work at HGSE, and at the time of his appointment, considered it an «added bonus» that he was able to return to the state where he completed his dissertation work.

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As part of Bellwether's forthcoming work on teacher preparation, we explored how much we know about teachers at various stages of their careers.

By appealing to tutors» sense of service, providing a small but livable stipend, organizing low - cost housing for tutors, and above all, by giving tutors a chance to work in a high - performing school as a means for evaluating their interest in education reform and teaching careers, Match can compete alongside Teach For America for the best college graduates in the country and hire three to four tutors for what they pay a full - time teacher.

The mask set was designed with the Drama teacher in mind as part of a comprehensive collection of masks.Masks can be integrated into many other areas of the curriculum and would be useful as topic starters in English, discussions of occupations and careers in HASS, models for Design and technology or for creative play and art work.

First, we offer three curricular strands for our Ed.M program: a Counseling Strand to prepare you for a career in school counseling; a Prevention Practice strand that prepares you to work in or out of schools as a teacher, youth development advocate; and a Prevention Researcher strand that prepares you develop research skills to be used in a variety of settings.

Over my 35 - year career as a public school teacher and educator at Expeditionary Learning, I have been obsessed with collecting student work of remarkable quality and value.

The second biggest factor that could persuade teachers to delay their retirement, for 43 % of those polled, would be the provision of flexible working arrangements, enabling them to fit their career around other responsibilities in later life, such as caring for a loved one.

Many of us who work at the National Theatre today can pinpoint the an experience at school — a theatre visit, an inspirational teacher, an encounter with a professional artist — as the spark to their career.

Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?

So deep, in fact, that decades later, after a long career as a foreign language teacher, Hohmann finds herself working in a remarkably similar setting.

It has won the backing of Teach First, the National Association of Head Teachers, the Association of School and College Leaders and the Careers Development Institute and gives schools the opportunity to return and repeat the assessment as they work to improve their provision.

First step: enrolling in the Ed School's Language and Literacy Program (L&L) and working toward her master's so that she could resume her career as a foreign language teacher.

Now Teach is similar to Teach First, but works in reverse — it takes people who have had a successful professional career, and retrains them as teachers.

His mother sacrificed her professional career as a secondary school teacher in Honduras and worked in New York as a home health aide, in order to ensure that her son receive a good education.

Erica began her career in education as a kindergarten teacher and then worked as a school counselor and dean.

Though she began her career as an elementary school teacher, working in Atlanta and Detroit, Driver aspired to lead one day.

As a school leader, how can you better support early career teachers to be teacher leaders and influence the work of colleagues and student learners?

Similarly, we welcome the commitment to the development of specialist qualifications and will continue to work closely with government to champion a career path for teacher educators as part of this development work.

In today's Q&A we speak to Laura Wetherspoon, an early career teacher from Casuarina Street Primary School (CSPS) in the Northern Territory, about her experiences in working towards full registration (also known as Proficient Certification).

Mr. Elder began his career working as a Montana Exchange Teacher in Kumamoto, Japan.

We work with schools, districts, states, and other education agencies to develop, review, improve, and implement academic and career technical standards, as well as principal and teacher performance standards.

The need for quality teachers is great as schools around the nation work to raise K - 12 learning standards so that students are ready for college or a career by the time they graduate high school.

In addition, she has served on the board of inBloom, The Conference Board of Mathematical Sciences Ad Hoc Committee on Teachers as Professionals, the Content Technical Working Group for the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, a commissioner on the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP).

One study estimated that a teacher working a 30 - year career in the same state had two or even three times the pension wealth as a teacher with the same 30 - year career who split her time across two states.

Over her career in public education, Jewell - Sherman worked as a classroom teacher, principal, and central office administrator.

As Leading Educators expands its work, it will focus on helping schools and districts create sustainable, paid leadership opportunities for its leaders, enabling them to advance in their careers while remaining teachers.