Sentences with phrase «central job of teaching»

Many secondary content - area teachers are reluctant to integrate reading and writing in their instruction because they feel that reading and writing skills are add - ons to their central job of teaching content knowledge.

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She soon found positions in a number of fine D.C. restaurants, but a desire to give back to her community eventually led her to take a job in the DC Central Kitchen, an organization which feeds the hungry while teaching culinary skills to the unemployed.

To get my current job I completed an application, submitted reference letters, made arrangements for my transcripts to be sent to the central office, and took a test based on my philosophy of teaching.

Relinquishers, in contrast, believe that the job of the school district is to empower charter school operators to teach as they see fit, subject to oversight from a small and nimble central office.

One of the central tensions for reformers when it comes to improving teacher quality is that on the one hand they believe teachers are fighting desperately for excessive job security but also, on the other hand, that you can substantially reduce that job security without making teaching significantly less attractive.

Most teachers understand their role in teaching academic content as the central mission of their jobs.

The central plank of a teacher academy program is an array of clinical opportunities to try teaching, such as job shadowing, observational fieldwork, and, ultimately, student teaching internships in a local classroom for several hours each week.

From 2011 to 2013, I was one of two black high school teachers at my alma mater in central O'ahu, Hawai'i, where I got a job through Teach for America.

She spent the first 14 years in public education teaching K - 1st grade and then became the director of Grand Central Kids Preschool where she is currently in the 7th year of her DREAM JOB!

In 2010, tiny Central Falls, R.I., made headlines when Rhode Island's education commissioner, Deborah Gist, announced that the entire teaching staff of the town's high school would be laid off and asked to reapply for their jobs under new evaluation models.

By: Rachel Brown, Ph.D., NCSP Most teachers understand their role in teaching academic content as the central mission of their jobs.

I just moved into an apartment in Le Cap d'Agde, a small seaside town in the Languedoc - Roussillon region of south - central France, because I got a job as a teaching assistant at a local high school.

Two years later he landed his teaching job in the School of Painting and Drawing at the Grand Central School of Art.

In the early Fifties he was offered a job teaching jewellery design at the Central School of Art by its principal, William Johnstone, who recorded: «Alan and his wife were living on Poor Relief at William Oley's artists» settlement at the Abbey, New Barnet.

In addition, he helped initiate the first driver's education program at Guthrie Job Corps and has taught defensive driving courses at University of Central Oklahoma.

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