Sentences with phrase «classroom teachers employed»

We examine earnings records for more than 130,000 classroom teachers employed by Florida public schools between the 2001 — 2 and 2006 — 7 school years, roughly 35,000 of whom left the classroom during

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Many schools encourage teachers to use positive discipline in the classroom by employing the same principles.

The Cove School currently employs a director and a classroom teacher as well as hosting visiting teachers for our enrichment program.

«We have not employed new teachers to replace those that retired since 2012 and there are more classrooms than pupils.

Teachers began employing aspects of Responsive Classroom practices, such as Morning Meeting and Logical Consequences — in their classrooms.

Led by a former elementary school teacher, the school employs over a 1,000 state certified teachers, almost all of whom have also taught in traditional classrooms.

By employing head - mounted cameras on students, and using time - lapse photography, they say it's now possible to get a much more comprehensive perspective of overall classroom ambience to better measure teacher performance.

The school employs a curriculum integration specialist who helps museum staff and teachers incorporate exhibits into classroom lessons.

It employs over 36,700 classroom teachers and, curiously, an equal number of managers and support staff.

Teachers experienced real - life learning in the program because it employed goals and objectives beyond what is expected in the classroom.

About 40 per cent of teachers employ monthly filmmaking in their classrooms for students to be able to explore topics; however

These well - endowed academic think tanks — located at universities such as Indiana University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, and the University of Chicago — are creating local projects they hope will close the gap between students» frequent use of multimedia tools and the barriers that prevent teachers from employing these tools in the classroom.

Not that video games will take over the classroom but that they will provide teachers with one more useful tool to employ when the time is right.

Enabling kids to instruct one another — as 6th - grader Ahmajh Johnson does in his science class — is one of many assessment techniques teachers everywhere can employ in their classrooms.

The book also suggests specific techniques teachers can employ to ensure a well - managed classroom.

When we turn to her practical agenda, we can see just how important the teachers unions are to the Broader, Bolder coalition: most of the key reforms Ladd proposes have nothing to do with ending poverty in any direct way, but instead are directed toward employing more professionals for tasks outside the regular K — 12 classroom:

Many teachers utilize technology and employ the flipped classroom model for instruction, but the key to connecting with this type of learner lies not only in the delivery of the content, but the connection to real world experiences.

What is notable about the version of teacher evaluation systems currently evolving in districts throughout the nation, however, is the continued emphasis on classroom observations, with many systems employing the same observation tool used in CPS under the EITP initiative.

Schools and districts that face budget constraints and can not accommodate their total populations in traditional classrooms, either because of facility restraints or the inability to employ enough certified teachers.

Schools must not be drawn into the false economy of employing permanent classroom assistants to replicate the role of fully trained supply teachers.

At Mount Desert Elementary School, all K - 3 classrooms use the Responsive Classroom approach, and many Mount Desert upper - grade teachers also employ this technique.

Principals identified the key challenges faced by newly employed graduate teachers as classroom management, pedagogy and catering for diverse learners.

The majority of the sample had a four year qualification, and were typically employed as classroom teachers on a permanent basis in metropolitan state schools.

High - quality teaching occurs when teachers come to the classroom with a toolkit of knowledge and skills that they employ based on a set of effective practices and that lead, over time, to student learning.

EW: With so many teachers citing the need for help with discipline or behavior management issues, what are some tools teachers can employ to help them in the classroom?

• The tech demo presentation: One that looks at some clever new bit of Ed - tech that the teacher has employed in the classroom.

Just as all learners are different, so too are instructional practices and a classroom full of individuals may require the savvy teacher to employ multiple practices simultaneously.

These are all skills that employers highly value — and all methods that have been employed by effective classroom teachers for centuries.

Businesses mostly employ mind maps for strategic planning, collaboration and ideation while teachers and students use maps to visualize complex problems and drive engagement in the classroom.

Creating & Recognizing Quality Rubrics and accompanying CD - ROM draws from over 20 years of the author's direct experiences with developing rubrics and performance tasks, devising interesting ways to use rubrics as teaching tools in the classroom, employing rubrics to score thousands of pieces of student work for classroom and large - scale assessments, and working with teachers to make their rubrics more instructionally powerful.

The plan shall describe the methods that the school districts or BOCES shall employ to assess teachers» performance, which may include but is not limited to the following: classroom observation, videotape assessment, self review, peer review and portfolio review.

And here are a few examples of teachers» goals: to more consistently draw on student data to inform my teaching; to employ high standards for all of my students, not just the ones I easily relate to; to be more open to experimenting with the new technologies in my classroom; to working more collaboratively; to getting better at saying «no»; to giving supportive and constructive feedback to my colleagues; to be more open to my colleagues» feedback about my teaching.

* The value - added model that the MET project employs, while common in the literature, is also not designed to address how the distribution of teacher effects varies between high - and low - performing classrooms (e.g., teachers of ELL classes are assumed to be of the same average effectiveness as teachers of gifted / talented classes).

Glazer et al. (2006) reported that teacher leaders employed demonstration lessons to introduce pedagogical techniques and then transitioned to other forms of instructional support (such as classroom observations) as teachers implemented these techniques in their classrooms.

Early in her tenth year as a classroom teacher, she took a position as a regional educational consultant where she has been employed for more than seven years.

On - site classroom studies have indicated an average 16 percentile point gain in student achievement when teachers employed strategies within the Marzano Causal Model.

With focused practice and training, observers ought to be able to watch any given lesson and identify the classroom strategies a teacher is using and score how effectively the instructor is employing them.

In a recent study, elementary school teacher Mackenzie Eikenberry employed the regular use of poetry in her third and fourth grade dual language classrooms.

The school offers Saturday sessions for learning, enrichment programs at lunch time, and employs small learning environments with two teachers per classroom whenever possible.

Teachers need the skills and tools to employ successful informal and formal assessment techniques in their classroom.

Co-teaching strategies are employed, and these classrooms typically have both a general ed and special ed teacher.

Any unused funds that are returned to the district school board shall be deposited into the school advisory council account of the school at which the classroom teacher returning the funds was employed when that teacher received the funds or deposited into the Florida Teachers Classroom Supply Assistance Program account of the school district in which a charter school is sponsored, as applicable.

An annual bonus equal to 10 percent of the prior fiscal year's statewide average salary for classroom teachers to be distributed to the school district to be paid to each individual who holds NBPTS certification and is employed by the district school board or by a public school within the school district.

This reflection allows teachers the opportunity to analyze the decision - making processes they employed during the act of teaching students in classrooms (Athanases, 1993; Langer & Colton, 1994).

To accomplish this goal, schools, teachers, guidance counselors, and other educational specialists may employ a wide variety of educational methods, from modifying assignments and instructional strategies in the classroom to entirely redesigning the ways in which students are grouped and taught in a school.

After completing the first methods class, before teacher candidates entered any classrooms other than through the cyber-conferencing experience, 90 % of the respondents said they employed the following technology - enhanced methods in their lessons: word processing; rhetorical, digital text analysis; digital commentary; Internet research; found and concrete poem creation generated through digital sources; image collage to analyze text; online chat; discussion boards; PowerPoint presentation; word processing and graphic organizers to facilitate multistage writing workshop; email; and multimedia projects using digital camera and video for some type of analysis.

Prior studies in education employing DBR approaches have primarily focused on classroom instruction (Anderson & Shattuck, 2012), yet DBR can hold promise in the design and implementation of teacher PD (Dede et al., 2008).

A teacher with strong pedagogical knowledge employs effective teaching strategies, creates well - designed lessons plans, applies successful classroom management techniques, and develops an understanding about student learning (Koehler & Mishra, 2008).

Clearly, though, teacher candidates did not want to «experiment fearlessly» with technology alongside the students in their field experiences; they wanted to be comfortable with the technologies and new media they employed before incorporating them into their real classroom practices.

The effective teacher performs many functions that can be organized into three major roles: (1) making wise choices about the most effective instruction strategies to employ, (2) designing classroom curriculum to facilitate student learning, and (3) making effective use of classroom management techniques (Marzano, Pickering, & Pollock, 2001).