Sentences with phrase «cover teacher stories»

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The course: This specialization created by Wesleyan University consists of four courses, each taught by a teacher below, and covers elements of three major creative writing genres: short story, narrative essay, and memoir.

Janet Vollmer, a kindergarten teacher, locked her classroom doors, covered the windows and read a story to her 19 students to keep them calm.

A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.

As a teacher of both biology and bioethics, I was extremely interested in «The Good Egg,» your May cover story on the hotly debated and morally loaded question of when life begins.

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Chalkbeat's story covered a newly released dataset from the Colorado Department of Education tracking teacher retention rates over the last 15 years.

This presentation presents perfect teaching resources that will help the teachers to walk into the classroom with ready to teach confidence as it covers all that a teacher and a student need for a Digital Story - Telling lesson.

This presentation presents perfect teaching resources that will help the teachers to walk into the classroom with ready to teach confidence as it covers all that a teacher and a student need for a Story Writing lesson.

This presentation presents perfect teaching resources for 6 days that will help the teachers to walk into the classroom with ready to teach confidence as it covers all that a teacher and a student need for a Reading Comprehension lesson on a Crime Story.

With the help of a few high - profile media stories and some legal cases, this view has shifted, and now most schools have an acceptable use policy covering all online communications between students, parents and teachers that impact on the school community.

With a 2010 New York Times Magazine cover story, «Building a Better Teacher,» 20 - something journalist Elizabeth Green leapt to national prominence — as did the heroes of her article, Deborah Ball, the dean of the University of Michigan ed school, and Doug Lemov, a founder of Uncommon Schools, a network of high performing charter schools.

It covers the following National Curriculum learning objectives: - develop pleasure in reading, motivation to read, vocabulary and understanding by: listening to, discussing and expressing views about a wide range of contemporary and classic poetry, stories and non-fiction at a level beyond that at which they can read independently - becoming increasingly familiar with and retelling a wider range of stories, fairy stories and traditional tales - drawing on what they already know or on background information and vocabulary provided by the teacher - making inferences on the basis of what is being said and done - answering and asking questions - predicting what might happen on the basis of what has been read so far - using dictionaries to check the meaning of words that they have read - checking that the text makes sense to them, discussing their understanding, and explaining the meaning of words in context

Launched with a hugely popular New York Times Magazine cover story, Building a Better Teacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in eduTeacher sparked a national conversation about teacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in eduteacher quality and established Elizabeth Green as a leading voice in education.

This presentation presents perfect teaching resources for 6 days that will help the teachers to walk into the classroom with ready to teach confidence as it covers all that a teacher and a student need for a Reading Comprehension lesson on a Ghost Story.

This story was co-produced by The Teacher Project, an education reporting initiative at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dedicated to covering teachers, and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

In the St. Louis area, school districts tend to be divided along racial lines, and a New York Times reporter covering the story of the transfers heard from white parents in receiving districts who expressed concern that troublemakers will be among the transfers, and that teachers may have to slow down to allow the students from struggling districts, which are predominantly black, to catch up.

The site will cover all aspects of education in the United States — from the policy debate that will play out in the presidential election to the day - to - day human stories of school superintendents, teachers, parents and kids on the front lines in our nation's schools.

I asked my Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers what they think, and got a resounding sense from them that the negative stories about social media cover over a lot of really great benefits it can bring to the classroom — from global communication to a newfound delight in reading.

AFT President Randi Weingarten also posted a response to the story on Time's website, saying, «America's teachers aren't rotten apples, as Time's cover suggests, that need to be smashed by Silicon Valley millionaires with no experience in education.»

The story also covered the history of Reid Traditional Schools, which was founded 20 years ago by teachers and has since become a top - ranked, National Blue Ribbon School.

A teacher provides students with wordless picture books (e.g., books with no words on the pages or picture books with the words covered) and asks students to analyze the text and design the story based on the visual images.

Teach Like a Champion caught the world's attention in large part because of The New York Times Magazine cover story entitled, «Building a Better Teacher.»

* This story has been updated, at the authors» request, to reflect that «The Hangover» covers the teacher evaluation issue more broadly than charter schools.

It's ironic that Newsweek points fingers at failing teachers [«Why We Can't Get Rid of Failing Teachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reteachers [«Why We Can't Get Rid of Failing Teachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reTeachers,» Cover Story, March 15] yet holds patently low expectations for its own investigative reporting.

No matter how education touches your life - whether you're a parent, student, teacher or just interested in better understanding how learning happens - we want your ideas to help shape the stories we cover.

The latest round came in October after Time came out with a story onVergara v. California and the sparring between reformers and the Big Two unions over teacher quality reform that featured the headline Rotten Apples and included a cover photo of an apple about to be smashed by a judge's gavel.

This story was produced by The Teacher Project, an education reporting initiative at Columbia Graduate School of Journalism dedicated to covering teachers.

Also prominent is Florida Teacher Luke Flint's «Story» about his VAM Scores (also covered here).

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«There have been the singing nun and the flying nun, but the hippest of all is Los Angeles's painting nun,» noted Newsweek in its 1967 cover story on Sister Corita Kent, the artist, activist, and teacher, whose first career survey, as The Saratogian reports, opened at the Francis Young Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore college this week.

For the complete story about your life you can write on your resume, so keep it up your cover letter brief, clear and straight to the main purpose that you are a good candidate as preschool teacher.