Sentences with phrase «decide on new teacher»

New York State United Teachers President Karen Magee says a compromise proposal to appoint a commission to decide on new teacher performance standards is «in a state of flux».

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Commenting on plans for local authorities to decide where new schools should open, Kevin Courtney, Deputy General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the pTeachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the pteachers» union, said: «This is a clear admission that the free school policy has not effectively addressed local need for new places and concedes the vital role of the local authority in funding for new school places and the right of the local authority to select the provider.

UFT, New York State United Teachers and American Federation of Teachers members also have been converging on Nevada, Ohio, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania — key battleground states that could decide the election.

In a report released on Monday, the New York State Board of Regents decided to ease up on consequences for teachers and students.

They also agreed then the new evaluations would be based 20 percent on state tests and 60 percent on teacher evaluations — but had left the remaining details up in the air, to be decided by Dec. 31.

Carl Korn, spokesman for New York State United Teachers, said local chapters are autonomous and decide their own courses of action on all sorts of issues.

One of my friends and fellow teachers, who had decided not to join my new endeavor, wrote me an email about how she was sick of the drama and how she was looking forward to moving on in our friendship.

But then they get a new teacher, a good - looking fellow who decides he wants them to concentrate on «The Crucible» instead, a story about malicious gossip and barely repressed sexual longing.

But because student - performance data on the state's standardized science exam indicated that our students did not understand these subject areas in a deep and meaningful way, the teachers decided to use a new approach: They chose to embrace a project - learning strategy to connect science and colonial history through a local historic site that dates back to the 1640s, the Saugus Iron Works.

Chris explains: «At Elm Park we decided that as the teaching would be new to all teachers and students, we'd introduce each activity on a whole school basis.

05, decided to sign on to the Master Teacher Project, the one thing he didn't have was much free time for something new.

Students activate their working memory as they figure out the meaning of new words they encounter while reading, and as they decide which mathematical functions they will need to apply to a problem that their teacher has just jotted on the whiteboard.

Rather than have our teachers sit through in - service presentations on how to effectively integrate their new devices, we decided to work together to find the best ways to use the devices with their students and their curriculum.

A new, rave review on Dr. Stuart Grauer's book Real Teachers has come out: A must read, and with haste, before the educational system wears you into their decided groove.

The districts, in agreement with the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers (PFT), decided that spending money on a program for new recruits was not justified if existing teachers were to lose their jobs in order to Teachers (PFT), decided that spending money on a program for new recruits was not justified if existing teachers were to lose their jobs in order to teachers were to lose their jobs in order to fund it.

Last month, teachers at Englewood on the Palisades Charter School in New Jersey decided to unionize.

Feds offer new details about NCLB waiver flexibility SI&A Cabinet Report: With the Legislature creeping closer to deciding the fate of AB 5 — which would restructure teacher evaluations in California — there's new focus on the state also winning a federal waiver from No Child Left Behind mandates.

Colorado's debate over the same themes was just as passionate, partly because thousands of teacher layoffs are on the horizon here, and teacher effectiveness will be considered before seniority in deciding who gets pink slips once the new law takes effect in 2014.

Among other things, new teachers need to learn «how to think on their feet, size up situations and decide what to do, study the effects of their practice, and use what they learn to inform their planning and teaching.»

He told the court he could decide within three months whether a new teacher would meet program standards — testimony the defense used in support of its claim there is sufficient time to make decision on tenure within the two - year statutory framework.

Scott Syverson, talent manager for The New Teacher Project, which worked with three RISE pilot districts in Indiana last year, said the system's biggest challenge was deciding where teachers fall on the four - step rating scale.

Carl Korn, a spokesman for New York State United Teachers, told the paper that King was wrong, since the law says only that districts «may» decide to dismiss teachers based on what their new evaluations sNew York State United Teachers, told the paper that King was wrong, since the law says only that districts «may» decide to dismiss teachers based on what their new evaluatiTeachers, told the paper that King was wrong, since the law says only that districts «may» decide to dismiss teachers based on what their new evaluatiteachers based on what their new evaluations snew evaluations say.

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The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

He sent this to me for my thoughts, and I decided to summarize my thoughts here, with thanks and all due respect to the author, as clearly we are on different sides of the spectrum in terms of the literal «value» America's new teacher evaluation systems might in fact «add» to the reformation of America's public schools.

Spending on state races isn't new for the teachers» unions, which are still putting millions of dollars into federal races, particularly the slew of U.S. Senate contests expected to decide control of that chamber.

At least one - fifth of the new teachers in our sample described receiving no operational curriculum at all, meaning they were left on their own to decide both what to teach and how to teach it.

Gov. Gary Herbert kicked off a Q&A with new teachers at Bridger Elementary on Tuesday by posing a question of his own: Why did you decide to become a teacher?

The New York Times reports that students, inspired by the #MeToo movement, decided to openly draw attention to the improper behaviour on social media, naming the teachers.