Sentences with phrase «determined middle school teacher»

Watch a determined middle school teacher transform his crowded classroom space to enable deeper learning and effective teamwork — with help from his students, community volunteers, and a few experts.

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(Among other things, test scores help determine teacher and principal evaluations, and in New York City they also have an impact on middle and high school admissions to some schools.)

Instead, we are treated to empathetic descriptions of «legions of genuinely good teachers both touching lives and successfully teaching skills and content in hundreds of middle schools» and hear the complaint that «most of the mandated assessments being used to determine students» attainment of the standards focus heavily on recall of facts, one of the lowest forms of thinking.»

Miller says the company is still on track to be «in the middle of hiring» teachers by mid-March, but determining how many teachers the school needs has required very detailed information about students» interests.

For teacher evaluation pilot districts, DEAC members include: school board representative; elementary, middle, and high school teachers (as applicable given pilot participation); principal; superintendent; central office representative; administrator conducting evaluations; data coordinator; parent; and others as determined by the district.

As we move toward standards - based report cards in the middle school, rigorous probes to determine if a student has mastered a concept are critical for teachers to assess learning.

I really am interested in how a former undersecretary of education has come to the point that he is so determined to attack teacher tenure, teacher unions and «restrictive work rules» for teachers — especially during a time when public schools have been systematically defunded, forced to jump through hoops (Race to the Top) in order to get what remains of federal funding for education, like some kind of bizarre Hunger Games ritual for kids and teachers, and as curriculums have been narrowed to the point where only middle class and wealthier communities have schools that offer subjects like music, art, and physical education — much less recess time, school nurses or psychologists, or guidance counselors.

As discussed in the article, Jackson (2012) actually studies data of all public middle and high school students in North Carolina and finds that absences and suspensions affected teacher quality on non-cognitive skills can be determined by analyzing absences and suspensions.