Sentences with phrase «early childhood teachers struggle»

Many early childhood teachers struggle with feeling comfortable and confident teaching mathematics.

Sponsored by Connect4Learning (C4L) Many early childhood teachers struggle with feeling comfortable and confident teaching mathematics.

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The results echo findings from a 2012 OECD analysis, which showed that countries that invested in their schools in more targeted ways — such as through teacher salaries or early childhood programs, or by supporting struggling students — were the ones with the highest gains on PISA, not countries that spent the most overall.

In order to meet these new demands, states will need to restructure work along several fronts, including brokering support to struggling schools and districts, raising standards and expectations, addressing weaknesses in the teacher and principal labor market, and strengthening connections between early childhood education, K — 12, higher education, and careers.

While early childhood and elementary teachers must know the reading science to prevent reading difficulties, special education teachers, and especially elementary special education teachers, must know how to support students who have already fallen behind and struggle with reading and literacy skills.

In this case, we heard from our teacher partners that many early childhood education teachers struggle to develop developmentally appropriate home learning activities to share with parents.

Regarding struggling readers, early childhood education standards require that a teacher «uses the results of literacy assessments to adjust and / or target instruction, to flexibly group children, when needed, and to appropriately match children with reading material.»

«Few of the early childhood teachers had specific training or experience in responding to traumatic events and many struggled to address the emotions associated with the loss.»

In the absence of increased wages and benefits, the early childhood field will continue to struggle to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers.

If child care teachers are paid so little and early childhood programs are struggling to make ends meet, many parents are justifiably left asking the question: Why does child care cost so much?

While I'm struggling along with everyone else to find ways that early childhood professionals can use technology appropriately, I try to keep in mind something else I learned from Fred: «No matter how helpful computers are as tools (and of course they can be very helpful tools), they don't begin to compare in significance to the teacher - child relationship, which is human and mutual.