Sentences with phrase «elementary teacher today»

The average SAT score of public elementary teachers today is less than 1000; for secondary teachers a bit higher.

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As a teacher in an elementary school, I've seen that there are very few options for lunches - to the extent that students with nut allergies (which today are very common) have no option at all.

Just today I went up to my children's elementary school for the end of the year parent teacher conferences.

Speaking today at a White House event honoring the nation's top elementary school teachers and scientist - mentors, President Barack Obama gave a stump - like speech about the need «to move from the middle to the top of the pack in science and math education over the next decade.»

«If I were a first - grade teacher or principal of an elementary school, finding out that my students are at risk for not graduating from high school — it's important, but it's not very tangible or actionable or relevant to where I'm at today,» Curtin says.

In today's world of standards, testing, scripted literacy models, and the use of strictly - followed commercial programs for teaching math, many teachers and principals in elementary schools do not think project - based learning is possible.

The 300 or so teachers who remain are the highest - paid and most senior, so that today the youngest elementary - school teacher in the entire system is 39 years old.

He explains today there are many types of lesson study activities in terms of the context, focus and size — intra-school (in elementary schools and some secondary schools), within whole school districts or cities, at a prefecture level and national events where thousands of teachers visit a school to observe and discuss.

In today's environment of growing class sizes — with an average of 25 students in elementary classrooms and 150 students a day in high school classes — it's difficult for teachers to provide one - to - one instruction.

Especially in the activity development including defining the lesson structure, the learning areas to be covered and the classroom management tricks to be incorporated, we worked with current elementary teachers to create a product that was simple, relevant, and extremely usable in today's classroom.

She began as a founding teacher at Synergy Charter Academy nine years ago, and today is the principal of the elementary school.

Today, as a bilingual teacher, she is combining creativity and commitment for second graders in a San Antonio ISD elementary school.

A report out today from the National Council on Teacher Quality rates more than 1,100 elementary and secondary programs at just over 600 institutions of higher education across the country and concludes that the bar is set too low for entrance into professional training, future teachers are not being adequately prepared for the classroom or new requirements such as the Common Core State Standards, and the nation's expectations are far below those for teachers in countries

As part of a series, USA Today published an article strongly suggesting that teachers or administrators goosed student test - score gains at an elementary and middle school in Washington.

A foundation supported by a national teachers union said results reported today of a five - year pilot program in five elementary schools in Springfield, Massachusetts point to the value of a collaborative approach to education.

Collaboration with Garnet Valley enabled me to give my pre-service teachers an innovative and realistic view at not only how differently elementary students are learning today, but how important collaborations with K - 12 partners are for successful pre-service teacher preparation.

[iv] Today, some elementary teachers remain puzzled about how to avoid gender - based stereotypes or how to incorporate family diversity (i.e. the variety of what constitutes a family) into the school day; [v] and students continue to report troubling level of violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation.