Sentences with phrase «elementary teaching colleagues»

I've heard from my elementary teaching colleagues that sometimes they spend less time teaching science in order to have more time to teach reading.

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«In the 1970s and 1980s, policies and practice favored bilingual education, in which children were taught partially or entirely in their native language, and then transitioned at some point during the elementary grades to English - only instruction,» wrote Johns Hopkins researcher Robert E. Slavin and colleagues in a study published in 2010.

Currently, I am conducting a pilot study in conjunction with a colleague from the University of Tampa to determine the impact of teaching mindfulness techniques to the gifted elementary students I teach.

Now, in a recent study, Hill and her colleagues have dug more deeply into the relationship between teachers» mathematical knowledge for teaching and the quality of their teaching in actual elementary school classrooms.

Several years ago, a colleague and I conducted a pilot study that involved teaching 24 gifted elementary students how to meditate and practice other...

The conservatives who control the board have neutered the teachers union, prodded neighborhood elementary schools to compete with one another for market share, directed tax money to pay for religious education and imposed a novel pay scale that values teachers by their subjects, so a young man teaching algebra to eighth graders can make $ 20,000 a year more than a colleague teaching world history down the hall.

One example is Mrs. Cook, an elementary school teacher who was named teacher of the year by her colleagues but was labeled unsatisfactory based on a VAM score calculated the performance of students she hadn't taught.

At her elementary school in Yadkin County, Mathis says morale is okay, but overall her colleagues feel that the teaching profession is under attack.

This successful group can't imagine teaching at any other level, but they acknowledge that much of what works originated from experience with elementary grades or colleagues.

She has taught elementary and middle school in Oakland Unified for nine years and currently teaches 6th grade science and English Language Arts at Melrose Leadership Academy, where she also facilitates collaborative inquiry with her colleagues.

We are teacher educators (in elementary science and mathematics) who are enthusiastic about technology as a teaching tool — though it is as new to us as it is to our university colleagues.

Your teaching colleague and former college mate are off to an elementary school teacher interview — the interview you did not get!