Sentences with phrase «few teacher educators»

Although many educators have dreamed of the «good» they could do, very few teacher educators have attempted such collaboration.

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What a shame... and standardized testing, what a revolting way to judge the merit of a school system (more specifically ~ an individual educator) I was horrified to find out from a family friend who was a Special Education teacher a few years ago (who is now my sons 7th grade, general Ed., Language Arts teacher), that the BOE pays for the special Ed teachers to go to a 3 day long In Service, instructing them how to get their Spec.

New York has nearly 8,600 fewer active educators than it did five years ago, and the number of SUNY students majoring in education has dropped 50 percent since 2007, fueling fears of a looming teacher shortage across the state.

But educators said high payouts to a few administrators represent only a fraction of the 134,796 educators collecting pensions through the New York State Teachers» Retirement System.

In speeches, interviews and a letter over the past few weeks, the governor has said that he thinks the state's teacher grading system, only in its third year, is too easy to pass, making it too difficult to fire underperforming educators.

A few days later, Trump tweeted that arming teachers would be up to the states, and that armed educators (and trusted people who work within a school) must be firearms adept and have annual training.

To cultivate that untapped talent, Singer said, educators have solid evidence of methods that work in STEM education — such as focusing on conceptual learning, problem - solving, and use of representations such as diagrams and evolution trees — but those methods are used in very few undergraduate classrooms where STEM teachers receive their training, Singer said.

In the course of my life, I have had many different roles - mom, wife, child and family therapist, waitress, sex ed teacher, lingerie sales, supervisor, parent educator, kids clothing representative, jewelry designer - just to name a few.

Davis, meanwhile, plays Nona, one of the school's few remaining conscientious members of staff, a ground - down teacher who still wants to take pride in her role as an educator, which in the reductive world of this movie makes her the teaching drama equivalent of the «Good German» in an old - school war movie.

Likewise, at Point Reyes National Seashore, the Point Reyes National Seashore Association offers teacher - training workshops and seminars (The Natural World, Birds of Point Reyes, The Arts, and Especially for Educators, to name just a few).

Grode: It's hard to pinpoint a few priorities as an educator, because there are endless goals every teacher has for every class and even every student.

Mary Kreul, a 4th grade teacher in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, provided a few new — to me — tools that I've learned about lately from many amazing and creative educators via Twitter.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

A few days later, Educators 4 Excellence, a group unaffiliated with the local teachers union, released a plan that called for student achievement to count for 40 percent of a teacher's score.

For many teachers, the thought of a serial podcast (one that requires weekly or biweekly updates) is overwhelming, and few parents (or educators) may be ready to subscribe with RSS feeds anyway.

TIME - SAVING FEATURES FOR TEACHERS «Designed to help educators reimagine blended learning, Brightspace helps instructors deliver a personalised experience for each student 3/4 with fewer headaches, and in less time,» said Ken Chapman, VP of Market Strategy at D2L.

Few educators would agree more with Gaynor's view of the importance of the school Web club than Marcia Cousins, a reading and computer teacher at Ballard Elementary School in Niles, Michigan.

When Teacher published a piece by New South Wales academic David Roy earlier this year on the implementation and benefits of cross-curricular approach Queensland educator Leanne Chesterfield got in touch to share the fact that her school has spent the last few years developing a cross-curricular framework.

During the next class I asked the adult students to tell us about their former careers, which included retired health care professionals, a video production teacher, a machinist, a retired scientist and LAUSD educator to name a few.

Though there is never enough support for beginning teachers (or any educator), I'm hoping I can enlist the community of Edutopia.org visitors to engage in a discussion with new members of our profession and dish out some practical tips and a few morsels of advice, consolation, and encouragement.

Statistical controls must be used if the assessments of teachers, schools, or programs are to be accurate, even though very few educators understand the statistical principles and methods involved.

Secondary school represents a long geographical as well as psychological distance for girls...» It adds a lack of female teachers and a reluctance of qualified educators to work in remote schools means there are few female role models.

Since these competencies aren't generally taught in mandatory professional development courses or teacher preparation programs (there are a few exceptions like San Jose State University in California or The University of British Columbia in Canada), we can not assume that all educators have them in equal measure.

While not all administrators are former educators and only serve an administrative position for a few years, many have come into the profession as a former principal or teacher or other administrative pathway, often with years within the same state and local system.

And because this analysis is limited to initiatives under Title II, Part A, it is not an exhaustive list of states» strategies to improve the educator workforce; rather this brief highlights a few noteworthy states that have proposed promising teacher pipeline initiatives that they are either starting or continuing with support from Title II, Part A of ESSA.

This work will be fundamentally about the steady effort and the daily actions of teachers and educators such as those who empowered the high school students who visited us from China a few weeks ago and of those of you who partnered with those teachers to create new forms of learning from action for their students.

More than a few eyebrows were raised when School Board member - elect Monica Ratliff appeared at a Thursday Educators for Excellence (E4E) event and seemed to signal support for some kind of a test - based pay system to attract and keep good teachers in LA classrooms.

Despite the fact that more than 90 percent of comments supported the education requirements, the report — drawing on analysis of the comments by 48 educators, including West Virginia teachers, school administrators and college faculty — recommended revisions to about a hundred of the standards, from wording clarifications to a few deletions.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

For example, research reveals that educators who work at schools with fewer than 150 students are significantly less likely than teachers in larger schools to participate in mentoring and coaching, to collaborate regularly with other teachers, and to take college courses.

There are fewer and fewer traditionally trained teachers even in Connecticut, although there are more and more TFA and TFA «alums,» like Ranjana Reddy, Executive Director of Educators 4 Excellence, a billionaire - privatizers» organization that claims to be empowering teachers while potentially making tenure obsolete and due process irrelevant.

Multiple studies have demonstrated that organizations that prioritize a performance - management system that supports employees» professional growth outperform organizations that do not.25 Similar to all professionals, teachers need feedback and opportunities to develop and refine their practices.26 As their expertise increases, excellent teachers want to take on additional responsibilities and assume leadership roles within their schools.27 Unfortunately, few educators currently receive these kinds of opportunities for professional learning and growth.28 For example, well - developed, sustained professional learning communities, or PLCs, can serve as powerful levers to improve teaching practice and increase student achievement.29 When implemented poorly, however, PLCs result in little to no positive change in school performance.30

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

More distressing notes: Amid growing concerns about teacher shortages, a report from ACT notes that fewer high school grads plan to become educators.

Whether called evaluations, appraisals or assessments, nearly every district in the U.S. and Canada measures educator performance, but few say their efforts result in improved teacher effectiveness.

It will be expensive, but it is what teachers need have a radical solution to stop the endless workload rhetoric offered by politicians in lip - service conferences typically attended by few classroom teachers, but filled instead with school leaders, policymakers and educators.

I'm curious to learn more at ASU / GSV this week, where I've noticed a few panels with titles such as «Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want From Digital Instructional Tools,» or «Educators in Charge: What Educators Want from Classroom Technology.»

... The most daunting task for the city will be to prepare what could amount to thousands of new independent observers in just a few months, said Evan Stone, executive director of the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

... Organizations such as the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, NEA, AFT, Hope Street Fellows, The US Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lTeachers of the Year, NEA, AFT, Hope Street Fellows, The US Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lteachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and learning.

Because high performing educators in those small districts have fewer schools to move around to if they want to receive additional pay to work in lower performing schools as required under such programs, those teachers would be more likely to choose to work in a district that can offer that sort of advantage — something Hall said would simply draw even more quality teachers away from rural schools.

Relinquishing tenure, which is not a guarantee of a job but rather a guarantee of a third party hearing in the event of demotion or dismissal, is not favored among educators, who see it as one of very few important protections for teachers in North Carolina.

Its endorsers are the usual motley collection of progressive educators, socialist organizations and teachers unions that one would expect — Diane Ravitch, Jonathan Kozol, Students for a Democratic Society, the Freedom Socialist Party and the National Educational Association are just a few of the individuals and organizations lending their name to this circus.

These teachers are just a few of the many educators who are dedicated and committed to changing the lives of Arizona's students.

As the Los Angeles teachers union continues to try to organize educators at the city's largest charter school network, teachers at one of the few independent charter schools that joined the union voted to leave it after less than two years because union officials were pushing their own agenda, according to interviews and documents reviewed...

Understanding a few key data measurement concepts can help teachers and educators improve their comfort level when it comes to communicating assessment data and how it translates into student learning.

Summary: Few measures of teachers» classroom ability inspire as much optimism among researchers — and as much unease among educators — as surveys of students.

Speaking on a panel about principal evaluations organized by the teacher group Educators 4 Excellence this week, Marshall said the city has a structural problem: There are too few supervisors with real authority.

For as long as most educators can remember, teacher evaluations have been fairly informal — an administrator popping in once or twice a year, observing the teacher for a few minutes and moving on to the next classroom.

Over the past few weeks, educators across the state have mobilized to demand a 20 percent increase in teacher pay (which would still place Arizona below the national average) and a return of pre-recession school funding levels.

A day meant for appreciating educators has sparked controversy and some skepticism, largely in connection with ongoing debates around teacher pay, underfunded school systems, and standardized testing, to name a few.