Sentences with phrase «few teachers at our school»

But few teachers at the schools realized how different Singapore's approach to math was from what they had been used to; it was nothing less than a total shock to the schools» systems.

Quite a few teachers at our school have helped developed the lessons in my student motivation books and taught them over the past few years.

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They tend to have fewer social problems with peers, get along with teachers, and be more popular at school.

Spend a few minutes crafting and you can have a beautiful gift for your child's teacher which will be a great way to decorate their classroom at the start of the new... MORE school year.

Just a few days after I started The Lunch Tray, a reader named Mendy Heaps posted a comment saying that she was a public school teacher who'd met opposition when she tried to improve the food at her own school.

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.

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

(and i do nt know about all of you, but my kid gets crabby when she needs some fuel) Only a few of us parents and the teacher usually provide any snacks, and there are only 15 kids, so not many birthdays to celebrate, and they have a salad bar at school they have to go through first, before getting the not always healthy hot food.

Those cuts, in fact, come at a time when there are 15,000 fewer teachers and support staff in New York state public schools than two years ago, and as districts statewide expect to lay off at least 10,000 more employees in 2011 - 12.

Bullied has been endorsed by Charles Haynes, Senior Scholar at the First Amendment Center; Kevin Gogin, Program Coordinator, Support Services for LGBT Youth, San Francisco Unified School District; Sandra Lee Fewer, Commissioner, San Francisco Unified School District and these organizations: Alabama Safe Schools Coalition, Anti-Defamation League, Committee for Children, Encompass, Fortunate Families, GLSEN, Groundspark, Mississippi State Schools Coalition, National Safe Schools Coalition, NEA, New York State United Teachers, PFLAG National and Welcoming Schools / HRC.

Meanwhile, licensing rules in most states do little more than «screen out the bottom few who can't master the English language or are badly schooled,» says Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers College.

According to Harry Mount an author who attended Westminster School at the same time as Mr Clegg the school records indicate that very few of the teachers at the time had professional qualificaSchool at the same time as Mr Clegg the school records indicate that very few of the teachers at the time had professional qualificaschool records indicate that very few of the teachers at the time had professional qualifications.

«It's disappointing to see so few people» at the rally, said John Cosgrove, a retired high school science teacher who traveled from Easton, Pennsylvania, to attend, as he did last year.

Originated in 2010, the yoga school features the finest Yoga Teacher Training Courses and Retreats at some of the most soulful destinations on the globe - Rishikesh, Kerala, Nepal, Thailand, Iran, to name a few.

I began my career as a Junior Primary Teacher teaching at a few Elizabeth JP schools, I loved working with year 5 to 8 year olds.

Sofia Coppola's moody thriller — in which a wounded Union soldier (Colin Farrell) recuperates at a Southern all - girls school in 1864, inflaming the passions of the few remaining students and teachers alike to ruinous effect — examines the nuances and contradictions of longing and desire.

Bale's Russell Baze toils all day at the local mill and spends his free time tending to his ailing father; his girlfriend, a nursery school teacher played by a believably de-glammed Zoe Saldana, provides him with the few opportunities for joy in his life.

The movie adds scenes of Charlie at school with the world's most hilariously British teacher, along with two musical numbers, some television news interstitials, and a few great satirical moments including the invention of a computer which refuses to divulge the location of Wonka's golden tickets because «that would be cheating,» as well as a wife who desperately wants her kidnapped husband's safe return but is torn when the detective informs her the ransom is her case of Wonka bars.

«A few weeks of classroom practicum is not enough to prepare our future teachers,» said Marie Kostick, principal at Goodwyn Junior High School, in Montgomery, Alabama.

Come next September, there will be at least 2,000 fewer teachers in the system than are needed — a vacancy in two in three secondary schools.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

Teachers who implement a proactive management plan developed in collaboration with the students at the beginning of the school year may have fewer issues as student cell phone ownership increases throughout the year.

Not only was Colombino working full time as an algebra teacher at Salem High School in Salem, Mass., but he was also enrolled in a Ph.D. program at Boston College and a few months away from welcoming a second baby.

Luckily, my tiny town had a few openings because of teacher retirements, and I was able to join the staff at Rhame Avenue Elementary School — reducing my commute and increasing my salary!

If the information available to us for a few teacher preparation schools in Florida is at all representative, the critics may have a point.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

Because academic resources are relatively scarce in higher - poverty schools (e.g., there are more disruptive peers, lower academic expectations, fewer financial resources, and less - competent teachers), parents in these schools seek teachers skilled at improving achievement even if this comes at the cost of student satisfaction.

Kids can learn online at school, replacing teachers» rote lectures and one - size - fits - few whole group learning.

As I explain in Saving Schools: From Horace Mann to Virtual Learning, we need fewer teachers, not more, and those few teachers must reach thousands of students at a time.

Here's what some of the exhibitors who will be at The Education Show next week are anticipating: «Bigger classes, fewer teachers and teaching staff, and less money — all potentially resulting in a fall in standards,» says Nina Simon of School Library Services.

Gilbert is outreach manager at Guide Dogs for the Blind, based in nearby San Rafael, and, a few months before her visit to Bacich with her German shepherd guide, Hedda, she teamed up with the school's third - grade teachers, and with the Marin County Office of Education, to help introduce materials from Guide Dogs for the Blind — and from the National Federation for the Blind's Braille Is Beautiful program — into school curriculum.

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, Micschool Web club than Marcia Cousins, a reading and computer teacher at Ballard Elementary School in Niles, MicSchool in Niles, Michigan.

Students Leaving School for Summer, Teachers Leaving for Good Huffington Post, June 26, 2012 «But as [Professor] Susan Moore Johnson at the Harvard Graduate School of Education states, it's also true that until a few decades ago, women and men of color were often closed out of other careers.»

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

A nationally representative survey by Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents agreed that the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

Some stark statistics may help to put that into context - this September there will be at least 2,000 fewer teachers than are needed — a vacancy in two in three secondary schools.

Researchers from Sussex University's School of Education and Social Work surveyed music teachers at 657 state and 48 private schools and found that two thirds of state school teachers said fewer pupils were taking GCSE School of Education and Social Work surveyed music teachers at 657 state and 48 private schools and found that two thirds of state school teachers said fewer pupils were taking GCSE school teachers said fewer pupils were taking GCSE music.

Traveling to a few high schools that had adopted «project - based» and «performance - based» learning, committee member Bobbie May remembers her pleasure at seeing how enthusiastic the students were as they presented their projects to peers, teachers, and visitors.

A few major areas I hope will receive attention during reauthorization are college / workplace readiness, including the promotion of more rigorous standards; greater accountability at the secondary level; more sophisticated policy and greater accountability for improving teacher effectiveness, particularly at the late elementary and secondary levels; a broadening of attention to math and science as well as to history; and refinements in AYP to focus greater attention and improvement on the persistently failing schools by offering real choices to parents of students stuck in such schools.

Indeed a few years ago, a New Zealand - born elementary school teacher at a TeamCFA charter school in North Carolina was herself studying to take the citizenship test.

«Students who live in poverty have few opportunities for schooling because their parents can not afford the school fees or buy uniforms or books,» Mrs. Bush said in a gathering at the Accra Teacher Training Institute in Accra, Ghana, on Jan. 17.

After studying teacher training at Boston College, Hristic spent a few years teaching in Massachusetts, first at an alternative high school for «behaviorally and emotionally challenged students, but also students so bright and brilliant they were bored out of their minds in a traditional setting,» he says.

When the school piloted the idea of student - led conferences five years ago, a few of the teachers were simply asked to find ways to give the students a little more presence at the conferences, whether through a letter to the parents, a podcast, a poster or by just being at the conference themselves.

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers also agreed, saying the money should go to ensure all schools received «suffient funding, not throw money at a chosen few.»

As soon as the lunch bell rings at his elementary school in Medford, Oregon, teacher David Cosand takes a few minutes to scan his mobile phone screen for messages that have accumulated throughout the morning in his Twitter account.

The pilot group's success convinced the rest of the teachers at Wildwood to keep building on the idea, and within a few years, it had become a school - wide practice.

For example, schools might focus on those few places where the public can see students and teachers during the school day, such as on field trips or at dismissal.

We have many invisible at - risk kids with dysfunctional families in schools in which few teachers can also act as counselors.

«We can not expect young people who struggled at school to become high performing teachers within a few years,» she said.

When the student - government president here at City Springs Elementary / Middle School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his School turned into the class clown last school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his school year and began treating teachers disrespectfully, administrators had many options for how to deal with him, including sending him home for a few days to cool his heels.