Sentences with phrase «few years in the classroom»

CPRE finds a general trend of fewer years in the classroom overall, but with a recent uptick in longevity after the economic downturn.

In fact, Vigdor explains, «the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.»

But the available evidence suggests that the connection between credentials and teaching effectiveness is very weak at best, and the connection between additional years of experience and teaching effectiveness, while substantial in the first few years in the classroom, attenuates over time.

NCTQ found that a sizeable portion of the county's turnover took place in two particular low - income voting districts, and that many of the teachers who resigned left after only teaching a few years in the classroom.

But the first few years in the classroom can be ones of major impact.

The ability to work with partners and colleagues within VideoANT afforded the teachers in our study the opportunity to struggle together (i.e., relate to their own experience), further analyze their teaching practice (if asked a question), and receive suggestions and guidance as they navigate obstacles in their first few years in the classroom.

One of the most popular pieces of conventional wisdom in the national debate over education is that teachers lose the capacity to further improve student achievement after only a few years in the classroom — their effectiveness plateaus early in their careers.

Turning around the declines will need to include reexamining how students are recruited to education colleges as well as retention efforts aimed at teachers in their first few years in the classroom.

The Resident Educator Program is a multi-year, comprehensive program in which Ohio school districts provide a coordinated set of supports for teachers during their first few years in the classroom.

If you are an educator with six or fewer years in the classroom and are looking to improve your skills, plan to attend CEA's New Teacher Conference at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center on March 19.

The annual conference for teachers with six or fewer years in the classroom helps educators learn how their union supports them in improving their teaching practice.

Not exact matches

A few years ago he went beyond critique and created the Thiel Fellowship, which gives a US$ 100,000 grant to entrepreneurial young people who «want to build new things instead of sitting in a classroom.»

That question has been asked more and more over the last few years — in the media, in corporate offices, in college classrooms and by college students themselves.

September 25, 2009 «Over the last few years, a new buzz phrase has emerged among scholars and scientists who study early - childhood development, a phrase that sounds more as if it belongs in the boardroom than the classroom: executive function.»

When I made the decision to take ownership of Bella Luna Toys in 2009, I felt a little daunted when I realized how many websites there are now selling wooden and natural toys on the web, but as I explored them, I realized that few retailers have the background in education, or the years of experience using these toys, both in the classroom and at home, that I have.

-LSB-...] These are just a few examples of the junk food rewards my kids have received over the years from teachers in their classrooms.

Lunch Tray readers often contact me for help in getting junk food out of their children's classrooms, but few seem to know that as of next school year, districts will for the first time have to impose a nutritional standard for classroom food.

A charter school network's plan to double in size over the next few years could reignite a war over classroom space in New York City — only this time with the ground rules already tilted against the mayor, thanks to a new law passed in Albany this spring.

But even if they spend only a few years before moving on to other fields, their deep expertise will help students while they are in the classroom, she believes.

For the last few years I have been an e-Learning facilitator working with teachers and students in classrooms.

For the last several years, she has listed her choices for the «best books» along with a few ideas for using them in the classroom.

Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.

«The cuts in funding for new build programmes that were announced a few years ago left many schools having the prospect of having to put up with poor classroom facilities.

Teachers have been using apps in classrooms for the last few years to bring lessons to life and inject fun into the learning experience.

During the past few years, as I've reentered K - 12 classrooms in addition to my undergraduate coursework, I'm learning that how I begin the day or class sets the tone for how well the instruction will be received and the content will be remembered.

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.

«There was always this buzz word about «engagement» and I think we got lost for a few years there, that people thought if kids came in the classroom and they enjoyed the lesson, then that was engagement.

The Edutopia community has leaned heavily in favor of gift cards over the past few years, insisting that the best kinds are the ones that contribute directly to the classroom: a gift certificate to an office - supply store, a bookstore, or iTunes, for instance.

In the last few years, however, educators have learned a great deal about the uniquely powerful potential of the Internet and about how to integrate online opportunities into classroom instruction.

I can say as a parent who has witnessed a few «real» lessons this year (none in my own children's classrooms); I am less critical and more proud.

Today, only about 25 percent of U.S. classrooms have teachers whose students learn enough to close achievement gaps in a few years and make further progress like the world's top students.

The gray teacher retention line begins high and drops significantly within the first ten years and continues to decline as time passes as fewer teachers stay in the classroom.

Over the last two years or so we've shared research and practical advice for the classroom through our series on School Improvement, Action Research, Teaching Methods, Global Education and, of course, The Research Files --- and we've thrown in a few special episodes for good measure!

In an Edutopia survey a few years back, nearly half of the educators that responded told us that they spend $ 500 or more on classroom supplies each year out of their own pockets.

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Schwerdt and Wuppermann observe that in recent years, a consensus has emerged among researchers that teacher quality «matters enormously for student performance,» but that relatively few rigorous studies have looked inside the classroom to see what kinds of teaching styles are the most effective.

It was all much simpler a few years ago — build a suite of computers, install an interactive whiteboard in each classroom, throw in a laptop or two and you could easily deliver the old expectations of the National Curriculum.

Saint Stephen's College IT manager David Craft explained, «We have been using interactive technology in the classroom for quite a few years, first with interactive white boards (IWB) and then standard throw projectors.

In the classroom, rules matter, but as many of us have learned after a few years teaching, relationships matter much more.

Currently there are more than 1800 of these basic classroom units in WA schools and this figure looks likely to grow at 100 + / year for the next few years.

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«I'd taught Maths Studies for a few years... [and] always knew there were some students I never really connected with in the classroom,» the Senior Leader, STEM Learning, at Adelaide's Australian Science and Mathematics School, recalls.

With his help ~ I began to make strides in the classroom and ~ within a few years ~ was being recognized by my colleagues and students alike.

But audit testing, in a few grades at year's end, using secret tasks, is inherently unable to improve teaching and learning day in and day out in all classrooms, as my proposal is designed to do and any attempt at fair and comprehensive reform must do.

However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

For example, during the last few years concerns have been raised over safety as it relates to playground equipment, football games during break, swimming, science experiments in classrooms, sports days and fêtes, and even trees and bushes, which occasionally shed a branch or may have «poisonous» berries.

The words «interactive whiteboard» or «smartboard» have been tossed around in school board meetings and classrooms frequently for the better part of a decade, but only in the past few years have these modernized chalkboards really caught on in actual classrooms.

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Schools have encouraged the use of Apps in the classroom for the last few years but many teachers have reported problems such as content not being relevant, inappropriate adverts, in - app purchases preventing the Apps from being used to their full potential and graphical issues when viewed on large - format screens.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.