Sentences with phrase «first generation of teachers»

He has extensive experience with mindfulness - based programs for children and adolescents; he was one of the first generation of teachers at Mindful Schools and made significant contributions to the development of the Mindful Schools curriculum.

Oren has extensive experience with mindfulness - based programs for children and adolescents; he was one of the first generation of teachers at Mindful Schools and made significant contributions to the development of the Mindful Schools curriculum.

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It should be the work of Christian teachers in every generation, first, to understand the Scriptures, to distinguish what gives unity to the message of the Bible from what is peculiar to this or that writer, what is central from what is peripheral, what is essential from what is accidental; and then, on the basis of such understanding, to develop a doctrine of the act of God in Christ which will be intelligible, or at least not meaningless, to the contemporary mind.

On the other hand the present form of the apocalypse of Mark 42 is held by some scholars to indicate its composition in the late fifties, and the emergence of the earliest gospel is widely held to have been most probable at a time when the first generation of Christian teachers was beginning to die out, c. A.D. 60 - 70.

To break the grip of stereotype, Kim offers the following suggestions for teachers of Asian American students, which can be extended to teachers of all recent - immigrant and first - generation students as well:

Since then, this Chicago - born daughter of first - generation Thai immigrants has done just that, particularly in Ranong, the small village in Thailand where she was raised for many years, in part by her aunt, a teacher.

Dr. Moss Lee served on the board of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities.

For many classroom teachers, the microcomputer «revolution» of the early 1980's fizzled as rapidly as it had begun when they tried in vain to integrate a first generation of generally bland, uninspired, and error riddled software into their lesson plans.

Prior to becoming a superintendent, she worked in many different facets of education including as classroom teacher at both the elementary and middle school levels, principal at the middle school level, director of the Upward Bound Program for first - generation college - bound students, and director of the Basic Skills Academy for at - risk high school youth.

«Many of the teachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers — who worked at all grade levels in both public and charter schools, in urban and suburban settings — did their best to cobble together lessons on their own, while also managing the intense demands of the first years of teaching,» says Pforzheimer Professor Susan Moore Johnson, director of the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

In their article, «Lost at Sea: New Teachers» Experiences with Curriculum and Assessment,» which appears in the current issue of Teachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers» Experiences with Curriculum and Assessment,» which appears in the current issue of Teachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers College Record, researchers from HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stTeachers reported that few of the 50 first - and second - year teachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state stteachers who participated in the study began teaching with a clear, detailed curriculum in hand and even fewer received curricula that aligned with state standards.

«New teachers today do not all fit the stereotypical image of 22 - year - olds embarking upon their first careers after graduating from university teacher education programs,» says Susan Moore Johnson, a professor at HGSE and Director of the Project on the Next Generation of Tteachers today do not all fit the stereotypical image of 22 - year - olds embarking upon their first careers after graduating from university teacher education programs,» says Susan Moore Johnson, a professor at HGSE and Director of the Project on the Next Generation of TeachersTeachers.

Researchers at HGSE's Project on the Next Generation of Teachers also found that compared with 6 % of first - career entrants, a greater proportion (19 %) of the mid-career entrants participated in alternative certification instead of traditional teacher education programs.

As part of Johnson's research, the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, she tracked 50 first and second year tTeachers, she tracked 50 first and second year teachersteachers.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

He spent nine years teaching math as a founding teacher of the New York Harbor School, an innovative public high school where he also worked closely with teachers, families, and college admissions offices directing the college access process for first generation college - going students.

Only 17 percent of American teachers are non-white, but in 2014, 22 percent of TFA's corps is black, 13 percent are Latino, and a third identify as first - generation college students.

All of PUC's new resident teachers are Hispanic, first - generation college students who are PUC Schools alumni, or who worked for the PUC Schools in some capacity after finishing college.

Education Secretary Arne Duncan had said in 2010 that he was «convinced that this new generation of state assessments will be an absolute game - changer in public education» because they would be able to tell millions of school children, parents and teachers — «for the first time» whether students are «on - track for colleges and careers.»

For students of color — who are disproportionately first - generation students74 — low pay can make it difficult to repay student loans, purchase a home, or support family.75 For teachers who are their family's breadwinner, salaries are often so low that they may qualify for means - tested assistance just to afford the daily necessities of life.76 High - achieving students of color are often heavily recruited by many far more lucrative sectors, ensuring that they are well - aware of other available career opportunities.

These supports allow TSTT participants — 90 % of whom are eligible for free and reduced - price lunch and 75 % of whom will be first - generation college students — to receive high - quality teacher preparation.

This approach has been valued for generations, witnessed by the many indigenous communities who have entrusted young people with teaching their peers for thousands of years and been supplemented by the American colonists whose first schools employed young teachers, who in turn gave the responsibility of teaching to their younger charges.

As the first iteration of No Child Left Behind evolves into the next generation of waivers and a future reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, it will be critical for the federal government to push states to support teachers and enhance standards in ways that will continue improving the educational achievement of English language learner students.

During my two - year National Teacher Fellowship with the Hope Street Group, we were tasked with a two - part project, first learning from educators in our PLNs across the U.S. about their experiences with teacher preparation; the work also included collecting this data in a report called On Deck: Preparing the Next Generation of TeTeacher Fellowship with the Hope Street Group, we were tasked with a two - part project, first learning from educators in our PLNs across the U.S. about their experiences with teacher preparation; the work also included collecting this data in a report called On Deck: Preparing the Next Generation of Teteacher preparation; the work also included collecting this data in a report called On Deck: Preparing the Next Generation of Teachers.

While more than 90 percent of Latinx students were born in the United States, most of them have at least one foreign - born parent.10 First - generation Americans report that they are more likely to face barriers to their academic achievement, such as job and family responsibilities.11 Teachers who have personally experienced these obstacles may be able to provide better support.

At the time, Wireless Generation's marketing propaganda noted, «At Wireless Generation in Brooklyn, software engineers are working with Achievement First to build a commercial version of the software that the charter operator uses to monitor student and teacher performance.

However, our first project did not investigate teacher generation but rather was limited to student generation of video, as it was student learning through their own activity that was of interest.

The painting scene in San Francisco in the»40s centered around a small, tight - knit group of teachers and serious students at the California School of Fine Arts (renamed the San Francisco Art Institute in 1961), who were influenced by Clyfford Still (1904 - 1980), a major first - generation abstract expressionist painter, who taught at CSFA from 1946 until the early»50s when he moved to New York.

Greatly influenced by music — «music is the ultimate teacher,» he once averred — Kandinsky painted his first abstract compositions during his Bavarian period (1906 - 1914), and these riotously musical canvases, with their intense symphonies of color and wildly jostling forms, have influenced successive generations of abstract artists to the present day.

He was the best art teacher of his generation, and the director of the Shinnecock Hills Summer School on Long Island, the first school to offer classes in plein air painting - that is, outdoor landscape painting.