Sentences with phrase «first teachers in the country»

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In Luxembourg, one of the richest countries in the world, an inexperienced teacher can expect to make more on his or her first day than teachers in nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careerIn Luxembourg, one of the richest countries in the world, an inexperienced teacher can expect to make more on his or her first day than teachers in nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careerin the world, an inexperienced teacher can expect to make more on his or her first day than teachers in nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careerin nearly all other countries can hope to make in their entire careerin their entire careers.

A typical case was that of Domingo F. Sarmiento in Argentina, who in 1869 - 70 invited for the first time a group of Protestant teachers from the United States for the purpose of introducing new educational systems throughout the country.

He wanted the Church's bishops to follow the lead of Vatican II and see themselves first and foremost as teachers and sanctifiers; but he not infrequently appointed bishops with a tendency to liberal authoritarianism to key positions in their respective countries, with grave effects on episcopal leadership throughout the world.

While we're a long way from Americans as a whole acknowledging the EMERGENCY of the state of education in our country or giving a shit about poor people, I'd very much love someone to at least say «You're a teacher (first of all THANK YOU)?

«Yesterday a school filled with innocent children and caring teachers became the scene of terrible violence, hatred and evil,» President Donald Trump said from the White House in his first public comments on the country's latest school shooting, the 18th so far this year.

The teachers» union, for example, have agreed to a contract without a salary increase for the first year and a half, while superior officers have assented to keeping their pay flat for 11 months — «zeroes» in public employee parlance, unacceptable to Mr. Lynch, whose members are among the lowest paid big - city cops in the country.

U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley (D - Jackson Heights) hopes a proposed bill allocating $ 70 billion to teachers and first responders around the country will pass with presidential support, although a nearly identical piece of legislation did not gain enough support to even come to a vote in the Democratically led U.S. Senate last year.

We give thanks for our troops and our veterans — and their families — who give of themselves to protect the values we cherish; for the first responders, teachers and engaged Americans who serve their communities; and for the chance to live in a country founded on the belief that all of us are created equal. . . .

In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier childreIn 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier childrein the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier childrein nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier childrein teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier childrein the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier children.

Nearly 300 hundred yoga teachers and students from all over the country came to Washington, May 3 - 6, to attend the first Iyengar Yoga regional conference held in our area.

In all the schools I visited, behaviour management did not appear to be an issue — teachers were addressed by their first name and the relationship between student and teacher appears to be much closer than the more formal approach adopted in many countrieIn all the schools I visited, behaviour management did not appear to be an issue — teachers were addressed by their first name and the relationship between student and teacher appears to be much closer than the more formal approach adopted in many countriein many countries.

AS: Yeah, I think what this data show is that actually those countries doing well in technology skills, where you have the most technology - savvy students in a way, they've typically placed the emphasis first on teachers — trying to connect teachers, trying to build networks of teaching, platforms for knowledge creation.

Stoney Hill Schoolhouse Flag Day This Web page has photographs of the small country schoolhouse where, in 1885, a 19 - year - old teacher named Bernard J. Cigrand first held exercises to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the American flag.

sponsors intercultural exchange programs for students in 69 countries, claims it is the first nongovernmental organization to negotiate an exchange for secondary teachers with the Chinese Ministry of Education.

From College to First - Year Teaching - How the United States Compares to Several Other Countries This 1997 articles from the U.S. Dept. of Education outlines major differences between the way the beginning teachers are supported in the U.S. and other countries in the Asia - PacifiCountries This 1997 articles from the U.S. Dept. of Education outlines major differences between the way the beginning teachers are supported in the U.S. and other countries in the Asia - Pacificountries in the Asia - Pacific region.

An initiative of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Teachers Project, the Meritorious New Teacher Candidate program is the first regional reciprocal - licensing agreement in the country.

But teachers, administrators, and literacy coaches from around the country danced to a roving jazz band and joined in Mardi Gras - style revelry at the opening of the second annual national Reading First conference here late last month.

The figures of what sort of numbers are leaving, just in general, and this applies in Australia as well as other western countries... we're looking at one in three teachers leaving within the first three years and up to 50 per cent in the first five — so we're talking about big collateral damage in some ways on our teachers.

Educators across the country are faced with ethical dilemmas every day and, as one teacher shares in her first year teaching at a large urban school, they don't always know how to respond.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

Although a recent union election cast doubt on the durability of the arrangement, Cincinnati has become the first public school district in the country to scrap the traditional salary schedule in favor of a system that pays teachers according to their classroom performance.

She added: «But we are determined to go further, and recognise that some schools find it harder to recruit the teachers they need, which is why we are expanding the great Teach First and Schools Direct programmes and we are launching the National Teaching Service, which will mean more great teachers in schools in every corner of the country.»

Our standards for the first edition of the Teacher Prep Review are based on research; internal and external expert panels; the best practices of other nations and the states with the highest performing students; and, most importantly, what superintendents and principals around the country tell us they look for in the new teachers they hire.

The lawsuit is the first of what many analysts expect will be numerous legal challenges around the country following a landmark decision in June by a California Superior Court judge who struck down the tenure system there as unconstitutional under state law, saying it unfairly saddled students in high - needs schools with low - performing teachers.

Its Principal Wellbeing, Teacher Wellbeing, and Youth Mental Health First Aid workshops have been well attended across the country, and are being scheduled for more dates in 2018.

«UCL was the first university in the country to have taken the step of becoming the sole sponsor of an academy because we believe that in sharing facilities, expertise and providing support to teachers and pupils, the partnership can bring about a fundamental improvement in the educational experience of pupils in the school and beyond.»

As a pioneer in digital citizenship, she developed and created the first 3 - credit digital citizenship course for teachers in the country.

As Kopp and the other conference - goers learned about the crisis in teaching — 12 percent of first - year teachers across the country were uncertified, clustered in urban and rural areas — they started to discuss whether they should teach.

The 31 schools in the pilot will be the first to benefit from specialist support for both pupils and teachers in the country.

In coming months, The Times will publish a series of articles and a database analyzing individual teachers» effectiveness in the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrIn coming months, The Times will publish a series of articles and a database analyzing individual teachers» effectiveness in the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrin the nation's second - largest school district — the first time, experts say, such information has been made public anywhere in the countrin the country.

The working out of those amendments won tea approval for the legislation, which the teachers» union had opposed since Gov. Lamar Alexander last year introduced the concept of the statewide plan — the first such proposal in the country.

Prior to joining NCTR, she co-developed Denver Teacher Residency (DTR), the first district - based teacher residency program in the cTeacher Residency (DTR), the first district - based teacher residency program in the cteacher residency program in the country.

«I don't think there is any other country where a grassroots organisation had such a profound impact on raising teacher professionalism than Teach First in England.»

Through the Alaska Statewide Mentor Project (ASMP)-- one of only a few programs of its kind in the country — first - and second - year Alaska teachers receive support from highly trained mentors for two years.

The first is the quality of teachers: Research shows that the country's best and most experienced teachers are more likely to work in schools with low levels of poverty.49 On the other hand, new and inexperienced teachers disproportionately work in high - poverty school settings.

The Indianapolis school board and teachers union recently became the first in the country to include Opportunity Culture roles in their new contract, offering pay supplements of up to $ 18,300 — 35 percent of the district's average salary.

As it did all over the country, the «last in, first out» policy led Teachers - of - the - Year to be let go before their less talented colleagues.

New international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow for the first time to quantify teacher skills in numeracy and literacy, providing country - level measures of teacher subject knowledge.

In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following.In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following.in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following...

New elementary school teacher salaries in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, or OECD, countries increase on average by 32 percent over the first 15 years of teaching, which is almost 10 percentage points higher than in the United States.

Because 4th and 5th graders learn best with hands - on, visual activities, the preservice teachers devised a lesson plan in which students could see what people in first world, second world, and third world countries could expect to eat and in what quantities.

As a person who works closely with teachers locally, and who has spent the last five years working closely with teachers across the country — from both district and charter settings — I can tell you first hand that you will be hard pressed to find anyone working in a school today who agrees our public schools are «flush with cash.»

In the first year of Educators Rising, 15,000 students and teacher leaders (with students of color comprising 49 % of student membership) in over 1,000 schools across the country signed up for the free resources, opportunities, and networkinIn the first year of Educators Rising, 15,000 students and teacher leaders (with students of color comprising 49 % of student membership) in over 1,000 schools across the country signed up for the free resources, opportunities, and networkinin over 1,000 schools across the country signed up for the free resources, opportunities, and networking.

2011 — Word of the Parent Trigger spread across the country and parents tried to establish it in Connecticut, but in a story first reported by RiShawn Biddle, the American Federation of Teachers used slimy tactics to effectively neuter the law.

The hope is that if education schools are pushed to do a better job of preparing teachers in the first place, the country can solve many of its academic problems.

: The worst student to teacher ratios in the country; near the worst per pupil funding in the US; low starting salary schedules that shortchange new teachers so the oldest teachers can be overpaid, though all do the same work; LIFO policies so that younger teachers are always fired first no matter how good they are and no matter how poor senior teachers are; teacher layoffs expected at every recession, with waves of recessions expected indefinitely; bad funding in the absence of recessions and worse funding in recessions; constant loading with additional requirements and expectations; poor and worsening teacher morale; poor and worsening working conditions; ugly architecturally uninspired facilities and often trashy temporary classrooms; inadequate learning materials, resources and technology; inadequate administrative support with the worst student / administrator ratios in the county; inadequate librarian, psychologist, behavioral specialist, counselor, nurse support due to the worst ratios; inadequate student discipline structures; and much more...

In Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following statistic as proof that the ratings are flawed: Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of the city, has only five percent of the teachers defined as effective under the new evaluation system known as IMPACT, but more than a quarter of the ineffective oneIn Washington, D.C., one of the first places in the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following statistic as proof that the ratings are flawed: Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of the city, has only five percent of the teachers defined as effective under the new evaluation system known as IMPACT, but more than a quarter of the ineffective onein the country to use value - added teacher ratings to fire teachers, teacher - union president Nathan Saunders likes to point to the following statistic as proof that the ratings are flawed: Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of the city, has only five percent of the teachers defined as effective under the new evaluation system known as IMPACT, but more than a quarter of the ineffective ones.

This story is the first in a series that will examine top - performing preschool programs in the U.S., Head Start, preschool solutions found in other countries, the condition of preschool teachers and the political future of preschool.

However, AUSL recognized that transforming teacher talent alone wouldn't suffice in improving educational outcomes for these students, so it expanded its scope and became the first non-profit organization in the country to contract with a large urban school district to transform the lowest - performing schools from inside the public school system.

«This consent decree is the first in the country to recognize what everyone already knew - laying off teachers at already vulnerable schools can and does deny kids their right to educational opportunity.