Sentences with phrase «for rural teachers»

Additionally, Ilumexico performs activities related to environmental awareness (training and toolkits for rural teachers) and financial education (materials on the importance of saving and household budgets, and on credits and interest rates) to community members as part of its strategy for social development and technology adoption.

State schools superintendent Tony Evers, right, is seeking more money for rural teachers.

Other projects created during the class include an organization that will provide free public libraries in India; an online platform to help students make more informed decisions when applying to college; an app that gives students fun, game - based content that shows what real scientists are like; a cellphone - hosted service for rural teachers in the Philippines that provides direct training and tips; and a nonprofit that will train and employ parent liaisons to develop stronger bonds between families and middle schools in an effort to improve dropout rates.

Interactive television and problem based learning: Viable delivery «technologies» for rural teacher education.

Teachers» perceptions of rural STEM teaching: Implications for rural teacher retention.

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So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

Steu is a long - time supporter of the LGBTQ community, as well as organizations such as Teach For America, where he served as a teacher in rural Mississippi.

Play Therapy for traumatized children in rural schools can be amplified through a systems approach that includes consultation with teachers and school systems and by expanding our view of «systems» to include nature, a readily available and under - utilized resource in play therapy.

I paid rural allowance to teachers, core subjects» allowance, paid scholarship and bursary, paid for WAEC and NECO, but all these have been stopped by a government that has no interest in social investment.

Pre-Campaign Community Service / Activism: Worked extensively with Family of Woodstock, Rip Van Winkle Council of Boy Scouts of America, establishing Ulster County Habitat for Humanity, Ralph Darmstadt Homeless Shelter, Ulster County Board of Health and Ulster County Human Rights Commission, Caring Hands Soup Kitchen Board Member, Midtown Rising Board Member, Teacher at Woodbourne Prison, part of Rising Hope Program Platform At a Glance Economy: Supports farming subsidies, job creation through infrastructure investments in rural broadband and sustainable technology, in favor of strong unions Healthcare: Medicare for All Women's Rights: Pro-choice, supports fully funding Planned Parenthood, birth control to be paid for employer, supports equal pay for equal work Racial Justice: Will work to prevent discrimination of all kind Immigration: Supports comprehensive immigration reform that includes path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants Foreign Policy: Supports increased pressure on North Korea but not military intervention Environment: Supports measures to stall climate change and create green jobs LGBTQ: Supports anti-discrimination of all people Gun Control: Will not take NRA money, supports common sense gun control and against Faso's vote to allow the mentally disabled to obtain firearms

Cllr William Powell, a qualified teacher, school governor and the Welsh Liberal Democrat spokesperson for rural affairs, said:

Starting salaries for a full - time teacher with 5 years of university preparation (a 4 - year undergraduate degree plus a 1 - year diploma of education) range from $ 28,000 to $ 50,000 annually, depending on experience, location (for example, urban / suburban / rural), and province.

Still other grants are designed to benefit specific audiences — rural communities, continuing education for medical professionals, K - 12 teachers, or students, for example — that may or may not be your intended target.

A charming and intimate portrait of a single - class primary school in rural France and its inspirational teacher, the remarkable and wise Georges Lopez, whose patient and enlightened methods highlight a genuine affection for his young charges.

Breaux: New Teacher Induction provides overviews and contact information for more than 30 highly successful, easily replicable induction programs used in rural, urban, and suburban school districts across the United States.

These are always welcomed by the students, however there is a significant and ever growing cost to a school and parents; costs for cover of teachers attending the excursion, expensive transport costs, early departures and returns require parent transport outside school hours, especially for regional and rural schools.

The music teacher and bandleader from the smaller, more rural community of Teutopolis had already garnered several regional Emmys as well as the attention of PBS and the Smithsonian for documentary films he'd taught himself how to make.

Teach For America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortagFor America, which Mr. Steffensen cites as an example of society's desire for quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortagfor quick private - sector fixes in lieu of politically and fiscally costly systemic reform, is a new national teacher corps that recruits, trains, places, and supports outstanding individuals who commit two years to teach in urban and rural areas suffering from persistent teacher shortages.

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Districts rich or poor and urban or rural, teachers and administrators, equipment suppliers, consultants, building contractors, pension funds — along with the advocacy organizations that everywhere push for more school spending — can detect such opportunities for gain and join forces, at least up to the point at which remedies are specified and the bigger pie begins to be sliced.

Everything I learned was filtered through what it meant to be a classroom teacher and what the implications might be for a rural school with Mexican - American students.»

Remote instruction: For schools with severely limited numbers of excellent teachers, like many rural and urban areas, bringing in great, live (though not in - person) teachers through videoconferencing, holographic technology, or other means could give students access to great interactive instruction they'd otherwise miss.

Satellite internet based eLearning for rural students provides not only access to information and resources that would otherwise be unavailable, it also gives them a platforms where they can interact with other learners and teachers.

I spent 11 years as a middle school science teacher and three years as a professional developer for small and rural districts in Florida, and have been a middle school assistant principal for the past three years.

Each district's foundation level is adjusted by such factors as the «teacher - training and - experience index,» by the number of special education students, and for small rural schools and districts.

In recent years (or even in recent decades), it has become all too common for folks to accept that our «best» teachers are the ones going to the well - funded, suburban schools, while our high - need schools — be they in urban or rural communities — are left wanting.

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

Australian Country Education Partnership has created and successfully implemented eKids blended program, which «is an accessible, adaptable, contemporary model for rural and remote communities to personalize their students learning, build the capacity of teachers, and improve students learning capacities and outcomes».

Driven by news of shortages in certain subjects (such as math, science, and special education) and in rural and inner - city schools, state legislatures have earmarked billions of dollars for salary increases and teacher training.

Wang, a former Fulbright Fellow and now a second - year doctoral student at HGSE, saw firsthand as an 11th - grade English teacher that the needs of rural, low - income communities often aren't represented in state policy, but are overlooked in favor of efforts that target urban areas because there's little awareness of the rural problems and few advocates are calling for change.

Teacher recruitment and certification in rural communities is a struggle for school and district leaders, as well.

Yet young rural Ugandans and their teachers alike yearn for access to the world outside their villages and, given the opportunity, will work hard to acquire the necessary knowledge and language proficiency to do so.

«Across the board, from rural to urban schools, from the East Coast to the Midwest to the West Coast, teachers think that their kids are not ready for PBL because of its focus on group work.

As part of his campaign plan for lifting children out of poverty, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Bradley recently proposed spending more on child care and early - childhood education, guaranteeing health care for all children, and creating a new program to recruit teachers for urban and rural districts.

The organization, which recruits recent college graduates to teach for two years in inner - city and rural public schools with shortages of credentialed teachers, has raised only $ 3.8 million of its $ 7 million budget for this year, TFA officials said last month.

For example, over a decade ago the earliest online courses filled a gap in rural schools that couldn't afford a full - time AP teacher.

Teach For America, the privately organized teacher corps that places recent college graduates in rural and inner - city classrooms, last week announced the receipt of a three - year, $ 3 - million «challenge» grant from Philip Morris Companies Inc..

«The project has the potential to impact all teachers,» he says, «from a novice teacher in a rural setting looking for advice on how to set up classroom routines, to a veteran teacher in an urban school looking for a new spin to teach a concept.»

Virginia, too, especially in its rural districts, is seeing some teachers leave the state for higher salaries.

12, started Anseye Pou Ayiti because she says her native country lacks a datadriven, culturally relevant system for recruiting and training highcaliber teachers where they are most needed — in rural and underserved areas where about 70 percent of Haitians live but fewer than 30 percent of children from low - income households will complete even...

Other problems particular to rural schools include the pay differential for teachers, a gap that discourages many from heading to rural areas.

I was a public school teacher and carpenter in rural Massachusetts for 25 years.

First, with a psycho - social - pedagogy training to rural teachers of Primary and Secondary levels in Chilaco Pelados, so that they can provide a quality education for future citizens of Peru.

Strategies to increase leadership opportunities and provide mentoring in this area included the New South Wales education department's Rural School Leadership Program targeting early career ATSI teachers and Principals Australia Institute's Dare to Lead program, supported by the Australian Council for Educational Research.

A lot of the interviews were done in rural Queensland in Catholic education schools, where the majority of the teachers have not been in service that long — many of them are new graduates who are in rural communities — I would think that probably the median experience age / years of service for teachers might have been around four years.

The challenge was to ensure rural schools had supplies, while making things easier for the teachers who are tasked with delivering multiple subjects and family education (lots of the students are living with grandparents because their parents are working in remote cities).

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

True to Villanueva Beard's commitment to recognizing the cultural differences across the many regions in which TFA places corps members, the Mississippi Delta will become a hub for training TFA teachers headed to rural areas, where the demand for first - year teachers is much higher than in many cities, and where corps members will encounter a different type of poverty.

Recruiting and retaining highly effective teachers is one of the toughest challenges for rural schools and for rural charter schools in particular.

This paper, written for the Rural Opportunities Consortium of Idaho, offers policymakers and philanthropic leaders a set of recommendations to capitalize on the potential of technology to serve students: expand broadband access to schools lacking it, create an elite corps of proven teachers who would be made available to students across the state, and provide districts and schools with the flexibility to develop new models of staffing and technology and to achieve the most strategic combination of personnel, facilities, and technology.