Sentences with phrase «forcing primary school teachers»

Testing pressures are forcing primary school teachers to group their pupils by ability, even when they don't believe it will raise attainment.

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Jennie Williams, a primary school teacher from Rhondda Cynon Taf, said: «Children as young as six are being forced to sit down in a totally alien environment for rigid and structured testing that they are not used to.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, is balloting members in 13 primary schools in Birmingham which are being threatened with forced conversion to academy status.

Education groups control the state's biggest super PACs, and while reformers and unions will likely take sides along most partisan lines in November, supporters of charter schools and tax credits for donations to private schools have focused on targeting eight incumbent Democrats in the primaries, forcing the New York State United Teachers to play defense in support of allies.

Many of the families affected by these changes are those who are in work - 300,000 nurses and midwives, 150,000 primary school teachers and 40,000 armed forces personnel.

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Primary and secondary school faculties are aging; by 2008, 48 % of the current teaching force will be eligible for retirement, leaving openings for new teachers.

The news comes after a period of particularly strained relations between the two groups, regarding forced adademisation, primary assessment, teacher shortages and squeezed school budgets.

The scheme aims to help primary school teachers implement the new computing curriculum which comes into force in September.

Richmond Hill, led by Head Teacher Nathan Atkinson, joined forces with the Real Junk Food Project to provide free breakfasts to all 600 pupils at the primary school and found that this had a positive effect on their behaviour, concentration and attainment.

The Royal Society has joined forces with Professor Brian Cox, the Society's Professor of Public Engagement, to help primary school teachers across the UK to introduce creative experimental science lessons into their classrooms.

The rules have been widely criticised for their impact on primary schools which were forced to suspend teachers, support staff and even headteachers who had done nothing wrong themselves but had to wait for waiver decisions.

It recognizes professional development as a critical issue affecting the Eastern Caribbean where untrained or under - trained teachers at the primary school level ranges account for 11 percent to 38 percent of the teaching force.

The task force also said that many primary school teachers are not adequately prepared to teach the subject and staff shortages mean a quarter of secondary school pupils are taught by non-specialist maths teachers.