Sentences with phrase «generation of teachers for»

Are we preparing the next generation of teachers for what tomorrow will bring; what the students of tomorrow will need to understand and achieve in order to be successful?

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She is looking forward to finding the next generation of teachers for the Match community.

ARLINGTON, Va. — Through a new partnership with the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, teacher preparation programs in Louisiana will receive a major boost in preparing the next generation of teachers for success in the profession.

At the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in July, President Clinton laid out a five - year, $ 350 million program to recruit and prepare a new generation of teachers for America's most disadvantaged schools.

Not exact matches

«The most important book published by the Holy See in this generation for Catholic education,» says Bishop O'Donoghue, «is theCatechism of the Catholic Church, and its summary, the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church»; he says that «it is vital that both the Catechismand the Compendiumare used by teachers in our schools and colleges, who can guide pupils in how to make best use of them»; that «the key to unlocking this treasury of Church teaching....

People of this generation are simply collecting teachers for themselves who will say whatever tickles their ears... if you want to believe Christianity is evil... then there are people who will sell you that «reality.»

Last year Yale Divinity School bid farewell to a teacher whose intellect and character shaped generations of students who sat for his lectures, sermons and seminars.

With growth in Catholic colleges and universities that take their faith seriously, and with schools like Aquinas College forming a generation of teachers, there are more than enough reasons for hope.

In explanation of the phenomenon it may be said that an unusually brilliant group of teachers happens to be at work today in this field; yet such reasoning does not carry very far for these teachers had their peers in previous generations.

The new Dr. Deirdre Loughlin Fund will link two of Deirdre's highest priorities: Broad Meadow Brook, where she has served for many, many years as chair of the advisory board; and Worcester Public Schools, where — as a teacher, and later, as a top administrator — she inspired generations of students to be curious and confident about science.

As a teacher of Physics in the university, I was excited when the late President Umaru Yar» Adua awarded a contract of some N40bn for an alternative - energy, wind - powered electricity generation plant to be sited, naturally, at Katsina State.

report, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «It is shameful indictment of the economic and social policies of the last five years, being continued by the Government, that young people have the worst economic prospects for several generations.

Lasher said his campaign will focus on issues like housing, strengthening rent laws and protecting tenants, building «a new generation of Mitchell - Lama - style housing» and ending state income tax for public school teachers.

For too long a nation has benefited from the dedication and enthusiasm of our scientists, engineers, and technologists in higher education, training the next generation of teachers, scientists, and technologists on a pittance.

«PhDs prepare the medical doctors for a healthy society; the engineers to build the roads, bridges, dams, hospitals and schools; the agriculturalists to ensure food security; the educators to shape the next generation of teachers, not to mention economists, lawyers, scientists, business specialists — all contributing to the development of a «knowledge» society,» he writes.

Let us start anew with space - based research worthy of a great city, where schools and universities work together, where citizens and communities partner to ensure the success of future generations, where Houstonians lead the charge for students, teachers, parents, scientists and engineers far and wide.

As administrators and school boards around the country consider the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Science Buddies is helping teachers begin ramping up, now, for some of the ways in which traditional classroom science projects and assignments may change.

A third generation yoga teacher, she approaches her professional endeavors with the same yogic principles she emphasizes with her students and in her own life: love, compassion and nurturance of self and others, reverence and responsibility for the planet, and an acknowledgement that we are all connected.

A head teacher at a # 34,000 - a-year boarding school in the upmarket town of Holt in Norfolk has slammed the Snowflake generation for being «mollycoddled

Or rebuild the crumbling school infrastructure, create scholarships for the next generation of scientists and engineers, and finally give good teachers the pay raise they deserve.

EDF Energy is proud to be an «award category» sponsor of the TES Schools Awards 2018 for Maths teacher or team of the Year, as part of our company commitment to inspire the next generation http://www.tesawards.co.uk/.

The report makes four recommendations: Develop a new generation of school leaders by supporting career progression; Explore expanding the pool of candidates for non-teaching executive roles to those outside the profession; Support leaders more effectively and provide clear career pathways; Build positive perceptions of school leadership to encourage more teachers to step - up.

It is not surprising, then, that history and government textbooks, increasingly shaped by loose standards, incomplete assessments, and a generation of constructivist pedagogy, poorly serve the teacher's critical need for solid information about civil disobedience.

But those enthusiasts are outliers in education, for Direct Instruction, however effective, goes against the grain of generations of teachers trained and flattered into the certain belief that they alone know what's best for their students.

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:

Every year thousands of pupils and teachers attend The Big Bang Fair, which exists to inspire young people to become the next generation of scientists and engineers — rewarding careers for those young people and essential to the health of the UK economy.»

In response to this situation, the Institute of Acoustics (IoA) has written a letter to Andrew Stunell, the minister responsible for the building regulations, expressing the concern held by our profession on the effects of the proposed changes, together with the implications for future generations of school children and students, and teacher's health.

The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education released today new research showing that Teach For America (TFA) corps members teach in their low - income placement schools considerably longer than the TFA two - year obligation.

-- Teachers should be clamouring for reductions of such nonsense, instead of meekly continuing to pass it on from generation to generation.

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.

But the Tom Mooney Institute for Teacher & Union Leadership thinks they should be, and is trying to get a new generation of local union leaders ready for such roles.

Founded in San Francisco in 1978, Breakthrough's goal was not only to increase academic opportunity for underserved students, but also to inspire and develop the next generation of teachers.

In response to administrators» and teachers» worries about the vocabulary skills of Boston Public School students, a group of researchers and educators — assembled by the Strategic Education Research Partnership (SERP) in collaboration with the Boston Public Schools, and directed by Harvard Graduate School of Education Professor Catherine Snow — designed a curriculum supplement called Word Generation, for sixth - to eighth - grade classrooms.

But let me concentrate on two dimensions of the problem for teachers already in the system: the generation of incentives and professional development.

This is hard for our current generation of teachers; we place our value in our role as the source of knowledge.

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.

The National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) and Pearson have released a new paper on the best practices to make teaching an attractive career for the next generation.

After all, teacher buy - in is an important aspect of any pay - for - performance plan, especially if such plans are recruiting tools for the next generation of teachers.

The latest smart phones are becoming sources of utter obsession for the new generation, and a complete nuisance for teachers.

The Next Generation Science Standards process was initiated and led by a consortium, including The National Research Council, The National Science Teachers Association, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Achieve.

When middle school students Alison and Nat confer with their teachers, it's to talk about the lessons the students are preparing for student teachers as part of a new Generation www.Y program.

So what we want to do is partner with business to implement some good ideas for teacher recruitment and for preparing the next generation of teachers,» Wilson added.

Mentoring can help fight the talent exodus on two fronts — firstly keeping senior teachers professionally fulfilled and engaged for an extra few years of employment, and also ensuring that their wisdom and experience is passed down to the new generation of NQTs.

Doing so takes lots of work, but if this generation of teachers lays the groundwork for the how, then the students will be the teachers who build upon that.

McDonald said: «We targeted our efforts towards teachers and career advisors instead of pupils for this initiative as teachers are the core influencers in the future of the next generation, so it is imperative that they understand more about the routes into the industry.

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.

«The best thing I can do is prepare the strongest generation of music teachers as they go off and teach in a program and create quality music education that advocates for the field,» Bernard says, noting that an outstanding music teacher can do terrific things for children, even those with autism.

The girl was one of nearly 25 children with autism enrolled in the Boston Conservatory's Students on the Autism Spectrum program where Bernard, as chair of the music education department, equips the next generation of music teachers with tools for educating all children equally.