Sentences with phrase «good school teaching job»

I need a good School teaching job in Lagos Island.

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A brief stint teaching troubled students at schools in Brooklyn and on Rikers Island convinced Mitchell of the need for strong schools — he advocates longer school days and tougher tenure rules — as well as more jobs and after - school options for youth.

After a month we will move on to New Zealand, where I intend to find a good job teaching science in a secondary school situated close to a good surf spot.

Anna: That's right, they say that our schools need to do a better job of teaching students to think critically and really assess the information that's given to them.

Jim is hired to teach physical education and life science, but his goal is to put in just enough time to repair his resume and get a better job at a more prestigious school.

Large numbers of parents whose children have diagnosed learning disabilities have pulled them from local schools, believing they can do a better job teaching them at home.

Helping school leaders and managers to better, understand and support their teaching staff to keep them happy, well and in their jobs for longer is critical if we are to solve the current crisis.

We have a set of 15 that we will hopefully be releasing by the end of this school year [in the US], along with accompanying student responses and rubrics, but we're also I think even more critically starting to think about curriculum — so thinking about how to support teachers in using these tasks in their classroom but also to go about teaching students to do a better job of evaluating information online.

If the schools attended by lottery winners do a better of job of teaching skills that increase students» ability to find employment, they will stay enrolled in school longer, delaying the onset of criminality through the peak period of offending behaviors.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Colorado does a respectable job of ensuring that its high school teachers are well versed in the subjects they plan to teach.

Designing a well - organized and professional teaching portfolio can give you an edge in a competitive job market, and help you score high marks on your school's teacher evaluation form.

A well - planned, current digital teaching portfolio can be an asset whether you're seeking a job, being evaluated within your school, or simply demonstrating your professionalism.

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Since last year, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $ 75 million in grants to schools and school districts interested in developing systems that reward good teaching and compensate teachers for taking jobs in hard - to - staff schools (low - performing and typically high - poverty schools).

In 1997, Philadelphia teacher Salome Thomas - EL was offered a chance to transfer from his inner - city middle school to a job at another school that would give him better teaching conditions, more administrative authority, and a $ 20,000 raise.

He proposed «to train 70,000 high - school teachers to lead Advanced Placement courses in math and science... bring 30,000 math and science professionals to teach in classrooms... and give early help to students who struggle with math, so they have a better chance at good, high - wage jobs.»

States should also provide information that might bear on the ability of the school to do a good job - for example, the percentages of teachers with degrees in the subject they are teaching and teacher attendance rates.

Washington saw teaching as primarily a practical skill and worked to create opportunities for blacks to open and attend normal schools, an advance he hoped would increase the number of good jobs available to African Americans.

First, the technological changes and globalization that have fueled inequality have also increased the skills required for good jobs — which means that schools need to teach higher - level skills if their graduates are to secure jobs that pay middle - class wages.

The Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools do a better job teaching low - income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English than traditional schools.

For example, one study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes at Stanford University found that charter schools do a better job teaching low income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English than traditional schools.

District and school leaders discuss how they are helping prepare assistant principals to become effective principals, and how principal supervisors are moving away from a focus on administrative compliance to an emphasis on better supporting principals on the job, as they work to create the conditions for good teaching to flourish.

Aspiring teachers say they will enter their first teaching jobs, especially in high - need schools, much better prepared.

In a passionate presentation to Master of Teaching UTS pre-service teachers in October, Cameron Paterson, a lead teacher from Shore School said in his closing rationale for what motivates him as a teacher: Welcome to the best job in the world.

Denver Public Schools has been using SGOs for many years; their 2008 - 2009 Teacher Handbook states that an SGO must be «focused on the expected growth of [a teacher's] students in areas identified in collaboration with their principal,» as well as that the objectives must be «Job - based; Measurable; Focused on student growth in learning; Based on learning content and teaching strategies; Discussed collaboratively at least three times during the school year; May be adjusted during the school year; Are not directly related to the teacher evaluation process; [and] Recorded online» (for more information click here).

John Howson, an education data analyst who runs jobs website Teach Vac, said that one of the reasons for historically poor recruitment in SEND schools was «nowhere near good enough professional development to allow an easy transition over from mainstream into SEN.. There's always been that difficulty.»

Schools and districts, they say, will not necessarily hire teachers with adjunct permits in large numbers, but need the flexibility to hire the best non-traditional applicants for teaching jobs.

Gove, Gibb and Morgan have wrecked my ability to do my job properly and I spend more time trying to work out what new approach I need to take as opposed to getting on with the job of using my professionalism to enable teaching and learning that best suits the needs of kids in my school.

However, only 25 % believed that schools are doing a good job of teaching those skills.

In fact, one of the dirty secrets in education is that those very voices are the ones that are often marginalized within cultures of mediocrity and failure that are often the norm in districts and schools, thanks to policies that fail to reward and recognize good - and - great teaching, place bureaucratic obstacles to fostering this work among colleagues, and protect laggards from losing their jobs.

In 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. pronounced that «the job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.»

Teaching is the best job in the world and we pride ourselves on developing the highest quality educators for Florida schools.

The most recent of those studies, by the Center for Research on Educational Outcomes at Stanford University, found that charter schools do a better job than traditional schools at teaching low income students, minority students, and students who are still learning English.

The TFA teachers are hired by school principals (whose job it is to know what is best for the particular students at their school) to teach in their school and pay several thousand more dollars per teacher than a non-TFA teacher.

«I thought I was doing a good job teaching (math), but I wasn't going to the depth that I needed to,» said training program participant Marilyn Cox, a 3rd grade teacher at Weaverville Elementary in Trinity County's Trinity Alps Unified School District.

Some teaching colleges are doing a good job preparing new teachers, and High Tech High in San Diego is growing its own teachers, with its own graduate school of education, Ross points out.

«While parents are interested in special educational programs, their dominant concern seems to be whether the school does a good job in fulfilling the traditional functions that we associate with education: teaching basic skills and problem - solving in a safe and orderly environment.

Corporate reformers advocate flexibility, freedom from burdensome school boards — but what this really means is the freedom to fire faculty and staff, to strip teachers of job protections, deprive them of professionalism and the autonomy to teach as they best know how — and to disable their unions, for charters allow no unions.

Gordon MacInnes shows that it's possible for high - poverty schools to do a much better job of teaching low - income youngsters to read, through the tale of how a package of reforms, including high - quality pre-K and intensive, data - driven literacy instruction in the early grades, dramatically improved reading performance for children in some of New Jersey's highest - poverty, most troubled districts.

Applying through Teachers for NYC Charter Schools is the best way to find the school community that's right for you, whether you have teaching experience, are embarking on your first job, or are making a career change and want to teach while working towards your certification.

What's more, the U.S. already has a large immigrant population, and history teaches us that strong public schools are a key avenue for all members of our communities to be able to attain higher levels of education and go on to work in well - compensated and satisfying jobs.

The countries that Cheng and his colleagues studied are very likely, in my judgment, to do a much better job of teaching the 21st century skills than most of our schools can, because they are building on a foundation most of our students simply do not have.

The history of U.S. education reform should greatly concern everyone who wants schools to do a better job of teaching students to think.

Background: In an essay on her website, Joanne explains that she's wanted to write a school story ever since she left teaching, a job she enjoyed and thinks she was good at.

We've done such a crappy job of teaching our children about sex that it's fallen to the school system to impart lessons that are best discussed at home.

However, are proprietary schools doing a better job of teaching the «real world» skills that employers are looking for in the job market?

«I was good at staying up late and looking at art and listening to artists and going to studios,» Saltz said of the talents that made the project expedient even as he juggled his trucking job, his gigs teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Rhode Island School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, and his occasional duties chauffering a millionaire around in a Mercedes.

A portrait of Fujiwara's secondary school art teacher, Joanne Salley, who was fired after students found and circulated photographs of her topless, the film showcases Salley's diverse roles and identities, albeit through clichéd shots of her modeling and working out, as well as through teary scenes in which she discusses her difficult childhood and the loss of her teaching job.

Even the job which law schools supposedly do well, which is to indoctrinate impressionable youth in arcane legal reasoning, can actually get in the way of running a law firm, because law schools teach students how to identify issues or problems, but not how to solve them.

«The report concludes that the Socratic «case dialogue» method that dominates law - school teaching does a good job of teaching students legal - reasoning skills but does little to prepare them to work with people or juggle morally complex issues.»