Sentences with phrase «half of teacher»

We printed over 100 copies and stuffed them in the mailboxes of teachers and other staff the day we got back.

«The one thing is that they really wanted me involved, instead of the teachers,» Mr. Trump said in an interview last week.

This April, I partnered with the Council for Economic Education (which educates thousands of teachers annually, providing financial and economic curriculums for K through 12 students) to ask 28 entrepreneurs, editors and economists for their top tip for saving money as part of a social media campaign titled #MySavingsTip.

On top of having one of the best cohorts of teachers in the world (even primary school teachers are required to hold master's degrees), Finland has made hands - on subjects a priority.

The teachers union is also putting pressure on its pension managers, who oversee $ 3 trillion of teacher retirement savings, to push fund companies to shed gun - maker stocks, offer funds that specifically exclude gun - related investments or drop investment managers that refuse.

«Consumers have a huge demand for better service yet the quality and the spread of teachers is very uneven in China,» Tung said.

Correction: An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the American Federation of Teachers is the nation's largest teacher's union.

In one district in Maine that gave iPads to students, 88.5 % percent of teachers said they preferred laptops.

That's because a silver bullet, no matter how large and well - intentioned it is, won't magically change years of social and economic inequality, Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, told CNBC's «Power Lunch» on Friday.

The percentage of teachers that must be certified varies by country, a Bridge spokesperson said.

The spokesperson said 51 % of their teachers meet that mark.

After graduating from the first Imagine K12 incubator class in 2011, Class Dojo co-founders Sam Chaudhary and Liam Don were armed with a background in education, seed capital, and interviews with thousands of teachers about the biggest time - suck they faced at school — behavior management.

In December of 2016, secretary - general Wilson Sossion and the Kenya National Union of Teachers (Knut) published a negative report of Bridge, saying the company was operating an illegal for - profit business.

«The real problem is not a lack of access; it's a lack of teachers.»

Consumers have a huge demand for better service yet the quality and the spread of teachers is very uneven in China.

In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

He went to college with the intent of becoming of a teacher.

«I was in 3rd grade and one of my teachers told us to decide what we wanted to do when we grew up and then interview someone who had that job.

Many of our teachers describe this as moment «when the lights go on» behind a student's eyes.

She wanted to get at least a minute of film on each teacher to be rated, play the tapes without sound for outside observers, and then have those observers rate the effectiveness of the teachers by their expressions and physical cues.

Over the past 10 years, the hiring of teachers and non-teaching staff has continued unabated even though student enrollment has declined.

«Yes, you can fund a reasonable number of teachers, or firemen, or whatever cutesy thing you want to use to make it seem important, but spread out across the whole system it will not have a significant impact.»

One of her teachers insisted that her parents put her back into school — and in 1937, she sat where you are sitting today and received a Berkeley degree.

Randi Weingarten, American Federation of Teachers, discusses the need for states to bolster education spending and fund the American school system.

Chromebooks made up 44 % of teachers» tablet use and 46 % of students» use.

«No matter how hard you work, or the results you achieve, they somehow become dwarfed by those of the teacher's pet,» Taylor said.

In partnership with organizations like Microsoft, Dell Inc., IBM and National Geographic Society, ePals social learning network reaches millions of teachers, students and parents in 200 countries.

And then we test them in front of kids and bring in groups of teachers on every single 40 - minute class we prepare.

All of my teachers are respectful about it, super understanding and very supportive.

By the end of my sophomore year, I finally got around to telling all of my teachers.

None of my teachers were like, «No, we're not gonna do that.»

«We had a case of a teacher that the school board suspected and had complaints about,» Caruso recalls.

More than 60 % of U.S. colleges and universities now offer Internet - based courses, according to the sAmerican Federation of Teachers.

In 2011, Teach Away made headlines in Houston when, soon after news broke that the State of Texas would lay off hundreds of teachers in the Houston area, the company announced plans to recruit 1,000 teachers to be deployed overseas.

The education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts, earning as much as US$ 70,000 - a-year tax free; the successful applicants didn't need to speak Arabic, but they had to be comfortable in an unfamiliar culture.

Amazon said it tested its new writing curriculum with a handful of teachers before formally debuting it.

According to the folks at Payscale, which pulled its data on the Boston area for me, if he's telling the truth, he's taking home more than a lot of teachers, nurses and even law enforcement officers.

The researchers used questionnaires to assess the burnout and depression levels of the teachers.

Learn the «4 C's» of storytelling and see them in action in one of the teacher's own short stories.

About 75 percent of the teachers were women.

Every one of these teachers and classes I observed really build teamwork into all of their assignments.

We're looking to use technology to unlock the power of a teacher.»

An earlier version of this story incorrectly said the American Federation of Teachers is the nation's largest teacher's union.

Video reviewers observe and assess the classroom and instructional performance of teachers from around the country, who send videos of themselves for review.

Teach Away made headlines in Houston that year when, soon after news broke that the state would lay off hundreds of teachers in the region, the company announced it would hire 1,000 teachers to be deployed in Abu Dhabi.

The American Federation of Teachers is the nation's second - largest teacher's union.

The country was in the midst of a major push to deliver several core subjects — including math and science — in English instead of Arabic and the education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts.

Members of the group stopped using the app several months ago after realizing it had been compromised, but it still made it easier to swiftly purge tens of thousands of teachers, police, soldiers and justice officials in the wake of the coup.

It broke ground in March that year with the help of teachers and students from a local school and, to this day, continues to work with the community, donating some of its 2,000 pounds of produce each year to local organizations.

The Art of Charm might be described as a self - improvement podcast, where «curious, hungry, self - motivated people come to learn from an unparalleled mix of teachers, thinkers and mentors.»