Sentences with phrase «head teachers in the country»

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Shaikh — title given in some Muslim countries to a man recognized as a qualified religious teacher; also, the head of a Sufi order or tekke, or the spiritual enlightener of a person.

Any hint of criticism and out trots the cartoon stereotypes about «ideologues» and «enemies of promise» when, in fact, the opposition is coming from heads, teachers and parents around the country.

Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, the New York City teacher who rose through the ranks to head the largest school system in the country, announced on Dec. 21 that she would retire by the end of the academic year.

ALBANY - The head of the city teachers union is taking aim at Gov. Cuomo's upcoming trip to Cuba, saying if the governor has time to visit the tiny Caribbean country next month he should be able to visit a classroom in New York.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Jacqui Frost, head teacher at Whitehouse Primary School in Ipswich, who are in their second year of a Food Discovery project with The Country Trust said «It is so important that young children understand where fresh fruit and vegetables come from and how they are grown, in order to encourage them to eat healthily.

Working for one of the leading and largest academy trusts in the country, and liaising directly with heads and teachers every day, there is huge scope to shape the futures of tens of thousands of children and young people, which is enormously exciting.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

A former trustee includes Mark Elms who was reportedly the «highest paid teacher» in the country in 2010 after earning # 276,523 while head of Tidemill Academy in Deptford, London.

Used in more than 72 countries around the world, Musical Futures is set to head to Helsinki this October to support Finnish teachers looking to make more of their music lessons.

There you are, trying desperately to stop Miranda in year 8 from bashing Julia over the head for the umpteenth time as Mrs X announces she's resigning five minutes before the end - of - term deadline leaving you with cover teachers from now until Christmas, while these guys think they're improving the country by sitting in parliament chatting about nothing and scoring points.

«Many schools all over the country report great difficulties in recruiting trainee teachers of the right calibre, newly qualified teachers in specialist subject areas and also recruiting people into more senior posts, especially heads of departments in core subjects.

As with many OECD countries, students across the UK are likely to attend schools whose head teachers believe that their education is hindered by a lack of educational material: 29 % of students in England, and 31 % of students in Wales attend such schools, according to Pisa 2015.

Bush is a major figure in the conservative education reform movement, and now heads the Foundation for Excellence in Education, a think - tank seeking to overhaul the country's educational systems through policies like ending teacher tenure, expanding the use of charter schools and school vouchers, and the increased use of virtual education.

Andreas Schleicher, who heads OECD's indicators and analysis division, says the highest - performing countries apply rigorous academic standards, recruit and train topnotch teachers, dig deeply into the subject matter, and allow little variance in performance by the highest - and lowest - performing schools.

Geoff Barton, leader of the ASCL head teachers» union, said this was a «step in the right direction and an acknowledgment of the huge level of concern around the country on this issue».

This story is the first in a series that will examine top - performing preschool programs in the U.S., Head Start, preschool solutions found in other countries, the condition of preschool teachers and the political future of preschool.

Briggs» study was partly funded by the Great Lakes Center for Education Research and Practice, which is run by the heads of several Midwestern teachers unions and supported by the National Education Assn., the largest teachers union in the country.

Working directly with schools to empower teachers and heads to generate a self - improving system with systematic peer review and inter-school collaboration, the programme contributes to improving learning outcomes in schools around the country.

He may be right in saying that they have appointed more teachers since coming to power, but it's nowhere near enough, and this NAO report highlights the ineptitude of the DfE in addressing this problem in damning fashion.In all of the «thousands of classes» he has seen in the 400 schools he has visited, he doesn't seem to have picked up on this problem which is exercising head teachers across the country.

Reviews of policies and curricula pertaining to sexuality education have shown that while many countries have established curricula, little is known about their use in schools — the degree of implementation, the mode and quality of the instruction, the existence of program monitoring and evaluation tools, the adequacy and quality of teacher training, the level of support for or opposition to the subject, and the effectiveness of existing programs in achieving desired knowledge and behavioral outcomes among students.10, 24 — 27 This report provides a detailed snapshot of how the policies related to sexuality education in Ghana are translated into practice and what students, teachers and heads of schools think about them.

To help address this gap, the Head Start CARES demonstration evaluated the implementation and impacts of three interventions that included classroom - based social - emotional strategies, along with professional development (teacher training and coaching) and related supports for scaling up the program, in Head Start classrooms across the country.