Sentences with phrase «issues around teacher»

If we are to ensure that we tackle the increasingly urgent issues around teacher retention and wellbeing then we need to focus on a sharp shift away from top - down leadership and toward more supportive and bottom - up cultures.

«They have been criticised for not knowing about issues around teacher recruitment and retention, and having no proper idea about how academies are spending their money.

Mind you, every state that's in T4TLA seems to be having the same issues around teacher recruitment and retention, so it's not just [our state].

While district leaders had attended conferences and professional development activities addressing issues around teacher turnover and mentoring and support for new teachers, there was not a clear path for encouraging both district and union leaders to coalesce around a common strategy or approach.

We aim to make the issues around teacher pensions more accessible and relevant to the general public, more compelling to policymakers, and more understandable for current teachers.

Issues around teacher workload and stress are well known and likely to have contributed to the total of 2.21 million days lost in 2013 - 14 — an average of 4.3 days for every teacher.

Those of us who undertake school - led teacher training, or represent providers which do, are being increasingly consulted by politicians, policy - makers and civil servants on solutions to issues around teacher recruitment and retention.

Many teachers associate a wide variety of challenges and concerns with group work: kids goofing off, copying from each other, and letting one student do all the work, as well as issues around the teacher not feeling in control.

Not exact matches

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

According to the Fall / Winter 2011 issue of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, published quarterly by AWSNA (the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), «There is a drastic shortage of trained Waldorf teachers — class teachers, as well as early childhood / kindergarten... This shortage exists in North America and around the world, including in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland.

We view this as an issue of how to provide the best teachers for schools during a very difficult time around layoffs.»

Commenting on the announcement by Ofqual around issues related to GCSE Computer Science, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT — The Teachers» Union, said: «The NASUWT recognises that Ofqual has a critical responsibility to establish and maintain public and professional confidence in the qualification system.

Teachers have been holding rallies all around the state protesting Governor Cuomo's education proposals, and hundreds are expected to converge on the Capitol late Monday to protest over reliance on standardized tests, and other issues.

StudentsFirstNY has stepped in to rally parents around the issue of improving teacher evaluations.

«Are rules about firing teachers the kinds of issues that courts should decide, while questions about funding schools are ones that should be left to the legislature — or is it the other way around?»

So, in response to this we pulled together a debate between an eclectic panel of education experts including: chair of the Education Select Committee Neil Carmichael MP; a head teacher who turned her own school's performance and ability to recruit and retain its staff around 180 degrees; an ex-tutor from an FE institution who left teaching due to work load issues; and an academic completing a PhD on the topic of work strain in the sector.

«I hope that through these conversations, teachers will feel empowered to have a voice around policy issues that affect their students» futures.»

The England - wide search will see children and young people nominate teachers and school staff who go above and beyond the call of duty to support students around issues such as bullying, relationships, family life and mental health.

Education Week and Education Week Teacher have gathered years of Q&A s with some of the field's most prominent education scholars, leaders, and practitioners talking about important issues around schooling.

Most schools the company works with have at least one ongoing issues around ICT, whether that's around reducing costs or keeping a tighter rein on the IT budget without any financial surprises, recruiting and retaining good technical staff, developing an effective strategy, or building trust in ICT with your teachers so they feel more empowered to use technology in the classroom.

It could be a number of things: it could be better recording processes by the jurisdictions, could be them being able to finally ask the question and encourage people to identify, and probably I think the most positive aspect is it could be because of heightened awareness around the issue by MATSITI of cultural safety — it could be that some of those teachers felt more comfortable in identifying by 2015 than they did in 2012.

Kathryn, a maths teacher at Comberton Village College, explains that any classroom management issues this activity might raise, through pupils moving around the room, are outweighed by its value as a practical and effective lesson that they'll easily remember when they're thinking about graphs and gradients.

The PZC tackles challenging issues about the kind of teaching and learning that should be done in classrooms all around the world, but is not being done, in part because of the pressure for certain performances on certain kinds of standardized tests, in part because teachers teach what they were taught and in the ways that they were taught 10 or 50 years ago.

To increase awareness of world hunger and to help find solutions to the problem, an organization called Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger provides teachers with a comprehensive curriculum on hunger issue designed for use on or around World Food Day, which is October 16.

Stone said the manifesto is «somewhat of a line in the sand» but also an organizing tool to «bring together solutions - oriented teachers around a common set of beliefs» about issues relevant to their profession.

A resource for teachers, youth leaders and facilitators to address the issues around global poverty in the world.

Teachers wanted to do the right thing, Lemay says, but most had no experience with transgender students and few had any pre-service training around these issues.

Newspapers.com enables teachers to look up newspapers online around the country so students can catch the local sentiment about a variety of local, national, and international issues.

According to a survey by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), teachers see ICT training as a key requirement with 51 per cent of primary school teachers and 49 per cent of secondary school teachers admitting they need guidance around e-safety issues.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

A resource for teachers, youth leaders and facilitators to address the issues around health and wellbeing in the world.

During morning meeting, teachers do a go - around check - in with students, use a common and consistent language around behavior, and address any classroom issues.

General secretary, Chris Keates, told teachers at the Union's Scotland Annual Conference that «Scotland recruits around 500 teachers a year from the EU and that current recruitment issues in the profession will be worsened if Brexit prevents or deters their appointment to posts in Scotland's schools and colleges».

A resource for teachers, youth leaders and facilitators to address the issues around access to clean water and sanitation in the world.

Principals take on the role of manager and facilitator of change, while teacher leaders take on responsibilities around issues of teaching and learning.

The event, taking place at the Leicester Marriot Hotel from Tuesday 28 to Wednesday 29 March, seeks to bring together teachers and school leaders from around the country to engage in discussions around the key issues facing education and to share best practice around the use of education technology.

HL: Harry had learnt, teacher as a facilitator, he understood the language, and we did a lot of language immersion around entrepreneurship and he just said «no, this is not on, Miss Lewis has already spoken to you and told you, she is a facilitator, she doesn't want to have to deal with behaviour issues» and they just went silent.

Once you see a teacher takes too much time to transition her students from one activity to another, you can find the language in Danielson to describe the issue, but you need Lemov's techniques as described in Teach Like a Champion around «what to do, and do it again,» to help the teacher tighten up.

Teachers also work around the time limits by rearranging their schedule to allow for 15 - minute conferences, or by making sure that the time blocked off for student - led conferences isn't usurped by other issues.

One of the issues we have, I suppose, is that we've had many reviews over the years of teacher education and the teacher workforce, and many recommendations have come out of those, particularly around the support for early career teachers, and a number of things in different states have been put into place, particularly over the last five to 10 years.

No educator wants to deny their students» need to explore the world around them, but there remain real issues regarding how best to allow this without putting the school or the teacher in a more vulnerable position.

For example, the science teacher may ask about issues around sustainability, materials, or how the sun rotates around the site and what effect it will have on the pavilion.

Early career teacher attrition is seen as an issue of concern around the world.

The event is giving pupils the opportunity to learn about the issues faced by many children around the world trying to access an education while living in zones affected by conflict, natural disasters or extreme poverty, and who lack the basic tools and teachers they need to learn.

Press coverage of the teachers unions is usually assigned to an education reporter, which ensures the story will be framed around education issues.

Every year around six million young people study design and technology, and the D&T Association works closely with government, advising on curriculum and teacher issues.

Teachers share ways they get around money issues to provide inexpensive trips that are both meaningful and memorable.

The task group frames the danger this way: «How can we be sure that teaching supervisors are themselves developed and equipped in cultural competence outcomes in order to supervise beginning teachers around issues of race, class, culture, and gender?»

Our goal is to unite its members around key issues, collaborate with internal and external constituents, and lead strategic actions to impact P - 14 and teacher education.

In addition to early morning pickets at schools, the Chicago Teachers Union plans a full day of teach - ins and rallies at sites around the city during a one - day strike Friday that the union promises will shut down the schools, according to a preliminary schedule issued Monday.