Sentences with phrase «kinds of teacher education»

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Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

The conclusions drawn by Bruce A. Kimball in Orators and Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education (Teachers College Press, 292 pp., $ 19.95) are of a different kind.

The identification of the right kinds of person to be teachers of sex education is crucial to the success of the programme.

What kind of democracy are we when education institutions and teachers refuse to mention the fact that some 30 to 60 million Natives were killed at the hands of European invasion and colonialism?

Many parents don't even think about what kind of education and training the teacher possesses or what the teacher's background is or if the teacher has a criminal history.

Education officials said most of the teachers in those schools, some of whom may be under - performing, will have some kind of position at other schools by the fall.

TEACHER EVALUATION TALKS STILL GOING ON: The last we heard, talks between state education officials and teachers» leaders reportedly produced significant progress toward the end of last week, so there's a chance they'll reach some kind of accord this week.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at the rally sent education groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apEducation Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at the rally sent education groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apeducation groups into a tizzy, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apEducation Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's appearance at a charter school rally sent education groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind apeducation groups into a tizzy Tuesday, with New York's largest teachers» union panning the move and charter advocates cheering the first - of - its - kind appearance.

«When you've spent 30 years... teaching special education students, it's kind of a head - scratcher to see the state teachers» political action committee spending money against you.»

Each reporter was to follow a common format covering the science content in his or her national curriculum, the local and national politics of how it is delivered, the recommendations of how it is to be taught, the kind of informal education provided by museums and science centres, the training and status of science teachers and equality of opportunity for all pupils — including race, immigrant group and handicap.

Providing training for early childhood education teachers, embedding direct instruction and practice of targeted skills into daily practice and engaging families in these efforts help to boost the success of these kinds of interventions, Oregon State University researchers suggest in a new paper.

Welcoming over 170 teachers from across the globe, and now in its 11th year, the Summer Institute is the annual flagship event of the Discovery Education Community: the largest professional learning network of its kind in the US.

For teachers to develop the kinds of professional learning communities that have gained currency with education researchers, they need to interact with each other in new and often uncomfortable ways.

In a first of its kind new global study of urban refugee education, researchers at Teachers College, Columbia University have revealed a gap between policy and practice.

Then in May 2004, the New York City Department of Education signed a five - year contract with All Kinds of Minds worth about $ 12.5 million to train 20,000 city teachers.

Under her leadership, the school launched the Doctor of Education Leadership Program, a first - of - its - kind practice - based education doctoral program; created a universitywide Ph.D. in Education; established the Urban Scholars Fellowship which provides full tuition to teachers from urban schools; and significantly increased financial aid for master's and doctoral Education Leadership Program, a first - of - its - kind practice - based education doctoral program; created a universitywide Ph.D. in Education; established the Urban Scholars Fellowship which provides full tuition to teachers from urban schools; and significantly increased financial aid for master's and doctoral education doctoral program; created a universitywide Ph.D. in Education; established the Urban Scholars Fellowship which provides full tuition to teachers from urban schools; and significantly increased financial aid for master's and doctoral Education; established the Urban Scholars Fellowship which provides full tuition to teachers from urban schools; and significantly increased financial aid for master's and doctoral students.

Hendrick, also an English teacher, says that the aim of the role is to analyse what works in education, and that «the vision is to become a kind of laboratory.»

«I look at problems in education that are persistent and challenging,» he said, «and work my way back to the kinds of pedagogy, content, assessment, teacher professional development, parental input, and other variables involved to see if there might be a way that technology could make a difference.»

Teachers and curricula in Chicago, Detroit, and Cleveland in effect assumed the new immigrant children were capable of becoming good Americans and provided them with the kind of education that would make them so.

What would American education look like if we had shunned IQ tests as a means of sorting children, used higher salaries to attract more able recruits to teaching, adapted the kind of engaging cooperative inquiry among both teachers and pupils that Dewey favored, and expected all children to do rigorous mathematics and science beginning in elementary school?

Sugata Mitra's «Whole in the Wall» experiment teaches us that children left alone with tech will learn on their own which kind of addresses the one big deficiency in the education system — lack of good teachers.

Staff attrition and retention continues to be a problem for education systems around the world, so understanding the factors that influence a teacher's decision to leave the profession and, conversely, the kind of support that might make them stay is a hot topic for researchers.

Schools of education are equally culpable in this process, having shirked their obligation to do the kind of research that would aid administrators and teachers in implementing intellectually rich programs for all students.

The traditional route to teacher certification, a college degree that requires 30 - plus credit hours of education - related coursework, has created a kind of cult within the teaching profession.

Schools of education are equally culpable in this process, having shirked their obligation to do the kind of research that would aid administrators and teachers in implementing

The question of whether affluent and disadvantaged kids need a different kind of education — different instructional strategies, different curriculum, maybe even different kinds of teachers — is a serious one.

Here at Edutopia, we've had the privilege of visiting so many different kinds of schools and meeting amazing teachers who are working to change education for the better every day.

Brunner, deputy director of the Center for Children & Technology, a division of the Education Development Center, believes that the DS platform has the social - networking and shared - gaming capabilities that will enable teachers and their students to «put concepts and skills into the kind of meaningful narrative context that is close to real life.»

Although no state has abandoned its traditional certification programs in response to calls for broader recruitment paths into education, all but three states have set up some kind of alternative certification pathway, and the number of alternatively certified teachers has steadily grown.

Mark Pudlow, spokesperson for the Florida Education Association, the teachers union that has fought pitched battles against many of Florida's recent initiatives, acknowledges the result of Florida Virtual School's approach: «[It] never developed the kind of mistrust that tends to be associated with other reform ideas.»

This kind of student - teacher relationship is obviously indicative of a larger issue that education faces, but first - year - teacher me wasn't grappling with those questions yet.

Of course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearOf course, some teachers really do buy school supplies with their own money (which should make people wonder what kind of education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearof education system would make that necessary after spending an average of more than $ 12,000 per student each yearof more than $ 12,000 per student each year).

This national teacher education and workforce data solution is the first of its kind in Australia, and will give us a view of a teaching student living in Sydney who is studying online at a Victorian university and ends up starting a teaching role in Perth,» Mr Misson said.

In teacher preparation programs, if preservice teachers receive any kind of training, it's generally short discussions or readings in their existing education courses (Chamberlin and Chamberlin, 2010).

This webinar — presented in conjunction with Education Week TopSchoolJobs» Virtual Career eXPO & PD Event — focuses on how districts can identify teachers with good social - emotional skills and develop those skills further, and what kinds of resources teachers can use to develop their social - emotional skills.

Limited Reprint Rights Most Education World content is aimed at classroom teachers, and often there is a printable worksheet of some kind for students.

Earlier this year, the Fordham Institute's Mike Petrilli — a former Bush - administration official and NCLB champion who has since expressed concerns about the law — observed: «The question of whether affluent and disadvantaged kids need a different kind of education — different instructional strategies, different curriculum, maybe even different kinds of teachers — is a serious one.

A study by AIR and the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) shows that even small amounts of the right kind of feedback to teachers and principals can have an effect on student achievement in math.

«We thought if we could actually show what standards look like, there could be different kinds of conversations about them among teachers, with students and in schools of education.»

Since traditional union contracts make it virtually impossible to replace an ineffective teacher, liberal education reformers and conservatives alike disagree with teachers» unions and their allies, which have generally treated any kind of reform as an existential threat.

He also offers concrete solutions that can be implemented at any school, the kind of solutions that will make teachers» working lives better while simultaneously improving the education that students will receive.»

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

A study published by Education Next in 2012 looked at how some kinds of evaluations can improve teacher performance.

If we don't account for it as teachers — ensuring that our children's education is broad and rich enough to expose them to the language, history, and art that enliven our language — we risk imposing a kind of illiteracy on our students.

Tom Luna, Idaho Supt. of Public Instruction: «Fortunately for Idaho the kinds of things that they're looking for are the kinds of things we've been working on for a number of years: pay - for - performance for teachers, expanding choice in public education through more charter schools, more accountability down to the student level.»

Through school visits and discussions with education experts familiar with D.C. schools, I discovered the reason: Only about a third of D.C. teachers were capable of carrying out the sophisticated kind of instruction I saw in Long Beach and Aldine.

The vote was close because «there's an overall fear that exists around what's going to happen in public education, and there's kind of a resistance to changes,» said Arielle Zurzolo, president of Green Dot's teachers union.

Unless the comptroller, public advocate or state Education Department quickly decides to conduct a thorough audit of the Department of Education, students, parents and teachers are at risk of losing an entire school year to this kind of deception.

And in a public education world where the unions have typically been able to protect even the lowest - performing teachers, that kind of quality upgrade seemed doable only because the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation had offered the city a grant that required the union to cooperate in return for a huge injection of funds into the school system.