Sentences with phrase «language teachers still»

But the vast majority of the city's roughly 1,100 foreign language teachers still receive no targeted professional development, as compared to weekly development for teachers in other subjects, the paper noted.

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You still need, as you always did, a teacher who circulates, who can communicate in foreign language and who can get the pupils to do the same.

«My main goal as a language teacher is to find authentic input to help them learn from real language - we have to make students feel like they're in the US even if it's still Morocco outside the school doors.»

• The Common Core asks teachers to assign texts that provide language complexity appropriate to the grade level, but significant proportions of teachers — particularly in the elementary grades — are still assigning texts based on students» present reading prowess.

But he said one piece, the specific language describing what level of student growth would rate as a four versus a three versus a two, still is being fine - tuned among officials representing the Oregon Education Association, the Confederation of Oregon School Administrators, the state education agency and the Chalkboard Project, a Portland - based nonprofit that has helped many school districts pioneer new approaches to teacher evaluation.

«California still does not require annual evaluations for all teachers, and while there is some vague language in state code about using student achievement as part of teacher evaluations «as applicable,» this language is far from the clear mandate now seen in the overwhelming majority of states and is clearly not the practice in districts across the state.»

«I've been working with ELL students my whole career,» said Scott Jensen, an eighth grade language arts teacher at Centennial Middle School in Portland, Ore. «I still feel like it's been only recently that I've been making tangible strides with these students.»

Advocates of teacher - training programs say one reason for the relatively high dropout rate is the traditional teacher education, which they say relies too heavily on classroom theory instead of arming newcomers with practical tactics to cope with a packed classroom of students with divergent abilities, language barriers or difficulty sitting still for 30 minutes.

They can still benefit from having all their teachers involved in teaching language and literacy within their content areas.

Poverty, language barriers, special education — Having an effective teacher means still being able to teach / reach students who are in these situations.

So, although our district still uses textbooks, a growing number of teachers and coaches are working together to develop our own aligned language development curriculum.

Margaret Russo, the school's principal, said P.S. 160 still had to hire five teachers of English as a new language to comply with the regulations.

Three years from now, after having completed this study, it would benefit us to follow up with the teachers to determine whether or not they are still attentive to the language demands of the curriculum content they teach.

Though the comment on student use of language is still limited to content specific vocabulary, the teacher seemed to have realized the importance of focusing on student output in language use as a way to assess learning and «hold students accountable» to the learning objectives.

While English educators may want to expose pre - and in - service teachers to AES tools, their utility is limited at this point, and well - documented assessment strategies, like writing portfolios and writing conferences, and a keen awareness of the process writing approach should still be included in English education methods courses and in the methods repertoire of practicing English language arts teachers.

Although much still needs to be developed, Provost Terry Brown said she envisions a new program that follows teachers into the profession and provides further development where needed, incorporates useful technology into teaching methods classes and develops professionals who can work with English language learners and students with disabilities in general education classrooms.

In other words, these types of schools can offer a student a higher - level class in an area in which he or she excels, such as math, while still providing other services the child requires, such as speech and language therapy, occupational therapy, counseling, and social skills training to help students improve their ability to interact with other children and teachers.

Although there have been some changes in the language in since 2011, the provisions still serve to reduce standards for teachers prepared through the academies and will widen inequities rather than reduce them.

The report also noted that some subjects, notably languages, maths and the sciences, were still struggling to find teacher trainees and it said fewer of the trainees in these subjects went on to become teachers.

In my current appointment as a senior English language teacher, I am still honing my teaching craft in the classroom.

Students use observation, art language, historical context, and experiences like art - making, curating, and writing to develop their own interpretations of Still's art, and then synthesize and present their findings to classmates, teachers, and families.

Through the post of a Chinese language teacher I hope to inculcate a deeper understanding in my students of the social, economic and political history of China, so that they can gauge the influences that have shaped and are still shaping the Chinese language.