Not exact matches
In contrast, inspired by the work of Professor Lucy Calkins at Columbia University, my son's third - grade
teacher decided to shake up her
language arts homework.
As a
teacher of high school English, I've
decided to volunteer at an English as a second
language (ESL) Saturday tutoring session, a program established in response to the growing community of refugees here in Jersey City.
If a school district has
decided to accept a particular evaluation model, without input from the classroom
teachers who are being evaluated using it, then it is not a shared
language; it is an imposed
language.
The
language isn't there because states, not districts,
decide when
teachers should be eligible for tenure.
California students, parents and
teachers can now freely
decide the best possible
language program for their children.
High - stakes tests are given only in math and English
language arts, so reformers have
decided that all
teachers (and, sometimes, principals) in a school should be evaluated by reading and math scores.
Whether or not students and
teachers decide to sell or give away their iBooks, the Book Creator app opens the door for students to articulate a variety of
languages.
Teach a highly demanded subject (math, sciences, certain foreign
languages, bilingual education or any other course for which the state
decided there are not too many
teachers available)