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(CNN)- The president of the nation's largest teachers group on Wednesday rejected the National Rifle Association's proposal to put guns in schools.

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BC, Canada's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in Canadian corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C$ 51.7 billion ($ 48.5 billion), including debt, from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.
Last year the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund bought one of Spain's largest funeral businesses from 3i Group, a British private - equity firm, for # 117m, and increased its stake in a French equivalent.
The largest group of perpetrators is straight male family members, followed closely by straight male public school teachers.
Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.
In 1960 the largest single group of workers was called by the census «professional, managerial, and technical people,» like me and my wife who are teachers.
They are full of student discussions and group activities large and small; teachers guide the conversation, but they spend much less time lecturing than most public school teachers do.
Communicating your school's nutrition program effectively means reaching out to a number of key groups; not just students and their parents, but teachers, administrators, custodians, and the community at - large.
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It was never explicitly stated whether or not the adults were expected to join in the singing and group large motor activities, but after a couple sessions it was clear to me that the parents who sat and watched this circle time tended to have the children who sat and watched, whereas those of us who jumped up and down and wiggled our fannies along with the teacher had children who participated.
Your child will blossom through small and large group instruction with caring, nurturing, Christian teachers.
Wales» largest union for qualified teachers, NUT Cymru, has commented on the final report from the Digital Classroom Teaching Task and Finish Group which sets out how Welsh schools can deliver digital classrooms in a digital age.
The second largest lobbying spender was the teachers union, which reports spending far less than the charter school groups, at just over $ 3.2 million.
The district had no training space that could accommodate groups larger than 50 people, limiting its ability to efficiently train larger groups of teachers, offer curricula to a larger population of students, or...
The bill has been criticized by state's teacher unions, parent groups, and superintendents of some of the state's largest school districts.
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 appearance.
The «Costs and Outcomes» report was jointly sponsored by the Long Island Education Coalition, which represents school superintendents, teacher unions and other groups, and by the Long Island Association, the region's largest business and civic group.
Responding to the decision of the Minister for Education and Skills, Leighton Andrews AM, to set up a Task & Finish Group to review the roles and responsibilities in relation to school governance, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in Wales, said:
The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, is proud to sponsor Child Poverty Action Group's (CPAG) 50th anniversary lecture, which has been held today in Westminster.
McIntyre, who ran unsuccessfully last May for an at - large - school board seat, said it's important for the Buffalo Teachers Federation and its members to realize advise from the parent group is not against teachers or adminisTeachers Federation and its members to realize advise from the parent group is not against teachers or administeachers or administrators.
Beyond probationary periods, certification requirements and evaluations, education reform leaders are looking to take on larger long - term sticking points between their groups and New York's city and state teachers» union, including merit pay.
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 appearance.
In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.
Matt Pollard, Lead STEM Teacher at Paradise Creek Regional High School in Moscow and an enthusiastic advocate of the program expressed, «It's been fun to watch the growth of Science After Hours from a small loose knit group of friends and colleagues to a larger get - there - early - to - get - a-seat affair; its growth has been spectacular, warranting larger venues.
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Among many other experiences, he follows a large group of Israeli high school students on a journey to Poland's death camps, where some admit to being afraid of leaving their hotel rooms, so frightened are they by the remarks of teachers and Secret Service agents on the dangers of anti-Semitism.
Studio Ponoc's goal was to continue in the footsteps of their teachers, taking with them a large group of Ghibli regulars, whilst also braving the new ever - changing world of the modern anime industry.
While BFA faculty were accustomed to teaching students who had previously come from public schools, the fact that the DHS students came all at once as a large group made the transition somewhat harder for the students and for the BFA teachers.
A career academy is a small learning community within a larger high school, comprising a team of teachers who work with the same group of students during grades 10 - 12 or 9 - 12.
Public school administrators in Howard County, Md., may no longer have the country's largest teachers» union behind them, but they at least belong to a group that understands their needs.
From a broader perspective, this means that our significant investment in pensions is not affecting the retention decisions for large groups of teachers.
13, was impressed by how Sommers used student — student and student — teacher feedback sessions to bring the experience of an intimate workshop to a larger group.
«In addition,» Smith said, «we are considering adding an online help - desk form that date / time stamps requests; providing hand - held devices for teachers who have large groups of students (physical education, music, and so on) to use to take attendance; and offering an Intel Teach to the Future program for teachers who wish to be trainers.
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This focus shocked many Americans, as was clear from the bad press the National Education Association, the nation's largest teacher union, received when some of the curricula posted on its website suggested that teachers avoid attributing blame for the attacks — despite the fact that the attacks were a clear product of a well - organized terrorist group.
As more classroom management functionality becomes automated, this frees up time for teachers to spend more of their skills and mental energy on more important things for students and their learning; such as tailoring learning to student needs and focusing more on individual and small group instruction than on managing large classes.
• The 8,000 - member Teach Plus, the largest of the teacher voice groups, was started in 2007 and has since expanded to Los Angeles, Memphis, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Washington, D.C..
«Good teachers are able to meet the needs of individual students and meet the needs of the larger group,» Greene contended.
With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.
So it's disappointing that Weingarten did not use this opportunity to call for retirement security for all public school teachers, our largest group of college - educated, middle - class workers.
The largest source of funding is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which currently has $ 13.5 million invested in nine teacher - advocacy groups, including $ 975,000 over two years going to E4E.
The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.
Groups of students sit with their teachers around large farm tables set with tablecloths, centerpieces, and plates painted with delicate blue flowers.
When students arrive at class, the teacher can address the questions in a large group.
In the traditional classroom setting, where one teacher is lecturing to a large group of students, it's not surprising there are attention problems.
In reading, by contrast, assignment to a Level II or Level III teacher was associated with a large and statistically significant increase in reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificant.
The Broader, Bolder Approach to Education, a coalition of education professors and interest - group leaders, including the heads of the country's two largest teachers unions, have concluded that family income itself determines whether or not a child learns.
Teachers and principals should have a more significant voice in shaping large - scale instructional improvement plans, a national urban education group argues.
Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.
These include large urban school districts like Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Philadelphia, and New York, and nonprofit education - focused groups such as Achieve, Jobs for the Future, KIPP, the New Teacher Project, the New Schools Venture Fund, and Teach For America.
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