Sentences with phrase «majority of her teaching career»

For a majority of her teaching career, she taught at a school in Chicago where students hailed from 32 different countries and natively spoke 40 different languages.

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Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, said: «Women make up the majority of the teaching profession, yet it is clear that too many are still facing unacceptable barriers and inequality in terms of their careers and professionalism.

The majority of the Ph.D. scientists teaching in high schools who answered a survey for Attracting reported being happy with their careers and concurred that a major reason is the pleasure of watching their students discover science.

Academic careers pose tripartite demands of research, teaching, and service; at many institutions — perhaps the majority — professors find that campus time is taken up mostly by the latter two, leaving research and writing for evenings and weekends — time that women need to keep up their homes and raise their families.

For the majority of scientists who won't get tenure - track positions — and may not want them — Research Universities states that the great need is to «better position new PhDs for the careers they will have by providing more information about career options and by providing opportunities to acquire, in addition to the knowledge of one's field, skills that are useful for academic positions (teaching, grant writing, publishing, presentations) and positions in government, business and non-profits (oral and written communication, project management, regulatory compliance, business ethics and innovation.)»

For instance, girls have made up the majority of Science in the Summer classes Smith has taught over the years and their participation can help foster an interest in science to better prepare them for science classes and perhaps a career in science, he said.

While the vast majority of the 965 candidates seeking certification through the so - called «alternative route» are nonteachers «looking for a career change,» an estimated 25 percent are people «currently teaching in a setting other than the public schools,» said Leo F. Klagholz, director of teacher preparation and certification for the state department of education.

Anne has spent the majority of her career in art museums and arts organizations that support teachers and students through arts exposure, arts education, and integration of the arts into classroom teaching.

As concerns grew in the 1980s and 1990s in New York state that the average academic ability of teachers was in decline — a nationwide phenomenon that policy experts attributed in part to expanding career opportunities for women, who make up the vast majority of the teaching profession — the state set about finding ways to reverse this trend.109

In school year 2011 - 12, the majority of early - career teachers (i.e., teachers who had taught for five or fewer years) in public schools reported that they were well prepared for a range of instructional duties in their first year of teaching.

The majority of STRIVE's teachers are early - career teachers with four to five years of teaching experience.

By 2012, however, the reverse was true, with the majority reporting they had little autonomy (U.S. Department of Education, 2015)-- and as research by the sociologist Richard Ingersoll has made crystal clear, teachers who experience lower levels of decision - making authority in their classes and schools are significantly less likely to stay in teaching as a career (Ingersoll, 2001).

Over time, Partners» leadership saw that the majority of AmeriCorps recruits went on to teaching or other careers in the education field, taking their experience with them.