Sentences with phrase «make teacher benefits»

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As long as you understand the basic distinction I have briefly laid out above, and recognize that most teachers and writers are going to be a little confused on this topic, you can benefit from what they teach and write by making the little mental adjustment in your mind to whatever they are saying.

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The design of this study made it possible to examine 1) the extent to which benefits of breastfeeding on cognitive ability and achievement were evident throughout middle childhood, adolescence, and into young adulthood; and 2) the extent to which breastfeeding was related to a range of indices of academic achievement that included performance on standardized tests, teacher ratings of academic achievement, and levels of success in examinations on leaving school.

«Ironically,» he said, «the provision preemptively limiting worker rights and benefiting the unions could not have made it into the budget without agreement of Senate Republicans — whose slender working majority has been targeted by campaigns funded largely by NYSUT and UFT,» the state and local teachers unions.

The governor also called on teachers to accept temporary wage freezes and to increase their share of health benefit costs while blasting school administrators for making more than he does.

Teachers and directors at pre-K centers in community - based organizations (CBOs)-- which make up about half of all the city's pre-K offerings — make significantly less and have fewer benefits than their counterparts at Department of Education pre-K centers.

The agency is responsible for giving away $ 76 million in cash and making sure Columbia delivers $ 30 million for construction of a new K - 8 school in conjunction with Teachers College, $ 20 million for an affordable housing fund and $ 20 million in in - kind benefits.

By making teacher seniority an issue the mayor would be able to control which teachers get to teach and rid himself of senior teachers who are due raltively high salaries and expensive benefits.

Sparked by Richard Louv's book on Nature - Deficit Disorder, many organizations, agencies, teachers and the White House have made the push to get people outside for the benefit of their mental and physical health.

She believes that her deafness made mathematics an appealing subject: understanding it relied much less on hearing than other subjects did, and she benefited from good teachers who encouraged her natural mathematical curiosity.

Now living and teaching in Playa Guiones, Nosara, Tatiana has made it her mission to share this incredible practice and all its physical and mental benefits through weekly classes, retreats, and teacher trainings.

Since then I have been taking classes in another city near Seattle and have found a teacher who consistently asks each of her students to work the poses to find the alignment or stretch that we benefit from and not make it look pretty.

However, the NAO report also found that a greater number of qualified teachers are returning to state - funded schools, and the Department and schools have scope to attract back, even more, teachers who have left and benefit from the investment made in their training.

States will also benefit from supporting Peer Assistance and Review models that identify teachers who are struggling, provide them with intensive, expert assistance from mentor teachers in their content areas, and make a timely judgment about continued employment that is grounded in useful evidence, intensive support, and due process.

Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.

For Edutopia reader and educator Penni Davis, the book confirms that teachers «often have classroom expectations that benefit extroverts more than introverts,» and makes you «rethink how you put your classroom together.»

A new law in Rhode Island makes the state the first in the nation to allow teachers who leave the state to retain their retirement benefits.

The Meriden Public Schools — with 8,000 students and 700 teachers — have benefited greatly from our collaboration and utilization of memorandums of understanding (MOUs), agreements between two parties that can be used to make adjustments to union contracts.

This mirrors the subjects which teachers feel would most benefit from VR, with Sciences (27 per cent) and Geography (23 per cent) making up the top two.

There are even benefits for the teacher, as online submission points for homework and assignments, including reminders and other useful tools and can be used to also make a teacher's life easier and give them more time to find ways to make their students» time at school the more fulfilling.

After it became clear that some of these outfits were making scandalous profits by offering minimal services, California legislators passed SB 740, which imposed strict financial guidelines on cybercharters, including a requirement that they spend at least 50 percent of public revenues on salaries and benefits to state - certified teachers.

For teachers in the current system, a newly hired 25 - year old would need to work until age 51 simply to make a positive return on her contributions; in other words, a new teacher's benefits are negative for the first 25 plus years of service.

To make pensions more equitable and effective tools for staffing schools, we propose that retirement benefits paid to any teacher should be tied to the lifetime contributions made by or for that teacher.

With the School Travel Forum 2015 Survey of over 2,000 secondary school teachers showing that 22 per cent of school trip organisers are still opting to make their own travel arrangements and bypass the quality, safety and financial security benefits of travelling with an assured provider, going forward it is our role to win over those teachers who are still unaware of the technical and professional support that is at their disposal.

«In its direct engagement with the Home Office and the MAC, the Union has made clear that the impact of a salary threshold on migrant teachers would create serious problems for schools, unfairness for migrant teachers and deny children and young people the opportunity to benefit from the expertise of these highly skilled professionals.

A 5th - grade teacher who wants to ask students to work more independently would benefit from this knowledge: she could make a more informed bet that asking her 10 - year - old students to commit things to memory will mostly work out.

Sadly, very little of that benefit cash finds its way into the pockets of the many young teachers — probably anywhere between a third and half of all teachers — who don't make a career out of teaching within the Milwaukee school system.

The researchers theorize that the group benefit feature of the merit pay program made it unlikely that it would have an impact on teacher behavior in any but the smallest schools.

But when a human teacher is able to show the benefits to learning content — and indirectly proving not only that it can be done, but that it is something to aspire to — learners are more likely to be inspired to work harder and make progress.

With every paycheck the novice teacher earns, both she and the district make a contribution to a pension system for a benefit far off in the future that she may not collect.

According to the Some Benefits and Drawbacks of Blended Learning written by William Huntsberry for KQED News, college teachers claim that blended learning motivates them to create lessons on the fly, make plans for students individually, and help them learn.

When teachers can not easily use data from learning software to make better instructional decisions, the software fails in one of its most critical benefits in education: that of amplifying the abilities of teachers.

In other words, benefits paid to any teacher should be tied to the lifetime contributions made by or for that teacher.

Workers value compensation that shows up in their paychecks more than they do hidden benefits, and districts should make conscious efforts to slow this change and put more money directly into teachers» pockets.

He would share examples of people both he and the staff member knew — stories of times in the past when another person accepted change and made the most of it to the benefit of students, the school culture, and the teacher's reputation in the community.

The shortcomings of this study, the paucity of independent research on the National Board, and the large investments being made by states in rewarding National Board - certified teachers highlight the need for a rigorous and arm's - length cost - benefit study of National Board certification.

This inspirational CPD session is designed for new and developing teachers that would benefit from focused discussion, time to reflect on their own practice, and a chance consider effective strategies that will enable them to ensure ALL students are learning and making the progress they are capable of in their lessons.

That works out to approximately $ 150,000 per job, an exceptionally bad deal for taxpayers considering that the average new teacher (who would have been first in line for a pink slip) makes considerably less than half that in salary and benefits.

This mirrors the subjects which teachers feel would most benefit from VR, with sciences and geography making up the most popular choices.

Deferred retirement benefits make up a large portion of teachers» total compensation, especially later in their careers; yet standard analyses typically consider only the link between teachers» current pay and experience.

The scheme is a great example of how teachers can not only personally benefit from developing management and leadership skills, but how this can also make a real difference in the classroom.

While the pupils above were making important changes to the benefit of their personal and social development, they and their class mates were also learning about rivers and the hydrological cycle, co-operative working, and many other things that supported the work of the class teacher.

There's a range of potential benefits described; everything from gaining awareness of literacy behaviours of students (Gambell & Hunter, 2004), to validation of their expertise (Gilmore, 2002) as well as making teachers «more reflective, critical and deliberate» (Goldberg & Roswell, 2000).

Hinds said:» It has been an absolute pleasure to meet the talented and hardworking teachers at St Andrew's and meet school children benefiting from a school which is inspiring them to make the most of their lives.

Those who make the cut will enter college - oriented programs with special benefits (custom - trained teachers, outside mentoring, international exchanges) and a subsidy from the district to cover any school fees.

I made this as I felt I did not have access to a resource of the same ilk and feel that it is something all IGCSE ESL students, teachers and tutors can benefit from.

The graphs below, a modified version of Figure 1 from the paper, shows the total contributions that will be made into the pension plan over a teacher's working career (the solid black line) versus the actual benefit teachers would receive at a given stage of their career (the black dotted line).

Truly, it is the potential learning benefits of the type of environment in which each student has his or her own machine and teachers have the vision, patience, and skill to implement learning activities that exploit those opportunities, that make one - to - one computing worth the trouble, the cost, and the frustration.

Some districts do negotiate over who pays the contribution — the district or individual teachers — but under statewide pension systems, decisions about benefit structures and contribution levels are all made by state legislators, state comptrollers or treasurers, or even unelected pension boards.

These same elected board members, moreover, will make decisions on a gamut of policy issues, from budgets to curriculum to student discipline, that teachers have a stake in and can benefit from enormously.