Sentences with phrase «most teachers in this country»

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These are the teachers, in every teacher - evaluation system that currently exists in this country, who are most valued and most rewarded.

Like the people that teach our children, those who are in charge of feeding them should be among the most revered and best compensated professionals in the country, yet most school food service workers, even those who manage their departments, are poorly paid, just as most teachers are.

That Cuomo marched alongside the leaders of the city and country's most prominent teachers unions in the same park where the Occupy Wall Street movement erupted was a clear demonstration of the governor's eagerness to burnish his progressive credentials.

«This Government is clearly determined to make teachers «work until they drop», in a profession already recognised as one of the most stressful in the country.»

State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia's ruling that Superintendent Kriner Cash can circumvent the union contract to make changes at receivership schools will likely end in a court battle with one of the most powerful teachers unions in the country.

As one of the most widely - recognized and respected yoga schools in the country, Yoga Yoga's 200 - hour teacher training programs provide an exceptional base of training, equipping teachers with the skills to teach in their chosen style.

Throughout this time she continued to deepen her pursuit of yoga and studied with some of the most prominent teachers in the country.

This was the third in a series of annual Iyengar Yoga regional conferences intended to showcase up and coming regional Iyengar teachers, give folks in different parts of the country the opportunity to study with the nation's most senior Iyengar Yoga teachers, and reach out to the broader community.

A young man named Andrew Neyman (Miles Teller) is practicing late at night at his New York music school, one of the best in the country, when his drumming catches the ear of the infamous Mr. Fletcher (J.K. Simmons), the most important teacher at the school and the conductor for its most important jazz band.

As the most socially relevant genre film of the year, The Dirties should be (but won't) essential viewing for every teacher, school administrator and high school student in the country.

Pressure Cooker (Unrated) Uplifting documentary chronicles the efforts of Wilma Stephenson, a demanding Culinary Arts teacher at an inner city, Philadelphia public high school, as she inspires underprivileged students to apply themselves in her class in order to earn college scholarships to some of the most prestigious cooking institutes around the country.

A different description of the story from SlashFilm earlier this year explains that J.K. Simmons plays a «brutal jazz orchestra teacher», training Miles Teller who is trying desperately not to lose his mind as he tries to become the top percussionist in one of the most illustrious jazz orchestras in the country.

Whether or not that is the case, most teacher education programs in this country receive accreditation from NCATE and follow its lead.

As the country with the second highest number, The Netherlands sits far more comfortably with 18.0, while pupils in Lithuania should theoretically have the most attention, with just 8.1 per teacher.

, which demonstrated how to make the most of the percussion instruments in teachers» classroom trollies, including some basic world music rhythms which are sure soon to be appearing in lessons up and down the country.

As a nation we do a poorer job than some other countries in ensuring that we prepare an appropriate number of teachers in the areas in which they are most needed.

AS: Yeah, I think what this data show is that actually those countries doing well in technology skills, where you have the most technology - savvy students in a way, they've typically placed the emphasis first on teachers — trying to connect teachers, trying to build networks of teaching, platforms for knowledge creation.

The BEST program is among the most rigorous in the country, according to Michael Pons, a spokesman for the National Education Association, the nation's largest teachers union.

A Glance at Teacher Education in Finland Yesterday and Today, examines historical and modern teacher training in Finland, a country that many acknowledge as having the most successful K - 12 schools in theTeacher Education in Finland Yesterday and Today, examines historical and modern teacher training in Finland, a country that many acknowledge as having the most successful K - 12 schools in theteacher training in Finland, a country that many acknowledge as having the most successful K - 12 schools in the world.

When Cecilia Mendoza recently hired eight teachers for her school in Oakland, Calif., the principal had to consider something that most school leaders in the country rarely take into account: the cost of their salaries.

The already severe shortage of science and mathematics teachers in most parts of the country is expected to grow steadily worse in the next 15 years, experts predict.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

The report also found that teachers are working longer hours with bigger classes than in most other developed countries.

Three years later and thousands of miles away from daily politics (King left office in January after serving the maximum two terms), he is even more enthusiastic about the Maine Learning Technology Initiative that took effect last fall and that he predicted would «put Maine on the technological map,» produce «the country's most digitally literate teachers and students,» and «be the most significant project in the history of the state.»

One of the most discussed topics amongst policy - makers in government and in school staffrooms across the country is the future of our nation's teachers.

The plan, which one state education department official called «the most comprehensive teacher - accountability plan in the country,» is the result of an 18 - month study conducted by the state education department with $ 35,000 appropriated by the state legislature in 1980.

«There isn't a school of education in the country that would stoop to teach its aspiring teachers how to train their students to pass out papers,» he writes, «even though it is one of the most valuable things they could possibly do.»

Perhaps most encouraging, online learning in teacher preparation will make becoming a teacher possible for a broader population of candidates, which lends hope that the country's education system can attract more talent and make the profession more competitive.

Teachers are increasingly recognized as the most important in - school factor in student achievement, yet the quality of the country's K — 12 teaching force is not up to snuff.

In most high - performing countries, teachers have no such expectations.

Teachers share what most Americans would likely regard as a vision of responsible citizenship — with 83 % of the teachers surveyed seeing the U.S. as a unique country that stands for something special in thTeachers share what most Americans would likely regard as a vision of responsible citizenship — with 83 % of the teachers surveyed seeing the U.S. as a unique country that stands for something special in thteachers surveyed seeing the U.S. as a unique country that stands for something special in the world.

12, started Anseye Pou Ayiti because she says her native country lacks a datadriven, culturally relevant system for recruiting and training highcaliber teachers where they are most needed — in rural and underserved areas where about 70 percent of Haitians live but fewer than 30 percent of children from low - income households will complete even...

In Finland, the smallest of the countries, and with perhaps the most visitors trying to find out why it does so well, the answer seems to be highly selective teachers colleges that turn out an elite and admired teaching corps.

Our standards for the first edition of the Teacher Prep Review are based on research; internal and external expert panels; the best practices of other nations and the states with the highest performing students; and, most importantly, what superintendents and principals around the country tell us they look for in the new teachers they hire.

The government will also be piloting a new student loan reimbursement programme for science and Modern Foreign Language (MFL) teachers in the early years of their career, targeted in the areas of the country that need them most.

It has been suggested to include: evidence - based initiatives and investment to tackle subject specialist shortages at both primary and secondary level; plans to focus recruitment to regions of the country in most need, particularly since the failure of the National Teaching Service; the range and performance of ITT providers in terms of recruitment and retention of teachers; and a thorough plan for the evaluation of any initiatives and how any findings will feed into future plans for teacher recruitment.

Several of the most significant features of recent education policy debate in the United States are simply not found in any of these countries — for example, charter schools, pathways into teaching that allow candidates with only several weeks of training to assume full responsibility for a classroom, teacher evaluation systems based on student test scores, and school accountability systems based on the premise that schools with low average test scores are failures, irrespective of the compositions of their student populations.

Besides being the largest and one of the most diverse school districts in the country, New York City is a major employer of uncertified and AC teachers.

In order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them mosIn order to achieve this, the Commission suggests the government should mandate all schools in the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them mosin the ten lowest performing local authorities to take part in area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them mosin area - wide programmes, as well as reform the training and distribution of teachers across the country and create new incentives — including better starting pay — to get more of the highest - quality teachers into the schools that need them most.

In countries such as Finland, Singapore and South Korea, teachers are recruited from the most qualified graduates, are highly trained, respected and paid well.

In most, but not all countries we surveyed, preschool and primary teachers already have access to training on transitions, and qualification levels required for preschool and primary teachers are increasingly brought into line.

... also because its students and teachers allow us to see the typical challenges that most places across the country will face as their districts try to put the ELA standards in place.

For more than twenty years, my educational foundation has joined forces with teachers, parents, students, administrators, and business and community leaders to illuminate the most innovative learning strategies to be found in K - 12 classrooms across the country.

It is no accident that the seven states that prohibit collective bargaining for teachers are mostly in the Deep South, the region of the country historically most hostile to extending democratic citizenship to all Americans.

So, there was an assumption being made that because the attrition of early career teachers was high in most other countries that were a part of this study, therefore it must also be the case in Australia.

The results echo findings from a 2012 OECD analysis, which showed that countries that invested in their schools in more targeted ways — such as through teacher salaries or early childhood programs, or by supporting struggling students — were the ones with the highest gains on PISA, not countries that spent the most overall.

Similar consultants have already evaluated teachers in a handful of other places across the country, including Toledo, Ohio; Montgomery County, Maryland; and perhaps most notably, Washington, D.C. And experience elsewhere suggests that having outside educators observe teachers can be successful in the short term.

There are public schools and charter schools serving some of the most disadvantaged students in the country, and yet they are recruiting great teachers, making the curriculum more rigorous, using data to see what works, and graduating students ready for college.

Most of the elementary and secondary school teachers in this country are women, about 75 percent overall, and90 percent of those who teach in elementary schools.