Sentences with phrase «much as math teachers»

Even though, on average, English teachers don't increase English language arts test scores as much as math teachers increase math scores, English teachers have as strong an effect on students» later lives.

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The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Researchers have found that replacements for low - rated teachers have produced four or five months» worth of additional student learning in math and nearly as much in reading over three school years.

We found that time pressures and a focus on reading and maths means parents and teachers aren't spending as much time as they would like to working on handwriting with young learners.

Two years later, however, he left for the suburbs, partly because he was fed up with a system that considered every math teacher with a license the same as every other teacher, no matter how much talent they brought to the classroom, and that never fully compensated him for his many years of high - level teaching experience.

If that doesn't change, we'll keep bemoaning our shortage of science, math, and special education teachers (such as here, here, and here) without much real change.

The logic of the argument that it is the Asian culture or something «beyond their textbooks» that produces math success leads to the conclusion that, as NCTM adherents often contend, content doesn't matter nearly as much as the teacher or the culture that produces the «proper conditions for learning.»

This means that math and language teachers can benefit from the site's offerings just as much as football and basketball coaches.

Here's just one example: After almost a year in Head Start (with an average cost of about $ 7,700 in 2005), children were able to name only about two more letters than their non — Head Start counterparts, and they did not show any significant gains on much more important measures, such as early math learning, vocabulary, oral comprehension (more indicative of later reading comprehension), motivation to learn, or social competencies, including the ability to interact with peers and teachers.

A math teacher might say, «Getting an «A» on an algebra final raises self - esteem just as much as doing a self - portrait in art class.»

Marcia Corby, an eighth - grade math teacher in Phoenix, keeps her students» minds sharp by making sure they are on their feet as much as possible during her forty - five - minute class periods.

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We know that mentors provide new teachers with much - needed support and guidance in their crucial first years, but there's a strong pass - through effect as well: Students of mentored teachers gained the equivalent of 3 to 3.5 months of additional learning in reading and math over the course of a year, a new study found.

The teacher, a happy, hardworking guy who relished teaching seventh - grade math as much as his students enjoyed learning it from him, let slip an uncharacteristically harsh comment as he flashed through email while students filed into his room.

For example, parents (and the public as a whole) think much more attention should be given to reading and math, while teachers would especially increase emphasis on the arts and history.

Generally, teachers now expect children to come in knowing much more, spend more of the day in literacy and math instruction, and devote less time to nonacademic subjects such as music and art.

Nonetheless, the research on the long - term effects of teachers finds that English teachers have at least as much of an effect as math teachers.

So much is this set of attitudes - the priority of «liberation» or «emancipation» as the central metaphor for the teacher's work - taken for granted among American educators that the higher performance of pupils in other countries on international tests in math and science is often dismissed as reflecting other countries» inappropriate stress on drill and memorization.

As illustrated in Figure 9, the public thinks much more emphasis should be placed on reading and math than do teachers and (to a lesser extent) parents.

Judging pediatricians on the changes in the height and weight of their young patients as measured at their annual physicals from one year to the next makes just as much sense as using student «growth» on annual standardized reading and math tests to evaluate teachers.

But at that level, not much collaboration occurs, as the science teacher focuses on science concepts and the math teacher focuses on the math concepts.

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Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

Physical education teachers across the country are not taking kindly to New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein's televised comment that they shouldn't earn as much as math and science teachers.

And yet, as much as supporters emphasize the democratic origin of the standards and count out the dozens of experts and teachers who were consulted, the Common Core math standards were ultimately crafted by three guys whose only goal was to improve the way mathematics is taught.

I welcome the move as I know I would make an awesome Maths teacher but even now, I teach - no sorry I cant say that - I «instruct» pupils Maths but am not allowed to be called a Teacher or get paid as much as a Tteacher but even now, I teach - no sorry I cant say that - I «instruct» pupils Maths but am not allowed to be called a Teacher or get paid as much as a TTeacher or get paid as much as a TeacherTeacher.

Romney drafted other reforms, including the recruitment of 1,000 skilled math and science instructors, bonuses of as much as $ 15,000 a year for top - performing teachers, and new intervention programs for failing schools.

Ben Backes and his colleagues at CALDER found that, compared to other high school teachers in the state, graduates from the original UTeach program at the University of Texas at Austin produce as much as four months of additional learning in math and nearly six months of additional learning in science.

Karen Hutchison, Director of Elementary Curriculum and Professional Development, says that teachers in her professional development sessions are benefiting from ST Math just as much as their students, learning new math concepts they can then reinforce in the classroom.

As a teacher who used to teach in units or blocks, I find it much easier to spark curiosity in my students when I spiral math curriculum using 3 act math tasks to teach concepts because solution strategies are much less predictable, students are not expected to use a specific formula or algorithm explicitly taught moments before during a teacher directed lesson and each of these contextual tasks creates an intellectual need for the learning.

The Christina School District in Delaware, comprised of both urban and suburban schools with a diverse group of learners, was interested in how technology could be used to improve their math instruction while still giving individual schools and teachers as much autonomy as possible.

Much of Pettibon's visual output looks like the work of someone who never went near an art college, nor sketched a nude in a studio, which is a correct assumption to make — self - trained, he graduated from UCLA in 1977 with a degree in economics, beginning his working life as a maths teacher, before launching his career as an artist — but then you're taken aback because the drawing, while not on a par with Leonardo da Vinci's dexterity, exactly, is often fluid and well - observed.

Guest essay by Caleb Shaw I once had a very good science teacher who I fear I made wild, not so much by causing small explosions in the back of his classroom, (which I think he secretly approved of,) as with my failures in math.