Sentences with phrase «nationally available teacher»

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The teacher scale also is available via FastBridge Learning and already in use with 250,000 students nationally.

As a result, SCALE partnered with the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the Council of Chief State School Officers in 2009 to transform PACT into a nationally available performance assessment, now known as edTPA.

Design your own assignments, or find and teach hundreds of nationally vetted, teacher - created lessons available in the LDC Curriculum Library.

According to the most recent data available — a 2009 MetLife survey with a nationally representative sample of more than 1,000 K - 12 teachers — 86 percent of teachers say that there is a strong relationship between having «high expectations for all students» and student learning.

In Transforming Teaching, the National Education Association called for a career continuum based on national professional teaching standards that guide preparation and teacher performance assessments completed before licensure.8 In Raising the Bar, the American Federation of Teachers called for a «bar exam» for teaching that offers a nationally available performance assessment for licensure, along with evidence of competence in the subject area and strong clinical training.9

Patrick Murphy, a political scientist at the University of San Francisco who recently completed a study on the cost of implementing the Common Core, funded by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, estimates that the cost of transitioning to the Common Core could be as low as $ 3 billion nationally if districts forgo traditional options and instead choose digital textbooks (that can more easily be updated), tailored teacher - training videos and free curricula available online.