Sentences with phrase «nontraditional teacher»

And there's a law on the books that is supposed to make it easier for newcomers who learned their craft in nontraditional teacher training programs elsewhere to get the Minnesota licenses they need to fill the jobs.

A program that was in danger of being eliminated less than two years ago has seen swift and sharp growth thanks to the efforts of a nontraditional teacher.

Virginia's alternative route into the profession, the Career Switcher Alternative Route to Licensure Program, is aimed at nontraditional teacher - candidates.

Was the White House more concerned that the law might stifle nontraditional teacher recruitment and licensure or that the arrangements gave states too much room to game the provisions for veteran teachers?

Professional mentors» time is invaluable to students as role models and nontraditional teachers for the students.

«It's not diversity for diversity's sake,» but rather an acknowledgment that Teach for America's own internal research suggests that people of color and other nontraditional teachers had «an additional impact with their students.

Yes, Rusnak can set pay as he sees fit to attract nontraditional teachers, but «that doesn't mean that the capability should be misused,» Masterson said.

Not exact matches

She said there are already alternative paths in New York to certify teachers with nontraditional backgrounds.

Baltimore school officials are standing by their decision to use popular magazines and other nontraditional texts as part of a strategy to engage middle school students, despite criticism from some teachers and community members that the new language arts curriculum lacks rigor and downplays formal grammar lessons.

The school also extends the day in another nontraditional way — students are given teachers» cell phone numbers and are allowed to call them on school nights until 9 p.m. and on weekends.

Nontraditional candidates - namely recent college graduates and career changers who haven't attended a standard teacher - preparation program - often encounter serious roadblocks, even with the state's full endorsement of alternative certification programs that allow -LSB-...]

candidate Cesar Cruz talks with Meredith Vieira about his nontraditional path to Harvard, his Homies Empowerment Program, and the teacher who influenced him most.

Her research explores ways in which teachers can more effectively teach the full spectrum of students in today's classrooms and centers on the teaching knowledge and abilities of educators in nontraditional contexts spanning indigenous settings in the USAPI, Hawaii, the lower 48 states, and Alaska.

In the end, hiring a nontraditional principal may be considered more of a risk than hiring teachers or superintendents with nontraditional backgrounds — two related trends that have swept the nation over the past decade.

According to Grossman and Loeb, the number of teachers coming through nontraditional routes increased 10-fold from 1995 to 2005, to nearly 60,000.

Palestinian educator Hanan Al Hroub — winner of the 2016 Global Teacher Prize from the Varkey Foundation — found her professional calling in a nontraditional way.

None of it resembles the type of early - childhood learning environment the experts might recommend, and it could be enough to frustrate any teacher — even more so a rookie right out of college whose route to the classroom was the nontraditional Teach For America...

Educators across the globe can now choose between traditional professional learning and nontraditional styles of learning such as teacher - led conferences.

All of the state's teacher - preparation programs, whether traditional, university - based ones, or nontraditional programs like Teach For America, must train their candidates in how to use the data system.

WKCD's Students as Allies program, sponsored by MetLife Foundation, has had the chance to work with an extraordinary teacher and group of students at Oakland Tech High School who are part of this campaign to raise nontraditional student leaders, in a community where poverty and violence have a hard grip.

Robin, on the other hand, was a nontraditional master's level graduate student in her late 20s who had teaching experience at the college level but little experience with teacher preparation at the K - 12 level.

The first - year teachers ranged from age 22 to 49 at the beginning of the study, comprising an even amount of traditional and nontraditional aged students.

The webinar, which will be from1 - 2:30 p.m. ET, is designed for superintendents, central office instructional staff, principals, teachers and other practitioners at the district and school levels interested in nontraditional instruction.

All indications are that Congress is going to extend the alt cert program, but if it doesn't it would affect tons of alt cert teachers in LAUSD, which has a big TFA program and a bunch of other nontraditional programs and routes (see here).

The policy brief urges policymakers to support programs for the parents of English language learners, implement nontraditional programs that offer reciprocal involvement by schools and parents, sponsor targeted teacher professional development, and provide community - based education to inform parents about school values and expectations and help parents become advocates for their children.

As a National Board Certified English teacher, she increased the enrollment of minority and nontraditional students in her AP Language and Composition classes and tripled her overall course enrollment within one year without a decrease in her students» test scores.

Creating opportunities for meaningful involvement for students, teachers, and parents is growing in many communities, while the federal government is increasingly asking how and where nontraditional voices can be engaged in decision - making.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

But with the Obama administration's Race to the Top program providing billions of dollars to states and school districts that agree to evaluate all teachers according to student achievement data, attempts to «count» learning in nontraditional subjects are proliferating.

Another nontraditional way to enter the teaching profession is by teaching in a charter school, which does not require full licensure in many states but may require candidates to go through other hiring and selection processes.71 Teachers of color are better represented in charter schools: 30 percent of all charter school teachers are teachers of color, compared with 18 percent of traditional public school teaTeachers of color are better represented in charter schools: 30 percent of all charter school teachers are teachers of color, compared with 18 percent of traditional public school teateachers are teachers of color, compared with 18 percent of traditional public school teateachers of color, compared with 18 percent of traditional public school teachersteachers.72

Black and Hispanic teachers tend to enter the pipeline through nontraditional and alternative teaching routes at higher rates than they enter traditional programs.

Another important finding from the data analysis is that teachers need opportunities to explore how to integrate nontraditional forms of technology effectively into both routine and nonroutine algebraic classroom instruction.

A great push is underway in higher education to offer more online learning for traditional students, nontraditional teaching candidates, and practicing teachers seeking advanced credentials.

These studies suggest that the teaching performance, teacher satisfaction levels, and students» learning in the classroom are inferior for the nontraditional students (Ashton & Crocker, 1987).

Still, because the legislation would force the closure of failing charters and make it easier to hire teachers with nontraditional credentials, it's guaranteed to be controversial.

The program's goal was to respond to shortages in high - need areas by providing new ways to certify and recruit teachers from nontraditional pools such as paraprofessionals, uncertified teachers and returned Peace Corps volunteers.

The Pathways programs worked with 40 colleges and universities in 23 states to build effective strategies for recruiting, preparing and certifying teachers from nontraditional candidate pools.

The authors recommend a strength - based approach to building family involvement programs in ELL communities and encourage policymakers to support culturally relevant and nontraditional programs as well as community - based parent programs and appropriate teacher preparation.

This initial report on Wallace's Pathways to Teaching Careers initiative examines scholarships and other supports offered by 42 colleges and universities to help educate nontraditional candidates such as classroom aides, returning Peace Corps volunteers and uncertified teachers for careers in teaching.