Sentences with phrase «of elective teachers»

91 % of elective teachers agree or strongly agree that their Facing History course promoted their students» abilities to ground reading, writing, and speaking in evidence from text.

«We're asking actually more out of our elective teachers because they teach a certain number of periods a day,» former Principal Young says.

Not exact matches

Core academic requirements, parent or student preferences for electives and the financial burden of hiring more teachers can limit opportunities to expand health education courses.

My high school offered an elective class that featured one of the English teachers showing great movies and talking about them from an academic point - of - view.

Several years ago ~ when I worked in a position that involved sending my self - contained gifted students to specials classes (art ~ music ~ physical education and other electives) ~ the teachers began complaining about the behavior of some of my students.

One of my teaching assistants [is] also a Latinist, so he teaches alongside me... but he's also the most beautiful jewellery maker, so he works with another teacher to take an elective in jewellery making.»

Budgetary shortfalls, school district bankruptcies, teacher and administrator layoffs, hiring and salary freezes, pension system defaults, shorter school years, ever - larger classes, faculty furloughs, fewer course electives, reduced field trips, foregone or curtailed athletics, outdated textbooks, teachers having to make do with fewer supplies, cuts in school maintenance, and other tales of fiscal woe inevitably captivate the news media, particularly during the late - spring and summer budget and appropriations seasons.

Now, the classroom teachers send the office a list of who is going to what elective by lunchtime so that the enrichment teachers will have a roll they can check against that afternoon.

As a high - school principal for the past nine years, I have observed Advanced Placement (AP) teachers working harder than teachers of most elective courses, but there is no bonus for them if student scores go up and there is no loss of pay if student scores go down.

Here again, the pattern varied a bit among the districts, but in all three, the average salary of teachers who teach electives was meaningfully higher than that of core course teachers.

They are increasingly being replaced by K - 8 schools, «which offer a gentler pre-teen transition into the world of class changes, multiple teachers, electives and academic responsibility,» explains Lois Solomon of the Sun - Sentinel.

«If Dan Patrick and his followers wanted to give all students and their parents a meaningful educational choice, they would more adequately fund public education, so that children of all economic backgrounds would have a full menu of academic offerings and electives in their neighborhood public schools,» said Texas State Teachers Association President Noel Candelaria.

And, because of the small size of the district and limited teacher and course resources, advanced students interested in accelerated curriculum or more electives were often missing out on opportunities to get ahead.

In high school, the student has a daily elective and world language, health and physical education two or three times a week, and an advisory group with one of his or her major - subject teachers.

Sometimes other teachers view a noncore class like Teacher Academy as a lightweight, bulletin board - making elective and my students as classroom helpers rather than aspiring educators eager to learn the nuts and bolts of their chosen profession.

Consequently, schools, especially in Connecticut's neediest districts, can not afford basic educational tools such as a sufficient number of teachers, reasonable class size, adequate school facilities, services for at - risk children, electives, AP classes, even books, computers and paper.

Preparing to become a teacher should not be reduced to a checklist of standardized tests and a mandated program of study with little room for electives.

That would likely mean some combination of downward pressure on teacher salaries, larger classes, and limited advanced and elective course offerings.

In Minneapolis, a concerted effort to recruit Black males as teachers of an elective for Black male middle and high school students has led to a shift in belief systems and improved GPAs and progress to graduation.

In addition to supporting cooperating teachers, Teaching Fellows have the opportunity to lead small groups of students as part of applied instruction, and to design and implement elective classes and arts integration projects.

District officials do not expect teacher layoffs in the «immediate future» though, said Randy Pridgeon, LCS divisional director of secondary schools, since many students may opt to take both electives.

In these local teacher academy programs, students take elective courses or career - technical education programs of study in which they explore teaching.

Providing a rigorous pre-college curriculum has long been a struggle in many of the more than 7,100 U.S. rural school districts, where a lack of teachers, dwindling enrollment numbers and tight budgets make it difficult to offer electives, foreign languages and even basic classes that are a given in many suburban and urban schools.

I was coaching the teacher of an elective math classroom for students who were above average in curiosity and inquiry but low achievers in their regular math class.

«We're creating a high school region, getting additional supports to support our principals, our teachers and our students in those schools, paying very close attention to programing, to course offerings and to electives and making sure that our young people have met all the requirements necessary to get into top institutions and also to prepare for the world of work,» Driver says.

Beginning this fall, in Collier County Florida as per the state of Florida's new teacher accountability policy, district teachers / administrators are to create new tests for each and every class it offers (including all electives) to hold all teachers accountable for the value they purportedly add to student learning and achievement over time.

The combination of certified Pennsylvania - based teachers, an award - winning curriculum, engaging electives, technology tools, and social experiences provides a supportive online learning opportunity for students who want an individualized approach to education.

1961 The Kamehameha Schools hire former University of Hawai`i music teacher Ms. Dorothy Kahananui to teach Hawaiian as an elective foreign language at the Kamehameha Schools.

His first mandate was to cut 22 of the nearly 100 teachers and cut the eight - class schedule back to six, which didn't allow for as many electives.

R Character Council is a 48 - minute elective class that is taught by our team of three regular classroom teachers: Ann Asher (eighth grade English), Brandi Owens (art), and Ryan Wideman (seventh grade science).

For example, students are provided with a double dose of reading through an elective course and an English teacher has been «repurposed» as a reading teacher, resulting in larger class sizes for other English teachers.

Our charter school mission is «to work together with families in a partnership of teachers, staff and community members to provide an individualized learning environment that fosters high achievement in core and elective areas, preparing students for life - long success.»

When my two boys attended our neighborhood public school, I witnessed the dire results of budget cuts — programs like art, music, and electives were cut, class sizes increased, and teachers began leaving the profession.