Sentences with phrase «of teacher applicants»

Develop and implement a system for posting teaching vacancies and establish a database of teacher applicants that is accessible within and outside the state.

The work resulted in significant improvements in the percent of teacher applicants and hires who identified as non-white.

In Denver, when the school district did a deep - dive analysis to improve the quality of teacher applicants (it had already determined quantity was not a problem), it collected information from charter and district schools.

While the courts have permitted certifying agencies to require «good moral character» of teacher applicants, as legal scholars Martha McCarthy and Nelda Cambron - McCabe note, they «will intervene... if statutory or constitutional rights are abridged.»

Not exact matches

The education ministry needed to recruit thousands of teachers on two - year contracts, earning as much as US$ 70,000 - a-year tax free; the successful applicants didn't need to speak Arabic, but they had to be comfortable in an unfamiliar culture.

The applicant must request a letter of recommendation from a teacher or coach.

In fact, the rulemaking would require applicants to sign an «affirmation» acknowledging that «the certification the candidate will receive... is not transferrable to any education corporation / charter school not authorized by [SUNY] or to any district school, and may not be recognized as a teacher certification under regulations of the state commissioner of education.»

Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, has said the certificates tendered by the applicants for the recruitment of 25,000 qualified teachers to replace the 21,780...

Nearly 8,000 applicants are expected to apply for jobs as pre-kindergarten teachers, quadruple the number needed for the first two years of Bill de Blasio's plan to expand pre-K, the mayor said on Tuesday afternoon.

The Kaduna State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has shortlisted 27,639 applicants for oral interview in its ongoing recruitment of 25,000 teachers for the...

The predictor that emerged as most powerful in both the UNC study and the UC San Francisco analysis was letters of recommendation from applicants» undergraduate teachers — in other words, subjective assessments from people who presumably knew both them and their subjects well.

In an effort to increase its enrolments, the University of Saskatchewan?s College of Education actively encourages people with math and science degrees to enter teacher training by lowering the admission standards for this group of applicants (which are ordinarily very stringent — see below) and by giving applicants who choose math, physics, or chemistry as their main subject first preference for program openings.

In some cases, a university admissions office may even look at all the applicants with graduate degrees separately from the undergrad applicants — especially if their specific science field is one that is currently in need of teachers.

Applicants must have earned a minimum of 200 - hour teacher training, such as a Yoga Alliance 200 - hour registered school program or its equivalent, as well as one year of documented personal practice and one year of documented teaching experience after the completion date of the 200 - hour teacher training.

However, in case of emergencies and other unavoidable exigencies the management at its discretion permits students to go for any other scheduled course until Jan. 2017 We therefore recommend that all applicants carefully examine their upcoming obligations so that they may be able to devote their full attention to the teacher training program.

(Completion of an anatomy course or module is not required to qualify for Teacher Registration with The Yin Yoga Institute) 2) A minimum of 20 hours experience teaching Yin yoga or Paulie Zink's Art of Yin yoga 3) Applicants must read Paulie Zink's Yin Yoga Teaching Philosophy and Yoga Teaching Ethics and the Yin Yoga page 4) Compliance with The Yoga Teaching Ethics outlined by The Yin Yoga Institute 5) Completion of the Teacher Registration application form, submission of required documentation, and payment of registration fee Registration with The Yin Yoga Institute is permanent

The assumption undergirding the contemporary approach to teacher certification is that public school hiring personnel are either unable or unwilling to gauge the quality of applicants.

Focusing on the start of the teacher pipeline, i.e., on those who report applying for a teaching job or teachers who begin classroom positions in the year immediately after receiving an undergraduate degree, we find that teacher applicants and new teachers in recent years have significantly higher SAT scores than their counterparts in the mid-1990s.

The commissioner of education in Florida, where 70 percent of the 15,000 applicants for new teaching certificates each year come from out of state, has asked school chiefs across the country to help improve interstate information - sharing on teachers whose licenses have been revoked.

The job advert outlines that applicants must be a classroom based teacher who has a current teaching contract, have at least five years teaching experience, and have an up to date knowledge of developments in the education sector.

Nansi Ellis, Association of Teachers and Lecturers assistant general secretary, said: «While these figures highlight a small rise in the proportion of applicants accepted on teacher training courses, they don't show the rise in numbers needed to combat previously unmet teacher training targets.

Using methodology developed with Ed School Lecturer Terrence Tivnan, he compared the «academic rating» that admissions officers assign to applicants (a combination of grades, test scores, teacher recommendations, etc.) with their actual academic performance once they enrolled at Middlebury.

Presumably, the danger is that, in a moment of weakness, a school official otherwise will mistakenly hire such an applicant rather than an appropriately trained teacher.

In Massachusetts, teacher applicants are asked to write in cursive using upper - and lowercase writing; write from dictation; rewrite a 500 - word essay using only 250 words; compose an original 300 - to 500 - word essay; read six or seven texts of approximately 400 words and answer multiple choice questions on the contents; and provide grammar and word definitions.

Schools Minister Nick Gibb said a total of 551 applications had been received for the scheme since it started in 2014, with 41 applicants starting the programme in in its first year, of which 28 have received qualified teacher status.

Similarly, in Singapore, applicants to teacher - training programs are carefully selected, with a large proportion coming from the top 30 percent of the college population.

Dr. Moss Lee served on the board of the Grace Lutheran School, was co-founder and lead applicant for Sisulu - Walker Children's Academy — Harlem Charter School (the first authorized charter school in the state of New York), and has previously served on the boards of the Dodge YMCA, Teachers College Center for Educational Outreach and Innovation Advisory Board, and the National Advisory Board of The Next Generation Venture Fund, a partnership between Johns Hopkins and Duke Universities.

Then the district interviewed applicants and shared a list of eligible teachers with principals.

While the code of conduct is not as strict today, only one in ten of all applicants are selected for teacher training.

The TES Teacher Recruitment Index tracks how happy schools are with the quality of applicants they receive, from all sources.

The U. S. Department of Education asked states to include proposals for implementing teacher merit pay — pay based on classroom performance — in their 2010 applications for Race to the Top (RttT) monies, and many applicants promised action on this front.

Because only 10 % of applicants pass the rigorous admission system, the story goes, the secret is to recruit new teachers from the top decile of available candidates...

Ben Merrill, principal of southwestern Idaho's small, rural Notus Junior / Senior High School and superintendent for the Notus School District, says, «Out here, when I have an opening for a teacher in advanced science or math, I may get two to three applicants, all right out of college — no one with a master's degree.

School administrators seeking to hire new teachers can not be confident that graduates of NCATE - accredited institutions are likely to be better teachers than other applicants.

If a single - salary schedule for a school district yields a large surplus of qualified applicants for elementary education, social studies, and physical education, but no qualified applicants in physics or speech pathology, is teachers» pay in this district adequate?

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

The Fishman, which is awarded annually to exceptionally effective teachers working in high - poverty public schools, has a long and rigorous application process that gradually winnows down hundreds of applicants to four winners.

The National Union of Teachers said that the Government should focus on issues such as insufficient school places, a drop in the number of applicants for teaching and fact that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent sinTeachers said that the Government should focus on issues such as insufficient school places, a drop in the number of applicants for teaching and fact that the number of teachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent sinteachers leaving the profession each year is at a 10 - year high and has increased by 25 per cent since 2010.

Three of the 14 schools, including Columbia University's Teachers College, are NCATE candidates or applicants.

This combined with an increasing number of teachers choosing to cut their careers short and a drop in applicants to teacher training.

In an analysis of the program, political scientist William Howell wrote that RttT encouraged applicants to develop «common core state standards,» design a teacher evaluation plan based in part on the performance of their students, ensure «successful conditions for high - performing charter schools,» and numerous other reforms (see «Results of President Obama's Race to the Top,» research, Fall 2015).

Instead of giving first priority to teachers who were at the school before Katrina and hiring them based on seniority, as the union contract would have dictated, the charter school group asked each teacher applicant to take a short test of math and writing skills.

In fact, teaching is a highly - selective and thus highly - regarded profession where only 120 students are chosen out of 2000 applicants to enter the only teacher education program in the country.

They wanted to see how competing job options affect the market for teachers; does the scarcity of jobs draw in higher - skilled applicants, some of whom might be lost to presumably better - paying jobs in a better market?

If our major policy focus is to improve student achievement by improving teacher effectiveness — accounting for 30 per cent of the variance in student achievement — we must attract higher - quality applicants to the teaching profession, improve our teacher education institutions and courses, esteem and grow those teachers who demonstrate expert potential, and mandate teacher development programs for less effective teachers.

«Once teaching became a high - status profession, more talented people became teachers, lifting the status of the profession even higher... Where the profession has a low status, it attracts less talented applicants, pushing the status of the profession down further and, with it, the calibre of people it is able to attract.»

Duckworth attributes the difference to perseverance rather than talent: There wasn't any significant difference in teacher effectiveness based on the SAT scores and college GPAs of the job applicants, she calculated.

Had they not let data guide their strategy, DPS and charter leaders might have spent huge amounts of money to attract more teacher applicants, even though they already had more than enough.

The latest figures come shortly after government statistics revealed that the number of applicants for teacher - training courses had dropped by 6,510 — equivalent to 33 per cent — since the same time last year.

The second competition will select a K - 12 teacher from any subject area; applicants will be asked to submit a lesson plan or educational module based on some aspect of human spaceflight.