Sentences with phrase «of teachers in»

At the present time, the supply of teachers in Australia is not well matched to demand.

A government spokesperson said: «Teaching is a hugely popular profession, and the number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high.

It tracks the percentage of teachers in a given year who leave the profession.

That's what we learned by asking respondents to indicate the percentage of teachers in their local schools they would assign to each of four categories: excellent, good, satisfactory, and unsatisfactory.

Domain 5 — the idea of teachers in the school sharing and showcasing best practice to support professional learning of others, and this idea of a self - reflective culture, focus on improving classroom teaching, that was... this really informed our vision.

As a nation we do a poorer job than some other countries in ensuring that we prepare an appropriate number of teachers in the areas in which they are most needed.

A survey by the American Federation of Teachers in 2013 found that 75 percent of that union's members supported the standards, although many teachers feared that they were not prepared to teach them.

You can even become a Google Certified Educator and broadcast your practice - based ideas, tools and tips to a worldwide network of teachers in our forums as a member of the Tes community.

These were peer mentoring of teachers in growth mindset teaching practices and the revision of the school's assessment policy to encompass continual measurement of student improvement.

In the article by Paul Howard - Jones published in 2014, 95 percent of teachers in the UK (n = 137) thought that students learn better when taught in their preferred learning style (Howard - Jones, 2014).

A recent study compared the videotaped teaching styles of 81 eighth - grade math teachers in the U.S. with those of teachers in Germany and Japan.

Furthermore, not only does the organization train hundreds of teachers in the region — 150 of whom have been recognized as leaders in their field — but ConTextos directly serves over 10,000 at - risk youth in El Salvador alone, one of the world's most violent nations.

However, some of the teachers in Portland are saying, «Obviously the special education students are going to fail and they are going to act out because we are not meeting their needs... If there's not the right support there, that's not acceptable, not only for the child, but for the general education teacher as well.»

The prize — funded by the Paul Singer Family Foundation — recognizes the extraordinary work of teachers in the world.

Working with school leaders, new high - quality training opportunities will be developed to boost career progression and support the record number of teachers in our schools to become leaders in their field, including: extending on - the - job training and support for trainee and new teachers to two years, so they get the best possible start to their career; and creating early career development opportunities for teachers through a new framework that schools will follow, developed in partnership with teachers, school leaders and education experts.

It is really important that you write with an audience of teachers in mind.

Beyond that, I recommend principals begin the school improvement process by engaging course - level groups of teachers in clarifying learning goals.

Overall, 3.8 percent of all teachers in the district were let go as a result of being rated «ineffective» once or after earning two consecutive «minimally effective» ratings under IMPACT between 2009 10 and 2011 12.

... When we looked at our teachers at the beginning of our study (and this is just the beginning and we're going to be tracking these through), what we notice is that most of our teachers in the study think the discipline of mathematics is all about facts, rules and skills.

Men accounted for less than one - fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little indication of that figure changing anytime soon.

A path - breaking study of teachers in Texas reveals that working conditions matter more than salary

That's an invaluable asset that many National Board Certified teachers are leveraging in their work as mentors to the next generation of teachers in our schools.

Issues of language are complex in Timor - Leste, but judgment aside, the decision to make Portuguese an official language — and the language of instruction — was made despite the fact that the majority of teachers in Timor - Leste do not speak Portuguese.

I have worked in a few different schools and visited many more, and I've always wondered about the community of teachers in each of those schools.

Professor Sir John Holman, senior advisor to the Gatsby Foundation, said: «Hopefully, these reports will trigger a long - overdue debate — should we implement a modest salary supplement to maths and science teachers in the early stage of their careers, or continue to have a shortage of teachers in these core subjects?

As Figure 1 shows, almost 20 percent of teachers in schools in the bottom quartile of student achievement leave their schools each year, while in the top - quartile schools only 15 percent leave.

«There are a record number of teachers in our classrooms — 15,500 more than in 2010 — and increasing numbers are returning to the profession.»

Mississippi and Arkansas have the lowest percentage, with males making up just under 18 percent of the teachers in those states.

Teaching standards set out the expectations of teachers in England.

Working with school leaders, new training opportunities will be developed to boost career progression and support the record number of teachers in our schools to become leaders in their field, including:

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Cooties / U.S.A. (Directors: Jonathan Millott, Cary Murnion, Screenwriters: Leigh Whannell, Ian Brennan)-- A mysterious virus hits an isolated elementary school and transforms the students into a feral swarm of mass savages; then an unlikely hero must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives.

The film's stable of voice actors reads like a Who's Who of Latin - American talent: the ensemble includes Edward James Olmos, Alfonso Arau, Ana Ofelia Murguia, Alanna Ubach and, in a small role, to my surprise and astonishment, playwright Octavio Solis, who was one of my teachers in high school back in Dallas.

A substitute teacher emerges as the unlikely hero who must lead a motley band of teachers in the fight of their lives against them.

The Weinstein Company has partnered with the American Federation of Teachers in what seems like an attempt to lure students to see the South African biopic on the strength of its thought - provoking lessons.

One of the teachers in my daughter's school used to have such gorgeous long curly hair that always looked perfect.

From the moment you arrive, you will be guided and supported by a caring team of teachers in an authentic and enriching space.

It is a warm and serene environment with superb instruction by all of the teachers in the program.

The National Institute of Education (NIE), a specialty institute of the Nanyang Technological University, is solely responsible for the training of teachers in Singapore.

As in virtually all urban school districts, there is substantial turnover of teachers in the D.C. schools, and for a variety of reasons.

The study involved 13,472 students and 2,041 of their teachers in 47 schools in one Texas school district.

According to Profile of Teachers in the U.S. 2011, a report from of the National Center for Education Information, 16 % of the nation's public school teachers entered the profession through an alternate route like the one Cruzan followed.

Roseman is looking to improve the new energy curriculum with the help of teachers in Virginia and Maryland who will participate with their students in pilot testing of the unit next spring.

Ultimately, she hopes that the study's conclusions will generate further research and discussion on representations of teachers in social media.

Master teachers — an elite group of teachers in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields — would mentor other teachers, serve as role models to draw talented students into the profession, and work with community leaders to improve science and math education.

The staff may be able to give you names of teachers in your area; their e-mail address is [email protected] (Mention this article.)

Over 70 per cent of teachers in all countries wrongly believe a student is either left - brained or right - brained, peaking at 91 per cent in the UK.

It increased manufacturing research and education and created a STEM Training Grant program to increase the number of teachers in those fields.

This year, another UK organization, NATFHE (the National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education) is considering a motion for a similar boycott.

NYSUT delegates elected a new president along with a slate of other new officers in a contested election at the state teachers» union's 42nd Representative Assembly.Karen Magee, the president of the Harrison Association of Teachers in Westchester County, won as president over incumbent Dick Iannuzzi in the election on April 5.