Sentences with phrase «require new teacher»

The city has asked the state to provide the funds for next year by committing the schools to a different reform program — «turnaround,» which does not require new teacher evaluations.

A central piece of Maryland's application is a new state law and regulations that require new teacher and principal evaluations, half of which will be based on growth in student achievement, said William Reinhard, the spokesman for the Maryland education department.

Nearly one - quarter of school districts do not require new teachers to have certification for what they are teaching.

In Connecticut, the BEST program requires new teachers to put together a portfolio of their performance during their second year that demonstrates their planning, instruction, assessment, and feedback practices.

To help address this challenge, the President called on states to require all new teachers of math and science to pass challenging tests of math or science knowledge and teaching proficiency.

Nearly every state has created less generous plans for new workers, plans that will require new teachers to pay more money up front, remain in their jobs longer before they «vest» into the system and qualify for even a minimum benefit, and work longer before they retire with full benefits.

In Massachusetts The public and legislators are calling for better - prepared teachers, so many states — including Massachusetts — are raising the requirements for teacher licensing and requiring new teachers to pass certification tests.

In a new poll out today, Americans say they want teacher preparation programs to raise the bar for entrance, provide longer training periods for practice teaching, and require new teachers to pass a rigorous certification exam akin to the ones required of lawyers and doctors.

She voted against a budget bill that requires new teacher performance reviews to rely more heavily on standardized tests.

As the first state to fully implement policy requiring new teachers to pass edTPA for licensure, New York and its PK - 12 educators and teacher educators have encountered a variety of operational challenges.

In June of last year, the commission rolled out a revised set of performance expectations that, among other things, require new teachers to be steeped in alternatives to traditional discipline.

However, targeted state funding for induction was folded into the Local Control Funding Formula, resulting in many districts reducing their support for new teachers, requiring new teachers to pay a fee for induction, or requiring new teachers to enroll at an institution of higher education to complete induction.

This is true, and it's a fine argument for focusing education policy efforts on sustainable teacher quality reforms, such as recruiting more academically talented young people into the profession, requiring new teachers to undergo significant apprenticeship periods working alongside master educators, and creating career ladders that reward excellent teachers who agree to stay in the classroom long - term and mentor their peers.

Virginia is commended for requiring all new teachers to work with a mentor; however, there are insufficient guidelines indicating that the induction program is structured for new teacher success.

Colorado, Illinois, Mississippi, and New Jersey require all new teachers to pass all required subject - matter tests as a condition of initial licensure.

Here in Connecticut we require new teachers to have a probationary period of 4 years — enough time to conduct effective evaluations programs to determine whether each new teacher really has what it takes to be a truly effective teacher for Connecticut's public schools.

NCLB sets very high teacher qualifications by requiring new teachers to possess one (or often more) college degrees in specific subjects and to pass a battery of proficiency tests.

Among the rules he cited were those giving teachers tenure after two years, and that require newest teachers to be laid off first during cutbacks.

The state also approved an entrance exam that requires new teachers to demonstrate their abilities through a performance test.

Certain companies and school networks, such as the aforementioned Teach for America, Success Academy Charter Schools and Uncommon Schools, provide educationally - interested graduates with the opportunity to work in the classroom just months after graduation, instead of requiring their new teachers to take a year of teacher preparation courses before entering the classroom.

Charter schools» teacher preparation programs often require new teachers to complete one to two years of «associate teaching» (also known as a «teaching residency» or «assistant teaching») before they can manage their own classroom (Success Academy; Achievement First).

Not exact matches

«Sure, we've been secretaries, teachers, and nurses forever, but in terms of executive positions that require negotiating a salary, we're on relatively new ground.

Put no hope in the younger generation unless you have listened very carefully and heard that this only will happen in the next generation provided that someone from the older generation, you and I — the theologians, the thinkers, the teachers, the preachers, the progressive Christians — insist that this generation is brought up with, confronted daily with, required to think about the new questions and the new insights.

Although Pius XII was influenced by the fundamental changes in economic theory initiated by Keynes, it was not until Pope John XXIII in 1961 published Mater et Magistra (Mother and Teacher) that a new methodology and the identification of the problem of «development» emerged, requiring substantial changes in the social teaching of the Church which were expressed in Pacem in Terris (Peace throughout the World) in 1963.

To the extent that seminaries imitate what American higher education expects of faculty members, they will require that faculty members be scholar teachers within the parameters of a specialized field, such as social ethics, or New Testament, or American religious history.

Also, in many states including New York all coaches, PE teachers, nurses, and athletic trainers are required to learn how to recognize concussion symptoms so that kids can get help as soon as possible.

If the U.S. Supreme Court rules that teachers are not required to pay for union services, the United Federation of Teachers worries that it is likely to shed members and money — a war chest that has allowed it to be a major player in New York pteachers are not required to pay for union services, the United Federation of Teachers worries that it is likely to shed members and money — a war chest that has allowed it to be a major player in New York pTeachers worries that it is likely to shed members and money — a war chest that has allowed it to be a major player in New York politics.

The New York Post and the Daily News are reporting that Cuomo will try to force a resolution to the teacher evaluation stalemate in his budget, by requiring that schools who want a promised 4 % increase in education funding must agree with a newer plan devised by the State's Education Department.

Cuomo has proposed an extra $ 1 billion in school aid, but only if lawmakers agree to revamp the state's new teacher evaluation system and require more experience for teachers to qualify for tenure.

ALBANY — The final plan for a new statewide teacher evaluation system will require observations by an «independent» evaluator, a Cuomo administration official said during a briefing with reporters late Monday.

Anecdotally, he said, the UFT is hearing about teachers who were told they will have their probations extended because their principal is new, because their principal neglected to do the required observations or because their school has failing scores.

Some lawmakers want to fix a recently passed law that requires a fast turn around for new teacher evaluations, while others would like a tax break for donors that would help private schools.

A legal challenge to the cap was first made in 2013, when the New York State United Teachers union held the limit on local property tax increases constricts both local education spending and unlawfully requires a 60 percent majority to approve a budget that increases the levy over the cap.

To ensure that the City and the state's other districts fulfill New York's promises to its schoolchildren, we request that you introduce a back - stop measure that requires districts to develop teacher evaluation plans by August 31, 2012.

The Senator sponsored the legislation in order to ensure New York teachers are not required to carry firearms in the classroom — if federal restrictions on guns in school zones were to be lifted, Saturday's legislation would prohibit the restriction from being lifted.

DeMartini's statement came just hours after Cuomo's second legislative session came to an end with the passage of the governor's bill that restricted to parents the public disclosure of the new teacher - evaluation ratings that will soon be required.

If the bill is passed, the city would also be required to report a slew of new information to the state annually, including statistics about teachers, principals, admissions, student demographics, school overcrowding, expenditures, and more.

Prospective teachers in New York will no longer have to score as high on a qualifying test in order to obtain teaching certificates, now that the Board of Regents has agreed to lower the passing score on a test required for a teaching certificate.

Our teachers are struggling to teach using poorly prepared materials on the new standards, and the much - needed training that educators required and the Governor promised never materialized.

New York also promised to tie student performance on state exams to teacher evaluations in its application for a waiver from No Child Left Behind, legislation under President George W. Bush that requires states to hit certain performance benchmarks on standardized tests.

The state Legislature set the January deadline for school districts to comply with a 2010 state law requiring a new evaluation system for all teachers or forfeit their share of the state's 3 percent increase in annual school aid.

The new law requires that the State Education Department develop new teacher performance reviews, that will be more heavily reliant on controversial standardized tests associated with the new Common Core learning standards.

«These spouses are often employed in professions that require new licensing for each new location, such as teachers and nurses — vital occupations in a military community.

The mayor is requiring the NYPD to trim overtime as part of the new budget, but the robust income of recent years enables de Blasio to add not just cops but library hours and gym teachers and an extra week of city beach openings.

The United Federation of Teachers, in a proposed amendment to a City Council resolution, today called for charter schools seeking free space in New York City public school buildings to be required to make public financial data and political donations, along with student demographics, suspension rates, and teacher and student attrition.

We all understand that state law requires that New York City change its teacher evaluation system.»

The tests — required as part of this year's new teacher evaluations — inspired a boycott at one school and a union - led drive to ban standardized tests for pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Helping teachers make this dramatic shift requires curriculum materials that are not just aligned to the new standards but also draw on the best available research about teaching and learning.

Those standards, although voluntary, would in turn require new textbooks, as well as new ways to train teachers and measure what students are learning in the classroom.

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.