Sentences with phrase «requires teachers at every school»

It requires teachers at every school to help design the measures of student learning that will be used to grade them.

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I even loved the required reading list my teachers handed out at the end of the school year.

One of the things I have respected most in Aida Rosa, principal of the elementary school P.S. 30, and the teachers that I talk with on her staff is that they look at children here as children, not as «distorted children,» not as «morally disabled children,» not as «quasi-children» who require a peculiar arsenal of reconstructive strategies and stick - and - carrot ideologies that wouldn't be accepted for one hour by the parents or the teachers of the upper middle class.

The law and its guidance indisputably require teachers at non-faith schools formally to cooperate with abortion and under - age and pre-marital sex.

My toddler's teacher at the end of last school year told me my little girl likes the challenge of opening things and to put things in containers that require figuring out how to open them.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencAt Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencat Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

A restaurant gift certificate is great for days where there are parent teacher conferences and other events that require teachers to be at school for long hours before heading home.

Healthy eating routines start at home, but creating a healthy food environment requires teachers, parents, caregivers, extended families, schools, teachers, governments and communities to work together.

Although the city could have required teachers at nearly all the Renewal schools to re-apply for their jobs — thus weeding out the low - performing teachers who might have been partially responsible for their school's struggles — the city used that forcing function only at a handful of Renewals.

But at the same time, the regulations lower the amount of time for teacher candidate field experience and lessen requires for charter school certification for ESOL and special education.

That proposal would significantly alter standards required for teachers at charter schools — in some cases requiring only 30 hours of classroom experience to be qualified to teach.

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.

Prival adds that most Noyce teachers choose to stay at a high - need school beyond what's required of them by the program.

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.

RYT credential means that teachers meet Yoga Alliance standards and requirements and have the appropriate training and teaching experience to conduct classes and teach yoga.One criterion required for registry is that yoga teachers complete their teacher training at a Registered Yoga School (RYS) which is a registered trade mark.

As noted earlier, female teachers are less responsive to increases in salary, meaning that the bonus required to keep them at a school will be larger than for males.

The LCMS schools take a slightly different approach: they require almost all of their teachers and administrators to be trained at LCMS colleges.

According to the NAO survey of school leaders, schools filled only half of their vacancies with teachers with the experience and expertise required, and in around a tenth of cases, schools did not fill the vacancy at all.

Adopting a blended learning environment requires taking a holistic look at the entire school community — students, teachers, staff, and parents — and making changes that allow each of these groups to buy into the shift.

As education is a public good and requires public funding, proposed structures should be measured by the incentives they will create for schools, districts, and teachers to produce great student outcomes at reasonable expense.

«All parents would rightly assume that a graduate teacher is at the required standard and confident to take their place in a school when they enter the profession; what is of greater concern is that beginning teachers must receive the ongoing mentoring support and professional learning to allow them to be the best they can be.»

This requires more professional development days — at Envision, teachers come back to school one week early (two for new teachers) and have seven student free days throughout the school year.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

In addition to weather - related cancelations, there are other reasons why education needs to continue at home, such as when illness requires students to stay home for an extended period, a student requires extra help or to allow teachers to get extra training without cancelling school.

At the time, the Boston Teachers Union required its members to show up in person on a school day to vote at the South Boston union hall, which had the effect of ensuring a low turnouAt the time, the Boston Teachers Union required its members to show up in person on a school day to vote at the South Boston union hall, which had the effect of ensuring a low turnouat the South Boston union hall, which had the effect of ensuring a low turnout.

Although an estimated 98 percent of the country's school systems have policies requiring the evaluation of teachers, administrators are «woefully inadequate» at carrying the policies out, according to Jerry W. Valentine, one of two nationally - recognized experts on evaluation who spoke this month at a seminar here sponsored by the National Organization on Legal Problems of Education (nolpe).

Many school districts now have programs that require teachers to visit their students» homes at least once each school year.

Last school year ~ I worked with one brilliant young lady ~ who could perform math and reading at three levels above her grade ~ recite hundreds of historical facts from memory ~ and trouble - shoot the teachers technology problems ~ but when you gave her a county - required essay prompt to hand - write ~ she would stand in the corner and cry.

That's why so many young people graduate from high school having met teacher expectations, taken required courses, attained a decent GPA, and reached a respectable class rank, only to find themselves shunted into remedial courses at college.

Schools can also look at the data they require teachers to collect and process and consider the value of what is being done.

ClaaS is designed to help schools: · Maximise their budget with savings that can amount to as much as 40 percent when compared to an outright purchase · Release capital from their existing IT assets to help finance their new ClaaS subscription · Receive ongoing servicing, training and maintenance which is covered by the agreement, ensuring schools and teachers get the most from technology · Add more equipment and services as and when required · Potentially include other equipment and services such as; tablets, PCs, printers and Wi - Fi from other best of breed suppliers · Build in a regular refresh to ensure they always have the latest learning technology · Be flexible: choose a convenient term length (for example: 3, 4 or 5 years) with the ability to renew the contract, negotiate a new contract or end the contract at the end of the original term Jane Ashworth, UK Managing Director, SMART Technologies commented: «We are thrilled to announce Crystalised as our third distributor in the UK, effective October 1st.

In a dramatic turn of public opinion, Californians defeated a ballot measure that would have capped administrative spending by the state's nearly 1,000 districts at 5 percent of their total budgets and required that the other 95 percent go to classroom expenses, such as teachers» salaries and school supplies.

Beginning our research in 2002, my coauthor, Susan Rozen (Director of Reading / Literacy at the Bedford Public Schools in Bedford, Massachusetts), and I proceeded in the direction suggested by Smagorinsky and Whiting and decided to assess the nature of our future teachers» schooling through an evaluation of the courses they were required to take.

It is also important to note, in this context, that at the time of writing up our research, the coursework Stanford's school of education required for teacher certification was on the web.

By juxtaposing counts of the most frequently required readings with the absence or near - absence of others, we were able to provide a first portrait of what future teachers are — and are not — learning at leading schools of education.

She asked the school district to adopt a uniform policy banning peer grading and requiring teachers either to grade assignments themselves or at least to forbid students from grading papers other than their own.

Preparing for the grab - bag MTEL exam has made me think back to last year's discussions at the Harvard Graduate School of Education about what should be required of new teachers and how different countries assess their quality.

Motivated by a near - drowning in a school swimming pool, New Jersey has enacted a law requiring that swim teachers at least know how to swim.

At the moment, schools are currently required to open for 190 days to pupils each year, and an additional five days for teacher training.

At Bowie Elementary School in the Richardson (Texas) Independent School District, assistant principal Michael Davies's classroom and special education teachers take into account gender balance, academic balance, required special services, student relationships, and other factors as they put together class lists.

As the recipient of a Conant Fellowship — awarded to outstanding Boston and Cambridge public school teachers and administrators who have shown commitment to public education — Nirmalan is required to return to her public school for at least one year post-graduation, and now she feels energized at the prospect.

At the secondary level, this often requires supplanting an elective in a student's schedule to provide explicit reading instruction, which can present a dilemma for middle and high school leaders and teachers.

This requires a new way of looking at how teachers and school leaders work as they attempt to follow their best instincts.

For example, Center X, at the University of California at Los Angeles (see «Two Programs That Work,» in the sidebar below), requires its teacher - education students to intern in Los Angeles - area schools with racially, culturally, and linguistically diverse low - income student populations.

Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certification.

Now that the technological foundation for the use of robust systems of longitudinal education data has been laid in most states and school districts, experts say the focus needs to turn to making such data more useful for teachers, administrators, parents, and students, That will require a mix of strong leadership at the state and districts levels, greater collaboration across state agencies, and much better professional development and ongoing support for teachers and administrators.

Pip Cleaves, parent, head teacher and Senior Education Consultant at Design, Learn, Empower recommends that teachers and principals have open discussions with school communities about BYOD technology requirements, share the required specifications of the technology, offer recommendations with variety in price, and ensure parents know exactly what a device will be used for to ensure purchased devices suit the learning needs of their children.

Teachers at Metropolitan Arts and Technology High School in San Francisco discuss the different 21st Century 4 C's competencies required to complete the Propositions Project, where students produce video political ads for a California ballot proposition of their choice.

All states require special education teachers in public schools to have at least a bachelor's degree.

Goldhaber (2015) summarized this research and noted that in upper elementary grades (under NCLB, required tests begin in third grade), having a lower - performing teacher (one at the 30th percentile of teachers) is roughly equivalent to a student learning half as much in the school year compared to having a higher performing teacher (one at the 70th percentile of teachers).