Sentences with phrase «school teachers transferring»

In Louisiana, traditional public school teachers transferring from district to district receive full credit for their experience, as do those coming from out - of - state schools.

Not exact matches

Work exchanges, university sabbaticals and intra-company transfers provide people in some occupations — school teachers, professors and employees at international corporations — with a simple way to slide into another job in another country for a year or two.

While it's unlikely that a tenured teacher can be fired, he can be taken out of the classroom and transferred to a non-teaching position within the school district.

As your child enters elementary school, a major part of their learning process transfers to the teachers.

We tried to work with the school and the teacher but in a short amount of time we felt we needed to explore other options and ended up transferring schools.

A legal fight between the Buffalo Public School District and Buffalo Teachers Federation over a plan to transfer teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by Teachers Federation over a plan to transfer teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by teachers from City Honors will return to court next week, when the district will file papers challenging a restraining order obtained by the BTF.

This effect will go into other schools as well because these transfer teachers will affect teachers with less seniority at other schools.»

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WBEN)- Buffalo Public Schools is planning to transfer five teachers out of City Honors and cut a guidance counselor position by half its time at the end of the month.

Certifications earned under these regulations will only be valid at charter schools authorized by SUNY, so teachers who want to transfer to other charters or to traditional public schools will need to take additional steps to earn a conventional state certification.

The situation, Agya Dan says, has caused fear and panic among teachers and pupils in the school as a pastor transferred to the school from Accra also died under mysterious circumstances.

As the fight over transferring teachers out of City Honors slow - walks through the court system, the Buffalo School Board on Wednesday was briefed on why 5.5 teachers being transferred out requires 16 teacher aides to replace them.

Turnaround plans for three underperforming schools, Bilingual Center 33, Futures Academy and Drew Science Magnet, call for transferring teachers at those schools.

Fifty - four teachers are in limbo, with no designated assignment, after an arbitrator determined that transferring the teachers to another school violated their contract.

Her junior year, she transferred to a different school where the teachers were more helpful and willing to make some accommodations, like letting her use a note card to remind her of basic math facts during tests.

After one of the students attempts suicide, however, the director of the school has no choice but to call for an emergency parents» meeting to remove the teacher, but because Ms. Drazdechova is also a high - ranking official of the Communist Party, parents are hesitant to sign a petition to transfer her out.

Australian Chris Lilley's eight - episode television series about high school high jinks features the comic actor (and writer and coproducer) in three roles: a snotty, sullen slab of disruptive id; an insufferably snobbish girl who's transferred from a private school; and the vain, flamboyant drama teacher.

A 2005 study by the New Teacher Project, the national nonprofit organization that works with school districts to recruit high - quality teachers, examined five urban districts and concluded that seniority - based transfer privileges written into contracts often force principals «to hire large numbers of teachers they do not want and who may not be a good fit for the job and their school.»

The right to hire or not to hire a teacher is limited by teachers» «transfer rights,» which gives them first choice on a place in another school.

Because many districts credit a transferring teacher with only a limited number of years of experience, teachers may have to take a salary cut if they switch school districts.

Our analysis of these data reveals that teachers transfer from one school to another — or exit the Texas public school system altogether — more as a reaction to the characteristics of their students than in response to better salaries in other schools.

Educational researcher Gerald Bracey, author of Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered, writes in Stanford magazine that «NCLB aims to shrink the public sector, transfer large sums of public money to the private sector, weaken or destroy two Democratic power bases — the teachers» unions — and provide vouchers to let students attend private schools at public expense.»

And the topics covered in those pages extend far beyond bread - and - butter questions of salary and benefits; there are dozens of clauses covering a district's ability to evaluate, transfer, terminate, and manage the workload of teachers, all having potentially serious effects on the management of schools and student achievement.

Through the DofE, teachers are able to form far better relationships with their students outside of school which transfer directly into class; the more that young people can relate to their teachers outside of the classroom, the more comfortable the learning environment can be inside the classroom.

For instance, according to the teachers» contract, half of Stuyvesant's teaching vacancies each year must be posted and set aside for teachers seeking transfers from other city schools.

«Then when we get some senior teachers there who look to transfer out, that compounds the problem in those schools.

One transfer applicant who came close to bumping Simion was a 71 - year - old math teacher from Seward Park High School.

If a state chooses to implement this policy change on a school - by - school basis, teachers who choose the current traditional contract might be offered a transfer or be grandfathered, that is, allowed to continue under their current contract.

«From doing consultancy work with other schools, it seems that the trend is moving towards a one - device - per - child model, especially in newer schools, taking away the need for a screen at the front of the classroom, as the work can be transferred directly from the teacher's computer to their tablets.

This granted transfer rights for minority teachers into any school that was deemed not to have a fully integrated teaching staff.

Under the terms of the bill, teachers and principals with five or more years of experience and five or more years of satisfactory or above performance ratings would also would receive 10 - percent annual increases if they opted to transfer or remain in a low - performing school.

This could be especially true for a new teacher or someone that just transferred to your school.

Low - income schools often have great difficulty retaining effective teachers, who tend to transfer to whiter, wealthier schools when positions become available.

The course can be transferred to smartphones of student's parents by connecting their phones to the computer of teachers provided to them in school.

Amrein and Berliner identified 28 states where test scores are used to determine various consequences, such as bonuses for teachers, the promotion of students, or allowing children to transfer out of a failing school.

The skills and expertise that make a teacher effective in one school or with one population may not necessarily transfer to another.

Those same rules punish any teacher or principal who may wish to transfer between a traditional public school and a charter school.

Citizens in Provo, Utah, voted late last month to approve the transfer of funds from the school district's capital - improvements budget in order to establish a career - ladder plan for teachers.

Johnson says minorities who are unhappy in their schools are more likely to leave the profession than white teachers, who are more inclined to transfer to wealthier schools.

The teacher was hired in 1977 to teach science at the high - school level but was transferred to a middle school in 1980.

Now in its third year of offering bonuses to experienced teachers to transfer to struggling schools, the Hamilton County (Tennessee) school district, which includes urban Chattanooga, has seen student scores soar in their neediest schools.

Likewise, although a given district need not allow its best teachers to transfer from low - income to high - income schools within their own district, they can not bar those same teachers from moving to neighboring school districts or to private schools.

Fearing a second year of disappointing results, and the subsequent risk of the child's transferring to a different school, his teachers try a novel approach, a computerized math instruction program, since the assessments indicated that he was the furthest behind in math.

When given the chance, teachers transfer out of schools with higher proportions of minority and disadvantaged students.

Administrators, for their part, are finding these programs to be effective at encouraging experienced teachers to transfer to the most challenging schools.

When a boy who had transferred from a Catholic school told the teacher that he knew his multiplication tables, she quizzed him by asking him what 23 x 16 equaled.

Classrooms or schools have been used by Len Jason and his colleagues on tests of programs for transfer students, in Leanard Bickman's admirable but aborted trials on teacher - incentive programs in Tennessee, and in Sheppard Kellam's Baltimore studies on mental health and children's achievement.

Recently, Glazerman et al. reported that even after being offered a $ 20,000 bonus to move to a high - need school in their district, only 3.5 percent of middle school teachers in the top quintile of effectiveness and 7 percent of similarly ranked elementary teachers were willing to transfer.

In 1997, Philadelphia teacher Salome Thomas - EL was offered a chance to transfer from his inner - city middle school to a job at another school that would give him better teaching conditions, more administrative authority, and a $ 20,000 raise.

As the BBC programme Chinese School showed, bringing teachers the other way into England isn't always an easy transfer of skills.

(After several weeks of school, another 6th - grade teacher was added, further minimizing the impact caused by the seven children who transferred to that grade under NCLB.)