Sentences with phrase «seen less teachers»

When we combine these concerns with the lack of any financial incentive to perform extra duties, we find that many are unmotivated to continue in their role and we have seen less teachers applying for roles with many educators opting to take early retirement or leave the profession altogether.

Not exact matches

I really don't understand now (I am far less naive) how people would sign up for a seminar without actually seeing documented proof that the mentor / teacher is doing deals.

The young lady — an RE teacher, no less - just «couldn't see any problem» with two men getting married, and couldn't see any need to think about it too deeply — no brain action required on this one at all.

Share Our Strength reported that 500 Illinois teachers said serving Breakfast After the Bell takes less than 15 minutes and three out of four of them see students coming to school hungry at least once per month.

Shirley, a teacher, blogger and busy mother of three, used to see the cozy little nook in her office as little more than wasted space, but thanks to a sudden burst of inspiration and a quick trip to IKEA, Shirley's kids now have a cozy reading room of their own, and all for less than $ 80!

He says schools saw a record increase in state aid in the state budget, and no school has been punished with less state funding for not enacting the new teacher evaluations.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

By contrast, the teachers who had been asked about «reading difficulties» were less likely to see the children's problems as permanent; were also more likely to believe that they would be able to help them, and that their skills developed with experience.

The military protects the last of the uninfected population, including a scientist (Glenn Close) who sees these junior Hungries as the key to an experimental vaccine, and a teacher (Gemma Arterton) who takes a less clinical approach.

It's insidious in that when people come to consider teaching, they see that teacher salaries are becoming less and less competitive and we know you can't raise standards without attracting the best people into teaching.»

The study found that specialist primary teachers are six per cent less effective than their non-specialist colleagues, with data showing pupils who were taught by subject specialists saw a drop in their grades.

Teachers see less disparity in the treatment of high - and low - performing students.

«I can see that these can be designed into four - year undergraduate primary teacher education programs, but will be challenging for two - year equivalent postgraduate initial teacher education programs, where there is less volume of learning available to develop both the breadth of curriculum and the depth.

In the median state, less than half of all teachers are expected to work long enough to vest in their retirement plan — meaning that despite big spending and promises, less than half of all public - school teachers, on average, will ever receive retirement benefits for their years on the job (see Figure 3).

Most states adopting new evaluation systems saw little change in the share of teachers deemed less than effective, arguably limiting their potential to address underperformance.

And when a student's home life is less certain, school can be a welcome oasis: Jacqueline McDowell fondly remembers that her sixth - grade teacher «was constant and stable — she saw the whole me and was steady when other things in my life were not.»

This difference is statistically significant, but it pales in comparison to the difference in probability for a first - year teacher compared to a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority: The estimated probability of a teacher with 12 or more years of seniority receiving a layoff notice is less than one - quarter of 1 percent for every endorsement area (see Figure 1).

But a new report based largely on interviews with 30 local union presidents who each have spent less than eight years in office paints an evolved picture of leaders who are often involved in collaborative relationships with their school superintendents; who have to work constantly to balance the needs of a new generation of teachers with the needs of older members; and who see the importance...

Risks Seen for Children of Illegal Immigrants The New York Times, September 20, 2011 «The Harvard study reports that «fear and vigilance» guide the home lives of young children whose parents are illegal immigrants, making the parents significantly less likely to engage with teachers or be active in schools.»

Dr Roach said the growing inequality and institutionalised discrimination in some schools saw some women teachers earning just 85 per cent of their male counterparts and BME teachers earning less than white teachers.

Correlation does not imply causation, however, and it would be important to use archival data to study the introduction of specific policies regarding teacher recruitment and retention to see whether these policies achieve more diverse teaching forces as a consequence — or whether diverse teaching forces achieved via these policies are more or less effective than are those otherwise observed.

Katie Harrison would like to see schools becoming more autonomous: «We need to improve school autonomy by allowing teachers much greater freedom with what and how they teach, with less scrutiny.»

«Whilst it is not all doom and gloom, I do expect to see a continuing trend of fewer, less experienced teachers in place, with academies having to use ageing technology and with buildings that are not being properly maintained.

If teachers don't see how your festival will fit into the larger picture (the curriculum picture) they will be less likely to get involved.

It is difficult to see ordinary churchgoers and teachers mobilizing in protest against benchmarking, though tempests in the Hill teapot have begun over less.

«How Schools Shortchange Girls» concluded that female students receive less attention from their teachers than boys do, are less apt to see girls and women reflected in their study materials, and are often not expected or encouraged to pursue higher - level mathematics and science.

«I think as money becomes less plentiful, we become more committed to being very creative in maintaining the programs that we see are most successful,» explains Moustris, who gets high marks from academy teachers for almost always finding a way to get them the supplies and equipment they need.

The two populations — uncertified and AC teachers — differ in a number of ways: AC teachers are less likely to be black or Hispanic, tend to be several years younger when hired, and attended colleges with substantially higher median SAT scores (see Figure 1).

Good teachers are disheartened when they see less effective colleagues receive greater recognition.

But a group of teachers working together in a protected space, where open source cowboys couldn't trespass, could produce far more innovative material than Forte sees in conventional texts, and for far less money.

And I have concluded that those teachers who are most comfortable with student - centered classrooms see the greatest linguistic results, have less attrition from one level to the next, and have more students who are engaged and happy.

First grade teachers Donna McBride and Caty Wells say they've seen a transformation in their kids — «they're less distracted, they make more eye contact, and they tattle less».

A similar thing can be said about principals working in rural areas, where we have seen that schools have less qualified and less experienced teachers than schools in urban areas.

But, somewhat surprisingly, when we compare teachers and others with similarly high levels of education, we find that teachers tend on average to be less supportive of free - speech rights (see Figure 1).

EN: Is there any compelling evidence that TFA teachers are more or less effective than traditionally certified teachers (see Figure 1)?

Data from New York City show that English teachers» persistent effect on math is 70 percent of their persistence effect on English, while math teachers» persistent effect on English is less than 5 percent of their persistent effect on math (see the following figure).

But teachers also tend to grade far less stringently than the state standards indicate they should (see Figure 1).

He looked less like a science teacher and more like one of the jazz musicians Id seen wandering around Greenwich Village.

In 49 states, a majority of teachers will not break - even and will receive future pension payments worth less than their own retirement contributions (see figure).

If we control for education, however, we find that in each of the four decades, teachers are from 10 to 15 percentage points less likely than other Americans with 16 or more years of schooling to see nothing wrong with homosexuality (see Figure 2).

But in a sector of public education with far less oversight than traditional school districts, it's easy to see how a teacher could find herself fired and out of options.

On the less anecdotal side, here in DC the first year of our IMPACT system that is born out of this ideology found that teachers with more affluent students saw more growth in their students test scores.

Teachers create a See Saw class in literally less than three minutes.

Similar to the participant in Wright's (2010) study of teacher candidates, she initially found the 140 - character limit constraining, but once she adapted to the discourse system and common abbreviations she saw in other participants» posts, Kim stated, «It was actually fun and challenging to get my point across in 140 characters or less!»

For good or ill, elementary teachers can have a major effect on individual children, while middle - and high - school teachers see more students less often, affecting four or five times as many students in a less time - intensive, more subject - specific way.

If teachers do not see a benefit to their participation, they will be less likely to invest in the experience.

High - achieving students receive less attention because they're already up to «standard», while the lowest - achieving students also receive less attention because getting them up to «standard» requires too many resources, or (I'm told by some teachers who've seen this firsthand) they are dumped out of the system altogether so that they don't count in the calculations.

But finding enough quality teachers is a difficult task, and superintendents are much less likely to see their district as effective in recruiting new teachers as effective in selecting, developing or retaining them.

Testing pupils at the beginning of key stage 2, rather than at the end, is seen as less burdensome, and the government also claims it will allow teachers to identify which pupils need extra support to reach their end - of - primary target.

And when students see teachers as people, they are less likely to misbehave.