Sentences with phrase «started working as a teacher»

This is EXACTLY what happened to me when I started working as a teacher at my church's school.

Matthew Reedy started working as a teacher at Grattan Elementary in the Haight in 2002.

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Team Dragon's teachers are coaches who have played a lot of soccer and love working with kids as they start on their soccer journey.

Notice, it's bringing materials home, it's handwriting, it's math calculation — get an idea of what's going on, so that you can go in and meet with your child's teacher and be able to let them know what you're seeing at home and be able to start working as a partnership together.

I only discovered printmaking (lino printing) when I started work as an art teacher.

Jeff has worked at the Corvallis Waldorf School since 2003, starting out as a 7th grade teacher.

Angela has worked for the Orinda School District as an assistant in the special education classroom, working primarily with autistic children, and as a master teacher for the Head Start program in Alameda, Calif..

I called my friend, Javaughn in a panic on my way home from work (I started a part - time job as a teacher recently).

«We have to start to develop this as an option and work slowly on it to get it right with our teachers and have them involved in the development of it,» she said.

«Rather than harking back to an age when children started their adult life with qualifications that were seen as second rate, we want to look forward and work with teachers and schools to give them the freedom and tools needed to stretch pupils.»

As part of the campaign to raise awareness, the Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (CLPPP) worked with the Mohawk Valley Head Start teachers on a lesson plan and provided 800 lead poisoning prevention packets for families stressing the importance of lead testing and measures to reduce exposure to lead hazards in the home.

Before starting her political career, Marshall, a graduate of Queens College, worked as a teacher and later became the director of the Langston Hughes Library on Northern Boulevard, which she founded in 1969.

Alicea has worked in the district for thirty three years, starting out as a kindergarten teacher's assistant and moving up to most recently the district's chief operations officer.

With the start of the school year, the UFT is launching a radio ad campaign on Sept. 7 that features UFT President Michael Mulgrew calling on all New Yorkers to» join us and celebrate the talent, dedication and hard work of students and teachers as we move our public schools forward.»

You know people talk about this as if it is a recent thing, and really we've known about the standards since 2008 - 2009, and we have an incredible team of teachers and leaders in Randolph who worked really hard right away to start to look at the standards.»

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Before starting her writing career, Tanya Brown worked as an eighth - grade language arts teacher.

But when I came to the US and started attending ESL classes, our teacher, as we started the chapter on wardrobe vocabulary, mentioned that «women here change their work outfits daily».

This was Williams at the peak of his game, part of a run that started with his work as a rambunctious theater - of - war DJ in «Good Morning, Vietnam» for Barry Levinson in 1987 (Oscar - nominated), inspirational teacher in «Dead Poets Society» for Peter Weir in 1989 (Oscar - nominated), culminating with his Oscar win as the university professor who draws out Matt Damon's troubled genius in 1997's «Good Will Hunting» for Gus Van Sant (good directors brought out the best in Williams).

A good place to start preventing and managing stress in schools is to: • accept that work - related stress might be a problem for employees • understand what work - related stress is as well as the relationship between work and home stress • listen to employees and take action on findings • set expectations with staff so they understand what can and can not be done for them • make time to tackle stress properly — try using the HSE's stress management tool (available from www.hse.gov.uk/stressstandards/) • ensure staff are aware of available support should they experience work - related stress (e.g. teacher support network: www.teachersupport.info).

Now we as teachers just need the grit to do whatever it takes to turn education around, and that starts with hard work and our own modern version of true grit.

In fact, paying elementary age children to read books did as much to boost their ability as more popular approaches such as smaller class size, Head Start, and bonuses to teachers for working in at - risk schools, the study determined — and was much cheaper, too.

They might have started off as classroom teachers, and many just work online on the side.

Mory started working as a staff development teacher five years ago, after spending 20 years as a special education and reading teacher.

I started off as a teacher working in regional New South Wales.

Before school starts each year, all the school's teachers are taught how to work with data as part of a weeklong «teacher academy.»

As with many other successful data - driven schools, at Elm City the work begins before school starts, when teachers and principals — both Dale Chu, who heads up the elementary grades, and Marc Michaelson, who oversees the middle school — use a variety of diagnostic tests to understand the ability and achievement levels of their incoming students.

Amanda Morin, who researches and writes about attention issues as a teacher, parent advocate, and mother of two children with attention issues, says the best work with ADHD students starts with «presuming competence.

Your stories, the ones about years of working as teachers in China or as the creator of a tech start up, the ones about growing up in other countries and braving new worlds not once but over and over again, the ones about starting a family and a doctoral program at the same time, or the ones about opening a new school only to have it close the following year.

She also enjoyed five years as a classroom teacher before starting her work with CERES.

Symonds teachers start working with students as early as kindergarten on examining and naming their feelings.

This means that the majority of graduates recruited for preparation courses starting in September 2015 will be available for work as teachers from September 2016.

It is fine if children start school reading, as the teacher can then work on phonemic awareness and spelling.

In addition to the work of English and King and projects supporting robotics in schools, the review suggests primary teachers may find the following evidence - based programs useful as a starting point: Primary Connections, EngQuest, CS Unplugged and the Wonder of Science Challenge.

Teachers can break down portions of the final projects so that students can begin working on them earlier, such as assigning students when to begin brainstorming ideas or when to start researching.

Chris worked in education for 15 years as a teacher, instructional designer, & learning manager for multiple Fortune 500s before starting his own company, Instructional Design Genius, which offers a project management platform specifically for the learning industry.

I have a master's degree in multicultural & international education and work beyond the classroom — I started the Bridge Program (for intercultural understanding in school) and last year ETN (English Teachers Norway), where our vision is to increase interest in English as a subject at school and university.

Jo Randall, English and Drama teacher at Christ's School, sees the free Fundraising Resource Pack as a great way to kick - start the fun, and says «I love getting the free pack because it sparks off loads of ideas for how Red Nose Day can work in the school day.»

As the REC's Future of jobs report concluded, building better bridges between the education system and the world of work is key to economic prosperity and individual fulfilment; this all starts with well - trained and highly motivated teachers who can prepare future generations for a fast - changing world of work.

The accompanying resource files can be used to create a scheme of work and help teachers to develop their subject knowledge or can be used by more experienced teachers as a starting point for inspiration from which they can add their own teaching materials.»

I started ESL classes and working with a new population of students that opened my mind to a whole new thought process as a teacher.

Now, as I begin moving forward into other projects and seasons of new work, I want to make sure that any teacher looking to start 20 % time or Genius Hour with their students have a complete FREE resource they can dig into and get the nuts and bolts of how to make it happen.

Prior to starting the doctoral program, Carly worked as a Research Fellow in the S3 Lab managing and implementing randomized field experiments related to education, and as a third grade teacher.

This collaboration has helped jump - start this work across the state and shed light on the many significant challenges associated with overhauling the hoary systems in place, such as measuring student achievement in «untested» grades and subjects, ensuring inter-rater agreement and accuracy of teacher practice observations, and ending the long - standing culture of «The Widget Effect.»

But once she began working as a middle school teacher in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), she started to see the larger problems that existed in education at the system level, some of which affected her ability to be the best teacher.

I started teaching officially in a school where I'd already worked for four years — as a teacher residency supervisor and a technology coordinator.

Thus, this list is intended as a starting point for teachers to consider their goals and to then work towards asking the difficult questions that lead to effective teaching with technology.

She worked as a Lead Teacher in Jamaica Plain Head Start and two years in BPS.

Before joining the faculty, she worked in a number of urban settings, including as a K - 6 bilingual teacher, Even Start coordinator, literacy instructional specialist, and trainer for the Accelerated Schools Project.

We have found some success by starting with teachers who volunteer to participate, creating some success in these classrooms which we then try to make public, and then using data as well as actual classroom visits to make a compelling case for the value of the work.