Sentences with phrase «strong teaching profession»

The public and political drumbeat over these issues led the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) to create a study group charged with developing policy recommendations for a strong teaching profession.

Fixing these problems is critical to developing a strong teaching profession.

The teacher shortage provides an opportunity for the United States to take a long - term approach to a comprehensive and systematic set of solutions to build a strong teaching profession.

The teacher shortage provides an opportunity for the United States to take a long - term approach, as was done in medicine more than half a century ago, to mitigating current shortages while establishing a comprehensive and systematic set of strategies to build a strong teaching profession.

The summit was the first of its kind, designed to engage governments and teacher organizations in an intensive discussion about how to create a stronger teaching profession.

Not exact matches

The only cure for this crippling influence is a strong and independent organized teaching profession, whose members are protected against outside interference in the performance of their professional functions and who recognize and accept their responsibility for dealing knowledgeably and impartially not only with the proximate issues of life but also with the ultimate concerns of faith through which the particulars of life gain their deeper significance.

This has been traumatic for him, but his strong will and perseverance have enabled him to continue his teaching profession.

Their fire for teaching is still strong and that energy can help infuse you with new interest in the profession.

«The program responds to a strong commitment among our undergraduates to public service professions and a growing interest in classroom teaching,» Faust said.

«If we are serious about making teaching a mature profession then we must make progress on the topics that were central to the seminar, especially the need to create career paths that will keep the very strongest teachers in the classroom while allowing them to provide leadership to others.»

I am blessed to regard myself as an «ambassador for the teaching profession» and wish all of my 49 fellow nominees the best of luck — and a strong voice — in their important work the following weeks.

Ronald Thorpe, president and CEO of the National Board, commended Moore on her strong testimony on behalf of the teaching profession.

Add in certification rules that keep mid-career professionals with strong math and science skills out of teaching, near - lifetime employment policies and discipline processes that keep laggard and criminally - abusive teachers in the profession, and practices that all but ensure that low - quality teachers are teaching the poorest children, and shoddy teacher training perpetuates the nation's educational caste system.

A spokesperson for the deputy prime minister said: «Nick Clegg has always been a strong and vocal supporter of the teaching profession, and made clear his commitment to tackling their workload in an interview with The Times Educational Supplement in August.

To build a stronger profession, we must provide aspiring, new, and professional teachers with a clear picture of what accomplished teaching looks like and how accomplished teachers continue to improve their practice.

ASCD is proud to stand among these supporters and state that we believe in the goals of the Teach Strong initiative to promote the importance of the teaching profession.

Now in her 26th year of teaching her passion for profession still burns strong.

Tomorrow, on Tuesday, November 10th, Brookins will share the National Board's vision for strengthening the teaching profession as a panelist at the Center for American Progress Teach Strong Campaign Launch Event, a national campaign to modernize and elevate teaching.

Innovating in this area would undoubtedly elevate the status of the profession and encourage more students to consider whether teaching could be a strong fit for them.

These included a strong vision of and value for public education in which almost Finnish children participate as the creator of Finland's future society; resulting high status for the country's teaching profession whose members are stringently selected through rigorous university - based teacher education programs that confer Masters degrees on all of them; a widespread culture of collaboration in curriculum development among teachers in each school district; an equally robust culture of collaboration among all partners in strong local municipalities where most curriculum and other policy decisions are made; and a system of widespread cooperation and trust instead of US - style test - based accountability.

The teaching pathway needs stronger structures; we need the teaching profession to emulate other strong professions in terms of cultivating a future workforce.

Just as important is support for universities to recruit, incentivize, and develop the strongest undergraduates to enter the teaching profession and be properly trained how to teach through residency programs where future teachers are under the tutelage of master teachers in actual classrooms.

Prioritizing quality over seniority in our teaching profession will not only make our schools stronger, it will make our union stronger.

«We will support a stronger profession of teaching and I will put the full weight of our national organization behind this effort.»

This year's conference, which will take place August 1 - 3 at the Mohegan Sun Convention Center, will emphasize how members can stand up and be strong voices in support of their students and the teaching profession.

«We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom,» he said.

Blog readers know that one reason I favor like Teach for America and various urban teaching fellows programs is that they help attract men and women with strong academic backgrounds to the profession.

The results showed «how teachers crave high - quality, collaborative, teacher - led professional learning opportunities and are eager to implement new strategies in their classrooms,» as well as «the importance of strong professional learning in the future of the teaching profession.»

Gibb said: «We know there are some local challenges, the truth is despite rising pupil numbers and the competitive jobs market a stronger economy has created, more people are entering the teaching profession than leaving it, there are 13,100 more teachers today than when we came to office and the ratio of teachers to pupils is stable with more teachers also choosing to come back to the classroom.

I am also Advisor to the Future Teachers Club, which encourages students from diverse backgrounds to think seriously about the teaching profession and to develop the strong leadership traits that are found in high - quality educators.

Thus, we conclude by pointing out that creating a stronger and more attractive teaching profession will depend on effective advocacy.

While funding and curriculum / testing reform are significant endeavors that need the new governor's attention, he must also look towards an impending problem for all of New Jersey's school: the teaching profession is far less attractive today than it was a decade ago, and without a strong plan to reverse that, funding and curriculum changes will falter.

This conclusion reflects the finding that teachers with stronger qualifications are both more responsive to the racial and socioeconomic mix of a school's students and less responsive to salary than are their less well qualified counterparts when making decisions about remaining in their current school, moving to another school or district, or leaving the teaching profession.

Labeled the «gold standard for the teaching profession,» the certification process is designed to provide teachers with a stronger knowledge and appreciation for: * Every student's emotional, physical, academic, economic and social health and well - being.

We as a profession have improved enormously in past decade so old research may not reflect current, stronger teaching prevalent today.

Teaching is a profession of practice, 22 meaning that teachers must not only have strong knowledge of pedagogy and their content area but must also know how to put this knowledge to use in a classroom setting to advance student learning.

Besides building a pipeline to teaching, they should be supported along the way with scholarship money and strong mentorship programs that will provide incentives for them to enter and remain in the teacher profession.

Dr. Fratamico also has a strong interest in education and teaching within the veterinary profession.

Founded in 1895 and a University since 1966, Aston is a long established research - led university known for its world - class teaching quality, and strong links to business and the professions.

A strong traditional resume can serve as an all - purpose resume in the teaching profession.