Sentences with phrase «studies teachers across»

Finally, as an insult to all Social Studies teachers across the entire Sunshine State, Speaker Corcoran tells us that the Florida Legislature and the CRC have set out to enshrine civics education in our Constitution in an effort to ensure «a student should not be able to graduate without understanding what makes America great.

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Today, Flocabulary has a library of more than 550 educational hip - hop videos that explore a wide range of subjects, including math, science, social studies, language arts, and current events, which are used by teachers in 20,000 schools across the country.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Ed School Follies: The Miseducation Of America's Teachers by Rita Kramer Free Press, 228 pages, $ 22.95 In her lively new study based upon fourteen schools of education across the country, Rita Kramer skewers two quite distinct forms of folly.

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised the Muslim community that it will promote the study of the Arabic language across the country in addition to its plans to restore allowances for teachers and nurses in training colleges, when voted into power.

(New York, NY) Jan. 10, 2013 — Those students in New York City who most depend on highly effective teachers are instead the students most likely to be taught by teachers rated «Unsatisfactory,» according to an eye - opening study of the City's teacher rating data, published today by StudentsFirstNY, an education advocacy organization with more than 150,000 members across New York State.

Across both studies, the researchers found that racial stereotypes shaped teachers» responses not after the first infraction but rather after the second.

Over the next 10 years, school boards across Canada can expect a shortage of teachers, especially in math and science, according to a 2002 Ministry of Education study.

The study — conducted by Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn. — included 80 elementary school teachers and 1,500 elementary students across Minnesota.

Across our great land this week ~ social studies teachers will hail the penning and adoption of the US Constitution.

This week, Education World offers three teaching masters for teachers across the grades to use to help students brush up on their study skills — using a search engine, using an index, looking for key words, skimming text for information, and more — while they learn interesting facts about the world around them!

Hangouts can be a great way for teachers to facilitate a book study across grade levels, schools and even districts.

This resource is written by teachers from across the country and presents the history of the Court thematically corresponding to the strands in the social studies curriculum.

The report reviews 41 evaluation studies from a sample of 25 professional - development initiatives for teachers of math and science conducted across the United States from 2004 through 2007.

Across studies, teacher professional development in mathematics showed significant positive effects on student learning.

The result is that the content a child studies in an American school is often based on what their teacher happens to believe is worth teaching, and how skilled she or he happens to be in constructing and sequencing that material across a semester.

A study released last September, The State of Teacher Diversity in American Education by the Albert Shanker Institute, examined nine cities across the country and found that only in Los Angeles were minority teachers the majority.

An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce authentic digital artifacts where students think and work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.

By contrast, negative teacher - student relations seem to undermine students» confidence and lead to greater anxiety: On average across countries, students are about 62 per cent more likely to get very tense when they study, and about 31 per cent more likely to feel anxious before a test if they perceive that their teacher thinks they are less smart than they really are.

For instance, the median finding across 10 studies of teacher effectiveness estimates that a teacher who is one standard deviation above the average in terms of quality produces additional learning gains for students of 0.12 standard deviations in reading and 0.14 standard deviations in math.

The doctoral study of these teachers» classrooms was conducted across a two - year period.

It calls for flexible schedules, more project - based and interdisciplinary learning, a more engaging and real world — based course of study, increased opportunity for teachers to work in teams, and better integration of technology across subject areas.

In fact, a 2016 study commissioned by IES concluded that «across all states, use of policies and practices promoted by RTT was... lowest for teacher and principal certification and evaluation.»

In a major study we released this week together with Education Reform Now, How Strong Are U.S. Teacher Unions: A State - By - State Comparison, we dug deep, churning vast amounts of data to parse the differences in political strength across state - level unions in the fifty states plus the District of Columbia.

18 — Curriculum and instruction: «Study Skills Across the Curriculum,» and «Integrating Curriculum: What, Why, and How,» seminars, sponsored by the New England League of Middle Schools, for middle school teachers and administrators, in Laconia, N.H. Contact: Jean Blanchard, N.E.L.M.S., 460 Boston St., Suite 4, Topsfield, Mass. 01983 - 1223; [phone]; fax: [phone].

The actual losses vary across a teacher's career, but at no point in any of the states the authors studied would the teacher finally surpass what was contributed on her behalf.

The study, by Twin Cities Public Television in St. Paul, Minn., included 80 elementary school teachers and 1,500 elementary students across Minnesota.

Roughly 1,000 teachers across the nation leave the profession every schoolday, according to the study, released in an Issue Brief this month.

A written survey component of this study will build on a similar study conducted in 2005 — 06 (Hill, 2007), allowing for the comparison of teachers» curriculum use and content knowledge — and more specifically, their mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT)-- across time periods.

In Professor Higgins» class we analyzed case studies about so many good ideas that failed because they failed to understand the other stakeholders in the ecosystem,» says Gulati, explaining that during the launch of Meraki, her team spent six to eight months interviewing parents, schools, teachers, and principals across India to understand the challenges of the communities.

The aim of the proposed study is to quantify and predict variation in professional development effectiveness across a large, diverse sample of children, teachers, centers, and cities.

Teachers who use innovative teaching methods are becoming more common but were few and far between, and opportunities for students to develop problem - solving and collaboration skills remain quite low across the seven countries studied.

More hours in the school day for teachers as well as students can lead to improved academic achievement, according to a new report that studies 17 schools across the nation that give teachers more time for collaboration and professional development.

In one study, Robert Pianta, dean of the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, found that in observations of 700 preschool classrooms across 11 states, teachers in less than 15 percent of the classes demonstrated «effective teacher - student interactions.»

So, it is frustrating to discover within this survey, posted on the website of the School Choice Campaign, a flagship project of the Centre for Civil Society to bring about reforms in schools in India, a high rate of attrition among teachers in the developing world, which averages about 19 % across the countries studied.

Across the country, schools spend some $ 14 billion a year on the extra pay for advanced degrees, according to one study, though the practice is gaining greater scrutiny as policy - makers look to hold teachers more accountable for students» learning.

Across the four cohorts of teachers included in this study who completed two years or more of teaching, more than a third of TFA teachers remained past their commitment.

The press release at least mentioned the study's finding that «having a higher percentage of teachers with master's degrees and extensive teaching experience appears to have comparatively little effect on student achievement across states.

One study estimated that a teacher working a 30 - year career in the same state had two or even three times the pension wealth as a teacher with the same 30 - year career who split her time across two states.

Using an average teacher salary of $ 55,000, the class size reduction would have a minimum cost across the PARCC and SBAC states of $ 3.1 billion or $ 1,046 per student — 1,561 times the cost of the annual textbook study, for a slightly larger benefit!

As Hanushek wrote in 1989, «Perhaps the closest thing to a consistent conclusion across studies is the finding that teachers who perform well on verbal ability tests do better in the classroom.»

The best of these studies, so - called value - added studies that concentrate on the determinants of growth in achievement across individual classrooms, find that differences in teacher quality have a profound impact.

Across these fourteen studies, the work of teacher leader focused primarily on providing instructional support to teachers.

Moreover, across these fourteen studies, various outcomes of the teacher leader practice of providing demonstration lessons or modeling were examined:

Building communication: Based on teachers» rating of «communication of ideas across teachers» (from survey) as indicative (5) down to absent (1) in school; also based on positive or negative comments in interviews, case study about communication and collaboration across teachers

Analysis across these studies revealed that teacher leaders used a variety of practices in their work with teachers to implement instructional materials.

Thus, teachers were invited to participate in the research study based on having received a teaching award from a national organization granting recognition across content areas and grade levels.

In this study, this variation serves two purposes: to document the range of variation in the selected award - winning teachers and to determine whether common themes or patterns cut across this variation.

Findings from across these studies indicated that part - or no - time release teacher leaders reduced the opportunities teacher leaders had to work directly with teachers in their classrooms and that additional release time was needed to support teacher leaders» influence on teachers» classroom instruction.

In a study of 5 schools found to be most effective out of a sample of 741 schools which were part of a study of compensatory reading programs, Wilder (1977) found the following factors common to all 5 schools: reading was identified as an important instructional goal; leadership in the reading program was provided by either the principal or reading specialist; attention was given to basic skills; a breadth of materials was made available; and ideas were communicated across teachers, a process which was typically fostered by the program leader.