Sentences with phrase «tackling teacher shortages»

Mr Hinds promised to work with school leaders to reduce workload and to make tackling teacher shortages a priority.

There is no shortage of proposed solutions to tackling teacher shortages.

And seven state plans specifically indicate that they'll be collaborating with teacher preparation programs to tackle teacher shortages.

Larry Flanagan, general secretary of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), said: «This investment to support the retraining of experienced workers as teachers will help to tackle teacher shortages, while also continuing to ensure that only fully qualified teachers are deployed in order to maintain the very high standards of learning and teaching in Scotland's schools.»

Specialist teacher training hubs set up to tackle teacher shortages in languages, physics and maths are struggling to sign up recruits.

Among other things, legislators in the state will be looking for ways to tackle teacher shortages.

«However, this government's focus on academisation at all costs means that other options to tackle school improvement are being ignored including tackling the teacher shortage crisis threatening school standards.»

In Washington, this is the second year legislators have tackled the teacher shortage, which has been exacerbated by the expansion of full - day kindergarten and class size reduction in the early elementary grades.

«It was meant to be Nicky Morgan's major initiative to tackle teacher shortages, but it has palpably failed.»

Are states doing enough to tackle teacher shortages?

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It has been suggested to include: evidence - based initiatives and investment to tackle subject specialist shortages at both primary and secondary level; plans to focus recruitment to regions of the country in most need, particularly since the failure of the National Teaching Service; the range and performance of ITT providers in terms of recruitment and retention of teachers; and a thorough plan for the evaluation of any initiatives and how any findings will feed into future plans for teacher recruitment.

Barry Sindall, chairman of the Grammar School Heads Association, made a similar assertion that one way to tackle the growing shortage of markers would be for head teachers to encourage their staff to become markers.

«Ministers must urgently tackle the serious problems they have created in education, including school budgets falling in real terms for the first time in twenty years, chronic shortages of teachers, not enough good school places, and chaos and confusion in the exams system.

Mary Bousted (pictured), general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Leaders, said: «The NTS was heralded as the big initiative that was going to tackle the teaching shortage in deprived areas.

The government is failing to take adequate measures to tackle «significant teacher shortages» in England, a committee of MPs has said.

Instead of allowing grammar schools to expand, the Government should concentrate on tackling the shortage of teachers so all children are taught by qualified teachers.»

Teachers are calling for tackling staff shortages to be made a priority rather than «politically motivated» projects such as academies and free schools.

A summit is being held in Aberdeen to tackle the growing shortage of teachers across the North and North East.

«Ministers must urgently tackle the serious problems they have created in education, including school budgets falling in real terms for the first time in 20 years, chronic shortages of teachers, not enough good school places, and chaos and confusion in the exams system.»

It also wants evidence on the «root causes of the current situation with regard to the supply of teachers» and what further action the government should take to tackle «teacher shortages.»

He also talked about his frustrations with education reformers and how his wife's nascent teaching career informs his efforts to tackle California's teacher shortage.