Sentences with phrase «teacher candidates take»

To place a quality teacher in every classroom, Leadership Prep uses a sophisticated hiring process that includes having teacher candidates take the TalentEd Educators Professional Inventory (EPI)-- a research - based assessment that objectively predicts the impact candidates will have on student achievement.

Forty - three states plus D.C. require that some or all out - of - state teacher candidates take additional assessments.

Thirty - one states require that some or all out - of - state teacher candidates take additional course work or training prior to receiving a new license.

Forty - three states plus Washington, DC, require that some or all out - of - state teacher candidates take additional assessments.

An independent panel of Maryland educators and citizens will recommend that teacher candidates take competency tests and that all practicing teachers be evaluated according to statewide standards.

Nowhere is the abdication of training truer or more harmful than in the course work elementary teacher candidates take in reading instruction.

327 teacher candidates took part in GCSA's Atlanta Job Fair on March 12 at Drew Charter School Senior Academy.

Not exact matches

He noted that one candidate (Mr. Walker) said his battles with labor unions would prepare him to take on terrorists, and that another candidate (Mr. Christie) said a teachers» union deserved a punch in the face.

Candidates supported by the Buffalo Teachers Federation nearly swept this year's races, unseating two incumbents and handily taking three of the other seats up for grabs.

Fielding questions from UFT president Michael Mulgrew, vice president, Karen Alford, and a half - dozen teachers, the candidates took turns touting their education experience and criticizing Mayor Bloomberg, who is profoundly unpopular with the union.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, came to Buffalo today to lend his support to teachers and parents protesting the rushed action taken by the School Board to allow charter schools to take over their public schools facing closure.

The University of Utah required teacher candidates to take the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Strong Vocational Interest Blank.

Teacher Meredith Stewart has students take on the persona of a candidate, campaign manager, or concerned citizen.

Just taking courses does not ensure that candidates become quality teachers, just as knowing a subject doesn't guarantee an ability to teach it.

In contrast, teacher candidates who took tests in 22 subject areas passed at an overall rate of 83 percent.

Their profiles are juxtaposed against sobering statistics and research, among them, this shocking reality: There are 3.2 million public school teachers in the United States; 1.8 million of them will soon retire, and there aren't many candidates yearning to take their place.

The ETS reexamined previous research by comparing the academic qualifications of teacher candidates who took its Praxis assessments for teacher licensure from 2002 through 2005 with the qualifications of a cohort from eight years earlier.

A highly able candidate who does not take a required course is no more allowed to teach than the candidate who is poorly educated and unable to pass the teacher's examination.

It's portfolio - based; it takes hours and hours to complete; and it combines video of teacher candidates delivering actual lessons, teacher lesson plans, student work, and candidate reflections.

candidate Doannie Tran didn't foresee himself starting a business, once he arrived at the Harvard Graduate School of Education his idea for an innovative web application — the Teaching Genome — aimed at helping teachers better navigate communication and understanding in practice began to take shape.

Faced with shortages due to new limits on class size, the district offered provisional certification to candidates who promised to take five education courses over three years and participate in a beginning teacher program.

Many reformers concluded that teacher turnover was therefore justifiable, since it weeded out bad apples and allowed potentially better candidates — like Teach for America corps members — to take their place.

If teacher - candidates took the SAT after April 1995, they would need to have earned at least 530 out of a possible 800 on each section, mathematics and verbal, and a combined score of at least 1100.

In other words, they can't take a clearly bright candidate like Eddie Wexler and give him the experience and mentoring he needs to become a great teacher.

So while the rest of the country took a bold step and almost universally denied teachers union candidates, we in California still have work to do.

That bill would also forbid board candidates from taking donations from teachers unions or district contractors.

Forty - four states require candidates to take a test or series of tests as part of their preparation; 25 states require students to have a specific grade point average before entering a teacher preparation program.

As part of my work with the new MIT Teaching Systems Lab and our partners, the Woodrow Wilson Academy for Teaching and Learning, I've been thinking a lot about what it takes to prepare a teacher candidate for their first year teaching.

Let us take this message to teach our teacher candidates and model it for them so they can carry it forward in their own teaching.

In our experience, teacher candidates who have a moral purpose also tend to be self - motivated, open to collaboration, and willing to take risks — all of which are essential for working in a high - poverty environment.

A third of the teacher candidates discussed the relationship between off - task behavior and technical issues / difficulties that happen when using computers in instruction, and 45 % of the teacher candidates recognized that allowing students to take ownership of the learning was an important part of teaching (see Appendix I, pdf download).

Teacher candidates should submit an application for certification before applying to take certification examinations.

A mere four weeks is in stark contrast to what takes place in many university - based teacher preparation programs in the United States, which typically require at least one semester of student teaching, and sometimes a full year, before teacher candidates can obtain a teaching degree.

Moreover, taking this field experience virtually provided teacher candidates with at least one online experience as advocated by the NEA (n.d.).

Teaching with technology took the teacher candidates out of their comfort zone.

Al Graf (R - Holbrook), president of the Port Jefferson Station Teachers Association Beth Dimino, co-founder of Stop Common Core in New York State Yvonne Gasperino, Michael Bohr, the founder of advocate group Badass Parents, and upstate principal Tim Farley, and Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, the newly announced Republican gubernatorial candidate running on the anti-Common Core platform — whose own kids have opted out of taking the tests.

In April, faculty and teacher candidate «ambassadors» representing institutions in the Associated Colleges of Illinois (ACI) convened in Chicago to take part in the Project LEAD (Leaders in Education Advocating for Diversity) Spring Summit.

The race for three Los Angeles school board seats — and an expected showdown between the teachers union and its opponents — began to take shape Saturday with the deadline for candidates to announce their plans to run.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

While engaging in these practices, teacher educators should instill within teacher candidates the notion that they alone are the curriculum gatekeepers, individually taking the role of translating formal curriculum into instructional programs for their particular environments (Thornton, 1991).

In order to increase teacher candidates» awareness of the potential of geospatial technologies, I took the existing course goals and worked to augment them through the incorporation of geospatial technology - based activities that added real - word context to educational content and standards, allowed for creative work, and prompted a reorientation to problems in the social and physical world.

Teacher candidates were then prompted to take photographs of examples or nonexamples of walkability in our university's town.

As part of their final project, where teacher candidates investigated the presence of different geography concepts at our institution, they created a map documenting places that were representative of their concept at work (e.g., «What photographs could you take to represent that connection between gender and space on campus?»).

Thus, social studies researchers need to take this prime opportunity to shed additional light on the work that we do, especially in regard to the integration and utilization of emerging technologies in the areas of social studies and the training of teachers and teacher candidates, through the dissemination of research, theory, and practice in a variety of outlets and contexts (NCSS, 2014).

Thus, teacher candidates could review the map created by photographs for specific photomissions or look at the cumulative map of all of the photographs taken throughout the semester.

Building upon the work of Juan Carlos Castro (2012), as well as Sarah Mathews and Erin Adams (2016), photomissions prompt teacher candidates to read an assigned text and then take a photograph of a concept they identified from the reading.

For example, on a week when they engaged with ideas related to gender and space, teacher candidates first read excerpts from Doreen Massey's (1994) Space, Place, and Gender and were then tasked with taking a photograph of how they perceived the connections between gender and space, as informed by their reading, in their daily lives.

With CEL's help, Shelby County not only interviewed candidates, but took them through a rigorous set of tasks: developing a 10 - minute presentation on the role of the ILD; evaluating a teacher based on a videotaped lesson; creating a professional development plan for a principal based on a case study.

The following fall, students take their second methods class, also held in a computer lab, which concentrates on writing pedagogy, and the teacher candidates concurrently practice - teach at the middle school level for 15 hours a week.

But according to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing, the PACT's pass rates are much higher than those on the California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA), taken by a majority of teacher candidates in the state, and the Fresno Assessment of Student Teachers (FAST), taken only by candidates at California State University Teacher Credentialing, the PACT's pass rates are much higher than those on the California Teaching Performance Assessment (CalTPA), taken by a majority of teacher candidates in the state, and the Fresno Assessment of Student Teachers (FAST), taken only by candidates at California State University teacher candidates in the state, and the Fresno Assessment of Student Teachers (FAST), taken only by candidates at California State University Fresno.