Sentences with phrase «teacher in those subjects»

This cancellation is based on full - time teaching if there is a shortage of teachers in your subject area.

The standards are an especially tough lift for teachers in subjects like science who may have no experience selecting appropriate nonfiction texts or designing writing assignments.

Support differential pay initiatives for effective teachers in subject shortage areas.

Common Core architects say teachers in all subjects should incorporate more informational texts.

Sources close to the process say that's because there aren't currently enough teachers in some subjects — particularly modern languages.

Teachers in some subjects taught fewer classes, which also had implications for the spending differences.

Good teachers in every subject will adjust their teaching based on what students know at each point.

These technologies, in turn, allow teachers in those subjects to provide more up - to - date and relevant experiences for their students.

The report also reviews research and makes recommendations about policies that could help create a sustainable supply of well - prepared teachers in the subjects and states where they are needed.

State officials have said that by next year, they will develop ways to assess teachers in subjects with no state test.

We are also hiring substitute teachers in all subject areas.

Support differential pay initiatives for effective teachers in both subject - shortage areas and high - need schools.

Here's a couple of mine: If the expectation is really that non-fiction texts will be used by teachers in all subject areas, and not just English class, why are those critical instructions buried in a footnote in a 60 - plus page primer on the Common Core — as Layton pointed out?

It would also be a useful context for teachers in any subject who may ask their students to do a «video project» (or other media creation project like music, websites, games, etc.).

It allows anyone with a bachelor's degree, a B average and approximately three years of related work experience to become a middle or high school teacher in a subject such as math, science or music, provided they pass a content test.

Aimed at elementary, middle, and high school teachers in all subject areas, How to Assess Higher - Order Thinking Skills in Your Classroom provides essential background, sound advice, and thoughtful insight into an area of increasing importance for the success of students in the classroom — and in life.

, the program recruits individuals with STEM expertise to become teachers in those subjects.

When questioned on the shortages, 84 per cent of the respondents claimed that it was having a detrimental impact, with 70 per cent having to use more supply staff, 73 per cent using teachers in subjects that are not their specialist areas, and 25 per cent merging classes.

This would include AmeriCorps teachers or teachers in subjects facing instructor shortages.

Shortages of qualified teachers in subjects like math, science, special education, and foreign languages, along with the impending retirements of an entire generation of teachers, make recruiting teachers to hard - to - staff schools even more challenging.

Colorado is planning to use off - the - shelf assessments and school - generated methods to gauge how teachers in subjects like physical education and music are performing.

Questions such as how much weight would be given to standardized test scores and how teachers in subjects such as art and physical education would be graded were finally answered, but trepidation about the new evaluations remains, both among the educators who will be graded and the administrators assigned the task of implementing the reforms.

This justified the recruitment of teachers in these subjects from countries outside the European Union, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC) said.

There are particular problems in finding teachers in subjects such as physics, and the government is offering increasingly generous bursaries.

Captured in its recent manifesto launch, the policy will involve the acceleration of ICT education by training more teachers in the subject area while continuing the supply of computers to basic schools and establish ICT laboratories for selected schools.

(The weights are adjusted for teachers in subjects not covered by statewide assessments or end - of - course exams and for those with fewer than three years of student - achievement data.)

Small - district subsidies also reinforce the assumption that there is one best method to deliver schooling: a traditional school building with a principal, a nurse, on - site teachers in all subjects including specialty courses, and so forth.

My conversations with current and former educators suggest that their reluctance to embrace higher salaries for math and science teachers stems in large part from a concern that this approach would imply that other subject areas are somehow less important — and that the contributions made by teachers in those subjects therefore have less value.

There is some evidence to suggest that school districts are choosing to retain teachers in subject areas with teacher shortages, with 13.3 percent of teachers that received layoff notices falling into such a category compared to 15.1 percent of teachers who did not receive a notice.

Of course, it is possible to disregard statistical criteria and reward the top 10 percent of teachers in all subjects willy - nilly.

As part of guaranteeing all young people access to excellent teachers in these subjects we are supporting a number of schools to recruit up to 650 teachers to return to the classroom in September 2016.»

There has been a steady decline in the number of students choosing to study languages over the last two decades, which has in turn led to issues in recruiting and training enough high quality teachers in the subject.

Two groups of students were studied: elementary - school students in grades 3 through 5 (where most students have a single teacher throughout the year) and middle schoolers in grades 6 through 8 (where students tend to have a different teacher in each subject).

A: [Principal Alison] Harris's vision for my first year was to have me work with new teachers in all subjects.

The proposals would not make much of an impact on the recruitment for trainee teachers in subjects such as history and English, where courses are heavily over-subscribed.

«If the government wishes to ease these growing pressures and safeguard educational standards, it should consider policies which offer financial and other incentives to teachers in these subjects early on in their career.»

«Early - stage research indicates that the # 67 million maths and physics teacher supply package, aimed at recruiting an additional 2,500 teachers and improving the skills of 15,000 non-specialist teachers in these subjects, is having a positive impact.»

They also outperformed experienced teachers in that subject — a finding contradicting critics who argue that TFA teachers» relative inexperience harms learning.

In a third federal lawsuit, the union is challenging use of so - called «value - added» scores to evaluate teachers in subjects like art and music, who don't have test data related to their own students.

«I congratulate Virginia's reading teachers — and teachers in all subjects who strive to expand their students» vocabularies — for making such a difference in the lives of their students,» Governor Bob McDonnell said.

Developed by the Princeton, N.J. - basedWoodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, the program recruits individuals with STEM expertise to become teachers in those subjects.

Head of education, Justin Donovan, has said that teachers in subjects facing a shortfall could still earn more to ensure sufficient teachers are recruited, but Rob Ward from the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has criticised the plans, saying that it will put off potential teachers from coming to the island.

These new requirements have caused major problems in obtaining qualified teachers in subjects (special education, science, math) and areas (rural, inner cities) where schools districts already have teacher shortages.

Holly Barradell, who sits on the executive committee of teaching association National Drama, said teachers in the subject are feeling «increasingly isolated».

Sir Michael also warned that problems were being exacerbated by difficulties in recruiting teachers - and that schools in challenging areas could have the toughest time finding enough teachers in some subjects.

«We are convinced that in order to dramatically improve education in America, we must first ensure that every student has an effective teacher in every subject, every school year,» said Melinda French Gates, co-chair of the foundation.

Steppingstone hires middle school teachers in all subjects to teach during our six - week summer session in Milton, just outside of Boston.

As my first year progressed I found it easy to collaborate with a couple of teachers in subject areas other than mine but for the most part I was alone — on my own when it came to learning, growing, and developing into the social studies teacher I wanted to be.

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan frequently cites the need for drastic improvements in the nation's science and math scores, and favors higher pay for teachers in those subject areas as a means to achieve better results.