Sentences with phrase «teachers at the high school level»

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One college - level biology class revealed that the well - meaning teachers at his Christian high school had not told him the whole truth about the evidence.

Prior to joining the Brooklyn faculty in 2016, she was a member of the faculty for nine years at The Waldorf School of Garden City, where she served as a class teacher, mentor, and lower school chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recogSchool of Garden City, where she served as a class teacher, mentor, and lower school chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recogschool chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recognized.

«ATs can be pivotal in maintaining a high level of awareness, education, and communication with school nurses, physicians, counselors, teachers, coaches, school administrators, and parents.»

He does addition and subtraction and he's on a level higher than his class,» said Davis, who serves as the parent teacher association president at the co-located District 75 school that serves students with special needs.

Are you an earth sciences or meteorology teacher at the high school or undergraduate level?

«It's possible that the negative effect that we have detected will disappear at that point, because in secondary school, the students have a higher level of English,» says Carro, who also proposes another topic to be analyzed: find out what other factors can influence the program's results, such a the importance of the teachers» level of English.

Finally, Joan Roberts, is a former home economics teacher, inspired us with her vision of a curriculum for the high school and college level to educate men and women of reproductive age to eat traditional nutrient - dense foods for at least six months prior to conception in order to fortify their bodies to give birth to optimally healthy children.

The highest level of satisfaction with regard to improvements was among teachers at city technology colleges, with 67 % saying works had been carried out and their environment had improved, while on average a third of schools had not seen any works carried out in the past year.

«More than 50 percent of male teachers are at the high school level.»

«The agreement on pay at TSAT means that teachers are not only placed on a higher level of pay compared to most colleagues in other maintained schools, but also provides them with a very clear and accessible means of career progression.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

Some teachers do hear what the students are saying, Constantine says, and even at the high school level, where some teachers believe that their job is strictly to teach the content and that's it, they are doing icebreaker activities in class that have nothing to do with subject - matter knowledge.

In standards and accountability, the American Federation of Teachers has rated Colorado's standards clear, specific, and grounded in content, except for social studies at the elementary and high school levels.

Glavac: The book, which has become a best - seller, is being used by schools at the elementary and high school level, in college and university Internet courses, and in teacher pre-service courses.

In the same way, taking the time to recognize a handful of new teachers at each level (primary, middle grades and high school teachers) who also demostrate a level of expertise beyond there years of experience sends a powerful message of support for excellence in the profession.

The exam, called the Liberal Arts and Sciences Test (LAST - 2), was designed to ensure that all teachers have at least a high - school - level knowledge of the liberal arts and sciences.

After being a classroom teacher and a content - area teacher (math and science) at the early childhood, elementary, middle, and high school levels for over 10 years, I wanted to specialize and gain expertise in an area that I was passionate about: literacy.

«At the moment, there are some teachers who go into primary teaching, and they haven't done the higher levels of maths and science in high school,» he added.

We look at level of school (high school, middle school, or elementary school), total enrollment, percentage of the student body that is white, average experience of teachers, and school performance, as measured by the school's academic rank within the state.

Driven by changes already happening at the higher education levels and the need to prepare students for the 21st century workplace, blended learning provides the school with a variety of ways to address student needs, differentiate instruction, and provide teachers with data for instructional decision - making.

Though he had logged 35 years in the system, this teacher had never taught at a level higher than first - year Regents math — which 90 percent of Stuyvesant's freshmen have taken in junior high school.

The existence of an orderly learning environment throughout the school — established through positive rather than negative means, whereby there are high levels of teacher consistency about how it is «enforced» and structures in place to ensure that all students are known well by at least one adult in the school — is a fundamental precondition for improved teaching and learning to occur on which the subsequent improvement in student learning outcomes can be based.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

For example, a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile on the state reading and math test and is assigned to a teacher in the top quartile in terms of overall TES scores will perform on average, by the end of the school year, three percentile points higher in reading and two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

«I have added the goal of learning how to teach my students that they are part of a community that they can change if they so wish,» says Kabongo, who is completing her practicum for the Teacher Education Program (TEP) at Chelsea High School where she teaches a mixed - level history class.

The teacher was hired in 1977 to teach science at the high - school level but was transferred to a middle school in 1980.

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

And each week's content is connected to two related lesson plans — one aimed at middle school level, one aimed at high school level — written by curriculum specialists with the National Science Teachers Association.

School - level planning teams were organized for all Algebra I teachers (from high schools and middle schools), and a districtwide meeting was held (at first weekly, later monthly) for a representative from each team.

After earning a Masters Degree in both General and Special Education at Hunter College, where he taught a graduate level course on integrating technology into the special education classroom, Adam became an English teacher at a High School on Long Island for several years.

At both the middle - and high - school levels, the initiative seems to have worked well for many teachers, but a significant minority of teachers has chosen not to participate.

«We met and discussed what we had seen and [our teachers] were impressed because the students in that school were at a higher level with phonics than our students.

Prior to becoming a superintendent, she worked in many different facets of education including as classroom teacher at both the elementary and middle school levels, principal at the middle school level, director of the Upward Bound Program for first - generation college - bound students, and director of the Basic Skills Academy for at - risk high school youth.

For a better sense of the magnitude of these estimates, consider a student who begins the year at the 50th percentile and is assigned to a top - quartile teacher as measured by the Overall Classroom Practices score; by the end of the school year, that student, on average, will score about three percentile points higher in reading and about two points higher in math than a peer who began the year at the same achievement level but was assigned to a bottom - quartile teacher.

I find it encouraging, comforting and not at all surprising that many classroom teachers, school administration and support staff have high levels of awareness concerning student wellbeing.

To sum up: 1) low - stakes tests appear to measure something meaningful that shows up in long - run outcomes; 2) we don't know nearly as much about high - stakes exams and long - run outcomes; and 3) there doesn't seem to be a strong correlation between test - score gain and other measures of quality at either the teacher or school level.

Nevertheless, many English language arts teachers (including 56 percent at the middle school level) assign none of the literary or informational texts listed in the survey, which represented both CCSS exemplars and other high - quality texts.

As at any level of K - 12 education, teachers» technology skills and interest also play a major role in how much computers are used in the high school classroom.

The proportion of instructors with Ph.D. s in exam schools is higher than the norm, and many have had experience teaching at the college level or working in fields related to the disciplines they teach (e.g., engineer - turned - science teacher).

Collaboration is needed at all levels: between teachers and counselors, K — 12 and higher education, researchers and practitioners, schools and nonprofit / community organizations, educators and business leaders, etc..

It's one thing to have a goal, it's another thing to really spend some time and energy and invest in the resources to build the capacity of teachers and school systems to deliver on the idea that all students ought to achieve at high levels.

Merseth began her career as a math teacher at the junior high and high school level, eventually leading to a position as a K — 12 math coordinator.

Annual assessments stop in the eighth grade; teacher value - added scores aren't generally computed at the high school level.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

You're surrounded by kids like you — some smarter than you — and taught by capable teachers who welcome the challenge, teachers more apt to have doctorates or experience at the university level than high school instructors elsewhere.

This data implies that elementary school teachers are performing at a higher level than high school teachers, and that female teachers are more effective than male ones.

At Hampton High School, teachers calibrate their assessments against a rigor scale so that the level of performance is also hHigh School, teachers calibrate their assessments against a rigor scale so that the level of performance is also highhigh.

At the secondary level, this often requires supplanting an elective in a student's schedule to provide explicit reading instruction, which can present a dilemma for middle and high school leaders and teachers.

Spurred by a team of three biology, math, and humanities teachers at High Tech High, a public charter school in San Diego, these diverse students — of widely mixed academic levels and socioeconomic backgrounds — created the book as the central project of their junior year.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.