Sentences with phrase «teachers from other backgrounds»

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Experts then came to the forefront from a variety of different backgrounds (former professionals, passionate and knowledgeable amateur athletes, teachers and others) entered the profession.

But it's not just developing great teachers and leaders — our offer extends to other programmes that we know are priorities for schools, including our highly successful Futures programme which helps students from disadvantaged backgrounds get into top universities.

Moreover, 4th and 8th graders in West Virginia are less likely than their peers in other states to attend schools where more than half of parents attend parent - teacher conferences, based on data from the background survey of the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

But development is a very complex thing, she says, and she and Mancilla - Martinez have demonstrated in their research that there is immense variability among children from lowincome backgrounds, that risk factors can be balanced out by other strengths, and teachers should always be aware that low - income children are not destined to fail academically.

In addition to this, more than half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down and those from minority ethnic backgrounds were shown to have been more likely to be denied progression than others.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

We work with teachers from within the UK, Australia, New Zealand and other backgrounds, and ensure they find the appropriate role.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

Other experts, however, argue that teachers from alternative programs may not be the most effective, especially if they enter the classroom with little experience in education and no background in teaching.

Financial support is critical to recruit and retain low - income students from all racial and ethnic backgrounds.75 Therefore, teacher preparation programs should use loan forgiveness, scholarships, and other financial incentives to attract diverse, high - achieving candidates.

Though it may not pay as well as in other states, becoming a teacher in South Carolina provides prospective educators with the opportunity to work with students from a wide variety of backgrounds.

We found other teachers like us — from all backgrounds, levels of experience, and teaching environments — who wanted to make a difference in their profession.

Working professionals with expertise in math and science who come from diverse backgrounds and bring other knowledge and skills honed over years in the workplace are a largely untapped source of potential high - performing teachers.9 In order for professionals to make the shift to teaching careers, they need to be aware of the opportunities available, which is recruitment's role.

Every year, however, millions of high school students — disproportionately from low - income and minority backgrounds — are denied access to such opportunities, whether it is because their schools lack the resources to offer such courses, because their teachers haven't recommended them for advanced coursework, because their test scores fall below a certain benchmark, or for some other reason (Mathews, 1998; Oakes et al., 2000; Schmidt et al., 2015; Solorzano & Ornealas, 2004; Tyson, 2013).

Our teaching staff have diverse career backgrounds: some come to us from MATCH teacher residency, others from Teach for America, some are home - grown through our AmeriCorps Fellowship program, and other still are from finance, law, or other non-teaching backgrounds.

Teachers from minority ethnic backgrounds were more likely to have been denied progression than other teachers, and over half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down, showing that many decisions are in clear contravention of equalitTeachers from minority ethnic backgrounds were more likely to have been denied progression than other teachers, and over half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down, showing that many decisions are in clear contravention of equalitteachers, and over half of women teachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down, showing that many decisions are in clear contravention of equalitteachers absent on maternity leave during the year who were eligible for progression had been turned down, showing that many decisions are in clear contravention of equalities law.

But controlling for numerous factors, including students» backgrounds, the researchers found that the value - added scores consistently identified some teachers as better than others, even if individual teachers» value - added scores varied from year to year.

The teacher may be from a different cultural environment than the students or the students may be from different cultural backgrounds among each other.

Teachers and other professionals providing education - related services to exceptional children from different cultural backgrounds need to be aware of unique perspectives or communication styles common to those cultures.

Other background: Li's grandfather, Zhu Qi Xan, received a doctorate from Columbia Teachers College in the 1940s.

Other backgrounds were former Human Resource People (none from our industry), elementary or high school teachers and others who NEVER really used resumes for hiring purposes in the real world, let alone in our industry.

Some elements of a quality program — such as teacher background checks and environmental standards — are clearly worth the cost from a health and safety perspective.32 Others, such as low ratios and small group sizes, allow for high - quality, developmentally appropriate interactions that have a direct impact on the socio - emotional, language, and brain development of young children.