Sentences with phrase «teachers in groups large»

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BC, Canada's largest telecommunications group, announced the biggest buyout in Canadian corporate history on Saturday, accepting an offer worth C$ 51.7 billion ($ 48.5 billion), including debt, from a group including the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan.

Last year the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund bought one of Spain's largest funeral businesses from 3i Group, a British private - equity firm, for # 117m, and increased its stake in a French equivalent.

Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

In 1960 the largest single group of workers was called by the census «professional, managerial, and technical people,» like me and my wife who are teachers.

It was never explicitly stated whether or not the adults were expected to join in the singing and group large motor activities, but after a couple sessions it was clear to me that the parents who sat and watched this circle time tended to have the children who sat and watched, whereas those of us who jumped up and down and wiggled our fannies along with the teacher had children who participated.

Wales» largest union for qualified teachers, NUT Cymru, has commented on the final report from the Digital Classroom Teaching Task and Finish Group which sets out how Welsh schools can deliver digital classrooms in a digital age.

Responding to the decision of the Minister for Education and Skills, Leighton Andrews AM, to set up a Task & Finish Group to review the roles and responsibilities in relation to school governance, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in Wales, said:

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, is proud to sponsor Child Poverty Action Group's (CPAG) 50th anniversary lecture, which has been held today in Westminster.

(CNN)- The president of the nation's largest teachers group on Wednesday rejected the National Rifle Association's proposal to put guns in schools.

In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.

Matt Pollard, Lead STEM Teacher at Paradise Creek Regional High School in Moscow and an enthusiastic advocate of the program expressed, «It's been fun to watch the growth of Science After Hours from a small loose knit group of friends and colleagues to a larger get - there - early - to - get - a-seat affair; its growth has been spectacular, warranting larger venues.

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Studio Ponoc's goal was to continue in the footsteps of their teachers, taking with them a large group of Ghibli regulars, whilst also braving the new ever - changing world of the modern anime industry.

Public school administrators in Howard County, Md., may no longer have the country's largest teachers» union behind them, but they at least belong to a group that understands their needs.

From a broader perspective, this means that our significant investment in pensions is not affecting the retention decisions for large groups of teachers.

«In addition,» Smith said, «we are considering adding an online help - desk form that date / time stamps requests; providing hand - held devices for teachers who have large groups of students (physical education, music, and so on) to use to take attendance; and offering an Intel Teach to the Future program for teachers who wish to be trainers.

• The 8,000 - member Teach Plus, the largest of the teacher voice groups, was started in 2007 and has since expanded to Los Angeles, Memphis, Chicago, Indianapolis, and Washington, D.C..

The largest source of funding is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which currently has $ 13.5 million invested in nine teacher - advocacy groups, including $ 975,000 over two years going to E4E.

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

When students arrive at class, the teacher can address the questions in a large group.

In the traditional classroom setting, where one teacher is lecturing to a large group of students, it's not surprising there are attention problems.

In reading, by contrast, assignment to a Level II or Level III teacher was associated with a large and statistically significant increase in reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificanIn reading, by contrast, assignment to a Level II or Level III teacher was associated with a large and statistically significant increase in reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificanin reading achievement, while estimates of the effects of having a teacher from both of the other two groups remained positive but statistically insignificant.

Teachers and principals should have a more significant voice in shaping large - scale instructional improvement plans, a national urban education group argues.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

The term «flipped» is used to refer to the reversal of the traditional homework therefore direct instruction is not conducted in large groups, but rather individually through teacher - created videos.

«This club provides a place for students who don't participate on sports teams, or orchestra, or other larger groups,» said Ginny Paisie, a language arts teacher at Davis Drive Middle School in Cary, North Carolina.

As the leader of the largest group of teachers in the nation, Weingarten is well - positioned to effect change in the education space, and she consistently ensures that key issues remain at the forefront of American public discourse.

Advantages Factual material is presented in a direct, logical manner May provide experiences that inspire - useful for large groups Most efficient way to convey teacher spoken information

It's harder for kids in poverty and in single - parent homes, especially those attending large, impersonal middle and high schools where students change subjects, teachers and work groups every 50 - 90 minutes in response to a bell (the proverbial «factory model»).

In large schools, administrators may wish to explore changes in the physical characteristics of the school that would permit the assignment of teachers and students to smaller, mutually intersecting and supportive groupings within the larger physical structurIn large schools, administrators may wish to explore changes in the physical characteristics of the school that would permit the assignment of teachers and students to smaller, mutually intersecting and supportive groupings within the larger physical structurin the physical characteristics of the school that would permit the assignment of teachers and students to smaller, mutually intersecting and supportive groupings within the larger physical structure.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

A group as large as teachers (there are about 3.1 million public school teachers) will include some who are more effective and some who are less effective, and ample evidence exists that teachers differ in their effectiveness.

One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works best at that moment, until the student meets the learning objective.

As Senators of the Health, Education, Labor, & Pensions Committee debated federal education policy at an abbreviated hearing Wednesday morning, two coalitions of education and civil rights groups released letters poking holes in the bill while the nation's two largest teachers» unions released notes containing partial endorsements.

The policies that were criticized were those that increased attention to academic outcomes at the expense of children's exploration, discovery, and play; methods that focused on large group activities and completion of one - dimensional worksheets and workbooks in place of actual engagement with concrete objects and naturally occurring experiences of the world; and directives that emphasized the use of group - administered, computer - scored, multiple - choice achievement tests in order to determine a child's starting place in school rather than assessments that rely on active child engagement, teacher judgment, and clinical opinion.

Very often these partnerships have little to do with their charitable status — they arise from good relationships between head teachers in a local area or because a school is an active part of a large group of schools, state and independent.»

Dr. Dillon has worked to grow leadership capacity in this area as well as with teacher groups, large and small, from K - 12 to support their journey to bring a blended, personalized learning experience to all students that they serve.

What emerges is a pattern in which the most accomplished teachers demonstrate a more balanced portfolio of approaches to assist in word identification (i.e., more of them do a little of each practice) and are, by and large, the only group of teachers who go the extra mile in helping students apply the alphabetic principle to work in everyday reading tasks.

While our analysis indicates that ability grouping and DI occur simultaneously, there is still much to learn about how teachers make meaning of these practices and the extent to which changes in the larger institutional environment inform their decisions.

Cuts in the overall federal budget could mean Tennessee could see larger class sizes, slashes to grant funding for pre-kindergarten and teacher training and, eventually, the elimination of athletics and band programs, according to superintendents and child advocacy groups.

In the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, teacher union watchdog Mike Antonucci reports, «NEA members lean no further to the left than any other large group of Americans.

The group, which includes the state's largest teachers» union, doesn't like a provision of the new law that restricts collective bargaining units of charter school employees to the school in which they work.

The immediate objection, from the conventional perspective, is that it would be well - nigh impossible for one teacher to match the interest of every student in a large group, even if the teacher is knowledgeable and willing to help.

The teacher also allows the students to first say the sounds in a large group, and then change their names to familiarize themselves with words starting with b.

Students and teachers are encouraged to plan both small group and large group excursions that take advantage of the diverse resources in the Washington Metropolitan area and bring classroom learning to life in vivid detail.

The researchers will then conduct in - person interviews and focus groups with teachers and parents from four large districts using PTHV to better understand whether and how meeting families in their home leads to positive mindset shifts among teachers and parents.

In Jordan, I found a group of devoted school leaders who were struggling with many of the same issues school leaders are grappling with stateside: Class sizes are large, student discipline is an issue, the teacher and principal pipeline is impacting human capital, funding is tight, and inequality translates into uneven outcomes for students.

In this model, one teacher instructs a large group while the other teacher works with a smaller group on a completely different subject.

The nation's largest teachers» union spent $ 133 million in 2010 - 2011 on lobbying and contributions to groups whose agendas (in theory) dovetail with its own.

At the public hearing conducted by our Board on the proposed rule, there was testimony from fifty witnesses, the large majority in opposition, primarily representing the teachers» unions and advocacy groups, colleges of education, and assorted education activists.