Sentences with phrase «teachers of specific subject»

Not only has P3 offered teachers of specific subject - content (e.g., math, science, or technology) cross-disciplinary opportunities for learning (almost all teachers noted that they felt better prepared to delve deeper into content in their own and related fields), but also the opportunity to learn and work side by side with students who represent their classroom populations.

Not exact matches

There are also some fantastic subject - specific curriculum sites, like ReadWriteThink, managed in part by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).

There is new guidance on learning outside the classroom («Departmental advice for health and safety in schools» on the Department for Education's website), subject - specific support for teachers through their subject associations e.g. Association for Physical Education, and new Ofsted guidance highlighting safeguarding in lessons — ensuring that not only is the standard of teaching good, but that the standard of health and safety within each lesson is also good.

I wrote The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web to address the needs of K - 12 classroom teachers and to help them avoid frustration while looking for online educational resources about classroom management and discipline, lesson planning and work sheets, grants, testing, and subject - specific topics.

In all of the core subject areas and at nearly all grade spans, the state has academic standards rated clear and specific by the American Federation of Teachers and assessments aligned to those standards.

Of course, it is not a subject teacher's (or anyone else's in my opinion) to teach students application specific skills.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Arkansas has established a comprehensive system of teacher testing that continues after teachers enter the classroom.The state requires its prospective teachers to pass basic - skills, subject - knowledge, and subject - specific - pedagogy tests to earn their beginning liTeacher Quality: Arkansas has established a comprehensive system of teacher testing that continues after teachers enter the classroom.The state requires its prospective teachers to pass basic - skills, subject - knowledge, and subject - specific - pedagogy tests to earn their beginning liteacher testing that continues after teachers enter the classroom.The state requires its prospective teachers to pass basic - skills, subject - knowledge, and subject - specific - pedagogy tests to earn their beginning licenses.

She is one of the school's «skills specialists,» four experienced teachers who support classroom teachers in specific subjects, including math, reading, writing, science, and bilingual education.

For elementary school teachers, in - depth knowledge of specific subjects might not be as valuable as in - depth knowledge of individual students.

Alongside the above, a very useful tip for teachers is to stop using random images, items, words and numbers, and start playing these same games with very real and specific information: the central ideas and facts from a variety of subject areas.

Schemes of work and textbooks should be considered where these are of high quality and without formalising or imposing a specific structure on planning which limits individual teacher creativity and passion for their subject.»

Following an review that showed our Maths marking needed to be improved, I (as Maths subject leader) created a system called «Think Pink» in which teachers highlight part of their marking in pink highlighter (something specific - a question, some corrections, an extension, an explanation) and the child responds when their book is returned in pink pen.

Its academic standards for all four core subject areas at every grade span have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content by the American Federation of Teachers.

But Oregon receives high marks for its academic standards, which the American Federation of Teachers rated clear, specific, and grounded in content in all of the four core subjects and at nearly every grade span.

New York's standards in the four core subjects have been rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content at all grade spans by the American Federation of Teachers.

In my home state of Texas, for example, the State Board for Educator Certification (SBEC) requires that in addition to the content standards specified for each grade band, the curriculum for teacher preparation programs must include 17 specific subjects of study.

The survey was conducted to provide evidence to the Migration Advisory Committee about the need to place teaching on the shortage occupation list and the ASCL is calling on the government to make it easier to recruit teachers from abroad by placing the teaching profession in general on the list, instead of specific subjects.

The second half of Reading Reconsidered reinforces these principles, coupling them with the «fundamentals» of reading instruction — a host of techniques and subject specific tools to reconsider how teachers approach such essential topics as vocabulary, interactive reading, and student autonomy.

But Alison Peacock, the chief executive of the Chartered College of Teaching, said it should be up to teachers whether they wished to undertake subject - specific CPD.

Like some college education departments, Teach for America's Institute has suffered from a lack of subject - specific training and from short student - teaching stints with much smaller class sizes than teachers are apt to encounter in the real world.

The Department for Education has also said it wants more teachers to do subject - specific CPD, and # 75 million was announced last September for knowledge - based and skills training as part of the Teaching and Leadership Innovation Fund.

We work with some of the best teacher training institutions to provide personalised, subject - specific support.

That said, there is considerable evidence of staffing difficulties in specific subjects (e.g., STEM and special education) and in specific types of schools (e.g., rural schools or schools serving disadvantaged students), which suggests that policies aimed at addressing these true shortage areas must be targeted to these specific teachers and schools.

However Gareth Conyard, the DfE's deputy director of the Teacher Workforce Development team, said there were no specific plans to develop specialist subject CPD programmes.

The state's highest grade is for the standards and accountability section, where it receives full credit for having clear and specific standards at each grade span in the four core subjects, as determined by the American Federation of Teachers.

It has standards that the American Federation of Teachers has rated as clear, specific, and grounded in content for all four core subjects at every grade span.

Generally, these premiums are received regardless of whether degrees are specific to the subjects in which teachers teach, despite the evidence that out - of - field degrees contribute little toward student achievement.

For example, the IDOE provides a web - based recruitment portal to provide streamlined sharing of teacher candidate information for more thoughtful hiring practices, as well as encourages high standards for preparation and licensure in addition to «transition to teaching» programs such as the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowships, Teach For America, and TNTP's Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.51 Notably, teacher candidates must pass three subject - specific assessments before entering an educator preparation program (EPP), and EPPs must report extensive data collected on teachers using data matrix reporting.

In particular, they emphasize the context - specific nature of teaching and the need for teachers to integrate knowledge of subject matter, students, and contextual conditions as they make instructional decisions, engage students in learning, and reflect on practice (Wayne & Youngs, 2003).

But they may also provide more specific guidance about what is expected of the teachers in the classroom if new experiments with other measures are adopted — including tests that gauge teachers» mastery of their subjects, surveys that ask students about the learning environments in their classes and digital videos of teachers» lessons, scored by experts.

Nationwide, in order for graduates of teacher education programs based in colleges and universities to gain state certification as a teacher, the programs must follow state requirements such as required entrance and exit exams and the number of credit hours in specific subjects such as reading, math and special education.

STSES was based off the Ohio State Teacher Efficacy Scale (OSTES) later called the Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) which, to quote Trull summarizing Tschannen - Moran, speaking of TSES «the instrument was demonstrated to be superior to previous measures of teacher efficacy by assessing a broad range of capabilities considered important by teachers, yet not so specific to deny comparisons of teachers in context, levels, and subjects.Teacher Efficacy Scale (OSTES) later called the Teachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) which, to quote Trull summarizing Tschannen - Moran, speaking of TSES «the instrument was demonstrated to be superior to previous measures of teacher efficacy by assessing a broad range of capabilities considered important by teachers, yet not so specific to deny comparisons of teachers in context, levels, and subjectsTeachers Sense of Efficacy Scale (TSES) which, to quote Trull summarizing Tschannen - Moran, speaking of TSES «the instrument was demonstrated to be superior to previous measures of teacher efficacy by assessing a broad range of capabilities considered important by teachers, yet not so specific to deny comparisons of teachers in context, levels, and subjects.teacher efficacy by assessing a broad range of capabilities considered important by teachers, yet not so specific to deny comparisons of teachers in context, levels, and subjectsteachers, yet not so specific to deny comparisons of teachers in context, levels, and subjectsteachers in context, levels, and subjects.»

Instead the report strongly recommended subject - specific CPD, to ensure the «maintenance and acquisition of subject knowledge» among teachers.

Teachers also sometimes discouraged pupils from taking subjects that might be too difficult for them, but said this was mostly done according to person - specific subject difficulty, «as opposed to more general notions of subject difficulty».

The Hochman Method is a set of specific writing strategies that teachers use in all subjects, including ELA, social studies, science, foreign languages and math, and in every grade.

The Vocab Rehab model in this book offers teachers easy - to - implement, 10 - minute instructional strategies that can help time - strapped teachers ensure that their students have a sound grasp of both general and content - specific words across grade levels and subject areas.

Through subject - specific professional development and subsequent use of interactive lessons, the teachers felt confident in their ability to use, but not create with, the IWB in mathematics.

During the 2013 AACTE Annual Meeting (February 28 - March 2, 2013, Orlando FL), the Preparing Teachers for Practice strand examined specific problems of preparing new teachers to teach in core subject areas and reports on the state of knowledge related to those pTeachers for Practice strand examined specific problems of preparing new teachers to teach in core subject areas and reports on the state of knowledge related to those pteachers to teach in core subject areas and reports on the state of knowledge related to those problems.

Secondary schools require subject - specific teachers (i.e. different teachers for math, English, science), and these subject - specific teachers are more likely to be «fully utilized» at a large and fully enrolled school with a typical schedule (i.e. where you have enough students for a Physics teacher to teach 6 periods of Physics, and each Physics class is enrolled at maximum capacity).

A new teacher candidate in Finland, for example, is given a copy of the elementary school curriculum, and the training over four years gives teachers deep understanding of the specific content they will teach at each grade and subject, including all the possible questions and misunderstandings students might have about that curriculum.

To do so, Mishra and Koehler (2006) have noted that teachers must develop pedagogical understandings of technology application to subject - specific instruction.

In light of the extremely positive feedback from participants and their line managers, we are now looking to broaden the reach of the programmes and strengthen the local subject - specific and cross-sector teacher networks they are forging.

Another aspect of the challenge in ensuring effective assessment practice broadly has been the lack of common reference points — common standards for assessment knowledge, skills, and practices that should be expected of all teachers, and specific discipline - or subject - specific ones.

The paper describes in detail the setting in which this study took place and the specific teacher - evaluation reform that was the subject of this inquiry.

While the application process includes a subject - specific aptitude test, it's not simply the top scorers who get admitted; half come from the middling range because, according to Sahlberg (2015), a former director general at the Finnish Ministry of Education and Culture, «academically best students are not necessarily the best teachers.»

The administrator takes specific, detailed notes of classroom observations, including the teacher's management and knowledge of the subject matter.

If it is possible, English language learner student growth on this specific test will be included in the growth measures for all teachers of tested subjects.

This guide is part of a series intended to further the discussion and understanding of Common Core standards on a subject - specific and grade - level basis and to provide immediate guidance to teachers who must either adapt existing lessons and activities to incorporate the Common Core or develop new lessons to teach concepts not addressed in their previous state standards.

Yet many states face a shortage of teachers, particularly in specific subject areas, geographic regions or high - need schools.

Teachers must be certified in a specific discipline within the subject area of science.