Sentences with phrase «teachers reported back»

For many of the children it was the first time that they had been in a professional theatre and teachers reported back that it was a somewhat life changing experience for their classes.

I can only imagine how much more challenging it can be as they get older and are eating school lunches, with no teacher reporting back about how much was consumed or making sure to send home the containers from home lunches so Mom and Dad can see what actually went into the kids» stomachs.

Teachers can apply for summer General Educator Fellowships to work with scientists on research projects, such as monitoring the zebra population in Kenya or excavating sites related to Peru's Wari Empire, in the Andes, or for Live from the Field slots; in this short trip during the school year, teachers report back to their classrooms with blogs, videos, and phone conferences.

Not exact matches

Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Apple has developed the education - focused device in an attempt to «win back» students and teachers.

Anne Sheehan, head of corporate governance at California State Teachers» Retirement System, which backs the additional climate reporting, said Exxon's letter suggests the voting is at least very close and may be going against the company.

Admission is based on a review of many factors, including strong prior academic performance, positive teacher reports, a successful interview at our School, and the student's ability to give something back to our School community.

Bucking this trend can sometimes be hard, though, and many parents have reported getting a surprising amount of push - back from fellow parents, or recalcitrant principals, teachers or soccer coaches, when they've asked to improve the snacks and treats offered to their kids.

Inspectors did not comment on reports that female teachers had been forced to wear headscarfs or that girls were put at the back of the class.

Kink, who led the Democrats» policy office, will head the Strong Economy for All Coalition, which, according to a recent Times report, will soon open with a $ 5 million budget, backed by SEIU / 1199, the powerful health care workers» union, and the UFT, the New York City teachers union.

Pupils in deprived areas being held back by high numbers of young teachers relocating or quitting profession entirely, says report

Despite a recent news report indicating that student feedback is not likely to be included in New York City's new teacher evaluation system, the poll found firm backing for this idea.

Responding to the report published today by Policy Exchange arguing for reform of the public sector pay and pensions frameworks, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «This report appears to be another example of supporters of the Coalition Government seeking to rally support for localised pay in the face of a dearth of evidence to back up the Coalition's proposals for the abolition of national pay frameworks for public services.

However, the NAO report also found that a greater number of qualified teachers are returning to state - funded schools, and the Department and schools have scope to attract back, even more, teachers who have left and benefit from the investment made in their training.

The survey results, highlighted in a new report, Women and the Education Pay Gap, also revealed that more than two in five (43 %) female teachers believe a glass ceiling is holding them back professionally.

A recent report from The Think Tank Policy Exchange argued that allowing more teachers to work part time could bring thousands of teachers back into the profession.

In a June 2002 report mentioned earlier, Secretary Paige alarmed NCTAF, NCATE, the American Association of Colleges of Teacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepaTeacher Education, and others habituated to federal backing for the professionalism agenda with his call to raise the bar on teacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical prepateacher academic standards while lowering barriers to classroom entry by people without conventional pedagogical preparation.

It advised the government to draw up a clear plan for teacher supply covering the next three years, detailing how targets will be met and based on better data; to set out how it will talk to school leaders about the recruitment challenges they face; to report back on the extent of teachers taking lessons in which they are not qualified; and to ensure there is clearer information on where applicants may train to become a teacher and how much it costs.

The report explored the practice of teacher recruitment and supply in a series of essays and found that allowing more teachers to work part time could bring thousands of teachers back into the profession.

In one of our reports, «No Guarantees,» we step back and survey the landscape on teacher preparation.

Vedder's claims are backed up by Michael Podgursky, who applies a critical eye to the surveys of teachers» salaries reported in U.S. Department of Education statistical publications.

Students and teachers also report coming back for the rest of the day more energized.

«An objective observer of the District of Columbia schools must conclude that our superintendents, principals, and teachers are being asked to do an enormously difficult job with one hand tied behind their backs,» says the report, issued last month by Parents United for the District of Columbia Public Schools.

Last week, Politico's Stephanie Simon reported: «The nation's largest teachers union is pulling back on its once - enthusiastic support of the Common Core academic standards, labeling their rollout «completely botched.

As Forster asserted back in 2005, a reporting system such as this, that would be effective in monitoring learning progress over time, would require significant technological infrastructure and teacher training.

In higher proportions than the rest of the nation, Californians support the Common Core academic standards and they back pay increases for teachers — unless they are told how much the average teacher earns; then they don't, an Education Next senior editor reported Thursday.

A 2005 report by the Center for Teaching and Learning, part of the nonprofit educational research group WestEd, said that back then nearly 100,000 teachers in California were more than 50 years old.

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This week, the situation roared back to life when University of Colorado professor Derek Briggs, and coauthor Ben Domingue, issued a report titled «Due Diligence and the Evaluation of Teachers» which charged that the L.A. Times analysis was «based on unreliable and invalid research» and that the use of an alternative value - added model might have changed how half of 3,300 fifth - grade...

Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.» Although initial coverage mainly took the report at face value, others have started to push back.

More recent research backs up this view, argued University of Washington professor Dan Goldhaber in a retrospective about the report for Education Next: «New empirical work, using better data... and more sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.&report for Education Next: «New empirical work, using better data... and more sophisticated statistical techniques has, in broad terms, reinforced the Coleman Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.&Report conclusion that teacher quality is the most important schooling variable.»

«Because the students know,» reported one 8th - grade teacher during an interview with one of the CCSR's field staff, «I'm not the one failing you, I'm not the one holding you back.

«Most teachers are paying into a system that, most likely, will never fully pay them back,» wrote Chad Aldeman and Kelly Robson, co-authors of the report who both work at Bellwether Education Partners.

The New York Times reported that the trigger law portrayed in Won't Back Down differs from its real life counterparts in a key respect: Unlike standard parent triggers laws which require just a majority of parents» signatures to trigger a turnaround, the law in the movie requires support from a majority of a school's teachers as well.

The result is that school budgets are hurting, teachers are being let go, class sizes are increasing and there are more and more reports of cut - backs in school programs and services.

March 24, 2014 (New York)-- The New York City Department of Education should bring teachers back from summer break early for a week of intensive professional development on the Common Core State Standards, according to a report released today by Educators 4 Excellence - NY.

Then there is the case of Gabrielle Leko, a teacher in the La Caňada school district in California who, according to many reports, regularly hurls insults at her students dating back to at least 1997.

In this instance, it is important to ensure that teachers understand that the coach is simply there to help improve their instruction and will not be reporting back to school or program leadership.

With more money on hand, some districts are looking to bring their staffs back to pre-recession levels, but the state has a long way to go before it reaches a basic level of student - to - teacher ratio, the report states.

The teachers share their successes with colleagues in their own professional learning community and report back to the Twitter chat group and online professional learning community.

A team member from the west side of Chicago reported that the violence in her school's community was creating high levels of stress for both students and teachers: «We have students who have been shot and survived, and then try to come back to school as if nothing ever happened.

Some head teachers have criticised the report saying the claims are not backed up by the evidence of inspections.

Try the assignment Dong gives preservice teachers, and report back to the group:

Teachers often report going back to their own classrooms and «seeing» things that they noticed in colleagues» classrooms.

Additionally, while the benefits of instructional technology in the social studies classroom have been reported by many researchers in the field (e.g., Berson, 1996; Bolick, 2006; Friedman & Hicks, 2006; Manfra & Lee, 2012; Swan & Hofer, 2013; Waring, 2014; Waring & Bentley, 2012) and the need for teacher preparation is critical, teachers often refer back to more familiar instructional practices (Lortie, 1975).

Only an independent report free from government interference will restore public confidence and to give back the status that teachers in this country so richly deserve.

Every administrator and teacher and parent should read A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students The Templeton National Report on Acceleration, and the National Association of Gifted Children (NAGC) reply: Acceleration in Schools: A Call to Action.

Our latest report — Back to the Staffing Surge — measures US public school employment growth versus student growth as well as teacher salary fluctuations and student outcomes over the past 65 years using publicly available data that state departments of education annually report to the U.S. Department of Education.

Back in July 2002, during a slow news period, the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), a school employee labor union, issued a widely cited report «showing» that charter schools — autonomous public schools of choice — do not work as well as the traditional district public schools.

As reported in today's CTMirror, it wasn't even two hours after Governor Malloy signed the «education reform» bill into law before the three groups representing the school superintendents, principals and school boards went back on their word, claiming that the new law gave them the right to implement policies that student's standardized test scores can account for 50 percent of a teachers evaluation rather than the 22.5 percent that was listed in the draft bill and agreed to by all of the parties last January.