Sentences with phrase «teachers representing about»

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For instance, Confucius Institute teachers report training from the Hanban in how to handle questions about Taiwan and Tibet; they are supposed to change the subject or, failing that, represent both as undisputed territories of China.

«It's about time someone cracked down on these people,» said Marler, whose firm represented 35 pupils and teachers at Laraway School in a civil case that recently was settled for an undisclosed amount.

Saturday, the Hawaii State Teachers Association, which represents about 13,700 public and charter school educators endorsed Ige.

The task force's report, which came with Mr. Cuomo's implicit approval, represented an about face by the governor, a Democrat, who in January had called for test scores to account for half of some teachers» evaluations.

This British drama represents the second screen version of Terence Ratigan's play about a school teacher with a weak heart facing forced retirement.

Timothy Shanahan has been elected the president of the International Reading Association, a Newark, Del. - based professional organization that represents about 88,000 reading teachers and other educators.

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

NYT was about to provide good and just reasons for taxpayer wrath, leavened, of course, by responses from those representing teacher and other public sector unions.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

(One distinction of Green Dot among charter school organizations is that its teachers are unionized, but we are not told anything more about the union except that it is not the one that had represented the Locke teachers.)

The database reveals that the NEA, which represents about 2.3 million K - 12 public school teachers and about one million education support workers, spent $ 56.3 million during the 2007 - 08 election cycle, making it the largest campaign spender in the nation.

This teacher guide offers ideas to get you started thinking about how different forms of identity are represented in the British Museum and suggested projects for the classroom.

And Cohen addresses the awkwardness for some teachers thinking about being represented by an organization that has previously seemed to deride their work and impact.

Our organisations, representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders, have set out our strongly held concerns about the longstanding erosion of pay across the teaching profession a...

In a study of the achievement of students of 165 second - and third - grade teachers conducted over a three - year period, Brophy (1973) reported on the patterns of the most effective teachers, who represented about a third of the sample.

The change represents an increase of about 34 percent more teachers staying in the classroom at least five years.

If the Fairfield and Farmington Boards of Education were really committed to representing the interest of their students, parents, teachers and taxpayers, they'd be demanding an investigation about why their superintendents are failing to provide their community's students with Common Core aligned textbooks and bullying and harassing students and parents who sought to opt out of the unfair and destructive testing scheme.

Under the proposal, SGOs would represent about 15 percent of the final rating, compared to SGPs representing 35 percent of the rating for teachers in tested grades.

We informed them that in our survey data collection we would be inviting principals, assistant principals, and teachers to respond to a written survey about leadership policy and practices that bear on teaching and learning; that we would conduct the principal and teacher surveys in four schools per district representing elementary and secondary schools; and that we would be conducting a second round of surveys in the final year of the study (2008).

Moreover, the two premises represent a tautology — student test score growth is the most important measure, and we have to choose other teacher evaluation measures based on their correlation with student test score growth because student test score growth is the most important measure... This point, by the way, has already been made about the Gates study, as well as about seniority - based layoffs and about test - based policies in general.

To make the changes and improvements listed above, the IDOE «worked with educators and stakeholders, gathered information and shared important information about the amendments to the request» to make sure all students and teachers were represented in the education plan to keep the waiver.

Each novice teacher presented an artifact or image and described what that artifact represented to them about good teaching and how they hoped to practice it.

We find it important to note that researchers, who often represent opposing views about the characteristics that define effective teaching, do agree on the dangers of using the VAM student growth model to measure teacher effectiveness.

While these results only directly represent the volunteer sample of nearly 500 Oakland teachers, we believe they raise important questions and can launch a conversation about Oakland teachers» engagement.

It is designed for teachers and school leaders who wish to build solid shared understandings about the kinds of data used in schools, the different ways in which data can be represented and what they can tell teachers about student learning.

Parents can also ask about the background and qualifications of the teachers and what specialties are represented (e.g., English as a Second Language, special education, music, art).

Evan Stone, one of the chief executives of Educators 4 Excellence, which represents about 17,000 teachers nationwide, called for «career ladders for teachers to move into specialist roles, master - teacher roles.»

The NEA, which represents about one out of every 100 Americans, has been increasingly at odds with the Obama administration over testing and teacher evaluations, among other issues.

Our teacher members work in districts where people of color represent the majority and the children they teach are too often forgotten about in the creation of public policy, particularly in education decisions.

Teacher - learners observed and recorded examples of student comments that represented student interactions with and reflections on content topics, indicating that student discussions were rich with conversation about content.

The reality is that for all the talk from the NEA and AFT about how they represent teachers, the reality is that their defense of seniority - and degree - based pay scales, reverse - seniority layoff policies, and near - lifetime employment privileges through tenure do little for the younger, more reform - minded teachers who realize the damage these policies do to their profession and, ultimately, to the children in their care.

It's also hypocritical because her one - percenter salary is paid by teachers who are forced to join her union in just about every school district that AFT represents.

Attempting to maintain support among the very teachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers it is supposed to represent — and looking to show that it cares about elevating the teaching profession it debases through its defense of quality - blind seniority - based privileges and reverse - seniority layoff rules — the NEA gave $ 73,500 to the National Network of State Teachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioTeachers of the Year; that the selection of teachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend unioteachers of the year is usually more of a popularity contest than one based on objective measures of teacher performance is often conveniently ignored by all but the most thoughtful of observers, and thus, serves as a good way to spend union funds.

Led by the Charter Community of Silicon Valley (CCSV)- which represents Santa Clara County's charter public schools and serves as the voice for over 30,000 charter public school students in the region - CCSV members, collectively engaged principals, teachers, parents and students to call, write letters and personally meet with Senator Beall to share their positive experiences with charter public schools and concerns about the bill itself.

Telling the story of a case study from my class is my attempt to represent what I have begun to learn about the effects of digital storytelling on one preservice English teacher's development.

The task force's report, which came with Mr. Cuomo's implicit approval, represented an about face by the governor, a Democrat, who in January had called for test scores to account for half of some teachers» evaluations.

On this, I would agree, but I would still recommend observers either represent or fully understand the full context in which teachers are to be observed before passing «more objective» judgments about them;

There were about 18,000 entries in the 2007 - 2008 database, representing 12,000 teachers (half of them had two evaluations, either because they taught elementary and had math and verbal or because they taught 2 different grades of the same subject).

Gov. Phil Scott's latest plan to curb costs in the public school system has received a chilly response from Democratic lawmakers — and organizations that represent school boards, superintendents and teachers in Vermont are also concerned about the governor's proposal.

According to the U.S. Department of Education, 4.85 million English language learners, or ELLs, were enrolled in public schools during the 2012 - 13 academic year, representing nearly 10 percent of the total K - 12 student population.17 Nearly one student in four speaks a language other than English at home — the same is true for only about one in eight teachers.18 Teaching also remains a female - dominated profession.

To help my student teachers think about what to look for when observing a group of children, we discussed photographs of our children engrossed in classroom activities and I asked student teachers to explain why each photo represented unoccupied play, solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative play, or cooperative play.

In this scenario, the teacher is still forced to pay about two - thirds of full dues because the union claims it's forced to represent you in collective bargaining.

Teachers should be as knowledgeable as possible about the cultures that their students represent.

I can no longer rely on the teachers» union (if I were still in one) to represent my views and values about education.

Our organisations, representing the overwhelming majority of teachers and school leaders, have set out our strongly held concerns about the longstanding erosion of pay across the teaching profession as a whole.

This means that about 16 percent of the variance in value added in any given year reflects comparatively stable differences between teachers, while the remainder represents unstable sources.

Chester, however, has gained the ire of those opposed to standardized testing, including the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the union that represents about two - thirds of the Bay State's nearly 72,000 public school tTeachers Association, the union that represents about two - thirds of the Bay State's nearly 72,000 public school teachersteachers.

The FAST program, a teacher support intervention, was developed by C - SAIL researchers, represents a bold effort to bring standards - based reform to the classroom door, providing teachers with detailed feedback about their instruction in order to improve instructional alignment with standards and raise student achievement.

(The Advocate, Monday, May 9, 2016 p. 1B) He also commented about «union - created deadlock where only ineffective and possibly abusive teachers would benefit,» pointing to the infamous «rubber rooms» associated with New York public schools — «temporary reassignment centers where union - represented teachers accused of misconduct or incompetency have been sent while they await rulings from independent arbitrators.»

Because CTL is a non-profit demonstration school, a place where other teachers come to learn about innovative methods, we work hard to attract a student body that represents a diverse range of socioeconomic backgrounds and ability levels, and we fundraise twelve months a year so we can set a tuition rate that's as low as possible.