Sentences with phrase «teachers were few in number»

There is some evidence that the program had a positive impact in schools where teachers were few in number, an environment in which it may be easier for teachers to cooperate in pursuit of a common reward.

There is some evidence, however, that the program had a positive impact in schools where teachers were few in number, an environment in which it may be easier for teachers to cooperate in pursuit of a common reward.

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So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

General News of Saturday, 12 May 2018 Source: Kwabena Danso - dapaah Osei Assibey Antwi, Kumasi Mayor The Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly (KMA) has donated amount of five thousand Ghana Cedis to Jackson Foundation, a philanthropist organization to help increase the number of professional teachers in the country The donation was made on behalf of the Assembly when students from Jackson Educational (JEC) under the Foundation, graduated as trained teachers to assist few in the system.

With an increasing number of pupils, and the demand for new teachers increasing, there are few signs that the problem will get any better in the short to medium term.

For schools in the bottom quartile of the number of teachers with tested students, that is, schools with approximately 10 or fewer such teachers in elementary and K — 8 schools and five or fewer in middle schools, school - wide merit pay did lead to improved student achievement.

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.

There are also large numbers of classrooms in the [Boston school] district â $» maybe a third â $» where there's very little learning going on because teachers are spending so much time on behavior management, even when it's just a few kids.

Everyone likes the idea of boosting the number of effective teachers in schools with large numbers of poor and minority students, but in his testimony before the committee, Ed Next executive editor Rick Hess had a few warnings for those who think the obvious course of action is to encourage states and districts to move effective teachers out of schools with affluent kids and into schools with poor kids.

A number of studies in higher education, which is a few years ahead of K - 12 in using online learning, indicate that students perceive an equal and in some cases a greater degree of interaction with teachers and their peers in online courses than in face - to - face courses.

However, it is important to realize there is uncertainty in VA measures, which are estimates that may be based on only a few classrooms of students, so the gains from removing teachers identified as ineffective based on a limited number of years of data are smaller.

The Education Select Committee has heard that a number of teachers are starting their careers in primary school with only a few hours training in some subject areas.

But in addition to a growing evidence worldwide a practical note, few teachers argue against an idea that reduces workload, admin, stress, and monotony, while reducing the number of students you're having to focus on.

Not only is money that could and should go to great teachers siphoned away to overbuilt sportsplexes that benefit relatively few students, former teachers whom legislatures didn't save money to fund in retirement, and increasing numbers of non-teaching staff, the governments that employ them tax teachers» time and potential income pool with an ever - increasing and counterproductive pile of regulations atop the employment taxes and mandates I mentioned above.

There are already too few trainee teachers to meet the numbers needed in government projections, according to ASCL.

«Targeted increases in class - size would require fewer teachers overall and the savings from the reduced number of teachers could be repurposed as bonuses for the teachers taking on larger classes.

We found that a teacher receives a higher value - added score when he is teaching students who are already higher - achieving, more affluent and more versed in English than when he is assigned large numbers of new English learners and students with fewer educational advantages.

A few months is not enough time to thoughtfully rework a teacher evaluation system, Chancellor Carmen Fariña said Thursday, joining a growing number of education officials critical of the tight timeline included in a new state law.

Schools Week analysis of new data from the education unions shows that although there were 15,065 fewer people working in secondary schools in 2017 than in 2014, teachers are still teaching roughly the same numbers of pupils, despite a rise of almost 4,500 over the same period.

The most obvious pattern we have discovered in the data is that the lowest performing school districts in the state employ the fewest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff and the highest performing school districts employ the greatest number of teachers as a percentage of their staff.

Teacher's efforts to increase time and resources may be few in number but are generally well tailored to student needs.

Urban schools: Although there are larger numbers of teacher candidates in metro areas, many are attracted to schools serving students with fewer barriers to learning.

In theory, many state laws provided for the possibility of organizing charters on a school - by - school basis, but given the expense of unionizing a small number of teachers, few unionizing efforts have been made.

Although the number of math and science teachers has increased in the state, there are fewer of them than in other core subjects.

There are fewer than 1,000 teachers (a tiny number in a city with a population of 23 million) in the top step.

Readers scanning the site today should take a few minutes with the Orange County Register story linked under the «In Today's Headlines» section, which reports on some hopeful polling data showing that a growing number of teachers are in favor of abolishing their unions and implementing merit paIn Today's Headlines» section, which reports on some hopeful polling data showing that a growing number of teachers are in favor of abolishing their unions and implementing merit pain favor of abolishing their unions and implementing merit pay.

Few people care more about individual students than public - school teachers do, but what's really missing in this dystopian narrative is a hearty helping of reality: 21st - century public schools, with their record numbers of graduates and expanded missions, are nothing close to the cesspools portrayed by political hyperbole.

The number of positions on EDPOST website who are seeking teachers who «are willing to coach,» «interested in coaching» or even a few who outright only want teachers who are coaches to apply is alarming.

But over the past few years, a number of new efforts have sprung up purporting to give teachers a say in policy, and their emergence is extending discussions about «teacher voice» in unexpected ways.

While it's true that Duncan faced few hecklers on the road, a growing group of teachers — who may not represent the majority of American educators, but seem louder — coalesced online and rallied in modest numbers in Washington, D.C. to rail against Duncan's policies in a July «Save Our Schools» march.

Teachers with students who take standardized math and English tests (usually fewer than half of the total number of teachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach thTeachers with students who take standardized math and English tests (usually fewer than half of the total number of teachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach thteachers in a district) are held accountable for getting students to reach this mark.

That is, a teacher who has a large number of disadvantaged students in class may have a more difficult job getting a higher rating than teachers with fewer disadvantaged students.

Drawing upon teacher feedback, and my own experimentation with a play - based approach to iPad integration in K - 3, I have realised that there is a need for a few phonics / literacy game / skill development apps in the early years — provided those apps are limited in number, sourced from high - quality educational providers, and support the classroom literacy approach.

Here are just a few of the different careers Americans now hold, along with the number of people who are employed in these jobs: • Teachers: 7.2 million • Registered Nurses: 2.8 million • Janitors and Building Cleaners: 2.1 million • Gaming Services Workers: 111,000 • Tax Preparers: 105,000 • Service Station Attendants: 87,000

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