Sentences with phrase «teachers work toward»

EW: What resources (for example, administrative support, released time, courses specifically geared toward the process, an opportunity to work with other candidates, knowledgeable mentors) are most helpful to teachers working toward National Board Certification?

«We have two teachers working toward their master's degrees, one certified, one uncertified,» he said, noting that he pays his teachers between $ 40,000 and $ 44,000.

Not exact matches

Likewise, teachers can guide students toward God, but only the work of the Holy Spirit in their souls can make them into the kind of Christ - honoring graduates that we would like to produce.

The Waldorf School of Garden City promotes regular communication among students, parents, and teachers to ensure everyone is working toward the same goals for the student.

We joke often about teachers must really love what they do, otherwise they would work toward something more financially stable (I can talk: my parents were both teachers and my husband is a teacher; we aren't exactly rolling in dough).

Universal Pre-Kindergarten teachers who are working toward their certification should have funding for the support and teacher training they need to provide quality education while they are studying for their certification.

Charters, under the current rules, are allowed to have up to 15 uncertified teachers — who are at least working toward their master's.

Cuomo and legislative leaders were working toward an agreement on how to make newly required teacher evaluations available to parents while still protecting the teacher's privacy.

Critics are taking Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent political attacks on unionized teachers as the strongest evidence yet he is working toward a Republican - led State Senate, despite of his pledge to help Democrats win the chamber.

The UFT went to Albany to fight for better teacher evaluations, and we will continue to work toward a system that works for the students and teachers of New York.

Unless you're working diligently toward certification you can even be replaced by a certified teacher if one comes along.

Engineering is Elementary provides curricula that teachers can use to work toward the goals set by the Next Generation Science Standards.

Ruth is working toward becoming a secondary education teacher.

Toward the beginning of my journey a teacher said, «You want all the benefits of the practice, but you don't want to do the work to get there,» which devastated me but also prompted me to dig deep and start to «do the work.»

Also, my deep and visceral love for my daughter Beatrix has taught me that working through my demons and getting a grip on my attitude toward life can not wait; change needs to happen now so that I can properly fulfill my role as parent and teacher.

Option to attend additional weekend modules for those working toward earning the RPYT (Registered Prenatal Yoga Teacher) designation.

Jason Segal's (Jeff, Who Lives at Home, Bad Teacher) Tom and Emily Blunt's (Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, The Adjustment Bureau) Violet are superhappy in San Francisco and are planning their wedding when disaster strikes: she does not get the local job she was hoping for, an academic posting that she has been working toward her whole life.

This portrait of the pupils, teachers, and local environment of Norway House Cree Nation — a robustly successful school and community center in Manitoba, steered toward the needs of Native students and the hiring of Native faculty — represents the 85 - year - old Obomsawin's 50th feature, and she is already at work on the 51st.

In teacher Amy Lyon's Perseverance Walk lesson, fifth grade students have an opportunity to interview someone who has worked hard toward a long - term goal, then create and share a presentation to illustrate a life lived with grit.

How can I use scaffolding techniques to work toward a level of independence for this teacher and class?

The results of this survey are predictable: protests about narrowing the curriculum, teaching to the test, inadequate professional development, unfairness toward disadvantaged and minority youngsters — and toward hard - working teachers themselves.

Toward the beginning of each Innovate Salisbury session, time is set aside for teachers to share and discuss their work relating to the progress of their individual projects, and / or any other risks that they may be taking with their students.

With such long vesting windows, many teachers will receive no employer contributions toward retirement as a result of their work in the classroom.

With the help of Denise and our school art teacher, we practiced visual literacy (or reading art) as one way to work toward these goals and prepare students for their docent - led discussions at the AIC.

For those of us who work in education, we naturally gravitate toward activities that engage our students in active learning experiences, so it's no surprise to find that teachers and students are some of the most enthusiastic fans.

It's familiar stuff to those teachers — still far too few — who follow Willingham's work (along with lead author Paul Bruno, he helped produce the report and spoke at the event) but it's a refreshing statement aimed at preparation programs that too often fetishize theory, teachers» dispositions toward learners, or soft pedagogical skills at the expense of subject matter depth.

Instead of working toward being successful, they often entertain themselves with driving the teacher crazy by harassing other students.

The structure of the single - point rubric allows us as educators to work toward returning grades and teacher feedback to their proper roles: supporting and fostering real learning in our students.

This special report details the complex challenges schools and teachers face as they work toward implementing the new math standards.

TheWashington Post's Jay Mathews pointed out, in 2012, that the new assessments would «delay, if not stop altogether, the national move toward rating teachers by student score improvements» and that radical change would force systems «to wait years to work out the kinks in the tests» before they could resume those efforts.

Using those insights can help the teacher better work toward the student's academic success.

But the research on effective professional development points more toward ongoing efforts that are school based and tied directly to teachers work.

As part of the first major overhaul of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education's system in nearly a decade, schools might commit to working toward a higher level of performance on NCATE's six standards.

Craft trades and ministries point toward a middle way that, though less prestigious than medicine, could actually enhance the profession by better reflecting the work teachers do instead of arrogating to itself a status that strikes many noneducators as presumptuous and self - serving.

That's why the Center for Authentic Intellectual Work (CAIW) helps teachers in PLCs work together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinkWork (CAIW) helps teachers in PLCs work together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinkwork together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinking.

My answer is all of them: For every year they work, teachers should accumulate benefits toward a secure retirement.

From their smallest transition procedures, to their daily lessons, to their behavior management decisions, to their year - long curricular path, highly effective teachers commit to and work toward achieving desired results.

«Many teachers do work toward that end, and many do not — all for their own reasons.»

Tyler said the teacher joked with him but made clear there was also a time to buckle down and work toward his dreams.

As a mentor, I feel that there is a fine balance to strike between structure and flexibility: We're working toward a common goal, which is to prepare teachers for the many challenges of delivering effective science education to a diverse group of learners, but we also want to respect the individuality of each teacher and nurture teachers so they can discover their own style and methodology.

It also represented the biggest contest between the United States» two national teachers» unions since they began working toward a possible merger and other cooperative efforts.

The group, recently named one of 10 finalists Dean's Challenge at HGSE, are working toward developing either a toolkit or curriculum for teachers that will incorporate theater exercises that build community and empathy in schools.

Peterson: Since John Dewey, school reformers have tried to customize education to the needs of each child, but each step towards customization has required a big step toward centralization (bigger schools, larger school districts, state certification for teachers, federal dollars and regulations, etc.) School systems are no longer embedded in the small politics of local communities and this has dramatically changed the way accountability works.

First step: enrolling in the Ed School's Language and Literacy Program (L&L) and working toward her master's so that she could resume her career as a foreign language teacher.

Self - reflection techniques include journal writing and other assignments that ask teachers to think about their own family backgrounds, their assumptions about other families, and their attitudes toward working with families.

Kaitlyn Watson, a middle school English language arts teacher in North Carolina, has students build their own vocabulary lists from the context of their reading instead of generating whole - class lists for them, and then «they break down context clues and work toward their own applications of the words.»

The Better Math Teaching Network (BMTN) is a networked improvement community of researchers, teachers, and instructional leaders from New England who are working toward the common goal of increasing the number of students who are deeply and actively engaged in understanding algebra.

Using various techniques, teachers can help students see that hard work and incorrect answers — the «productive struggle» crucial to real knowledge acquisition — represent steps on the path toward mastery, rather than seeing them as signs of failure.

Relentless, yet also patient and charming, she quickly became one of the most popular teachers at the Alexandria school, and in June 2012 she received a state - funded Titan Transformer Award for «outstanding work toward the goal of transformation» of T.C.

The biggest impact of PLC at Work, says Noonan, has been in teachers» increasingly accepting attitudes toward collaboration.