Sentences with phrase «teaching and school administration»

Before Eleanor began her career in teaching and school administration, she was an AmeriCorps coach with Playworks (then called Sports4Kids).

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On February 1, I gave a guest presentation on homelessness to a graduate seminar class on housing policy taught by Steve Pomeroy at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration.

Three - mile run at 6 a.m., weights at 6:30, shower, rush to the gym to teach, dash to the lecture hall to take the exercise - physiology and sports - administration classes, sprint back to the gym to coach a 2 1/2 - hour practice, hop in the car to go scout a local high school player, burn rubber back to the gym for two hours of basketball and sprints, shower again and hightail it home by midnight to study for the biomechanics midterm.

Liz Beaven has over 30 years experience in Waldorf education, spanning class teaching, school administration, adult education, research, consulting, and public speaking.

This evening will be geared toward putting the school and the grade in the best light, and giving parents a chance to connect faces to names of the administration and teaching staff.

Steve has taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration.

I used to teach high school biology, but now I'm a private science tutor because I hated how much the administration focused on test scores and test - taking skills over fostering love of science and learning.

He has also taught history of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, and human development at the City University of New York; is the former editor of the Research Bulletin of the Research Institute for Waldorf Education; and writes, lectures, mentors teachers, and consults with Waldorf schools on teaching and administration.

It also means that school administrations, teachers, and school boards must be held accountable for student learning and performance without «teaching to the test» or being over-burdened with repeated standardized testing.

But Quinn's own list on her e-mail shows that she's keeping busy — from teaching at Harvard's Kennedy School earlier this year to taking a very public role in the Cuomo administration — a team that typically has only one member who is out front and public.

The state requires school superintendents to have at least three years of teaching experience and graduate work in school administration.

He has also been involved in teaching and in promoting higher education in institutions such as Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Center, Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration, Ghana Police College, North Carolina Central University School of Law, and Central University College, Ghana.

The NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, will today reaffirm its strategy to continue to defend the interests of pupils, schools and the teaching profession from the assault by the Government and administrations across the UK on our public education service.

In this week's education news: NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott reflects on accomplishments during the Bloomberg administration, columnists discuss the future of NYC education under Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, and NY State education leaders and Teach For America support the Common Core standards.

Howard Glaser, Cuomo's ex-state director of operations, earned between $ 5,000 and $ 20,000 working in 2012 as an adjunct professor at the Executive Master of Public Administration program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, reportedly teaching one semester.

Other areas the chime led administration is positively giving uncommon facelift to include; renovation of dilapidated school structures, provision of Ambulances and medical emergency response personnel in Enugu State which is under its Medical Emergency Response Scheme, recruitment of 2000 teachers for secondary schools and an additional 2000 volunteer teachers to fast track its Volunteer Service Scheme, a scheme whereby retired but not tired teachers are engaged based on personal volition in order to increase and complement the inadequate number of teachers teaching in the state's schools, provision of brand new tractors to encourage mechanized system of farming to add vim to the revolution going on in the agricultural sector etc..

The new administration will champion controversial school choice policy and potentially undermine the teaching of evolution and climate change

What she didn't know was that once grad school was over and paid for, she would meander through a range of scientific and nonscientific occupations, from bench research, to Web site design and consulting, and on to teaching and academic administration.

The successful candidate will strengthen the academic base within the Centre, teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and will contribute to School and Centre administration / outreach activity.

The successful candidate will strengthen the academic base within the Centre, they will teach at undergraduate and postgraduate level, and will contribute to School and Centre administration / outreach activity.

My experience includes teaching at the elementary and middle school levels, district level administration for curriculum, instruction, and after - school programs, and high school administration.

The Goals 2000 Educate America Act, passed in 1994 to set the school - reform agenda of the Clinton and Bush administrations, declared art to be part of what all schools should teach.

The K - 12 section covers such topics as administration, bilingual education, counseling, curriculum, discipline, gifted education, lesson plans, school safety, school improvement, teaching resources, and others.

After a brief career teaching math in the Manhasset Public Schools, he moved to Washington, D.C. and served in the Johnson Administration, first in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare developing legislation, and then as associate director of the White House Fellows program.

If all factors are not properly considered, issues such as loss of internet connectivity could severely disrupt teaching and administration throughout the school.

Just this summer, the Obama administration announced a laudable new «teacher corps» dedicated to excellence in the STEM subjects, and as far and wide as Estonia, a new policy is spurring debate about the value of teaching programming to elementary school students.

Such a theory would describe how the several components of schooling finances, administration, curriculum, teaching, and student characteristics — could come together in a way that yields educated children.

Finally, a school may be closed and reopened with 100 percent of the teaching staff and administration replaced.

Washington — Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell, in testimony before the Senate Subcommittee on Education, Arts, and Humanities, last week confirmed that the Reagan Administration intends to permit school districts to use a variety of instructional methods to teach non-English-speaking students.

The first step is an attitude change among the school board members, the administration and the teaching staff, a recognition that:

For one thing, in getting a waiver from the federal No Child Left Behind Act, Indiana (like other states) promised the Obama administration it would adopt standards that met federal criteria; align curricula and teaching; select, pilot, and administer new tests aligned to the standards; and integrate the standards into both school - and teacher - accountability systems.

For instance, a 2008 report from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (SAMHSA) summarized the economic benefits of effective programs targeting substance use and misuse (which teach numerous SEL skills), noting that a large - scale, cross-program investment in school - based prevention would produce an $ 18 return per dollar invested and save state and local governments an estimated $ 1.3 billion (Miller & Hendrie, 2009).

I hope the Bush administration will provide the resources needed to prepare teachers to implement effective teaching practices and develop an accountability approach that will promote effective teaching rather than teaching that will turn children off from learning before they even start school.

In using its Race to the Top grant program and waivers from No Child Left Behind to promote Common Core, the Obama administration has opened the door to increasing federal influence over what gets taught and tested in schools.

Her book, Windows on Teaching Mathematics: Cases of Secondary Mathematics Classrooms (Teachers College Press), represents work in mathematics education and the case method while her involvement as a case method teacher of school administrators exists in her Cases in Educational Administration (Longman).

«If you think Common Core snuck up on families with the less than 1 percent of education dollars the Obama administration dangled in front of states, just wait until more public and private schools are directly accepting federal control through federal vouchers and the next Democratic administration decides they want to tell these schools what to teach kids.»

But to look at some of the possible solutions to these challenges, in terms of teaching and leading, in the report you say: «During my discussions with leaders of small schools, it became very apparent there is significant potential to free up more of a teaching principal's time for teaching and supporting learning by reducing their administration load.»

After a career that includes stints teaching high school history, vetting nominees for President Clinton's first presidential administration, running a couple of businesses (Edison Schools and Sangari Global Education), and helping Joel Klein reinvent New York City's education system, he is arguably one of the most seasoned education - reform leaders in the land.

While schools and school districts might seek candidates with formal qualifications or credentials, such as teaching experience, a graduate degree in educational administration, or even an M.B.A., the lack of such credentials would not prevent someone from applying for a position.

We've become so accustomed to using technology within the classroom for teaching and learning, and in the office for evaluation and administration, so it's only natural that schools take advantage of these resources for the recruitment process.

Then of course there is the environment effect, which we do know about — the lack of support, a school culture which may require early career teachers to teach out of field (and we know that more early career teachers teach out of field than any other group), student behaviour, the workload, administration workload, all of those kinds of things are clearly issues.

The IT systems of both teaching and administration have been successfully integrated to give a uniform whole school approach.

«Teacher's assigned to develop timetables in schools are often busy with other roles, such as administration, or they are teachers without classes to teach, and they don't have the time to sit there and model something as effectively as they'd like,» she says.

Schools are now utilising apprentices in roles such as Teaching Assistant, IT Support, Office Administration, Sports Technicians and most recently the programme is providing training for Lab Technicians, Catering Assistants and Finance Officers.

This decision making may consider policies and practices related to the five key pastoral care school - level tasks: proactive, preventative pastoral care; developmental pastoral teaching and learning; the supportive / collaborative environment; reactive casework; and the management and administration of pastoral care (Department of Education, 2001).

Admin and finance With schools focused on teaching and student welfare, it is easy to take administration and finance areas for granted and lose sight of inefficient or ineffective processes.

This article examines the socialization rites that newly appointed secondary school vice-principals experienced as they negotiated the passage between teaching and administration.

However, for the past 10 years, we have been studying a different approach to improving and reforming public education ---- one based on building strong relationships among teachers» unions and school administrations, and developing collaborative institutions in schools and school districts focused on improving teaching and learning.

The school's co-founders, Kevin Sved and Johnathan Williams, split their time between teaching and administration.

In response, the district created a new position — the «school administration manager,» or SAM — to deal with non-learning issues so that principals could instead spend their time on tasks like increasing rigor, teaching sample lessons and coaching teachers to become better educators.