Sentences with phrase «teaching area high»

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That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

Students who plan to become teachers in a high - need field in a low - income area may qualify for a TEACH grant.

In his free time, Brent teaches for - profit, social entrepreneurship to low - income, at - risk high school students in the Los Angeles & Bay Areas.

The Encyclical Ut unum sint lists among the five still controversial areas: «I) the relationship between Sacred Scripture, as the highest authority in matter of faith, and Sacred Tradition, as indispensable to the interpretation of the Word of God,» and «4) the Magisterium of the Church, entrusted to the Pope and the Bishops in communion with him, understood as a responsibility and an authority exercised in the name of Christ for teaching and safeguarding the faith.»

In fact, Frontal Agritech's slogan «Redesigning Agriculture» doesn't refer to any high - tech approach, but to organizing farms in their area and teaching their owners traditional farming, using organic techniques wherever possible.

I do think the team does a great job of finding under - recruited players in the area at high schools without much of a training program or weight room and know that they can get them on a solid diet and weight lifting regimen when on campus, but I believe the teaching of the craft of being a defensive lineman is and has been sorely lacking at MSU.

I've always felt that a high school coach who installs a different system every year to take advantage of his talent runs the risk of spending so much time teaching the new system that he loses ground in other areas.

upstatetoday.com, March 4, 2009 Seneca High has top consumer science teacher by Greg Oliver «Zandra P. Overstreet, a former Walhalla Middle School teacher who has been a member of the Seneca High School teaching staff since 2005, has been named the state's top teacher in the area of family and consumer science.

As a registered nurse and the injury prevention coordinator for Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital in St. Louis, Winkler teaches safe sleep practices in East St. Louis, an area plagued by a higher than average infant mortality.

Students in high - poverty areas of New York City are more likely to be taught by teachers considered «unsatisfactory.»

A New York teaching certificate and a Regents Diploma from a New York - accredited school were once considered benchmarks, held in high regard in other areas of the country.

Although emergency certification has a lousy reputation and may be eliminated in the next few years, for now it may be the most direct route into teaching if you plan to work in a high - need area.

Then a friend told her about an open teaching position at Hawken, a private high school in the Cleveland area.

Many former scientists have found success and fulfillment in teaching (high school and college), science writing, and consulting, among other areas.

But a smaller school — especially a small college where teaching loads are already high, departments are small, and there's little overlap between professors» areas of expertise — has less flexibility.

The department also wants to replace the TEACH grants, a program that provides loans to undergraduates studying to become teachers in high - need areas, including science and math, with a program called Presidential Teaching Fellows.

Miller still works in the area's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High Scharea's school district, teaching honors biology to ninth graders and anatomy and physiology to 10th through 12th graders at Dover Area Senior High SchArea Senior High School.

Co-sponsored by the German - American Fulbright Commission and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) the Summer Academy aims to offer professional development in areas relevant to the teaching of German including German language, literature and culture as well as in professional and higher education.

She has also been teaching high intensity, interval training, bootcamp classes in the Atlanta area for over 2 years.

Ashley taught herself how to make the jewelry that she would sell to help high school students in the area.

Tim (Johnson), who teaches in a public high school in the Los Angeles area, and Lee (DeWitt), a yoga instructor, and their toddler son, Jude (played by Jude Swanberg, who is the son of Swanberg and his wife, the filmmaker Kris Swanberg), arrive at the luxurious house of one of her clients, which has been lent to them for a sort of near - staycation.

I am currently finishing up my ninth year of teaching technology education at Reedsburg Area High School in Reedsburg, WI.

The area where the NBPTS ought to have the easiest time creating straightforward standards is high - school math and science teaching, where there is widespread consensus as to what teachers are supposed to do.

The teacher will have a thorough material on marketing, that will let him or her achieve a significant improvement of the student's knowledge on this area, and additionally is a material cumulated during my last 8 years teaching the subject, fundamental on achieving classes with high grades as per our IB international standards.

States should seize the possibilities for more innovative approaches to school improvement posed by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which replaces a law much criticized for its heavy - handed federal role and for focusing schools heavily on teaching for low - level multiple - choice tests in reading and math to the neglect of other subject areas and higher - level skills.

My experience teaching on the Tohono O'odham Native American Reservation, in low - income high schools and in a juvenile detention center often pulled me to areas of most need.

IT infrastructure, in particular, is one area that is increasingly central to the provision of modern, high quality teaching and, consequently, requires consistent renewal - something which is beyond the average school or college IT budget.

Says Chung, who was a junior at a Los Angeles - area high school at the time,» [The riots] opened my eyes to how we do or do not teach about social justice issues in schools.»

Break out sessions cover the following areas — promoting positive behaviour; teaching students with SEND: developing their transferable skills; supporting students with English as an Additional Language; grammar, punctuation and spelling at Key Stage 2; international pedagogy - what we can learn from high performing jurisdictions; keeping it healthy and safe when covering science lessons; assessment and feedback; supporting teachers supporting students; the changing landscape of primary education and what it means for primary school teachers.

This, together with the major problem of recruiting teachers, which has been particularly bad in areas where housing costs are high, is forcing schools to look at different models for teaching and learning.

Federal Perkins Loans and Federal Direct Loan borrowers may qualify for various types of loan forgiveness and / or cancelation programs for working in high need teaching areas and public service jobs.

But NCLB's demand that all new teachers hold at least a baccalaureate degree or higher, be fully licensed, and have demonstrated subject - matter competence in the areas they teach surely heightened the anxiety.

As a scholar of math teaching, Dr. Dieckmann's research interest is in the area of mathematical explanation (oral and written), especially for linguistically diverse students at the middle and high school levels, collaborating with Kenji Hakuta at Understanding Language.

Upon successful completion of their first year, T2MS students earn the equivalent of the Initial Teaching Certification from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in at least one science or math subject area at the middle or high school level and a Masters of Education degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Before coming to the school, Seidel taught high - school theater and language arts in the Boston area for 17 years.

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of act 1: - Context - Imagery analysis - Analysis of sonnet form - Language, form and structure analysis - Opportunity for role play / speaking and listening - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Soliloquy analysis and comparison - Homework tasks Resources to support the teaching of act 1 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of act 1: - Context - Prologue - Analysis of sonnet and shared sonnet - Language, form and structure analysis - Opportunity for persuasive writing - Analysis development and practice - Teacher, self and peer assessment opportunities - Character and theme presentation - Analysis of imagery - Homework tasks Resources to support the teaching of acts 2 - 5 are also available and are all meticulously planned and fully differentiated.

In this post, I share excerpts from a recent interview with Megan Toyama, a blended - learning teacher who teaches AP US history and 10th - grade modern world history at Summit Tahoma, a high school that is part of the Summit Public Schools charter network in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Key areas which will be monitored are high entries for qualifications that are not core subjects; double entry in qualifications that overlap in content such as statistics and free standing mathematics qualifications; and entry for GCSEs in English language and literature when «the latter is not taught with sufficient time to support effective achievement».

In contrast to progressive charters in suburban areas, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

Wentworth: Teaching all the high school sciences presents a constant challenge to put visual concepts into a tactile, graphic format — but it is an area I thoroughly enjoy.

However, without the changes Massachusetts made to its entire system of teacher licensing (e.g., subject area licensing tests for all prospective teachers, criteria for achieving full licensure after beginning teaching, and criteria for license renewal for veteran teachers), it is unlikely there would have been enduring gains in achievement for students in all demographic groups and in all its regional vocational / technical high schools — gains confirmed by tests independent of control or manipulation by Massachusetts or federal policy makers.

The state requires prospective high school teachers to complete majors and pass subject - matter tests in the areas they plan to teach.

One professor told the regents» Committee on Educational Policy that «the disaster area is at the junior high school» and blamed poor teaching and a shortage of counseling services at this level for the substandard skills of entering freshmen.

Parsons has taught for most of the past 30 years at two Portland - area high schools, and has seen both progress and the need for more education and support for LGBT students.

«Content - area teachers in middle and high school feel less prepared to teach reading skills, and they also view reading skill as something that should have happened at the elementary level,» says Lecturer Pamela Mason, M.A.T.» 70, Ed.D.» 75, director of the master's program in language and literacy and the Jeanne Chall Reading Lab.

In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations for performance on standardized tests.

In the area of teaching (Chester E. Finn Jr., «High Hurdles,» Feature, Spring 2003), A Nation at Risk had it right.

Certainly in high schools, where teachers often specialise into one or two subject areas, there is a real emphasis on the subject matter knowledge of the teacher - which is why, the claim goes, that if you want to teach history, you should first learn a lot about history, and if you want to teach mathematics, then you should get a degree in mathematics.

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