Sentences with phrase «teaching elementary school while»

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School administrators report that it is very difficult or impossible to fill elementary teaching positions about 6 percent of the time, while positions in math, physical sciences, and special education are difficult or impossible to fill more than 30 percent of the time.

While subject - area knowledge is privileged in the standards — INTASC has developed specific standards for science, mathematics, English language arts, and special education, and will soon release those for the elementary - school level, social studies, and foreign language — the standards also make clear that knowledge of child development, learning theory, and teaching approaches is essential.

Several years ago, while teaching gifted students at an elementary school, Joe approached me during open house and said, «I know what I want to do for my gifted project this year.»

While many people blame standardized testing for narrowing the elementary school curriculum to reading and math, the real culprit is «a longstanding pedagogical notion that the best way to teach kids reading comprehension is by giving them skills — strategies like «finding the main idea — rather than instilling knowledge about things like the Civil War or human biology.»

In math, numeric operations and fractions are the focus of elementary and middle schools, while it isn't until high school where algebra is taught in depth.

We even went on college tours while in elementary school and I knew I wanted an institution that mirrored both the teaching style and values of New Beginnings.

Potential elementary school teachers in 21 states take the same test for licensure — the Praxis Principles of Learning & Teaching exam — with a possible score range of 100 to 200.11 Teachers in Iowa must earn a scaled score of 167 to pass, while teachers in Alabama pass with a scaled score of just 145.12 The average performance range — defined as the range of scaled scores earned by the middle 50 percent of the examinees — is 168 to 182; both Iowa's and Alabama's cut scores were well below the median score of 176.13

As part of the New York City Teaching Fellows Program, she studied elementary education at Mercy College while working in a traditional public school in the South Bronx.

More recently, Carrie has worked as a freelance writer and consultant, while also teaching and volunteering at her children's elementary school.

The elementary education director noted that while one of the collaborating school divisions made extensive use of technology, the other school divisions in which preservice teachers completed teaching internships did not.

Transition activities that promote continuity may include planned visits to kindergarten classrooms while enrolled in pre-K, kindergarten teachers visiting pre-K classrooms, orientations, parent / teacher meetings, sharing written records on children between pre-K and elementary school, and coordination between early childhood and kindergarten around curricula and teaching strategies.

He graduated summa cum laude while simultaneously teaching elementary school in New York City.

While teaching at the University of Texas at Austin in 1990, Welch created photo portraits of elementary school children in Austin on the theme of what each wanted to be when they grew up and their visions of the future.

While working as an elementary school teaching assistant in the past, I have been credited with handling the many aspects of this work, including providing support to instruction, creating and implementing resources, managing student behavior, and providing both one on one, and group support, amongst other things.

Her interest in social emotional development began while working with students with disabilities and realizing that their issues did not begin and end in the classroom, but rather impacted the away they interacted with others and how others interacted with them This led to a career long passion to help all students strengthen their character by teaching them how to develop social and emotional competencies.As an elementary school principal, she and her staff implemented school - wide philosophies that focused on SECD.

While I felt inspired by the possibilities of a parent - participation elementary school, by the end of the school year, I was struck by the marked difference between my preschool teaching experience — that genuinely accounted for whole child wellness and family partnership — and this experience with elementary education.