Sentences with phrase «teaching stints with»

Like some college education departments, Teach for America's Institute has suffered from a lack of subject - specific training and from short student - teaching stints with much smaller class sizes than teachers are apt to encounter in the real world.

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A brief but formidable stint working with Chef Ashley Christensen in Raleigh taught Ben a great deal about respecting seasonality.

After the L.A. Games, Shaw, a Long Beach State grad with a degree in psychology, coached swimming at his alma mater for five years, then taught for eight years in the Hesperia, Calif., school district, including a stint as a special education teacher.

Ten years later, after a stint teaching high school in the South Bronx, she returned to the country with her then - husband, biologist Michael Fay, to run a small conservation project for the World Wildlife Fund in the newly established Dzanga - Ndoki National Park.

It is ironic that many graduate students plan to have a career in academia but enter the job market with a major disadvantage: In many, perhaps most, cases the only formal training in teaching they receive is a short stint as a teacher's assistant (TA).

He credits his stint at the Swaminathan Foundation with teaching him that the true job of an engineer is to use science and technology for the greater good.

I also wanted to share with you that when I was working on my Master's I had to do a stint teaching one credit PE classes as part of my assistantship.

Pisha took a predictably roundabout route to Harvard: stints at rubber and bleach factories, community college, an abortive attempt at law school, and some very rewarding public school teaching and work with learning - disabled students.

Directly following a stint with Teach For America, Waddy came to HGSE to enroll in the PSP Program with an eye toward a future in counseling.

After a stint in the Mississippi Delta with Teach for America, April Wang» 09, is spending the summer developing This Land Speaks.

I have very mixed feelings about replacing those teachers with grads going into Teach for America for a 3 - yr stint.

He did a stint with Teach for America followed by some time with Achievement First Elm City and then Achievement First Bridgeport's Middle School.

Most teachers arrive through unconventional channels, with significant numbers coming from stints with Teach for America, which draws many elite college graduates.

A few boast a «stint» here and there, often with Teach for America.

Calling themselves Educators 4 Excellence (E4E), they claim to speak for teachers — although most E4E organizers don't have more than a year or so of teaching experience — and what little actual teaching experience they have is usually the result of a short stint with Teach for America.

You may have reached this conclusion years ago if you had a degree in education (BA in English from Swarthmore; law degree from NYU), or had ever taught anyone anything (and no — I don't count your stint with TFA as teaching experience, Kevin).

After a stint with Teach for America, she went on to co-found Educators for Excellence (E4E) in 2010 to ensure that teachers have a leading voice in education policymaking in order to provide all students the opportunity to succeed and elevate the teaching profession.

Throughout two - year stint with TFA, employees work toward attaining a teacher certification (Teach For America).

Crucially, these years, 1946 - 50, align with Bischoff's first stint teaching at California School of Fine Arts and further reinforce the major influence the school and its community had on the painting in the region.

After studying with the great and eccentric Clyfford Still at the California School of the Arts, exhibiting with the Abstract Expressionists in New York, and having endured stints of teaching on the East Coast and in the Midwest, Jon Schueler left New York in 1970 for the isolation and particular weather of the Scottish Highlands.

Oh comes to NCSE after stints at a variety of non-profits specifically concerned with education, including the Teaching Channel, where he was a senior director overseeing editorial content and leading social media, and the National Writing Project, where he managed projects involving interest - based learning.

I have taught 2nd - 5th grade in the traditional year and a stint with 6th grade ELA in summer school.

I began my work in private practice with some stints along the way as mental health therapist in a transgender program in the Bronx, mental health supervisor at the Staten Island LGBT Center, president of the NYC Chapter of the New York Mental Health Counselors Association, Member at Large of the New York Association of Marriage and Family Therapists, and adjunct faculty teaching human sexuality and psychology courses in various departments (Rockhurst College, Park University, Hunter College, Mercy College and Long Island University).