Sentences with phrase «teaching veteran who»

That's the class taught by Linda McBride, a 30 - year teaching veteran who welcomes a new group of first graders each September, while the other half of her class consists of second graders who were with McBride the previous year.

«At this point, I can't see starting the classroom day any other way,» says Henry, an 11 - year teaching veteran who has been holding Morning Meeting for seven years and likes it because it builds a sense of community and lets students know they're important, which leads to trust and a sense of safety that promotes classroom success.

Not exact matches

Campers will be taught by talented and experienced coaches and players who love the game of softball lead, by Berean's veteran coach Fran Grant and assisted by other Berean coaches, college - experienced alumni, and current BCHS varsity players.

He completed his teaching credential program at California State University, Monterey bay and is also a veteran Waldorf parent who has been active in his school community and has served as President of the School Board.

The curriculum is quite comprehensive; taught by a hodgepodge of veteran operatives and campaign professionals who donate their experience via lectures, webcasts, and grassroots campaigning exercises — all in an effort to raise future leaders equipped with skills in fundraising, community organizing, communications, and legislative action.

Smith, however, who teaches physics and chemistry at Bishop McNamara High School, a private Catholic school in Forestville, Md., is a veteran of the program.

Wahlberg, who is likely to play the grizzled coach to Bieber's young slam - dunker, had previously compared the film to Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money, in which Paul Newman's veteran pool shark teaches young buck Tom Cruise how to cue up a victory on the felt.»

Moors, a commercial and music video veteran, takes a psychosexual view of the tragedies, depicting John Allen Muhammed (Isaiah Washington) as a virile man who observes women as subjects to be conquered, fools to be shown a light that only he can comprehend, despite his abstract teachings to the young teenager he's taken under the fold.

Aidan Quinn stars as a Spanish Civil War veteran who takes a teaching job at an Irish reform school in 1939 and leaps to the defense of boys subjected to inhuman abuse by pitiless Catholic brothers.

Smith is Nicky, a veteran con man who knows all the tricks of the trade that he was taught to by his father and grandfather.

Mollie Mallin, an eight - year veteran who teaches math, science, and religion to fourth and fifth graders, said, «The first two or three years — as teachers — we noticed the biggest change.»

Walsh, a twenty - seven - year veteran of the classroom who teaches kindergarten at Hilldale School, in Pine Brook, New Jersey, says she came upon Puppetools at a workshop, and has found the site to be an invaluable resource.

After all, what veteran teacher wouldn't want to end his or her career in a luxury building among students who virtually teach themselves?

The teaching workforce could greatly benefit from the insights of veteran teachers or second - career teachers who switched to teaching at relatively older ages.

Veteran teachers who work in other settings may wonder what all the fuss is about, and Lemov's definition of effective teaching as getting big test gains in low - income schools may be too narrow for some.

A teacher for more than thirty years, Styles is a veteran educator who has taught students in kindergarten through 7th grade, in both regular and multi-aged settings.

Under the direction of a panel made up of schools administrators and members of the local teachers union, qualified veteran teachers — usually called consulting teachers — take sabbaticals from classroom teaching to mentor new teachers during their first years and to support other experienced teachers who are struggling.

For an entire year before becoming teachers of record in Boston public schools, residents apprentice in the classrooms of skilled veterans, who gradually increase the residents» teaching responsibilities.

Anticipating by three decades the battles over Teach For America, the program inspired proponents who hoped it would bring more intelligent young people into teaching along with critics who saw it as denigrating the wisdom of veteran teachers and deprofessionalizing the field.

(Of course, it is possible that corps members in the Bronx would have been able to learn more progressive discipline strategies had their instructional mentors been drawn from a broader pool of veteran teachers, beyond those who had participated in Teach for America themselves.)

It's Not Easy Being Tween taps into the knowledge and experience of Cheryl Mizerny, a 20 + year veteran who has spent most of her career in middle level classrooms and now teaches sixth grade English Language Arts.

YB: When a veteran teacher offers a new teacher advice about how to teach a lesson or discipline a class, she is speaking as a teacher who already has developed her own teaching style.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Resistance might also be greater for high school teachers who typically view themselves as subject specialists, said veteran educator Ray Salazar, who blogs about his work teaching English language arts at a Chicago public high school.

At Orange Grove Elementary School in Anaheim, 1st - grade teacher Elena Tinder, a 23 - year veteran instructor who recently registered to attend the conference, said she thought the idea of teachers teaching each other about topics they chose on the spot sounded «revolutionary.»

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

Many younger educators, who attended school when student testing took hold, feel more comfortable than veteran teachers using data to alter their teaching methods and to judge their performance.

I received similar advice from a veteran teacher who was my colleague when I taught in a juvenile detention facility.

Teaching experience of the teacher and number of teachers in the class (the Building Bridges case involved a first - year teacher and a doctoral student who had taught for several years, while the Making Weighty Decisions case involved one veteran teacher).

«We came to the profession for student achievement — not for June, July and August,» said Terrel Smith, a 32 - year classroom veteran who teaches computer science and coaches track and field in Sherwood, Ore. «That's a good joke, but it's not true.»

Such labs are best taught by veteran content - area teachers who have strong knowledge of the material.

I also had a chance to talk to two generations of teachers recently; one a newbie who is teaching second grade with Teach for America in a new charter school outside of New Orleans, the other a third grade veteran in suburban New York.

Veteran teachers like Joe Garza, who has been teaching for a total of 15 years, including eight with PUC Schools, is starting his third year as an Alumni Teach Project mentor.

The teaching workforce could benefit from the insights of veteran teachers, or second - career teachers who switched to teaching at a relatively older age.

Kristi Walton is an award - winning veteran teacher from New Orleans who sees her local roots as an asset to her teaching; she thinks she's better in the classroom because of them.

Then, we empower them with remarkable resources: highly respected veteran teachers, real - world teaching opportunities, and collaboration with fellow students who share the same passion.

For veteran educators like Mary Beth Newchurch, who teaches fourth grade at Belle Chasse Primary, the Common Core validates the autonomy she has always exercised in her classroom.

Here are some of the most common teaching issues, answered and solved by the ones who know best — veteran teachers.

«I think you can understand the hesitancy of veteran teachers,» said Deborah Johansen, who has taught English at Yarmouth High School for 30 years.

A 10 - year veteran teacher who has witnessed this kind of attrition throughout her career commented, «It should not be a surprise that people leave teaching.

By guestblogger Laurie Walters, a veteran teacher at Los Angeles Unified School District who has been teaching students for over 30 years.

For Kathy Schliesmayer, an 18 - year classroom veteran who teaches electives from sewing and sculpture to printmaking and drawing and works with many of the students who are teen mothers, the students are the staff's motivation.

One of those reading specialists, 21 - year veteran Melanie Saxa, who teaches at Eli Whitney School, said, «The idea of replacing teachers midway through the school year is so detrimental to our students.

Marrocco is now a 10 - year veteran who few would blame for feeling good about what she knows about teaching.

But as I think about what really made all the difference in transitioning from my career in publishing to teaching — at the heart of the internship experience — were the veteran educators who mentored me.

Many of the veteran teachers from Shaw were removed last year and described by Rhee as jaded and replaced with inexperienced teachers from Teach For America who were described as having energy and enthusiasm.

Noeleen Hay, a 15 - year teaching veteran and one of two founding teachers at Success Prep who remain at the school, hopes teachers who stay past the five - year mark will become the norm, like they are in so many traditional public schools.

Picking up where she leaves off will be Tom Curran, a 35 year veteran, who taught seventh and eighth grades in Westbrook, Maine.

Kristi Walton is an award - winning veteran teacher from New Orleans who sees her local roots as an asset to her teaching; she thinks she's better in the classroom because... Read More

Suzanne is a 31 year veteran teacher who spent most of that time teaching at Title I schools.