Sentences with phrase «than any other teacher program»

«I think HTF, more than any other teacher program that I could see, was a program that could give me the support and training.»

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I spoke with several other students that I personally trained at the Honor Council's first ever Integrity Day about defining success in qualitative rather than quantitative ways, organized presentations for parents in the local community, wrote brochures explaining of the program for the teachers, and held discussions about how Challenge Success ties into Jewish values at my Hebrew School.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, New England's largest conservation organization and a leader in nature - based education for more than 60 years, this month debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for teachers, science coordinators, administrators, and others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.

«It's just crazy to say that a teacher like Sheri is ineffective when everything other than a computer program says she is a phenomenal teacher.»

We have trained more Registered Yoga Teachers in the state of Georgia than any other yoga teacher training program.

Students Rave about our Holistic Nutrition Certification with more interaction between students and teachers than any other program out there!

Yet other than compulsory observation required in teacher - training programs, many educators rarely see any classroom besides their own.

Even if we ignore the fact that most portfolio managers, regulators, and other policy makers rely on the level of test scores (rather than gains) to gauge quality, math and reading achievement results are not particularly reliable indicators of whether teachers, schools, and programs are improving later - life outcomes for students.

Programs in Professional Education (PPE) is a series of intensive programs in professional development that serve more than 2000 teachers, administrators, and other school leaders eaPrograms in Professional Education (PPE) is a series of intensive programs in professional development that serve more than 2000 teachers, administrators, and other school leaders eaprograms in professional development that serve more than 2000 teachers, administrators, and other school leaders each year.

Teacher candidates from alternative route programs like Teach for America and the Visiting International Faculty (VIF) program have much lower three - and five - year retention rates than other routes into North Carolina schools.

In fact, graduates of St. Petersburg did better than any other of the six teacher training programs.

In other words, schools with more veteran teachers before the creation of the ERI program experienced much larger changes in teacher turnover and declines in teacher experience when the program was implemented than schools with fewer such teachers.

Think about two schools, one with many more teachers than the other, both participating in a school - wide merit pay program.

b. My data that show St. Petersburg College's undergraduate teacher training program is doing at least as well as, and probably somewhat better than, other undergraduate teacher training programs in Florida.

The DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund has made more than $ 1 million in three - year grants to scholarship funds, teacher - development programs, and other activities at inner - city Catholic schools.

The quality of feedback from sources other than a teacher is of great concern, especially as it relates to online learning programs.

To find out, we at the Harvard Program on Education Policy and Governance have asked nationally representative cross-sections of parents, teachers, and the general public (as part of the ninth annual Education Next survey, conducted in May and June of this year) whether they support or oppose «federal policies that prevent schools from expelling or suspending black and Hispanic students at higher rates than other students.»

Fewer than 40 of the district's 194 schools volunteered to participate in the program, in which teachers and other staff members, parents, and community members form school - community councils to provide oversight for school policy in consultation with the school principal, according to Rodney Davis, director of information services.

Men and women who enter teaching through other than traditional teacher education programs are less academically qualified and less likely to consider teaching their lifelong occupation than those who obtained their credentials through customary paths, a new report concludes.

The computer science teacher and I realized that the lesson we had created was more than just scaffolding vocabulary — it supported the critical work of following a specific sequence of directions and the realization of the work directions do to make a program (or assignment or project, in other classes) a success.

The Association of Independent Schools of NSW (AISNSW) is a significant provider of professional learning programs for more than 460 independent schools in NSW, and its programs are also able to be accessed by teachers from other schools sectors and states and territories.

In 35 U.S. states and at sites around the world, Dr. Wilson has led professional development for more than 60,000 educators and has presented at conferences with the Singapore Teachers» Union, Jamaica Teachers» Union, The Feuerstein Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, Hawker Brownlow Education (Australia), University of Cambridge (Implementation Science Conference), Leiden University, United Arab Emirates, American Educational Research Association, International Association for Cognitive Education and Psychology, American Association for Colleges of Teacher Education, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Federal Education Program Administrators, Title I, Center on Enhancing Early Learning Outcomes, Nova Southeastern University Conference on Global Leadership, Learning, and Research, ASCD, National Association of Elementary School Principals, National Association of Secondary School Principals, Learning Forward, and many others.

The donation, which is contingent on being matched dollar - for - dollar by other donors, will help fund Teach For America's recruitment of members on more than 200 college campuses as well as its eight - week teacher - training program.

But preliminary new research focusing on Denver's residency program showed that teachers trained through the program were less effective at improving student achievement in math than other novice teachers in Denver.

Stir in lack of teacher mobility, inadequate induction programs, poor working conditions, the lowest unemployment in three decades, and a growing salary gap between teachers and other college graduates — a difference of more than $ 32,000 for experienced teachers with master's degrees — and you have created the worst shortage of qualified teachers ever.

More than 1,200 teachers have graduated from the program, and an ongoing assessment reveals that only 10 percent of graduates leave teaching after three years, compared to more than half in most other urban schools.

Four visits over two years may not seem like much, but the two - year idea exchange between an ACE teacher and a respected veteran provides far more follow - up than most other alternative certification programs.

We invite you to explore more than 50 high - impact programs for teachers, instructional leaders, school leaders, district administrators, and other education professionals in the following areas:

The commissioner may also place under preliminary registration review any school that has conditions that threaten the health, safety and / or educational welfare of students or has been the subject of persistent complaints to the department by parents or persons in parental relation to the student, and has been identified by the commissioner as a poor learning environment based upon a combination of factors affecting student learning, including but not limited to: high rates of student absenteeism, high levels of school violence, excessive rates of student suspensions, violation of applicable building health and safety standards, high rates of teacher and administrator turnover, excessive rates of referral of students to or participation in special education or excessive rates of participation of students with disabilities in the alternate assessment, excessive transfers of students to alternative high school and high school equivalency programs and excessive use of uncertified teachers or teachers in subject areas other than those for which they possess certification.

The U.S. has more teacher preparation programs than any other country in the world,» she says.

New elementary school teachers who were well - prepared in preservice programs to teach reading expressed greater confidence in their knowledge and skills, fostered richer literacy environments in their classrooms, and helped their pupils achieve higher levels of reading comprehension than did other teachers, according to the National Commission on Excellence in Elementary Teacher Preparation in Reading Instruction.

The resulting curriculum, originally known as «EngageNY,» spread rapidly nationwide, and a 2015 RAND survey found that an astonishing 44 percent of elementary school teachers in Common Core states reported using EngageNY at least once a week, more than any other math program, and 13 percent said they used Eureka Math.

At Ohio State University, which annually graduates more new teachers than any other institution in America, a 12 - member «technology» group within the education faculty is working to develop courses and programs that will introduce students to the theory and operation of computers as teaching devices.

After it became obvious that teacher leaders attending the preparation program were more experienced and knowledgeable in some strands than others, the preparation program was modified to reflect a continuum of knowledge and skills.

As an actual policy rather than a pilot, IMPACT was somewhat different in scope from other programs aimed at boosting teacher skill.

Despite ample research indicating that teachers matter more to student achievement than any other in - school factor, 32 both the Trump - DeVos budget and the House appropriations bill proposed eliminating the Supporting Effective Instruction State Grant program, often referred to as Title II grants after the section of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, that authorizes the funding.

Researchers need to understand how teacher educators perceive blended courses when they teach teacher candidates, because teacher preparation programs have different features than other higher education programs have.

The commissioner may contract with entities other than, and including, approved teacher preparation programs to provide intensive teacher training leading to passage of the required certification exams for the desired subject area or coverage.

Given that it's become a truism that teacher quality impacts student learning more than any other variable within the four walls of a school, the results of a new study of teachers» professional development programs are particularly troubling.

North Carolina, Louisiana, and Tennessee all independently concluded that TFA corps members were the most effective out of recent graduates from other teacher preparation programs with which they had worked.151 A controlled study conducted by Mathematica found that students taught by TFA teachers earned higher math scores than students taught by non-TFA teachers with similar years of experience; the TFA - taught students learned approximately 2.6 months of additional material in math during the school year.152 Similarly, another study found that TFA first to third grade teachers» students grew 1.3 additional months in reading compared with their peers who had non-TFA teachers.153

Teach for America (TFA), which has trained more teachers than any other US teacher preparation program, has been heralded by school districts across the country.

Despite what the lack of action on this issue suggests, however, there is widespread public support for increasing the selectivity of teacher preparation programs: 60 percent of Americans believe that preparation programs should make their entrance requirements more rigorous.11 While there has been some recent evidence of a shift, the average SAT scores of college students pursuing education degrees have historically been lower than those of students entering other professions.12

Expanding the use of Title II funds, for instance, for purposes other than to support teachers and principals — combined with the elimination of the maintenance - of - effort provision and the elimination of programs to enhance literacy, digital learning, and school counseling — will greatly reduce the chances that states will use those funds for anything but budget relief.

Though it approves 80 % of applicants, making it less selective than the other universities on this list, Grand Valley State University still provides high quality teacher education programs.

Scholars at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the teaching fellows program and found positive results, including a) graduates teach in schools and classrooms with greater concentrations of higher performing and lower poverty students; b) graduates produce larger increases in student test scores in all high school exams and in 3rd - 8th grade mathematics exams; and c) teaching fellows remain in North Carolina public schools longer than other teachers.

Six low - performing Boston schools participating in a pilot program that gives teachers more training, support, and leadership roles are showing higher growth on state tests than other low - performing city schools...

Teach for America is a very selective program that accepted only 15 percent of applicants last year, but choosing those prospective teachers whose students will perform consistently better on tests than other teachers» students has proven a challenge for the group, which is now having some trouble attracting new teachers as well.

Kennedy and Archambault (2012b) reported that only 1.3 % of teacher preparation programs prepared teachers in settings other than traditional, brick - and - mortar classrooms.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

In general the teachers in this study viewed the district's new teacher - evaluation program more positively than negatively, although a substantial minority of teachers said that they would not recommend the evaluation program to other school districts, citing concerns ranging from fairness to feedback.