Sentences with phrase «train teachers in his district»

Shareski conducts half - day workshops to train teachers in his district to use digital video.

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During a recent speaking tour to Egypt, I walked with Emile Zaki, an Egyptian pastor and teacher, from his church in a worker's district of Cairo to the nearby train station.

Education Code 51264 (2003) calls for the California Department of Education to prepare and distribute guidelines for incorporating in - service training in gang violence and drug and alcohol abuse prevention for teachers, counselors, athletic directors, school board members, and other education personnel into staff development plans for each school district.

New programs put aspiring teachers in classrooms from the start in effort to improve training, reduce turnover and help districts overcome shortages in qualified faculty.

The NPP promised Free SHS, a factory per district, jobs, restoration of allowances for teachers and nurses in training, $ 1 million per constituency, a dam per farming village in the three regions up north, and the setting up of a Zongo Development Fund.

The superintendent added that his district has intensified its teacher training, particularly in math, in order to prepare for the next round of state testing in April.

A retired SRO says too many districts fail to fully train the actual first - responders in a school shooting: the teachers.

The department should set a goal of investing $ 200 million a year in such activities, the president declared, giving Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos the job of «helping districts recruit and train [STEM teachers], focusing in particular on computer science.»

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

In other New York City news, Alex Zimmerman of Chalkbeat reports that the school district will not be renewing its contract with TNTP to recruit and train teachers.

HGSE will partner with Cambridge Public Schools, Boston Renaissance Charter School, Prospect Hill Academy Charter School, the Richard J. Murphy School in Boston, and the Education Collaborative — a consortium of 11 metro - west districts — to offer content training and classroom - based support to middle - school mathematics teachers.

Over the course of the meeting on this fall day, the 18 - member professional - development committee for the Lexington school system will cover a wide swath of topics about the ongoing training — everything from practical concerns about teacher enrollment in a district - sponsored course to philosophical ones about how to improve teachers» ability...

To improve special education, we need to ensure full funding so that districts can hire certified special - education teachers; reduce paperwork so special - education teachers have more time for planning and instruction; and provide administrators with training in special education.

94, a teacher librarian for the Santa Clara United School District, while this kind of training in critical thinking is more needed than ever for students, it's not always a priority everywhere.

For long - term success, schools and districts need to cultivate a pipeline of competent teacher leaders who are trained to share their on - the - ground experience and play an active role in peer - to - peer learning and support.

Altogether, adding up all their locations, the Teaching Fellows program trained an additional 2,182 teachers in 2012, or another 1.5 percent of teachers hired by districts.

Bound up in this is the need for school districts to provide adequate professional training and development for substitutes, who are in short supply, and to encourage a positive working relationship between classroom teachers and their substitutes.

Districts and charter schools could use the extra dollars to lower class sizes, improve classroom technology, or target teacher training in grades K - 4.

HR 1310, introduced last Tuesday, includes a $ 250 - million block - grants program for teacher - training in school districts and $ 50 - million for higher education — both sought by Representative Carl D. Perkins of Kentucky, chairman of the Education and Labor Committee.

Teachers in the wealthier districts get better technology training, better professional development, and higher pay.

The District of Columbia's school system uses the results from its new evaluation system to identify teacher - training institutions that produce the city's highest - rated teachers and is prioritizing those providers in its recruitment of new teachers.

promotion and funding of teacher exchanges between city and suburban school districts and training of teachers in techniques for successful interracial classrooms;

«In my view,» Hutchison concluded, «if districts expect teachers to use technology, they have to support it more completely with funding, training, and support.

Berg encountered an approach called the «jigsaw method» as a first - year teacher during a special training session in another school within her district.

A fellowship program launched in 2008 by Leading Educators, which began in New Orleans and is now operating in Kansas City and will soon expand into Detroit and the District of Columbia, for example, provides a select group of teachers with training in education issues, management, leadership, and problem solving.

«Districts can be so hard to change,» said Dan Challener, president of the Public Education Foundation, an independent, nonprofit, community - based organization that provides training, research, and resources to teachers, principals, and schools in the Hamilton County area of Tennessee.

With funding from major foundations and with state and district efforts to train teachers to become content curators, as opposed to content consumers, OER is helping to mobilize educators and librarians to bring quality, curated content to school and college classrooms in ways that students learn best.

Parachute teachers receive about three hours of basic training to start, before the microcredentialing, and in addition to what the district might require.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

Districts will receive funds, roughly $ 300 per pupil annually, which can be used to raise the minimum teacher salary, improve entry into the profession for new teachers, fund leadership roles, hire additional teachers, and provide training and support to teachers in leadership roles.

In Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, the University of Cincinnati, and the school district overhauled teacher training based on their analysis of what is required to be an effective teacher in an urban settinIn Cincinnati, the Cincinnati Federation of Teachers, the University of Cincinnati, and the school district overhauled teacher training based on their analysis of what is required to be an effective teacher in an urban settinin an urban setting.

Since Perrotti started the Safe Schools Program in Massachusetts in the early 1990s, he's seen more interest in offering targeted training on transgender issues at both the university level in the programs that prepare teachers and other educators and at the school district level.

The linchpin of the state's work has been providing incentives for districts and schools statewide to adopt and implement a high - quality and coherent curriculum, particularly in English language arts (ELA) and mathematics, and to use that curriculum as the hook on which everything else hangs: assessment, professional development, and teacher training.

At the time of writing, Jarrod Robinson was an ICT - trained PE and outdoor education teacher at Boort District School, a government school in rural Victoria.

The NRC report suggests several possible reasons, including a lack of knowledge about such opportunities among teachers and administrators; a bias among principals for more traditional methods; and institutional resistance from district professional development staff who might see their own jobs disappear if teachers bypass their programs and engage in training created from afar.

Its efficacy depended on principals» capacity to provide targeted instructional guidance, teachers» ability to respond to the instructional feedback in a manner that generated improvements in student achievement, and the extent of district - level support and training for principals who were primarily responsible for implementing the new system.

Under the agreement with the district and the plaintiffs in the case, the state has agreed to provide funding for reading instruction, preschool and kindergarten programs, and training to help teachers work with low - income and minority children.

The Project includes a growing coalition of teacher training programs, higher education institutions, non-profits, funding organizations, state and district agencies, teacher unions, and others committed to working in concert with one another to deliver transformative change in the teaching profession.

Aspiring teachers and school districts need to know what programs are actually providing in the way of training in order to choose the programs they wish to patronize.

Training is conducted onsite via a teacher coach, online in facilitated courses, and in regional meetings of participating districts.

This puts a certain amount of the responsibility on the districts themselves to train their own teachers to develop material and teach in an online mode.

On a local level, California's San Joaquin County Office of Education has started the Teachers College of San Joaquin to train administrators and teachers in the local school diTeachers College of San Joaquin to train administrators and teachers in the local school diteachers in the local school districts.

Melissa Joy Bollow Tempel said she encountered pushback when she wanted to start including professional development on gender identity in the training she provided as a culturally responsive teacher - leader in the Milwaukee Public Schools district.

Some districts, like the nation's largest, in New York City, have found that it helps to pair general education teachers with special education teachers in a co-teaching model, where teachers share classroom responsibilities and both receive specialized training in teaching students with autism.

The goal of the school district needs to be supporting each teacher in his or her tech growth with training that is content specific and tiered to the levels of ability.

Smoke and shell casings fly as teachers and staff from Clifton Independent School District in Clifton, Texas, fire handguns at a range just outside of Clifton during training on what they need to know to get a license to carry a concealed gun.

This goal drives every aspect of the Boston Teacher Residency (BTR), a district - based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of prepaTeacher Residency (BTR), a district - based program for teacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of prepateacher training and certification that recruits highly qualified individuals to take on the unique challenges of teaching in a high - need Boston school and then guides them through a specialized course of preparation.

Walsh emphasizes that better consumer education — informing aspiring teachers and school districts about the quality of programs across the nation — can play a key role in motivating institutions to «change in the direction of effective training.»

While ideally that district would abide by IDEA and keep those children in - district to comply with the «least restrictive environment» mandate, that would require, at the least, a separate classroom, an occupational therapy room, a teacher trained in Applied Behavior Analysis, and an instructional aide.

So we came up with an action plan to do that and the grantors gave us $ 5,000 to implement it, and so we implemented the plan, so all the teachers in the district got the training.