Sentences with phrase «types of teachers schools»

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The types of people who become elementary - school teachers are not the same people who join the Marines and go to Afghanistan.

Indeed the desire of the counter-cultural types to take charge of the education of their own children seemed a reasonable extension of the kind of liberty we were being taught, in the public school, that America had been founded to protect, and a rational response to the kind of oppressive social control some of the cooler teachers taught (this was a college town, as I said) capitalist society imposed.

And, not surprisingly, these types of schools tend to attract and retain some of the very best teachers.

Mainly, because in all the verbiage about freedoms of beliefs there is something so important, so blatantly acute yet everyone do not even mention it, except - oh genial me: Why would anyone in the whole world support any type of creed / belief / religion where a whole lot of humans — as in millions of human women — are not allowed to go to school, to even just read and write - less become a teacher, doctor, lawyer, president of their own companies, their own countries, mutilated by the millions when they reach puberty, WHY is this allowed?

This, in turn, has implications for the type of excellence in teachers that theological schools should seek.

The truth is, even with a physically violent tantrum, the police should have never needed to be called and the school's teachers and administrators should have been trained to handle these types of situations.

• Shake up the parental leave system so fathers can spend more time with kids under two years - old • 25,000 more dads per year to sign their child's birth certificate, to reach international standards and halve the number of those who don't • Dads able to stay overnight in hospital with their partner when their baby is born • Modern and relevant antenatal education for both parents • Dads reading with their children in all primary schools • Family professionals — midwives, teachers, health visitors, nursery workers, social workers — confidently engaging with dads as well as mums, and supporting all family types.

To find out if your teacher has a project, visit the DonorsChoose.org site and use the search boxes to type in your teacher's and name of your school along with your zip code.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

Educate teachers and school staff about all types of diversity: racial, blended families, adoption and more.

I find it inconceivable that any government can be considering allowing just about anyone to open a free school, in any type of building, without outdoor play or recreational space, or qualified teachers.

«For some strange reason, even though we reached out to them, the leadership of the teachers» unions still seem to be resistant to any type of help to the schools even though we work closely with them on all types of education reform, and even though in our mind this is not an «us versus them» scenario,» Dolan said.

They were asked what types of guns they owned; reasons for ownership (protection, recreation, as collector's items); their attitudes on gun policies, such as bans, arming teachers and violence against the government; and the sources of violence, ranging from God's absence in public schools to media violence to insufficient mental health screening and background checks.

Alongside these heavyweight comedic stars came Naomi Watts, working wonderfully against type as Daka, a severely pregnant Russian prostitute who Vincent regularly seeks the services of, Chris O'Dowd as a scene - stealing teacher at Oliver's new school, and Terrence Howard as Zucko, a debt collector lurking on Vincent's heels for gambling money he owes.

«Imagine you are looking for a new Maths teacher for your school knowing that this type of professional is in scarce supply.

The driving force of this relationship is not teachers» leaving urban districts for suburban ones; on the contrary, most of the difference in leaving rates between these types of schools is caused by teachers moving to new schools within their original district.

David Weston, CEO of the Teacher Development Trust believes that while teachers do need more support on how to use technology in schools, it needs to be the right type of training.

In those moments I would expostulate with myself about why my life at school seemed so ruinously vacuous, why I was so interminably miserable, why acts of creativity, and why displays of ingenuity and wit seemed to be off - limits and treated by so many teachers as unjudicious, as a type of impolitic epistemological breach.

To identify more precisely the independent effects of the multiple factors affecting teachers» choices, we use regression analysis to estimate the separate effects of salary differences and school characteristics on the probability that a teacher will leave a school district in a given year, holding constant a variety of other factors, including class size and the type of community (urban, suburban, or rural) in which the district is located.

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«The Internet is loaded with activities for all types of classes,» agreed high school science teacher John Tiffany.

«Through regular communication to families and students, schools can highlight the types of enjoyable activities students are likely to experience... such as camps, extracurricular opportunities, teachers, and independence and choice.

Select one of the following modes: - Choose a particular grammar domain or topic to revise - Random mode, giving you a mixture of all types of questions The SATs revision resource is perfect for teachers to use as morning work, lesson starters or revision sessions or alternatively for pupils to practise independently at school or at home.

However, as Geoff Masters points out in his recent Teacher article on 21st Century skills, the solution of standard problem types continues to prevail within school curricula.

Two types of charter schools operate in Massachusetts: Horace Mann charter schools are effectively «in - district» charters whose applications must first be approved by a host school district and, with a few exceptions, the local teachers union.

Our schools are dealing with a lot more new teachers than they had in the past, and defined benefit pension systems aren't set up to deal with this type of mobile workforce.

«This is not a test, this is a in - school, in - classroom skills check that won't be publicly reported or anything like that that relates to NAPLAN, but will give teachers, principals and parents a consistent platform to say: is my child, is my student actually meeting the type of standards we would expect after around 18 months or so at school?

The researchers identified two types of teams: content teams, in which teachers focused on curriculum, lessons, and pedagogy; and cohort teams, in which teachers discussed behavior, individual student needs, and school culture.

The seventh, comparing classrooms within schools that did and did not have an MCL, showed no statistically significant impact, because reading improved in both types of classrooms after multi-classroom leaders began leading some of the teachers in each school.

American Federation of Teacher President Randi Weingarten says we hold schools accountable for how much money they have and the types of programs they build with that money.

When we control for the socioeconomic status of both the student and school, our findings are the same: student characteristics are not related to the type of teachers that parents prefer, while school characteristics are strongly related to parental preferences for teachers.

Supportive interventions can help some students, but these interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in kindergarten and first grade) and haphazardly (schools and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).

Even more interesting, however, we find stark differences across schools in the type of teachers that parents tend to request.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

On the other hand, within a school, a family's own socioeconomic status is uncorrelated with the type of teacher a parent requests.

For example, perhaps the choice of curricula, types of teachers employed, or length of the school day and year are associated with better or worse outcomes.

Not every highly qualified teacher or administrator is prepared to work as a full partner in every type of school.

We tackle this question by examining the types of teachers that parents request for their elementary school children.

We should also ask which types of virtual schools work, under what conditions, with which students, with which teachers, and with what training.

Kevin Courtney, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, said: «Every parent, teacher and school staff member knows the debilitating effect a chronic lack of money has for the quality and type of education schools can give to children and young people.

The average unrecognized school had about 8 teachers and 170 children, two - thirds in rented buildings of the type described above.

I've witnessed similar elements of greatness firsthand, while spending hours at campuses and in teacher classrooms in all grades levels and in nearly every type of school.

IEP Meeting Reminder - Quick form reminds parents and teachers of upcoming IEP meetings Project Choices Visual Checklist - This visual checklist helps teacher track the type of project and gives students an opportunity to choose a type of project for open - ended assignments such as school fairs, museum projects, book reports, group work, etc..

In addition to the views of the public as a whole, we pay special attention in this year's survey to two potentially influential types of participants in school politics: the affluent and teachers.

For a teacher with both types of students in her classroom, that means trying to challenge kids ready for middle - school work while at the same time helping others to decode.

While it's certainly true that test scores can tell us something important about a teacher, what is troubling for the test - score types is that it looks like (1) non-cognitive scores are better predictors of later life success (completing high school, taking the SAT, and going to college) and (2) that it is not the same set of teachers that is good at raising both cognitive and non-cognitive measures.

Keen to explore the causes of variation in performance across different types of schools, I'll be looking at the possible driving forces behind a school's high or low performance, such as its geographical location, changes in leadership, freedom to innovate, the nature of the curriculum, recruitment of teachers, and so on.

According to researchers at the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, schools can move toward retaining new teachers by accounting for the different career experiences, types of teacher preparation, and career orientations of the twoTeachers, schools can move toward retaining new teachers by accounting for the different career experiences, types of teacher preparation, and career orientations of the twoteachers by accounting for the different career experiences, types of teacher preparation, and career orientations of the two groups.

Through local collective bargaining agreements, teachers have a say in district salary schedules, the number and type of sick and personal leave, the length and timing of the school day and year, the number of students per classroom, the amount and type of support services offered to students, and the professional development provided for teachers.

It would be bigger and better funded, but it would similarly offer extra money to states if they pursued certain types of policies, including preschool expansion, teacher quality reforms, extra funding for schools with extra challenges, and curriculum changes.