Not exact matches
The Houston Press: San Benito
Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth - grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to Y
Teacher Replaced After Bizarre Classroom Rant About Jesus, Mary Magdalene, UFOs & The Apocalypse A ninth -
grade teacher at San Benito's Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to Y
teacher at San Benito's
Veterans Memorial High School has been replaced for the remainder
of the year after her lesson plan went badly awry last Tuesday and her 12 - minute rant was filmed by a student and uploaded to YouTube.
«For most
teachers, the value
of Focal Points lies in organizing and prioritizing what they are already doing,» says Bonnie Hagelberger, a
veteran first -
grade teacher in Minnesota and NCTM board member.
Sixth -
grade teacher and
veteran of flexible seating Kristin Harrington says, «At the beginning
of the year, flexible seating may be a novelty and could serve as a distraction, but by the time testing rolls around, this environment has become the norm for students.
A story in the Sept. 3, 2003, issue
of Education Week about the American Board for the Certification
of Teacher Excellence («Essays on New
Teachers» Test to Be Graded by Computers») misstated the requirements for veteran teachers seeking the board's a
Teachers» Test to Be
Graded by Computers») misstated the requirements for
veteran teachers seeking the board's a
teachers seeking the board's approval.
Work - life balance is a struggle for both beginning and
veteran teachers, and
grading seems to be one
of the biggest barriers to overcome in maintaining this balance.
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.»
Remember Sheri Lederman
of Long Island, the apparently, by all other accounts, terrific 4th
grade and now 18 year
veteran teacher who received an «ineffective» rating based on New York's value - added model (VAM); that is, a score
of 1 out
of 20 after she scored a 14 out
of 20 the year prior (see prior posts here, here and here)?
«This initiative is not a referendum on public - school
teachers, but rather it's an honest effort to ensure success for every student in Washington,» said Todd Hausman, a
veteran fourth -
grade teacher in Bellingham and member
of the Washington Education Association.
A
veteran first -
grade teacher was faced with an incident in which a small group
of boys began building a wall that spanned the width
of the classroom.
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.
According to a recent Washington [Blog] Post written by Valerie Strauss, in New York a 17 - year
veteran and current 4th
grade teacher, recognized by the district superintendent as having a «flawless» teaching record and being «highly regarded as an educator,» is suing the state
of New York over her VAM scores that have just placed her in the «ineffective»
teacher category.
At Echo Mountain Intermediate School in northeast Phoenix where 98 %
of students qualify for free and reduced lunch, rookie
teachers observed
veteran Rachelle Samora's fifth
grade math class in action.
Fifth
grade teacher and
veteran Curtis Prochowski was called to the stage to announce the names
of the student award winners.
The survey included a cross-section
of new and
veteran teachers from various
grade levels.
His 1st
grade teacher at
Veterans Memorial, Amanda Stoerman, recently asked her class to write about the plot
of a book she had just read aloud.
Sheri is a
teacher, who by all accounts other than her 2013 - 2014 «ineffective» growth score
of a 1/20, is a terrific 4th
grade, 18 - year
veteran teacher.
«The only thing these
grades tell us is where our poor children go to school and where our rich children go to school,» said Lynn Shoemaker, a 23 - year
veteran public school
teacher representing the advocacy group Public Schools First NC at a press conference held by Senate Democrats after the launch
of the A-F school
grades.