Sentences with phrase «week than teachers»

«Teach less» means teachers teach fewer hours per day or week than teachers in U.S. Finnish high school teachers spend about 40 % less time teaching than U.S. teachers.

Teachers in schools in the most deprived areas work on average 3.6 hours less per week than teachers in schools based in the most affluent areas, the report found.

Not exact matches

Less than two weeks after the worst mass school shooting in Florida history, teachers and staff returned to the campus of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for the first of two work days with a rainbow shining in the distance.

Republicans and Democrats Agree Arming Teachers don't make schools safer TALLAHASSEE — Less than two weeks after the Parkland shooting, Florida Republicans are playing politics with public safety and embracing one of Donald Trump's most widely derided proposals to reduce gun violence.

Jon recently started teaching me to play guitar and I am totally taking my former music teacher advice that practicing 10 minutes a day is better than an hour once a week.

· over three quarters of teachers experienced classroom temperatures in excess of 24 degrees on more than a quarter of days during the survey period (four weeks in summer 2011);

Additionally, in the weeks leading up to the election, the powerful New York State United Teachers union's political action committee spent more than $ 78,000 on mail and advertising for Doran, according to the state Board of Elections.

Loeb's donations to Gov. Cuomo and other New York Democrats and Republicans have come under scrutiny since last week because of a since - deleted Facebook post accusing Stewart - Cousins, who is black, of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood» by supporting public teacher unions over charter schools.

«The education select committee questioned more than 300 primary and secondary school teachers, less than half of whom claimed that their pupils have two hour of sports education each week.

That was never more apparent than about a week ago when Johnson (R - West Babylon) missed a vote on state Sen. John Flanagan's controversial bill on teacher seniority.

A separate 2016 Facebook post from Loeb was also uncovered this week saying the teachers» union «has done more to perpetuate poverty and discrimination than the KKK.»

Education Week is reporting on an Empire Center's report that says over the past decade «public schools hired nearly 15,000 teachers and almost 9,000 administrators, guidance counselors and other support workers over the last 10 years as enrollment dropped by more than 121,000 students.

The New York education sector has had its own controversy over race in the past week: Daniel Loeb, a political donor and chairman of the board of directors of Success Academy, the state's largest charter school network, said in a since - deleted Facebook post that state Sen. Andrea Stewart - Cousins, who is black, was worse for racial minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood,» because of her support of teachers» unions.

A Teaching Assistant earning about # 7 per hour, working part time and being paid for just 30 weeks per year, typically only pays into the LGPS for less than seven years; whereas a male teacher on retirement may have 30 years of contributions behind him.

The hedge fund manager, Daniel S. Loeb, one of the state's most prolific political donors, said in a Facebook posting last week that Ms. Stewart - Cousins was worse for minorities than «anyone who has ever donned a hood» because of her support for teachers» unions.

Last week in his 2014 State of the State speech, Gov. Andrew Cuomo pitched a teacher incentive plan, which could total more than $ 6 million for «highly effective» teachers from Riverhead to Oysterponds.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

Last week, from 12 to 13 November 2001, more than 200 life scientists, clinicians, postgraduate students, and teachers gathered at the Clinical Research Centre at the National University of Singapore to share their research findings and to discuss science funding, education, and training.

Wondering: Why music teachers think they don't need to give the schedule for class more than a week in advance?

The research, from Canvas, the Virtual Learning Environment for academic institutions and companies worldwide, reveals that one in six (17 %) teachers in the UK are spending more than 11 hours a week on marking and assessments.

Education Week referred to the program as the «toughest in the nation,» and in a study of 24 states, researchers Matthew Kraft and Allison Gilmour demonstrated that it rated 28.7 percent of teachers ineffective — more than twice as many as the next closest state in the nation, Oregon.

Many of Education World's P - Files principals suggested that the final year of teacher preparation should be more intense than the eight - or 15 - week experiences most teachers - to - be get.

The report, released last week by the Center for the Future of Teaching and Learning, based in Santa Cruz, Calif., says that 18,000 of the state's more than 300,000 teachers are still «underprepared,» meaning they don't have, at minimum, a preliminary teaching credential.

As a teacher with more than three years experience, though, I think the process is more beneficial than attending a class once a week.

In a recent Education Week survey, more than half the teachers responding said their training did not prepare them to handle potentially contentious discussions.

The survey of 923 elementary teachers that writer Nanette Asimov referenced reveals that «about 80 percent of those teachers said they spent less than an hour each week teaching science.»

A number of such steps have, in fact, already been taken but let us not be fooled that teachers — any more than other graduate professionals — will ever work anything like a 35 hour week.

PD is already confined to a couple of weeks in the summer, but then throw on top of that the «sit - and - get» style in which we teach our content, and you can see why most teachers would rather surf Pinterest than learn during these sessions.

Actually, a recent survey by Education Week magazine showed us that more than 50 % of teachers feel comfortable using new technologies.

Out of every 10 teachers in this country, fewer than two are serious users of computers and other information technologies in their classrooms (several times a week); three to four are occasional users (about once a month); and the rest — four to five teachers out of every 10 — never use the machines at all.

Education Week quoted a former associate superintendent of the Cincinnati schools, who blamed the proposal's failure on the fact that it «would have applied to nearly all teachers, rather than allowing veterans the choice of opting into the new system.»

Some teachers provided more information than others, but the essentials of the student's productivity and accomplishments that week — including information about homework completion, test and project scores, major upcoming assignments, and classroom behavior — were related with consistent clarity.

Approved by the district's board of education last week, the plan is expected to put millions more dollars into rewards for teachers whose students show better - than - average improvement compared with similar groups of students.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

For exactly this reason, writes Gloria Ladson - Billings, a black professor at the University of Wisconsin — Madison, in a recent essay in Ed Week, «There is something that may be even more important than black students having black teachers, and that is white students having black teachers.

More than 100 teachers and leaders from around the country were invited to share their approaches to piloting and scaling blended learning in classrooms and schools, which we summarized in our latest report, «From the frontlines: Takeaways from the 2016 Blended and Personalized Learning Conference,» out this week.

Budget cuts and travel restrictions placed on school personnel did not dissuade more than 18,000 reading teachers and experts from around the world from meeting here last week for the 48th annual conference of the International Reading Association.

Support Slipping for Common Core, Especially Among Teachers, Poll Finds Education Week, 8/19/14 The poll of 5,000 adults, conducted this past spring by Education Next, a journal published by Stanford University's Hoover Institution, shows that more than two - thirds of adults support the idea of shared academic standards.

Measuring pay by weeks worked increases the weekly pay for nonteachers because they have more paid leave than teachers.

The survey raises questions about the amount of work teachers are expected to complete with almost three quarters (23.6 per cent) claiming they work more than 60 hours a week.

However, a 2016 Education Week study found that nationally, 27 percent of preK — 12 teachers were absent for more than 10 schools days in 2013 — 14.

New teachers have new ideas: Last week a colleague confided to me that he wished he had more new teachers in his department because his group regularly struggles to innovate — much more so than other departments, in his understanding.

In Detroit, more than 11,000 teachers continued their strike last week, despite an attempt by the school board to get a court order...

The sniper shootings that occurred over a three - week period this month had an impact on the school lives of more than 1 million students and 65,000 teachers in about 30 school districts, some as far as 125 miles from Washington.

New teachers have a unique energy reserve: Someone who has been in a relationship for 10 weeks is probably going to have a different type of energy than someone who has spent the last decade in even the strongest relationship.

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More than 46 per cent of pupils also said they revise for five or more hours every week, and one - fifth of students said they don't feel supported by teachers.

Nearly half of teachers in the RAND study reported spending more than four hours per week developing or selecting their own instructional materials.

Teachers in faith - based schools say they have the worst work - life balance, with 74 per cent reporting a typical week is «less balance than they would like» or «not balanced at all».