Sentences with phrase «well as high school teachers»

To frame those exams and the courses that prep kids for them, the College Board appoints committees of professors from the relevant discipline, as well as some high school teachers (most of whom had studied with such professors).

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Why yes and since there is a higher incident of sx abuse in families we should castrate all males in families and while we are at ti to be a coach or a school teacher they should all be castrated as well since a significant number of coaches and teachers molest.

Because I spend a good part of my day as a theology teacher in a Catholic high school answering one question, endlessly, day after day, year after year: Why go to Mass?

Whereas public schools are designed to produce workers for the market, higher education is designed to produce engineers, scientists, accountants, managers, consultants, and executives for corporations, as well as the teachers, doctors, and lawyers required for the market society.

Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

Just as we have to pass to graduate from high school and have to give up being the football star, lots of good friends, and teachers we adore, we have to do the same thing on the spiritual path.

Betty Staley directs the Waldorf High School Teacher Education, as well as programs for public school teaSchool Teacher Education, as well as programs for public school teaschool teachers.

Klopfenstein and Thomas (2010) offer three significant ways in which non-AP students at a school may pay the price for the AP program: they may receive lower instructional quality, as the best teachers are siphoned off to teach AP students; they are in larger classes, as AP classes are smaller than typical high school classes; and non-AP course offerings are reduced or limited in order to fund, staff, and expand AP course offerings.

As a public high school teacher of nearly a decade, I found myself making notes on how to better plan and prepare for my own classes by how you introduced, taught, transitioned, and recapped your well - organized lesson each night.

CCSD will hold its annual job fair for teacher candidates, as well as future bus drivers and school nutrition workers, on Saturday, March 3, from 9 am to 12 noon at River Ridge High School in Woodschool nutrition workers, on Saturday, March 3, from 9 am to 12 noon at River Ridge High School in WoodSchool in Woodstock.

Breastfed children had higher mean scores on tests of cognitive ability; performed better on standardized tests of reading, mathematics, and scholastic ability; were rated as performing better in reading and mathematics by their class teachers; had higher levels of achievement in school - leaving examinations; and less often left school without educational qualifications.

Brian is a high school special education teacher as well as the athletic trainer for all of his school's teams.

Investigating successful kids and programs at low - income schools and high - achieving prep schools, as well as interviewing psychologists and neuroscientists, Tough challenges some conventional wisdom on causes of failure (poverty, teacher quality) and contends that nurturing character in children and young adults is the key to success.

Mannion, a biology teacher at West Genesee High School, says he's passionate about environmental issues, as well as education.

Regents Chancellor Betty A. Rosa and State Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia presented Hysick, a science teacher at Cicero - North Syracuse High School in Cicero, with a certificate of recognition as well as the Thomas Sobol Award and the David Johnson Award, both created as annual gifts for recipients of the Teacher of the Yearteacher at Cicero - North Syracuse High School in Cicero, with a certificate of recognition as well as the Thomas Sobol Award and the David Johnson Award, both created as annual gifts for recipients of the Teacher of the YearTeacher of the Year award.

Kevin Green comes to Oneida County Youth Bureau from Notre Dame High School where he was a Physical Education teacher as well as the Physical Education Department Chair and previously was that school's head varsity baseball School where he was a Physical Education teacher as well as the Physical Education Department Chair and previously was that school's head varsity baseball school's head varsity baseball coach.

Seventeen students and teachers were killed in a Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, sparking a public outcry for new gun - control measures as well as action to improve school sSchool in Parkland, Florida, sparking a public outcry for new gun - control measures as well as action to improve school sschool safety.

«Despite all these shortcomings in way in which GCSEs have been reformed, teachers and school leaders have continued, as ever, to ensure that pupils receive high quality learning experiences and can secure the best possible chance of exam success tomorrow.

Cuomo included $ 75 million in the budget for reform initiatives, including expanding pre-K as well as creating community schools, extending the school day or year, and rewarding high - performing teachers.

The task force recommends that the state invest $ 23 million in the continuation and expansion of P - TECH schools as well as making them permanent in state statute, increasing BOCES participation and incentives for teachers to join such vocational schools, and investing $ 12 million to continue and expand early college high schools as well as make them permanent in state statute.

Hawkins» opposition to Common Core and Race to the Top, as well as his platform to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed about the state of their schools due to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.

A native of Queens, and the oldest of three children born to immigrants from Taiwan, she had intended to become a teacher, and was well liked but regarded as serious and low - key at Stuyvesant High School, said Councilwoman Jessica S. Lappin, a classmate.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome ProjecAs a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

Inspired by a high school physics teacher, she applied to MIT and chose to live in the «stereotypically geeky» Random Hall, perhaps best known as the place where you can click on student - designed Web sites to check whether the bathrooms or washing machines are unoccupied.

In the process, I have learned from the children — kindergartners through high school students — as well as their teachers.

It is uncertain whether other school districts can replicate these effects, because they depend on factors that many have little control over (including the local supply of high - performing teachers), as well as those they do control (for instance, the introduction of meaningful teacher evaluation).

Teachers in middle and junior high schools may differ as well, both in their knowledge of whole child development and their experience of professional support and satisfaction.

The Laboratory's education arm also includes a graduate school and programs for undergraduates as well as middle and high school students and teachers.

In 2012 over 3,026 high school and middle school students and 265 teachers participated in BTI programs including summer institutes, workshops, classroom experiments and activities as well as presentations and tour at BTI.

Not only known as best yoga teacher training school but also we are known for our high - end residential facilities.

Bradley Cooper is winning as Phil a smartass high school teacher out for a good time with his buds.

Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

The story followers high schooler Simon (Devon Bostick) as he confronts the mysterious past of his dead mother (Rachel Blanchard's Rachel) and father (Noam Jenkins» Sami) while working on an assignment from his teacher (Arsinee Khanjian's Sabine), which certainly doesn't sit well with his working - class uncle (Scott Speedman's Tom).

Whitaker will win the Oscar, although there are strong contenders, including Will Smith in an affecting role as a homeless dad determined to raise his son in «The Pursuit of Happyness»; Ryan Gosling as a crack - smoking but well - meaning junior high school teacher in «Half Nelson,» and Leonardo DiCaprio as a mercenary Rhodesian diamond smuggler in «Blood Diamond.»

Two years later, Gosling was honored with winning Best Male Lead from the Independent Spirit Awards and earned his first Academy and Screen Actors Guild nominations as Best Leading Actor, for portraying a junior high school teacher in the independent film Half Nelson (2006).

SYNOPSIS On the last day of the school year, mild - mannered high school English teacher Andy Campbell (Day) is trying his best to keep it together amidst outrageous senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration and budget cuts that are putting his job on the line just as his wife is expecting their second baby.

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

First - time writer / director Gavin Wiesen does his best to avoid high school cliches like bullying and teachers that are more caricatures than real mentors, but he falls into just as many in his portrayal of high school romance, art and teen angst.

Sacramento school district officials met with parents, teachers, and students — as well as community members and business and industry leaders — for months to discuss the school - to - career approach for their high schools.

High - poverty schools may be at a disadvantage in hiring and retaining effective teachers as well.

This will be done by eliminating high school sports, Advanced Placement programs, middle school guidance counselors, the jobs of several dozen teachers, and music for grades 1 - 3 — as well as closing elementary, middle, and high schools.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

We have consulted with companies such as Google, Microsoft and Cisco, as well as teachers and higher education academics and organisations like Computing At School (CAS) to ensure that the content is relevant.

As Reckhow and others have noted, the focus in grant making has been on pushing new approaches and broader policy changes that might indirectly foster improvement in high schools — through higher standards, stronger graduation requirements, and better teacher training.

A number of significant factors are well established: teaching is a high status profession in Finland; all teachers have a Masters degree; education is well funded by the state and free to all; school retention rates are high; and the country whose economic revival was led by companies such as Nokia had become a world leader in high level information technology applications, including in education.

He began his career as a high school English teacher and principal and has served as an education advisor to the Mayor of Boston and the Governor of Massachusetts, as well as an assistant director of the National Institute of Education.

His nonprofit is also creating partnerships with non-Hollywood groups that can also make a difference, like Teach For America, which places young teachers in high - needs schools, as well as influential companies that create tests for schools.

Shengchang Tang, principal of the Shanghai High School (the leading high school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and principHigh School (the leading high school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and princSchool (the leading high school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and principhigh school in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and princschool in China), said that the standards and examinations in the Shanghai province are a powerful tool that parents use to exert pressure on their children as well as on teachers and principals.

In summary, based on 1) no evidence of a salary penalty when controlling for AFQT rather than years of education, 2) job switchers receiving higher salaries as teachers than as nonteachers, and 3) public school teachers receiving higher salaries than private school teachers, we conclude that the standard regression is, at best, highly misleading.

The Lebanese government opened its public schools to Syrian students, but immense obstacles, including a language barrier, overcrowding, and the high cost of transportation, have made the transition a difficult one not only for students, but for teachers as well.