Sentences with phrase «year of instruction during»

The general computer skills a youth needs to enter the workplace or college can easily be learned in one year of instruction during high school.

Not exact matches

The period between a Pulaya candidate's acceptance of Anglican instruction and actual baptism, which usually extended to about two years, was considered a time of «probation» during which the candidate had to sufficiently demonstrate «strictly consistent Christian conduct» revealing a proper understanding of Christian fundamentals.

According to the report, which contains data that school districts are now required to submit to the Department of Public Instruction, more than one in every five uses of corporal punishment in North Carolina was applied to a student with disabilities during the 2010 - 2011 school year.

We tend to focus on the importance of reading instruction during the early to mid-childhood years.

He began, as is customary, by giving a whistle - stop tour of his constituency which, he noted, he conducted himself during his three years as parliamentary candidate by bike - «following the instruction of the former Member for Chingford (Lord Tebbit), and more recently the example of my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister — perhaps the only time that they have agreed».

The 2014 Danish School Reform emphasized physical activity during the primary and lower secondary education years — as apart of academic instruction as well.

«However, it is also relatively easy to help kids catch up during the early years, with excellent instruction and with appropriate attention to the domains of greatest need.»

More specifically, the researchers 1) examine possible differences by classroom, school, and literacy models; 2) explore the relationship between observable features of the classroom literacy environment and children's literacy growth during the first grade year; 3) characterize the variability in the levels of teacher understanding of the chosen literacy model and of early literacy development; and 4) assess whether there are qualitative differences in children's oral discourse skills and writing skills with the school's chosen model of literacy instruction.

The algorithm employed by the software considers each child's entering skill level and progress made during the school year to recommend several dimensions of instruction, including assignment to small, homogenous ability groups, the amount of time spent on code - versus meaning - focused literacy, and teacher / child versus child - managed delivery.

In Connecticut, the BEST program requires new teachers to put together a portfolio of their performance during their second year that demonstrates their planning, instruction, assessment, and feedback practices.

Shown is an image of a 10 - year - old with severe reading disabilities before and after 60 hours of intensive instruction, during which the child rose into the average range in word - reading ability.

His school recently secured a federal grant that will allow the building to remain open after the end of after - school programs, until 9:30 p.m., during the school year so that students may study and receive special instruction to supplement their school day.

During his 25 years in teaching, Mr. Shannon developed the «Shannon Plan» of effective instruction.

The day is too short for children to receive needed targeted instruction, and the majority of Head Start programs operate with a 4 month break between program years, which we believe undermines the progress Head Start children make during the year and lessens the overall impact of the program.

During the school year portion of the program, trained volunteers act as mentors to small groups of students and deliver academic support and instruction, making the cost of the program more affordable.

The 2014 Danish School Reform emphasized physical activity during the primary and lower secondary education years — as apart of academic instruction as well.

During his six year tenure, the district raised student achievement by elevating academic standards, aligning the curriculum and focusing on principal leadership and teachers» quality of instruction.

Efforts to force teacher quality reform got a boost last year when the Los Angeles Times revealed the performance of the district's 11,500 elementary school teachers — by name — during its powerful, controversial and much - needed series on the low quality of the district's instruction.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

During the school year, nearly half of the programs offer instruction one afternoon a week in a three - to - four - hour block; slightly more than one - fourth meet two afternoons a week.

During her 25 - year tenure in HR, she served as the director of elementary and middle school staffing; special assistant to the chief executive for instruction; and from 1993 until her retirement in October 2004, as the deputy executive director for teacher recruitment, certification, licensing and salary.

Creighton and WestEd used four major improvement strategies: 1) refining the curriculum and aligning staff training and student tests to that curriculum; 2) improving instructional practices, including those for English language learners, who comprise a large share of the district's students; 3) developing and using tests during the school year, other than those used for accountability, to assess what students had learned; and 4) implementing a system of individualized instruction based on student needs.

During his tenure, Silbert field tested a wide variety of Direct Instruction programs designed for intermediate grade students who were several years below grade level.

According to the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI), more private schools are seeking to cash in with public tax dollars during the 2016 - 17 school year through the unaccountable school voucher program.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

During the course of a year, Kozai took principals through guided walkthroughs where everyone observed instruction and Kozai then modeled debriefing conversations with teachers.

This one - year program begins with a rigorous summer intensive (two weeks), and continues with four intersessions throughout the school year, during which participants focus on Relay's key instructional pillars: observation and feedback, data - driven instruction, positive student culture of high expectations, adult professional development, instructional planning, an aligned staff culture and strategic leadership.

Scope: Match Education provided a total of 83,928 hours of individualized instruction during the 2012 - 2013 school year.

During their year as graduate students, BEST Noyce scholars meet weekly to discuss current events in education, watch and discuss video of classroom instruction, and analyze student work.

The report cards, based on student test scores on the state assessments administered during the 2015 - 16 school year, were released Thursday by the state Department of Public Instruction (DPI).

This week, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released the results of statewide student assessments taken during the 2014 - 15 school year.

During his 50 years in the field of education, he has worked with educators as a speaker and trainer and has authored more than 50 books and 200 articles on topics such as instruction, assessment, writing and implementing standards, cognition, effective leadership, and school intervention.

During the school year, the teachers and the university educators met several times to discuss the constraints teachers had experienced in the integration of technology to practice reform - based science instruction.

Interestingly, new teachers participating in APA's focus groups indicated that their colleagues in many other districts did not receive similar support during their first year of instruction.

«The success of the teachers and students in these schools is particularly noteworthy given the challenging new mathematics SOL tests that were introduced during the 2011 - 2012 school year,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said.

During the first four years that Coppell Independent School District in Texas implemented RTI, educators identified struggling students, developed intervention plans designed to close achievement gaps, and created staff development that touted the benefits of the pyramid of tiered instruction — but all without the expected results.

And because the state has provided little help with Common Core instruction and lesson plan design (part of that «infrastructure» that doesn't exist in CA and gives Michael Kirst insomnia) to the teachers currently in classrooms, our district is spending roughly $ 100 million in LCFF funds to pull teachers out of classrooms during 10 instructional days this year to work in school site PLCs.

From the Department of Public Instruction (DPI): «Statewide results held steady on the Forward, ACT Plus Writing, and Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) assessments administered during the 2016 - 17 school year.

The state Department of Public Instruction estimated it handed out $ 130.7 million in vouchers during the 2010 - 11 school year.

«Virginia students are holding onto the gains in mathematics achieved during early and middle years of the decade,» Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia I. Wright said.

A school - based teacher preparation program in which a prospective teacher, for not less than one academic year, teaches alongside an effective teacher, as determined by the state or local educational agency, who is the teacher of record for the classroom, receives concurrent instruction during the year, through courses that may be taught by local educational agency personnel or by faculty of the teacher preparation program; and in the teaching of the content area in which the teacher will become certified or licensed; and acquires effective teaching skills, as demonstrated through completion of a residency program, or other measure determined by the state, which may include a teacher performance assessment.»

Evers, 65, has held his post as head of the Department of Public Instruction during eight years of significant transition in the state's education landscape, which began while he was still recovering from esophageal cancer.

Great article that my principal had us ESL teachers just read - thank you for your no nonsense outspokenness, and no, Mr Shanahan, ESL will not pull during teacher direct instruction in the content areas until small groups break out - only 30 minutes then - but it's a packed schedule to do it - 8 groups a day 5 days a week to pull for listening / reading and speaking / writing per WIDA some of your comments appreciated much as a former elementary homeschooler and advocate of of ED Hirsch and his cultural literacy - which I've preached since I returned my kids to public schooling in middle school 17 years ago....

Participants will also receive a personal copy of the book Tools for Classroom Instruction That Works, and extended virtual coaching during the 2018 — 19 school year.

According to a report from the Department of Instruction, they spend about 24 hours during the school year being assessed.

During that year, Mississippi spent $ 8,075 per student on education, $ 4,719 of that on teachers» salaries and other costs related to instruction.

Analyses revealed that the following observations changed by at least 10 % from Year 2 to Year 1: increase in whole - group instruction, decrease in small - group instruction, increase in coaching in word recognition strategies during reading, decrease in asking of lower - level questions, increase in asking of higher - level questions, increase in comprehension skill instruction, decrease in active pupil responding, increase in passive pupil responding.

During the academic year, clusters of fellows will be placed in participating high - performing urban schools nationwide, where they will be paired with a teacher and given a lightened workload, a strategy Star said would be beneficial for the teachers - in - training without compromising instruction for the students.

We had made a decision at the beginning of this project not to look at changes in instruction during a school year with only three observations per teacher.

To facilitate the achievement of our program goals, we have limited class size to 20 students, and provide our teachers opportunities for weekly planning and collaboration, in addition to classes in the following areas during designated professional development sessions: International Primary Curriculum (IPC) and International Middle Years Curriculum (IMYC); Student assessments and interventions based on Dr. Stanley Greenspan's developmental model of education; Arts integration; and Common Core English Language Arts and Mathematics standards - based instruction.