Sentences with phrase «year teachers mostly»

First - and second - year teachers mostly have staffed them.

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About two years ago I drafted an initial proposal and sent it to fifteen people, mostly in the Academy, but also to a teacher of the Sociology of Religion.

Before that she was a teacher in the Redwood City School District (Redwood City, CA) for 25 years — mostly English and Language Arts to mostly middle school students.

But, after working in Senegal for the past five years, and Cameroon for a year before that, mostly as a high school teacher, she also knows how challenging it is to make decisions in education in a culture and context that is not hers.

A 5th - grade teacher who wants to ask students to work more independently would benefit from this knowledge: she could make a more informed bet that asking her 10 - year - old students to commit things to memory will mostly work out.

Their webinars boast of «real teachers teaching teachers,» and seem to mostly center around EdTech resources and best practices, including year - round sessions from education superstars like Bill Nye.

The nation already has a teacher shortage and, in the next six years, will see a large exodus of teachers, mostly due to retirement, Wilson told Education World.

Daily Behavior Form - Tracks the daily behavior of a specific student (created mostly for intense cases / individualized behavior plans etc.) Afrer - School Cancellation - Let teachers and parents know about after - school cancellations / end - of - year ending times.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

The teacher simply needs to add the prices depending on the year group's needs (and differentiate it for different groups) and then children work on word problems (mostly multiplication) about party planning with Royal Wedding Merchandise... There are also two group tasks if you would like a more open ended activity; one where children decide what to buy for how many people and find the total and one where children plan on a budget that you set and have to figure out what they can get for the amount they have.

, Bamberger spent the 2002 — 03 school year tracking students and teachers at his alma mater, Pennsbury High School, a nonselective school in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania, a small, mostly white working - class town eight miles southwest of Trenton, New Jersey.

Owing mostly to cost, tenured teachers are typically evaluated only once every five years.

NPR reports a high cost in teacher turnover — over $ 2 billion each year, mostly in human resources spending.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

Guggenheim complains that only one in 2,500 teachers loses his or her teaching certificate, but fails to mention that 50 percent of those who enter teaching leave within five years, mostly because of poor working conditions, lack of adequate resources, and the stress of dealing with difficult children and disrespectful parents.

«Three of the special education teachers are assigned to self - contained classrooms for students — mostly those classified as mildly, moderately, or severely retarded — who are functioning two or more years below grade level.

The book is mostly an account of his four years as an elementary teacher in a Toronto inner - city school, first narrated in his 1980 Cries from the Corridor, and it echoes the customary critical pedagogue's conclusion that the school must be foremost a «social and moral agent.»

Years ago, a science teacher at Boston's Greater Egleston Community High School, a high school situated in a low - income, mostly Latino and Black neighborhood, told her students that the neighborhood had some of the highest asthma rates in the city and state, and asked them to figure out why.

It is much harder to measure principal value - added because students don't change principals every year, and principals» effects on students are mostly indirect: principals affect student achievement through teachers.

The state Department of Education last week released a mostly positive report on the initial year of the system as dictated under the TEACHNJ tenure reform law, citing some challenges but praising the progress in meeting requirements for additional observations and goal setting for teachers.

While the bill enjoys significant support - including the California Teachers Association - it faces an enormous challenge mostly because of the one year transition that schools will need to make from the old STAR program to the new CalMAPP21.

Outside observers last year found widespread burnout among Glenwood's teachers and discipline issues in its mostly - poor student body, as we've written.

Whereas at the New Teacher Project Rhee had focused on bringing talented teachers into urban districts, her work in D.C. was mostly concerned with the negative side of the ledger — prefiguring the debates that are roiling state capitals this year.

IDRA developed a curriculum to certify teachers in bilingual / ESL and STEM subjects in mostly Latino communities and provided a comprehensive online and personalized support system to retain teachers for a minimum of three years.

When a teacher I worked with discovered that her new class was mostly auditory learners (compared to last year's kinesthetic learners), she changed from using group projects to delivering technology - infused instruction that provided more opportunities for listening to content.

Even though they mostly talked past each other on issues like the deep budget cuts Trump has proposed and the desirability of school choice everywhere, the visit did seem to signal the end of the long war between the education department and the teachers unions over the school and teacher accountability issues that have dominated the relationship for the last 17 years or so.

In the years immediately following Katrina, one - third to as many as half of New Orleans» teachers were from Teach for America, a program of mostly white graduates of elite colleges.

But to me, the disappointing fact remains that the same arrangements remain to let Poudre's teachers union president take the year off to work for the union mostly at public expense.

Tubman's combined - grade K -1-2 program is unique in the city: each homeroom community stays with their teacher and peers for three years and K -1-2 students are instructed in mostly small groups, with a focus on independence, deep practice of skills, and academic focus.

Plans mostly back - load benefits so that teachers accrue little retirement wealth in early years, only to see substantial increases in their last years in the classroom.

Previous to this, he was assistant superintendent for two and a half years for the West Mifflin Area School District, assistant principal and principal for fourteen years (mostly) at Thomas Jefferson High School, and began his career with ten years as a teacher of English and Journalism at South Park High School.

Within a few days, the Winston Society had registered 15 to 20 users who were mostly comprised of professionally active teachers with 3 - 10 years of experience or early career teachers with strong academic backgrounds and progressive politics.

Over the course of a year, a working group, comprised mostly of teachers but also including various other stakeholders, sat side - by - side with Insight consultants and developed an Instructional Framework from scratch.

On Feb., 17, 1897, more than 2,000 people — mostly mothers, but also fathers, teachers, laborers and legislators — attended the first convocation of the National Congress of Mothers in Washington, D.C. Twenty years later, 37 chartered state congresses existed.

On the April 4 ballot will be two - term incumbent Tony Evers, a public school advocate backed mostly by liberals and teachers unions who has been at odds with Republicans for years over his adoption of the Common Core State Standards and his opposition to the expansion of private school vouchers in the state.

Delta State overhauled its program to focus on instructional leadership, featuring a full - time internship and financial support so teachers can spend a year preparing to become principals who can transform schools in a poor, mostly rural region.

In just the last year, institutional efforts to artificially inflate student performance — mostly for the benefit of teachers or administrators — seem to have reached epidemic proportions.

I will cover some of these materials below, but in sum the changes in relation to Special Education and English Language Learners mostly concern schedules and professional development; the revised budget and enrollment model call for a slightly smaller school, lower (lead) teacher / student ratios, higher special education teacher ratios (and lower special education assistant ratios), designates Bilingual Resource Teacher and Specialist allocations (these were folded into other categories in the January version), a slightly smaller school, and a 5 year budget shortfall that increases from $ 58,681.36 to $ 516,157.01; the Data Update does little but relabel unrealistic «Goals» as «Aspirations.teacher / student ratios, higher special education teacher ratios (and lower special education assistant ratios), designates Bilingual Resource Teacher and Specialist allocations (these were folded into other categories in the January version), a slightly smaller school, and a 5 year budget shortfall that increases from $ 58,681.36 to $ 516,157.01; the Data Update does little but relabel unrealistic «Goals» as «Aspirations.teacher ratios (and lower special education assistant ratios), designates Bilingual Resource Teacher and Specialist allocations (these were folded into other categories in the January version), a slightly smaller school, and a 5 year budget shortfall that increases from $ 58,681.36 to $ 516,157.01; the Data Update does little but relabel unrealistic «Goals» as «Aspirations.Teacher and Specialist allocations (these were folded into other categories in the January version), a slightly smaller school, and a 5 year budget shortfall that increases from $ 58,681.36 to $ 516,157.01; the Data Update does little but relabel unrealistic «Goals» as «Aspirations.»

(Calif.) Two years after teacher misconduct scandals rocked Los Angeles Unified and sent a surge of complaints to state regulators, a new spike threatens to degrade the educator oversight system as credential - holders accused mostly of criminal offenses fight to retain their licenses.

As a classroom teacher of mostly adolescents of color the past 12 years, this conclusion best fits my observation:

I've been on Twitter for a couple of years now, and had about 600 followers — mostly other kid lit authors and a few teacher / parent / librarian people.

In her first year, Ms. Crosby's studio practice saw a lot of experimentation, mostly grounded in drawing and painting the figure, along with a heavy dose of information about the sprawling world of Contemporary art, courtesy of her renowned teachers Catherine Murphy and Peter Halley.

Seven applicants, mostly from the north - west of England, are chosen, all go through classes conducted by the charismatic teacher Sam Rumbelow, and five are channelled into mini-films that range through a troubled daughter playing Cordelia, a professional Lear, a would - be suicide identifying with the last days of Mussolini, and a sad 40 - year - old romantic casting herself as a working - class Celia Johnson in a deadly serious reworking of Brief Encounter.

I've been recruiting for almost 15 years and have personally reviewed well over 20,000 resumes, mostly from teachers, through my work in the New York City Public Schools, including as the Director of Teacher Recruitment (5,000 hires a year), and as a private consultant.

About Blog - I am Carol - a teacher with 30 years of working with kids of all grade levels (mostly third) and now a STEM Specialist.

With over 10 years of experience working with intervention professionals (mostly class lead teachers), I am well - versed in addressing individual students» specific requirements to ensure their reading flow.

Kate has been teaching mindfulness in a variety of settings for 10 years, but mostly to school - aged children and teachers.

I worked as a college teacher for ten years, preparing and delivering classes to adult learners, mostly in English composition and literature.