Sentences with phrase «year teaching efforts»

A course portfolio documents your year - by - year teaching efforts in an individual course, providing a history of your innovations and their outcomes.

Not exact matches

I have known Jamie for many years and have been impressed with his dynamism as he has ramped up his restaurant business and built his worldwide brand through his various TV shows, all the while pouring his efforts into teaching people to eat better, drawing public attention to the poor quality of school lunches, and developing Fifteen, his restaurant and social enterprise that trains unemployed young people to become professional chefs.

Last year, in an attempt to address the growing STEM skills gap in Britain, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) led a collaborative effort by 29 organizations to give every 7th grader in the country a pocket - sized programmable computer that helps teach coding in a simple, fun, and accessible way.

Nonetheless, what this past year's massive congressional effort has taught us we can not afford to forget: that more than any House leak or Senate revelation, the subversive activities of the FBI, CIA and Department of Defense have seriously undermined the security of the Republic, within and without.

In any case, the problem of defining the nature of personal identity has been with me during all of my teaching years, especially since a good part of my efforts have been focussed on borderline issues in the philosophy and psychology of personality.

For example, last year we started a program where we had an outside instructor come in and teach ESL classes to small groups of our employees in an effort to improve communication within a very diverse crew.

I started Oui, Chef a few years back as a means to chronicle my efforts to teach my kids a few things about cooking, and how their food choices over time effect not only their own health, but that of our local food

To better integrate the school gardens with other food literacy efforts, reinforce the concept of seasonality, provide multiple events during the school year, and benefit from the culinary and teaching skills of Chef Instructors, SFI morphed Jr..

Evangelical state legislators and school board members mounted similar efforts this year in Oklahoma, Missouri, Kansas, Texas and Alabama, and the Texas Republican Party platform opposes «the teaching of... critical thinking skills and similar programs that... have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority.»

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage students.

Over the past year, I have blended my passion for teaching, science and humanitarian efforts to give back to those in need, focusing on at - risk youth.

I had been teaching and promoting science education efforts for more than 10 years, through interactions with underrepresented minority students from elementary school to postdoctoral levels, with the assistance and mentorship of caring people who extended countless opportunities to me throughout my career.

While yoga teachers make every effort to teach their students about body awareness, accidents can still happen — and industry research reveals they are happening more often every year.

What brought me to this year's conference was a desire to develop my teaching practice by participating in a conference that aims to unify the collective efforts of yoga service professionals whose objective often differs from other yoga professionals: to empower and foster community through yoga.

21 years ago, he combined efforts with his son - in - law to found an associate company to teach what he had written in his books.

In the ten years Ive been teaching at my school, the culture has shifted significantly, largely due to the leadership efforts of our principal.

Teaching strategies that encourage student effort in Year 8 and 9.

For 23 years, Teach For America has been recruiting high - achieving recent college graduates to its teaching corps in an effort to reduce educational inequity in the United States.

For my first seven years of teaching, I spent the first week discussing class norms, dutifully posting group expectations on the wall, and asking that students sign an agreement to follow them in an effort to «determine class culture.»

Today more than 9,000 Teach For America corps members are in the midst of two - year teaching commitments in 43 regions across the country, reaching over 600,000 students, and nearly 24,000 alumni are working inside and outside the field of education to continue the effort to ensure educational excellence and equity.

In this case, a story about a 25 - year veteran teacher's admirable efforts to teach his U.S. History AP students about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars is littered with pat phrases intended to score points against education reformers.

He is the co-founder of Educar y Crecer (EyC), an initiative that offers remedial education in math and reading to children in slums in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and of Enseñá por Argentina (EpA), an effort to recruit the country's best and brightest college graduates to teach in schools serving the poor for at least two years.

Understandably then, for the past eight or so years, everyone from educators to policymakers to statisticians have expended much effort to define and measure effective teaching.

In an effort to take a look at the reasons for the growth and to improve teaching in the field, the American Philological Association and the American Classical League commissioned a two - year study on the topic.

Despite my imperfect efforts to be engaging and dynamic, I was constrained because I was operating in a learning model over 100 years old that required I teach the same lessons to a group of same - aged students.

Alonso served as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for six years, where he led a reform effort marked by a rebalancing of authority and responsibility among stakeholders, the building of a coalition in support of City Schools, leading edge labor contracts, and a focus on individual students and teaching and learning that yielded marked improvement in achievement and climate data across all levels, the first increases in enrollment in 40 years, and widespread political and ground root support for what have been divisive reform strategies in other districts.

A recent Atlantic article called «The First Year of Teaching Can Feel Like a Fraternity Hazing» talks about how new teachers often skip meals and whittle their personal lives down to nearly nothing in an effort to stay above water, and yet many still struggle with effectiveness.

E Early Childhood Education Education Education Funding (see also Budgets) End - of - Year English as a Second Language (see Bilingual Education) Environment, Teaching about Environmental Efforts Ethics Education Evaluations, Administrators Evaluations, Teachers Exercise Extracurricular Activities

As we near the end of the school year, it's time to take stock of our efforts in teaching, learning and leadership, and how well they've worked.

Australia's new government will continue with the development of a new digital technologies curriculum, the nation's first formal effort to teach computer science from kindergarten to year ten in every primary and high school.

teaching and learning — and as part of a years - long research effort to track implementation — we're pleased to present a new Fordham study: Common Core in the Schools: A First Look at Reading Assignments.

But since she began two years ago to take part in her state's pioneering effort to assess student abilities on the basis of portfolios, Ms. Forseth said, her teaching has «changed 180 degrees.»

In addition to regularly assessing student performance, Sherman Oaks utilizes a tool (the California Standards for the Teaching Profession) to help teachers self - assess their own growth over the course of a year as a result of the school's staff development efforts.

The experience in the 1950s and 1960s definitely led to the prohibition of such efforts in federal statutes — prohibitions that the Obama administration has violated in recent years by endorsing national curriculum standards and funding national tests and national curriculum frameworks together with related teaching materials and lesson plans.

In July 2009, NCTE commenced a six - year effort to join disparate strands of education research, and develop a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of how to measure teacher and teaching effectiveness.

Fortunately, recent California legislation demonstrates a concern for addressing the worsening teacher shortages through funding recruitment efforts, 4 - year integrated bachelor degree and teaching credential programs, and up to 5 years of postsecondary and teacher preparation training for classified staff.2016 — 17 state funded grant programs: Announcement of awards.

She served for two years as a member of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards D.R.E.A.M. Team (Direct Recruiting Efforts to Attract Minorities).

The annual NMC Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC Horizon Project, a research - oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education over three time horizons — one year or less, two to three years, and four to five years.

I spent two years in China teaching English to all ages but was always astounded by how easily the children progressed with seemingly little effort.

Nevertheless, becoming certified still requires enormous effort, even for candidates who have spent years teaching, but not in the public sector.

The iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Teacher of the Year Award is given to a K - 12 educator whose efforts as a personalized, blended and / or online teacher exemplify to the highest degree their commitment to student success, knowledge and skill as a professional educator, and dedication to the field of blended and online teaching.

Alongside our efforts to create new evidence for early years practitioners, we will seek to make currently available research more accessible through our Teaching and Learning Toolkit.

There are various kinds of teaching permits, and California has changed its permit requirements over the years, but in general permits allow schools to hire teachers who are not fully credentialed in a given subject area provided that they (the school) can demonstrate that they have made an effort to find fully credentialed candidates.

During this year program staff made a concerted effort to make explicit the relationship between student behavior and teaching practice by redrafting its assessment tools and focusing on professional development.

A year ago, Carnegie and McKinsey concluded, «The short answer is no: even coordinated, rapid, and highly effective efforts to improve high school teaching would leave millions of students achieving below the level needed for graduation and college success as defined by the Common Core.»

Politically, it might be more difficult to change school structure or teacher policy, but it takes even more effort to convince all teachers to shift away from an outdated teaching approach they have used for many years to something new.

ONE members were highly visible during efforts to end Ohio's Resident Educator Summative Assessment (RESA), a punitive assessment that determined whether a teacher could continue to teach in his or her third year of teaching.

... Organizations such as the National Network of State Teachers of the Year, NEA, AFT, Hope Street Fellows, The US Department of Education Teaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lTeaching Ambassador Fellowship, Educators for Excellence, Teach Plus, and The Center for Teaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lTeaching Quality, just to name a few, offer an opportunity for teachers to share their diverse views in an effort to create a policy landscape that is more relevant to the complexities of teaching and lteaching and learning.

As mentioned previously, some states have made significant efforts in recent years to increase the selectivity of the teaching profession by raising the bar for entry.

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.