Sentences with phrase «year teaching veteran»

Jeff Austin is a 12 - year teaching veteran, teaching high school government and economics at Cesar E. Chavez Learning Academies in the Social Justice Humanitas Academy, and Edward Kusell - Zigelman has been teaching math and dance for three years at Dorsey High School.

But even as 16 - year teaching veteran in my third year as a reading teacher, my mid-year reading scores showed that in one of my classes only a single student had made significant reading growth.

Petrey - Kirk, a 25 - year teaching veteran, said Kentucky has always had smart people with great ideas, but also has always been strapped for money to implement those ideas.

A twenty year teaching veteran, Ms. Palmer has observed one common component in her career, namely, dedicated teachers improving the lives of students.

Noeleen Hay, a 15 - year teaching veteran and one of two founding teachers at Success Prep who remain at the school, hopes teachers who stay past the five - year mark will become the norm, like they are in so many traditional public schools.

A 21 - year teaching veteran, Kelly Gill currently teaches second grade at Canyons School District in Draper, Utah.

However, the 28 year teaching veteran knew she was on to something when she discovered the company's platform Defined STEM.

The ability to create an effective interplay between oneself and a classroom of students is often the crucial factor in a teacher's success, according to David Kobrin, a 20 - year teaching veteran currently professor of education at Brown University.

That's the class taught by Linda McBride, a 30 - year teaching veteran who welcomes a new group of first graders each September, while the other half of her class consists of second graders who were with McBride the previous year.

«At this point, I can't see starting the classroom day any other way,» says Henry, an 11 - year teaching veteran who has been holding Morning Meeting for seven years and likes it because it builds a sense of community and lets students know they're important, which leads to trust and a sense of safety that promotes classroom success.

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The program has now reached over 6,000 individuals of all levels, from first year collegiate players through veteran pro athletes, teaching athletes and entertainment professionals the powerful message of building a sound financial plan alongside a successful career.

Faith and Faithfulness: Basic Themes in Christian Ethics by Gilbert Meilaender University of Notre Dame Press, 211 pages, $ 22.95 This veteran of forty years of teaching no longer selects books for courses that fit into some tightly conceived outline but rather picks classics» or worthy....

But the cross country coaching veteran sees a singular focus and dedication in this year's team that he has never seen before in his 30 - plus years of training and teaching distance runners.

If we had an 85 percent graduation rate and we were inching up toward 90 percent, if we didn't have the worst SAT scores among 50 upstate school districts, if we didn't have a Syracuse Teachers Union survey — the results of which revealed that 300 teachers reported being assaulted on the job and more than half feel threatened on the job, and 21 percent of their new teachers teaching from zero to five years leave in addition to more seasoned veteran teachers — we wouldn't need such bold decisive action, but we're not in that category.

Lynch's foundation aims to teach 30,000 veterans to learn Transcendental Meditation (TM) in the next three years, which is one of the reasons we're excited to partner with them on our Wellness Directory.

Guest blogger Tom Whitby, a 40 - year veteran of the teaching profession and an extremely connected educator, offers some basic, practical wisdom about what a PLN is and how to get one.

Mollie Mallin, an eight - year veteran who teaches math, science, and religion to fourth and fifth graders, said, «The first two or three years — as teachers — we noticed the biggest change.»

Walsh, a twenty - seven - year veteran of the classroom who teaches kindergarten at Hilldale School, in Pine Brook, New Jersey, says she came upon Puppetools at a workshop, and has found the site to be an invaluable resource.

Teel, a 35 - year veteran of the classroom, helped develop UrbanPlan and has taught it for three semesters.

Whitby, a 40 - year veteran of the teaching profession and an extremely connected educator, offers some basic, practical wisdom about what a PLN is and how to get one — including tips for interacting and collaborating on social media.

The 35 - year veteran of education started teaching online more than a decade ago.

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.

Start with the end, a veteran teacher told me my first year teaching.

The fifteen - year veteran taught traditionally until four years ago, when her online master's degree in curriculum and instructional technology through Grand Canyon University revolutionized her teaching.

Veteran teachers will tell you that every year they realize there's another little thing they could carry with them, or keep in their desk, to help them with their teaching.

In a conversation with a veteran educator — a man with years of experience teaching English and acting as a headmaster — I was confronted with a prejudice so ingrained in my teaching that I was almost embarrassed to admit it.

Tom Whitby, a 40 - year veteran of the teaching profession, offers some basic, practical wisdom about what a PLN is and how to get one in «How Do I Get a PLN?»

Each new school year presents a new set of challenges and opportunities for even the seasoned teaching veteran, and if you're being completely honest with yourself, that variety is a part of why you got into teaching in the first place.

A teacher for more than thirty years, Styles is a veteran educator who has taught students in kindergarten through 7th grade, in both regular and multi-aged settings.

Being calm and paying attention are actual skills you can teach in the classroom, says Linda Lantieri, a twenty - three - year veteran of bringing social and emotional learning to New York City schools and a teacher for forty years.

Additionally, the city of Hartford pays teachers» health insurance; offers a myriad of teaching options, including experimental programs and charter and magnet schools; and grants veteran teachers $ 100 annual bonuses for every year served.

Under the direction of a panel made up of schools administrators and members of the local teachers union, qualified veteran teachers — usually called consulting teachers — take sabbaticals from classroom teaching to mentor new teachers during their first years and to support other experienced teachers who are struggling.

For an entire year before becoming teachers of record in Boston public schools, residents apprentice in the classrooms of skilled veterans, who gradually increase the residents» teaching responsibilities.

Anthony Pellegrino, PhD, a 10 - year veteran high school social studies teacher, is currently assistant professor of history and social studies education in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University where he teaches methods of teaching history / social studies in the secondary school, foundations of secondary education, and research on teacher education.

Discover what computer skills kindergarteners should learn — and what activities you can use to teach them — in this column by a 30 - year veteran of kindergarten and technology classrooms.

Bored and cooped up, Thomas, age seven, teaches his four - year - old brother how to play Mouse Trap; Eva's father, during a typical before - school routine, must teach her to button a coat because she's only ever snapped one; and Claire, a veteran classroom teacher, skillfully turns a student's witty remark into an engaging way for her students to choose summer reads: speed - dating their books.

In this, the 20th year of a program that has taught more than 3 million kids, we look at the careers of 19 Teach for America veterans.

It's Not Easy Being Tween taps into the knowledge and experience of Cheryl Mizerny, a 20 + year veteran who has spent most of her career in middle level classrooms and now teaches sixth grade English Language Arts.

One teacher was a veteran teacher with 14 years of experience; the other was a novice teacher in her second year of teaching.

At Orange Grove Elementary School in Anaheim, 1st - grade teacher Elena Tinder, a 23 - year veteran instructor who recently registered to attend the conference, said she thought the idea of teachers teaching each other about topics they chose on the spot sounded «revolutionary.»

Ginger Berninger, a seasoned researcher and former teacher, partners with 40 - year teacher and teacher trainer veteran Beverly Wolf for a one - of - a-kind text that gives readers the best of both worlds: critical insights from scientific studies and lessons learned from actual teaching experience.

I agree that poorly prepared teachers is one cause of the high dropout rate, but as with most problems, many causes exist, including an anti-intellectual culture that values over-paid athletes and celebrities w / no obvious talent (e.g. Kim Kardashian); parents who think all their male children will grow up to be Yankees so never put books in the kids» hands; pseudo education reformers who sell a narrative that a first year teacher is no different from a veteran with a grad degree and thirty years teaching experience, administrators who hire based on coaching rather than teaching, school boards that cut library programs rather than sports, etc..

As a veteran teacher of 20 years, I now have the pleasure of mentoring teacher candidates during their student teaching experience in my classroom, and my eyes have opened to the real issues facing teacher candidates today.

Jane Arnold Lincove, a professor at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County and the study's lead author, says that the study suggests that the prospects for those veteran teachers fired after Katrina only got worse over the years, as more schools went charter and those schools embraced younger teachers recruited through programs like Teach for America.

Teaching experience of the teacher and number of teachers in the class (the Building Bridges case involved a first - year teacher and a doctoral student who had taught for several years, while the Making Weighty Decisions case involved one veteran teacher).

«We came to the profession for student achievement — not for June, July and August,» said Terrel Smith, a 32 - year classroom veteran who teaches computer science and coaches track and field in Sherwood, Ore. «That's a good joke, but it's not true.»

In that year, they hired two recent graduates of Loyola Marymount University's Center for Math and Science Teaching, and began training veteran teachers.

According to a recent Washington [Blog] Post written by Valerie Strauss, in New York a 17 - year veteran and current 4th grade teacher, recognized by the district superintendent as having a «flawless» teaching record and being «highly regarded as an educator,» is suing the state of New York over her VAM scores that have just placed her in the «ineffective» teacher category.

I also learned an enormous amount from my freshman Humanities co-teacher, a 30 - year veteran whose classroom management strategies made my second year of teaching a notoriously strong - willed group of honors sophomores quite easy.

Veteran teachers like Joe Garza, who has been teaching for a total of 15 years, including eight with PUC Schools, is starting his third year as an Alumni Teach Project mentor.