Bringing Them in: The Experiences of Imported and Overseas-Qualified Teachers

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Sharplin, Elaine

2009-01-01

This qualitative multiple-site case study explores the experiences of imported and overseas-qualified teachers appointed to fill "difficult-to-staff" Western Australian rural schools. In a climate of global teacher shortages, investigation of the strategies adopted to solve this problem requires empirical examination. The study of six…

Newly Qualified Teachers' Work Engagement and Teacher Efficacy Influences on Job Satisfaction, Burnout, and the Intention to Quit

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Hoigaard, Rune; Giske, Rune; Sundsli, Kari

2012-01-01

Teacher policy is high on national agendas and countries are seeking to improve schools. Demands on schools and teachers are more complex and it is expected that a larger number of teachers will enter the profession. Studies indicate that the period when teachers are newly qualified is a peak time for leaving the profession. The purpose of this…

Women, Education and the Law: Defining the "High Qualified" Teacher--No Child Left Behind's Requirements

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First, Patricia F.

2003-01-01

The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) provided that by the end of the 2005-06 school year, all teachers in core content areas, teaching in public schools, must be "highly qualified" in each subject they teach. Under the law, "highly qualified" means that a teacher is fully licensed through a traditional or alternative route and…

The Newly Qualified Teacher: A Leader and a Professional? A Norwegian Study

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Grimsath, Gerd; Nordvik, Grete; Bergsvik, Eli

2008-01-01

This article is based on a Norwegian study. The focus is two-fold, including the views of both new teachers and leaders on the issue of leadership and professionalism. First, the focus is on the way newly qualified teachers describe how they function in the school and kindergarten organizations. The discussion explores how new teachers' meetings…

How Prepared Do Newly-Qualified Teachers Feel? Differences between Routes and Settings

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Gorard, Stephen

2017-01-01

Does it matter whether teachers are trained in schools or universities? In England, there is an ongoing change in the balance of routes to becoming a newly qualified teacher (NQT). Given this, and widely-reported problems with teacher supply, it is important to consider whether there are discernible differences between the routes in terms of their…

Are Teachers Highly Qualified? A National Study of Secondary Public School Teachers Using SASS 1999-2000

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Lu, Xuejin; Shen, Jianping; Poppink, Sue

2007-01-01

In this study we inquired into the qualifications of public secondary school teachers by examining whether or not teachers met the No Child Left Behind Act's ([NCLB] 2002) definition of "highly qualified" immediately prior to the law's enactment. We examined this by core academic subjects (English, social studies, math, and science) and,…

Constructing Practical Knowledge of Teaching: Eleven Newly Qualified Language Teachers' Discursive Agency

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Ruohotie-Lyhty, Maria

2011-01-01

This paper explores the professional development of 11 newly qualified foreign language teachers. It draws on a qualitative longitudinal study conducted at the University of Jyvaskyla, Finland between 2002 and 2009. The paper concentrates on the personal side of teacher development by analysing participants' discourses concerning language…

An Exploration of Changes in Thinking in the Transition from Student Teacher to Newly Qualified Teacher

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Haggarty, Linda; Postlethwaite, Keith

2012-01-01

For newly qualified teachers (NQTs), the induction period of support is an important phase which has the potential to deepen learning that has already taken place in initial teacher education (ITE) as well as preparing the NQT for future learning. A particularly crucial time in the induction process is the first term of teaching, when NQTs are…

"Qualified"? A Framework for Comparing ELT Teacher Preparation Courses

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Stanley, Phiona; Murray, Neil

2013-01-01

There is no standard via which to measure the "qualified" English language teacher in a way that is meaningful to institutions seeking to employ teaching staff. This is significant given that candidates may differ markedly in their language competence, knowledge about language, methodological skills and ability to explain and justify their praxis…

Status Report on the Bilingual/Cross-Cultural Teacher Preparation and Training Act of 1973 to the California State Legislature.

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California State Commission for Teacher Preparation and Licensing, Sacramento.

This is the second annual report on the status of bilingual/cross-cultural teacher preparation in California. The intent of the legislation behind this effort is to increase the ranks of qualified and credentialed bilingual teachers to better serve public school bilingual programs. Following an introduction that gives the legislative background to…

Beyond the Call: Preserving Reflection in the Preparation of "Highly Qualified" Teachers

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Amobi, Funmi A.

2006-01-01

Many teacher education programs are working at a feverish pitch to ensure that their graduates are considered "highly qualified" in light of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation, which reduces teacher competency to proof of subject matter knowledge as demonstrated by passing a state test and completing requisite number of courses in the…

The Relationship between Highly Qualified Teachers and Student Academic Achievement

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Macken, Sherry Lou

2013-01-01

This study examined the relationship between the percentage of highly qualified teachers and standardized measures of student proficiency in the core academic subjects of mathematics, reading, science, social studies, and writing. Signed into law in January of 2002 by President George W. Bush, the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires teachers…

Meeting NCLB Goals for Highly Qualified Teachers: Estimates by State from Survey Data

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Blank, Rolf K.; Langesen, Doreen; Laird, Elizabeth; Toye, Carla; de Mello, Victor Bandeira

2004-01-01

This article presents results of survey data showing teacher qualifications for their assignments that are comparable from state-to-state as well as data trends over time. The analysis is intended to help state leaders, educators, and others obtain a picture of highly qualified teachers in their state, and to be able to compare their state…

Newly qualified teachers' visions of science learning and teaching

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Roberts, Deborah L.

2011-12-01

This study investigated newly qualified teachers' visions of science learning and teaching. The study also documented their preparation in an elementary science methods course. The research questions were: What educational and professional experiences influenced the instructor's visions of science learning and teaching? What visions of science learning and teaching were promoted in the participants' science methods course? What visions of science learning and teaching did these newly qualified teachers bring with them as they graduated from their teacher preparation program? How did these visions compare with those advocated by reform documents? Data sources included participants' assignments, weekly reflections, and multi-media portfolio finals. Semi-structured interviews provided the emic voice of participants, after graduation but before they had begun to teach. These data were interpreted via a combination of qualitative methodologies. Vignettes described class activities. Assertions supported by excerpts from participants' writings emerged from repeated review of their assignments. A case study of a typical participant characterized weekly reflections and final multi-media portfolio. Four strands of science proficiency articulated in a national reform document provided a framework for interpreting activities, assignments, and interview responses. Prior experiences that influenced design of the methods course included an inquiry-based undergraduate physics course, participation in a reform-based teacher preparation program, undergraduate and graduate inquiry-based science teaching methods courses, participation in a teacher research group, continued connection to the university as a beginning teacher, teaching in diverse Title 1 schools, service as the county and state elementary science specialist, participation in the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, service on a National Research Council committee, and experience teaching a

38 CFR 36.4300 - Applicability and qualified mortgage status.

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2014-07-01

... 38 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief 2 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Applicability and qualified mortgage status. 36.4300 Section 36.4300 Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief DEPARTMENT OF...” loan with a term of 12 months or less, such as a loan to finance the purchase of a new dwelling where...

Conditions for Boundary Crossing: Social Practices of Newly Qualified Swedish Teachers

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Andersson, Ingrid; Andersson, Sven B.

2008-01-01

The purpose of this study is to gain knowledge about conditions for boundary crossing between academic and vocational practices and to identify dimensions of social practice within workplaces. The data consist of 28 questionnaires and 14 in-depth interviews with newly qualified secondary school teachers in their first year of teaching. We use the…

Comparative Linguistic Analysis between Newly Qualified Teachers and Experienced Teachers: A Study of the Notion of Pelvic Retroversion in Physical Education

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Carnus, Marie-France

2012-01-01

Background: My theoretical background draws on physical education (PE) clinical didactics. It questions the specific nature of this academic subject matter, how it is transmitted and how it is internalized considering teachers' individuality. I intend to describe and understand how newly qualified and experienced PE teachers interact with their…

Recruiting Highly Qualified African American Teachers in American Urban Public Schools: A Qualitative Collective Case Study

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James, LaNora Marcell

2011-01-01

The purpose of the qualitative collective case study is to identify the weaknesses in the methods used to recruit highly qualified African American preservice teachers in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The data collection process consisted of one-on-one, open-ended interview questions with 10 highly qualified African American public school…

The Importance of School Leaders' Engagement in Socialising Newly Qualified Teachers into the Teaching Profession

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Engvik, Gunnar; Emstad, Anne Berit

2017-01-01

This article focuses on the importance of school leaders' commitment to socialising newly qualified teachers (NQTs) into the teaching profession. Framed by a social constructivist perspective, the article is based on four challenges novice teachers face as described by four school leaders. The aim is to illuminate how school leaders have…

A Study of Highly Qualified Science Teachers' Career Trajectory in the Deep, Rural South: Examining a Link between Deprofessionalization and Teacher Dissatisfaction

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Hodges, Georgia W.; Tippins, Deborah; Oliver, J. Steve

2013-01-01

Science teacher retention, attrition, and migration continue to perplex educational scholars, political entities, as well as the general public. This study utilized an interpretive methodological design to generate assertions regarding career choice made by highly qualified science teachers in the deep, rural South through analysis of documents,…

Context and Learning Factors in the Development of Teacher Identity: A Case Study of Newly Qualified Teachers during Their Induction Year

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Findlay, Kate

2006-01-01

This paper reports on a small-scale case study of five newly qualified teachers in one school. The aim of the study was to identify the context and learning factors that enable and constrain the professional growth of new teachers, and to locate the place of formal induction arrangements within the broader experiences of the first year in…

What Did They Take Away?: Examining Newly Qualified U.S. Teachers' Visions of Learning and Teaching Science in K-8 Classrooms

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Roberts-Harris, Deborah

2014-01-01

This study investigated newly qualified K-8 teachers' visions of science learning and teaching after they had completed preparation in a science teaching methods course I taught. What visions of science learning and teaching were these newly qualified teachers taking away from my course? How did these visions compare with those advocated by reform…

Underwhelmed and Playing It Safe: Newly Qualified Primary Teachers' Mentoring and Probationary-Related Experiences during Induction

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O'Sullivan, Dan; Conway, Paul F.

2016-01-01

Framed within the burgeoning policy and research literature on teacher induction internationally, this paper focuses on the mentoring and probationary-related experiences of nine newly qualified primary teachers in the Republic of Ireland, during the course of their initial year of workplace practice, post-graduation. Gleaning newly qualified…

Republication of "NCLB and the Demand for Highly Qualified Teachers: Challenges and Solutions for Rural Schools"

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Brownell, Mary T.; Bishop, Anne M.; Sindelar, Paul T.

2018-01-01

Teacher shortages in special education have been a source of long-standing concern for professionals and parents involved in the education of students with disabilities. Because of their geographic location, culture, and lack of resources, rural administrators have always struggled to staff their schools with qualified special education teachers.…

Preparing Highly Qualified Teachers for Students with Emotional or Behavioral Disorders: The Impact of NCLB and IDEA

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Rosenberg, Michael S.; Sindelar, Paul T.; Hardman, Michael L.

2004-01-01

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) require that by 2005-2006 all teachers be highly qualified, a designation that for the first time in history is actually specified by federal statute. The authors discuss how the federal definition of highly qualified is influencing the…

Associations of Newly Qualified Teachers' Beliefs with Classroom Management Practices and Approaches to Instruction over One School Year

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Aus, Kati; Jõgi, Anna-Liisa; Poom-Valickis, Katrin; Eisenschmidt, Eve; Kikas, Eve

2017-01-01

We focus on assessing whether newly qualified teachers' professional outcome expectations and their beliefs about students' intellectual potential are associated with teachers' self-reported classroom management and instructional practices. One hundred and eighteen novice teachers participating in the induction year programme were studied during…

The Acquaintance Level of Turkish Prospective Teachers with Qualified Works of Children's Literature

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Çer, Erkan; Sahin, Ertugrul

2016-01-01

The aim of this cross-sectional study is investigate to what extent acquainted prospective Turkish teachers are with qualified works of children's literature. A convenience sample of 146 university students studying at the Turkish teaching department at a university in the Central Black Sea Region completed a questionnaire to determine the…

How Can Online Discussion Support and Develop Newly Qualified Teachers? Research Briefing No. 51

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Unwin, Adam

2013-01-01

This research investigated newly qualified teachers (NQTs) experiences of participating in online discussions (ODs) that were part of their Master of Teaching (MTeach) course. [The project was partially funded by the Excellence in Work-Based Learning for Education Professionals (WLE) Centre in 2009.

Newly Qualified Teachers' Needs of Support for Professional Competences in Four European Countries: Finland, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and Belgium

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Harju, Vilhelmiina; Niemi, Hannele

2016-01-01

The first few years in the teaching profession are usually demanding. Although initial teacher education forms an essential foundation for teachers' work, it cannot fully prepare new teachers for the complexities of working life. This study focuses on investigating the need for professional development support among newly qualified teachers to…

Indiana Teachers' Perspectives on Testing Accommodations for Limited English Proficient Students Taking the Graduation Qualifying Exam

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Hetler, Angela Dawn

2010-01-01

This qualitative case study examines teachers' perspectives on testing accommodations for Limited English Proficient (LEP) students taking Indiana's Graduation Qualifying Exam (GQE). The Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) states that the purpose of testing accommodations is to "level the playing field" between LEP students and their…

Recognising and Developing Urban Teachers: Chartered London Teacher Status

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Bubb, Sara; Porritt, Vivienne

2008-01-01

Chartered London Teacher (CLT) status is a unique scheme designed by London Challenge to recognise and reward teachers' achievements and provide a framework for professional development. As well as having the prestige of being a Chartered London Teacher for life, educators receive a one-time payment of 1,000 British pounds from the school budget…

Preparing Special Educators Highly Qualified in Content: Alternative Route Certification for Unlicensed Teachers in Rural Georgia

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Childre, Amy L.

2014-01-01

The shortage of highly qualified special educators is most pronounced in rural schools serving populations characterized by poverty, low achievement, disability, and cultural diversity. The result is often untrained teachers serving students with the greatest education needs. This article describes efforts by a university in rural middle Georgia…

"Highly Qualified" to Do What? The Relationship between NCLB Teacher Quality Mandates and the Use of Reform-Oriented Instruction in Middle School Mathematics

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Smith, Thomas M.; Desimone, Laura M.; Ueno, Koji

2005-01-01

The federal No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) calls for a highly qualified teacher in every classroom. According to the legislation, "highly qualified" is defined as full certification, a bachelor's degree, and demonstrated content knowledge in all core subjects taught. States, district, and schools are spending considerable…

Advanced Skills Teachers: Professional Identity and Status

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Fuller, C.; Goodwyn, A.; Francis-Brophy, E.

2013-01-01

The teaching profession continues to struggle with defining itself in relation to other professions. Even though public opinion positions teachers second only to doctors and nurses in terms of their professional status and prestige research in the UK suggests that teachers still believe that they have much lower status than other professions. With…

Diversity and Complexity: Becoming a Teacher in England in 2015-2016

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Whiting, Caroline; Whitty, Geoff; Menter, Ian; Black, Pat; Hordern, Jim; Parfitt, Anne; Reynolds, Kate; Sorensen, Nick

2018-01-01

This paper is based on a profile of Initial Teacher Training (ITT) provision in England, which was developed as part of a wider research programme on Diversity in Teacher Education (DiTE) based at Bath Spa University. It provides a new topography of routes to qualified teacher status (QTS) in England for the academic year 2015-2016, along similar…

From iTE to NQT: Evaluating Newly Qualified Teachers' Use of Mobile Technology in Their First Two Years of Teaching

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Mac Mahon, Brendan; Ó'Grádaigh, Seán; Ghuidhir, Sinéad Ni

2018-01-01

This article outlines a study to examine if newly qualified teachers (NQTs) who had incorporated iPad within pedagogical practice during initial teacher education, continued to do so in their first two years of teaching, and also to identify the challenges to integration that emerged. Findings show that use of iPad in teaching, learning and…

Teachers' Perceptions on How to Improve Teacher Retention

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Wood, Jennifer L.

2014-01-01

The purpose of this qualitative descriptive case study was to research teachers' attrition in a central South Carolina school district by analyzing the experiences of 5 former teachers in the district. Highly qualified teachers are needed to educate students who come from diverse backgrounds. Unfortunately, many qualified teachers leave the…

Confidence or Confusion: How Well Are Today's Newly Qualified Teachers in England Prepared to Meet the Additional Needs of Children in Schools?

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MacBlain, Sean; Purdy, Noel

2011-01-01

Faced with growing numbers of pupils with special needs, as well as those whose first language is not English, head teachers are increasingly faced with the challenge of employing Newly Qualified Teachers who require not only a different type of skills and knowledge base but the necessary personal qualities to effectively respond to the…

Searching the Attic: How States Are Responding to the Nation's Goal of Placing a Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom. NCTQ Reports

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Walsh, Kate; Snyder, Emma

2004-01-01

This report, the second in a series published by the National Council on Teacher Quality, examines states' progress in meeting the new federal requirement that by the end of the 2005-2006 school year there will be a "highly qualified teacher" in every classroom in the nation. This new requirement has led to some discomfort in more than a…

76 FR 50663 - Revisions to Form, Procedures and Criteria for Certification of Qualifying Facility Status for a...

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... facilities. List of Subjects in 18 CFR Part 292 Electric power, Electric power plants, Electric utilities... to Form, Procedures and Criteria for Certification of Qualifying Facility Status for a Small Power... small power production or cogeneration facility. DATES: August 16, 2011. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT...

Lifting the Status of Learning Support Teachers

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Kusuma-Powell, Ochan; Powell, William

2016-01-01

Status, the perception of one's standing in relation to others in a group, negatively influence learning. Status issue have implications for educating students with special learning needs: Both these students and the learning support or special education teachers who serve them often hold low status in a school community. Like adults, children…

The Status of the Career Teacher: Its Effect upon the Teacher Dropout Problem.

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Bush, Robert N.

As the education of pupils may be better in a school staffed with permanent career teachers rather than with itinerant teachers, every attempt should be made to increase the status of teaching and consequently the likelihood of attracting and retaining better teachers. Several steps could be taken to raise teaching to the level of other…

Assessing Family Economic Status From Teacher Reports.

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Moskowitz, Joel M.; Hoepfner, Ralph

The utility of employing teacher reports about characteristics of students and their parents to assess family economic status was investigated using multiple regression analyses. The accuracy of teacher reports about parents' educational background was also explored, in addition to the effect of replacing missing data with logical, mean, or modal…

Barriers and Challenges Facing Pre-Service Teachers Use of Mobile Technologies for Teaching and Learning

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Burden, Kevin; Hopkins, Paul

2016-01-01

This study examined the perceptions, attitudes and beliefs of pre-service teachers using the iPad for their professional learning purposes and for teaching during their school placements. The sample consisted of 117 pre-service teachers undertaking a one-year postgraduate qualification in England to gain qualified teaching status (QTS). A mixed…

Teacher Behavior and Peer Liking and Disliking: The Teacher as a Social Referent for Peer Status

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Hendrickx, Marloes M. H. G.; Mainhard, Tim; Oudman, Sophie; Boor-Klip, Henrike J.; Brekelmans, Mieke

2017-01-01

According to social referencing theory, cues peers take from positive and negative teacher behavior toward a student affect the student's peer liking and disliking status. The present study was the first to test the hypothesized mediation model connecting teacher behavior with peer liking and disliking status, via peer perceptions of teacher…

Who Is Qualified to Teach American Sign Language?

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Kanda, Jan; Fleischer, Larry

1988-01-01

Teachers of American Sign Language (ASL) can no longer qualify just by being able to sign well or by being deaf. ASL teachers must respect the language and its history, feel comfortable interacting with the deaf community, have completed formal study of language and pedagogy, be familiar with second-language teaching, and engage in personal and…

Teachers' Perceptions Based on Tenure Status and Gender about Principals' Supervision

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Range, Bret G.; Finch, Kim; Young, Suzanne; Hvidston, David J.

2014-01-01

This descriptive study assessed teachers' attitudes about their formative supervision and the observational ability of principals through the constructs of teacher tenure status and gender. In sum, 255 teachers responded to an online survey indicating teachers' desired feedback focused on classroom climate, student engagement, and instructional…

Current Status of String Teacher Education at University Music Teacher Training Schools in Turkey

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Gokturk , Dilek

2010-01-01

The purpose of this study was to examine the status of undergraduate string teacher education curriculum in Turkish universities in both eastern and western regions. To accomplish this task, the relative strengths and weaknesses of Turkish string teacher education were investigated through an intensive literature review and a survey. Seventy-one…

18 CFR 131.80 - FERC Form No. 556, Certification of qualifying facility status for an existing or a proposed...

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2010-04-01

... 18 Conservation of Power and Water Resources 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false FERC Form No. 556... COMMISSION, DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY APPROVED FORMS, FEDERAL POWER ACT AND PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY POLICIES ACT OF 1978 FORMS § 131.80 FERC Form No. 556, Certification of qualifying facility status for an existing...

Working conditions of female part-time and full-time teachers in relation to health status.

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Seibt, Reingard; Matz, Annerose; Hegewald, Janice; Spitzer, Silvia

2012-08-01

Teacher's volume of employment and health status are controversially discussed in the current literature. This study focused on female teachers with part-time versus full-time jobs in association with working conditions and health status depending on age. A sample of 263 part-time and 367 full-time female teachers (average age 46.7 ± 7.8 vs. 46.0 ± 6.3) participated in an occupational health screening. Specific work conditions, stressors (job history-questionnaire) and effort-reward-imbalance ratio (ERI-Q) were measured and their relationships to mental and physical health were analysed. Health status was quantified by complaints (BFB questionnaire), general mental health status (GHQ-12) and cardiovascular risk factors. On average, teachers in part-time positions reported 36 and in full-time positions 42 h per week. The effort-reward ratios were significantly associated with the volume of employment. Teachers in part-time jobs had only a slightly lower ERI-ratio. There were no differences between full-time and part-time teachers regarding health status. Eighteen percentage of both groups reported impaired mental health (GHQ ≥ 5), 48% of part-time teachers and 53% of full-time teachers suffered from high blood pressure. Low physical fitness was observed in 12% of part-time and 6% of full-time teachers. In this study, neither the volume of employment nor working conditions were found to be significantly correlated with health status. Part-time and full-time employment status did not appear to influence health in the teaching profession. Although there are differences in quantitative working demands, while the health status does not differ between both teacher groups.

Highly Qualified Teachers Equity Plan Update

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Horne, Tom

2009-01-01

Ensuring that all Arizona children receive the high-quality education they deserve requires an effective teacher in every classroom along with school and district leadership that is focused on raising student achievement. Arizona's educators, from the classroom teacher to the district superintendent, are the most important component of the state's…

Meeting the Highly Qualified Teachers Challenge

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Toh, Kok-Aun; Ho, Boon-Tiong; Riley, Joseph P.; Hoh, Yin-Kiong

2006-01-01

The moulding of the future of a nation depends on the teachers and the education they provide in schools. Research evidence from the US. National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) confirms this to be the case. Quantitative analysis of data indicates that measures associated with pre-service teacher preparation are by far the strongest…

What the Research Says about Class Size, Professional Development, and Recruitment, Induction, and Retention of Highly Qualified Teachers: A Compendium of the Evidence on Title II, Part A, Program-Funded Strategies

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Krasnoff, Basha

2015-01-01

States and districts have the flexibility to creatively use Title II, Part A funds to address teacher quality issues. Currently, three strategies predominate--class size reduction, professional development, and recruitment, induction, and retention of highly qualified teachers. Each strategy is implemented with the intention of improving teaching…

Rural K-8 Special Education Teachers' Perceptions of Their Positional Status as Special Education Teachers Who Co-Teach with Regular Education Teachers

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LaPorte, Kristy L.

2010-01-01

This exploratory qualitative case study investigated rural K-8 special education teacher perceptions of their positional status as special education teachers who co-teach with their regular education peers. Four special education teachers participated in journal prompts, one-on-one interviews, and a focus group interview. The conceptual lens for…

School Performance, Status Relations, and the Structure of Sentiment: Bringing the Teacher Back In.

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Alexander, Karl L; And Others

1987-01-01

Teachers' social origins influence their reactions to students. Low-status and minority students experience difficulties in the classrooms of high-status teachers. Outcomes of these relationships are that the students are seen as less mature and less is expected of them. A model of teacher-pupil background congruence is proposed. (Author/VM)

Profitability of Qualified-Labour-Power Production

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Baldino, Roberto Ribeiro; Cabral, Tânia Cristina Baptista

2015-01-01

In Baldino and Cabral (2013) we introduced the concept of qualified labour-power as the commodity produced by the school system. In the present article we outline a quantitative model to evaluate the profit rate of educational programmes. We compare a medical school programme with a teacher education programme at a public university in Brazil,…

A Delphi Approach to the Preparation of Early-Career Agricultural Educators in the Curriculum Area of Agricultural Mechanics: Fully Qualified and Highly Motivated or Status Quo?

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Saucier, P. Ryan; McKim, Billy R.; Tummons, John D.

2012-01-01

According to the National Research Agenda for Agricultural Education and Communication, preservice agriculture teacher education programs should "prepare and provide an abundance of fully qualified and highly motivated agricultural educators at all levels" (Osborne, 2007, 8). The lack of preparation of entry career agricultural educators…

Student Socioeconomic Status and Teacher Stroke: A Case of Female Students in Iran

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Irajzad, Fatemeh; Shahriari, Hesamoddin

2017-01-01

Supportive teacher-student relationships play a significant role in the trajectory of students' academic life. Teachers may use various strategies to improve this relationship, one of which is teacher stroke (teacher encouragement). The stroking behavior of teachers might be influenced by several factors, including the socioeconomic status (SES)…

[Analysis and evaluation of the health status of physical education teachers focusing on dance teachers].

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Wanke, E M; Schmitter, J; Groneberg, D A

2012-03-01

A dance teacher teaches in various professional and amateur genres. The physical load depends on the target group and is partly submaximal or even higher. The only tool of dance teachers is their own body. There are only few other tools to facilitate such work. Therefore, keeping the body in a good health status is of great significance. Up to the present, there have been little or no data on the health status of persons teaching dance. The aim of this study is to examine the health status of persons who teach dance in order to initiate a data base for the development of further projects with a preventive medical focus. A total of 165 (f: 154, m: 11) average aged (46.1 years) dance teachers in Germany responded to a cross-section questionnaire survey. Teaching dance is for 96.6 % "the job of their dreams". Of all dance teachers 89.4 % continue to work while in pain and 85.5 % cannot afford a "longer down-time". 78.2 % state that they have paused due to a work-related disease, although 56.9 % of the respondents consider their occupation to be the cause for a disease with the answer only, seldom (44.4 %) or never (12.5 %). 4.5 % consult a medical doctor only after the self-treatment has failed. The lower extremity is the most common anatomic region in acute injuries (57.6 %) as well as in chronic complaints (58.3 %). The causes are multiple and comprise physical as well as psychic factors such as a high pressure of expectation (64.8 %) or a tight schedule/time table (43 %). 29 % of all dance teachers suffer from internal and 58 % from orthopaedic complaints. 43.1 % of them state that these complaints result from their occupation. 80.5 % make an acute injury responsible for compulsary breaks. The discrepancies between the self-perception and the findings of this investigation clearly show that the psychic and physical load in this occupation should not be underestimated. Here, further research on the social, psychic and physical health status of dance teachers is

Examining Cyberbullying Tendency and Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Status of Teacher Candidates

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Levent, Faruk; Taçgin, Zeynep

2017-01-01

The teachers have a substantial role for students through consciously the Internet usage and struggle with cyberbullying. The purpose of this study is to investigate cyberbullying tendency and multidimensional perceived social support status of the teacher candidates. The participants of this research have become 412 teacher candidates as…

Choice, Challenge, and Collaboration: Giving Teachers of Gifted Students What They Need in Professional Development

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Green, Bonnie Rhyne

2013-01-01

Since the implementation of NCLB initiatives, rural K-12 teachers in Middle Georgia have been working to gain highly qualified status in their area of certification. These educators have faced struggles that are characteristic of rural schools to include: limited resources, isolated geographic locations, and lack of funds. The In-field Gifted…

The Current Status of Classroom Inclusion Activities of Secondary Agriculture Teachers

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Hoerst, Caryn M.; Whittington, M. Susie

2009-01-01

The current status of classroom inclusion activities among agriculture teachers in comprehensive secondary agricultural education programs in Ohio is reported. The researchers describe secondary agriculture teachers' needs related to teaching learners with special needs in inclusion classes, given legislative mandates. Specifically, the…

States Still Ironing Out "Highly Qualified" Kinks

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Keller, Bess

2006-01-01

Even the last states to be reviewed on their progress for meeting the "highly qualified" teacher provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act have some distance to travel before satisfying the law, according to Department of Education documents and officials. A case in point is Connecticut, one of the final stops for the federal monitoring…

'Do You Ride on Elephants' and 'Never Tell Them You're German': The Experiences of British Asian and Black, and Overseas Student Teachers in Southeast England

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Cole, Mike; Stuart, Janet S.

2005-01-01

In this article we report on part of a small-scale study into the experiences of 28 British-born Asian and black, and overseas student teachers, who were following both Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) and school-based routes to qualified teacher status (QTS), in Sussex and Kent. The results indicate worrying degrees of racism,…

Discovering Quality in Teacher Education: Perceptions Concerning What Makes an Effective Cooperating Teacher

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Stewart, Josh; Lambert, Misty D.; Ulmer, Jonathan D.; Witt, Phillip A.; Carraway, Candis L.

2017-01-01

With a continuous shortage of qualified agricultural science teachers (Foster, Lawver, Smith, 2014; Kantrovich, 2010), it is imperative teacher preparation programs identify and utilize effective cooperating teachers, as well as develop training for in-service teachers that will assist in preparing more effective cooperating teachers. The purpose…

Do We Produce Enough Mathematics and Science Teachers?

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Ingersoll, Richard M.

2011-01-01

Empirical research on the supply and demand of math and science teachers finds some surprising results. The employment of qualified math and science teachers has more than kept pace with the demand, and most schools find qualified teachers for those positions. However, about a third of public schools--particularly high-poverty, high-minority, and…

34 CFR 685.217 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... five consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or by an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics... forgiveness if the borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics...

34 CFR 685.217 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics or science to secondary school... borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas...

Effects of 12-week Vegetarian Diet on the Nutritional Status, Stress Status and Bowel Habits in Middle School Students and Teachers.

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Lee, Bo Ra; Ko, Yu Mi; Cho, Mi Hee; Yoon, Young Ran; Kye, Seung Hee; Park, Yoo Kyoung

2016-04-01

This study investigated the effect of switching normal diet to vegetarian diet rich in vegetables and fruits for school foodservice and home meal on the nutritional status, bowel habit improvement and stress reduction of teachers and adolescents. A total of 40 research subjects (26 students, 14 teachers) from one middle school voluntarily participated in the research. Questionnaire surveys and blood analysis were conducted before and after a 12-week vegetarian diet period. The participants were asked on their dietary habit, bowel habit and stress measurement. After 12 weeks, reduction of BMI (kg/m(2)) in the students (p < 0.05) and reduction of TC (mg/dL) in both teachers and students (p < 0.05) were observed. Also reduction of LDL-C (mg/dL) was observed in the teachers (p < 0.05) whereas serum calcium and Vitamin B12 was increased in the students and teachers (p < 0.005). The teacher's stress level was reduced (p < 0.05) after the 12-week vegetarian diet. As for the changes in bowel habit, the number of the students and teachers classified as experiencing functional constipation was decreased respectively from 10 to 7, from 7 to 5. Based on the result, it is considered that the vegetarian diet rich in fruits and vegetables improved general health status of study subjects suggesting that such a dietary habit would substantially contribute to improving nutritional status and bowel habit.

Effects of 12-week Vegetarian Diet on the Nutritional Status, Stress Status and Bowel Habits in Middle School Students and Teachers

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Lee, Bo Ra; Ko, Yu Mi; Cho, Mi Hee; Yoon, Young Ran

2016-01-01

This study investigated the effect of switching normal diet to vegetarian diet rich in vegetables and fruits for school foodservice and home meal on the nutritional status, bowel habit improvement and stress reduction of teachers and adolescents. A total of 40 research subjects (26 students, 14 teachers) from one middle school voluntarily participated in the research. Questionnaire surveys and blood analysis were conducted before and after a 12-week vegetarian diet period. The participants were asked on their dietary habit, bowel habit and stress measurement. After 12 weeks, reduction of BMI (kg/m2) in the students (p < 0.05) and reduction of TC (mg/dL) in both teachers and students (p < 0.05) were observed. Also reduction of LDL-C (mg/dL) was observed in the teachers (p < 0.05) whereas serum calcium and Vitamin B12 was increased in the students and teachers (p < 0.005). The teacher's stress level was reduced (p < 0.05) after the 12-week vegetarian diet. As for the changes in bowel habit, the number of the students and teachers classified as experiencing functional constipation was decreased respectively from 10 to 7, from 7 to 5. Based on the result, it is considered that the vegetarian diet rich in fruits and vegetables improved general health status of study subjects suggesting that such a dietary habit would substantially contribute to improving nutritional status and bowel habit. PMID:27152300

[Prediction of perceived health status on job stress and family stress with middle school teachers].

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Park, Hyoung Sook; Jeong, Seong Hee; Park, Kyung Yeon

2007-06-01

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship among job stress, family stress and perceived health status of middle school teachers and to present basic information about promoting health and coping with stress. Participants(N=547) was recruited in B city from November 2005 to December 2005. Data were analyzed with descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation and multiple regression. The degree of job stress of the middle school teachers was 54.47 out of a total score of 88; that of family stress was 46.57 out of a total score of 96; and that of perceived health status was 78.59 out of the perfect score 100. There was a significantly negative relationship between job stress and perceived health status (r=-.274, p<.001), and family stress and perceived health status(r=-.408, p<.001). However, there was a positive relationship between job stress and family stress(r=.298, p<.001). Family stress, gender, charging subject, job stress, charging grade and number of family member was 27.1% of the variance in perceived health status of middle school teachers. Family stress has the most important impact on perceived health status with middle school teachers. Based on the finding, we could conclude that both job stress and family stress management should be required to improve perceived health status.

Challenges Faced by Prospective Teachers in Universities and Solution Proposals

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Kiral, Erkan

2016-01-01

The number of universities in Turkey has reached to 193, among which 72 of them have their own faculties of education. The problem of quantity in teacher training seems to be eliminated; however, training qualified teachers has become a prioritized issue. Many responsibilities fall to universities in training qualified teachers including…

34 CFR 682.216 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics or science... borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas...

34 CFR 685.217 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... for five consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics... forgiveness if the borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics...

34 CFR 682.216 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or for an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics or science... borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas...

34 CFR 685.217 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... for five consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics... forgiveness if the borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics...

34 CFR 682.216 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... consecutive years— (i) At an eligible secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics or science... borrower— (A) Demonstrated knowledge and teaching skills in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas...

34 CFR 682.216 - Teacher loan forgiveness program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... secondary school as a highly qualified mathematics or science teacher, or at an eligible educational service agency as a highly qualified teacher of mathematics or science to secondary school students; or (ii) At... in reading, writing, mathematics, and other areas of the elementary school curriculum, as certified...

Status Problem and Expectations of Competence: A Challenging Path for Teachers

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Pescarmona, Isabella

2015-01-01

Complex Instruction (CI) is a cooperative learning approach, which aims at improving the equal status interaction among students working in groups who may be at different academic and social levels. Based on an ethnographic research, the article examines how a group of Italian primary school teachers understand the status problem and how the…

26 CFR 1.144-1 - Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds. 1.144-1 Section 1.144-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL...) Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds § 1.144-1 Qualified small issue bonds, qualified...

26 CFR 1.144-1 - Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds. 1.144-1 Section 1.144-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL...) Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds § 1.144-1 Qualified small issue bonds, qualified...

26 CFR 1.144-1 - Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds. 1.144-1 Section 1.144-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL...) Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds § 1.144-1 Qualified small issue bonds, qualified...

26 CFR 1.144-1 - Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds. 1.144-1 Section 1.144-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL...) Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds § 1.144-1 Qualified small issue bonds, qualified...

26 CFR 1.144-1 - Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Qualified small issue bonds, qualified student loan bonds, and qualified redevelopment bonds. 1.144-1 Section 1.144-1 Internal Revenue INTERNAL...) Tax Exemption Requirements for State and Local Bonds § 1.144-1 Qualified small issue bonds, qualified...

Impact of Children's Identified Disability Status on Parent and Teacher Behavior Ratings

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Schwehr, Ethan; Bocanegra, Joel O.; Kwon, Kyongboon; Sheridan, Susan M.

2014-01-01

This study was an examination of the possible influence of a child's pre-identified disability on parent and teacher behavior ratings and whether a child's disability status affected parent ratings, when controlling for parenting stress. The sample included 206 kindergarten through third grade students and their teachers and parents from a…

Mentor preparation: A qualitative study of STEM master teacher professional development

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Click-Cuellar, Heather Lynn

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has required districts to staff all classrooms with highly qualified teachers. Yet, retaining certified teachers in the profession has been a national concern, especially among new teachers who leave at alarming rates within their first three years. This comes at a heavy cost to districts financially and in trying to maintain highly qualified status, but also to the continuity and effective education of students. Mentoring has been identified by many researchers as a plausible solution to reducing attrition rates for beginning teachers. In this dissertation, I conducted qualitative research to explore and understand the perceptions of STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) Master Teachers' mentoring professional development in the context of the Master Teacher Academies program situated at Desert State University (pseudonym), a large institution located on the Texas-Mexico border. Additionally, I examined the reported teaching self-efficacy of STEM Master Teachers (mentors), as well as that of their novice teachers (mentees). Another purpose of the study was to investigate the forms and elements of interactions between these mentors and their mentees. Participants of this study were Texas certified Master Mathematics or Master Science Teachers, and their novice mathematics or science teacher mentees; all of whom teach in a high need U.S. Mexico border city school district serving a student population that is over 93% Hispanic. A grounded theory approach was used in examining and analyzing mentor and mentee perceptions and experiences through case studies. A constructivist framework was utilized to derive findings from interviews and the review of documents and contribute a diverse context and population to the literature. The study reveals conclusions and recommendations that will benefit educators, universities, school districts, and policy makers in regard to teacher mentor preparation.

The Timing of Teacher Hires and Teacher Qualifications: Is There an Association?

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Engel, Mimi

2012-01-01

Background: Case studies suggest that late hiring timelines are common in large urban school districts and result in the loss of qualified teachers to surrounding suburbs. To date, however, there has been no large-scale quantitative investigation of the relationship between the timing of teacher hires and teacher qualifications. Purpose: This…

Evaluation of Pre-Service Teachers' Opinions about Teaching Methods and Techniques Applied by Instructors

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Aykac, Necdet

2016-01-01

Problem Statement: Training qualified teachers depends on the quality of the trainers. From this point of view, the quality of teacher educators and their instruction in the classroom are important to train qualified teachers. This is because teachers tend to see teacher educators who have trained them as role models, and during their school…

The practical skills of newly qualified nurses.

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Danbjørg, Dorthe Boe; Birkelund, Regner

2011-02-01

This paper reports the findings from a study of newly qualified nurses and which subjects the nurses regarded as the most important in order to be able to live up to the requirements of clinical practice, and how they experience their potential for developing practical and moral skills, after the decrease in practical training. A qualitative approach guided the research process and the analysis of the data. The data was collected by participant observation and qualitative interviews with four nurses as informants. The conclusions made in this study are based on the statements and the observations of the newly qualified nurses. Our findings are discussed in relation to the Aristotelian concept and other relevant literature. The main message is that the newly qualified nurses did not feel equipped when they finished their training. This could be interpreted as a direct consequence of the decrease in practical training. Our study also underlines that the way nursing theory is perceived and taught is problematic. The interviews revealed that the nurses think that nursing theories should be applied directly in practice. This misunderstanding is probably also applicable to the teachers of the theories. Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Certified but Not Qualified? EFL Pre-Service Teachers in Liminality

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Chang, Yu-jung

2018-01-01

Research on novice ESL/EFL teachers' identity development often characterizes the teaching practicum/internship as a boundary-crossing period in which pre-service teachers move out of the sheltered environment of education to become in-service teachers in real classrooms. Nevertheless, many prospective teachers experience a prolonged pre-service…

Improving Teacher Quality for Colorado Science Teachers in High Need Schools

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Stevenson, Mark; Stevenson, Cerissa; Cooner, Donna

2015-01-01

This article describes the evaluation of an online professional development program funded by the State of Colorado to address the need for highly qualified science teachers in high need and/or rural school districts. Recruitment and the retention of highly qualified educators in high need and/or rural school districts is a critical factor…

No Teacher Left Behind: A Study of Teacher Attrition in Public Schools

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Heck, Barbara J.

2010-01-01

In 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), which is intended to ensure that each classroom has a highly qualified teacher. Current research, however, shows approximately 27% of teachers hired each year leave the profession; in addition, approximately 50% of teachers with less than five years experience…

The Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Educational Leadership among Teachers in Secondary Education

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Stevens, Jessica Ann

2013-01-01

The increase in teacher attrition rates within the state of California since 2000 is of concern to the California Department of Education and districts throughout the state because of a myriad of issues created by the loss of qualified teachers. The cost of replacing qualified teachers and recruiting and training new teachers to replace those who…

Secondary Education Teacher Preparation Programs Should Differentiate Curriculum and Instruction for Traditional and Nontraditional Preservice Teachers

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Schairer-Kessler, Cynthia J.

2013-01-01

Much demand remains for teacher education programs to produce highly qualified teachers. Current trends show that almost half of today's preservice teachers are considered nontraditional in terms of age and life experience. The purpose of this study was to determine whether secondary education teacher preparation programs should differentiate…

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply

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Engel, Mimi; Jacob, Brian A.; Curran, F. Chris

2014-01-01

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred interest in teacher labor markets. Research documents that better qualified teachers typically work in more advantaged schools but cannot determine the relative importance of supply versus demand. To isolate teacher preferences, we document which schools prospective…

33 CFR 154.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... BULK Response Plans for Oil Facilities § 154.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate who meet... implementation of the facility response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of the qualified...

33 CFR 154.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... BULK Response Plans for Oil Facilities § 154.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate who meet... implementation of the facility response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of the qualified...

33 CFR 154.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... BULK Response Plans for Oil Facilities § 154.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate who meet... implementation of the facility response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of the qualified...

33 CFR 154.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... BULK Response Plans for Oil Facilities § 154.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate who meet... implementation of the facility response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of the qualified...

Access to Qualified Special Educators across Elementary Neighborhood and Exclusionary Schools

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Mason-Williams, Loretta; Bettini, Elizabeth; Gagnon, Joseph Calvin

2017-01-01

In this study, we investigate the distribution of qualified special educators across elementary neighborhood schools and exclusionary public and private special education schools. Using the 2011-2012 Schools and Staffing Survey, we provide a descriptive analysis of measurable teacher qualifications (e.g., years of experience, preparation type,…

Special Education Teacher Preparation in Kenya, Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe

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Chitiyo, Morgan; Odongo, George; Itimu-Phiri, Ambumulire; Muwana, Florence; Lipemba, Mary

2015-01-01

Researchers have repeatedly identified special education teacher shortage as one of the factors that have stymied the development of special education in many African countries. Highly qualified special education teachers are an integral part of successful national educational systems. In order to ensure an optimum supply of qualified special…

Teachers Wanted: Must Like Snow.

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Jarrett, Denise

1999-01-01

Profiles Mary Ellen Darling, an exceptional teacher at Clark Middle School in Anchorage (Alaska). Addresses the difficulties in recruiting qualified teachers for the Anchorage School District, where 20 percent of students speak 85 different languages. Describes successful efforts to recruit teachers and professional staff from states with similar…

Collective Pedagogical Teacher Culture and Mathematics Achievement: Differences by Race, Ethnicity, and Socioeconomic Status

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Moller, Stephanie; Mickelson, Roslyn Arlin; Stearns, Elizabeth; Banerjee, Neena; Bottia, Martha Cecilia

2013-01-01

Scholars have not adequately assessed how organizational cultures in schools differentially influence students' mathematics achievement by race and socioeconomic status (SES). We focus on what we term "collective pedagogical teacher culture", highlighting the role of professional communities and teacher collaboration in influencing…

Teacher (In)Competence: An Analysis and Comparison of the Educational, Legal, and Practical Definitions

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Ferchen, Megan Hollingsworth

2012-01-01

Teacher incompetence and the identification of incompetent teachers have become major educational issues. With the implementation of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), every student is expected to be taught by a "highly qualified" teacher. Although "highly qualified" does not guarantee competent teaching, the two often go…

Behavioral Engagement, Peer Status, and Teacher-Student Relationships in Adolescence: A Longitudinal Study on Reciprocal Influences.

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Engels, Maaike C; Colpin, Hilde; Van Leeuwen, Karla; Bijttebier, Patricia; Van Den Noortgate, Wim; Claes, Stephan; Goossens, Luc; Verschueren, Karine

2016-06-01

Although teachers and peers play an important role in shaping students' engagement, no previous study has directly investigated transactional associations of these classroom-based relationships in adolescence. This study investigated the transactional associations between adolescents' behavioral engagement, peer status (likeability and popularity), and (positive and negative) teacher-student relationships during secondary education. A large sample of adolescents was followed from Grade 7 to 11 (N = 1116; 49 % female; M age = 13.79 years). Multivariate autoregressive cross-lagged modeling revealed only unidirectional effects from teacher-student relationships and peer status on students' behavioral engagement. Positive teacher-student relationships were associated with more behavioral engagement over time, whereas negative teacher-student relationships, higher likeability and higher popularity were related to less behavioral engagement over time. We conclude that teachers and peers constitute different sources of influence, and play independent roles in adolescents' behavioral engagement.

Virginia Earth Science Collaborative: Developing Highly Qualified Teachers

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Cothron, J.

2007-12-01

A collaborative of nine institutes of higher education and non-profits and seventy-one school divisions developed and implemented courses that will enable teachers to acquire an Add-On Earth Science endorsement and to improve their skills in teaching Earth Science. For the Earth Science Endorsement, the five courses and associated credits are Physical Geology (4), Geology of Virginia (4), Oceanography (4), Astronomy (3) and Meteorology (3). The courses include rigorous academic content, research-based instructional strategies, laboratory experiences, and intense field experiences. In addition, courses were offered on integrating new technologies into the earth sciences, developing virtual field trips, and teaching special education students. To date, 39 courses have been offered statewide, with over 560 teachers participating. Teachers showed increased conceptual understanding of earth science topics as measured by pre-post tests. Other outcomes include a project website, a collaborative of over 60 IHE and K-12 educators, pilot instruments, and a statewide committee focused on policy in the earth sciences.

Preventing Teacher Failure: Six Keys to Success in Moving beyond the "Sink or Swim" Mentality

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Strawn, Candace A.; Fox, Rebecca K.; Duck, Lloyd

2008-01-01

One controversial aspect of No Child Left Behind is the highly qualified provision. The 2001 act required that teachers of core academic subjects be highly qualified by 2006 or school districts would lose federal funding. Virginia districts are still scrambling to hire qualified teachers. Although the federal government has modified the 2006…

Innovation and Impact in Teacher Education: Community-Based Organizations as Field Placements for Preservice Teachers

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McDonald, Morva A.; Tyson, Kersti; Brayko, Kate; Bowman, Michael; Delport, John; Shimomura, Fuyu

2011-01-01

Background: Research shows that students who are overrepresented when it comes to failure are underrepresented when it comes to being taught by highly qualified teachers who are well prepared to teach students from diverse backgrounds. Teacher education, as one aspect of the educational system, plays a critical role in preparing teachers with the…

New Teachers: From Surviving to Thriving.

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Northwest Education, 2001

2001-01-01

This journal examines promising approaches to supporting beginning teachers. It contains the following articles: "Facing the Future" (Suzie Boss), which discusses meeting the need for qualified teachers by using fresh ideas such as better support for novices and more training for mentors; "Building a Teacher's 'Repertoire' Takes…

The Extent of Autism Knowledge of Novice Alternatively Certified Special Education Teachers in Texas

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Hauber, Jennifer Alward; Mehta, Smita Shukla; Combes, Bertina H.

2015-01-01

An increase in the prevalence rate of autism is not necessarily matched by a concurrent increase in the rate of highly qualified special education teachers, resulting in chronic teacher shortages in this area. Alternative certification (AC) is used as a mechanism to alleviate the demand for highly qualified special education teachers. However, AC…

Impact of Teacher Qualification on Student Achievement at the Elementary and Middle School Levels

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Andrews, Sandra L.

2012-01-01

Although the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act requires that classroom teachers be highly qualified, the assumption that achieving the highly qualified endorsement equates to teacher effectiveness in the classroom is unverified. The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of teacher qualification, as defined by the NCLB Act and…

The Chilean Teacher Labor Market

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Rivero, Maria del Rosario

2013-01-01

In Chile, as many other countries, understanding how high-qualified teachers are distributed across schools and which are the relationships that may lead to teachers' potential sorting are key aspect of the teacher labor market and it is central to addressing student achievement gaps. The first paper uses rich new data on all elementary public…

The Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Parental Involvement in Turkish Primary Schools: Perspective of Teachers

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Bellibas, Mehmet Sukru; Gumus, Sedat

2013-01-01

This exploratory qualitative study investigates the effects of socio-economic status on parental involvement in public primary schools in Turkey. The study aims to examine how teachers in these schools present the scope of current parental involvement, to what factors teachers ascribe the barriers to parental involvement, and whether teachers'…

FERC ruling highlights differences between notification and certification procedures for qualifying facilities

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1984-06-01

On June 15, the FERC dismissed a motion by the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA) to intervene to challenge the filing of Merck, Sharp and Dohme Quimica De Puerto Rico, Inc. (Merck), for qualifying status under PURPA. (Docket QF 84-188). The FERC's reason for dismissing the motion for intervention was that the Merck submission was not a true application for certification, but rather, merely a notice that the proposed facility would in fact be a qualifying facility. Under FERC rules, a qualifying cogenerator or small power producer may follow either of two procedures: (1) an application procedure, under whichmore » the FERC will rule on whether a particular facility is a qualifying facility, or (2) a notification procedure, under which FERC does not rule. The application is a voluntary, optional procedure, provided by FERC for situations in which a potential qualifying facility requires affirmative certification, typically for financing purposes. Otherwise, merely filing a notification is sufficient for a qualifying facility to be able to take advantage of the benefits of PURPA.« less

The Demand for Special Education Teachers in Rural Schools Revisited: An Update on Progress

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Sindelar, Paul T.; Pua, Daisy J.; Fisher, Tiffany; Peyton, David J.; Brownell, Mary T.; Mason-Williams, Loretta

2018-01-01

In this commentary, we revisit "NCLB and the Demand for Highly Qualified Teachers: Challenges and Solutions for Rural Schools," an article we published in this journal in 2005. We consider the predictions we made then about the impact of the Highly Qualified Teacher mandate on special education teacher (SET) shortages in rural states and…

33 CFR 155.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... REGULATIONS FOR VESSELS Tank Vessel Response Plans for Oil § 155.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate... familiar with the implementation of the vessel response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of...

33 CFR 155.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... REGULATIONS FOR VESSELS Tank Vessel Response Plans for Oil § 155.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate... familiar with the implementation of the vessel response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of...

33 CFR 155.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... REGULATIONS FOR VESSELS Tank Vessel Response Plans for Oil § 155.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate... familiar with the implementation of the vessel response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of...

33 CFR 155.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... REGULATIONS FOR VESSELS Tank Vessel Response Plans for Oil § 155.1026 Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual. (a) The response plan must identify a qualified individual and at least one alternate... familiar with the implementation of the vessel response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of...

New Teacher Learning: Substantive Knowledge and Contextual Factors

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Wilson, Elaine; Demetriou, Helen

2007-01-01

This article brings together an overview of ideas about teacher learning from both teacher education and workplace learning literature, and examines what and how newly qualified secondary school teachers learn in the early years of their career. We discuss the types of knowledge new teachers encounter and present a typology of teacher learning.…

Thinking, Language and Learning in Initial Teacher Education

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Taylor, Nick

2016-01-01

Initial teacher education (ITE) serves as a bridge between prospective teachers exiting the school system to enrol in teacher education faculties, on the one hand and newly qualified teachers (NQTs) who are embarking on a career in schooling on the other. The present paper describes the language and thinking skills student teachers bring to their…

A Work of Justice and Progress. The Story of the UNESCO/ILO 1966 Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers.

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Towsley, Lona

The paper presents a history of the 1966 United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)/International Labour Organisation (ILO) recommendation concerning the status of teachers. It spans the years 1945-1966, explaining how the recommendation evolved into the present text designed to improve teacher status and working…

[Sub-health status of middle school teachers and its correlation analysis with occupational stress].

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Chang, W J; Shao, H M; Zhi, X Y; Xu, J; Xie, J

2017-08-20

Objective: To study the distribution of sub-health and occupational stress as well as their correlation among middle school teachers in Tianjin, then provide evidences for prevention and control of the status of sub-health. Methods: A total of 3 522 middle school teachers from six districts of Tianjin were recruited with stratified cluster sampling strategy for the investigation of Sub-Health Measurement Scale version 1.0 (SHMS V1.0) and Occupational Stress Inventory-Revised Edition (OSI-R) . Results: Detection rate of sub-health status among Tianjin middle school teachers was 58.55%. Men had significantly lower sub-health detection rate (55.19%) than women (59.71%) . Sub-health detection rate increased with age ( P <0.05) , the sub-health detection rate among middle school teachers more than 50 years old was the highest (66.84%) . The mean score of OSI-R was 403.18±41.80 with the scores of 176.00±21.05, 103.17±17.53, and 124.02±20.28 for ORQ, PSQ, PRQ, respectively, which showed significantly difference compared with the occupational stress norm of China ( P <0.001) . The mean scores of OSI-R, ORQ, PSQ, PRQ in different health status were significantly different ( P <0.001) . The partial correlation analysis between the scores of sub-health and occupational stress of middle school teachers showed that the scores of occupational role and personal strain were negatively correlated with the scores of sub-health state ( P < 0.001) , while, there was significantly positive correlation between the scores of personal resource and the scores of sub-health state ( P <0.001) . Conclusion: Sub-health detection rate of middle school teachers in Tianjin is higher. Effective measures should be taken to appropriately mitigate the occupational stress level of middle school teachers, increase personal resources, and scientific and effective health guidance and education should be strengthened.

User Guide for the 2014-15 Teacher Median Student Growth Percentile Report

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New Jersey Department of Education, 2016

2016-01-01

On March 22, 2016, the New Jersey Department of Education ("the Department") published a broadcast memo sharing secure district access to 2014-15 median Student Growth Percentile (mSGP) data for all qualifying teachers. These data describe student growth from the last school year, and comprise 10% of qualifying teachers' 2014-15…

Toward a Comprehensive Strategy for Addressing the Teacher Shortage.

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Hawley, Willis D.

1986-01-01

The likely consequences of different educational policies affecting teacher supply and demand are examined in relation to the predicted teacher shortage. Includes a table describing 23 policies and practices of schools that attract qualified teachers. (MD)

Professionalism and the Post-Performative Teacher: New Teachers Reflect on Autonomy and Accountability in the English School System

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Wilkins, Chris

2011-01-01

This paper explores the impact of the increasingly performative nature of the assessment of teachers' performance in England leading to the introduction of "Professional Standards for Teachers" in 2007. It reports the findings of a small-scale study of newly-qualified primary school teachers in the context of literature on teacher…

Learning Mathematics for Teaching Mathematics: Non-Specialist Teachers' Mathematics Teacher Identity

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Crisan, Cosette; Rodd, Melissa

2017-01-01

A non-specialist teacher of mathematics is a school teacher who qualified to teach in a subject other than mathematics yet teaches mathematics to students in secondary school. There is an emerging interest internationally in this population, a brief report of which is given in the paper. Because of concerns about the quality of non-specialists'…

Principals' Hiring of Teachers in Philadelphia Schools: A Research Report on Improving Teacher Quality

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Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa

2009-01-01

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Toward the goal of improving teacher quality and the experience balance, particularly in hard-to-staff schools, the Philadelphia…

Preparing Teachers for Diversity: A Literature Review and Implications from Community-Based Teacher Education

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Yuan, Huanshu

2018-01-01

This study reviewed current issues in preparing qualified teachers for increasing diverse student populations in the U.S. and in other multicultural and multiethnic countries. Based on the framework of community-based and multicultural teacher education, this literature review paper analyzed issues and problems existed in the current curriculum,…

Teacher Development in Slovenia for Teaching Foreign Languages at the Primary Level

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Brumen, Mihaela; Fojkar, Mateja Dagarin

2012-01-01

The introduction of foreign languages into the first three-year cycle of primary school has spurred the need for qualified teachers, and is one of the main discussion points among experts in foreign language teaching. Most of the contemporary studies report that there is a global gap between the supply of qualified teachers of foreign languages to…

The Influence of No Child Left Behind Status on Teacher Perceptions of School Organizational Cohesiveness

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Tydeman, Christina Klassen

2009-01-01

The purpose of the study was to examine teacher perceptions of school process data over time to determine whether No Child Left Behind (NCLB) sanctions and interventions might produce any observable change in teachers' perceptions of the selected school processes. This study examined the relationship between the school's NCLB sanction status and…

Time-Out on Timing: The Relationship between the Timing of Teacher Hires and Teacher Quality. Working Paper 2009-04

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Engel, Mimi

2009-01-01

Interest in understanding how principals and school districts hire teachers has increased as empirical evidence on teacher effectiveness has grown. Case studies suggest late hiring timelines are pervasive in large urban school districts and result in the loss of more qualified teachers to surrounding suburbs. This paper uses labor market fixed…

Pre-Service Preschool Teachers' Beliefs about Foreign Language Learning and Early Foreign Language Teaching in Slovenia

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Fojkar, Mateja Dagarin; Skubic, Darija

2017-01-01

The implementation of foreign languages in preschool education has prompted the need for qualified teachers. However, most recent studies report a gap between the supply of qualified foreign language teachers of young learners and the demand for such teachers as foreign languages are introduced earlier and earlier. The authors of this paper…

Does Early Childhood Teacher Education Affect Students' Cognitive Orientations? The Effect of Different Education Tracks in Teacher Education on Prospective Early Childhood Teachers' Cognitive Orientations in Germany

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Mischo, Christoph; Wahl, Stefan; Strohmer, Janina; Wolf, Carina

2014-01-01

Early childhood teachers may differ regarding the knowledge base they use when making professional decisions. In this study two orientations are distinguished: the orientation towards scientific knowledge vs. the orientation towards intuition and subjective experience. As different tracks in early childhood teacher education qualify for…

The Status of Corporal Punishment in Jordanian Primary Schools from the Perspectives Of: Teachers, Students, and Parents

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Khateeb, Linda Ahmad

2015-01-01

The study aims to investigate the status of corporal punishment in Jordanian Primary schools from the perspectives of: Teachers, students, and parents. The corpus of the study comprises (95) Male and female teachers, (135) male and female students form Jordanian primary schools. Two questionnaire forms were used in this study: one for teachers and…

Teachers' Expectations from In-Service Training and the Project "No Limit to Teach(er)"

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Akçadag, Tuncay

2012-01-01

Problem Statement: Training qualified teachers is possible through pre-service and in-service training programs. The in-service training of teachers in Turkey is primarily planned and delivered by the Directorate of In-Service Office at the Ministry of National Education (MoNE). In addition to this, some Non Governmental Organizations (NGO)…

The Effects of Student Characteristics on Teachers' Judgment Accuracy: Disentangling Ethnicity, Minority Status, and Achievement

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Kaiser, Johanna; Südkamp, Anna; Möller, Jens

2017-01-01

Teachers' judgments of students' academic achievement are not only affected by the achievement themselves but also by several other characteristics such as ethnicity, gender, and minority status. In real-life classrooms, achievement and further characteristics are often confounded. We disentangled achievement, ethnicity and minority status and…

The effect of teacher quality on the achievement of students in Integrated Physics and Chemistry

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Alexander, Rima

For many years, researchers, policy makers, and the education community have explored various school variables and their impact on student achievement (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Ferguson and Womack 1993; Ferguson and Ladd 1996; Rice, 2003; Rockoff, 2003; Rowan, Chiang, and Miller 1997; Sanders and Horn, 1996; Wright Horn and Sanders, 1997). Invariably, the issue of teacher quality arises. Teacher quality is the single most influential factor under school control that affects student achievement (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Rice, 2003; Rockoff, 2003; Sanders and Horn, 1996; Wright Horn and Sanders, 1997). Generally, students taught by highly qualified teachers perform better on standardized tests than students with less qualified teachers (Ferguson and Womack 1993; Ferguson and Ladd 1996; Rowan, Chiang, and Miller 1997). Previous research indicates that teachers indeed matter for the improvement of student achievement, but getting good measures of what is meant by teacher quality is a continuing challenge (Goldhaber, 2002). The purpose of this study was to describe the effect of teacher quality on the achievement of students in Integrated Physics and Chemistry (IPC). In order to achieve this purpose, this study addressed the following research question: chemistry and physics teachers compare to the achievement of students taught by less-qualified IPC teachers? A causal-comparative methodology was employed to address this research question. The independent variable was teacher quality---highly-qualified or less qualified. The teacher attributes that were examined in this study are: (1) teachers' educational background; (2) content knowledge; (3) pedagogical knowledge; and (4) certification. The dependent variable was student achievement in integrated physics and chemistry, as measured by an end-of-course IPC District Assessment of Curriculum, IPC DAC. Descriptive statistics were computed for the independent variable in the study. A Chi Square was performed on the data

17 CFR 240.3b-8 - Definitions of “Qualified OTC Market Maker, Qualified Third Market Maker” and “Qualified Block...

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2010-04-01

... Market Maker, Qualified Third Market Makerâ and âQualified Block Positionerâ. 240.3b-8 Section 240.3b-8... “Qualified Block Positioner”. For the purposes of Regulation U under the Act (12 CFR part 221): (a) The term... inventory turnover in such security. (c) The term Qualified Block Positioner means a dealer who (1) is a...

The Impact of School Socioeconomic Status on Student-Generated Teacher Ratings

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Agnew, Steve

2011-01-01

This paper uses ordinary least squares, logit and probit regressions, along with chi-square analysis applied to nationwide data from the New Zealand ratemyteacher website to establish if there is any correlation between student ratings of their teachers and the socioeconomic status of the school the students attend. The results show that students…

The Effectiveness of Mentoring in the Distance Teacher Education Programme at the Lesotho College of Education: Student Teachers' and Tutors' Perceptions

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Mohono-Mahlatsi, Lydia; van Tonder, Fanus

2006-01-01

In response to the need for more qualified primary school teachers in Lesotho, the Lesotho College of Education (LCE) introduced the Distance Teacher Education Programme (DT EP), an in-service training programme for unqualified and underqualified teachers. As part of the curriculum in this programme, the more than 1 200 student teachers who were…

Factors Influencing Teachers' Use of Multimedia Enhanced Content in Secondary Schools in Tanzania

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Mtebe, Joel S.; Mbwilo, Betty; Kissaka, Mussa M.

2016-01-01

Tanzania is faced with a severe shortage of qualified in-service school science and mathematics teachers. While science and mathematics account for 46% of the curriculum, only 28% of teachers are qualified to teach these subjects. In order to overcome this challenge, the Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (MoEVT) implemented a project…

Trends and Challenges in Teacher Preparation in Deaf Education

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Lenihan, Susan

2010-01-01

Recent developments in deaf education are influencing teacher preparation programs, which are facing challenges in meeting the critical need for highly qualified teachers. Of approximately 65 teacher preparation programs in the United States, 11 programs focus primarily on preparing teachers to work with children who are deaf or hard of hearing…

Impact of Teacher Supports and Workplace Settings on Retaining Teachers in New Jersey Schools

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Cheasty, Michelle E.

2011-01-01

Teacher turnover in New Jersey public schools continues to grow every year. As a result, schools and school districts are continuously seeking ways to ensure that every position available is staffed with highly qualified teachers. In addition, schools seek to provide familiarity and stability to those involved with the schools. In an effort to…

Promoting teacher quality and retention in special education.

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Billingsley, Bonnie S

2004-01-01

Qualified special educators are needed to carry out research-based practices in schools. The shortage of special educators, the high numbers of uncertified teachers, and high attrition rates threaten the practice of science in the schoolhouse and, consequently, the education that students with disabilities receive. If teachers are to use research-based practices to benefit students with disabilities, care must be directed toward teachers, what they do, and the complex conditions in which their practice occurs. In this discussion, I focus on four factors that are important to special education teacher retention--responsive induction programs, deliberate role design, positive work conditions and supports, and professional development. These retention-enhancing factors also serve to cultivate qualified special educators by providing the conditions in which they can thrive and grow professionally.

The Disintegration of Teacher Preparation

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Baines, Lawrence A.

2010-01-01

The disintegration of teacher certification programs in the united States holds an eerie similarity to the recent meltdown of American financial institutions. Similarly, the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, whose purported purpose was to ensure that all students get highly qualified teachers (HQT), has had an unintentionally devastating effect on…

The Impact of Teacher Quality Grants on Long-Term Professional Development of Physical Science Teachers

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Urquhart, Mary L.; Bober, Kendra M.

2006-02-01

The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Teacher Quality Grants, supported through No Child Left Behind, are intended to ensure that secondary teachers of specific subjects are "highly qualified". Now in their third year, these grants have done much to shape long-term professional development for teachers in the physical sciences at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). The grants have also created a suite of challenges and benefits for the UTD Science Education M.A.T. program. Teacher Quality Grants are based on the No Child Left Behind framework that requires teachers to be "highly qualified" as defined by the state. Recruitment is required to be targeted at teachers who are uncertified or teach one or more classes out of their content area and who work in high needs local school districts. Many of the students brought into our program through these grants have incoming content knowledge in physics similar to that typical of undergraduate non-majors, and a large percentage are uncomfortable with basic mathematics as well. How and what we teach has been dramatically impacted by the Teacher Quality Grants, as have our assessments and evaluations. An ongoing challenge has been to implement a Physics Education Research (PER)-based course design while meeting the specific requirements of the Teacher Quality Grant program. The Teacher Quality Grants have also provided a great deal of opportunity to new and existing teachers in our program. A barrier to our teachers, rising tuition costs, has been removed and as a result a mandate has become a doorway of opportunity for physical science teachers.

Do Future Teachers Choose Wisely? A Study of Pre-Service Teachers' Personality Preference Profiles

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Thornton, Bill; Peltier, Gary; Hill, Gus

2005-01-01

The No Child Left Behind Act requires that all teachers in core academic subjects to be "highly qualified" by the end of the 2005-06 school year. New teacher leave the profession at an alarming rate--research indicates that 50% have left within five years of their first job. This article explores the personality types of pre-service…

Alternative Teacher Certification: Secondary School Principals' Perspective in Indiana

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Newblom, Jane Corinne

2013-01-01

As teacher recruitment intensifies to locate qualified teachers for our nation's classrooms, alternative teacher certification programs are becoming prevalent. Initially these programs were designed to attract professionals and college graduates to enter urban classrooms. However, what has occurred is that over 140 alternative certification…

Association of Pre-Service Teachers' Performance, Personality, and Beliefs with Teacher Self-Efficacy at Program Completion

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Jamil, Faiza M.; Downer, Jason T.; Pianta, Robert C.

2012-01-01

With teacher turnover costing the U.S. as much as $7 billion per year (National Commission on Teaching and America's Future, 2007), and the continuing demand for qualified teachers, it is imperative for schools to increase retention rates among their faculty (Ingersoll & Smith, 2003). Retention efforts are especially important among novice…

Compassion Fatigue among Secondary Special Education Teachers: A Case Study about Job Stress and Burnout

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Davis, Kimberly C.; Palladino, John M.

2011-01-01

In an age with increased teacher preparation requirements, and ever-growing student populations, a great need exists to adequately train and retain highly qualified special education teachers. Special Education is a profession that has long been plagued by shortages of qualified personnel. Many factors contribute to the shortfall of educators in…

40 CFR 62.14625 - What if all the qualified operators are temporarily not accessible?

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2011-07-01

... qualified operator will be accessible. (2) Submit a status report to the Administrator every 4 weeks... operation of the CISWI unit. You must submit the first status report 4 weeks after you notify the... operators are not accessible for more than 8 hours, but less than 2 weeks, the CISWI unit may be operated by...

40 CFR 62.14625 - What if all the qualified operators are temporarily not accessible?

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2010-07-01

... qualified operator will be accessible. (2) Submit a status report to the Administrator every 4 weeks... operation of the CISWI unit. You must submit the first status report 4 weeks after you notify the... operators are not accessible for more than 8 hours, but less than 2 weeks, the CISWI unit may be operated by...

Preservice Teachers' Conceptions of Effective and Ineffective Teaching Practices

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Sandholtz, Judith Haymore

2011-01-01

Given the focus on developing highly-qualified teachers to improve education, teacher education programs face increasing responsibility to prepare new teachers who can effectively enhance learning in all students. Standards and assessment criteria developed by national organizations in the United States address the qualifications of beginning as…

Harnessing OER to Develop Teachers: The Guyana Experience

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Butcher, Neil; Moore, Andrew; Hoosen, Sarah

2014-01-01

The Ministry of Education in Guyana has prioritised increasing the number of qualified teachers by providing opportunities to both pre- and in-service teachers to gain relevant qualifications. This paper describes the process used to redesign the teacher training curriculum in Guyana to achieve the goals of a newly-developed ICT Professional…

Refueling the STEM and Special Education Teacher Pipelines

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Goldhaber, Dan; Krieg, John; Theobald, Roddy; Brown, Nate

2016-01-01

Improving the quality of the teacher workforce is high on the nation's education policy agenda, but school systems continue to face difficulties in staffing STEM and special education classrooms with qualified teachers. This article documents the mismatch between the supply and demand of STEM and special education teachers in Washington State,…

Availability of Special Education Teachers: Trends and Tests.

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Katsiyannis, Antonis; Zhang, Dalun; Conroy, Maureen A.

2003-01-01

A study examined trends in teacher availability in special education by analyzing data from annual reports to Congress from 1988-1989 to 1998- 1999. Findings indicate a nationwide shortage of teacher qualified to teach across all disabilities and a dramatic decrease in the teacher shortage rate beginning in the 1993-1994 year. (Contains…

Teacher Compensation around the Globe

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Sclafani, Susan

2010-01-01

Nations around the world are experimenting with ways to use salary incentives to recruit and retain teachers, fill vacancies in hard-to-staff areas, and improve student learning. These experiments come at a time when qualified teachers are in short supply and when teaching appears to be a less popular professional choice for young people. Programs…

The Coming Teacher Shortage: What Schools Can Do about It.

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Dunlap, Diane M.

1986-01-01

Increased enrollments combined with teacher retirements and resignations are creating a strain on the current supply of qualified teachers. As the demand for new teachers is increasing, the number of new teaching graduates is decreasing proportionally. A national teacher shortage is imminent and already exists is some locations and in some…

Separating Rhetoric from Reality: Supporting Teachers in Negotiating Beyond the Status Quo

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Long, Susi

2004-01-01

Across the country, new and experienced teachers find themselves losing the confidence and energy it takes to challenge an unacceptable status quo. Too often, dynamic educators disappear within systems that are antithetical to what they envisioned when they entered the profession or they leave the profession altogether. This article describes the…

The Secretary's Seventh Annual Report on Teacher Quality: A Highly Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom

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Office of Postsecondary Education, US Department of Education, 2010

2010-01-01

This seventh report on the quality of America's teacher preparation programs and novice teachers presents data reported to the U.S. Department of Education (the Department) in October 2007 by all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the outlying areas, which include American Samoa, the Federated States of Micronesia, Guam, the…

The Association between a Community College's Teacher Education Program and the 4-Year Graduation Rates of Black and Hispanic Teacher Education Students

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Perkins, Britine; Arvidson, Cody

2017-01-01

In response to a shortage of qualified Black and Hispanic teachers, community colleges (CC) have developed certificate programs and Associate of Arts degrees in teacher education to address shortages of minority teachers in the nation's classrooms. We examined one CC's effectiveness in transferring Black and Hispanic students to university teacher…

Status of the Usage of Active Learning and Teaching Method and Techniques by Social Studies Teachers

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Akman, Özkan

2016-01-01

The purpose of this study was to determine the active learning and teaching methods and techniques which are employed by the social studies teachers working in state schools of Turkey. This usage status was assessed using different variables. This was a case study, wherein the research was limited to 241 social studies teachers. These teachers…

Teacher Professional Development outside the Lecture Room: Voices of Professionally Unqualified Practicing Teachers in Rural Zimbabwe Secondary Schools

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Mukeredzi, Tabitha Grace

2016-01-01

Attempts to address global pressure to achieve Education for All have been hampered by two fundamental challenges in developing countries, namely an acute shortage of teachers and large rural populations in these countries. In addition, qualified, competent teachers shun working in rural settings. While recruitment of professionally unqualified…

A Collaborative, Alternative Teacher Certification Program.

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Securro, Samuel, Jr.; And Others

In the summer of 1986, three institutions (West Virginia State College, West Virigina College of Graduate Studies, and West Virgina Institute of Technology) consorted to design an alternative teacher certification program to attract and retain a qualified pool of mathematics and science teachers. Known as the Field-Based Training Program (FBTP),…

Leading the Teacher Induction and Mentoring Program. Second Edition

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Sweeny, Barry W.

2007-01-01

While resources are abundant for helping the mentor and the new teacher, very little has been written to guide the leaders of teacher and mentor development. This book provides an effective, proven model for developing, implementing, evaluating, and sustaining an induction and mentoring program that results in highly qualified teachers. A…

Voices in Education: Teacher Shortage--Myth or Reality?

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Martin, Linda E.; Mulvihill, Thalia M.

2016-01-01

It appears that a teacher shortage is on the rise in the nation's schools. This is not a new issue or concern; teacher shortages have occurred off and on for some time for a variety of reasons. But this particular shortage of qualified teachers does appear to be important and different than previously reported shortages ("The Washington…

Tracking the Career Paths of Physics Teachers in Texas

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Mount, Jennifer; Marshall, Jill; Fuller, Edward

2013-01-01

In Texas, and some other states, there is a documented shortage of physics teachers, in terms of both number and qualifications. The shortage in Texas is due as much to teachers leaving the field (attrition) as to a lack of teachers entering. There are efforts under way to prepare more and better-qualified physics teachers who will stay in the…

42 CFR 495.204 - Incentive payments to qualifying MA organizations for qualifying MA-EPs and qualifying MA...

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2013-10-01

... methodological proposal for estimating the portion of each qualifying MA EP's salary or revenue attributable to... enrollees of the MA organization in the payment year. The methodological proposal— (i) Must be approved by... account for the MA-enrollee related Part B practice costs of the qualifying MA EP. (iii) Methodological...

42 CFR 495.204 - Incentive payments to qualifying MA organizations for qualifying MA-EPs and qualifying MA...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... methodological proposal for estimating the portion of each qualifying MA EP's salary or revenue attributable to... enrollees of the MA organization in the payment year. The methodological proposal— (i) Must be approved by... account for the MA-enrollee related Part B practice costs of the qualifying MA EP. (iii) Methodological...

Induction of Teachers into 21st Century Learning Communities: Creating the Next Generation of Educational Practice

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Carroll, Thomas G.

2005-01-01

Every child deserves a quality education. Providing competent, caring, qualified teachers in schools organized for success is the way to get there, but the devil is in the details. By tinkering on the edges, adopting piecemeal approaches to attracting, supporting, and retaining highly qualified teachers for the students who need them most, the…

Teacher Retention in Zimbabwe: Love for Teaching or Incentives?

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Gomba, Clifford

2017-01-01

This qualitative interpretive study investigated the lived experiences of qualified teachers who have remained in teaching for more than 10 years in Zimbabwean rural secondary schools. In understanding how teachers make meaning of their remaining in teaching, the focus is also on the role and place of teachers in society. The experiences were…

Persisting mathematics and science high school teachers: A Q-methodology study

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Robbins-Lavicka, Michelle M.

There is a lack of qualified mathematics and science teachers at all levels of education in Arkansas. Lasting teaching initiative programs are needed to address retention so qualified teachers remain in the classroom. The dearth of studies regarding why mathematics and science teachers persist in the classroom beyond the traditional 5-year attrition period led this Q-methodological study to evaluate the subjective perceptions of persistent mathematics and science teachers to determine what makes them stay. This study sought to understand what factors persisting mathematics and science teachers used to explain their persistence in the classroom beyond 5 years and what educational factors contributed to persisting mathematics and science teachers. Q-methodology combines qualitative and quantitative techniques and provided a systematic means to investigate personal beliefs by collecting a concourse, developing a Q-sample and a person-sample, conducting a Q-sorting process, and analyzing the data. The results indicated that to encourage longevity within mathematics and science classrooms (a) teachers should remain cognizant of their ability to influence student attitudes toward teaching; (b) administrators should provide support for teachers and emphasize the role and importance of professional development; and (c) policy makers should focus their efforts and resources on developing recruitment plans, including mentorship programs, while providing and improving financial compensation. Significantly, the findings indicate that providing mentorship and role models at every level of mathematics and science education will likely encourage qualified teachers to remain in the mathematics and science classrooms, thus increasing the chance of positive social change.

Crossing the Primary and Secondary School Divide in Teacher Preparation

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Knipe, Sally

2012-01-01

Teacher education courses at universities qualify graduates to teach in age-related contexts of primary/early childhood/secondary that reflect the organisational structure of schools. In terms of teacher employment, for some considerable time, these longstanding organisational divisions have been by-passed whereby a shortage of teachers in…

Assessing the Relationship of Teacher Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Perception of Work-Life Balance of Louisiana Agriculture Teachers

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Blackburn, J. Joey; Bunchm, J. C.; Haynes, J. Chris

2017-01-01

Agricultural education has faced a national shortage of qualified teachers since 1965. Initiatives, such as NAAE's TeachAg Campaign, seek to alleviate this shortage through recruitment of new agriculture teachers. However, turnover in the teaching profession remains a problem, with attrition rates approaching 60% reported in some research studies.…

Building professional identity as computer science teachers: Supporting high school computer science teachers through reflection and community building

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Ni, Lijun

Computing education requires qualified computing teachers. The reality is that too few high schools in the U.S. have computing/computer science teachers with formal computer science (CS) training, and many schools do not have CS teacher at all. Moreover, teacher retention rate is often low. Beginning teacher attrition rate is particularly high in secondary education. Therefore, in addition to the need for preparing new CS teachers, we also need to support those teachers we have recruited and trained to become better teachers and continue to teach CS. Teacher education literature, especially teacher identity theory, suggests that a strong sense of teacher identity is a major indicator or feature of committed, qualified teachers. However, under the current educational system in the U.S., it could be challenging to establish teacher identity for high school (HS) CS teachers, e.g., due to a lack of teacher certification for CS. This thesis work centers upon understanding the sense of identity HS CS teachers hold and exploring ways of supporting their identity development through a professional development program: the Disciplinary Commons for Computing Educators (DCCE). DCCE has a major focus on promoting reflection on teaching practice and community building. With scaffolded activities such as course portfolio creation, peer review and peer observation among a group of HS CS teachers, it offers opportunities for CS teachers to explicitly reflect on and narrate their teaching, which is a central process of identity building through their participation within the community. In this thesis research, I explore the development of CS teacher identity through professional development programs. I first conducted an interview study with local HS CS teachers to understand their sense of identity and factors influencing their identity formation. I designed and enacted the professional program (DCCE) and conducted case studies with DCCE participants to understand how their

The Challenges Faced by New Science Teachers in Saudi Arabia

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Alsharari, Salman

2016-01-01

Growing demand for science teachers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, fed by increasing numbers of public school students, is forcing the Saudi government to attract, recruit and retain well-qualified science teachers. Beginning science teachers enter the educational profession with a massive fullfilment and satisfaction in their roles and positions…

Admission Requirements for Teacher Education as a Factor of Achievement

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Lukaš, Mirko; Samardžic, Darko

2015-01-01

Numerous researches have demonstrated the enormous role of teachers in achievements of students. Educated and motivated teacher that cares about the success of students devotes more effort to preparing the lesson and thus provides the students better conditions for achieving results. The problem occurs when teachers are not equally qualified,…

Technological and Vocational Teacher Education in Taiwan, R.O.C.

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Lee, Lung-Sheng Steven; Hwang, Jenq-Jye

According to Taiwan's Teacher Preparation Law, anyone who has met the following requirements must pass certification examinations and internship to become a qualified vocational school teacher: graduation from a normal university or teacher college or other college or university with a major in a program designed to train vocational school…

Teacher Evaluation as Policy Target: Viable Reform Venue or Just Another Tap Dance?

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Hazi, Helen M.; Rucinski, Daisy Arredondo

2009-01-01

In this No Child Left Behind era of renewed emphasis on the search for the "highly qualified" teacher, governors, legislators, and state department of education officials have an incentive to focus on improving teacher quality through teacher evaluation. While teacher evaluation practices have been traditionally problematic "based…

Teacher Perceptions of Factors That Influence Job Satisfaction and Retention Decisions

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Williams, Jill R.

2012-01-01

Retaining qualified teachers in America's schools is one of the nation's challenges in education. Current research revealed teacher turnover had risen to 16.9% nationally, which equates to 2.7 million teachers, including 2.1 million who left the profession before retirement. In order to make a positive change in teacher retention,…

Efforts to Recruit Secondary STEM Teachers at Columbus State University

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Webster, Zodiac T.; MaSST Preparation Council

2006-12-01

Physics as a discipline is not alone in having difficulty finding qualified teachers. Under-qualified teachers are present in high school Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology, and Earth-science classrooms as well. Columbus State University (CSU) has formed the Mathematics and Science Secondary Teachers (MaSST) Preparation Council to recruit more majors into our existing secondary teaching programs: Mathematics, Biology, Chemistry, and Geology. College of Education and College of Science faculty are working together to create a higher profile for these majors at our institution within the state of Georgia. In addition, we are planning an aggressive campaign to recruit from within by implementing a peer-tutoring program using outstanding students who have completed introductory math and science courses. Our group’s organization and initiatives can serve as a model for other institutions concerned about recruiting more high-school teachers.

The Problem of Underqualified Teachers: A Sociological Perspective

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Ingersoll, Richard M.

2005-01-01

Few educational problems have received more attention than has the failure to ensure that the nation's classrooms are staffed by qualified teachers. Many states have pushed for more-rigorous preservice teacher education, training, and certification standards. Moreover, a host of recruitment initiatives have attempted to increase the supply of…

Preparing Minority Teachers: Law and out of Order

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Barnes-Johnson, Joy M.

2008-01-01

The inability of American colleges and universities to produce teachers for America's urban classrooms has reached epidemic proportions. This article seeks to describe the legal effects of policies and laws designed to create conditions for highly qualified teaching professionals. Issues germane to the topic of urban teacher preparation and…

Building an "Intercultural Ethos" in Teacher Education

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Tarozzi, Massimiliano

2014-01-01

Both in Europe and in North America, teacher education plays a key role in guaranteeing an inclusive school for all and, in particular, is crucial for preparing teachers working with diverse students. However, because of the lack of consistent empirical research in this field, the elements that qualify an effective initial training for teachers…

Effects of Self-Perceptions on Self-Learning among Teacher Education Students

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Liu, Shih-Hsiung

2015-01-01

This study evaluates the multivariate hypothesized model that predicts the significance of, and relationships among, various self-perception factors for being a qualified teacher and their direct and mediated effects on self-learning activities among teacher education students. A total of 248 teacher education students enrolled at an education…

Immigrant Teachers Who Find It's Temp Work or Nothing.

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Rai, Usha

1978-01-01

A 1977 survey of 102 immigrant teachers in London showed that ethnic minority teachers have great difficulty finding jobs, although they are adequately qualified. Those who do find work are mainly employed in ghetto areas and kept on the lowest pay scale. (Author/SJL)

Investigation of Demographic Properties and Motivation Factors of Physics Teachers

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Guzel, Hatice

2011-01-01

Scientific and technological developments resulted in an increase in the requirement of education in the society. In addition to this, the expectations from teachers differed and the need for more qualified teachers also increased. One of the factors affecting the quality of teachers is their motivation. In this research, it was aimed to reveal…

Deconstructing Teacher Certification

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Baines, Lawrence A.

2006-01-01

In this article, the author takes a close look at alternative certification programs and is convinced that, because they vary so extremely in their requirements, all of them cannot possibly be producing highly qualified teachers. Here, he talks about Non-University Certification Programs (NUCPs). These are alternative certification programs that…

Shifting Roles: From Language Teachers to Learning Advisors

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Morrison, Brian R.; Navarro, Diego

2012-01-01

Although learning advisors are often qualified teachers, the skills they apply, such as those discussed by Kelly (1996), require a significant shift in approach regarding interaction with students. As teachers reorient themselves to advising, their role changes quite markedly from teaching language to advising on learning (Mozzon-McPherson, 2001).…

National Agenda: Minority Teacher Recruitment, Development, and Retention

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Branch, Robert M.; Kritsonis, William Allan

2006-01-01

Student diversity is significantly different than diversity in the teaching staff. Educational leaders must identify methods to bridge the gap in teacher diversity so that students of all backgrounds see adult role models and images of themselves in the classroom. Recruiting, developing, and retaining qualified minority teachers is an important…

Professional Training of Foreign Languages Teachers in Austria

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Byndas, Olena

2014-01-01

The features of the Austrian education system, namely different types of schools of compulsory and optional levels and the necessity of qualified teachers needed for teaching in such schools, features of foreign languages teachers' professional training and their practical availability for service in school, have been observed. The problem of…

Opening Pandora's Box: Texas Elementary Campus Administrators use of Educational Policy And Highly Qualified Classroom Teachers Professional Development through Data-informed Decisions for Science Education

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Brown, Linda Lou

Federal educational policy, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, focused attention on America's education with conspicuous results. One aspect, highly qualified classroom teacher and principal (HQ), was taxing since states established individual accountability structures. The HQ impact and use of data-informed decision-making (DIDM) for Texas elementary science education monitoring by campus administrators, Campus Instruction Leader (CILs), provides crucial relationships to 5th grade students' learning and achievement. Forty years research determined improved student results when sustained, supported, and focused professional development (PD) for teachers is available. Using mixed methods research, this study applied quantitative and qualitative analysis from two, electronic, on-line surveys: Texas Elementary, Intermediate or Middle School Teacher Survey(c) and the Texas Elementary Campus Administrator Survey(c) with results from 22.3% Texas school districts representing 487 elementary campuses surveyed. Participants selected in random, stratified sampling of 5th grade teachers who attended local Texas Regional Collaboratives science professional development (PD) programs between 2003-2008. Survey information compared statistically to campus-level average passing rate scores on the 5th grade science TAKS using Statistical Process Software (SPSS). Written comments from both surveys analyzed with Qualitative Survey Research (NVivo) software. Due to the level of uncertainty of variables within a large statewide study, Mauchly's Test of Sphericity statistical test used to validate repeated measures factor ANOVAs. Although few individual results were statistically significant, when jointly analyzed, striking constructs were revealed regarding the impact of HQ policy applications and elementary CILs use of data-informed decisions on improving 5th grade students' achievement and teachers' PD learning science content. Some constructs included the use of data

20 CFR 302.3 - Qualifying conditions.

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20 CFR 302.3 - Qualifying conditions.

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2011-04-01

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20 CFR 302.3 - Qualifying conditions.

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Hiring Teachers from Abroad

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Charney, Jonathan

2009-01-01

Schools in America, especially in communities far from urban centers, are working harder to find highly qualified and culturally proficient staff to prepare students successfully for an increasingly interconnected world. Apart from offering teachers more professional development and hiring educators with international travel experience, public…

Reporting the "Exodus": News Coverage of Teacher Shortage in Australian Newspapers

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Shine, Kathryn

2015-01-01

Many developed countries, including Australia, struggle to recruit and retain adequate numbers of school teachers. Over the past decade every Australian state has experienced teacher shortages and, at various times, there has been a national shortfall of qualified teaching staff. This paper considers the reporting of teacher shortage in four…

New Evidence on Teacher Labor Supply. NBER Working Paper No. 16802

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Engel, Mimi; Jacob, Brian A.

2011-01-01

Recent evidence on the large variance in teacher effectiveness has spurred renewed interest in teacher labor market policies. A substantial body of prior research documents that more highly qualified teachers tend to work in more advantaged schools, although this literature cannot determine the relative importance of supply versus demand factors…

Teachers on the Move: International Migration of School Teachers from India

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Sharma, Rashmi

2013-01-01

Emigration of qualified teachers from developing countries is a double loss for the source countries, not only leading to emigration of high-skill labour but also affecting their future developmental base when these countries are already struggling to meet the millennium development goals (MDGs) in education. This article discusses emigration of…

Pragmatism and Feminism as Qualified Relativism.

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Thayer-Bacon, Barbara

2003-01-01

Explores pragmatism's association with relativism in order to highlight how aspects of the classis pragmatists' positions support qualified relativism. Addresses qualified relativism and the characteristics of qualified relativists. States that qualified relativists can claim roots to their position in Peirce, James, and Dewey, some of the…

Mentor Teacher Training: A Hybrid Model to Promote Partnering in Candidate Development

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Childre, Amy L.; Van Rie, Ginny L.

2015-01-01

In order to promote high quality clinical experiences for teacher candidates, one of the recent changes to educator preparation accreditation standards specifically targeted clinical faculty qualifications. Qualified mentor teachers are critical clinical faculty because they serve as the model for training practices for teacher candidates, the…

Contributing Factors to Teacher Satisfaction for Jewish Day School Educators

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Lanner, Malka

2010-01-01

At a time of rising concern for hiring and retaining qualified Jewish educators, this study looked at factors contributing to the decision to enter or remain in the field of Jewish education. If Jewish day school administrators can determine what characteristics attract and retain qualified teachers then perhaps they can mitigate the current…

Why Teacher Leaders Don't Want to Be Principals

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Hewitt, Paul M.; Denny, George S.; Pijanowski, John C.

2011-01-01

This article examines reasons why teachers who were identified by their school principal as leaders or having leadership potential, chose not to become school principals. While the literature reports a shortage of qualified applicants for school administrative positions, the deterrents that teacher leaders most often identify include…

Confronting Challenges at the Intersection of Rurality, Place, and Teacher Preparation: Improving Efforts in Teacher Education to Staff Rural Schools

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Azano, Amy Price; Stewart, Trevor Thomas

2016-01-01

Recruiting and retaining highly qualified teachers in rural schools is a persistent struggle in many countries, including the U.S. Salient challenges related to poverty, geographic isolation, low teacher salaries, and a lack of community amenities seem to trump perks of living in rural communities. Recognizing this issue as a complex and hard to…

Subject Qualification Vexing for Teachers in Special Education

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Samuels, Christina A.

2005-01-01

Subject qualification for teachers in special education is a requirement that comes from the federal No Child Left Behind Act and the reauthorized Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Both laws require states to define what makes a highly qualified teacher. Meeting the standard may be a particular challenge for special education…

Alternative Routes to Teaching: Mapping the New Landscape of Teacher Education

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Grossman, Pam, Ed.; Loeb, Susanna, Ed.

2008-01-01

Over the past 20 years, alternative certification for teachers has emerged as a major avenue of teacher preparation. The proliferation of new pathways has spurred heated debate over how best to recruit, prepare, and support qualified teachers. "Alternative Routes to Teaching" provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on…

The Causes and Effects of English Teachers' Turnover: A Case from Afghanistan

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Khawary, Omidullah; Ali, Sajid

2015-01-01

One of the challenging issues that educational organizations in developing countries face in staffing classrooms with qualified teachers is the high rate of teachers' turnover. It creates problems for schools, which eventually leads to substandard instruction and low student achievement. This research explores the causes of English teachers'…

Common Planning Time for High School Teachers. Research Brief

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Dotson, Michael

2007-01-01

Research says that there are measurable benefits to student outcomes that are the result of programs which provide time for teachers to collaborate successfully. According to Jane Belmore, focused and goal-driven collaborative planning time helps teachers become more highly qualified by improving teaching strategies, among other results. These…

Retention Issues: A Study of Alabama Special Education Teachers

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Plash, Shawn; Piotrowski, Chris

2006-01-01

This study investigated issues that impact attrition, migration and retention of special education teachers in Alabama. The sample comprised 70 teachers designated as "highly-qualified" who responded to a job satisfaction instrument, with a focus on retention issues, developed by Levine (2001). The results indicated that the major…

42 CFR 435.116 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

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2011-10-01

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42 CFR 435.116 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

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2010-10-01

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42 CFR 435.116 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

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2012-10-01

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Preparing teachers of the gifted

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Cropley, Arthur; McLeod, John

1986-06-01

There is widespread agreement that gifted children are best served by specially qualified teachers. In addition to special knowledge and skills, such teachers need special personal qualities, which means that it may not be possible for all teachers to be equally effective with gifted youngsters. In the case of teacher training, this raises the question of whether there may not be `personal characteristics' whose presence prior to commencement of training is necessary for, or at least helpful in, the development of appropriate `professional characteristics' during the course of training. Other important issues in the training of teachers of the gifted are those of whether it should be delivered at undergraduate or postgraduate level, whether or not all teachers should receive certain basic training, and what role is to be played by in-service training.

A Study of Variables That Influence Teacher Turnover in the Little Municipal School District

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Stokes, Paula Hollingsworth

2013-01-01

A teacher shortage is a recognized problem in research on public schools. Schools across the United States must hire and retain highly qualified teachers, but the literature indicates teachers with fewer than 3 years of experience are often leaving teaching, creating a possible teacher shortage of 4.2 million teachers by the year of 2016.…

Can Pay Incentives Improve the Recruitment of Teachers in America's Hard-to-Staff Schools? "A Research Summary": Policy Matters

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Wheeler, Justin; Glennie, Elizabeth

2007-01-01

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) has increased concern about the staffing difficulties faced by schools that serve a high percentage of low-achieving students. NCLB requires each student be taught in all core academic subjects by a highly-qualified teacher by the 2005-06 school year. The law defines highly-qualified teachers as those…

The Impact of Teacher-Student Relationships and Achievement Motivation on Students' Intentions to Dropout According to Socio-Economic Status

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Bergeron, Julie; Chouinard, Roch; Janosz, Michel

2011-01-01

The main goal was to test if teacher-student relationships and achievement motivation are predicting dropout intention equally for low and high socio-economic status students. A questionnaire measuring teacher-student relationships and achievement motivation was administered to 2,360 French Canadian secondary students between 12 and 15 years old…

Managing Current Developments in SEN and Inclusion: Developing Confidence in New Teachers

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Richards, Gill

2010-01-01

Developments in special and inclusive education have lead to increasing challenges for teachers. Initial Teacher Education has struggled to keep pace with these developments and equip all newly qualified teachers with the skills required to meet the needs of children with SEN. This paper reflects upon recent national initiatives designed to…

Identifying, Monitoring, and Benchmarking Teacher Retention and Turnover: Guidelines for TIF Grantees

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Finster, Matthew

2015-01-01

Having a well-qualified, effective teacher in every classroom is a cornerstone of current educational reforms. Clearly, retaining these effective teachers is critical to achieving this goal. This brief presents a strategic accountability approach to managing teacher talent retention and turnover. The brief begins with an overview of a strategic…

Recruiting Effective Math Teachers: Evidence from New York City

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Boyd, Donald; Grossman, Pamela; Hammerness, Karen; Lankford, Hamilton; Loeb, Susanna; Ronfeldt, Matthew; Wyckoff, James

2012-01-01

For well over a decade school districts across the United States have struggled to recruit and retain effective mathematics teachers. In response to the need for qualified math teachers and the difficulty of directly recruiting individuals who have already completed the math content required for qualification, some districts, including Baltimore,…

Pensions under Pressure: Charter Innovation in Teacher Retirement Benefits

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Podgursky, Michael; Aud Pendergrass, Susan; Hesla, Kevin

2018-01-01

Public school districts are facing twin challenges: maintaining a labor supply of qualified teachers while shoring up the deteriorating system that compensates them. Keeping public-school teachers' pensions plans flush is expensive, and it accounts for a growing share of education spending. In some states, public charter schools provide an…

Preparing Preservice Teachers to Address Bullying through Cartoon Lessons

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Rule, Audrey C.; Logan, Stephanie R.; Kohler, Frank W.

2013-01-01

Students who qualify for special education services are at risk for being bullied because of their cognitive, emotional, behavioral, or physical differences. Currently, teachers are not effective enough in reducing bullying; better preservice teacher preparation in this area may help to alleviate the problem. The current study explored the effects…

Establishing Respectful Educative Relationships: A Study of Newly Qualified Teachers in Ireland

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O'Grady, Emmanuel

2015-01-01

Interpersonal respect is a fundamental aspect of relating to others. This is especially true for teachers, as cultivating relationships is implicit in effective teaching. This three-year qualitative study examines a developing understanding of respect for pre-service teachers that progresses on to their first year's teaching to examine the…

Study Abroad as Professional Development for FSL Teachers

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Wernicke, Meike

2010-01-01

In July 2009, a group of over 80 FSL teachers from British Columbia (BC) participated in a two-week sojourn at the "Centre d'Approches vivantes des Langues et des Medias" (CAVILAM) in Vichy, France, as part of an initiative to address the critical shortage of qualified French language teachers in the province. After almost four decades…

An Examination of Teacher Retention and Attrition in School Settings

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Harper, Melinda L.

2009-01-01

U.S. society proposes that all students should have equal opportunities to achieve academically; therefore, urban and rural schools that serve socio-economically disadvantaged students must employ highly qualified teachers who are prepared to teach in those particular school environments. Recruitment practices, teacher preparation programs, and…

Mentor Preparation: A Qualitative Study of STEM Master Teacher Professional Development

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Click-Cuellar, Heather Lynn

2014-01-01

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 has required districts to staff all classrooms with highly qualified teachers. Yet, retaining certified teachers in the profession has been a national concern, especially among new teachers who leave at alarming rates within their first three years. This comes at a heavy cost to districts financially and in…

Highly qualified does not equal high quality: A study of urban stakeholders' perceptions of quality in science teaching

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Miranda, Rommel Joseph

By employing qualitative methods, this study sought to determine the perceptions that urban stakeholders hold about what characteristics should distinguish a high school science teacher whom they would consider to demonstrate high quality in science teaching. A maximum variation sample of six science teachers, three school administrators, six parents and six students from a large urban public school district were interviewed using semi-structured, in-depth interview techniques. From these data, a list of observable characteristics which urban stakeholders hold as evidence of high quality in science teaching was generated. Observational techniques were utilized to determine the extent to which six urban high school science teachers, who meet the NCLB Act criteria for being "highly qualified", actually possessed the characteristics which these stakeholders hold as evidence of high quality in science teaching. Constant comparative analysis was used to analyze the data set. The findings suggest that urban stakeholders perceive that a high school science teacher who demonstrates high quality in science teaching should be knowledgeable about their subject matter, their student population, and should be resourceful; should possess an academic background in science and professional experience in science teaching; should exhibit professionalism, a passion for science and teaching, and a dedication to teaching and student learning; should be skillful in planning and preparing science lessons and in organizing the classroom, in presenting the subject matter to students, in conducting a variety of hands-on activities, and in managing a classroom; and should assess whether students complete class goals and objectives, and provide feedback about grades for students promptly. The findings further reveal that some of the urban high school science teachers who were deemed to be "highly qualified", as defined by the NCLB Act, engaged in practices that threatened quality in science

The Influence of a Reform-Based Mathematics Methods Course on Preservice Teachers' Beliefs

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Evans, Brian R.; Leonard, Jacqueline; Krier, Kathleen; Ryan, Steve

2013-01-01

Beliefs about teaching mathematics and urban students' ability to learn mathematics are often overlooked in the discourse on highly qualified teachers. Altering teacher experiences has the potential to change their beliefs. It was found in this qualitative case study that preservice teachers' beliefs about teaching mathematics to urban students…

Using Virtual Technology to Enhance Field Experiences for Pre-Service Special Education Teachers

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Billingsley, Glenna M.; Scheuermann, Brenda K.

2014-01-01

Teacher educators of pre-service teachers of students with special needs face challenges in providing the unique knowledge and skills required of highly qualified special education teachers. The emerging use of various forms of virtual technology, however, offers realistic solutions to these problems. This systematic review of literature examines…

Review of "Assessing the Compensation of Public-School Teachers"

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Keefe, Jeffrey H.

2012-01-01

This report compares the pay, pension costs and retiree health benefits of teachers with those of similarly qualified private-sector workers. The study concludes that teachers receive total compensation 52% greater than fair market levels, which translates into a $120 billion annual "overcharge" to taxpayers. Built on a series of faulty analyses,…

Key Issue: Recruiting Teachers for Urban and Rural Schools

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Hayes, Kathleen

2009-01-01

Teacher shortages are essentially a problem of distribution (Darling-Hammond, 2001; Ingersoll, 2001; National Association of State Boards of Education, 1998; Olson, 2000; Reeves, 2003; Voke, 2002). According to recent studies, hardest to find are teachers who are both qualified and willing to teach in hard-to-staff schools, which included those in…

The Flow of Higher Qualified New Teachers into Challenging UK High Schools

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Brown, John

2015-01-01

If every child is to have a fairly even chance of a good education, every child must have a fairly even chance of being taught by high-quality teachers. However, high levels of social segregation in UK schools concentrate disadvantaged young people in some schools creating conditions that may deter many teachers. This study investigates whether…

Why and How Teachers Transform Their Instruction

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Light, Barbara J.

In his 2011 book The highly qualified teacher: What is teacher quality and how do we measure it? Strong argues that as a profession, education has struggled to measure teacher quality and therefore cannot provide a proven system to consistently develop high-quality teachers. In order to move toward an operational definition of teacher quality, Kennedy, in her 2008 journal article entitled "Contributions of qualitative research to research on teacher qualifications" suggests that the causal mechanisms of the development of teachers who are identified as high-quality teachers must be researched, documented, and then used in teacher preparation and development. Instructional ability is a key component of teacher effectiveness. This case study examines instructional transformations made by four teachers to explore why and how teachers make transformations in their teaching. The overarching conclusion of the study is the importance of student-centeredness as a component of teacher effectiveness.

Can teacher-child relationships alter the effects of early socioeconomic status on achievement in middle childhood?

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McCormick, Meghan P; O'Connor, Erin E; Parham Horn, E

2017-10-01

Using data from the NICHD SECCYD (N=1053), we used two-level hierarchical linear models with site fixed effects to examine whether teacher-child closeness and conflict moderated associations between two indicators of early socioeconomic status (maternal education and family income) and standardized measures of children's math and reading achievement at 54months, 1st, 3rd, and 5th grades. Children whose mothers had lower levels of education and conflictual relationships with teachers exhibited lower reading achievement, on average, across elementary school. At the same time, children with less educated mothers who experienced increases in teacher-child closeness and decreases in teacher-child conflict exhibited improvements in reading achievement across elementary school. Finally, low teacher-child closeness elevated the risk for poor math achievement posed by low family income. Implications for intervention design and development are discussed. Copyright © 2017 Society for the Study of School Psychology. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Personal Strengths and Perceived Teacher Support as Predictors of Singapore Students' Academic Risk Status

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Caleon, Imelda S.; Wui, Ma. Glenda L.; Chiam, Ching Leen; King, Ronnel B.; Tan, Jennifer Pei-Ling; Tan, Chee Soon

2017-01-01

This study explored the relative salience of students' personal strengths and teacher support in predicting academic risk status. The participants were Secondary One (S1, Grade Seven) students from Singapore who scored below the cohort's mean score in a national test administered at the end of primary education, and were identified as low risk…

Revisiting the Trajectories of Special Teacher Education in China through Policy and Practice

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Wang, Yan; Mu, Guanglun Michael

2014-01-01

The preparation, recruitment, work, and career of teachers are important in education. This is no exemption for special education. However, the shortage of qualified teachers serving students with disabilities has long been an international problem. In China, both the quantity and the quality of special education teachers are of concern. This…

Best Teachers in Bad Schools Win without NCLB Funding

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Chmelynski, Carol

2004-01-01

To lure highly qualified teachers to low-performing schools, the Mobile County, Alabama, school board did what a small but growing number of districts are considering: pay teachers more money for working in what are considered less attractive jobs. As school districts are more pressured to raise achievement among all student groups, more are…

Peer Mentoring Second Language Teachers: A Mutually Beneficial Experience?

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Kissau, Scott P.; King, Elena Tosky

2015-01-01

Studies have shown that there are not enough qualified foreign language and English as a second language teachers in this country. To increase the number of new second language teachers who remain in the profession, and to promote their use of best teaching practices, the ACTFL has identified mentoring as a national research priority. The…

Science teacher improvement: A study of the change in preparation and qualifications of public middle school science teachers

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Wickler, Nicole I. Z.

According to the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future (1996), a teacher's professional preparation, their work conditions and sense of efficacy are fundamental to improving elementary and secondary education. These factors lie at the core of educational reforms that seek to raise standards, reshape curricula, and restructure the way schools operate. The call to reconceptualize the practice of teaching and the interaction between teachers and students ring hollow without a careful examination of actions that have taken place in the workplace of teachers themselves. A national profile that identifies key characteristics of the current status of public middle school science teachers preparation, teaching qualifications, and work environments can provide a context for better understanding the current conditions that confront science teachers. This study seeks to provide critical information in four major areas: (1) preservice learning and teaching assignment; (2) continued learning; (3) supportive work environment, and (4) teachers' sense of efficacy. This study is based on current efforts by the National Center for Education Statistics (LACES) to collect data of key indicators of teacher preparation and qualifications using a large-scale survey administered to a nationally representative sample of full-time public school teachers whose primary teaching assignment is in science. In this effort, the information reported in this study utilizes the NCES's Schools and Staffing Surveys (SASS) from 1987--88 and 1993--94. Significant change between 1987--77 and 1993--94 was determined using a t-test for independent means. In addition, frequency counts were analyzed using a chi-square statistic to determine if more "qualified middle school science teachers" were located in particular schools by urbanicity location or/and percent minority enrollment. In general, the quality of middle school science teachers across the country is declining. Teachers report they

Alternative Certified Teachers Who Became Administrators: Perceptions of Successes and Challenges in the Field

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Gracia, Lidamar M.

2015-01-01

Hiring alternative certified teachers has been a plausible solution to meeting the growing needs for highly qualified teachers in the classroom. Not only is there a need for teachers, there is also a need for strong leadership in education. Newly hired teachers must not only be prepared to tackle the everyday issues and responsibilities of the…

Investigating the School Teacher's Preparation in Mathematics Pedagogy in Ukraine

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Tarasenkova, N. A.; Akulenko, I. A.

2015-01-01

Teacher education has become an area of considerable interest among policymakers in many countries over recent years. Teacher's knowledge and skills in qualified teaching is of great importance. The main purpose was to study the level and depth of the school mathematics and related teaching knowledge attained by prospective Ukrainian secondary…

Funding Disparities and the Inequitable Distribution of Teachers: Evaluating Sources and Solutions

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Adamson, Frank; Darling-Hammond, Linda

2012-01-01

The inequitable distribution of well-qualified teachers to students in the United States is a longstanding issue. Despite federal mandates under the No Child Left Behind Act and the use of a range of incentives to attract teachers to high-need schools, the problem remains acute in many states. This study examines how and why teacher quality is…

7 CFR 1150.109 - Qualified program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MILK), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM Dairy Promotion and Research Order Definitions § 1150.109 Qualified program. Qualified program means any dairy product promotion, research or nutrition education program which is certified as a qualified program pursuant to § 1150.153...

7 CFR 1150.109 - Qualified program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... Agreements and Orders; Milk), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM Dairy Promotion and Research Order Definitions § 1150.109 Qualified program. Qualified program means any dairy product promotion, research or nutrition education program which is certified as a qualified program pursuant to § 1150.153...

7 CFR 1150.109 - Qualified program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MILK), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE DAIRY PROMOTION PROGRAM Dairy Promotion and Research Order Definitions § 1150.109 Qualified program. Qualified program means any dairy product promotion, research or nutrition education program which is certified as a qualified program pursuant to § 1150.153...

Exploring Transitions in Notions of Identity as Perceived by Beginning Post-Compulsory Teachers

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Wright, Victoria; Loughlin, Theresa; Hall, Val

2018-01-01

This paper reports on Phase Two of a small-scale qualitative research project. Phase One (2015-2016) focused on pre-service student teachers' perceptions of observation and feedback in relation to their developing identity as teachers. In Phase Two, two previous participants reflected on the research findings as qualified and beginning teachers.…

26 CFR 1.936-10 - Qualified investments.

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2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 10 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Qualified investments. 1.936-10 Section 1.936... (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES (CONTINUED) Possessions of the United States § 1.936-10 Qualified investments. (a) In general. [Reserved] (b) Qualified investments in Puerto Rico. [Reserved] (c) Qualified investment...

Mid- and Late-Career Teachers Struggle with Paltry Incomes

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Boser, Ulrich; Straus, Chelsea

2014-01-01

Low teacher pay is not news. Over the years, all sorts of observers have argued that skimpy teacher salaries keep highly qualified individuals out of the profession. One recent study found that a major difference between the education system in the United States and those in other nations with high-performing students is that the United States…

7 CFR 4290.110 - Qualified management.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 15 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Qualified management. 4290.110 Section 4290.110... Qualifications for the RBIC Program Organizing A Rbic § 4290.110 Qualified management. Link to an amendment..., that its current or proposed management team is qualified and has the knowledge, experience, and...

Uncle Sam Wants You: Looking for a Few Good Teachers.

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Della-Piana, Connie Kubo; Blake, Sally; Lopez, Jorge; Hurley, Sandra

This paper discusses the need for qualified teachers in specific areas, examining factors that motivate students to choose to teach (e.g., desire to work with people, value to society, and family influence). The Partnership for Excellence in Teacher Education promotes reform in science and mathematics teaching and learning in regard to preparing…

Improving Teacher Quality: Lessons from America's "No Child Left Behind"

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Smith, Emma; Gorard, Stephen

2007-01-01

How developed countries train, recruit and retain their schoolteachers is an area of considerable interest in education today. In this paper we consider how the US is addressing the issue of teacher quality by holding schools and school districts accountable for ensuring that all teachers of core subjects are "highly qualified" by the…

Scaffolding Preschool Children's Problem Solving: A Comparison between Chinese Mothers and Teachers across Multiple Tasks

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Sun, Jin; Rao, Nirmala

2012-01-01

This study compared Chinese mothers' and teachers' scaffolding of preschool children in different problem solving tasks. Participants were 57 children (including 29 girls) from seven kindergartens in Beijing, their mothers and teachers. Mothers varied in educational levels while all teachers were professionally qualified. Children solved four…

7 CFR 4290.110 - Qualified management.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 15 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Qualified management. 4290.110 Section 4290.110... Qualifications for the RBIC Program Organizing A Rbic § 4290.110 Qualified management. An Applicant must show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that its current or proposed management team is qualified and has...

7 CFR 4290.110 - Qualified management.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 15 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Qualified management. 4290.110 Section 4290.110... Qualifications for the RBIC Program Organizing A Rbic § 4290.110 Qualified management. An Applicant must show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that its current or proposed management team is qualified and has...

7 CFR 4290.110 - Qualified management.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 15 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Qualified management. 4290.110 Section 4290.110... Qualifications for the RBIC Program Organizing A Rbic § 4290.110 Qualified management. An Applicant must show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that its current or proposed management team is qualified and has...

7 CFR 4290.110 - Qualified management.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 15 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Qualified management. 4290.110 Section 4290.110... Qualifications for the RBIC Program Organizing A Rbic § 4290.110 Qualified management. An Applicant must show, to the satisfaction of the Secretary, that its current or proposed management team is qualified and has...

Breaking from Traditionalism: Strategies for the Recruitment of Physical Education Teachers

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O'Neil, Kason; Richards, K. Andrew R.

2018-01-01

Teacher education programs across the country are being asked to systematically and deliberately recruit teacher candidates who are not only highly qualified, but represent diverse backgrounds. Coupled with dwindling enrollments, these programs may want to reevaluate the types of students recruited into a career in physical education. This article…

Constructing the Academic Category of Teacher Educator in Universities' Recruitment Processes in Aotearoa, New Zealand

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Gunn, Alexandra C.; Berg, David; Hill, Mary F.; Haigh, Mavis

2015-01-01

An examination of recruitment materials and interviews with personnel involved in the employment of teacher educators to positions in university-based New Zealand initial teacher education (ITE) courses reveals three constructions of teacher educator as academic worker: the professional expert, the dually qualified, and the traditional academic.…

The Road from Paraprofessional to Certified Teacher: A State, School District, and University Partnership

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Winstead, Robert A.

2013-01-01

Over the past few decades thousands of special education teachers have been teaching students with disabilities on emergency or temporary certificates (Barnes, Crow, & Schaefer, 2007). The majority of these teachers entered the field of education with little to no preparation. Most of these under qualified teachers were hired in rural areas.…

40 CFR 60.4835 - What if all the qualified operators are temporarily not accessible?

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2011-07-01

... to the Administrator every 4 weeks outlining what you are doing to ensure that a qualified operator... status report 4 weeks after you notify the Administrator of the deviation under paragraph (b)(1) of this... operated for less than 2 weeks by other plant personnel who are familiar with the operation of the SSI unit...

The Link between Teacher Quality and Student Outcomes: A Research Synthesis

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Goe, Laura

2007-01-01

Federal law emphasizes the need for states and districts to ensure that "all" students--particularly at-risk students, minority students, and students in high-poverty areas--have access to highly qualified, experienced teachers. But is it sufficient for a teacher to have "paper" qualifications and teaching experience? After all, appropriate…

Post-Baccalaureate Teacher Certification Programs: Strategies for Enhancement, Improvement, and Peaceful Co-existence with Traditional Teacher Certification Programs.

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Duhon-Haynes, Gwendolyn; And Others

This paper examines alternative certification programs in terms of entrance requirements, supervision and mentoring, and post-certification professional support. A good alternative program uses rigorous screening processes to ensure the selection of qualified teacher interns; provides high-quality preservice training in methodology, classroom…

ePortfolios beyond Pre-Service Teacher Education: A New Dawn?

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Boulton, Helen

2014-01-01

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the efficacy of using ePortfolios to enhance career skills for newly qualified teachers (NQTs). The context is the final phase of a longitudinal action research project investigating whether an ePortfolio, created as a pre-service teacher to evidence a digital story of developing professional identity, could…

The Principle-Practical Discourse Edge: Elementary Preservice and Mentor Teachers Working Together on Colearning Tasks

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Gunckel, Kristin L.; Wood, Marcy B.

2016-01-01

A major challenge in preparing elementary teachers to teach inquiry-based science is finding qualified mentor teachers who use research-based approaches to teach science in their classrooms. This situation means preservice teachers often see few connections between the research-based principles for teaching science they learn in university-based…

Mentoring for Quality Improvement: A Case Study of a Mentor Teacher in the Reform Process

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Ryan, Sharon; Hornbeck, Amy

2004-01-01

As qualified teachers are central to children receiving a high-quality preschool education, many policy initiatives aimed at improving program quality are thwarted when insufficient attention is paid to the professional development of the workforce. One response to this issue has been to create teacher leadership roles so that teachers mentor…

Making the Instructional Curriculum as an Interactive, Contextualized Process: Case Studies of Seven ESOL Teachers

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Wette, Rosemary

2009-01-01

This article reports on data from interpretive case studies of seven well-qualified, experienced teachers of adult ESOL, collected through weekly interviews and analysis of documents and materials produced over the duration of a whole course for each teacher. Teachers' knowledge and experience was apparent in their ability to conceptualize and…

Implementing New Career Structures for Teachers: A Study of the Advanced Skills Teacher in Australia.

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Ingvarson, Lawrence; And Others

The absence of a professional career structure for teachers is not a new problem. In 1989, Australian unions, employers, and governments negotiated the Advanced Skills Teacher (AST) classification. Three levels of AST status involving salary increases were proposed to offer teachers a professional career path in teaching comparable in status to…

Teachers' Expectations and School Administration: Keys of Better Communication in Schools

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Aslanargun, Engin

2015-01-01

Problem Statement: The quality of education carried out in schools depends largely on the performance of teachers and school principals in cooperation. It is possible to say that a qualified education of students depends on the performance and compliance degree of these two groups. In this process, teachers' having the primary responsibility for…

Preparing and Licensing High Quality Teachers in Pacific Region Jurisdictions. Issues & Answers. REL 2007-No. 031

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Heine, Hilda C.; Emesiochl, Masa Akii

2007-01-01

The provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2001 for teacher quality direct that all students in U.S. public schools be taught by highly qualified teachers. Although the Pacific Region entities are trying to meet this teacher-quality mandate, most are still far from fulfilling the minimum education requirements for their teachers. By…

Preparedness of newly qualified midwives to deliver clinical care: an evaluation of pre-registration midwifery education through an analysis of key events.

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Skirton, Heather; Stephen, Nicole; Doris, Faye; Cooper, Maggie; Avis, Mark; Fraser, Diane M

2012-10-01

this study was part of a larger project commissioned to ascertain whether midwife teachers bring a unique contribution to the preparation of midwives for practice. The aim of this phase was to determine whether the student midwives' educational programme had equipped them to practise competently after entry to the professional register. this was a prospective, longitudinal qualitative study, using participant diaries to collect data. data were collected from newly qualified midwives during the initial six months after they commenced their first post as a qualified midwife. the potential participants were all student midwives who were completing their education at one of six Universities (three in England, one in Scotland, one in Wales and one in Northern Ireland). Diary data were submitted by 35 newly qualified midwives; 28 were graduates of the three year programme and seven of the shortened programme. diary entries were analysed using thematic analysis (Braun and Clarke, 2006), with a focus on identification of key events in the working lives of the newly qualified midwives. A total of 263 key events were identified, under three main themes: (1) impact of the event on confidence, (2) gaps in knowledge or experience and (3) articulated frustration, conflict or distress. essentially, pre-registration education, delivered largely by midwife teachers and supported by clinical mentors, has been shown to equip newly qualified midwives to work effectively as autonomous practitioners caring for mothers and babies. While newly qualified midwives are able to cope with a range of challenging clinical situations in a safe manner, they lack confidence in key areas. Positive reinforcement by supportive colleagues plays a significant role in enabling them to develop as practitioners. whilst acknowledging the importance of normality in childbearing there is a need within the curriculum to enable midwives to recognise and respond to complex care situations by providing theory

Effect of Training School Teachers on Oral Hygiene Status of 8-10 Years Old Government School Children of Udaipur City, India

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Bhat, Nagesh; Asawa, Kailash; Tak, Mridula; Singh, Anukriti; Shinde, Kushal; Gandhi, Neha; Doshi, Astha

2016-01-01

Introduction Provision of oral health knowledge to the children by their teachers at the school level can prove to be more fruitful because it is the time period during which the children begin to learn the basic oral hygiene practices and are most prone to dental caries. Aim This study was carried out to assess the effect of training school teachers on oral hygiene status of 8-10 years old government school children of Udaipur city, India. Materials and Methods A total of nine school teachers and 279, 8-10 year old school children from two government schools were included in the study. The questionnaire on oral health knowledge and practice contained 17 questions to evaluate the knowledge and practice of children towards oral hygiene before and after the teachers training program. Baseline and six months post training data on oral health knowledge and practice was obtained by the questionnaire method. Baseline and six months post training data on oral hygiene status was obtained by OHI-S Index. Statistical analysis was done using software SPSS 22, the test used were McNemar’s test, paired t-test. Results Pre and post training data were compared and it was found that there was a significant improvement in oral health knowledge and practices of school teachers and children. Also oral hygiene status of school children was significantly improved after the program. Conclusion Results of the present study suggest that experiential learning is an effective school based oral health education method for improvement of oral hygiene in primary school children. PMID:27656573

Problems with the Use of Student Test Scores to Evaluate Teachers. EPI Briefing Paper #278

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Baker, Eva L.; Barton, Paul E.; Darling-Hammond, Linda; Haertel, Edward; Ladd, Helen F.; Linn, Robert L.; Ravitch, Diane; Rothstein, Richard; Shavelson, Richard J.; Shepard, Lorrie A.

2010-01-01

Every classroom should have a well-educated, professional teacher, and school systems should recruit, prepare, and retain teachers who are qualified to do the job. Yet in practice, American public schools generally do a poor job of systematically developing and evaluating teachers. Many policy makers have recently come to believe that this failure…

Status of and a Proposed Program for Industrial Arts in the Public Secondary Schools of Tennessee with Implications for Teacher Education.

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Ephraim, John

Data from the State Department of Education, along with information forms from industrial arts teachers for the 1967-68 school year, were studied: (1) to ascertain the status of industrial arts teachers and programs in the secondary schools of Tennessee, (2) to determine a desirable secondary industrial arts program, and (3) to point out…

Using Mentoring and Professional Development Approaches to Educate Urban Mathematics Teachers

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Fraser-Abder, Pamela

2005-01-01

Due to the dearth of qualified professional teachers, policymakers and professional development programs need to focus on improving the quality of high school mathematics teaching in order to diffuse this crisis. In the middle of this crisis, the demand for new teachers is predicted to rise significantly in the next ten years. Based on the…

Teachers in School Sports: Between the Fields of Education and Sport?

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Ferry, Magnus

2016-01-01

According to the cultural sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, gaining access to a social space or a position within a social space requires a specific capital. For teachers, this is normally indicated by a valid teaching certificate with relevant subject knowledge. However, when no qualified teachers are available, which is the case for the subject of…

Validity of Subjective Self-Assessment of Digital Competence among Undergraduate Preservice Teachers

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Maderick, Joseph Andrew

2013-01-01

Technology is now integrated into the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) required to be a highly qualified 21st century teacher. Accurate measurement of digital competence has become critical. Self-assessment has been used widely to measure the digital competence of preservice teachers who are expected to integrate technology into…

Why Teacher Leaders Don't Want to Be Principals: Evidence from Arkansas

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Hewitt, Paul M.; Pijanowski, John C.; Denny, George S.

2009-01-01

This study investigates why teachers, identified by their school principal as being leaders or having leadership potential, chose not to become school principals. At a time in which the literature is reporting a shortage of qualified applicants for school administrative positions the identified reasons most cited by teacher leaders include…

Preservice Preparation of Teachers of the Visually Handicapped in a Rural State.

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Alcorn, Dewaine A.

The University of Nebraska (with the help of the University of Northern Colorado) has established a program to provide practicing teachers with training qualifying them for the teaching certificate endorsement for teaching the visually handicapped. The program was especially designed to fill a state need for teachers of the visually handicapped…

30 CFR 75.155 - Qualified hoisting engineer; qualifications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

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30 CFR 75.155 - Qualified hoisting engineer; qualifications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

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30 CFR 75.155 - Qualified hoisting engineer; qualifications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

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30 CFR 75.155 - Qualified hoisting engineer; qualifications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

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30 CFR 75.155 - Qualified hoisting engineer; qualifications.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

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Engaging Second-Stage Teachers in Their Work: The Role of Professional Culture in Schools

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Kirkpatrick, Cheryl Lynne

2009-01-01

Educational researchers acknowledge that teachers make a difference in the educational outcomes of youth (Boyd, Lankford, Loeb, Rockoff, & Wyckoff, 2008; Darling-Hammond, 2000; Hanushek, 1992; Hanushek & Rivkin, 2007; Johnson, 2006; Sanders & Rivers, 1996; Sanders & Horn, 1998). However, staffing schools with qualified teachers has proven…

45 CFR 1151.12 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

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28 CFR 41.32 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... 28 Judicial Administration 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Qualified handicapped person. 41.32..., NONDISCRIMINATION ON THE BASIS OF HANDICAP IN FEDERALLY ASSISTED PROGRAMS Standards for Determining Who Are Handicapped Persons § 41.32 Qualified handicapped person. Qualified handicapped person means: (a) With respect...

28 CFR 41.32 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

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45 CFR 1151.12 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

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45 CFR 1151.12 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

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28 CFR 41.32 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

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28 CFR 41.32 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

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45 CFR 1151.12 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

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45 CFR 1151.12 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

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28 CFR 41.32 - Qualified handicapped person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

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Pre-Service Teachers' Knowledge, Misconceptions and Gaps about Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Sanz-Cervera, Pilar; Fernández-Andrés, María-Inmaculada; Pastor-Cerezuela, Gemma; Tárraga-Mínguez, Raúl

2017-01-01

The inclusive education framework and the increase in autism diagnoses have led to an overwhelming challenge for pre-service teachers who need to be qualified to teach all children. To test the quality of their training, the main purpose of this study was to compare 866 pre-service teachers' knowledge, misconceptions, and gaps about autism in…

NEWS: Teachers' Awards 2001

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

2000-09-01

Every year, as the result of an Education Group initiative, the UK Institute of Physics honours a small number of practising teachers in both the primary and secondary sectors. Nominations come from a variety of sources: students, pupils, head teachers, colleagues, governors, advisers, Institute branches and parents. Selection is by a panel of teachers and former teachers, people fully aware of the real work and rewards of being a teacher. To qualify for a Teacher's Award there is one basic criterion: is this person an exceptional teacher? It is not a competition, merely a wish to spotlight and celebrate the work of physics teachers in the classroom. This year nine awards were made, one for primary science and the rest for teaching physics in secondary schools and colleges. This was a higher number than in previous years and reflects the increased number of nominations received. If you know of a teacher who deserves recognition then please tell us. We are looking for teachers who inspire in their students a love of science (at the primary level) or physics (at the secondary level). We would particularly welcome more nominations from the primary sector. If you, or any of your children or relatives, can think of such a teacher then please contact Steven Chapman (Steven.Chapman@iop.org) for more details or a nomination form.

26 CFR 54.4980B-3 - Qualified beneficiaries.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... qualified beneficiary is— (i) Any individual who, on the day before a qualifying event, is covered under a... qualifying event that is the bankruptcy of the employer, a covered employee who had retired on or before the... bankruptcy qualifying event, the spouse, surviving spouse, or dependent child is a beneficiary under the plan...

26 CFR 54.4980B-3 - Qualified beneficiaries.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... qualified beneficiary is— (i) Any individual who, on the day before a qualifying event, is covered under a... qualifying event that is the bankruptcy of the employer, a covered employee who had retired on or before the... bankruptcy qualifying event, the spouse, surviving spouse, or dependent child is a beneficiary under the plan...

What the Research Says about Alternative Teacher Certification Programs. Information Capsule. Volume 1104

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Blazer, Christie

2012-01-01

The shortage of qualified teachers across the U.S. has contributed to the popularity of alternative certification programs. These programs are designed to attract individuals into the teaching profession by allowing candidates to become certified without having to complete a traditional teacher education program. This Information Capsule reviewed…

National Board Certification: The Impact on Teaching Practices of Three Elementary Teachers

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Hall, Amy W.

2012-01-01

During the past century the educational reform movements focused on the need for highly qualified teachers based on research surrounding the effects on student achievement related to the quality of the teacher (Busatto, 2004). The National Board for Professional Teaching Standards (NBPTS) was created in 1987 in response to the increasing focus…

Don't Get Left Behind! Improve Your Experiences as a New Teacher

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Chorzempa, Barbara Fink

2011-01-01

Teachers today are expected to meet the diverse needs of all of their students and know an array of instructional methods, which requires continual professional development (Darling-Hammond 1998). Darling-Hammond (1998, 7) stated that the "strongest predictor of student achievement is the percentage of well-qualified teachers in a school,…

Can Teacher Evaluation Improve Teaching?

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Principal Leadership, 2013

2013-01-01

The answer to the question, Can evaluation improve teaching? is a qualified yes. Teacher evaluation has changed and the role of the principal has changed as well; the focus now is on evidence, not merely good judgment. With the right tools, systems, and support, it should be possible to help improve teaching performance and student learning…

How Do We Get Them on the Farm? Efforts to Improve Rural Teacher Recruitment and Retention in Arkansas

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Maranto, Robert; Shuls, James V.

2012-01-01

Rural schools, particularly high poverty rural schools, often have difficulty hiring and retaining qualified teachers. Here, we discuss three programs the Arkansas Department of Education has used to attract teachers to teacher Geographic Shortage Districts (GSDs) through material incentives. Unfortunately, none of the programs have had much…

10 CFR 436.32 - Qualified contractors lists.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

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12 CFR 583.17 - Qualified thrift lender.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

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5 CFR 2634.403 - Qualified blind trusts.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 5 Administrative Personnel 3 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Qualified blind trusts. 2634.403 Section... Qualified blind trusts. (a) Definition. A qualified blind trust is a trust in which the filer, his spouse... instrument which establishes a blind trust must adhere substantively to model drafts circulated by the Office...

26 CFR 54.4980B-4 - Qualifying events.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 17 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Qualifying events. 54.4980B-4 Section 54.4980B... EXCISE TAXES (CONTINUED) PENSION EXCISE TAXES § 54.4980B-4 Qualifying events. The determination of what constitutes a qualifying event is addressed in the following questions and answers: Q-1: What is a qualifying...

26 CFR 54.4980B-4 - Qualifying events.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 17 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Qualifying events. 54.4980B-4 Section 54.4980B... EXCISE TAXES (CONTINUED) PENSION EXCISE TAXES § 54.4980B-4 Qualifying events. The determination of what constitutes a qualifying event is addressed in the following questions and answers: Q-1: What is a qualifying...

26 CFR 54.4980B-4 - Qualifying events.

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2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 17 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Qualifying events. 54.4980B-4 Section 54.4980B... EXCISE TAXES (CONTINUED) PENSION EXCISE TAXES § 54.4980B-4 Qualifying events. The determination of what constitutes a qualifying event is addressed in the following questions and answers: Q-1: What is a qualifying...

26 CFR 54.4980B-4 - Qualifying events.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 17 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Qualifying events. 54.4980B-4 Section 54.4980B... EXCISE TAXES (CONTINUED) PENSION EXCISE TAXES § 54.4980B-4 Qualifying events. The determination of what constitutes a qualifying event is addressed in the following questions and answers: Q-1: What is a qualifying...

The Current Status and Possible Trends in Teaching Industrial Arts Wood Information at Teacher Education Institutions.

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Coleman, Jay Mario

To investigate the present status of the wood area in selected teacher education institutions and to discover possible trends which might be useful in improving the college wood programs, a questionnaire was developed and sent to 122 industrial arts instructors, and the results were compared on a percentage basis. Specific findings were that: (1)…

Evaluating Teacher-Leaders for Careers as Administrators: Effects of Job Attributes, Teacher Leader Role, and Teaching Assignment Area

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Shumate, Brian T.; Munoz, Marco A.; Winter, Paul A.

2005-01-01

Recruitment of public school administrators is an important issue due to the shortage of qualified job applicants nationwide. The shortage of applicants requires school districts to evaluate their internal pools of potential applicants for administrative vacancies. This evaluation research addressed the recruitment of teacher-leaders to serve as…

Economic Incentives as a Strategy for Responding to Teacher Staffing Problems: A Typology of Policies and Practices

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Kolbe, Tammy; Strunk, Katharine O.

2012-01-01

Background: Many district and school leaders experience difficulties staffing their classrooms with qualified teachers. Economic incentives may motivate teachers to enter and remain in the workforce and entice teachers to work in less desirable districts and schools. However, very little is known about incentives in use, how they are used to…

The Impact of Professional Development on Performance and Evaluation of Substitute Teachers in a Public School System

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Brown, Rhonda

2012-01-01

Research suggests that many substitute teachers do not have the educational pedagogy or teacher certification necessary to be considered highly qualified by the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. To address that concern, professional development training for substitute teachers who lack proper certification and educational pedagogy has become an…

42 CFR 436.121 - Qualified family members.

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2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Qualified family members. 436.121 Section 436.121... Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.121 Qualified family members. (a) Definition. A qualified family member is any member of a family, including pregnant women and children eligible for Medicaid under § 436...

42 CFR 435.119 - Qualified family members.

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2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Qualified family members. 435.119 Section 435.119... Family Members § 435.119 Qualified family members. (a) Definition. A qualified family member is any member of a family, including pregnant women and children eligible for Medicaid under § 435.116 of this...

26 CFR 1.46-3 - Qualified investment.

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2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Qualified investment. 1.46-3 Section 1.46-3... Computing Credit for Investment in Certain Depreciable Property § 1.46-3 Qualified investment. (a) In general. (1) With respect to any taxable year, the qualified investment of the taxpayer is the aggregate...

42 CFR 436.121 - Qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Qualified family members. 436.121 Section 436.121... Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.121 Qualified family members. (a) Definition. A qualified family member is any member of a family, including pregnant women and children eligible for Medicaid under § 436...

42 CFR 435.119 - Qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Qualified family members. 435.119 Section 435.119... Family Members § 435.119 Qualified family members. (a) Definition. A qualified family member is any member of a family, including pregnant women and children eligible for Medicaid under § 435.116 of this...

26 CFR 25.2702-3 - Qualified interests.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 14 2011-04-01 2010-04-01 true Qualified interests. 25.2702-3 Section 25.2702-3... GIFT TAX; GIFTS MADE AFTER DECEMBER 31, 1954 Special Valuation Rules § 25.2702-3 Qualified interests. (a) In general. This section provides rules for determining if an interest is a qualified annuity...

Strategies for Recruitment and Retention of Secondary Teachers in Central Region Rural Schools

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Beesley, Andrea; Atwill, Kim; Blair, Pamela; Barley, Zoe

2008-01-01

Recruiting and retaining teachers is a nationwide issue for schools in all locales. For rural schools, however, lower salaries, small school sizes, and geographic isolation can make it even more difficult to recruit and retain a qualified teaching staff. This study sought to quantify and characterize differences in recruiting teachers between…

An Investigation of Factors Related to Teachers' Organizational Commitment in Rural High Schools

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Walker, Victoria LaShawn

2013-01-01

Relevant literature indicates that teachers who are not committed to their organization do not perform, do not provide a quality education for their students, and do not remain members of the organization; thus, making staffing, retaining, and maintaining highly qualified teachers problematic for rural schools. Limited research has been conducted…

Special Education Teacher Burnout and ACT

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Emery, Debra W.; Vandenberg, Brian

2010-01-01

Special educators are a high risk group, prone to low job satisfaction, low self-efficacy, and increased stress and burnout. The attrition rate of special educators is particularly high, contributing to an overall shortage of qualified teachers throughout the United States. While the problems of special educators are widely discussed in the…

Teachers' Health.

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Scheuch, Klaus; Haufe, Eva; Seibt, Reingard

2015-05-15

Almost 800,000 teachers were working in Germany in the 2012-13 school year. A determination of the most common medical problems in this large occupational group serves as the basis for measures that help maintain teachers' health and their ability to work in their profession. We present our own research findings, a selective review of the literature, and data derived from the German statutory health insurance scheme concerning medical disability, long-term illness, and inability to work among teachers. Compared to the general population, teachers have a more healthful lifestyle and a lower frequency of cardiovascular risk factors (except hypertension). Like non-teachers, they commonly suffer from musculoskeletal and cardiovascular diseases. Mental and psychosomatic diseases are more common in teachers than in non-teachers, as are nonspecific complaints such as exhaustion, fatigue, headache, and tension. It is commonly said that 3-5% of teachers suffer from "burnout," but reliable data on this topic are lacking, among other reasons because the term has no standard definition. The percentage of teachers on sick leave is generally lower than the overall percentage among statutory insurees; it is higher in the former East Germany than in the former West Germany. The number of teachers taking early retirement because of illness has steadily declined from over 60% in 2001 and currently stands at 19%, with an average age of 58 years, among tenured teachers taking early retirement. The main reasons for early retirement are mental and psychosomatic illnesses, which together account for 32-50% of cases. Although German law mandates the medical care of persons in the teaching professions by occupational physicians, this requirement is implemented to varying extents in the different German federal states. Teachers need qualified, interdisciplinary occupational health care with the involvement of their treating physicians.

Leading through Partnership: Enhancing the Teach First Leadership Programme

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Blandford, Sonia

2014-01-01

Teach First works in partnership with government, business organisations, higher education institutions (providers of Initial Teacher Training, ITT) and schools to offer a two-year integrated Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) Leadership Development Programme; the first cohort of students were accepted in 2003. Its delivery of an integrated…

Relationship between Physicochemical Properties of Saliva and Dental Caries and Periodontal Status among Female Teachers Living in Central Iran

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Hosseini-Yekani, Amene; Nadjarzadeh, Azadeh; Vossoughi, Mehrdad; Reza, Javad Zavvar; Golkari, Ali

2018-01-01

Objectives: There are inconsistent data about the association between saliva properties, dental caries, and periodontal status. In this study, we tried to examine the association between dental caries and periodontal status with salivary viscosity, flow rate, pH, and buffering capacity in adults. Methods: In the present cross-sectional study, 450 female teachers were randomly selected from schools located in Yazd, Iran. Oral examinations were conducted, and unstimulated saliva samples were collected. Salivary viscosity, flow rate, pH, and buffering capacity were assessed. The salivary physicochemical properties were compared among teachers with different types of oral health. Analyses were done using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences version 16. Results: In total, 431 female teachers aged 40.45 ± 8.18 years were included in the study. Salivary flow rate, buffering capacity, pH, and viscosity, community periodontal index status were not significantly different in participants with and without tooth caries. There was a reverse linear association between salivary pH and flow rate with the decayed, missed, and filled teeth index (P < 0.05). The saliva buffering capacity was not significantly related to dental properties. Those with bleeding on probing had lower salivary pH, and buffering capacity compared to those with healthy gum. However, the salivary resting flow rate was not different in participants with bleeding on probing and healthy participants. Conclusion: Based on our results, saliva properties might be important predictors in oral health status. This means that any change in saliva combination might affect periodontal and dental diseases. Future prospective studies are recommended to confirm these results. PMID:29629329

42 CFR 436.120 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

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2013-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Qualified pregnant women and children who are not... to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who— (1) Would be eligible for an... RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Mandatory Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.120 Qualified pregnant...

42 CFR 436.120 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Qualified pregnant women and children who are not... to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who— (1) Would be eligible for an... RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Mandatory Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.120 Qualified pregnant...

42 CFR 436.120 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Qualified pregnant women and children who are not... to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who— (1) Would be eligible for an... RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Mandatory Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.120 Qualified pregnant...

42 CFR 436.120 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Qualified pregnant women and children who are not... to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who— (1) Would be eligible for an... RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Mandatory Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.120 Qualified pregnant...

42 CFR 436.120 - Qualified pregnant women and children who are not qualified family members.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 42 Public Health 4 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Qualified pregnant women and children who are not... to a pregnant woman whose pregnancy has been medically verified and who— (1) Would be eligible for an... RICO, AND THE VIRGIN ISLANDS Mandatory Coverage of the Categorically Needy § 436.120 Qualified pregnant...

The Examination of Physical Education Teachers' Perceptions of Their Teacher Training to Include Students with Disabilities in General Physical Education

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Townsend, Amy

2017-01-01

Despite legislative mandates, only 32% of states require specific licensure in adapted physical education (APE); consequently, general physical educators are challenged with including students with disabilities into regular classrooms. Although physical education teachers are considered qualified personnel to teach students with disabilities in…

Measuring Teacher Effectiveness When Comparing Alternatively and Traditionally Licensed High School Technology Education Teachers in North Carolina

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Bowen, Bradley

2013-01-01

According to No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the definition of a highly qualified teacher includes three components: obtaining a bachelor's degree; having full licensure as defined by the state; and demonstrating competency, as defined by the state, in each subject taught (U.S. Department of Education, 2004). However, NCLB does not specifically…

33 CFR 155.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... familiar with the implementation of the vessel response plan; and (4) Be trained in the responsibilities of... vessel may designate an organization to fulfill the role of the qualified individual and alternate...

Implementing Geographical Key Concepts: Design of a Symbiotic Teacher Training Course Based on Empirical and Theoretical Evidence

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Fögele, Janis; Mehren, Rainer

2015-01-01

A central desideratum for the professionalization of qualified teachers is an improved practice of further teacher education. The present work constitutes a course of in-service training, which is built upon both a review of empirical findings concerning the efficacy of in-service training courses for teachers and theoretical assumptions about the…

Initial Teacher Education in the University "My Little Ship, How Ill-Laden You Are"

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Franchi, Leonardo

2016-01-01

Initial teacher education programmes in universities must meet the needs of varying constituencies. Politicians, school leaders and academics, for example, understandably seek to influence how these programmes should look. Given the importance of well-qualified teachers for the building of effective schools, it is right that a range of…

Construction of the Entrepreneurship Education Teachers Based on the Characteristics of Business Education Level

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Wei, Yaping; Guo, Wenting

2010-01-01

College entrepreneurship education relatively lags behind in China at present. The main reason is that the lack of qualified teachers. For the construction of teachers' team training, firstly analysis the characteristics of the entrepreneurship education level, and then divide into two relatively independent levels which are basic entrepreneurship…

Prospective Chemistry Teachers' Misconceptions about Colligative Properties: Boiling Point Elevation and Freezing Point Depression

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Pinarbasi, Tacettin; Sozbilir, Mustafa; Canpolat, Nurtac

2009-01-01

This study aimed at identifying prospective chemistry teachers' misconceptions of colligative properties. In order to fulfill this aim, a diagnostic test composed of four open-ended questions was used. The test was administered to seventy-eight prospective chemistry teachers just before qualifying to teaching in secondary schools. Nine different…

7 CFR 1221.24 - Qualified sorghum producer organization.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... MARKETING SERVICE (MARKETING AGREEMENTS AND ORDERS; MISCELLANEOUS COMMODITIES), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE... qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved... education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified...

Combining Marriage and Career: The Professional Adjustment of Marital Teachers

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Rizvi, Afroz Haider

2016-01-01

In the paper, the researcher attempted to assess Professional Adjustment status and level of teachers according to their marital status on a sample of 792 teachers. Teachers have been classified into two categories viz. married and unmarried. To evaluate the status of professional adjustment of teachers, a tool viz. "Manual on Teachers…

Beginning Teachers' Self-Efficacy and Stress and the Supposed Effects of Induction Arrangements

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Helms-Lorenz, Michelle; Slof, Bert; Vermue, Carlien E.; Canrinus, Esther T.

2012-01-01

Induction arrangements are implemented in schools all over the world to support beginning teachers (BTs) (novices) in gradually growing into their profession. The aim of this study is to gain more insight into two key psychological processes involved in the work of a qualified beginning teacher, namely perceived stress and self-efficacy. This…

Evaluating the Efficacy of Mathematics, Science and Technology Teacher Preparation Academies in Texas

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Brown, Danielle Bairrington; Alford, Beverly L.; Rollins, Kayla Braziel; Stillisano, Jacqueline R.; Waxman, Hersh C.

2013-01-01

The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to evaluate the efficacy of 14 Mathematics, Science and Technology Teacher Preparation (MSTTP) academies located across the state of Texas. The aim of the academies was to increase the number of highly qualified mathematics, science and technology teachers, while also improving the quality of certified…

Solving the Teacher Shortage Problem in Ghana: Critical Perspectives for Understanding the Issues

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Cobbold, Cosmas

2015-01-01

The problem of getting sufficient numbers of qualified teachers to staff classrooms is one of the most significant public policy issues facing many countries. In Ghana, the problem of teacher shortage has been a perennial one, necessitated by educational expansion as well as adverse socio-economic and political circumstances, and exacerbated by…

The Impact of Worksite Clinics on Teacher Healthcare Utilization and Cost, Self-reported Health Status, and Student Academic Achievement growth in a Public School District.

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Engberg, John B; Harris-Shapiro, Jon; Hines, David; McCarver, Patti; Liu, Harry H

2018-05-29

To examine the impact of worksite clinics on healthcare utilization and cost, self-reported health status, and student achievement growth in a public school district. We used insurance claims, health risk assessment, and student achievement growth data for active teachers during 2007-2015. A difference-in-differences approach was applied to measure the impact of worksite clinics. Compared to using a community-based clinic as the usual source of primary care, using a worksite clinic was associated with significantly lower inpatient admissions (53 vs. 31 per 1,000 teacher years), annual healthcare cost ($5,043 vs. $4,298 in 2016 US dollars, a difference of $62 per teacher per month), and annual absent work hours (63 vs. 61). No significant differences were detected in self-reported health status or student achievement growth. Worksite clinics reduce teacher healthcare cost and absenteeism.

The Equitable Distribution of Effective Teachers: Can States Meet the Research Challenges Required for Success?

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Allen, Michael

2011-01-01

One of the provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act that has gained prominence as a policy focus only in the last several years is the requirement that poor and minority children be served by highly qualified teachers to no less a degree than other, more affluent children. Under the Obama administration, the focus on "highly qualified"…

Teacher Labor Markets in Developing Countries

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Vegas, Emiliana

2007-01-01

Emiliana Vegas surveys strategies used by the world's developing countries to fill their classrooms with qualified teachers. With their low quality of education and wide gaps in student outcomes, schools in developing countries strongly resemble hard-to-staff urban U.S. schools. Their experience with reform may thus provide insights for U.S.…

33 CFR 154.1026 - Qualified individual and alternate qualified individual.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... alternate must: (1) Be located in the United States; (2) Speak fluent English; (3) Be familiar with the... facility may designate an organization to fulfill the role of the qualified individual and the alternate...

The English Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) and the "Split" Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) System

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Roberts-Holmes, Guy

2013-01-01

In England, the overwhelming majority (78%) of under fives' nursery places, remains in the private, voluntary and independent (PVI) sector where there is no requirement to employ a qualified teacher. Compared to the maintained state sector early years workforce, this dominant PVI sector tends to be staffed by a poorly qualified workforce. From…

7 CFR 1221.24 - Qualified sorghum producer organization.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved... education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified organization that has the primary purpose of representing sorghum producers, has sorghum producers as members...

7 CFR 1221.24 - Qualified sorghum producer organization.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved... education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified organization that has the primary purpose of representing sorghum producers, has sorghum producers as members...

7 CFR 1221.24 - Qualified sorghum producer organization.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved... education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified organization that has the primary purpose of representing sorghum producers, has sorghum producers as members...

7 CFR 1221.24 - Qualified sorghum producer organization.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... qualified State-legislated sorghum promotion, research, and education commission or organization, approved... education commission or organization, qualified sorghum producer organization means any qualified organization that has the primary purpose of representing sorghum producers, has sorghum producers as members...

40 CFR 1400.12 - Qualified researchers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

...); DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION Other Provisions § 1400.12 Qualified researchers. The Administrator is authorized to provide OCA information, including facility identification, to qualified researchers pursuant to a system developed and...

40 CFR 1400.12 - Qualified researchers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

...); DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION Other Provisions § 1400.12 Qualified researchers. The Administrator is authorized to provide OCA information, including facility identification, to qualified researchers pursuant to a system developed and...

40 CFR 1400.12 - Qualified researchers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

...); DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION Other Provisions § 1400.12 Qualified researchers. The Administrator is authorized to provide OCA information, including facility identification, to qualified researchers pursuant to a system developed and...

40 CFR 1400.12 - Qualified researchers.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

...); DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION DISTRIBUTION OF OFF-SITE CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS INFORMATION Other Provisions § 1400.12 Qualified researchers. The Administrator is authorized to provide OCA information, including facility identification, to qualified researchers pursuant to a system developed and...

Perfectly Reasonable in a Practical World: Understanding Chemistry Teacher Responses to a Change Proposal

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Westbroek, Hanna; Janssen, Fred; Doyle, Walter

2017-12-01

Curriculum ideals often get compromised as a curriculum moves through its various levels of representation. Across the different science reforms, this process of slippage is clearly present. Research shows that teacher subject matter knowledge, PCK, beliefs and context factors all influence implementation. Professional development arrangements focus on fixing deficiencies in teachers' knowledge, beliefs or work context. This approach has not solved the problem of slippage, as we still do not understand what mechanisms operate when teachers make decisions about change proposals. In this study, we unpacked the decision mechanisms of three highly qualified chemistry teachers who subsequently adapted an innovative context-based chemistry unit. In spite of a state of the art professional development arrangement and the teachers being highly qualified, slippage occurred. The teachers' goal systems were used to interpret their reasoning. A goal system is a context-dependent, within-person mental construct that consists of a hierarchy of a person's goals and means in pursuit of a task. We showed that all three teachers adopted or redesigned elements of the change proposals to meet their core goals, i.e., goals that had multiple connections with other goals. This indicated that the adaptations teachers made were perfectly reasonable ways to serve their professional goals. For change to happen, we contend that one should begin with ways to connect teachers' core goals with the lesson or unit goal demands of a proposed innovation. Change emerges from the adaptions teachers make in the service of their core goals.

Modifying Status Effects in Diverse Student Groups in New Zealand Tertiary Institutions: Elizabeth Cohen's Legacy for Teacher Education

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Baker, Trish; Clark, Jill

2017-01-01

New Zealand tertiary classrooms are a mix of New Zealand's ethnically diverse domestic students and predominantly Asian international students. This multicultural diversity, while having potential to enhance educational experience, brings challenges for teachers in the use of cooperative learning. A major challenge is status inequality in diverse…

Adult Health in Child Care: Health Status, Behaviors, and Concerns of Teachers, Directors, and Family Child Care Providers.

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Gratz, Rene R.; Claffey, Anne

1996-01-01

A statewide survey examined health status, behaviors, and concerns of 446 randomly selected early childhood professionals--directors, teachers, and family day care providers. Found dramatic changes in perceived frequency of various symptoms and becoming ill since working with children. Found significant differences between groups for number of…

An Examination of the Impact of Teacher Quality and "Opportunity Gap" on Student Science Achievement in China

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Zhang, Danhui; Campbell, Todd

2015-01-01

This study aims to better understand questions related to the impact of teacher quality and access to qualified teachers in China. A large-scale data set collected in 2010 in China was used along with concurrently collected teacher questionnaires. In total, surveys from 9,943 8th grade students from 343 middle schools in 6 provinces were used,…

Factors That Affect Retention of Novice Teachers in Hard-to-Staff High Schools in Virginia

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Blunt, Mechelle Savedge

2013-01-01

The mobility rates within the Kindergarten-Grade 12 teacher workforce are distressing, and the teaching profession has a relatively high turnover rate compared to other occupations. The Commonwealth of Virginia encounters many challenges when attempting to retain highly qualified teachers in schools. Despite the state's efforts to staff all…

Resident Teachers Take an Inquiry Stance: The Impact of Guided Collaborative Inquiry Groups on the Development of Guided Reading Instructional Practices

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Crain de Galarce, Patricia

2014-01-01

Urban schools are struggling to hire and retain effective literacy teachers. Alternative certification programs throughout the country seek to bridge the achievement gap and to bring qualified teachers to underserved classrooms. This dissertation explores the transformative inquiry of developing "resident" teachers in their journey as…

26 CFR 1.179A-1 - Recapture of deduction for qualified clean-fuel vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... longer be propelled by a clean-burning fuel; (B) The vehicle is used by the taxpayer in a manner... vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling property. 1.179A-1 Section 1.179A-1 Internal... of deduction for qualified clean-fuel vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling...

48 CFR 14.210 - Qualified products.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-10-01

... 48 Federal Acquisition Regulations System 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Qualified products. 14.210 Section 14.210 Federal Acquisition Regulations System FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION CONTRACTING METHODS AND CONTRACT TYPES SEALED BIDDING Solicitation of Bids 14.210 Qualified products. See subpart 9.2. ...

49 CFR 604.7 - Qualified human service organizations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-10-01

... 49 Transportation 7 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Qualified human service organizations. 604.7... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Exceptions § 604.7 Qualified human service organizations. (a) A recipient may provide charter service to a qualified human service organization (QHSO) for...

49 CFR 604.7 - Qualified human service organizations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-10-01

... 49 Transportation 7 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Qualified human service organizations. 604.7... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Exceptions § 604.7 Qualified human service organizations. (a) A recipient may provide charter service to a qualified human service organization (QHSO) for...

49 CFR 604.7 - Qualified human service organizations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-10-01

... 49 Transportation 7 2013-10-01 2013-10-01 false Qualified human service organizations. 604.7... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Exceptions § 604.7 Qualified human service organizations. (a) A recipient may provide charter service to a qualified human service organization (QHSO) for...

49 CFR 604.7 - Qualified human service organizations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-10-01

... 49 Transportation 7 2014-10-01 2014-10-01 false Qualified human service organizations. 604.7... ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION CHARTER SERVICE Exceptions § 604.7 Qualified human service organizations. (a) A recipient may provide charter service to a qualified human service organization (QHSO) for...

Contents Exploring the Preservice Science Teachers' Written Argumentation Skills: The Global Climate Change Issue

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Karisan, Dilek; Topcu, Mustafa S.

2016-01-01

The pedagogical methods and techniques used in teacher training programs are important tools to graduate qualified teachers. Argumentation, which is known as evidence based scientific discussions, is one of the most widely used tools in national and international literature. The aim of the present study is to explore the quality of Preservice…

Attitudes of Nigerian Secondary School Teachers to Student Evaluation of Teachers

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Joshua, Monday T.; Joshua, Akon M.

2004-01-01

This study was designed to assess the attitudes of Nigerian secondary school teachers to student evaluation of teachers (SET), and to find out if the attitudes expressed were influenced by teacher characteristics such as gender, professional status, geographical location, academic qualification and teaching experience. The study was a survey, and…

26 CFR 1.179A-1 - Recapture of deduction for qualified clean-fuel vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle...

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2010-04-01

...-burning fuel; (B) The vehicle is used by the taxpayer in a manner described in section 50(b); (C) The... vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling property. 1.179A-1 Section 1.179A-1 Internal... for qualified clean-fuel vehicle property and qualified clean-fuel vehicle refueling property. (a) In...

7 CFR 1450.101 - Qualified biomass conversion facility.

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2011-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 10 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Qualified biomass conversion facility. 1450.101... (BCAP) Matching Payments § 1450.101 Qualified biomass conversion facility. (a) To be considered a qualified biomass conversion facility, a biomass conversion facility must enter into an agreement with CCC...

46 CFR 4.03-6 - Qualified medical personnel.

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2012-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2012-10-01 2012-10-01 false Qualified medical personnel. 4.03-6 Section 4.03-6... AND INVESTIGATIONS Definitions § 4.03-6 Qualified medical personnel. The term qualified medical personnel means a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, emergency medical technician, or other person...

46 CFR 4.03-6 - Qualified medical personnel.

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2010-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2010-10-01 2010-10-01 false Qualified medical personnel. 4.03-6 Section 4.03-6... AND INVESTIGATIONS Definitions § 4.03-6 Qualified medical personnel. The term qualified medical personnel means a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, emergency medical technician, or other person...

46 CFR 4.03-6 - Qualified medical personnel.

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2011-10-01

... 46 Shipping 1 2011-10-01 2011-10-01 false Qualified medical personnel. 4.03-6 Section 4.03-6... AND INVESTIGATIONS Definitions § 4.03-6 Qualified medical personnel. The term qualified medical personnel means a physician, physician's assistant, nurse, emergency medical technician, or other person...

30 CFR 795.10 - Qualified laboratories.

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2011-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 3 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Qualified laboratories. 795.10 Section 795.10... laboratories. (a) Basic qualifications. To be designated a qualified laboratory, a firm shall demonstrate that... necessary field samples and making hydrologic field measurements and analytical laboratory determinations by...

7 CFR 802.1 - Qualified laboratories.

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2011-01-01

... 7 Agriculture 7 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Qualified laboratories. 802.1 Section 802.1... REQUIREMENTS FOR GRAIN WEIGHING EQUIPMENT AND RELATED GRAIN HANDLING SYSTEMS § 802.1 Qualified laboratories. (a) Metrology laboratories. (1) Any State metrology laboratory currently approved by the NBS ongoing...

Predicting Influential Factors of Secondary Career and Technical Education Teachers' Intent to Stay in the Profession

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Dainty, Julie D.

2012-01-01

Retaining highly qualified career and technical education teachers is important in maintaining and growing quality secondary career and technical education programs. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to identify factors contributing to teacher retention specifically in the area of career and technical education (CTE) and determine…

30 CFR 77.103 - Electrical work; qualified person.

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2011-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 77.103... SAFETY AND HEALTH MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS, SURFACE COAL MINES AND SURFACE WORK AREAS OF UNDERGROUND COAL MINES Qualified and Certified Persons § 77.103 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as...

30 CFR 77.103 - Electrical work; qualified person.

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2010-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 77.103... SAFETY AND HEALTH MANDATORY SAFETY STANDARDS, SURFACE COAL MINES AND SURFACE WORK AREAS OF UNDERGROUND COAL MINES Qualified and Certified Persons § 77.103 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as...

"I'm Tentatively Teaching": Crossing the Border from Student of Teaching to Teacher of Students

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Pietsch, Marilyn; Williamson, John

2009-01-01

The majority of newly qualified teachers in New South Wales, Australia, begin their careers as casual teachers in fragmented employment contexts which make it difficult to build on the knowledge base gained at university through continuous, and continuously evaluated, practice in a classroom. This study explored the experiences of early career…

Pathways to Teacher Certification: Does It Really Matter when It Comes to Efficacy and Effectiveness?

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Tournaki, Nelly; Lyublinskaya, Irina; Carolan, Brian V.

2009-01-01

The pressure to provide qualified teachers for all students has resulted in reform efforts, including the upgrading of credential and course requirements, as well as the proliferation of so-called alternative routes to teacher certification, which seek to create differentiated pathways into the classroom. In the present study, we compared teacher…

Better Teachers for Today's Classroom: How to Make it Happen. Hearing on Examining Proposals To Provide More Qualified Teachers in the American Classroom, Focusing on Certain Provisions on the Proposed Higher Education Amendments of 1998 (S. 1882 and H.R. 6) Affecting Institutional Eligibility for Student Aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act. Committee on Labor and Human Resources. United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, Second Session (May 7, 1998).

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Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

The Committee on Labor and Human Resources examined the need for more qualified teachers in America's classrooms. Senators Bingaman and Jeffords made opening statements regarding the importance of the issue, then Margot Schenet, a specialist in social legislation with the Congressional Research Service, discussed the need for program quality in…

Nominal Group as Qualifier to "Someone"

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Sujatna, Eva Tuckyta Sari; Wahyuni, Sri

2017-01-01

The paper titled "Nominal Group as Qualifier to 'Someone'" investigated types of qualifiers which are embedded to the head "someone" in a nominal group. This research was conducted in the light of Systemic Functional Linguistics analysis. The data was analyzed, classified then described using descriptive qualitative method.…

Becoming an English Language Teacher: Linguistic Knowledge, Anxieties and the Shifting Sense of Identity

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Giovanelli, Marcello

2015-01-01

English language is a fast-growing and popular subject at A level, but the majority of qualified secondary teachers in the UK have subject expertise and backgrounds in literature. This paper reports on interviews with seven secondary English teachers who discuss the strategies they used when taking on the responsibility of A-level English language…

"Trapped in the Reform": Kindergarten Teachers' Experiences of Teacher Professionalisation in Buleleng, Indonesia

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Yulindrasari, Hani; Ujianti, Putu Rahayu

2018-01-01

Indonesia has been conducting a teacher reform program since 2005. Teachers' low status and the crisis of student achievement are the rationales of this reform. This paper investigates the implications of Indonesian neo-liberal teacher reform on kindergarten teachers' professional experiences and practices. The research was conducted in Buleleng…

Classroom-Level Predictors of the Social Status of Aggression: Friendship Centralization, Friendship Density, Teacher-Student Attunement, and Gender

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Ahn, Hai-Jeong; Rodkin, Philip C.

2014-01-01

This study investigated moderating effects of classroom friendship network structures (centralization and density), teacher-student attunement on aggression and popularity, and gender on changes in the social status of aggression over 1 school year. Longitudinal multilevel analyses with 2 time points (fall and spring) were conducted on a sample of…

Organizational Commitment of Teachers: A Meta-Analysis Study for the Effect of Gender and Marital Status in Turkey

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Çogaltay, Nazim

2015-01-01

This meta-analysis summarizes the influence of Turkish teacher's gender and marital status on their perception of organizational commitment. In total, 30 independent research studies conducted across the country are investigated to analyze the relations between gender and organizational commitment, i.e., a sample group of 11,724 participants. In…

Synchronous Teaching Techniques from the Perspective and Observation of Virtual High School Teachers: An Investigative Study

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O'Brien, Amy; Fuller, Richard

2018-01-01

This article describes how there are specific tools and techniques used by teachers in synchronous-live-virtual classroom environments. Those items were investigated in this article. Data was collected from semi-structured, one-on-one interviews conducted with a purposeful sample of twelve identified "highly-qualified" teachers at a…

Continuity, Support, Togetherness and Trust: Findings from an Evaluation of a University-Administered Early Professional Development Programme for Teachers in England

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McIntyre, Joanna; Hobson, Andrew J.; Mitchell, Nick

2009-01-01

This article discusses the evaluation of a unique university-based early professional development (EPD) programme in England that enabled newly and recently qualified teachers to have continued contact with their initial teacher preparation provider. The programme was designed to enhance the induction, EPD and retention of beginning teachers of…

Can New Modes of Digital Learning Help Resolve the Teacher Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa?

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Moon, Bob; Villet, Charmaine

2017-01-01

Sub-Saharan Africa, more than any other part of the world, is experiencing a crisis in finding sufficiently qualified teachers to meet the needs of expanding school systems. The professional development support provided to serving teachers is also inadequate in most countries. The most recent data on learner outcomes has revealed a worrying…

Teacher Perceptions of the Impact of Digital Photo Stories on Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Conn, Julie J.

2015-01-01

This study employed a qualitative method, multiple case study design to examine teacher perceptions of the impact of digital photo stories used as an instructional strategy with students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Five highly qualified teachers of students with ASD from four public schools in a western North Carolina school district…

Robert Noyce Mathematics and Science Teacher Preparation and Retention at Two California State University Campuses

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Arvizu, Jaime

2013-01-01

There is a persistent and growing shortage in the supply of "highly qualified" future science and mathematics teachers in the nation's classrooms. As a consequence, as many as 53% science and 23% math students take classes from teachers who are teaching out-of-field. Currently, there are many established programs that provide incentives…

30 CFR 77.103 - Electrical work; qualified person.

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2014-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 77.103... COAL MINES Qualified and Certified Persons § 77.103 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as... Subparts F, G, H, I, and J of this Part 77 to perform electrical work (other than work on energized surface...

30 CFR 75.153 - Electrical work; qualified person.

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2014-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2014-07-01 2014-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 75.153....153 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, an individual is a qualified person within the meaning of §§ 75.511 and 75.512 to perform electrical work (other...

30 CFR 77.103 - Electrical work; qualified person.

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2013-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 77.103... COAL MINES Qualified and Certified Persons § 77.103 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as... Subparts F, G, H, I, and J of this Part 77 to perform electrical work (other than work on energized surface...

30 CFR 77.103 - Electrical work; qualified person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 77.103... COAL MINES Qualified and Certified Persons § 77.103 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as... Subparts F, G, H, I, and J of this Part 77 to perform electrical work (other than work on energized surface...

30 CFR 75.153 - Electrical work; qualified person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2012-07-01 2012-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 75.153....153 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, an individual is a qualified person within the meaning of §§ 75.511 and 75.512 to perform electrical work (other...

30 CFR 75.153 - Electrical work; qualified person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2013-07-01 2013-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 75.153....153 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, an individual is a qualified person within the meaning of §§ 75.511 and 75.512 to perform electrical work (other...

26 CFR 1.132-9 - Qualified transportation fringes.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Qualified transportation fringes. 1.132-9... Qualified transportation fringes. (a) Table of contents. This section contains a list of the questions and answers in § 1.132-9. (1) General rules. Q-1. What is a qualified transportation fringe? Q-2. What is...

26 CFR 1.132-9 - Qualified transportation fringes.

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2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Qualified transportation fringes. 1.132-9... Qualified transportation fringes. (a) Table of contents. This section contains a list of the questions and answers in § 1.132-9. (1) General rules. Q-1. What is a qualified transportation fringe? Q-2. What is...

26 CFR 1.132-9 - Qualified transportation fringes.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Qualified transportation fringes. 1.132-9... Qualified transportation fringes. (a) Table of contents. This section contains a list of the questions and answers in § 1.132-9. (1) General rules. Q-1. What is a qualified transportation fringe? Q-2. What is...

30 CFR 75.153 - Electrical work; qualified person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 75.153....153 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, an individual is a qualified person within the meaning of §§ 75.511 and 75.512 to perform electrical work (other...

30 CFR 75.153 - Electrical work; qualified person.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-07-01

... 30 Mineral Resources 1 2011-07-01 2011-07-01 false Electrical work; qualified person. 75.153....153 Electrical work; qualified person. (a) Except as provided in paragraph (f) of this section, an individual is a qualified person within the meaning of §§ 75.511 and 75.512 to perform electrical work (other...

Prototyping and implementing flight qualifiable semicustom CMOS P-well bulk integrated circuits in the JPL environment

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Olson, E. M.

1986-01-01

Presently, there are many difficulties associated with implementing application specific custom or semi-custom (standard cell based) integrated circuits (ICs) into JPL flight projects. One of the primary difficulties is developing prototype semi-custom integrated circuits for use and evaluation in engineering prototype flight hardware. The prototype semi-custom ICs must be extremely cost-effective and yet still representative of flight qualifiable versions of the design. A second difficulty is encountered in the transport of the design from engineering prototype quality to flight quality. Normally, flight quality integrated circuits have stringent quality standards, must be radiation resistant and should consume minimal power. It is often not necessary or cost effective, however, to impose such stringent quality standards on engineering models developed for systems analysis in controlled lab environments. This article presents work originally initiated for ground based applications that also addresses these two problems. Furthermore, this article suggests a method that has been shown successful in prototyping flight quality semi-custom ICs through the Metal Oxide Semiconductor Implementation Service (MOSIS) program run by the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. The method has been used successfully to design and fabricate through the MOSIS three different semi-custom prototype CMOS p-well chips. The three designs make use of the work presented and were designed consistent with design techniques and structures that are flight qualifiable, allowing one hour transfer of the design from engineering model status to flight qualifiable foundry-ready status through methods outlined in this article.

They "Really" Don't Speak English: Helping Preservice Teachers Experience Cultural and Linguistic Diversity

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Scott, Jill; Scott, Bruce

2015-01-01

The needs of urban schools are the focus of educators. Of primary concern is the lack of qualified teachers who are prepared to meet the needs of learners in U.S. classrooms. One factor of policymakers' concern is the mismatch between the experiences and backgrounds of many teachers versus those of students they will teach. Preservice teachers…

State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality, 2007. Colorado State Summary

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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007

2007-01-01

The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This Colorado edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state policies…

Research on U.S. physics teacher education

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Meltzer, David E.

2014-03-01

College and university physics departments have long been the primary source of physics-specific education received by the nation's high school physics teachers, who now number nearly 30,000. Since the 1880s, U.S. physicists have set out specific expectations and recommendations for the education of physics teachers, and various methods and programs have been utilized to prepare these teachers. However, relatively little research has been done regarding the effectiveness of the various instructional methods. Only rarely have there been investigations of links between physics teacher education programs, and the learning outcomes of students taught by teachers who were educated in those programs. The available evidence suggests that physics teacher education programs that utilize materials and methods developed and validated through physics education research (PER) have been particularly effective in preparing well-qualified teachers. I will give an up-to-date review of the research in this area, and discuss relevant details of the investigation recently reported by the APS/AAPT/AIP Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics (T-TEP) [D. Meltzer, M. Plisch, and S. Vokos, editors, Transforming the Preparation of Physics Teachers: A Call to Action (APS, College Park, 2012)].

State Policies to Screen and Attract Teachers. Issuegram 23.

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Palaich, Robert

Most states have already implemented policies to recruit, select, and retain better teachers. The majority of these policies raise standards for entry or recertification. Another approach provides incentives to attract qualified college graduates into teaching. Offering scholarships in exchange for five-year teaching commitments and offering…

Free Teacher Education Policy Implementation in China

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Hagin, Dean A.

2012-01-01

In 2007 the Chinese central government implemented the Free Teacher Education Policy (FTEP), which offered qualifying students admission to prestigious national universities, four years of free tuition, room and board, and a stipend in exchange for a commitment to teach in their home province for ten years; the first two of those years in a rural…

29 CFR 825.126 - Leave because of a qualifying exigency.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... spouse, son, daughter, or parent (the “covered military member”) is on active duty or call to active duty..., parent-teacher conferences, or meetings with school counselors, for a biological, adopted, or foster... the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent on active duty or call to active duty status. (1) A...

Symposium on teacher stress. Occupational stress among vocational teachers.

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Pithers, R T; Fogarty, G J

1995-03-01

There is a widespread belief that work related stress among teachers is serious, with implications for teachers' health status and performance. The difficulty with interpreting data on teacher stress is that the measuring instruments used are often neither standardised nor sometimes focused on stressors pertinent to the occupational roles of teachers. This study, therefore, uses a recently developed test instrument called the Occupational Stress Inventory (OSI) which concisely measures occupational stress, strain and coping resources. Data were obtained, using the OSI, from a group of vocational teachers and compared to a group of professional non-teachers. Overall the results showed a significantly higher level of teacher stress, although only one of 10 stress and strain measures contributed to this effect. The implications for teachers, in terms of occupational role, are discussed.

Pre-service Science Teacher Preparation in China: Challenges and Promises

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Liu, Enshan; Liu, Cheng; Wang, Jian

2015-02-01

The purpose of this article was to present an overview of pre-service science teacher preparation in China, which is heavily influenced by Chinese tradition, Confucianism, and rapid social and economic development. The policies, science teacher education systems and related programs jointly contribute to producing enough science teachers for hundreds of thousands of schools at different levels. At the same time, some important reforms should be undertaken, and more candidates with the ability to do educational research should be trained. These qualified science teachers not only face the challenges of the new round of science education reform, but also take opportunities to implement new science curriculum effectively. Therefore, it will facilitate professional development and improve science education in turn.

Genesis of the Ice Trolls

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Rutledge, Neil

2004-01-01

In his role as a tutor on initial teacher education courses, the author has been particularly interested in strengthening school partnership links in a manner that advances the mentoring in primary science of students working to gain their qualified teacher status. Over the past three years several projects with local primary schools have explored…

Increasing Student Access to Qualified Science and Mathematics Teachers through an Urban School-University Partnership

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Cavallo, Ann M. L.; Ferreira, Maria M.; Roberts, Sally K.

2005-01-01

Urban schools across the United States face a pervasive problem in their science and mathematics programs-a disproportionate number of the teachers in these classrooms are not certified, thus making them underqualified to teach these subject areas. Furthermore, urban schools deal with teacher shortages and attrition in these critical areas. The…

26 CFR 1.42-6 - Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations... TAX INCOME TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.42-6 Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. (a... carryover allocation may only be made with respect to a qualified building. A qualified building is any...

26 CFR 1.42-6 - Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations... TAX INCOME TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.42-6 Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. (a... carryover allocation may only be made with respect to a qualified building. A qualified building is any...

Capacity Building for Primary Languages through Initial Teacher Education: Could Specialist and Non-Specialist Student Teachers' Complementary Skills Provide a Winning Combination?

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Rowe, Jan; Herrera, Maria; Hughes, Bernie; Cawley, Michael

2012-01-01

There has been much debate about the development of a suitably qualified workforce to deliver the objectives of the Key Stage 2 language learning entitlement in England. The model of a skilled primary languages subject leader, working in collaboration with enthusiastic generalist class teachers is emerging as a consistent preference. Relatively…

Marginalizing English as a Second Language Teacher Expertise: The Exclusionary Consequence of "No Child Left Behind"

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Harper, Candace A.; de Jong, Ester J.; Platt, Elizabeth J.

2008-01-01

"No Child Left Behind" (NCLB, 2001) fails to recognize English as a second language (ESL) as a specialized academic discipline in which teachers should be "highly qualified." In this paper we examine the impact of this policy failure on the practice of teachers of K-12 English language learners (ELLs), particularly in the…

Intersecting Global and Local: The Intercultural and Intersubjective Constructions of "Expatriate" and "Local" Teachers in the Search for the "X Factor"

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Bridges, Susan; emerald, elke

2013-01-01

In 1998, the government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region began a large-scale project to import qualified, experienced native-speaking teachers of English into Hong Kong secondary schools. The Native-speaking English Teacher (NET) scheme later expanded to include Hong Kong primary schools. Currently, teachers from around the world are…

26 CFR 1.42-6 - Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2011-04-01 2009-04-01 true Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. 1... INCOME TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.42-6 Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. (a) Carryover... carryover allocation may only be made with respect to a qualified building. A qualified building is any...

26 CFR 1.42-6 - Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 true Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. 1... INCOME TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.42-6 Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. (a) Carryover... carryover allocation may only be made with respect to a qualified building. A qualified building is any...

26 CFR 1.42-6 - Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2014-04-01 2013-04-01 true Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. 1... INCOME TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.42-6 Buildings qualifying for carryover allocations. (a) Carryover... carryover allocation may only be made with respect to a qualified building. A qualified building is any...

State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality, 2007. New Jersey State Summary

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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007

2007-01-01

The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This New Jersey edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state…

State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality, 2007. New Mexico State Summary

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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007

2007-01-01

The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This New Mexico edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state…

State Teacher Policy Yearbook: Progress on Teacher Quality, 2007. New Hampshire State Summary

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National Council on Teacher Quality, 2007

2007-01-01

The "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" examines what is arguably the single most powerful authority over the teaching profession: state government. This New Hampshire edition of the National Council on Teacher Quality's (NCTQ's) "State Teacher Policy Yearbook" is the first of what will be an annual look at the status of state…

Recruiting and Retaining Highly Qualified Special Education Teachers for High-Poverty Districts and Schools: Recommendations for Educational Leaders

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Fall, Anna-Maria

2010-01-01

Teacher turnover disproportionately impacts high poverty districts, where teachers hold fewer professional credentials and working conditions are more challenging. The disparities in teacher quality and working conditions likely contribute to teacher turnover and workplace instability as well as limit students' opportunities to learn.…

29 CFR 2550.407a-2 - Limitation with respect to the acquisition of qualifying employer securities and qualifying...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-07-01

... FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY UNDER THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974 RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY § 2550.407a-2 Limitation with respect to the acquisition of qualifying employer... employer securities and qualifying employer real property. 2550.407a-2 Section 2550.407a-2 Labor...

26 CFR 1.127-2 - Qualified educational assistance program.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Qualified educational assistance program. 1.127... Qualified educational assistance program. (a) In general. A qualified educational assistance program is a plan established and maintained by an employer under which the employer provides educational assistance...

Science Teachers' Response to the Digital Education Revolution

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Nielsen, Wendy; Miller, K. Alex; Hoban, Garry

2015-01-01

We report a case study of two highly qualified science teachers as they implemented laptop computers in their Years 9 and 10 science classes at the beginning of the "Digital Education Revolution," Australia's national one-to-one laptop program initiated in 2009. When a large-scale investment is made in a significant educational change,…

Retaining Effective Urban Teachers in the Age of Accountability: How Do Successful Urban Schools Address Staffing Challenges?

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Davis, Cove Johnstone

2010-01-01

Many urban schools struggle to retain their best teachers because of challenging work environments, poor salaries, and ineffective school leadership. The additional requirements of the No Child Left Behind legislation for teachers to be highly qualified and the increased academic requirements of raising students to a proficient level in reading…

A Research Brief: "Principals' Hiring of Teachers in Philadelphia"

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Ramirez, Heidi A.; Schofield, Lynne Steuerle; Black, Melissa

2008-01-01

The School District of Philadelphia (SDP), like many other urban school districts, struggles to increase its hiring and retention of experienced and highly qualified teachers in its low-performing/high-need schools. Excluding its charter schools, SDP serves approximately 165,000 students, largely from high-poverty (76%) and minority (85%)…

Status Report on the Virginia Beginning Teacher Assistance Program.

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Caldwell, Michael

This report presents a description of the Virgina Beginning Teacher Assistance Program (BTAP), its background and rationale, development, major program assumptions, and major program activities. The Virginia BTAP has three major components: teacher assessment, teacher assistance, and program management. The development and implementation of each…

Human Elements and the Pragmatic Approach in the Australian, Scottish and Swedish Standards for Newly Qualified Teachers

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Fransson, Göran; Gallant, Andrea; Shanks, Rachel

2018-01-01

Teacher standards are used in many countries, but it has been argued that there is a disconnection between the standards and teachers' everyday practices. Mega-narratives about teachers' practices have been recognised as powerful for educational change and when implementing and legitimising standards. In this comparative study, the standards for…

26 CFR 1.43-4 - Qualified enhanced oil recovery costs.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 1 2014-04-01 2013-04-01 true Qualified enhanced oil recovery costs. 1.43-4... TAXES Credits Against Tax § 1.43-4 Qualified enhanced oil recovery costs. (a) Qualifying costs—(1) In... “qualified enhanced oil recovery costs” if the amounts are paid or incurred with respect to an asset which is...

Contract Teachers in India

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Goyal, Sangeeta; Pandey, Priyanka

2013-01-01

In this paper, we use non-experimental data from government schools in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, two of the largest Indian states, to present average school outcomes by contract status of teachers. We find that contract teachers are associated with higher effort than civil service teachers with permanent tenures, before as well as after…

30 CFR 203.31 - If I have a qualified phase 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep well, what royalty relief would...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-07-01

... § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following table in billions of cubic... 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep wellthat is: Then your lease earns an RSV on this volume of gas... the price conditions in § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following...

30 CFR 203.31 - If I have a qualified phase 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep well, what royalty relief would...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-07-01

... § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following table in billions of cubic... 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep wellthat is: Then your lease earns an RSV on this volume of gas... the price conditions in § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following...

30 CFR 203.31 - If I have a qualified phase 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep well, what royalty relief would...

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-07-01

... § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following table in billions of cubic... 2 or qualified phase 3 ultra-deep wellthat is: Then your lease earns an RSV on this volume of gas... the price conditions in § 203.36, your qualified well earns your lease an RSV shown in the following...

9 CFR 201.73 - Scale operators to be qualified.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 9 Animals and Animal Products 2 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Scale operators to be qualified. 201... ACT Services § 201.73 Scale operators to be qualified. Stockyard owners, market agencies, dealers, packers, and live poultry dealers shall employ qualified persons to operate scales for weighing livestock...

26 CFR 1.110-1 - Qualified lessee construction allowances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Qualified lessee construction allowances. 1.110... Qualified lessee construction allowances. (a) Overview. Amounts provided to a lessee by a lessor for... gross income if the amount is a qualified lessee construction allowance under paragraph (b) of this...

26 CFR 1.110-1 - Qualified lessee construction allowances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2011-04-01 2011-04-01 false Qualified lessee construction allowances. 1.110... Qualified lessee construction allowances. (a) Overview. Amounts provided to a lessee by a lessor for... gross income if the amount is a qualified lessee construction allowance under paragraph (b) of this...

26 CFR 1.110-1 - Qualified lessee construction allowances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2014-04-01 2014-04-01 false Qualified lessee construction allowances. 1.110... Qualified lessee construction allowances. (a) Overview. Amounts provided to a lessee by a lessor for... gross income if the amount is a qualified lessee construction allowance under paragraph (b) of this...

26 CFR 1.110-1 - Qualified lessee construction allowances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Qualified lessee construction allowances. 1.110... Qualified lessee construction allowances. (a) Overview. Amounts provided to a lessee by a lessor for... gross income if the amount is a qualified lessee construction allowance under paragraph (b) of this...

26 CFR 1.110-1 - Qualified lessee construction allowances.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 2 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Qualified lessee construction allowances. 1.110... Qualified lessee construction allowances. (a) Overview. Amounts provided to a lessee by a lessor for... gross income if the amount is a qualified lessee construction allowance under paragraph (b) of this...

41 CFR 101-29.207 - Qualified products list (QPL).

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2010-07-01

... 41 Public Contracts and Property Management 2 2010-07-01 2010-07-01 true Qualified products list... PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS 29.2-Definitions § 101-29.207 Qualified products list (QPL). A qualified products list is a list of products that have met the qualification requirements stated in the applicable...

26 CFR 1.30-1 - Definition of qualified electric vehicle and recapture of credit for qualified electric vehicle.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... qualified electric vehicle—(1) In general—(i) Addition to tax. If a recapture event occurs with respect to a taxpayer's qualified electric vehicle, the taxpayer must add the recapture amount to the amount of tax due in the taxable year in which the recapture event occurs. The recapture amount is not treated as...

26 CFR 1.30-1 - Definition of qualified electric vehicle and recapture of credit for qualified electric vehicle.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-04-01

... qualified electric vehicle—(1) In general—(i) Addition to tax. If a recapture event occurs with respect to a taxpayer's qualified electric vehicle, the taxpayer must add the recapture amount to the amount of tax due in the taxable year in which the recapture event occurs. The recapture amount is not treated as...

26 CFR 1.30-1 - Definition of qualified electric vehicle and recapture of credit for qualified electric vehicle.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... qualified electric vehicle—(1) In general—(i) Addition to tax. If a recapture event occurs with respect to a taxpayer's qualified electric vehicle, the taxpayer must add the recapture amount to the amount of tax due in the taxable year in which the recapture event occurs. The recapture amount is not treated as...

26 CFR 1.30-1 - Definition of qualified electric vehicle and recapture of credit for qualified electric vehicle.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... qualified electric vehicle—(1) In general—(i) Addition to tax. If a recapture event occurs with respect to a taxpayer's qualified electric vehicle, the taxpayer must add the recapture amount to the amount of tax due in the taxable year in which the recapture event occurs. The recapture amount is not treated as...

26 CFR 1.30-1 - Definition of qualified electric vehicle and recapture of credit for qualified electric vehicle.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-04-01

... qualified electric vehicle—(1) In general—(i) Addition to tax. If a recapture event occurs with respect to a taxpayer's qualified electric vehicle, the taxpayer must add the recapture amount to the amount of tax due in the taxable year in which the recapture event occurs. The recapture amount is not treated as...

24 CFR 761.15 - Qualifying for funding.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2012-04-01 2012-04-01 false Qualifying for funding. 761.15... AND PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING PROGRAMS) DRUG ELIMINATION PROGRAMS Grant Funding § 761.15 Qualifying for funding. (a) Qualifications for PHDEP funding—(1) Eligible applicants. The following are eligible...

24 CFR 761.15 - Qualifying for funding.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-04-01

... 24 Housing and Urban Development 4 2013-04-01 2013-04-01 false Qualifying for funding. 761.15... AND PUBLIC AND INDIAN HOUSING PROGRAMS) DRUG ELIMINATION PROGRAMS Grant Funding § 761.15 Qualifying for funding. (a) Qualifications for PHDEP funding—(1) Eligible applicants. The following are eligible...

Professional Identity and Engagement among Newly Qualified Teachers in Times of Uncertainty

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Correa Gorospe, José Miguel; Martínez-Arbelaiz, Asunción; Fernández-Olaskoaga, Lorea

2018-01-01

Social, political and economic conditions shape a context of permanent flux where early childhood education teachers have to join the labour market and build their professional identity while facing numerous challenges. The aim of this study is to investigate the effects that a changing world and precarious job conditions can have on newly…

12 CFR 621.4 - Audit by qualified public accountant.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2010-01-01 2010-01-01 false Audit by qualified public accountant. 621.4... REQUIREMENTS General Rules § 621.4 Audit by qualified public accountant. (a) Each institution shall, at least annually, have its financial statements audited by a qualified public accountant in accordance with...

12 CFR 621.4 - Audit by qualified public accountant.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2013 CFR

2013-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 7 2013-01-01 2013-01-01 false Audit by qualified public accountant. 621.4... REQUIREMENTS General Rules § 621.4 Audit by qualified public accountant. (a) Each institution shall, at least annually, have its financial statements audited by a qualified public accountant in accordance with...

12 CFR 621.4 - Audit by qualified public accountant.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2011 CFR

2011-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 6 2011-01-01 2011-01-01 false Audit by qualified public accountant. 621.4... REQUIREMENTS General Rules § 621.4 Audit by qualified public accountant. (a) Each institution shall, at least annually, have its financial statements audited by a qualified public accountant in accordance with...

12 CFR 621.4 - Audit by qualified public accountant.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2014 CFR

2014-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 7 2014-01-01 2014-01-01 false Audit by qualified public accountant. 621.4... REQUIREMENTS General Rules § 621.4 Audit by qualified public accountant. (a) Each institution shall, at least annually, have its financial statements audited by a qualified public accountant in accordance with...

12 CFR 621.4 - Audit by qualified public accountant.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2012 CFR

2012-01-01

... 12 Banks and Banking 7 2012-01-01 2012-01-01 false Audit by qualified public accountant. 621.4... REQUIREMENTS General Rules § 621.4 Audit by qualified public accountant. (a) Each institution shall, at least annually, have its financial statements audited by a qualified public accountant in accordance with...

The Status of Indiana Teachers' Environmental Knowledge and Attitudes.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Buethe, Chris

This study investigated the capability of Indiana elementary and secondary school teachers to deal effectively with education about the environment and related energy issues. Questions addressed were: (1) What do Indiana teachers know about their physical environment? (2) How do Indiana teachers feel about the environment? and (3) How do the…

Initiation into Teaching from the Perspective of Primary School Teachers: Differences between Newly Qualified and Experienced Teachers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Rodríguez, Ruth Cañón; Mayo, Isabel Cantón; Gago, Ana Rosa Arias; Álvarez, Roberto Baelo

2017-01-01

This study consists of an investigation into the experiences of new teachers in primary education in the province of León, during their initiation into teaching. The objective was to explore how they experience this stage, and to recognize the training needs that exist along with the degree of motivation and satisfaction expressed with the…

Tracking the Career Paths of Physics Teachers in Texas

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Mount, Jennifer; Marshall, Jill; Fuller, Edward

2013-10-01

In Texas, and some other states, there is a documented shortage of physics teachers, in terms of both number and qualifications. The shortage in Texas is due as much to teachers leaving the field (attrition) as to a lack of teachers entering. There are efforts under way to prepare more and better-qualified physics teachers who will stay in the field longer,2 but increasing the overall supply and retention will not necessarily address localized teacher shortages. To investigate this issue, we obtained a database cataloging every teacher who taught science in Texas public schools from 2003 to 2008, indicating the school where they taught during each of those years, the subjects they taught, and their route to certification. This allowed us to track not only teachers entering and leaving the public school system, but also migration between schools within the system. We found that migration poses a much bigger problem than attrition for some schools. We also found patterns in the movement of physics teachers in Texas that we would not necessarily have predicted and that varied substantially depending on certification.

Challenges Confronting Career-Changing Beginning Teachers: A Qualitative Study of Professional Scientists Becoming Science Teachers

NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS)

Watters, James J.; Diezmann, Carmel M.

2015-03-01

Recruitment of highly qualified science and mathematics graduates has become a widespread strategy to enhance the quality of education in the field of STEM. However, attrition rates are very high suggesting preservice education programs are not preparing them well for the career change. We analyse the experiences of professionals who are scientists and have decided to change careers to become teachers. The study followed a group of professionals who undertook a 1-year preservice teacher education course and were employed by secondary schools on graduation. We examined these teachers' experiences through the lens of self-determination theory, which posits autonomy, confidence and relatedness are important in achieving job satisfaction. The findings indicated that the successful teachers were able to achieve a sense of autonomy and confidence and, in particular, had established strong relationships with colleagues. However, the unique challenges facing career-change professionals were often overlooked by administrators and colleagues. Opportunities to build a sense of relatedness in their new profession were often absent. The failure to establish supportive relationships was decisive in some teachers leaving the profession. The findings have implications for both preservice and professional in-service programs and the role that administrators play in supporting career-change teachers.

26 CFR 1.405-1 - Qualified bond purchase plans.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

...) and Treasury Department Circular, Public Debt Series—No. 1-63. (b) Qualified bond purchase plans. (1...) Under a qualified bond purchase plan, the bonds may be distributed to the employees at any time, and the.... Accordingly, even though a qualified bond purchase plan is designed as a pension plan, it need not provide...

The Status of Proving among US Secondary Mathematics Teachers

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Kotelawala, Usha

2016-01-01

This report examines teachers' self-espoused attitudes and beliefs on proving in the secondary mathematics classroom. Conclusions were based on a questionnaire of 78 US mathematics teachers who had completed at least 2 years of teaching mathematics at the secondary level. While these teachers placed importance on proving as a general mathematical…

26 CFR 1.7704-3 - Qualifying income.

Code of Federal Regulations, 2010 CFR

2010-04-01

... 26 Internal Revenue 13 2010-04-01 2010-04-01 false Qualifying income. 1.7704-3 Section 1.7704-3 Internal Revenue INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY (CONTINUED) INCOME TAX (CONTINUED) INCOME TAXES General Actuarial Valuations § 1.7704-3 Qualifying income. (a) Certain investment income—(1...

Comprehensive School Physical Activity Programs: Recommendations for Physical Education Teacher Education

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Zhang, Xiaoxia; Gu, Xiangli; Zhang, Tao; Keller, Jean; Chen, Senlin

2018-01-01

Comprehensive school physical activity programs (CSPAPs) aim to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyles among school-age children and adolescents. Physical educators are highly qualified individuals taking on the role of certified physical activity leaders. Physical education teacher education (PETE) programs should consider preparing…

How's Business? Status Report #10 on For Profit Child Care.

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Neugebauer, Roger

1997-01-01

Examines trends in for-profit child care since the 1970s. Finds growth has been dramatic, but unsteady, with four companies dominating the industry. Executives' concerns have shifted from federal licensing standards, liability insurance, and the national economy to public school competition and the shortage of qualified teachers. Major service…

Being Influenced or Being an Influence: New Teachers' Induction Experiences

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Keay, Jeanne

2009-01-01

This article draws on and develops the outcomes of previous research which concluded that school subject departments provide the setting for influential professional development and that experienced teachers strongly influence their newly qualified colleagues. The findings of two subsequent research projects, which used this as a starting point,…

The Implementation of Graduate Education to Professional Performance: Teachers' Perspectives

ERIC Educational Resources Information Center

Berkant, Hasan Güner; Baysal, Seda

2017-01-01

One of the core figures of education system is undoubtfully the teacher who is expected to contribute dramatically to the qualified learning environment both with professional skills and with personal characteristics. Therefore, the need for graduate education and its significance to specialize in maintaining education after Bachelor's degree has…

26 CFR 1.405-1 - Qualified bond purchase plans.