Six Pittsburgh Schools? Teachers Honored for Excellence Each year teachers across the state of Pennsylvania have the chance to win educational grants. Only teachers of excellence are considered then the best are chosen to receive the grants. The two thousand five hundred dollar grants are awarded by the Teacher Excellence Center. This year?s grant recipients include six Pittsburgh Schools? teachers: Jennifer Ernsthausen, a third-grade teacher at Burgwin Elementary School i...

Melissa text messages her friend Nancy during a Macbeth exam in their fourth period English class: "4 iz B. No tchr cant c me ok. Meet u out front @ 3. L8tr!" Many professionals within the educational field would probably agree that cell phones do distract teens in class. Teachers have a list of numerous reasons why teens should not have cell phones at school or in the classroom. It is a reality that teen cell phone usage is here to stay and will only increase with time. T...

One of my favorite things about being an elementary school teacher is talking with my students about their dreams for what they will become as they grow up. I find that children have the most innocent and endearing dreams and ambitions. So each fall I spend a couple of afternoons discussing different professions with my students and bringing professionals in several common fields into the classroom to get the kids excited about careers. Not a year goes by when I am not surpri...

Cincinnati Pilot Schools Cincinnati Schools are pleased to announce that three area schools have been selected to participate in a nationwide pilot program to improve teacher quality. The three Cincinnati Public Schools chosen include John P. Parker School in Madisonville, South Avondale School in Avondale, and Whittier School in Price Hill. All the schools were chosen based on their federal ranking within the No Child Left Behind Act. The program is intended to show th...

Like many other school districts in large, metropolitan cities, New York City Schools currently have a shortage of qualified teachers, especially in the most challenging schools. Though state law requires teachers in the targeted critical subject areas of mathematics, science and special education to be certified, there are 600 positions now held by teachers without the proper credentials. This shortage, which covers all grades in the middle and high schools, demanded an inno...

I have a great love for all things Italian. I work in a translation agency dealing with Italian English language combination projects, I am getting fat on Italian food and I am even marrying a fantastic Italian girl, who is also a translator. So I hope to bring to you in this article not only an Italian English translation of the text. But also, a feel of the Italian culture and way of life. Italian Names for the Seasons - la primavera, l?estate, l?autunno, l?inverno T...

I met a retired engineer the other day and she told me she was half way through a TEFL training course. She wanted to know what I thought her chances were of finding a teaching job when she has completed the course. Well, I can't disguise the fact that there is a lot of age prejudice in the world of ELT. I think all sorts of reasons combine to make this a profession dominated by young teachers. First, it appeals to those who want to be able to see the world and gain experi...

In June 2006, the Ohio schools awarded more than $4 million in competitive grants to school districts across the state. The grants are funded by the U.S. Department of Education?s Mathematics and Science Partnership (MSP) program, and authorized by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. The MSP grants, which are funded throughout the 2006-2007 school year, will give 1,800 teachers in high-need Ohio schools the opportunity to increase their knowledge of mathematics and scien...

Have you noticed how a problem can grow the more you fix your attention on it? Do you lose sleep at night worrying about something that may or may not happen? Is it really a problem you have or is it something created and maintained by the mind? It is time to break the illusion and understand what a problem really is! Have you noticed that the above questions all contain an element of time. The great spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle said that there are no problems only life...

Musical teachers play a very different role than classroom teachers or professors. Education in the academic arena is based on the raw material: the books and lectures through which information is imparted. Students use what they have been taught in exams and in papers. Beyond learning how to read music, what a singing teacher primarily imparts is technique. While an English professor teaches you about what you have read ? and how to interpret it? singing teachers teach yo...