Sentence examples for improving professional development from inspiring English sources

MS. BOUNDY: Money is obviously relevant to capacity building -- for example, improving professional development for teachers.

Federal education officials said the program would seek to bring together state and district officials, union leaders, teachers and other educators to address a range of issues, among them tightening tenure rules, increasing salaries and improving professional development.

As American educators try to change the culture of teaching from a solo enterprise with the teacher as information disseminator to a more collaborative and reflective process, they are looking to Japan for ideas on improving professional development opportunities for teachers.

The Academy for Educational Development AED Center for Youth Development and Policy Researchch was a leading player in the Stronger Staff-Stronger Youth initiative that had the goal of improving professional development for youth workers (Astroth et al. 2004).

Other threats to improving professional development in the OST field are scarce resources, unstable funding, limited training opportunities and a lack of affordable transportation to training sites (Bowie and Bronte-Tinkew 2006).

We recently surveyed 1,600 trustees to find why people become trustees and the top reason was to 'give something back' (55%), second to gain new skills and improve professional development (33%), and third because they were committed to a charity's cause (30%).

Some incentives to improve professional development are included in health worker benefits.

"This is an important report," says Gerry Wheeler, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, "because it hits on two key points: the need to pare down the number of requirements in the current standards, and the need to offer better professional development to improve teacher content knowledge.

Concepts such as, improving professional standards, duty of care, ethical obligations, confidentiality and understanding, training and development were regularly discussed.

Instead, I would urge Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Sanders to stand behind the state universities that are dedicated to improving the professional development of educational leaders.

"The schools white paper reflects the importance this government attaches to these subjects by exploring ways in which to attract the best graduates in science and maths into the teaching profession as well as improving continued professional development for teachers of all subjects.