Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...balloon release yesterday in front of Tobin Elementary School culminated a week of discussions in Cambridge schools aimed at assisting children to cope with the January 28 tragedy, said Kate Conway, a teacher at Tobin...
...three firms hire only certified teachers, many of them moonlighting at about $6-$10 an hour; and none permits a pupil-to-teacher ratio of more than 3 to 1. "We're doing all the things the schools would do if they could afford it," says Paula Singer, a vice president at Reading Game. Public school people agree. "There's no way public schools can match the attention given to just three students at a time," says Joseph Condon, assistant superintendent of the Ocean View school district in Huntington Beach, Calif., where Reading Game has its headquarters...
...Sylvan center in Walnut Creek, Calif., Aaron Ruiz, 8, frowns before an audiovisual machine. Like many other youngsters, Aaron has had learning problems: his school wanted to put him into special-education classes, but his mother brought him to Sylvan. A teacher shows Aaron flash cards that say HUG, LUG. He misreads the first word as bug, then catches his mistake. When he corrects it and completes the test successfully, the teacher rewards him with four yellow tokens. These can be exchanged at the "Sylvan store," where pupils trade their accumulated tokens for such goodies as Super GoBots, giant sunglasses...
...cost of setting up a franchise with Sylvan or Huntington is around $50,000 to $100,000, depending on size. The typical licensee is a businessman; Huntington Founder Ray Huntington was a business analyst for AT&T. Sylvan's president Berry Fowler, however, was a junior high art teacher until he switched to tutoring at one of the early Reading Game centers, then jumped ship to form his own organization...
Ferguson's teaching has benefited from having experienced students in class. "My interaction with them over time shapes my teaching and a lot of material I teach from comes from student projects," he says. "In a teacher, experience accumulates and gives a big overview that no individual can have...