Sentences with phrase «as a classroom teacher who»

As a classroom teacher who taught in Aboriginal communities for many years and then as a researcher working with minority language students, I have long questioned why particular groups of minority students tend to under - perform in school.

As a classroom teacher who has been using the standards for the past three years, I can say with certainty that turning back now would be a huge mistake.

As a classroom teacher who has also worked as a neurologist, Judy Willis offers a unique perspective on how to help students not only learn the mechanics of reading and comprehension, but also develop a love of reading.

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«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts who consult Hollywood filmmakers to create free classroom activities for teachers, including software and iPad apps, to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics to give students the chance to solve problems as real - life scientists would.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

Or maybe teachers who didn't rely on suspensions as a default punishment were able to find other methods of calming down unruly students and restoring order and peace to a chaotic classroom.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

As a preschool and kindergarten teacher, I saw first - hand how children who started school prepared were able to thrive in the classroom, while children who started school with gaps in their development struggled.

Millennials, who as a rule like to do things their own way, are finding unusual, special and varied names for their babies, leading to grandparents who have learned to keep their opinions to themselves and classroom teachers who may have to guess at a child's gender before the first day of class.

But as the husband of a teacher who has taught for years in city classrooms, it also seemed as if there was only one practical and moral resolution:

After all, he's the man who will negotiate the new state budget and have a major say on such issues as raising the minimum wage, getting bad teachers out of the classroom and increasing funding for buses and subways, as well as Metro - North and the Long Island Rail Road.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

As a kid his Christmas present every year was a day in the classroom with his parents who were design teachers.

Some New York City teachers who got in trouble for insubordination or sleeping on the job who are part of the Absent Teacher Reserve could be permanently back in classrooms, as the Education Department places them in jobs this month.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome ProjecAs a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

«Emoticons help gauge school happiness level in young children: A simple new questionnaire based on emoticon - style facial expressions could help teachers and others who work with children as young as four to engage them on their happiness and wellbeing levels in the classroom.»

A simple new questionnaire based on emoticon - style facial expressions could help teachers and others who work with children as young as four to engage them on their happiness and wellbeing levels in the classroom.

Dr Lyonette added: «Those women who did survive all these struggles tended to do quite well but many either dropped out and returned to their old job or finished the degree and then went into a job which didn't really require a degree at all such as a classroom assistant instead of a teacher.

In fact, of those teachers who use video games in the classroom, more than half have kids play them as part of the curriculum at least once a week, according to a national survey released by education researchers at Joan Ganz Cooney Center in June.

The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

And for the teachers who follow along with me here on This Season's Gold, Maggy London has 30 % off plus a special giveaway for teachers to win over $ 500 for your classroom as well as several dresses from the Maggy London brand and more.

It stars French - Algerian comedian Mohamed Fellag in a decidedly non-comedic role, as Bashir Lazhar, an Algerian immigrant who takes over teaching duties in a Montreal elementary school after the previous much - beloved teacher hangs herself in the classroom.

The teacher's concern should be to be present near the microphone as well to ensure quietness in the classroom and clear speech by students who need to be aware of the whole project.

The esteemed academic, currently serving as president of Morgan State University in Baltimore, is flooded with memories of hot summer days walking the long miles between the school and his home (often barefoot to save his shoes), of early classroom lessons taught by a strict but caring teacher, of his beloved family members who reside here in great number.

It is now seeking eight new classroom teachers to join as trustees, who will be involved in leading the organisation as it opens membership to teachers and schools across the country.

Breaux: Research has proven time and again that it is the teacher who makes the difference in the classroom; just as it is the pilot who makes the difference on the airplane; just as it is the surgeon who makes the difference in the operating room.

The proportion of new teachers training with the charity who identified as LGBT + has increased from five per cent of those who started in classrooms in 2014 to nine per cent who joined at the beginning of this school year in September 2017.

The recommendations in this Review come, as usual, from a panel of «experts» who have either never been classroom teachers at any time or have been away from the classroom long enough to forget what it is actually like to teach an inclusive class of 25 or more children from 9 am to 3.30 pm for five days a week.

Dr. Farber is a former classroom teacher who led the way in bringing games to the classroom, as an academic on the topic and as an author about the implementation of games in the classroom.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

In fact ~ gifted education concepts can really assist general classroom teachers ~ as well as those who work with higher performing students ~ in meeting their learning goals by differentiating instruction and helping to build upon students strengths and interests.

This text provides a great information for both the new teacher who has just started using e-learning in the classroom as well as the seasoned veteran looking for new ideas to bring to their students.

Teachers who have never worked with computers in this way often struggle with the concepts of computational thinking and there is still a great deal of confusion in the classroom around certain terminology, such as «algorithm» for example, particularly at Key Stage One.

As a special education teacher and tutor who coaches struggling students (many with ADHD), I have found several classroom strategies to be effective.

We include in our study only those staff members who serve as regular classroom or special education teachers.

Similarly, in a case study of four middle school math teachers who participated in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their classrooms, teachers in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and learning» in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).

As part of that approach at Grand Avenue, at the end of each month each classroom teacher names between one and three Above the Line leaders who exhibited exemplary Above the Line behavior.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

He addressed K - 12 education, too, but only on the «compulsory attendance» and «teacher quality» fronts — and while the latter hinted at merit pay and nodded at schools having the flexibility to «replace» instructors «who just aren't helping kids learn» — mostly what he did was urge more money for schools - as - we - know - them and those who teach in their classrooms.

Soble explains that exposure to the insights and ideas of others who use Project Zero ideas in their classrooms and schools allows her to continue her own education as a teacher, even as she's working as a PZC faculty member.

As the teacher of gifted and the enrichment specialist at my school ~ I asked classroom teachers for recommendations on students ~ who performed exceptionally well in the area of science.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The question is whether teachers who were dismissed for low evaluation scores in the districts we studied would have received substantively different evaluation scores if their classroom observation scores had been adjusted as we recommend.

CNN's site is a fine resource for any teacher who is eager to include this newsmaking event as part of their classroom curriculum.

Both peer evaluators (experienced classroom teachers who serve as full - time evaluators for three years) and administrators must complete an intensive training course and accurately score videotaped teaching examples according to a specific rubric.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

The officials who run the schools and the teachers who helm the classrooms must feel as if their jobs and per - quisites are in jeopardy if they fail to stem enrollment losses to independent charter and private schools.

«Here's the story on historical fiction in my classroom: It illuminates time periods, helps me integrate the curriculum, and enriches social studies,» says Tarry Lindquist, a fifth - grade teacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thteacher on Mercer Island, Washington, who was recognized by the National Council for the Social Studies as National Elementary Teacher of thTeacher of the Year.

Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3 - 5, 6 - 8, 9 - 12 As the name suggest this site offers elementary art lessons from retired teacher, Sandy Meadors, who has twenty nine years of experience working with elementary students in the art classroom.