Sentences with phrase «classroom teachers serving»

Mr. Gilbert transitioned into the role of a first grade classroom teacher serving students living in Northeast Philadelphia.

It is important to note that the classroom teacher served solely as an observer in the prior year's work, and the students involved in this research had not been engaged in any prior activities centered on historical thinking.

Much research has supported the fact that the classroom teacher serves as the single greatest «in - school» factor in impacting levels of student academic achievement.

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Many philosophers are themselves classroom teachers whose personal experiences may serve to concretize their more theoretical speculations about teaching and learning.

The Early Learning Center also serves as a learning lab where New Legacy students explore healthy child development and positive parenting and then apply the learning — in collaboration with the early learning teachers — in the classrooms.

Sunbridge's proximity to Green Meadow allows our students to experience the life and environment of Waldorf Education, including serving as assistants and student teachers in the classrooms there.

Teachers have created classroom projects by asking their students to write to men and women serving their country in distant lands.

Barbara has served as a classroom teacher, a laboratory school instructor, and a university instructor.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

Texas requires schools with more than 80 percent of students eligible for free and reduced - cost lunch to serve universal free breakfast, but not necessarily Breakfast in the Classroom, a program where students eat the hot breakfast or cereal in the classroom with their teacher and peers.

And if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your kids in their school classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.»

While serving as an elementary classroom teacher in the Toronto District School Board, she was actively involved in identifying and supporting numerous children with autism and other special needs.

Breakfast in the Classroom — Breakfast is served in the classroom under the supervision of the teacher.

He has served as legislative assistant to Congressman Henry Waxman, researcher and editor, classroom teacher, and Outward Bound instructor.

Also in many of the Asian schools the teachers eat with the children because the food is brought to the classrooms and the teachers serve the children.

Council members expressed their concerns to her about services to homeless students, the delivery of free breakfast in the classroom, and teacher training in schools that serve high - need communities.

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.

Blevins and LeCompte found that teachers serve as important gatekeepers in determining how civics education is taught in their classrooms, including moving towards an environment that «embraces the skills of today's digital natives.»

GenYes students teach their teachers about technology, serve as technology assistants in the classroom, and maintain the IT infrastructure of the school.

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.

Students with disabilities are served by a system of policy and practice that extends from expansive federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within one classroom.

When teachers regularly check for understanding in the classroom, students become increasingly aware of monitoring their own understanding, which serves as a model of good study skills.

Arne Duncan, the Obama administration's secretary of education, having previously served as schools superintendent in Chicago, one of the nation's most troubled school districts, gave back - to - back speeches early in his tenure decrying the state of the field: «By almost any standard, many if not most of the nation's 1,450 schools, colleges, and departments of education are doing a mediocre job of preparing teachers for the realities of the 21st - century classroom,» and «America's university - based teacher preparation programs need revolutionary change, not evolutionary thinking.»

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire teachers for their entire careers.

NSTA also focuses on supporting a cooperative relationship among substitute teachers, regular classroom teachers, administrators, parents, and legislators, one that will ultimately serve the critical educational needs of our nation's students.

The report pointedly notes the fact that new teachers enter the classroom ill - prepared «serves the political agenda of both teacher education and education reformers alike.»

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

She served as Lead Educational Technologist at the Ross School and the Ross Global Academy Charter School where she worked with teachers to integrate new and innovative technologies in k - 12 classrooms.

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

If you're a classroom teacher and are interested in trying out this idea, here are a few questions that might serve as a good point of departure for teaching discipline:

The public, on the other hand, is best served when administrators put the most effective teachers in the classroom, and ask the least effective to find other lines of work.

Licensure, for the most part, has served its basic purpose of keeping dangerous people out of the classroom, ensuring that teachers are literate and numerate, and enforcing training and coursework requirements.

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.

When I was an elementary classroom teacher, I always welcomed activities that could serve dual duty — combining the goals of two subjects at once, in a seamless whole.

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

As a long - time classroom teacher, and as an advocate for excellence in teaching, I am very excited to serve as the Faculty Director of L&T.

Students serve both the teacher and the student in the classroom.

• When schools lack expert teachers because of shortages stemming from geographic limitations or attrition, for example; • When expert teachers must serve a wide range of student needs in a single classroom by personalizing learning for each student; • And when expert teachers much teach more than academic content.

There's evidence that certification, for example, may serve to exclude some teachers we might want in the classroom.

At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

I do not think the game will serve to learn when you are outside the classroom, I think it has to be induced by the community of teachers to be experienced in the classroom, and to be used every week to learn through play and to progress and strengthen traditional content that the student is studying, but through play.

Every first - period teacher who has looked across a classroom of drooping eyelids and nodding heads is familiar with the effect of a high school day that starts at 7:30 A.M. Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Associated Press, «Sleep not only serves as a restorative function for adolescents» bodies and brains, but it also is a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.»

In a classroom setting, time - strapped teachers charged with serving an array of students often feel pressed to move on after a fixed amount of time practicing, especially if the class is growing restless while only a few students seem to need more practice and feedback.

Could community experts serve important teacher roles in the maker classroom?

Thus we suspect any given classroom and teacher may only need to be observed for a few hours to achieve a reliable description of practice that could serve as the basis for a professional development plan.

This fall she served on teacher focus groups while also designing and piloting new curriculum in her classroom, which she will continue doing throughout the rest of the school year.

Serving classroom teachers and instructional leaders with news, information, opinion, and service journalism, the online Education Week Teacher promotes professional engagement, idea - sharing, and a lively but civil discourse on issues of education policy and teacher prTeacher promotes professional engagement, idea - sharing, and a lively but civil discourse on issues of education policy and teacher prteacher practice.

As classroom teachers struggle daily to design learning experiences that serve students» unique abilities, backgrounds, learning styles, and interests, a very practical approach promises to assist them in their quest — differentiated instruction.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.