Sentences with phrase «give teachers and educators»

The Master of Education is meant to give teachers and educators a step up from their competition, teaching them leadership qualities and giving them valuable experience.

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In K - 12 education, teachers, educators, and school leaders can create environments in the classroom that change students» mindsets by implicitly and explicitly giving them messages around belonging and possibility.

We know that teachers need choices and flexibility, so we're excited to give Nature on the Go teachers a choice for the second part of the program, which takes place after a Nature Museum educator visits the classroom.

In its review of the contract, Educators 4 Excellence, an advocacy group of teachers that often was aligned with the Bloomberg administration's goals, gave the contract a barely passing grade and said it «overlooked several critical issues,» such as class sizes and a tenure - granting process that the group believes ought to be more closely linked to teacher performance.

«What we're putting together is going to give the commissioner a more direct picture of how this is impacting parents, educators and especially our children,» said Larry Scott, co-chair of the Buffalo Parent - Teacher Organization.

In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.

Workshops on themes as varied as «flying on stage», «the theatre of science», or «stem cell research» and «gamma - ray bursts», will give the attendees — teachers and other science educators — the chance to discuss and come up with solutions to the problem of growing disinterest for science in Europe.

April 12, 2018 • Gov. Doug Ducey gave in to some of the educators» demands and promised to boost teacher salaries in increments over three years.

Teachers play a vital role in our society and we must ensure that they are given the support they need — otherwise our schools may miss out on talented and inspirational educators, and in the end it will be the students who will pay the price.

We at Edutopia strongly believe that technology enables teachers, parents, and students to achieve new heights more efficiently, but with the NCLB clock relentlessly ticking, even saving time may not be enough to give educators a chance to read about tech and pass the word to parents.

By setting high, clear learning goals and giving teachers and local officials full control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.

Today, museum educators are creating powerful experiences that give students — and their teachers — the space for critical thinking and authentic engagement.

With TeacherTube, Smith aims to fill a gap in teacher professional development, giving educators access to teaching methods, instructional videos, and sample lessons from around the world.

He also urged Australia to truly value its schools and teachers, saying education is one of Australia's greatest assets, but won't stay that way without giving educators the cultural and capital support that they need to do their jobs.

In June, I spoke at the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom conference, a passionate group of teachers, park rangers, and nonprofit educators who are giving students a deeper, more meaningful connection to the history of slavery in our nation.

While the study focuses on the kinds of technology being brought into the classroom and used by educators at home and in the classroom, little is reported about how this has changed teachers» pedagogical approaches aside from how they give and collect assignments.

They need to either give on - the - ground educators the authority and resources to make technology adoption and implementation decisions, or they need to work very closely with students, teachers, and school leaders to ensure that top - down efforts will effectively address educators» day - to - day challenges.

«My practicum in particular gave me concrete ideas about organization and working within the system for the benefit of my students,» she says, noting that many aspects of the program helped her grow as an educator including advanced teaching methods courses with Associate Professor Tina Grotzer and Boles» course Teachers, Leadership, and Power, where she learned that teaching goes beyond being able to work alongside other tTeachers, Leadership, and Power, where she learned that teaching goes beyond being able to work alongside other teachersteachers.

Without widespread agreement on what good teachers need to know and be able to do, and given the skepticism among professional educators about the fairness or value of standardized assessments, NCATE has little leeway for assessing outcomes without inspiring controversy.

Teachers / educators also need to have collected and measured data to give feedback on those criteria.

Prior to travelling, I joined the fifteen teachers and Dr. De Mello for five sessions of pre-trip lecture - discussions led by Primary Source, a Boston based organization that provides educators with professional workshops given by regional experts (www.primarysource.org).

We designed a free three - day teacher - training workshop to give educators active - learning tools, showing them how to conduct action research, gather data and analyze their own teaching practices, engage students with critical - thinking exercises, and more.

As teachers, educators, and thought leaders, giving certification to our students is one of the highest honors.

Remember the time WizIQ was giving free memberships to all educators and K - 12 teachers?Many teachers are apprehensive of online platforms for a fact that they believe them to be money - minting, teacher - neglecting companies.

Expanding collective bargaining for teachers to more states and to more education issues will give educators greater voice, and in so doing, indirectly strengthen the voice of students.

And so, when parents and teachers and educators and policymakers are aware of all the other benefits that reading brings, it should give added impetus to trying to do something to maximise time spent in the classroom and spent in the home [readinAnd so, when parents and teachers and educators and policymakers are aware of all the other benefits that reading brings, it should give added impetus to trying to do something to maximise time spent in the classroom and spent in the home [readinand teachers and educators and policymakers are aware of all the other benefits that reading brings, it should give added impetus to trying to do something to maximise time spent in the classroom and spent in the home [readinand educators and policymakers are aware of all the other benefits that reading brings, it should give added impetus to trying to do something to maximise time spent in the classroom and spent in the home [readinand policymakers are aware of all the other benefits that reading brings, it should give added impetus to trying to do something to maximise time spent in the classroom and spent in the home [readinand spent in the home [reading].

This year, Raspberry Pi offered the opportunity to participate in physical computing and STEAM workshops — jointly led by Raspberry Pi Certified Educators, Picademy Teacher Trainers, community members, Code Club staff and volunteers, as well as the young Creative Technologists — giving you the opportunity to get hands - on with computer science.

Given that a majority of teachers hail from a middle class European - American background, the biggest obstacle to successful culturally responsive instruction for most educators is disposing of their own cultural biases and learning about the backgrounds of the students that they will be teaching.

The quality of teacher training will be crucial to the success of the new Common Core State Standards in math, educators say, and the pressure is on districts to give elementary school teachers the skills they'll need to provide students with a firm foundation in early arithmetic.

Carla Tantillo Philibert's Everyday SEL in Elementary School gives inspiring, practical advice and lessons to help educators in classrooms and schoolwide meet their students» social and emotional needs, says upper elementary teacher Linda Biondi.

«Across the country, states, districts, and educators are leading the way in developing innovative assessments that measure students» academic progress; promote equity by highlighting achievement gaps, especially for our traditionally underserved students; and spur improvements in teaching and learning for all our children,» stated U.S. Secretary of Education John B. King Jr. «Our proposed regulations build on President Obama's plan to strike a balance around testing, providing additional support for states and districts to develop and use better, less burdensome assessments that give a more well - rounded picture of how students and schools are doing, while providing parents, teachers, and communities with critical information about students» learning.»

Still, many California educators and school administrators are questioning how their state will meet the new requirement, given students» persistent struggles in that subject and the potential demand it will generate for more math teachers and classroom resources.

His respect for the difficulty of the work that educators face has given him widespread credibility among teachers and administrators in the district.

In this follow - up, we speak to one of the teachers involved in the study about adopting the approach for his Year 12 Specialist Maths course, how he went about creating hundreds of video resources, and his advice for educators who want to give flipped learning a go.

And when the district recently made public the average teacher salary increases under the new pact — ranging from 2.5 percent to 4 percent per year — it didn't include what can be lucrative raises given to educators who earn master's degrees and other graduate crediAnd when the district recently made public the average teacher salary increases under the new pact — ranging from 2.5 percent to 4 percent per year — it didn't include what can be lucrative raises given to educators who earn master's degrees and other graduate crediand other graduate credits.

Given this potential, teacher educators and researchers should continue exploration of Twitter and other forms of social media as tools for professional networking and engagement to support the ongoing development of a future generation of teachers.

Marzano recommends using multiple measures for teacher evaluation, and urges administrators to conduct as many observations as possible, given the realities of most educators» schedules.

Given such a stance, teacher educators should be ready, willing, and able to provide opportunities (explanation and demonstrations) to use technologies specifically to support all student learning.

Support Educators for Excellence through a tax - deductible donation and help teachers identify pressing issues that impact their profession, create solutions to shared challenges, and advocate for policies and programs that give all students an equal opportunity to receive a quality education.

The iNACOL Blended and Online Learning Teacher of the Year Award is given to a K - 12 educator whose efforts as a personalized, blended and / or online teacher exemplify to the highest degree their commitment to student success, knowledge and skill as a professional educator, and dedication to the field of blended and online teTeacher of the Year Award is given to a K - 12 educator whose efforts as a personalized, blended and / or online teacher exemplify to the highest degree their commitment to student success, knowledge and skill as a professional educator, and dedication to the field of blended and online teteacher exemplify to the highest degree their commitment to student success, knowledge and skill as a professional educator, and dedication to the field of blended and online teaching.

These include the EdRising Academy curriculum for teachers and schools that want to start cocurricular programs, Educators Rising «Beginning to Teach» micro-credentials to give students the opportunity to showcase their growing skills, and more.

I think that individual contracts for teachers are the kinds of progressive ideas that can give both teachers and taxpayers more confidence in alternative compensation plans for educators.

I value and believe strongly in articulating an identity of a teacher educator as an education professional operating in a «third space» as a boundary spanner working in a territory given little attention in the scholarly literature.

Teachers unions, critical of Obama's plan, say educators should be given far more funding and other help to lift the performance of struggling students.

This issue of Policy Priorities explores how education leaders should rethink the use and rules of social media in schools to harness their potential to enhance access, engagement, communication, and learning in a way that benefits students, educators, and families, while giving students and teachers opportunities to understand and practice responsible, ethical uses of social media.»

As stated before, perhaps surprisingly, these levels of knowledge were indicated in Bloom's original work — factual, conceptual, and procedural — but these were never fully understood or used by teachers because most of what educators were given in training consisted of a simple chart with the listing of levels and related accompanying verbs.

Smaller private schools will be expected to share resources by offering up teachers to give lessons in local state schools, and independent educators must offer more scholarships and bursaries to pupils who can not afford fees.

The dozen educators who stood trial, including five teachers and a principal, were indicted in 2013 after years of questions about how Atlanta students had substantially improved their scores on the Criterion - Referenced Competency Test, a standardized examination given throughout Georgia.

The candidate said she wanted to know whether annual tests give teachers and parents good information about a student's strengths and weaknesses, and whether they help educators improve instruction.

Several teachers were invited to give TedX - style power speeches to the audience of several hundred educators and -LSB-...]