Sentences with phrase «great language teachers»

Great language teachers comprehend proficiency levels and teach their students about them.

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One of the best pieces of advice I had from Mary Ellen Chase, that superb teacher I was privileged to study with in college, was that anybody who was seriously considering writing as a profession must be completely familiar with the King James translation of the Bible, because the power of this great translation is the rock on which the English language stands.

Additionally a great teach abides by an code of ethics, approaches their training professionally, and has an ability to command the language in which they teacher — which means pitch, pace, volume, and the craft of pithy instruction.

As teachers, we have great influence over the language that our students internalize during a formative time.

Great science teachers help their students develop the language and culture of scientists as they engage in inquiry, formulate hypotheses, and test solutions.

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.

I do not take credit for all the resources, I worked with great teams of language teachers and together we developed what I believe are relevant, engaging and challenging resources for students and teacher.

Teachers call for greater Department for Education commitment to languages in schools — new Scholastic survey

«I am a language arts teacher,» he says with great pride and emotion.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

For those interested in the finer points of education policy, I'd also recommend: Alyson Klein on helping long - term English - language learners, Chad Aldeman on the difficulty of «raising the bar» for teacher preparation entry, Mike Petrilli's Education Next piece on a schools agenda for working - class families, Kathleen Porter Magee on a great - news story for Catholic schools, Nat Malkus on the Title I funding fight, and Paul Peterson on the «Bush - Obama» approach to reform.

As our second year progressed, we began to see some positive results: Our use of common teacher and student language about behavior and rules, the emphasis on teacher modeling, and a great deal of practice in living our constitution all helped make the school climate more peaceful and productive.

We had a great session where teachers shared classroom video and led mini-exercises so parents could get a real feel for how dual - language was working in the classrooms.

In Ohio's case, state law dictates that teachers on continuing contracts and those with greater seniority should have preference, language that is effectively emulated in 14 other states in the country.

Look at learning or mastery in fields as diverse as sports, the arts, languages, the sciences or recreational activities and the research evidence is clear: great teachers give great feedback, says Stephen Dinham.

There are many popular television shows and movies that can be great tools for English - language development, and it's probably a safe bet to say that Mr. Bean is one used by English teachers throughout the world.

The majority of communities in the United States have English language learners (ELLs) and consequently, the great majority of teachers are engaged in identifying how to serve this group of students.

Angela Sterling, former foreign languages teacher and founder of Lingotot added: «This is great news for the teaching of MFL in primary schools.

The knowledge - sharing website SlideShare is a great resource for presentations; this slide deck gives teachers ideas for how to use iPads with their elementary school students in the language arts classroom.

A number of national organizations, including the Council of the Great City Schools and the National Parent Teacher Association, have taken up that effort, publishing written materials and creating video and audio segments — in multiple languages — designed to explain the standards to parents, in clear, jargon - free terms.

As an elementary school English as a second language teacher, I find that many of Mobile Education Stores» apps are great.

Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day... English language teacher and author of Helping Students Motivate Themselves, Larry Ferlazzo blogs about teaching English and great education sites and articles.

Most of the researchers examining the effects of teachers on student test performance have concluded that math teachers have a greater effect on students» performance on math exams than English language arts teachers have on students» performance on English exams.

This work of identifying the building blocks in English language arts and math for students to learn in a logical and progressive manner will be of great use to teachers.

Classroom observation that is focused on specific behaviors and environmental factors can be a powerful instructional tool that provides a great deal of information to help teachers, principals, and other educators enhance language and literacy learning in early childhood classrooms.

Resistance might also be greater for high school teachers who typically view themselves as subject specialists, said veteran educator Ray Salazar, who blogs about his work teaching English language arts at a Chicago public high school.

There is a need in teacher preservice training and professional development for greater acknowledgement of the verbal aspects of mathematics and the subject's inextricable link to language.

Given the evidence on where teacher supply and pay shortfalls are greatest, it is encouraging the new recruitment measures are tightly focused on languages, science, and maths teachers, and will concentrate additional funding in «challenging schools» or parts of the country with acute supply issues.

Our new 6 +1 Trait Writing institute addresses one of the greatest challenges teachers face today: how to scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English language learners, students with special needs and gifted and talented students — so that all students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers.

Dr. Chen's book is a great guide to expanding teachers» knowledge of the «how's» of acquiring a second language through the acceptance first of the home language.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

The teacher's union introduced language to, as stated in an October 10th statement, «give more resources to schools with greater numbers of high needs students.»

While exploring the answers to these questions will take a great deal of teacher intuition, we do know that a good place to begin is with a conscious and strategic effort toward building the academic language of all students, so that they can make sense of what they read.

While poverty and language barriers continue to be the greatest factors influencing educational outcomes, the education reformers from the Governor's Office and the Commissioner's Office, on down, continue to tell us that if we just close schools, dump the administrators and teachers and open them back up under new names and new management, all will be well.

Committee Chairman Sen. Lamar Alexander (R - TN) questioned Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers and Dr. Nora Gordon from the McCourt School of Public Policy about their about her greatest concerns with the language.

For instance, mathematics teacher Joseph Assof's purpose for one day included goals for content (to use our understanding of linear functions as a foundation for mathematical modeling with average rate of change), language (to use familiar terms to build greater understanding of rates of change), and social learning (to enrich our lesson by participating in whole - class discussions).

For students experiencing difficulty with organizing and memorizing information, teachers may use: (1) mnemonic devices such as the acronym HOMES, which stands for the names of the Great Lakes; (2) riddles, poems, and songs for remembering important people, places, and events; (3) check lists and calendars for organizing and completing assignments; (4) color coding for organizing and accessing materials and assignments (for example, different colored notebooks or dividers for different assignments and subjects); and (5) multisensory assignments and activities for remembering more fully an experience or more thoroughly grasping a concept from a concrete example (for example, construction projects, three - dimensional maps, textured artifacts, period music, dance, and dress, regional dialects and languages, and samples of various cuisines).

They're the ones that came to us and said, «We see what you're doing in your English as a second language classrooms and we have this great resource called Colorín and we had heard about it, and they said, «We need professional development for our teachers.»

There is a great need in Chinese language education for research - based information, examples of best practices, and useful resources for administrators, teachers, and parents.

This typically involves changes in (a) textual materials (that is, moving from commercially prepared short stories and text excerpts to original literature as a basis for instruction); (b) curriculum organization (such as moving from isolated instruction in reading, writing, language, and subject matter to intra - and interdisciplinary teaching); and (c) changes in roles and contexts (that is, the teacher moving from controlling topics and turns to assuming a supportive instructional role, while students take greater responsibility for topic selection, discussion, and assessment of their own progress).

The increase in strategies and activities, in particular, demonstrates that after the initial course the teachers provided greater support for language and thinking in connection to the content and language objectives.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

With two billion people expected to be using or learning English by 2020, the need for teachers with high quality, internationally recognised English language teaching qualifications has never been greater.

On Friday 22nd April Discovery Education celebrated the life and legacy of the greatest writer of English language and literature, with a broadcast for teachers and students across the globe.

This online graduate certificate program offers K - 12 teachers greater background in the development, assessment and instruction of literacy for diverse learners, including children and youth who speak dialects of English or are English language learners.

These are great for foreign language teachers.

English teachers are great guides to teaching informational text because they bring special tools to the table — they know how to analyze and interpret rhetoric and language.

Computing and languages not only appear to have the greatest numbers considering leaving teaching, but these subjects also have some of the greatest shortfalls in new teachers being recruited (just 70 and 87 percent of the target, according to provisional figures for 2015/16).

«Teachers realize that while their own impact on children is great, it is not as great as the influence of many other factors, including but not limited to poverty, language proficiency, home life, learning disabilities, level of parental involvement and education, and access to proper facilities and technologies,» said West Hartford teacher Ted Goerner.

Wow, I've been researching language learning strategies recently, and this looks like a great tool for helping teachers incorporate some direct cognitive strategy practice into their instruction (in a fun way).