Sentences with phrase «teacher professional development projects»

This is why government is committed to the Teacher Professional Development Projects (T - TEL).

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Different stakeholders, such as farmers, policy makers, students and teachers, research and development professionals, medical and health practitioners, and media and public information officers, including those from women's groups and the religious sectors were briefed about the project from July to September 2017.

The partnership has finished dozens of research projects and has more than 30 now under way, as well as providing ongoing professional development programs for principals, top - level administrators, teachers and student teachers.

The governor's budget, which is meant to close a projected $ 7.4 billion budget deficit, eliminated funding for UFT Teacher Centers, a nationally recognized, research - based professional development program.

Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

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 Project.

Through professional development workshops, AAAS's Project 2061 helps science educators — from elementary school teachers through college faculty — take a more coherent approach to teaching and learning.

The program involves product development and professional development workshops, including MAVEN Educator Ambassador Project, Space Science Teachers Summit, and Red Planet, and management and evaluation for the aforementioned activities.

The Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors project is aimed to measurably enhance student STEM engagement and achievement in selected school districts via professional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matprofessional development for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject mattdevelopment for teachers consisting of: (1) STEM Professional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matProfessional Development in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject mattDevelopment in astrophysics and planetary science delivered via webinars & in - person workshops; (2) a week - long STEM immersion experience at NASA's science research aircraft facility in Palmdale, California, including participation in research flights on the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA); (3) follow - through involving continuing webinars fostering reflection and connections with astrophysics & planetary science subject matter experts.

The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.

BTI hosts professional development programs linking high school science teachers and students with BTI researchers in collaborative research projects.

The Oxygen Project offers regular yoga programming for youth in schools and community organizations and yoga classes and professional development for teachers and youth service providers.

This resulted in the idea for a new project database that teachers are now creating over the summer as part of their professional development.

In our study, teachers had no prior experience using a project - based approach, and we had limited time to devote to professional development (about three hours initially, with brief videos introducing subsequent units and an average of 11 visits from coaches), so it was important for the unit and session plans to provide considerable support through explicitness and detail.

Summit's PLP (a free platform that comes with professional development tools and customizable, teacher - created, project - based curricula, including virtual textbooks, curated resources, and assessments) allows students to learn at their own pace, track their progress, and reflect on feedback.

«This project will follow science teachers through real astronomy research experiences in collaboration with scientist mentors as part of their professional development.

The Science Teachers Learning from Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) project is a professional - development program that uses video - based analysis of practice to improve teacher and student learning at the upper elementary level.

He has also led experimental studies of several widely used teacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervteacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading IntervTeacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention.

Lenz and Director of Instruction Jeannette LaFors spend much of their time working with schools: meeting weekly with school principals and teachers at their campuses, analyzing and reflecting on results, building out Envision's professional development programs, and working with teachers to create tools that can support projects.

Teachers who complete professional development tasks, for example, would be eligible for bonuses, as would teachers who collaborated on a project linked to creating school programs to raise achievement or who worked on valuable individual pTeachers who complete professional development tasks, for example, would be eligible for bonuses, as would teachers who collaborated on a project linked to creating school programs to raise achievement or who worked on valuable individual pteachers who collaborated on a project linked to creating school programs to raise achievement or who worked on valuable individual projects.

The Metro Nashville district in Tennessee began an intensive high - school - redesign process six years ago, and, about three years ago, officials there began developing an intensive professional development strategy to help high school teachers improve their work in project - based learning.

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

«Several members of the HGSE faculty, including me, had a preview of the professional development workshop that the Silk Road team plans to bring to New York City public school teachers,» said Harvard Graduate School of Education Dean Kathleen McCartney, who welcomed Ma and Silk Road Project members at a formal dinner.

The institute currently works with over 300 schools in the UK and abroad to facilitate student - led research projects and empowers teachers in STEM through its bespoke accredited continuing professional development (CPD) programmes, downloadable classroom material and dedicated staff.

Each year, The Jason Project, the granddaddy of online exploration, offers a new scientific expedition designed to engage and educate students and provide professional development for teachers.

Through various projects focusing on professional development in the STEM subjects and digital skills, teachers are provided with support in delivering new elements of a future - facing curriculum, where their students will be working with new technologies and developments that were not even thought of just a decade or so ago.

A second step would be to design more - effective professional development and training systems for teachers, a project that could also benefit K — 12.

This project will advance the goal of improving K - 12 teacher professional development and curricular interventions for STEM disciplines in the United States.

The project team will utilize meta - analytic techniques to estimate the impact of STEM teacher professional development and novel curriculum materials on student outcomes, and analyze the relationships between program effectiveness and key moderators identified in the literature, such as duration, intensity, format, grade and disciplinary topic, and alignment with NCTM / NSTA standards.

The AEU is also calling for greater investment in teacher professional development and principal support, along with greater investment in school infrastructure and building projects to make up for the Coalition government's cuts over the past four years.

There were such incentives as the Michigan laptop project; in which teachers who completed requirements for professional development ended up with a laptop they could use in their professional and personal lives.

103 English teachers were stratified by school and grade and then randomly assigned to the Pathway Project professional development intervention or control group.

In a previous post I described the first of three project - based learning (PBL) professional development sessions I facilitated for our Innovate Salisbury team, a team of 15 teachers engaging with building leaders, district leaders, and other experts / thought leaders to help shape the vision for teaching and learning in our classrooms.

For teachers, BIE offers professional development on how to design, assess, and manage projects that engage and motivate students.

Eric Hirsch, director of special projects with The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, observes, «When you ask teachers what conditions matter most in terms of their future career plans and student learning, professional development has come in last on every survey we've done.»

Kim has also led experimental studies of several widely used teacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervteacher professional development interventions for improving reading and writing outcomes in the elementary and secondary grades, including the Pathway Project, Teacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading IntervTeacher Study Groups, and the Strategic Adolescent Reading Intervention.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

The New Teacher Project (TNTP) recently looked at professional development in large school districts and a charter school network and concluded that «We found no evidence that any particular kind or amount of professional development consistently helps teachers improve.»

The projects will take on various tasks, such as recruiting high - quality teachers, providing professional development to current teachers, improving textbook material, and encouraging students to take challenging coursework.

Despite the challenges that effective technology integration poses for educators, there is hope in the powerful suggestions provided by preservice teachers and those teachers who continue their professional development through opportunities like the National Writing Project and its regional and state sites across the country.

She is a Senior Mathematics Associate at the Education Development Center (EDC) where she is the implementation director for the Pathways to Mathematics Achievement Study and is a mathematics specialist for the NSF - funded Formative Assessment in the Mathematics Classroom: Engaging Teachers and Students (FACETS) and Differentiated Professional Development: Building Mathematics Knowledge for Teaching Struggling Students (DPD) projects.

The Framework 2021 project involves development of the Framework, professional development on the topic of shared leadership for a cadre of teacher leaders who are involved in development and / or dissemination of the Framework, and activities to promote use of the Framework.

Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for research.

Equity, Innovation, Learning Environment, Partnership, Professional Development, Project Based Learning, Student Voice, Teacher Development

Project Learning Tree offers both classroom and online professional development to teachers on environmental education.

The Middle School Math Project provides professional development to math teachers in grades 6,7, and 8.

Project Learning Tree offers both classroom and online professional development to teachers.

Personalized Learning, Professional Development, Project Based Learning, Research, Teacher Development

Project Learning Tree provides K - 12 teachers environmental education curriculum materials once professional development opportunities are completed through the Project Learning Tree program.

Project goals will be accomplished through ten days of professional development for math and CTE teacher teams and sustained contact between teachers, investigators and educational specialists during the 2017 - 18 academic year.