Sentences with phrase «teachers in these groups reported»

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Merle M. Ohlsen describes group counseling of adolescents and children in schools.9 Helen Driver reports on two groups for high school seniors, three groups for college students, and four leaderless teachers» groups.10 The second part of Driver's book reports on forty - four projects using small groups in elementary, high school, college, and graduate professional schools (as well as mental health settings), as described by the leaders of each group.

A new edition of No Kid Hungry's Hunger In Our Schools report surveyed three groups on the front lines of childhood hunger — families, teachers and kids themselves — and found alarming statistics about the challenges for those facing hunger.

Wales» largest union for qualified teachers, NUT Cymru, has commented on the final report from the Digital Classroom Teaching Task and Finish Group which sets out how Welsh schools can deliver digital classrooms in a digital age.

The group Teachers For Todd reported spending $ 27,794 on mail in the 9th Senate district ahead of Tuesday's vote.

Michael Rebell, an attorney who won a landmark case requiring the state to fund school districts more equitably, and Randi Weingarten, president of a national teachers» union, wrote in appendices to the report that they agree with much of the group's findings, including recommendations for increased access to pre-kindergarten, technology and learning models that connect high school and college, and merit pay for teachers.

Bob McCarthy reports Cuomo's would - be Democratic primary opponent, Zephyr Teachout, will address local teachers union and parent groups in Buffalo this week.

As the Times reported on Wednesday, teachers unions along with other labor groups are not, as they did in previous years, launching major attack campaigns on the governor for his proposed cuts to education and other programs.

A Mathematics teacher interviewed in the report suggested that group - specific teaching is tainted with judgements about student behaviour.

During the next three years, teams of teachers in participating sites will work with scholars to design model curricula based on the group's recent report, «Science for All Americans.»

Among students who had fun with their family most days, the likelihood of being in the group with higher life satisfaction was much greater if students also reported that a teacher or another adult at their school believed that they would be a success.

The main findings from the Education Next — PEPG survey reported in this essay are based on a nationally representative stratified sample of U.S. adults (age 18 years and older) and oversamples of Hispanics and non-Hispanic blacks, public school teachers, and residents of Florida (the last group for supplemental analyses not reported here).

Also in line with current studies is the report's finding that «for any groups whether minority or not, the effect of good teachers is greatest upon the children who suffer most educational disadvantage in their background, and that a given investment in upgrading teacher quality will have most effect on achievement in underprivileged areas.»

They report that prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workTeachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workteachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group work.»

In its broader incarnation, the Holmes Partnership will pursue the agenda for improving schools and teacher preparation set forth by the Holmes Group in an influential trilogy of reports over the past decadIn its broader incarnation, the Holmes Partnership will pursue the agenda for improving schools and teacher preparation set forth by the Holmes Group in an influential trilogy of reports over the past decadin an influential trilogy of reports over the past decade.

For example, students in the treatment group reported significantly higher levels of interpersonal support from teachers and peers than their comparison counterparts.

Teachers who use PBL — and who also have taken part in extended professional development — report more teaching and assessment of 21st - century skills, compared with a closely matched comparison group.

So instead, I put together an experience in which they worked in groups attacking a pile of different information sources about Archaeotype that I had lined up: a few pages of an evaluation report on the project, a few Web sites that described the software and the constructivist philosophy behind it, a virtual chat with one of the developers in New York, and a room - based videoconference with a teacher who had tested the program.

Teachers in the first group reported very high positive motivation (self - efficacy, valuing, mastery) and below average negative motivation (anxiety, performance avoidance, uncertain control).

Research conducted by the Boston Consulting Group in 2003 for the then Victorian Department of Education and Training found that up to 30 per cent of teachers are considered by school principals as being either below - average or significantly underperforming, yet, as Jensen notes, «nearly all Australian school principals report that they would not take steps to alter the monetary rewards of a persistently underperforming teacher.»

Education Guru have created a resource bundle that not only tracks each child's achievements in their year group's science but also shows you how these dovetail into the Interim Teacher Assessments that the Year 2 and Year 6 teachers have to report on.

Also reports the experience from a group of philosophy teachers in the municipal city of Salvador in Bahia / Brazil, group assembled in Moodle AVA / UFBA - Philosophical Creation Networking, and now designs a curriculum for the philosophy insertion since 5 ° grade to 9th, with all the obstacles.

The MATSITI report follows its submission in June to the Australian Government's Teacher Education Ministerial Advisory Group (TEMAG).

Parent and teacher reported data did not reveal any significant differences between the intervention and control groups in instances of negative verbal behavior.

Teachers in the treatment group reported that they observed positive changes in their students» behaviors after using Design Squad.

'... Unfortunately, less than half of Australian secondary school teachers report frequently involving students in «small groups to come up with a joint solution to a problem or task».»

When the local press reported that Edison was expected to assume management of many of the city's schools, the local teachers union mobilized in opposition, and groups of parent and student activists held rallies throughout the city.

Thinking alike, and working with Contact Group, providers of best in class communication and data services, former assistant head and director of Sixth Domain, John Roberts has created a new solution that allows teachers to track events — like good news, bad news, sanctions, reports, comments — and to monitor and analyse the behaviour of individual students, classes, forms and even houses.

In a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of «the American Dream» in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of TeachinIn a report compiled last summer, the Race, Culture, Class and Gender Task Group at the U's College of Education and Human Development recommended that aspiring teachers there must repudiate the notion of «the American Dream» in order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teachinin order to obtain the recommendation for licensure required by the Minnesota Board of Teaching.

Four years before James Coleman released his report, a group of underprivileged, at - risk toddlers at the Perry Preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan, were randomly selected for a preschool intervention that consisted of daily coaching from highly trained teachers as well as visits to their homes.

A recent report, called Listening and Learning from Teachers: A Summary of Focus Groups on the Common Core and Assessments, reveals support, concerns and insights about the standards expressed by elementary teachers in Delaware, Illinois, Utah and WiTeachers: A Summary of Focus Groups on the Common Core and Assessments, reveals support, concerns and insights about the standards expressed by elementary teachers in Delaware, Illinois, Utah and Witeachers in Delaware, Illinois, Utah and Wisconsin.

On Wednesday, the Star Tribune's Beena Raghavendran reported that the Minnesota Court of Appeals heard oral arguments for a lawsuit in which a group of parents are challenging the constitutionality of Minnesota's teacher tenure, dismissal, and «last in, first out» laws.

In addition, for the first time it includes a look inside these schools through the eyes of principals and teachers, as reported in interviews and focus groups held at the 25 SSCs with the strongest evidence of effectivenesIn addition, for the first time it includes a look inside these schools through the eyes of principals and teachers, as reported in interviews and focus groups held at the 25 SSCs with the strongest evidence of effectivenesin interviews and focus groups held at the 25 SSCs with the strongest evidence of effectiveness.

A 2005 report by the Center for Teaching and Learning, part of the nonprofit educational research group WestEd, said that back then nearly 100,000 teachers in California were more than 50 years old.

The analysis, by Tom Loveless, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, said that in math, 61 percent of fourth - grade teachers reported ability grouping in 2011, up from 40 percent in 1996.

In its report, NNSTOY employed three focus groups comprised of 28 former teachers of the year from across the country.

These same schools report poor achievement by other major student groups as well, and have a set of characteristics associated generally with poor standardized test performance — such as high student - teacher ratios, high student enrollments and high levels of students living in or near poverty.

After a year of mixed - ability grouping at Cloonan Elementary School in Stamford, Conn., teachers reported fewer behavioral problems and better grades for struggling students.

The groups argue in the report that the traditional approach of having teachers impart knowledge to essentially passive students has failed to foster the ability to read, write, speak, and listen effectively.

Some teachers have used this as a semester long class, others assign the book in English and have their students do book reports or group presentations.

Teachers review these reports daily, both individually and in a collaborative planning period when they discuss the progress of individual students as well as student groups.

This article reports on an examination of a group of teachers who were supported in a graduate course that focused on new literacies and the integration of technology with literacy.

Three reports drawn upon for this summary are Listen to Us: Teacher Views and Voices; Listening to and Learning from Teachers: A Summary of Focus Groups on the Common Core and Assessments; and District Leadership in the New Era of Assessment.

In addition, teachers reported major changes in the way they responded to students» writing, shifting to greater use of teacher and group conferences and a decrease in assigning grades to students» writinIn addition, teachers reported major changes in the way they responded to students» writing, shifting to greater use of teacher and group conferences and a decrease in assigning grades to students» writinin the way they responded to students» writing, shifting to greater use of teacher and group conferences and a decrease in assigning grades to students» writinin assigning grades to students» writing.

In the Fall 2010 issue of Education Next, teacher union watchdog Mike Antonucci reports, «NEA members lean no further to the left than any other large group of Americans.

They found that the teachers reported difficulties from participating in online group projects, yet the positive experiences outweighed the negative ones.

Studies by Weaver and Dick (2009) and Blank et al. (2006) reported on school reform initiatives that grouped teacher leaders with school administrators to provide professional development to teachers in their schools.

The DfE teacher workload poster and leaflet set out how to use the Workload Review Group Reports to reduce workload in your school.

This might describe the lesson structure of the 22 % of teachers who reported using both whole group and small group strategies in their lesson plan directions.

In total, 33 states have made «significant improvements» to teacher preparation policies over the last two years, according to the report, the group's second annual study of teacher colleges.

Qualitative data about the need for teachers to model for students an example of how to interact with the primary sources helps triangulate the quantitative data of student grouping reported in the field tests.