Sentences with phrase «about time educators»

«It's about time educators began using music to positively influence how children see themselves in this world.»

«It's about time educators started getting the kind of pay that athletes do,» said Nancy Ondrasik, assistant principal at Beatty Warren Middle School in Warren, Pennsylvania.

Not exact matches

Consider how much time politicians, educators and researchers spend talking about how to teach the next generation to be innovative.

«Explaining complex brain science in a clear - cut manner, Steinberg offers parents and educators practical advice, as well as innovative ideas about how society can better support its youth and adapt to the times... This is a convincing and eloquent call for change.»

If your class is taught at your birthing location, you will learn a lot about the culture of birth at that location (or, how they recommend that you birth your baby), and your childbirth educator will do her / his best to provide a brief overview of coping techniques with any remaining time.

Listen to stories about a famous dancer during Story Time with the Boston Ballet, then move creatively with some of their dance educators (Boston)

Many home educators belong to sports teams or play in orchestras, and are generally far more relaxed about these things than their schooled contemporaries because they have so much more time available — and less need to compete.

Most home educators spend a lot of time out and about — at the library, the swimming pool, historic sites, camps, leisure centres, and so on.

And it has become clear, at the same time, that the educators who are best able to engender noncognitive abilities in their students often do so without really «teaching» these capacities the way one might teach math or reading — indeed, they often do so without ever saying a word about them in the classroom.

But time and again, home educators are asked about «socialisation».

Through the guidance of a highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educator, you'll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities and lessons in handwork, art, and movement; go though an early childhood student's morning routine; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education.

As a parent educator, facilitator, or group leader you'll be spending a lot of time talking with parents about their children and families.

For educators with limited time, the SMA online library provides handouts with information about SM, including suggested accommodations and classroom - based intervention strategies for maximizing learning.

Director of Shooting Standards, Richard Thorne, said: «It is really important not only to challenge anti-shooting prejudice in schools but to volunteer your time to re-educate the educators about the facts of shooting.

Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.

City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña has had internal discussions with her staff about placing most of the 1,200 educators in full - time teaching jobs even though about half have disciplinary histories or unsatisfactory ratings, sources said.

Project 2061 surveyed principals from Green Ribbon Schools to learn more about their use of energy data — one of many times Project 2061 involved feedback from educators and administrators in the development of the curriculum outline.

Balayan, Batangas About Blog Rebecca is the owner of a Montessori business in Australia and has put some really interested posts up on the blog section of her company's website to help parents and educators understand Montessori, one question at a time.

Balayan, Batangas About Blog Rebecca is the owner of a Montessori business in Australia and has put some really interested posts up on the blog section of her company's website to help parents and educators understand Montessori, one question at a time.

At the time, this kind of random contribution — by a regular Joe who was having fun, or at least who wasn't backing up his claim with scholarly research — was exactly what educators were worried about when it came to students using the free site for research.

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.

Some educators are concerned about joining social media because of time constraints.

Since its inception, the Foundation has grounded its storytelling about innovations in education research and has even commissioned research from leading researchers in the field of learning; now, George Lucas decides that it's time to deepen the organization's commitment to research and creates a division dedicated to conducting and funding rigorous research in collaboration with university partners, leading educators, and research firms.

As an educator, how often do you take the time to think about evidence - informed or evidence - based practice?

But neither educators nor economists have known much about whether these conditional cash transfer (CCT) programs can make a difference over time in high - poverty communities.

There are four things educators should know about engaging students in these politically tumultuous times, write two civic - education leaders.

As an educator, how often do you take the time to think about evidence - informed or evidence - based practice, as well as the rigour of the evidence you're presented with?

When educators spend too much time worrying about how to classify or categorize harmful behaviors, there is a tendency to lose sight of the environment that fostered these behaviors.

Once upon a time there was a thoughtful educator who raised some interesting questions about how children were traditionally taught to read and write, and proposed some innovative changes.

If we, you and I together, take this challenge and indeed build that community of collaborative and diverse learners and give to the world what Harvard's Graduate School of Education has already given to us, I believe that the prophesy of the Jesuit French educator Tielhard de Chardin will come true about the HGSE graduating class of 2008 - that women and men will decree, long after we have walked across this stage, that for the second time in history, humankind discovered fire.

JE: Another thing that educators spend quite a bit of time thinking about during the holidays and in the lead - up to the new school year is the physical classroom layout.

Jackie graciously took the time to talk to me about the Montessori approach, how educators train to work in Montessori schools, and how Montessori works in the public sector.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

That question currently looms over the national conversation about school reform... [and] it is time for educators and policymakers to rethink the boundaries distinguishing the public and private in education.

Aren't a lot of us educators worried about how kids spend their time these days?

While this timing may have implications for educational practice, Perfetti also cautioned that educators shouldn't throw out what they already know about teaching word form and meaning either.

It entails educators taking the time to understand what is visionary about these new standards and how they can help drive college and career success for students.

«In the journal paper, I talk about those in terms of the way the time is used, the classroom space and resources within the space are used, and the social control in terms of the interactions between the educator and the child, [and] from child to child as well.»

Brendan Dotson learned about Urban Scholars Program while teach eighth - grade language arts and reading in SeaTac, Wash. «I was interested in the opportunity to spend time with educators who had been doing amazing work in urban schools all over the country,» he says.

In other words, we risk rushing ahead with promising structural changes inherent to personalized learning — reorganizing space, integrating technology tools, freeing up seat - time — without arming educators with reliable and specific information about how to personalize to their particular students or what to do, for which students, in what circumstances.

Of far greater value to educators, however, are «formative» assessments that provide feedback on which skills, concepts, and key knowledge bits have or haven't yet been acquired by which kids, so that something can be done about it while there's time.

In the case of the above example, as well as discussing the exact wording of problems and numbers to be used, the educators also spent time: anticipating student solutions, responses and questions; thinking about how they were going to organise and use space on their chalkboard (seen in Japan as an important part of organising students» thinking and understanding); and discussing precise lesson timings.

Teaching: From better preparing high school teachers to teach literacy to providing time for educators to have meaningful discussions about student needs and abilities, the professional piece of the equation is huge.

Time and again, educators have tended to «get excited about a product» instead of defining specific educational and logistical goals they aim to meet.

As an educator, my most powerful memories involve stories: interpersonal moments where I took the time to listen to someone and, in the process, transformed the relationship; and organizational moments, where I led my team to construct a new narrative about our work.

At the same time, though, courts have refused to apply the defense of assumption of risk when educators failed to provide adequate supervision such as where a competitor in a track and field meet was struck by an errant discus while standing in a safe zone; a student was injured during an indoor (American) football practice when he slipped on a wet gym floor where coaches failed to provide proper supervision or after another player was injured due to the lack of supervision at a practice; coaches did not warn a student sufficiently about the dangers of diving into a pool; coaches conducted a track practice in a high school hallway that unreasonably increased a student's risk of injury; and a coach lacked enough experience to provide adequate supervision to avoid injury to a cheerleader.

Many districts and states struggle to provide meaningful, real - time data about student performance to educators.

Job embedded professional development by definition values adult experience, involves educators in decision about their learning, is applied in work settings to real issues, occurs over time, engages educators in dialogue and reflection, and provides educators the practice and feedback necessary to implement knowledge and skills.

Job embedded professional learning honors adult experience, involves educators in decisions about their learning, is relevant and can be applied to immediate issues directly related to educators practice, occurs over time, engages educators in dialogue and reflection, provides educators the practice and feedback necessary to implement knowledge and skills, and occurs in a healthy school culture characterized by trust, collaboration, and continuous learning.

He responds to the critical issues facing educators today and offers practical, time - tested, and concrete advice about how to create amazing learning environments for students to thrive.