Sentences with phrase «allowing teachers»

Many emerging technologies are especially helpful in allowing teachers and students to generate, share, and save academic work.

Katie Harrison would like to see schools becoming more autonomous: «We need to improve school autonomy by allowing teachers much greater freedom with what and how they teach, with less scrutiny.»

Significantly for teachers, a wiki's editing tools mean that all contributions are trackable, allowing teachers to see which students are contributing, and how much and how thoughtfully.

But instead «of allowing teachers unions to seize the initiative, state lawmakers need an affirmative agenda for how to fix teacher pay.»

(For similar practical reasons, the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards has been allowing teachers to submit videos for more than 20 years.)

In Rochester, the administrators» union unsuccessfully sued the teacher union and the district over the peer assistance and review program, claiming that allowing teachers to evaluate one another violated the rights of administrators.

This is a comprehensive set of resources allowing teachers to select a depth that is right for their children - a flexible resource that can be used with a variety of age ranges.

Or it could be a change in benefits allowing teachers who retire earlier to pay less in health care costs.

All of the state's standardized tests, except for essays, have been moved online, allowing teachers and students to see their scores almost immediately after the tests are submitted, said Gene Evans, director of communications for the Oregon Department of Education.

Instead of allowing teachers to accumulate an absurd number of sick days, we should provide generous but targeted relief to those who truly need it.

If you're not able to make a scheduled webinar, there are some that can be accessed on demand, allowing teachers to watch at a time that is convenient for them.

The most notable, as the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, is «a bill Monday allowing teachers to be evaluated — but not disciplined or dismissed — based on student performance.»

Learners should be immediately «hooked» by the topic being studied, therefore allowing teachers more insight into the learning process.

It's powerful for grading, allowing teachers to excuse kids from assignments, enter grades in a variety of ways (letter, percent, etc.), drop lowest scores and even curve an assignment's grading.

Lots of progressive school models have a track record of personalizing learning in this same way — not by customizing or engineering the boring stuff, but by allowing teachers to cut it out of the school experience as much as possible.

Are we allowing teachers enough autonomy and flexible time for 4Cs lesson planning and instruction?

In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.

We suggest several steps that states can take to immediately improve their pension systems, such as allowing teachers to become vested more quickly and accrue benefits more gradually.

By providing programs that embrace a teacher's perspective and allowing teachers to view the long - term benefits of Common Core Standards, I was able to eliminate the tedious and time - consuming tasks.

Clevertouch Plus becomes a giant tablet, allowing teachers to browse apps that are fully interactive, for the whole class to be able to use.

Virtual whiteboards are swiftly replacing their outdated counterparts, allowing teachers to connect the students who can then access classroom technology on their own terms, via personal devices.

Allowing teachers to take that off their plate during the year ensured that they were able to focus on the lever we thought was most important for students.

From the creation of research questions to reflection on their learning, iPads facilitated the undertaking, allowing the teachers to implement an innovative new curriculum where students created, collaborated and connected in order to deepen their understanding of bats as well as the research process.

Smart Sparrow also includes real - time analytics to monitor student learning behavior, allowing teachers to identify common mistakes and misconceptions, as a way to constantly adapt content and improve learning outcomes.

These ongoing formative assessments can allow students to set goals while allowing teachers to give students «just in time» instruction in a variety of ways.

Key principles and rules of yoga are taught, allowing the teachers of Vikasa Yoga and dedicated practitioners to become free from any routines by gaining understanding, knowledge and insight into the methodology and the effects of practice.

I also enjoy going into classrooms and allowing teachers to see how I offer a class.

Both beginner and intermediate quizzes are available, allowing teachers to select the quiz most appropriate for their students.

That last change involves allowing teachers to claim their district did not adequately prepare them for Common Core, thus, their low evaluation marks.

The Florida Senate has passed a school safety bill putting new restrictions on rifle sales and allowing some teachers to carry guns.

«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners.»

«While by 11 points Republicans support allowing teachers to be armed, Democrats, independents and downstaters overwhelmingly oppose it, as do a majority of upstaters and a narrow majority of gun owners,» Greenberg said.

As CalWatchdog.com's Chris Reed argued, «That is good news for those considering taking on public employee unions in 2016 with ballot measures putting limits on government pensions or scrapping state laws allowing teachers to receive lifetime tenure after less than two years on the job.»

These teachers will help create smaller and more manageable classes, reducing teachers» workloads and allowing teachers to give each pupil the time and attention they need.

Regents ease some testing and evaluation requirements, allowing teachers rated «ineffective» who face firing a chance to appeal on grounds they were not prepared to give lessons based on Common Core standards.

Senator Todd Kaminksy, a Democrat from Long Island, says allowing teachers to be armed, as President Trump is proposing, would be «misguided».

Such a college, while allowing teachers to express dissenting views and freely to exchange ideas, would insist that they be committed to the biblical faith and distinctively Christian values and lifestyle.

Mr. Trump used the event to pitch his own ideas about how to prevent such debacles in the future, polling the group about whether they supported allowing teachers and other school employees to carry concealed weapons, an idea he said could have halted the carnage in Parkland.

Scott also said he opposed allowing teachers to carry firearms in schools, another proposal that Trump has been promoting.

The Madison school district in Butler County is allowing teachers and other staff to take guns into classrooms.

The school district where a student opened fire two years ago, shooting two students, is now allowing teachers and other staff members to bring guns into classrooms.

But no one made an app allowing teachers to easily communicate with parents about a student's progress.

Last summer, it also launched Classroom, software that allows teachers to track an entire classroom on their progress.

That software, called Kickboard, allows teachers to make notes about their students throughout the day, noting, for example, discipline problems, difficulty in grasping key concepts, and positive behavior as well.

They also have a new pilot program that allows teachers to regroup the middle school students based on the students» performance and their learning curve.

When you get a tablet, which allows the teacher to assess each child day by day, it's a huge teachers» aid and a huge aid to kids.

The president also said he wanted to allow teachers and other staff members to be armed and trained to confront shooters.

The warrants allow Teachers to buy HBC shares at C$ 17 each, which is above Friday's closing price for the stock on the Toronto Stock Exchange.

ClassDojo is a behavior - tracking app that allows teachers to make a schedule of daily activities and share it with parents.

A basic version of Pear Deck, which allows teachers to create and share slide decks with limited functionalities, is available for free.