Sentences with phrase «allows teachers and educators»

The Festival of Learning allows teachers and educators to network with colleagues from all over the world, learn new approaches to classroom practice and leave full of ideas to inspire your students!

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IPT allows teachers, librarians and other educators to download The Basics from the internet and make copies from the pdf or a printed copy as necessary for non-commercial classroom and educational purposes.

But rather than incentivize teaching innovation that would allow science educators to discuss religion and ethics --- for example, creationism in light of evolution and vice versa, or the scientific and ethical implications of stem cells and in vitro fertilization — many teachers are afraid to even mention these issues, despite their importance, for fear of losing their jobs.

In the last days of the 2014 legislative session, Cuomo negotiated with New York State United Teachers for a temporary solution, introduced a program bill creating a «safety net» for educators whose ratings were detrimentally affected by students» low Common Core test scores and advanced the legislation with a «message of necessity,» allowing lawmakers to pass it before gaveling out for the summer.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

Curriki hosts thousands of educator - vetted, openly licensed, online educational resources and allows for the creation of groups through which students and teachers can collaborate.

The tool allows educators to get immediate insight into their student understanding in real - time, as they can create quizzes in seconds and also share them with other teachers.

That new mindset must include supporting teacher collaboration, establishing clarity of purpose, providing ongoing feedback, creating conditions that allow educators to succeed, and sustaining improvement through the PLC process.

The program allows experts from all over the world to work closely with the MIT BLOSSOMS Team to create culturally rich STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) content - for high school teachers and students, which educators can then access for free.

The structure of the single - point rubric allows us as educators to work toward returning grades and teacher feedback to their proper roles: supporting and fostering real learning in our students.

Policymakers and educators are allowed to imagine that good schools can be woven out of existing bad schools and that the difficult politics of transforming schools and creating choice for families and teachers can be avoided.

They believe that the Common Core will limit the flexibility that teachers have to teach what they think is best (though the Common Core actually establishes guidelines for what students should know and be able to do while allowing educators to use their professional expertise to teach in the ways they think will help students meet those guidelines).

When students are equipped for autonomy through explicit social and emotional learning and a structured, yet flexible curriculum, they operate with much less assistance from a teacher, allowing educators to spend time doing what really matters — interacting with kids.

Forsten, as well as many other teachers who have tried looping, believes the practice allows educators to develop rich relationships with students and their families, create trusting and caring classroom environments, and help kids overcome both academic and developmental obstacles.

To support those educators, she created an online forum that allows floating teachers to share their stories, advice, and more.

Also, Internet allows the creation of teachers and students networks at local, national and international levels, uniting schools driven by principles of horizontal interactions between learners who are also educators and educators who are also learners, such as the Rede Mundial de Escolas Democráticas (Global Network of Democratic Schoolshttp: / / www.democraticeducation.org /).

Most principals and teachers say they believe creating school environments that allow educators to work together more would have a «major impact» on improving the chances for student success, according to a new national survey by MetLife Inc..

Fourth - grade Spanish immersion teacher Tabitha Carro, in Lexington, S.C., shares how she uses Remind, a free messaging app that allows educators to communicate safely with students and parents via text.

These responses are quick and easy, and allow the teachers to go back to being educators instead of policemen and judges.

Increasingly, schools are using online learning - management systems such as Brooklyn LAB Charter School's Cortex and the Summit Learning platform (offered free to teacher teams that apply to Summit Public Schools) to deliver and organize custom playlists of activities for students and to allow educators to track students» progress incrementally (see «Pacesetter in Personalized Learning,» features, Fall 2017).

The ways of understanding teacher quality are changing as information systems allow states and districts to track educators and their students over time.

Along with the online survey reports, teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share practices and create a personalized playbook of instructional strategies based on their survey results.

Many educators decided to strike out on their own to find materials to supplement standard textbooks, with some enterprising teachers even creating lessons, quizzes, and other instructional materials and allowing other teachers to use them for free.

Not surprisingly, all of these teacher pension systems have provisions that allow educators to continue to teach and collect their pension in certain circumstances (a practice called «double dipping»).

These customized plans allow teachers to effectively and efficiently improve areas of need to become highly effective educators.

The café allows for hands - on learning in the kitchen classroom by three dedicated kitchen educators who also collaborate with the three garden educators and the classroom teachers.

Formed in reaction to a provision that allowed teachers in training to be identified under federal law as «highly qualified» and concentrated in low - income, high need schools, this group has developed a new, comprehensive framework for teaching quality that will allow the nation to put a fully - prepared and effective educator in every classroom and school.

What to know: In 2014, Georgia adopted a four - tiered certification structure aligned with opportunities that allow teachers to lead their peers in professional growth while remaining in the classroom.31 New teachers are either at the «pre-service» or «induction» level, while more experienced educators have «professional» and then «advanced» licenses or «lead professional» licenses.32 Expert teachers at the «lead professional» certification level are offered instructional leadership opportunities through mentoring and coaching roles.

While it is still too soon for us to know the long - term impact of the flipped classroom approach on students and on educators» teaching practices, we do know one thing: flipped classroom exercises create opportunities for personalized learning, help teachers use classroom time more efficiently, and allow us to incorporate technology into homework as well as classroom lessons.

Professional educators must stand up and not allow the pseudo-reformer crowd to hijack students, teachers, and neighborhood public schools for political and for - profit purposes.

District staff asked parents and educators what they wanted to learn about the assessment system, and they designed training sessions to address these topics, such as having parents analyze student test questions, helping teachers learn to score extended responses, and allowing teachers to explore accessibility and accommodations resources to find out which supports were the best fit for their students.

Legislators refused to consider the request of school boards, superintendents, teachers and parents to allow professional educators to write a new, fair accountability plan.

Director M. Night Shyamalan recommends five basic tenets to close the achievement gap: start with good teachers; allow principals to be educators; be serious about data - driven instruction; implement small schools; and allot more time for learning.

«We are proud of the steps New York City has taken in recent years to strengthen tenure but we also recognize that we still don't have a fully fair, efficient system that protects teachers and students,» said April Rose, a fourth grade teacher in Queens, N.Y. «Our vision for tenure is to set a high bar and a clear process, and in doing so, allow district and school leaders to focus on more pressing concerns like reducing attrition among educators in their first few years and creating safe, supportive school environments.»

«Without a system that allows us to meaningfully assess and compare teachers» skills statewide, our policymakers have no way of knowing which educators need support and which are having the most success helping students grow that we can leverage as leaders.

Educators often find ourselves engaged in conversations about how to address achievement disparities, discipline issues, the recruitment and retention of effective teachers and administrators, but how often do we allow students to weigh in on the subject?

Targeted at parents, teachers, and anyone concerned about education in America, this program explores how exceptional educators are increasingly using digital media and interactive practices to ignite their students» curiosity and ingenuity, help them become civically engaged, allow them to collaborate with peers worldwide, and empower them to direct their own learning.

Integrating ST Math into the curriculum allows teachers to apply the latest research in neuroscience and education, increase efficacy in math instruction, and engage with a community of educators around the country.

The highly qualified teacher data allows educators and the public to find out the percent of teachers in each state who have received waivers of state teacher quality regulations.

As Ted Kolderie, one of the founders of chartering explained, it's a «simple yet radical idea: allowing enterprising people — including teachers and other educators — to start innovative public schools.»

The New York City - based Educators 4 Excellence said nearly 200 Los Angeles teachers had joined the group and signed a declaration calling for linking teacher evaluations to student test scores and ending policies that allow the least veteran teachers to be laid off first.

The Naiku platform allows educators to create, share, import and deliver rich standards aligned quizzes and tests in any subject area, using graphics, multimedia clips and hyperlinks to query students with multiple item types.With automated scoring and built - in analysis tools, teachers can inform and differentiate instruction within the classroom, and data can be shared across the school and district to enhance best practices.

With increasing pressure on educators to prove themselves in a constantly changing education landscape, board certification allows teachers to hone their practice, showcase their talent in the classroom, and demonstrate their dedication to their students and their profession.

When educators are encouraged to become the teachers they've always imagined themselves to be and are supported by norms that allow them to do that, they invest.

Additional supporting material, such as an issues matrix, allows teacher educators to see what general issues and situations they might discuss with students.

In the new era where teachers have little time for face - to - face interaction with colleagues and district budget cuts limit professional development opportunities, educators are increasingly turning to online communities (or professional learning networks, PLNs) that allow them to share lesson plans, teaching strategies, and student work, as well as collaborate across grade levels and departments.

The federal government designates approximately $ 2.25 billion annually towards teacher quality and professional development under Title II, some of which could be dedicated to developing teachers» skill in cultivating learning mindsets and skills.57 Title II under ESSA allows state and local educational agencies to allocate funds to train educators to help students develop the «skills essential for learning readiness and academic success.»

Hence, multimedia case studies offer a unique opportunity to allow preservice teachers to view classroom activities and gain an understanding into the teacher's thinking through a reflection segment guided by their teacher educator.

Instead, school administrators note, small schools allow a closer bond between teachers and students and permit educators to focus instruction more effectively to individual student needs.

According to many surveys, teachers are not receiving adequate professional development, materials are poorly prepared, and educators aren't allowed the time to make the switch.