Sentences with phrase «also engages teachers»

The program also engages teachers in collaboratively assessing students» written arguments to understand what students can already do and what they need to learn next for the purpose of planning instruction.

STEMM also engages the teachers in the New Teacher Induction Program as math mentors for three of their high - need students, providing a more in - tensive level of support for those students.

STEMM also engages the teachers in the New Teacher Induction Program as math mentors for three of their high - need students, providing a more intensive level of support for those students.

The Chefs in the Garden curriculum also engaged teachers with pre - and post-lesson worksheets and references to the grade - level standards covered in each lesson.

Importantly, addressing geospatial technology in teacher education also engages teacher candidates» development of technological pedagogical content knowledge, also known as technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge (TPACK).

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It is also recruiting 2000 secondary school teachers through the Post Primary Schools Management Board (PPSMB), in addition to the 857 volunteer teachers (engaged during the past administration) who were recently regularized as permanent staff of the state government under the PPSMB.

The rubric will also be useful, the researchers concluded, in focusing curriculum developers» and teachers» attention on the importance of engaging students with natural phenomena (or in solving problems) and making sense of them in terms of NGSS core ideas, crosscutting concepts, and science practices.

He is engaged as an active scholar and teacher and has also served as a consultant on several intellectual property and antitrust cases with national law firms.

Because learning is active — a learner must choose to learn — an effective teacher will also engage the audience in the presentation.

But Haneke is also implying here how filmgoers use the public space to engage their own desires, whether carnal (like the couple having sex in their car) or vicarious (anyone attending a screening of The Piano Teacher, perhaps).

There is also a way for teachers to use instant messaging apps for automating basic lecturing and making it more interesting and engaging.

Teachers who are engaged in service - learning tend to be more positive about the work they do, and we also see a higher level of parental involvement, which is key to academic achievement.»

Teachers also found the Seeds / Roots unit usable, effective, and engaging.

To ensure that her students were engaged, New York teacher Lauren Leigh Kelly also designed a Hip - Hop Literature and Culture class, «to engage students in the study of hip - hop texts, including songs, films, and music videos, as a means to develop media literacy and critical - analysis skills.»

Kits arrive with specimens, activities, and lesson plans, which teachers can use to prepare their classes for upcoming field trips and also to translate state - mandated science curricula and concepts into engaging project - based activities.

Even the teachers unions have been in the grip of neoliberal education policies, although for years I have advocated a social movement unionism — that is dedicated to engage beyond workplace concerns, but also in terms of wider political struggle for social and economic justice, for human rights, and for participatory and direct democracy.

At that time, teachers also can get one - on - one training while students are engaged in their lesson.

Their teacher Andy McFadden has described the Climate Week Challenge as «an engaging and useful way for our pupils to continue learning about the damaging effects climate change is having on our planet and also an excellent opportunity to think creatively about potential solutions to the our own and future generations problems.»

The state has also engaged its higher - education institutions to revamp assessments used for placement in first - year courses to align with the standards, and to redesign teacher - preparation programs.

Also, if I sit in regularly at school meetings and begin to hear, «testing,» assessment,» «teachers,» «accountability,» and «standards» more than I hear «students, «learning,» «relevance,» and «engaging,» I know this distortion has taken hold.

At a time when government testing of spelling, punctuation and grammar can lead to less creativity in the teaching of writing, the project provides compelling alternative approaches for schools and their teachers which will engage children and give them a strong investment in their writing, whilst also being able to satisfy curriculum demands and statutory testing.

Teachers who want to introduce metacognition in their classrooms might begin by reading our post Engaging Brains: How to Enhance Learning by Teaching Kids About Neuroplasticity, and also teach students about the anterior prefrontal cortex, the brain area that researchers have begun to link with metacognition.

I was also struck by how deeply participants engaged in imagining the role of teachers for tomorrow.

A special Unit of work in Art & design with lesson plans This pack provides teachers with a unique and readily accessible toolkit to engage students in the historical and cultural links between Jamaica and Britain; it can also be used as a relevant blue print for teaching about other cultures in context.

She also uses Theatre of the Oppressed as a way to engage students and teachers with social justice in and outside of the classroom.

Teachers also can leverage free technologies to engage with students on a platform they enjoy, and can use those tools to share presentations, notes, practice tests, and quizzes.

He praises social media for keeping students engaged but also keeping teachers, like himself, engaged.

Mentoring can help fight the talent exodus on two fronts — firstly keeping senior teachers professionally fulfilled and engaged for an extra few years of employment, and also ensuring that their wisdom and experience is passed down to the new generation of NQTs.

The results in the report describe ways in which curricula based on engineering habits of mind have boosted their pupils» achievement and also enhanced the teachers» confidence to engage with the engineering profession.

Not only do we provide opportunities for our teachers to avail themselves of in - house CPD, but we also encourage them to engage with external agencies to access, for example, HEI provided courses or commercial programmes.

Having them take photos of these shapes using their iPads or phones is also a way to engage them in their learning, and it allows the teacher to quickly assess student understanding of geometric vocabulary.

Longitudinal research also indicates that when teachers create the interactive and engaging classroom environments typical of inquiry - based learning, students are more successful over the long term (Darling - Hammond, 1996; Zimmerman, 2002).

It would also mean learning from teachers who have been working with my students for years — who have worked out strategies to engage the shy girl who sits in the back or to help focus the boy who calls out too often.

Teachers accomplish this not only by making their classroom content and instruction engaging but also by making their assessments authentic.

It's also about creating a spirit of inquiry and risk taking «encouraging students to think mathematically, to ask questions» and encouraging teachers to use engaging pedagogies.

In this post, I will break down a few basic classroom practices that allow teachers to engage with best practices in teaching core subjects while also being advocates for social justice in the classroom.

The benefits of mastering particular domains of history, engaging with specific texts chosen by teachers from a rich menu of options, and undertaking a systematic study of not only math and science, but also geography, religion, and philosophy, would be substantial.

It can also be used by teachers and pupils at the interactive whiteboard.Finding volumes by counting cubes and volumes of prisms are practiced in a fun and engaging way.

Improving resources and science facilities has been another focus for the school - that has meant engaging not just students and teachers, but also parents.

JE: I'm thinking to myself, what would you say to those teachers listening, primary and secondary (we've touched on primary there but also secondary) who want to engage their students in this area, who want to engage them in Engineering — that aspect of STEM that we've talked about as underrepresented — but maybe they just don't feel comfortable with the subject area and the content knowledge.

It can also be used to promote student centered group learning that will keep students engaged while reinforcing concepts that were taught earlier in the year or from the previous two years taught by other teachers.

Sherman Oaks students, who are continuously engaged in high - tech, interdisciplinary projects, also reap the advantages of being paired with one teacher for two consecutive years, a practice known as «looping.»

Fogarty says the program is a model of learning that's engaging part of the whole community in teaching and also changes the dynamic between teachers and students because it positions the conversation more about what learning is being selected, who's doing the selecting and how to balance that knowledge.

Not only is it able to help prepare children for later life but it can also help teachers to better engage students by offering teachers new and innovative ways of teaching a subject.

Global Education Week (also known in some countries as One World Week) supports teachers, youth leaders, young people and any other formal and non-formal educational actors to engage in education for global citizenship; and enhances the effectiveness of this endeavour nationally and throughout Europe, through co-ordination of initiatives and sharing of best practices.

What we then started to understand was that in engaging in discussions about students on this particular subject matter, teachers also reflected on their own health and wellbeing.

Students are also more likely to remain academically engaged and less pessimistic about the job market when their teachers and school administrators actively help them feel welcomed at school.

Many teachers are also engaging with students who have a greater range of needs and this puts more pressure on teaching and on people's responsiveness to students.

The competition also helps teachers to deliver the STEM curriculum in a fun and engaging way.

Digital devices Fourier Education's einsteinTM Tablet + not only acts as a familiar platform for teachers and students but it also includes everything teachers need to get their students actively engaged with real - world, hands - on science learning.