Sentences with phrase «asked teachers in both groups»

We asked teachers in both groups to teach 80 social studies lessons over the course of the year, so that we would be comparing two different ways of teaching social studies, rather than teaching social studies versus not.

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Over the years, I have pulled many of the Sunday school teachers and youth workers in my children's lives aside to ask them to treat my children like any other kid in the youth group.

Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

Earlier this week, I contacted a diverse group of writers, teachers, and pastors to ask which books they found most helpful in developing their own perspectives on heaven, hell, justice, and salvation.

The teacher asked each of us to select another person in the group who would become our «prayer partner.»

Parent should ask whether the classroom is teacher - led or child - focused, and whether students can work at their own pace or if they must follow a schedule, and whether they are required to participate in group work or whether they can work independently if they choose.

Ask any child care teacher who is in charge of a group of potty trainees and they will tell you just how difficult it can be for little arms and hands to manipulate complicated pants, overalls and other clothing when the urge to pee or poop is looming.

Asked how unions could take advantage of gaps in the law while criticizing others for exploiting LLC loophole, Korn said, «Twelve hedge fund billionaires gave more than 187,500 teachers in the 2014 elections,» referring to charter school supporters that gave heavily to an outside group backing Senate Republicans.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

His group collected 4,800 signatures from parents and teachers at charter schools, asking for more money in the new state budget to build more schools, known as facilities aid.

In an Ipsos Mori poll commissioned by the teachers» union NASUWT and Unison in April 2010, when asked which group is the most appropriate to run state - funded schools, only 4 % answered «religious organisations»In an Ipsos Mori poll commissioned by the teachers» union NASUWT and Unison in April 2010, when asked which group is the most appropriate to run state - funded schools, only 4 % answered «religious organisations»in April 2010, when asked which group is the most appropriate to run state - funded schools, only 4 % answered «religious organisations».

In working with a group of 34 early career teachers, cognitive and learning sciences researcher Joshua Ellis from Michigan Tech and his co-authors asked participants to use role - play in their online discussions to deepen the feedback between group memberIn working with a group of 34 early career teachers, cognitive and learning sciences researcher Joshua Ellis from Michigan Tech and his co-authors asked participants to use role - play in their online discussions to deepen the feedback between group memberin their online discussions to deepen the feedback between group members.

In an effort to determine our core competencies, we are asking whether it makes sense to have extracurricular activities, such as supplemental sports and art classes, taught by the school's teachers or contracted out to nonprofit groups who may offer these services at reduced prices and provide higher - quality services.

Also, in meetings, make an effort to ask new teachers what they think as often as you can and offer to be their partner on group projects and action research.

My students were everything a teacher could ask for — they were eager to learn, present in the moment, collaborative within their group, respectful of those we met, and open to trying and doing new things.

When teachers began asking for time to work with students in small groups, Humboldt Elementary found the time for them.

An alternate form of this activity would involve asking pairs or small groups of students to put in order a shuffled set of teacher - created 3 - inch by 5 - inch index cards (or slips of paper), on each of which is written a step or stage in the star death process.

A teacher would receive an «unsatisfactory» score if she asked a series of yes / no questions, posed in rapid succession, to the same small group of students.

The respondents in the first group were asked whether they thought teacher salaries should increase, decrease, or remain about the same.

«Then twice a week the whole class would be in the computer lab with the robot and the teacher, and that was the time for them to share what they'd done, ask questions and get help from the teacher, and she would also show them things in that whole group setting.»

Step 6, educator brainstorms with student, or teacher asks class to brainstorm together or in groups, where the concept is found in real - life or used in real - life.

Members of the control group were asked whether they would be inclined to vote in support of or in opposition to a teacher evaluation policy change that would remove the use of data from students» performance on state assessments in teachers» performance evaluation.

Wiliam said a common lesson approach on the same topic in Japan is for the teacher to introduce one way of calculating the area, then ask students to work in groups to see how many more conceptually distinct ways they can find for calculating the area.

Shanker had the idea in 1988 that a group of public school teachers would ask their colleagues for permission to create a small school that would focus on the neediest students, those who had dropped out and those who were disengaged from school and likely to drop out.

«This app allows teachers to randomly choose students, ask predetermined questions, differentiate questions in a group setting, and track individual responses,» says Barrett.

In one study of third - grade reading groups, on average teachers asked a question every 43 seconds.»

And only 32 % of people in the fourth group, told teacher salaries and asked if taxes should be raised, support a hike in teacher pay.

Teachers can ask students to share times they've felt excluded or vulnerable — whether it was because of their sex, gender expression, religion, or sexual orientation, or because they were in a less popular social group.

O'Neill also asked that the membership of the existing Minority Teacher Recruitment Task Force and the new Minority Teacher Recruitment Policy Oversight Council include teachers of color from both CEA and AFT - Connecticut so that the insights and experiences of these teachers are reflected in the groups» work.

When asked on the survey to select the four most important factors for improving struggling readers» achievement, 83 % of the teachers in the four most effective schools selected small - group instruction as an important factor.

A coalition of groups supporting public education today launched an online petition asking the Tennessee General Assembly and Governor Bill Haslam to grant teachers a grace period from the use of student test scores in their evaluations in the first year of new TNReady tests.

Time for engaged sharing, where students and teachers share about something in their lives; the rest of the group practices active listening and asks follow - up questions

The teacher projects an image or text onto the whiteboard and asks students individually or in groups to provide a written response / comment / explanation which they then place on the relevant area.

We frequently test this idea by asking groups of teachers to consider the data in Figure 1.

Asked what's changed, a group of seniors in an English classroom have plenty of answers: There's a new student council (a result of the grant); self - sufficiency and culture are emphasized; and teachers are more organized and expect students to do more work, they said.

We don't know whether these trends generalize beyond these teachers, but our experience strongly suggests combining all conditions: Start with strong facilitation, eventually turning leadership of groups over to teachers; and start with stock video, perhaps asking all teachers to contribute after trust has been established and norms for watching one another's videos are in place.

Create focus groups of teachers, administrators, students, parents, and community members and ask each group, i) what's working in your school, ii) what's not working and iii) if you could, what would your school look like?

After meeting with national policymakers, we interviewed parents, teachers, and principals, and students in grades 10 — 12.2 The task involved asking each group a series of questions about the goals of educational change and the roles parents and community members should play in the process.

Teachers in both groups did give similar responses when asked whether they felt they had a chance to help students succeed, both in and out of school, and whether they thought the job was personally fulfilling.

Practicing and rehearsing the work with principals as a group, followed by principals and team leaders practicing and rehearsing prior to asking teacher teams to engage in the work, increases the likelihood of success and greatly enhances the quality of the work of individual teams.

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Then, in our second year, my group of National Teacher Fellows was asked to continue efforts to improve teacher preparation with a state / local pTeacher Fellows was asked to continue efforts to improve teacher preparation with a state / local pteacher preparation with a state / local project.

The scenario is a little different in the 43,000 - student Adams 12 school district, where in June the Board of Education opted to close a budget hole by asking teachers to make the same pension contribution as other employee groups.

Teachers meeting in study groups were asked to complete a common study group meeting form after each session and develop an action plan.

In general, however, the task groups come up with responses very similar to those that Silverman encounters when she herself asks teachers to engage in this exercisIn general, however, the task groups come up with responses very similar to those that Silverman encounters when she herself asks teachers to engage in this exercisin this exercise.

To help my student teachers think about what to look for when observing a group of children, we discussed photographs of our children engrossed in classroom activities and I asked student teachers to explain why each photo represented unoccupied play, solitary play, onlooker play, parallel play, associative play, or cooperative play.

For the 10 % sample of observations described above, the second expert reviewer agreed with the first about the codes which made up the variables used in the data analyses: 100 % whole - group, 99 % small - group, 95 % vocabulary instruction, 91 % phonemic awareness instruction, 91 % phonics instruction, 94 % coaching in word - level strategies, 96 % asking lower - level questions, 82 % asking higher - level questions, 100 % comprehension skill instruction, 88 % comprehension strategies instruction, 94 % teacher - directed stance, 92 % student - support stance, 95 % active responding, and 97 % passive responding.

Analyses revealed at least a 10 % difference between Years 1 and 2 in teacher observations in grades 2 - 6 for the following factors: decrease in whole - group instruction, increase in small - group instruction, increase in asking of higher - level questions, increase in comprehension strategies instruction, increase in teacher - directed stance, decrease in student support stance.

In addition, 6 school - based focus groups involving 63 elementary teachers In these focus groups questions were asked which looked at; teachers» experiences of collaborative inquiry; factors that inhibit collaborative inquiry; factors that inhibited its effectiveness; and, perceived outcomes of collaborative inquiry.

The student can practice all five numbers, and the teacher can then assign different numbers to different school and social situations: A 1 would be appropriate if the student asked a classmate to borrow a pencil while the rest of the class was engrossed in a writing task; a 3 would be appropriate for students conversing during group work; a 5 would be appropriate on the playground.