Sentences with phrase «authentic opportunities»

We then provide them with authentic opportunities to apply their civic skills in ways that are essential to becoming an engaged citizen.

Just as important, though, are the numerous authentic opportunities our students and teachers now routinely pursue to promote our school as a caring community that embraces tolerance.

In 2006, Andrew found a new passion: providing authentic opportunities for students to engage in science and mathematics in school.

Through her vision of providing authentic opportunities for international collaboration and relevant learning with use of advanced teaching practices and latest technology, she champions teachers and students to prepare for their futures in a world that will prioritize creativity, innovation, and exploration.

Since Educators Rising was launched in 2015 as a modern evolution of the Future Teachers of America, more than 2,000 secondary schools located in every part of the country have signed on as affiliates and created elective courses, career pathways, and extracurricular programs meant to give high school students authentic opportunities to explore and plan for a career in teaching — already, more than 28,000 students, more than half of them students of color, have become active participants.

I opted for a far classier and more authentic opportunity to meet others and get to know them better, I'll take a more limited matching service which has done their research and found a good person to whom they can introduce me.

She approached Principal Tim Chorones and Assistant Superintendent Tracy Smith with her ideas, and they pushed her to innovate and take risks to create authentic opportunities for all of her students.

We are excited to lead the disruption of the Year 8 Pastoral Care program with a trial of an externship model based on authentic opportunities to inform change at Wirreanda Secondary School.

We work side - by - side with central office leaders to identify the leadership gaps they want to close and design authentic opportunities for coaches to practice relevant skills, receive valuable feedback, and grow.

In an effort to process and make meaning out of these encounters, Ryan encourages students to communicate with him about instances in which they encounter offensive content and they use these instances as authentic opportunities to discuss digital citizenship and healthy decision making.

This practicum series provides «teacher education students with authentic opportunities to integrate technology into teaching and learning activities» (Brush et al., 2003, p. 59).

Library Time gives our students authentic opportunities to practice their new language skills and interact with native English speakers, while offering you a safe and appropriate way to visit and interact with the local children.

Learners, or scholars as McComb calls them, can have more authentic opportunities to show what they know in various formats.

As her district's first iPad Lab teacher, Katie Chirhart creates assignments that augment classroom instruction, inspires colleagues, and provides authentic opportunities for her students, whether that is showcasing Maker Space projects, writing app reviews, or programming Dash robots or Ozobots.

Particularly in the process embraced by Open Adoption & Family Services, each parent, expectant and adoptive, has had an honest and authentic opportunity to reflect on their choice to parent or not, and to be supported through this process with dignity, resources and ultimately respect for their chosen role in a child's life.

So her win in February 2012 felt like an authentic opportunity for the academy to recognize an industry favorite.

By that logic, a good parent is one who immerses his child in lots of small, authentic opportunities to navigate and conquer challenges.»

When we exclude our students from decisions that involve them, we pass up authentic opportunities to teach them how to grapple with hard questions — and to take ownership of their choices.

Students realized that they had an authentic opportunity to make a difference in their school.

Sheninger begins the book with a clear description of the challenges schools face today, sharing the importance in changing from the industrial - age, compliancy model to a learning model where relevant, authentic opportunities, while uncommon at first, will become common as our school cultures shift.

It requires expansive study of vocabulary, orthography, grammar, and style, extensive exposure to representative linguistic material, and authentic opportunities to produce (to speak and write) academic language.

First author Rena has a relatively optimistic perspective regarding the power of technology to transform student learning by opening up exciting, exploratory, and authentic opportunities.

A highlight of the meeting was the presentation delivered by Families in Schools President and CEO, Oscar Cruz, who spoke to the importance of creating meaningful and authentic opportunities for parent engagement to promote true and long - term local accountability.

That's why we engage students in meaningful conversations and authentic opportunities to explore and strengthen character.

• Scholars reveal their understanding most effectively when they are provided with complex, authentic opportunities to explain, interpret, apply, shift perspective, empathize and self - assess.

«Standing at the intersection of theory and practice, William Sterrett's insightful new book offers school and classroom leaders an authentic opportunity to learn from principals, education advocates, and practitioners who have successfully championed positive change.»

Jessica's educational experience has not provided her authentic opportunities to communicate online with the real world.

We also aim to provide authentic opportunities to first time authors and to groups who are often silent or silenced in today's media.

Specificially, that, money stays in local communities through patronizing local businesses, resources such as clean water remain available for everyone, not just tourists and travelers, Belizeans are not confined to low - level service jobs, but instead have opportunities to work and grow professionally within their own tourism industry, women and children are protected from exploitation - and that our clients have authentic opportunities to learn about Belize and Belizeans.

Costa Rica Explorations provides teen students an authentic opportunity to study abroad in Costa Rica and engage in cultural immersion through homestays, community service projects and adventure travel learning.