Sentences with phrase «based educator development»

BloomBoard's Transformation Services team is also available to help guide districts in their journey to personalized, competency - based educator development.

Through a partnership with Digital Promise, the thought - leader in competency - based educator development, BloomBoard offers a library of over 200 micro-credentials which focus on a variety of skills such as data literacy, teacher leadership, and deeper learning.

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This professional development program is designed to help K - 8 educators become more comfortable teaching through NGSS - aligned lessons that are hands - on, inquiry - based, and incorporate cooperative learning.

They address the developmental growth of any child, describe strengths based approaches to support the development of protective factors that keep families strong, depict parenting practices that support healthy child development, and encourage cultural sensitivity in parent educators / home visitors.

The teacher works with a team of educators to implement a multi-sensory, hands - on / minds - on, nature - based science curriculum; incorporating emergent language and math experiences along with creative arts, music, cooking and the development of social skills.

Arvizu said the tool is an especially valuable resource for educators and state policymakers in understanding their state's educational landscape and for corporations and economic development officials interested in a state's workforce or technology - based business potential.

In 2004, I became involved in a professional development with SCALE, a group of educators and curriculum designers who were working on redesigning widely used curriculum to make it more inquiry based.

At Bank Street College, teacher educator and director of research Barbara Biber extolled the virtues of a program that applied «the concept of the unified nature of cognitive and affective development... on the teacher - training level» and was based on «a process of integrating new knowledge with an old self.»

Eric Kalenze is a Minnesota - based author and education advocate who's involved in organizing researchED, the professional - development organization that uses crowdsourcing to build educators» research chops.

The Opportunity of Bilingualism is a new online professional development program for teachers, early childhood educators, literacy coaches, parents, and community - based professionals.

Editor's note: Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

David R. Zarowin has been named the executive director of WIDE World, a nonprofit program based at Harvard University's graduate school of education in Cambridge, Mass., that provides online professional - development courses to K - 12 educators.

Today's guest blogger is Thom Markham, a psychologist, educator, and president of Global Redesigns, an international consulting organization focused on project - based learning, social - emotional learning, youth development, and 21st - century school design.

To gain a sense of the answer, I surveyed a few competency - based educators on the issue of what software solutions most egregiously lag the pedagogical developments and ambitions of a fully competency - based school.

The 160,000 - member ASCD is an Alexandria, Va. - based nonprofit association that provides curriculum and leadership information and professional development to educators in 135 countries.

In an attempt to curtail criticism of college - based teacher - training programs and improve the quality of their graduates, the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education is calling for a national evaluation system for prospective educators, as well as the development of a database that links their alma maters to pre-K-12 student performance.

That's why professional development for educators is critical, she says, along with school - based and district - encouraged efforts to recognize and respond — with creativity and flexibility — to the diversity of experiences that military - and veteran - connected families bring to schools.

26 - 27 — Outcomes - based education: «Implementing Outcomes - Based Education,» institute, sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, for all educators, to be held in Orlando, based education: «Implementing Outcomes - Based Education,» institute, sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, for all educators, to be held in Orlando, Based Education,» institute, sponsored by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, for all educators, to be held in Orlando, Fla..

In reading, educators usually determine the appropriateness of a text based on factors such as sentence length, vocabulary, readability, skill development, and content.

The research question for educators at St Philip's Christian College in Newcastle is: What is the effectiveness of problem - based learning (PBL) in the development of... critical thinking, collaboration, and communication among Stage Four students across two schools?

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

This information will allow educators and researchers to devise ways to support and foster creative development in young people, and allow us to be confident that we are indeed providing the strong educational base that they require for their future.

In the first of a two - part Q&A, this New South Wales educator shares what prompted her school's focus on teacher welfare and how they are delivering evidence - based professional development.

Prior to HGSE, I had studied and conducted research that, though quite fascinating, seemed disconnected from the «real - world» questions about learning and development that educators encounter on a day - to - day basis.

The key to district - wide implementation is providing multiple entry points for educators to engage in maker - based activities and professional development, reflect on their experiences, and share their inspirations and hurdles with colleagues.

In addition to research - based recommendations, it offers insights on establishing or improving programs based on the author's many years of experience as a mathematics teacher, mathematics teacher educator, and professional development provider for mathematics education.

Based at UCL's Institute of Education, and match - funded by the European Regional Development Fund and UCL's partners — UCL Engineering, the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), Nesta and F6S — EDUCATE offers a rigorous and comprehensive training programme focusing on pedagogical research to help EdTech start - ups, SMEs, entrepreneurs and educators develop, evaluate and improve their products and services with the use of research evidence.

From next year, Adobe will begin conducting hands - on professional development workshops both in schools around the country and online to teach educators new project - based use cases for Adobe Spark and Creative Cloud.

She has since led the organization through extensive growth and expansion — reaching more than 250,000 students and 2,000 educators from three offices nationwide since founding — and expanded programs to include global project based learning, arts and media integration, professional development and international exchange and service learning.

Based on theory and the existent research literature, however, there is a growing consensus in the educational community concerning what constitutes high quality professional development that supports educators and subsequent student learning.

In addition to hearing from education experts, attendees participated in a series of interactive workshops led by the Discovery Education professional development team about creating digital content and integrating mobile and web - based tools into instruction, as well as collaborated with fellow educators on a variety of educational technology projects; and shared ideas and best practices with their peers.

By providing educators with performance - based compensation, including robust career ladder opportunities and a range of related educator supports — such as peer - to - peer coaching and job - embedded professional development — the TIF program aims to improve student outcomes by increasing educators» effectiveness.

Even more recently, we have witnessed the call for and the development of hypermedia instantiations of case - based teacher education (e.g., Lampert, Heaton, & Ball, 1994; Kinzer & Risko, 1998) as a way of rendering case - based instruction more viable for teacher educators and novice teachers in preservice methods classes.

(Calif.) Even as a press event by the state superintendent last week focused attention on a handful of schools already teaching lessons based on new science standards, legislation was being crafted that would delay until 2017 development of the tools educators need to bring that new curriculum into all California classrooms.

As an educator, Trixi has mentored a number of beginning teachers in both the traditional and virtual classrooms.At VirtualSC, not only has she mentored teachers, but she has also played an instrumental role in the development of the Spanish program, which includes her current work in transitioning the courses to a proficiency - based model.

Create customized professional development experiences based on individual needs and leverage pockets of effectiveness within DC to improve overall educator effectiveness

As part of an Institute of Education Sciences (IES)- funded research project, our team (in collaboration with current middle school educators) is developing a professional development (PD) model specifically for middle schools to help them implement research - based reading practices in content areas, including English / language arts, science, and social studies.

The Academy draws on CEL's more than 15 years of experience in bringing effective, research - based instructional leadership professional development to educators around the country.

Teacher educators have used several video - based methods to promote teacher development.

The strands advocate for: a) synthesizing our knowledge base and developing guidelines for a repertoire of supervision and mentoring practices; b) examining essential practitioner roles occurring in today's new partnerships and models; unpacking the teacher educator's boundary - spanning roles and practices; and teacher educators learning from others about current research and practices in professional development schools.

Education in «clinical educator» training pursuant to s. 1004.04 (5)(b) and credits or points that provide training in the area of scientifically researched, knowledge - based reading literacy and computational skills acquisition, exceptional student education, normal child development, and the disorders of development may be applied toward any specialization area.

KPS and Program Accreditation IDA Accredits pre-service and in - service educator preparation programs on the basis of their ability to document alignment with the KPS, as articulated in the IDA Accreditation Handbook (under development).

Provide for delivery of professional development by distance learning and other technology - based delivery systems to reach more educators at lower costs.

Our 120 - plus staff members and affiliates include respected researchers, experienced consultants, and published writers who provide educators with research - based guidance, consultation, and professional development for improving student outcomes.

It is specifically designed for educators, policy makers, directors of maker programs, and educational administrators who are charged with planning and implementation of maker education programs within their organizations, districts or states regardless of size or country; and with responsibility for strategic planning, development, curriculum design and support training for project - based learning environments.

This new professional development book guides educators in establishing an inquiry - based, real - world learning environment in today's standards - driven classroom.

The Spoken Word Summer Institute provides professional development for school - based educators interested in bringing spoken word practices into their work and learning spaces.

Policymakers must ensure that each student has access to effective educators by making the necessary investments along the career continuum, including incentives for recruiting and retaining candidates; personalized and ongoing professional development; flexible routes to licensure based on rigorous professional standards; leadership opportunities and development; and collaboration among higher education institutions and local districts.

Available directly from within DreamBox, MyFlexPD uses real - time student achievement data to surface corresponding professional development options that will empower educators to guide student success based on what students are learning at the time.

In January 2017, Educators Rising released a set of five micro-credentials — performance - based assessments — in which students can demonstrate their development of the skills, knowledge, and dispositions embedded in the Educators Rising Standards.