Sentences with phrase «be meaningful to teachers»

«We have worked hard to implement professional development that is meaningful to teachers and children,» said Susan Adams, assistant commissioner for Georgia's Pre-K and Instructional Supports.

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Structured to respond to the three developmental phases of childhood — birth to 6 or 7 years, 7 to 14 years, and 14 to 21 years — Steiner stressed to teachers that the best way to provide meaningful support for the child is to comprehend these phases fully and to bring age appropriate content that nourishes healthy growth.

'' [T] he research offers no reason to believe that students in high - quality classrooms whose teachers give little or no homework would be at a disadvantage as regards any meaningful learning.»

* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change

We prefer to stick with small, meaningful gifts because they can mean so much more and are a great way for kids to show their teachers exactly what they mean to them.

Rachelle Doorley is an arts educator with a passion for helping families and teachers find easy ways to set up meaningful creative projects for kids.

By doing so, we will prevent future cuts to education funding and ensure that every teacher is held to a fair and meaningful standard of excellence.»

Bob McManus on what he hopes to hear from Cuomo regarding education reform: «Any proposal that lacks meaningful mechanisms for ridding the schools of incompetent teachers — that is, for cracking the union hold on the process — is also fraudulent.»

The failure to adopt and implement a meaningful teacher evaluation system is indicative of protecting the priorities of the bureaucracy over the needs of the students.

«While there's still more to do this session on charters and the education investment tax credit, and more to ensure every child has access to great schools, Governor Cuomo fought hard to make meaningful reforms to tenure, arbitration policies and teacher evaluation criteria and his vision and hard work paid off.»

And a meaningful evaluation system is the critical first step to improving teacher quality.

«The Government has provided no evidence that teachers» pensions are unaffordable, and they have refused to negotiate on this matter in any meaningful fashion.

«I think it's fair to say about Common Core that we all agree that we need real standards for our students, a meaningful teacher evaluation system.

Gibson offered a brief outline of his platform, stating, «I believe our state can rally around four points: growing the economy through meaningful tax cuts and policy changes, achieving excellence in education by returning power to parents, students and teachers, cleaning up corruption and restoring our faith in our ability to be self - governing and protecting our freedoms while improving on the safety and security of all New Yorkers.»

«A successful deal to implement a meaningful teacher evaluation system is a necessary first step toward righting that wrong.

The formation of New Yorkers for Great Public Schools is just the teachers unions» latest effort to derail meaningful reform in our schools.

The city DOE and United Federation of Teachers had spent weeks in closed door meetings trying to hammer out the details of a «meaningful teacher evaluation system» in order to qualify for up to $ 65 million in federal funding in School Improvement Grants over the next two years, which is distributed by the state.

«It will be powerful to see what is possible,» Nelson - Barber said, «what can give students meaningful access so that they can demonstrate their learning, and what can yield information that will be useful for teachers.»

A goal of this program is to train yoga students to become exceptional yoga teachers with an ability to lead people of all kinds into a meaningful and authentic yoga practice.

If you are thinking to delve deeper in the soul - healing world of yoga and make your life more meaningful by serving people as a certified yoga teacher, then set onto the path of a yoga teacher training program.

Rochester, NY About Blog GRS is the Warner School of Education's science teacher preparation program committed to social justice through meaningful and authentic science inquiry.

As teachers, it's on us to connect with the parents on a more meaningful level.

As teachers, we found that when we created our DLD objectives, we were free to distill our intentions for the day, asking, «What does meaningful learning look like?»

«The dean calls you and tells you that you're a teacher, an urban teacher, and we think that's important enough that we're going to make a significant investment in you; that's a really meaningful thing,» Welch says.

Although I am no longer a teacher in the K - 12 classrooms, I recognize that my own real - life adventures inform my ability to deliver meaningful instruction to any student.

The schools and classrooms where I've seen the strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have input on establishing norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and teachers know each other well, and, on the teacher level, where teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and discuss student supports.

Therefore I understand the desire to just get by for Open House preparation, but I hope some teachers will have the energy to go above and beyond what has always been done to make this experience interesting and meaningful.

In order to reach this end goal, principals need to have knowledge of this instructional practice, and they need to be able to observe teachers and offer meaningful feedback in this area of practice.

It will take a lot to make public schools more effective for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful professional development for teachers, stronger incentives for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services for the many students who are in need of such.

In short, the competitive model would substitute meaningful professional development for what is essentially a guild system funded by levying a significant tuition - based tax on aspiring teachers before permitting them to enter the profession.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

However, in claiming that meaningful preparation is yet to be found, he not only sidesteps my argument that teachers should be taught to think through intellectual and moral issues related to pedagogy, but also a long history of reflection on the aims, methods, and content of education.

Of course, teachers need to ensure that such interactions are meaningful and appropriate - but it would be foolish to miss out on such an opportunity.

It is also clear that despite their best intentions many teachers, principals, superintendents, and professors at schools of education do not know how to address these shortcomings on a meaningful scale.

There is scant robust evidence of what actually works whether it is how to observe colleagues, to provide meaningful feedback or to help change the practice of fellow teachers for the better.

The first half of the PowerPoint contains: * Worked examples (useful for non-specialists) * An AFL example * Classwork options (Grade 3, 4 or 5) for the teacher to choose to complete (answers included) * In built revision through the inter-linking of previously taught topics The second half of the PowerPoint contains: * Worked examples embedding the newly taught topic in a different context * An AFL example * Classwork (answers included) * In built revision through the inter-linking of previously taught topics * Exit pass that will make your marking process quicker, easier and more meaningful This is part of a set of PowerPoints that have been developed for this particular unit.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

Congress should also provide incentives to states where standards are really low to raise the standards, and provide incentives to states to develop meaningful measures of teacher effectiveness.

Teachers are using Voxer in their classrooms, schools, and PLNs to share meaningful feedback, expand authentic communication, hold back - channel conversations, and connect across boundaries.

I am a classroom teacher who loves integrating technology in a meaningful way to try and redefine what education is all about.

So the notion of «role» becomes much more meaningful, it's not just this thing where they walk in there and they're trying to establish themselves, they actually get a sense of what it means to be a teacher.

As teachers, we can help them see that even the simplest experiences can matter and that they just need to be insightful about why such an experience was meaningful.

But the Qudwa Forum also expected teachers to be passionate and compassionate; to encourage students» engagement and responsibility; to respond effectively to students of different needs, backgrounds and languages; to provide continual assessments of students and meaningful feedback; to promote collaborative learning, tolerance and social cohesion; and to ensure that students feel valued and included.

«Generally, though, people who choose to be teachers want to do meaningful work that contributes to a better, more equitable society, and perceive they have the ability to be good at it,» she said.

In June, I spoke at the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom conference, a passionate group of teachers, park rangers, and nonprofit educators who are giving students a deeper, more meaningful connection to the history of slavery in our nation.

And break down the barriers between inside of school and outside of school — have kids work on projects that are meaningful to their communities and bring people from the communities into the schools to support the teachers.

As Mapp and other experts have argued, to build meaningful partnerships that are feasible for all parents, communities, schools, and teachers must first establish what success looks like.

From my time as a teacher, I learned how challenging and rewarding the teaching profession is, how meaningful real connections with students can be (I'm still in contact with quite a few of my students from St. Jude), and how important it is to take a growth mindset to this work.

That's a very powerful incentive for teachers to engage in meaningful and purposeful professional development.

«If the blend of face - to - face and online learning is designed by the teacher, opportunities are often missed in making learning meaningful for every learner.