Sentences with phrase «beginning teachers meet»

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Returning home after his two years of study abroad (chiefly at Oxford, but also in Germany, where he met and married Hedwig von Bötticher, of Gottingen), he began his career as teacher of New Testament at Berkeley Divinity School (1911), then located at Middletown, Connecticut, now at New Haven.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

The Pickwick Book Club is a community of local bookworms, students, and teachers who meet monthly to discuss a nineteenth - century novel, beginning this January with Charles Dickens's Little...

With their alderman, Luis Gutierrez (26th), Clemente parents and teachers have begun meeting with Chicago Park District officials to try to resolve the issues, which include concern over broken lights, doors, fire alarms and dirty rooms and hallways.

I'm getting involved and meeting other teachers, which means my days aren't as lonely as they were in the beginning.

The state's new education commissioner, in her first address since beginning the job just over one week ago, told the rural schools association, meeting in Cooperstown, that she intends to be more inclusive to teachers in New York.

After three meetings this month, the fledgling club has reviewed projects flown in the CLOµDS 2011 campaign, performed ground - based trials of their teachers» experiments, and began the process of brainstorming to create their very own microgravity experiment that will fly in the 2012 campaign.

In 1998, she began studying with several Yoga Masters and in 2002 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker of ParaYoga and was initiated into the lineage of Sri Vidya.

With no recollection of my own bone stock beginning, I suspect that I started making bone stocks because of Timothy Aitken, L.Ac., a kind and wise healer whom I first met years ago as a teacher at the Natural Gourmet Institute.

She meets her ancient teacher and they begin training in the mystical «Art of Non-Biting».

Jaya Maxon, E-RYT 500, began her spiritual journey when she met her teacher Baba Hari Dass in 1974.

She meets Piranha One, her ancient teacher, and begins training in the mysterious «Art of Non-Biting».

When I heard the late summer locusts calling, my eager anticipation began of meeting my teacher and, yes, learning new things.

At the beginning of the year, the campus TIS meet with the teachers and have them complete an online survey to determine their Individual Technology Goal (ITG) that generally asks:

Teachers began employing aspects of Responsive Classroom practices, such as Morning Meeting and Logical Consequences — in their classrooms.

Stephanie S, a DC - based teacher, says she notes at the beginning of meetings, «I want to remind you that I'll need to leave the meeting by XYZ time to set up for my next class.»

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.

Once the school year begins there are weekly meetings between the school's principal, Sara McClain, and the skills specialists to review data and plot strategies for supporting those students and teachers who need help.

Once teachers begin experiencing success as a team, they start feeling connected to each other, expanding collaboration outside of their meetings and transforming the school culture.

Each year I hosted an afternoon training [session] with my grade - level team that began with a group meeting and ended with parents rotating through teachers rooms and the school office learning various activities like using the copier, working with small groups, and conducting fluency testing.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

It was a training tape, showing a young, new teacher at the beginning of his career at Uncommon, trying to hold the attention of his students, then his meeting with the principal to review the tape of those early classes and to practice.

McCauley and her teachers still seek to meet specific needs, but they found that once they began opening their doors to the community, more and more people came to those doors offering to help.

So when his parents met with teachers at the beginning of the school year, the teachers had a question: What should we do if someone does remember him as Mia?

Several parents and teachers began meeting each month, both physically and virtually (using Google Docs), to organize and share the information detailed below.

(One format involves a teacher meeting with one group of kindergartners at the beginning of the morning; a second group would arrive at school later to join the first group for the middle part of the day; and then the first group goes home while the teacher meets with the second group.)

At Scott Johnson Elementary School in Huntsville, Texas, students and parents have an opportunity to meet teachers the day before school officially begins.

«For example... every one of our workshop - style classes [will] begin with a meeting of the kids and the teacher to talk about a feature of mathematics or writing or reading... then kids will go off to do independent work and the teacher will circulate among them and help them with their individual projects.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

After the NBPTS began certifying teachers, outstanding board - certified teachers were often invited to meetings with governors to discuss why they had sought certification and what they thought about it.

At the beginning of the school year, when many parents attend a meeting or get together before the first day, it could be useful for teachers to ask the parents what kind of platforms they are already using, so that they can engage easily.

Months before the newly hired teachers at Philadelphia's Science Leadership Academy (SLA) started their jobs, they began the consuming work of creating the high school of their dreams — without meeting face to face.

After a few months, teachers began leaving their doors open and meeting informally throughout the day.

In February, Breo began paying teachers to meet with students after school.

At the COBO Center in Detroit last summer, I followed Teach for America's new co-CEOs, Matt Kramer — a former McKinsey consultant whose wife did TFA — and Elisa Villanueva Beard — who began her career as a TFA teacher in her native Rio Grande Valley — to a basement meeting room.

Beginning teachers need to be continually supported and developed upon completing their training and all staff need to feel supported and grown to keep meeting the needs of their pupils.

In 2003, Thorstenson began laying the groundwork to implement a PLC at Work model by having her whole staff read Raising the Bar and Closing the Gap: Whatever It Takes by the DuFours and two other co-authors, and by meeting with the school board, teachers, parents, administrators and union leaders to achieve consensus on going forward with the model.

A national panel of scholars met here last week to begin work on a mammoth task: synthesizing research on all the ways in which teachers are prepared across the United States and advising policymakers on how to improve the process.

Mathematics and science teachers at a secondary school in the U.S. began to meet in order to improve their practices and incorporate data into their teaching.

To begin, the project will conduct face - to - face meetings in the various regions of the state to introduce the Framework to teachers.

The School Library Media Specialist (SLMS) and classroom teachers met several months before the project was set to begin.

In order for a union to be represented in a district, certain requirements must be met including the number of teachers who are willing to join from the beginning.

Teachers, who once operated in silos, started meeting twice a week to analyze grade - level standards and began using common lesson plans.

Typically these stories begin with accounts of academic struggle or classroom behavior issues, followed by numerous meetings with teachers, administrators and counselors, a barrage of assessments and, finally, a diagnosis — and a label.

One thing that we've found that's effective is freeing up time for the beginning teachers so that they can meet with other colleagues.

Determined to create a digital - age school culture, she began modeling use of apps and other technologies in faculty meetings, man - dated monthly teacher peer observations of tech - leader colleagues, provided extra training opportunities for innovators, and created a schedule with time to share best practices.

Identifying instructional leadership as a high - need area, McCoy - Mitti began a twice - monthly, one - hour lesson - tuning showcase in which teachers meet with the leadership teams to look critically at lessons to ensure that activities align with goals and include critical thinking and multiple assessments.

The district's director of instructional services, Mark Balch, described the transition as a «multi-year process,» beginning with the district's adoption of the Kendall Hunt Discovery series textbooks in 2014 - 15 and establishing task forces of 12 to 20 teachers who have met each of the last two summers to plan curriculum units.

Troy Albert, David Freitas, Andrea Neal and Brad Oliver begin their four - year terms on the State Board of Education as state officials tackle issues of central importance to parents and teachers — from how to handle the ISTEP + testing debacle to how to meet state lawmakers» request to rewrite the state's A-F grading system.

Only half of districts allow beginning teachers to attend regularly scheduled meetings with their principal.