Sentences with phrase «better training of teachers»

Other options include lengthening of the school day and / or school year or more selective hiring and better training of teachers in those schools with high percentages of students in need of accelerated progress.

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If you're bound by the foolishness of anti-gun politicians in prohibiting trained teachers and staff from defending students, then a bucket of rocks is actually a reasonably good idea.

The course includes training with a mindfulness teacher, as well as up to two hours of daily mindfulness meditation.

Its legacy may well be the formation of the well - formed Catholic teachers whose absence James Arthur notes; and its presence may also provide not just inspiration but also a model for teacher training elsewhere in the UK.

... 3that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good; 4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, 5to be sober — minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:...

Herod called the experts together: the theologians, chief priests, the captain of the temple police, the best of all teachers with great speaking skills, the pastors and elders, the seminary - trained professors with their Ph.D. s and Doctorates of Ministry.

These led me to his earlier works, which consistently vindicated Kass's self - description in his justly acclaimed Towards a More Natural Science: «The author of this book is by reading a moralist, by education a generalist, by training a physician and biochemist, by vocation a teacher» and student» of philosophical texts, and by choice a lover of serious conversations, who thinks best when sharing thoughts and speeches with another.»

We offer a certificate of completion as Vegan Fusion Chef for the 10 Day course, and we offer an advanced teacher training as well with another certificate.

Plenty of scouts, just like plenty of teachers / doctors / lawyers, aren't necessarily good just because they've received training and have experience.

There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared teacher to do quite badly.

This yoga studio offers a variety of yoga classes, workshops, events and teacher training opportunities as well as a vegan cafe in the Oak Park location.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

Marianne is a highly experienced, trained Waldorf teacher with over 35 years of teaching experience in public and private Waldorf schools as well as experience as a Spanish - bilingual teacher in New York.

What I said was to look at the possibility of giving «concealed guns to gun adept teachers with military or special training experience — only the best.

As a result, NCTL, in conjunction with the School Food Plan, have successfully launched a suite of materials to support the training of head - teachers in the importance of good food, health and well - being.

I also know, from experience, that being alone with children all day can be demanding at times - we all need stimulating ideas and encouragement, whether we are mom - teachers or professional teachers and so I hope that by sharing my joys and struggles in the Homeschooling pages, that I will lift you above the level of dirty finger marks and spilt milk and give you the motivation and inspiration you need to teach and train your children well.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

She believes many schools have become a mere diversion from the academic agenda of middle - class parents — who want their children trained OUTSIDE the classroom by people better than «just teachers.»

* Positive Discipline * Positive Discipline for Developing Capable People * Building Self - Esteem through Positive Discipline * Keys to Developing Self - Reliance: A Gift to Our Children * The Significant Seven: Life Skills for Adults and Youth * Positive Discipline: Practical Application * Why Children Misbehave and What to Do About It * Parenting Teenagers: · Empowering Teenagers — and Yourself in the Process * Teaching Parenting the Positive Discipline Way: * Classroom Management: Shared Responsibility through Class Meetings: Eliminating your Role as a disciplinarian (The Kids Can Do It Better Anyway) * Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training on class meetings) * We've Got to Keep Meeting Like This (teacher in - service on class meetings) * School Administrators: Positive Discipline in the Classroom (two - day training with Bill Scott, principal of Birney Elementary School)

The Chef Instructors held a «Train the Trainer» session for the current cohort of school Garden Educators, teaching them how to implement the Chefs in the Garden curriculum as well as teach others, such as teachers or community volunteers, to conduct the lessons.

According to the Fall / Winter 2011 issue of Renewal: A Journal for Waldorf Education, published quarterly by AWSNA (the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America), «There is a drastic shortage of trained Waldorf teachers — class teachers, as well as early childhood / kindergarten... This shortage exists in North America and around the world, including in English - speaking countries such as Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and Ireland.

Given the diverse and changing landscape of teacher training provision, the Teaching Council has championed the coordination of a wide range of stakeholders to explore and develop the most appropriate methods and resources to train all teachers in the benefits of good school food.

Currently, I work for the Orange County Department of Education, and train preschool transitional kindergarten and kindergarten at first grade teachers, and strategies that help students acquire the curriculum, and I do a lot of work with parents, looking at what do you need to know to help your child best and make sure your child is making the progress they need to make in school.

Previously, Jana spent 14 years on the faculty of the Whidbey Island Waldorf School, teaching music and main lessons, and has also been a visiting faculty member at several Waldorf teacher training institutes in the US, as well as abroad.

«As a preschool teacher and mom, one of the best toilet training tips I can offer is to resist the temptation of using disposable «underwear,» such as training pants, all the time.

Just as at a daycare center, preschool teachers should have at least two years of college and a background in early childhood development as well as CPR and other emergency training.

A well trained, confident, and contented teacher is essential in the delivery of quality education.

It will focus on four main areas: security of buildings themselves; training for teachers and students; creating better communication regarding mental health assessments and other issues, like arming teachers.

I've seen quite a few poorly - trained teachers become obsessed with drilling students for exams because they don't know how children best learn; their lessons involved a lot of copying and sedentary learning.

The committee's recommendations include more focus on training for teachers after they enter the profession to keep their knowledge and practical skills up to date, a better inspection regime for science facilities and more coherence in the provision of science educational materials.

Sir, Ghanaians would have realized that you are their best and surest bet if the future of their children who are into nursing colleges, teacher training colleges, among others, those who are willing to venture into entrepreneurship, would have recognized that you were on a path towards developing this country for their good.

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«We are changing for a better government, we are changing to change the sky rocketing fees at the colleges of education, We are changing for a government which will bring free SHS, free education at the teacher training colleges and Nursing training colleges.

Teacher Centers, along with mentors and master teachers, remain one of the very best ways to train and support educators.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

«So I hope that the present government will maintain the same level of funding and support for training teachers and support staff to ensure that children with SEN continue to remain a priority and that the focus on how best to maximise children's development and learning is maintained.»

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

The phaseout of the MSP program would be a blow to university researchers, who use NSF funding to link up with educators from local school districts to train teachers, improve curriculum, and devise better ways to measure student progress in math and science.

Alan Smithers, professor of education at the University of Manchester, says that with a clearer national curriculum, from now on newly trained teachers are likely to be better at maths and science.

Better math preparation is vital to improving undergraduate science, agrees panelist Mary Ann Rankin, founder of a science teacher training program at the University of Texas and now head of the National Math and Science Initiative, which is seeking to replicate that program nationally.

But really better training of science teachers, better pay for teachers, more investment in school infrastructure, building, science equipment — that's a huge challenge for the nation, in which we are clearly losing internationally just by every ranking; we do much less well than we should.

This is something which has been very well documented and mourned in a report from the National Academy of Sciences that was issued by a committee headed by Norman Augustine just a few months ago and this report — which is called «he Gathering Storm» — lays out in some detail the concern that that [leaves us] with a long hole over the next couple of decades, because of weaknesses in [the] way we fund basic physical sciences, the way we are training people to do physical sciences, the way we treat science in elementary and high - school programs — all of those factors, the way we pay teachers, the way we use the patent system where we try to provide incentives in some of the physical sciences; we are losing our leadership gradually to other countries, especially in Europe and [of] particular concern in Asia, where the rise of science in, particularly China, to a certain extent India and other parts of Southeast Asia, are cause for long - term concern.

Gross cites an unpublished study that found a cohort of fourth graders in schools with Vermont Mathematics Institute — trained teachers performed significantly better in math four and six years later than a matched group attending schools without such teachers.

Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets, like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the classroom, and strengthening curricula.

The courses — designed both for academic education and professional training — take students through a blend of academic and pedagogical modules, as well as a substantial practicum experience to prepare them to take on the role of primary or secondary school teacher.

For almost a decade, Dr. Pfund served as the Associate Director of the Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning and the co-Director of the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching helping to train future faculty to become better more effective teachers.

Three years experience managing WHOI's postdoc program (65 in residence) and WHOI's REU program (27 undergraduates in residence in summer), as well as oversight of small teacher training and other K - 12 programs.

These small gains are better than what researchers have seen after teachers attend training seminars or summer workshops — which cost school systems millions of dollars every year.

Well, a few years passed and the urge to go through teacher training was undeniable so I enrolled in a 200 - hour training with an open mind, but was still skeptical of the fact that I'd ever be able to get in front of a room of people and teach them asanas.