Sentences with phrase «by learning from teachers»

«While White students also benefit by learning from teachers of color, the impact is especially significant for students of color, who have higher test scores, are more likely to graduate high school, and more likely to succeed in college when they have had teachers of color who serve as role models and support their attachment to school and learning.

And, while White students also benefit by learning from teachers of color, the impact is especially significant for students of color, who have higher test scores, are more likely to graduate high school, and more likely to succeed in college when they have had teachers of color who serve as role models and support their attachment to school and learning.

Teachers Learn Together in the Think Tank Last year we implemented «Think Tanks,» voluntary staff meetings where we all become better teachers by learning from the teachers next door to us.

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During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious «that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned».

Moreover, since his concern as a teacher was to root doctrine in the inmost affection of the heart, he learned from the rhetorical tradition recovered by Erasmus and Budé how to use language to move the hearts and affections of his readers so that their piety might be built up within them.

When a student learns math from a human teacher, the fire of love for the teacher is limited by whatever the nature of the relationship is, and the fire of love for the subject may well be limited by intelligence.

We need something that can fire contemplatives and other religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth leaders, «the men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.

The opportunity to learn from each other is lost and methods usually rejected by good instructors — teacher - centered, rote fact - regurgitation - become the norm.

SMART Technologies helps great teachers get outstanding results by taking learning from passive listening to active collaboration.

Visitors will be able to see up close and learn about live raptors from the Blue Hills Trailside Museum, visit the Animal Adventures petting zoo, and take part in activities led by Boston Nature Center's teacher - naturalists as well as collaborating organizations including Boston Natural Areas Network, the Museum of Science, Renew Boston, and the U.S. Forest Service.

It helps to remember that teaching is communicating knowledge and skills from someone who knows them to someone who doesn't, and that a lot of skills learned by paid teachers are for class management of groups, which we generally don't need as home schoolers (we need parenting skills, to manage our children when we are home schooling, but we need those anyway).

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

Parents and family members learned how to help their children become college and career ready by attending workshops and hearing from education and community leaders on October 8 at Teachers College, Columbia University.

More than 10,000 city school employees, from custodians to principals, and about half of them teachers, were assaulted or threatened by students last school year, The Post has learned.

The review, led by head teacher Keith Ajegbo, will also look at how Islam is taught in schools, to ensure students are not learning from a curriculum that it is «not too constrained».

Most of the money will go not to television and radio advertisements, but for canvassing, social media and other organizing efforts intended to bring pressure on lawmakers from their own constituents, drawing in part on lessons the teachers learned from defeating candidates backed by well - financed charter school advocates in the Democratic primary last fall.

This legend — apocryphal but illustrative, and oft - related by computer science teachers — dates from machine learning's early days in the 1980s.

The Antarctica Project has brought together staff from Stanford University, teachers from the San Francisco Bay area and researchers from the Institute for Research on Learning (IRL), a nonprofit - making organisation based in Palo Alto and founded by Xerox in 1987 to «rethink learningLearning (IRL), a nonprofit - making organisation based in Palo Alto and founded by Xerox in 1987 to «rethink learninglearning».

The definition of Ahimsa I learned (handed down from Swami Satchidananda, whose translation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is used by yoga teachers worldwide) is not causing pain to any living being — including ourselves.

Tudor's teachings are inspired by what she calls Mayan Yoga — a tradition she learned from Miguel Angel Vergara Calleros, her teacher in Yucatan, Mexico.

The actual classes — and there are an abundance of them to choose from — continue this positive experience, as the instructors are certified through their own Teacher Trainer Certification Program that is approved by the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) to ensure you will learn how to move your body correctly and efficiently for greater fitness success and to avoid injuries.

I am constantly inspired by my surrounding community of yoga teachers and learn daily from the students who allow me to lead them in this incredible practice of yoga.

Also referred to as Dynamic Yoga / Power yoga / Ashtanga Yoga only sometimes (terms coined by western teachers) all of who originally learnt it from Guru K Pattabhis Jois.

About Blog The mission of the Montessori Teachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiTeachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiteachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practitioners.

Patterns behavior in online dating could be drawn out by the students and teachers about american culture while learning some of men from.

Based on the nonfiction book compiled by Long Beach high school teacher Erin Gruwell from the writings of her economically - challenged and scholastically - underserved students taken from their diaries, Freedom Writers is a formula feel - good film about one teacher's near - quixotic quest to get her students to learn something about themselves, and about others, in order to not be swallowed up by the negativity surrounding them.

Q: You once wanted to be a history teacher so that you could effect change by learning from the past.

Schools are also attempting to move away from teacher - centered learning environments, to student - centered collaborative environments that are supported by appropriate technology.

Teachers Learn from Looking Together at Student Work School reformers say the way to improve education and accountability is by improving the way teachers and students look at studeTeachers Learn from Looking Together at Student Work School reformers say the way to improve education and accountability is by improving the way teachers and students look at studeteachers and students look at student work.

Many students attend SES because of the environmental focus, but Bodette has heard a wide variety of reasons for students» attachment to the school — from being given the opportunity to learn a great deal of information in depth to working together to being known by other students and teachers to being able to present research to outside audiences.

The main activities implemented in the program by the students, under the coordination of their teacher, are: (1) analysis of the problems of the local Roma community; (2) selection of a problem for in - depth study by the class, a problem that can be solved through local public policies; (3) collecting information about the problem from various sources, including members of the Roma community, public institutions, NGOs, specialists, and analysis of possible solutions; (4) drafting a public policy that could solve the problem; (4) developing an action plan to influence public authorities to adopt the public policy proposed by the students; (5) organizing a showcase at local level in which students present their projects; (6) reflecting on the learning experience.

Pre-service teachers can learn how to be part of great team by experiencing and seeing this team approach from a range of school staff willing to support them, as well as tapping into university staff, school families and community involvement;

This K - 8 school, one of the first public schools inspired by Waldorf methods, infuses music, art, and movement into lessons and offers student - directed learning and what public schools refer to as looping, a process in which a teacher follows her class, ideally, from first grade through eighth grade.

The event represented the culmination of two Making Learning Visible courses attended by 38 early childhood teachers from the Boston Public...

They learn that students are primarily assessed by multiple teacher - made tests that vary from one school to another.

The evolution of technology though has provided smart solutions like distance learning, where a student doesn't need to be present in the classroom and can learn from teachers who live in different parts of the country by using online learning environments or distributed course materials.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiplLearning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multipllearning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

I had always thought that I lived on an island of one, but I came to learn that teachers from around the globe were not only encouraged by my accounts, but were experiencing many of the same highs and lows.

I was looking at digital learning from a traditional point of view where the teacher develops most (if not all) of the activities completed by students.

Q Design Packs from Institute of Play, based on the tools and methods used by teachers, administrators, curriculum designers and game designers at Quest to Learn and CICS Chicago Quest, provide detailed infographics, worksheets, and rich media resources to support school design, curriculum design, and professional development.

Second, the school is run by a cooperative of teachers, who make all the key decisions about the school — from the learning program to the budget to hiring and firing.

A Step - by - Step Plan for Student - Led Conferences at the Elementary Level: In this post from Teaching Channel, explore takeaways shared by an experienced primary teacher, and learn how she plans for her station - based approach to student - led conferences.

The advantage of this from the learner's point of view is that this two - way traffic of work between teacher and themselves is replaced by a multi-way exchanges from which they can learn.

Further, the particular forms that are viewed as socially desirable vary from culture to culture and setting to setting and thus have to be learned by students (e.g., interrupting teachers to ask questions or to express opinions is standard practice in American classrooms whereas Japanese students are expected to be very quiet during class).

The idea is to see if combining information from the tests, survey, and classroom observations could produce more stable measures of teacher contributions to learning than is possible by just using the state test.

So what lessons were learned about teaching from Levy, who, despite being dubbed a «master teacher,» admits that he is introverted by nature?

inBloom, a non-profit that offered a data warehouse solution designed to help public schools embrace the promise of personalized learning by helping teachers integrate seamlessly the number of applications they use in their day - to - day teaching, collapsed and has ceased to exist, as privacy concerns from interested parties mounted over a period of many months (full disclosure: I served on the inBloom board of directors).

They range from small independent schools, often emanating from visionary teachers and parents, to franchise schools run by major education management firms, such as Charter Schools USA, Nobel Learning, and Edison Schools.

And long before learning from mistakes was supported by research, high school algebra teacher Susan Gilkey calmly taught her students that it was «OK to make mistakes, learn from them, and try again.

In the service of inspiring educators to embrace a performance - based approach to teaching, learning and assessment by highlighting great projects, I am worried that we actually dissuade teachers and leaders from using this approach.