Sentences with phrase «challenge for educators as»

The high poverty population adds an extra challenge for educators as they must grapple with the reality that most students don't have the support and structure they need to continue their learning at home.

Challenges for educators Smartphones, games consoles and tablets present new challenges for educators as a child can access the internet in the palm of his hand at any time of the day or night.

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would LOVE to try this flour for bread - baking for myself and my family; we have type 1 diabetes along with Celiac disease so I do a LOT of cooking and baking at home and love to share recipes with all my patients who have gluten and diabetes challenges as well (I am also a Nutritionist and diabetes educator)

As a result, fewer undergraduate nursing students experience caring for women who choose physiologic birth, which presents a challenge for nurse educators and implications for preparing students to provide appropriate care for all childbearing women after the students graduate.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

This year, 71 faculty members from eight different countries planned to help educators face these challenges by working as instructors for the 325 participants who attended this summer's institute.

In this regard, advancement of technology and spread of knowledge have certainly brought new opportunities for learners, new challenges for educators, and, possibly, new dangers as well for all stakeholders.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

If we don't, history has already provided a glimpse as to what might happen... disruptive innovation compels educators to go against the flow, challenge the status quo, take on the resistance, and shift our thinking in a more growth - oriented way... There is time to go down the path less traveled and create systems of excellence that will be embraced by our learners and in turn better prepare them for their future.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

«So my challenge as an educator was to develop appropriate Internet activities for my young students while teaching my kids how to find information and share information safely on the Internet.»

For the educators participating in Levinson's «Dilemmas of Ethical Educational Leadership» session — as part of the Leading 21st Century High Schools institute recently offered by Programs in Professional Education (PPE)-- ethical challenges are a part of the job, whether promoting students they know aren't prepared to move on, or dealing with staff cuts, or grappling with how many resources to dedicate to a...

For the educators participating in Levinson's «Dilemmas of Ethical Educational Leadership» session — as part of the Leading 21st Century High Schools institute recently offered by Programs in Professional Education (PPE)-- ethical challenges are a part of the job, whether promoting students they know aren't prepared to move on, or dealing with staff cuts, or grappling with how many resources to dedicate to a teacher before cutting their losses.

Also, most children are using the internet as a tool to complete school projects and learn new things outside of the classroom, so it's challenging for parents and educators to have it both ways.

«I feel uniquely prepared for the entire breadth of challenges I will face as an educator.»

One might take the challenges faced by the consortia - designed assessments as evidence of the impossibility of creating meaningful standards for which educators and students can be held accountable.

In addition to providing concrete examples of how the educator preparation program at Tulane has evolved to meet the challenges that new, higher standards bring, they made a strong case for establishing a grace period during which results from the next - generation assessments slated to accompany the Common Core be used only as diagnostic tools, as they are being designed to be, and not for high stakes or accountability.

Just as a football team depends upon eleven individuals to successfully complete their missions, teachers and other educators must collaborate to help students overcome — or, at least learn to compensate for — their learning challenges.

As educators face the challenge of developing, implementing, and revising AUPs for students and teachers, they should keep the following ten important interrelated points in mind.

As many educators are discovering, Common Core State Standards pose particular challenges for English - language learners in both language arts and mathematics, and yet the standards documents themselves provide little guidance for how teachers can help their ELLs meet the new objectives.

The challenge for educators and policymakers will be to develop a system that captures the obvious benefits of high - stakes testing as a means of providing incentives while minimizing the possible distortions that these measures induce.

These programs address an urgent challenge or priority — from narrowing achievement gaps and postsecondary success to modeling courageous conversations and leading inclusive schools — and provide educators with important context and data, as well as concrete solutions for expanding opportunity and achieving excellence with equity.

JE: Given these challenges then, why is it important for educators — not just teacher but leaders as well — to have this evidence - informed approach to practice?

As part of this effort, we are challenging school leaders, educators, and community advocates to sign the Promise, and to commit to being a champion for making by:

As part of this effort, we are challenging school leaders, educators, and community advocates to sign the Promise, and commit to being a champion for making by developing opportunities for students to learn through making; creating and supporting spaces for making; and showcasing what students make.

She challenges educators to think of the CCSS as more than a checklist of tasks, but instead a map for student literacy learning.

On November 14, 2016, the National STEM Video Game Challenge celebrated its fifth year with an awards ceremony and reception in Washington, DC at National Geographic for all 24 student winners and their families, as well as leading educators, game designers, and policy makers from across the country.

As CEL embarks on its next ten years, we are mindful that the persistent achievement gap in the midst of severe school district budget reductions poses enormous challenges for educators.

Since 1998, we have published many books and videos with the same two goals in mind: (1) to persuade educators that the most promising strategy for meeting the challenge of helping all students learn at high levels is to develop their capacity to function as a professional learning community and (2) to offer specific strategies and structures to help them transform their own schools and districts into PLCs.

Educators of the gifted find that overuse of some cooperative learning strategies, particularly those focused on learning of basic information and skills, results in a lack of challenge for advanced learners, inordinate use of these learners as «junior teachers,» and inappropriate pressure for these learners to solve instructional problems (Robinson, 1990).

As noted in Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators, it's appropriate for educators in meetings «to feel challenged by the exchange of ideas and the weight of the objectives, but not to feel confused by a lack of clarity about purpose, process, or neEducators, it's appropriate for educators in meetings «to feel challenged by the exchange of ideas and the weight of the objectives, but not to feel confused by a lack of clarity about purpose, process, or needucators in meetings «to feel challenged by the exchange of ideas and the weight of the objectives, but not to feel confused by a lack of clarity about purpose, process, or next steps.

The challenge for teacher educators is to prepare beginning teachers to be able to shift away from «that which parades as inclusive schooling yet is clearly reluctant schooling» (p. 385) toward a differentiated model of instruction that continually seeks to leverage technologies, including digital technologies within various contexts and environments to enable students to learn to the best of their abilities.

We challenge educators and policy - makers in every district, school, and classroom in Massachusetts to commit to and invest in SEL as a critical foundation for academic success.

Yet, studies show that schools face significant challenges as they prepare educators for teaching in iPad - enriched classrooms.

For some educators, navigating the digital divide is as challenging and intimidating as crossing those suspension bridges onto the islands of my youth.

When I was elected to the Los Angeles School Board 11 years ago as an experienced educator and social worker, I immediately challenged the downtown school bureaucracy, fought for greater accountability and tackled the most difficult problems facing our schools.

His book The Well - Balanced Teacher helps highlight the challenges that today's educators face as they struggle to maintain their love and passion for teaching in the midst of increasing stress and pressure in education, and offers suggestions for how teachers can take good care of themselves personally and professionally.

This enrollment milestone reflects not only a cultural shift but also a host of challenges for educators, including more students living in poverty, more students learning English as an additional language, and more whose life experiences will differ from those of their teachers.

As an individual, a parent, an educator, or a community leader, one of the most exciting challenges for anyone is to become aware of personal strengths and talents — their own or in others.

As the first state to fully implement policy requiring new teachers to pass edTPA for licensure, New York and its PK - 12 educators and teacher educators have encountered a variety of operational challenges.

Because they have such a big job, it can be challenging for principals to concentrate as much as they would like to on effective recruitment and outreach to future educators.

An ongoing challenge for educators is figuring out which students with reading difficulties have a true learning disability and which ones can develop effective reading skills as a result of different reading instruction.

This dynamic framework invites teacher educators to redesign their programs toward developing the knowledge needed for responding to the challenges of integrating technologies such as videos as tools for learning mathematics.

The challenge, which called upon educator teams across the country to create plans that detailed innovative uses for federal funding for professional learning and student outcomes under the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), named the Hope Street Group State Teacher Fellow team of Trey Ferguson (NC), Cassie Reding (KY), Carly Baldwin (KY), Natalie Coleman (TN) and Debbie Hickerson (TN) as finalists.

We believe that these papers, and others like them, challenge teacher educators and the larger field to consider strategies for professionalizing teachers and teaching as the profession faces a dual challenge.

Advocacy groups and individuals highlighted both Fariña's reputation as a champion for educators and the challenges of her tenure.

As California educators prepare for the seismic challenge of ushering in the new curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, much of the worry has centered on student assessmenAs California educators prepare for the seismic challenge of ushering in the new curriculum known as the Common Core State Standards, much of the worry has centered on student assessmenas the Common Core State Standards, much of the worry has centered on student assessment.

Recently, the biggest challenge for districts has been professional learning, as we are expecting our educators to have broader and deeper content knowledge.

Although ever - increasing external demands to raise student achievement amidst budget cuts are raising stress levels for many educators, school leaders, like company CEOs, may be able to unleash creativity and collective problem - solving by reframing threats as challenges — for example, by converting the fear of school failure into the challenge of helping students succeed.

«We are keenly aware of the challenges faced by educators as they work to prepare their students for new, demanding district and state assessments.