Sentences with phrase «challenges as educators»

So one of our first challenges as educators and activists is to bring the global warming issue to people in terms that they'll understand.

«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.»

This, truly, is a community where you can be brutally honest about your struggles and challenges as an educator... and learn without the fear of failure.»

«To date, our challenge as educators has been to replicate efficacy for vastly more students, and expand the impact of promising programs that weren't reaching enough students to make a significant difference,» said Dowling.

Not exact matches

I work as a food educator / community chef within communities that are economically challenged, so I love the fact that this recipe can be adapted to suit a range of wallets.

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.

As a veteran educator, he understands that better schools are the answer to the twin challenges of opportunity and safety.

Educators, teachers, taxpayers, and bishops and clergy of nine religious denominations, including Roman Catholics, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Jews, promptly challenged the «Balanced Treatment Act» in federal court in Little Rock, arguing that it was a violation of the separation of church and state as guaranteed by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

«The purpose of the paper was to provide the detailed recipes and protocols so that others can easily duplicate the work and help to further permeate the idea of «building with biology» — so that other researchers and educators can have the tools and the knowledge to build these bio-hybrid systems and attempt to address challenges in health, medicine, and environment that we face as a society,» stated Rashid Bashir, a Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering and head of the Department of Bioengineering at Illinois.

As a result, schools face the challenge of preparing educators to foster inclusive, effective language learning.

If they were really challenging you to think about your practice and grow as an educator?

In his research visiting nearly 30 American high schools, he recognized that students weren't often being given rigorous, challenging, and meaningful work — often referred to by educators as «deeper learning.»

«The biggest challenge that I'm faced with as an educator,» acknowledges Friedrich, «is traditional thinking in teaching.»

As educators, our challenge is ensuring that students have an opportunity to engage in reflection such that they create a meaningful product to actually visit (and learn from) again and again.

Mega-gifts such as the Gates Foundation's high school funding initiative capture headlines around the world, while each year more modest contributions from local and national philanthropies capture the imaginations and bolster the resources of administrators and educators charged with meeting today's wide - ranging educational challenges.

Filmed during the 2013 school year, this year - in - the - life story follows the struggles and achievements of these educators as they mentor their students to overcome challenges and do their best.

As educators, we challenge students to become responsible citizens.

ISEEN sees itself as «an international learning laboratory and networking opportunity through which independent school experiential educators and administrators can share their program challenges and successes, learn of and from model programs, and explore the developing role of experiential practices within our educational communities.»

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.

As our nation and society faces these types of events and challenges, it is important to mark them as educatorAs our nation and society faces these types of events and challenges, it is important to mark them as educatoras educators.

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.

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

As educators, it is our challenge to see that all students have opportunities to stimulate their developing executive function networks so when they leave school they have the critical skillsets to choose the career and life paths that will give them the most satisfaction.

Educators and parents who are interested in helping students reach their long - term goals — staying in school and getting good jobs — need to help them get better at «code switching» as they navigate their way through daily social and academic challenges.

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.

Educators are also supporting each other as design thinkers in regional collaborations like Atlanta's #AK12DC, a collection of 30 public and independent schools working to accelerate design challenges, and Henry Ford Learning Institute's work in Michigan to gather regional enthusiasts and design thinking leaders.

In an excerpt from his new book, Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess describes how his own experiences as a student and a teacher, often in a challenging policy environment, inspired his commitment to opening up outdated education systems so that educators, entrepreneurs, parents, and communities can reinvent schooling to better serve every child.

As educators of young children, it is important to understand those internal processes because they (a) affect your ability to connect with children and families; (b) affect your ability to work in a learning community that supports the emotional and physical development of the children in your class; and (c) affect your ability to identify challenging behaviors and work through them without losing site of the childs needs.

«The abundance of resources and relationships made easily accessible via the internet is increasingly challenging us to revisit our roles as educators» (Johnson, et al 2011, p. 4.).

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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...

«Our challenge as parents, educators and technology providers is to affect balance in a child's immersion in technology.

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.

As we continue to study choice - based policies in K — 12 education, one challenge we must confront is the push - pull created by high - stakes accountability measures designed to assess schools, students, and educators, based solely on test scores — an area where choice proponents and opponents often find common ground.

Debra Ferguson is an education consultant and author who, as an experienced educator, understands the pressures and challenges teachers face on a daily basis.

As educators» discretionary authority over school discipline has been challenged and undermined, counterproductive authoritarian measures such as zero - tolerance policies have been implemented in its placAs educators» discretionary authority over school discipline has been challenged and undermined, counterproductive authoritarian measures such as zero - tolerance policies have been implemented in its placas zero - tolerance policies have been implemented in its place.

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.

Just ask a group of educators who formed their own World of Warcraft guild, Inevitable Betrayal, where they actively learn about learning as they collectively master the challenges in game.

«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.

Although educators like John Dewey said it would benefit all students, by the early 20th century, this type of training became viewed as not academically challenging, a place to dump the kids who weren't smart.

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.

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed last week to reconsider one of its important precedents on qualified immunity, which protects public officials such as educators and police officers from liability when their challenged actions did not violate clearly established law.

«The challenge you all have as professional educators is to convince everyone in the world that it isn't just schools [that educate], but that learning starts in early moments in life.»

As an educator and a researcher I have been most impressed by Julie Gillard» s comments: Very clear, down to earth and showing depth of understanding of the challenges we are facing in Australia and globally.