Sentences with phrase «challenging work for teachers»

Working with kids who have experienced can be really challenging work for teachers, so it's really important that they're mindful of their own health and well - being and they get support when they need it.

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Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

Why don't you show your child's new teacher your appreciation for their hard work and a year full of new challenges with one of these back to school teacher gifts?

You may also want to meet with your child's new teacher and / or administrator prior to the start of the school year, to talk about challenges, strengths, and strategies that work well for your particular child.

Discovering ways to understand concepts such as force and how rockets work, in school or at home, can be a real challenge for parents and teachers, however this Simple Bottle Rocket will help explain both.

«Having been a teacher for 7 years and working with some of the most challenged children with disabilities, my heart has always been to educate and assist in everything I do!

We are challenging the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions» decision to change the basis on which certain public sector pension benefits, including teachers» pensions, are up - rated from the Retail Prices Index (RPI) to the Consumer Prices Index (CPI).

Conference commits the National Executive to working with the TUC to challenge, using all appropriate means, including industrial action, any attempt by the Government, in response to and as a remedy for economic difficulties or recession, to worsen pension provisions for teachers or other public sector workers.

Previous recipients of the International Solidarity Award are: Aung San Suu Kyi (2012) Jalila al Salman (2013) The National Executive has adopted seven guiding principles for conferring the Award to individuals whose contribution is to: (i) Defending human rights (ii) Defending trade union rights of teachers (iii) Working for quality education (iv) Demonstrating values of solidarity, equality and democracy (v) Educator / teacher (vi) Challenging violence, injustice, bigotry and hatred (vii) Working in countries outside the UK.

A group that calls itself the «Working for All of You Party» is challenging the longtime leadership of the Syracuse teachers union.

While many challenges exist for our schools, the hard work and support by state leaders, teachers, parents, students and communities continues to move us in the right direction.»

«So it is not surprising that two of contemporary cinema's best actresses, Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, take the leading roles here and that Alessandro Nivola does perhaps the most affecting work of his career as their costar -LSB-...] Coming across at first as timid and plain (quite a challenge for an actress as charismatic as McAdams), Esti turns out to be passionate not only about Ronit but about her vocation as a teacher in a girls high school as well.

Because teachers and students diligently prepare for SLCs in advance by reflecting on projects verbally and in writing, culling work that represents progress or challenges, and giving and receiving feedback, the investment from students can have a domino effect on family participation.

But, after working in Senegal for the past five years, and Cameroon for a year before that, mostly as a high school teacher, she also knows how challenging it is to make decisions in education in a culture and context that is not hers.

COBIS found that the biggest motivation for teachers to work internationally was the opportunity for travel and cultural exploration (71 per cent), followed by «enjoyment and challenge» (63 per cent).

This lesson includes: - Clear learning objectives, - Fully differentiated resources, - Opportunities for group work, class discussions and extended writing, - Pace and challenge throughout, - Additional teacher notes and guidance in the notes of each slide.

Cllr Ray Gooding, Essex County Council's cabinet member for education, said: «We work closely with the county's schools and actively support them with the challenge of teacher recruitment and retention.

In my recent Teacher article «Big five» challenges in school education I argue that one of the biggest challenges we face in school education is to identify and develop the knowledge, skills and attributes required for life and work in the 21st Century.

The lessons and work sheets are intended to enable teachers of various grade levels to participate in the project by making it more challenging for older students and more understandable for younger students.

The projects were not without challenges, including extra work for the teachers in data collection and provision of additional feedback for students.

Strategies That Work: Motivation The most successful ways teachers can motivate students who are not intrinsically motivated to learn include engaging their interest; demonstrating the relevance of what they're learning; displaying enthusiasm for what we're teaching; establishing challenging, but achievable expectations, and employing a variety of instructional strategies.

They seek flexible working hours and for many, as franchise business owners, Monkey Music is the perfect answer in their desire to build on their experience as teachers whilst moving on to a new challenge being supported by an experienced team and proven business model.

Flat salary schedules that treat all teachers and teaching positions the same, regardless of challenge or need, provide no extra incentive for teachers to work in harder - to - serve schools.

I do not take credit for all the resources, I worked with great teams of language teachers and together we developed what I believe are relevant, engaging and challenging resources for students and teacher.

Her book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Teaching is complex work, and the challenges make it all too easy for teachers to lose focus of a greater vision for students and for society.

She has been working with young people for the past ten years and founded The Educators» Lab, which supports teacher driven solutions to educational challenges.

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Sachs and his colleagues train members of the Community Partnership Councils to accurately administer surveys, so it is the members themselves (the working parents, the child - care employees, and teachers who are tending challenging populations of kids for little pay) who are actually collecting the data.

That's why the Center for Authentic Intellectual Work (CAIW) helps teachers in PLCs work together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinkWork (CAIW) helps teachers in PLCs work together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinkwork together and challenge each other toward practices aligned with higher - order thinking.

A big challenge on this score is that there just isn't much material or training out there on how to make schools and systems work for teachers.

Considering the fact that classroom management is one of the biggest challenges teachers face, we are always searching for something that will work.

The focus of the project was to further develop the concept of a language challenge, in which teachers, students and businesses worked together not for a day, but over a sustained period of time.

I'd like to feel that in my years of service as a site administrator, I worked to continuously be a P.A.L. for my new teachers, even when it was challenging to do so.

Her forthcoming book, Balancing Acts: Youth Culture in the Global City (University of California Press 2010), challenges teachers, administrators, and parents to look beneath the outward manifestations of youth culture — the clothing, music, and tough talk — to better understand the internal struggle faced by many minority students and children of immigrants as they try to fit in with peers while working to lay the groundwork for successful lives.

Whilst there is no doubt that EFA staff are working extremely hard in this challenging context, so are teachers and school leaders, who have had pay rises of a maximum of one per cent a year imposed on them for the duration of this parliament.»

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The challenge for these kids and their teachers is how to work with what you have.

Teachers can work together to create dedicated common planning time for sharing their strategies, challenges, and eureka moments.

As a mentor, I feel that there is a fine balance to strike between structure and flexibility: We're working toward a common goal, which is to prepare teachers for the many challenges of delivering effective science education to a diverse group of learners, but we also want to respect the individuality of each teacher and nurture teachers so they can discover their own style and methodology.

«In an era in which we are committed to helping all students think, reason, collaborate, and participate in democracy, we need to develop the kind of systems in which teachers are similarly supported, challenged, respected, and given opportunities to work together to develop deeper skills that will create a better future for their students.»

The group, recently named one of 10 finalists Dean's Challenge at HGSE, are working toward developing either a toolkit or curriculum for teachers that will incorporate theater exercises that build community and empathy in schools.

This process eliminated the need for teachers to do the hard work of developing methods that would make challenging content accessible to all students.

Working with new and preservice teachers is a motivating factor for me to always stay current in my profession as a science teacher, as well as to challenge myself to try new approaches to education in my own classroom.

Gibbons has worked for several years with Deb Graudins, a master teacher with 25 years experience working with challenging students.

The teaching profession is notoriously challenging and the reality of this vocational calling is that the administrative demands placed on a teacher's time outside of the classroom make for much longer working days and often working into the evening and weekend.

While the benefits offered by technology in the classroom are seemingly endless, giving teachers the chance to prepare children for life in the working world, this innovative method is not without its challenges.

«It seems that 8 o'clock to 3 o'clock never worked for classroom teachers and, as our digital tendrils stretch into all elements of our lives, it becomes a challenge for folks to figure out where their personal interests begin and their job ends.»

The challenge, Gaynord adds, is that for the primary curriculum to work in England it has to be taught, in the main, by generalist teachers who don't have degrees or any background in Computer Science.