Sentences with phrase «classrooms as an educator»

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IPT allows teachers, librarians and other educators to download The Basics from the internet and make copies from the pdf or a printed copy as necessary for non-commercial classroom and educational purposes.
In addition to almost two decades in the classroom, she has served as department chair, both academic and also grade level Dean, a parent and faculty educator, and a leader of curriculum reform.
Helen has been active as a speech artist / educator in Waldorf teacher education and other anthroposophical adult education settings, in Waldorf classrooms, and as a therapeutic speech practitioner f
These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!
Developmentally appropriate practice, or DAP as some educators refer to it, may mean something very different even among children in the same classroom.
As an educator and mother to three children, she regularly combines her teaching and mothering skills to help keep her children engaged in learning outside of the classroom.
My perspective on guiding children comes from years of practice as a mindful educator, and draws from my experiences teaching in the classroom, working one - on - one with families, and as the Early Childhood Specialist at the Children's Creativity Museum in San Francisco.
They offer teachers classroom strategies as well as guides to help educators effectively respond to children showing signs of a mental health or learning disorder.
«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.
As educators, we are dedicated to ensuring our students learn in classrooms and on campuses where the values of respect and civility are paramount,» she said.
Some complain about the paucity of long - time educators in the education department bureaucracy and about the city's hiring people with scant classroom experience — but a stint at management training course — as school principals.
Bill de Blasio's selection of Carmen Fariña as the new schools chancellor has raised hopes among classroom educators for an end to the obsession with high - stakes testing and a renewed focus on teaching and learning.
To cultivate that untapped talent, Singer said, educators have solid evidence of methods that work in STEM education — such as focusing on conceptual learning, problem - solving, and use of representations such as diagrams and evolution trees — but those methods are used in very few undergraduate classrooms where STEM teachers receive their training, Singer said.
She is a science education fellow at BioInteractive, HHMI's educational media arm, where she works with other scientists and educators, as well as videographers and artists, to develop educational resources for classroom use.
The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.
As an educator, he has been active in classroom teaching and has served as primary mentor to more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellowAs an educator, he has been active in classroom teaching and has served as primary mentor to more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellowas primary mentor to more than 40 graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Teresa is thrilled to offer a workshop on how early childhood educators can use yoga in their classrooms as part of the CalTAC Early Childhood PBIS Summer Symposium.
Lisa Flynn, E-RYT 500, is the founder and director of ChildLight Yoga ® and Yoga 4 Classrooms ®, organizations providing evidence - informed yoga and mindfulness education to children, as well as training and support for thousands of educators, kids yoga teachers and professionals worldwide.
Dark Seed Light might be hard to do in the classroom but having the kids do a quieting, centering breathing pose with the chime is what I teach educators to use as great substitute and a positive way to facilitate kids managing their own behavior.
Lisa Flynn, E-RYT 500, RCYT, is founder and CEO of ChildLight Yoga ® and Yoga 4 Classrooms ®, organizations providing evidence - informed yoga and mindfulness education to children, as well as training for educators and other professionals who support their well - being.
Trust and believe in your greatness as educators, and showcase it in your classrooms.
As educators, we want them to ask questions and explore their ideas, which can lead to a rich inquiry - based classroom.
All together, this means we can only control our own actions as educators in the classroom.
As educators, we believe that we have a responsibility to use our classrooms to help young people grapple with and address the messiness of the world around them.
Maybe not, but as an educator and a mother I want to be the one making that difference for kids, and I want my own kids in the classroom where the teacher is making a difference.
Longtime educator Peg Regan establishes the classroom as the last, and first, outpost of ethical communication skills.
In hundreds of schools in the District and elsewhere, these conferences look drastically different as educators seek to build stronger relationships with parents and equip families with tools to reinforce classroom concepts at home.
The National Board Certification process focuses on your particular area of expertise, giving you the opportunity to share what you have learned as an educator and to show how you implement that knowledge in your classroom.
Nevertheless, our students have to know about the world around them, and part of our job as educators is to prepare them for the realities of the world outside the classroom walls.
As educators, we are designing every single day — whether it's finding new ways to teach content more effectively, using our classroom space differently, developing new approaches to connecting with parents, or creating new solutions for our schools.
As digital technology becomes more integral to 21st - century classrooms, educators now have no choice but to teach these crap detection skills.
Moreover, as director of the Making Creativity Visible initiative, I have the pleasure of working with classroom and museum educators over the next 18 months to develop and disseminate tools that will help teachers to model, foster, and assess creativity and make that learning visible.»
Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET: Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?
As temperatures warm and snow melts, educators search for ways to invite new growth into their classrooms.
They can still contribute enormously to a dynamic classroom, especially if they're seen as a «tool, rather than a philosophy,» as one educator, LoriC, put it in an Edutopia.org discussion.
As educators, we can start counteracting that negative experience the moment they enter our classrooms.
You'll find practical classroom strategies and tips from real educators, as well as lesson ideas, personal stories, and innovative approaches to improving your teaching practice.
«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.
Instructional rounds, as defined by City, Elmore, Fiarman, and Teitel (2011), is a disciplined way for educators to work together to improve instruction and is a practice that combines three common elements of improvement: classroom observation, an improvement strategy, and a network of educators.
I don't know about you ~ but as an educator I have sometimes sat in professional development trainings and wondered how the training applied to my classroom.
But by allowing young people to explore these ideas, educators can foster empathy and encourage (and empower) students to see themselves as problem - solvers who have an active role to play in creating a classroom culture that includes and supports every one of their peers.
Other changes we can expect to see are more flexible classrooms and new learning spaces as educators become more nimble; adopting a range of new methods to teach in classrooms including, writable desks, robots and AI.
As educators, we must remember that anyone in our classrooms is capable of doing amazing things, limited only by their imagination.
His experiences as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school leader, district administrator and consultant have provided him with the foundation necessary to understand first - hand the needs of students and educators.
During a recent lecture, researchers from the University of Connecticut provided an update on their work with Operation Houndstooth as well as shared with educators some ways to begin working the theory into classrooms.
The importance of reflection, both for students in the classroom and for me as an educator.
As technology has continued to permeate the classroom, the concept of personalized learning has gained traction among educators and policymakers.
Therefore, educators are encouraged to not only understand how these visuals can be used as educational resources, but how they can add value to activities in the classroom.
As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.
It's time that we, as educators, evaluate everything that we do in our classrooms.
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