Sentences with phrase «designed teacher professional development programs»

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Over the course of the three - year curriculum project, the research team will design materials for students along with a professional development program and materials for teachers and a set of assessments for evaluating students» understanding of the energy concepts and science practices that are targeted in the new unit.

The RET program offers teachers like Bencivengo and Hart a way to meet these standards, while at the same time providing a hands - on research experience, guidance in designing neural engineering curricula and other professional development opportunities.

Jennings is a founder of CARE for Teachers, a «mindfulness - based professional development program designed to reduce stress and promote improvements in classroom climate and student academic and behavioral outcomes.»

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

She does this with her colleagues by providing teacher professional development for K - 14 educators in science, mathematics, reading and writing, and modeling and testing new designs within college outreach programs — including statewide Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as Upwarprograms — including statewide Early Academic Outreach Programs (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as UpwarPrograms (EAOP) and federal TRIO programs such as Upwarprograms such as Upward Bound.

Jump $ tart Financial Foundations for Educators is a collaborative endeavor designed to standardize professional development through a comprehensive content model to ensure consistency and rigor in national teacher training programs.

Best Behavior is a professional development program designed for administrators and teachers to support their efforts in creating and maintaining a positive and supportive school culture that facilitates academic achievement and the healthy social development of students in a safe environment that is conducive to learning.

We design and facilitate professional development programs for middle and high school teachers across subject areas and disciplines.

Access a professional development program designed for leaders of elementary teachers of mathematics.

Whittle Communications this week will unveil plans for its «Educators» Channel,» a package of noncommercial television programming designed for the professional development of teachers.

Looking at 35 methodologically rigorous studies, the LPI report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, identifies seven key elements these programs share, signaling how states and districts can design professional learning to make a positiveProfessional Development, identifies seven key elements these programs share, signaling how states and districts can design professional learning to make a positiveprofessional learning to make a positive difference.

Federal law in postsecondary education must also be a robust source of support for local innovation, research, and implementation of strategies designed to improve teacher and principal effectiveness and include: Evidence - based preparation and professional development; Evidence - based evaluation systems that include, in part, student performance; Alternative certification programs that meet workforce needs; State and school district flexibility regarding credentials for small and / or rural schools, special education programs, English learners and specialized programs such as science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics; and Locally - determined compensation and teacher and principal assignment policies.

Insight in action A program designed to prepare and support middle and high school science and mathematics teacher leaders featured five major strands: content knowledge, leadership skills, theory and practice of professional development, facilitating collaborative groups, and mentoring / coaching.

Designed to accelerate preservice educators and student teachers» professional development, ASCD's Student Chapter Program increases aspirng teachers» self - identification as education professionals and leaders.

In a review of the published literature, twenty seven research studies were identified of teacher leader programs in which teacher leaders designed and / or facilitated professional development for teachers.

Another set of studies investigated the impact of programs that prepared teacher leaders to provide instructional support to teachers, including designing and / or facilitating professional development.

In 2005, Minnesota passed the Quality Compensation law (known as Q Comp), an optional statewide program that provides additional funding to districts or public charter schools to support them in designing alternative teacher compensation and professional development systems.

A state program designed to allow districts to provide career pathways, professional development, evaluations, and pay increases to teachers, Q Comp has been largely underutilized given its potential impacts.

Programs that prepared teacher leaders to engage in unspecified instructional support to teachers (Fancsali, 2004; Fortner & Boyd, 1995; Frechtling & Katzenmeyer, 2006; Harris & Townsend, 2007) reported that teacher leaders designed and / or facilitated professional development as one of several strategies for supporting classroom instruction.

The impact of teacher leader training programs on the teacher leader practice of designing and / or facilitating professional development

During her nine years as a teacher, Amber designed and implemented innovative inclusion programs, project - based curricula, and teacher professional development.

Since 2008, she has designed the AF History Program from the ground up, developing and executing the program vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) sProgram from the ground up, developing and executing the program vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) sprogram vision, course of study, curriculum, assessments, and teacher and leader professional development across the public charter network's 25 (and growing) schools.

Most recently, she served as director of performance - based assessment design, where she led initiatives focused on performance assessment development and implemented a professional development program for 60 teachers across New York City focused on Common Core rollout.

Arts in the Classroom (AIC) is a program designed to primarily provide professional development for teachers and administrators of preK - 8th grade schools in the foundations of arts integration as a teaching tool to enhance teaching skills and improve student achievement through the infusion of the arts into the basic curriculum.

Hassan is an alumnus of the 4.0 Launch program, where he tested a professional development tool designed to accelerate the growth of early career teachers.

This program offers courses that assist teachers in becoming leaders, conducting research in classrooms, designing professional development with other math teachers, and developing curriculum.

The purpose of this program is to develop the capacity of the Curriculum and Textbook Centre (Puskurbuk, Balitbang) for systemic and ongoing monitoring, review and evaluation of the curriculum design and implementation process, as well as its coordination with textbook design, student assessment, and the supply and professional development of teachers.

California Teaching Induction / BTSA (Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment), is a program, co-sponsored by the California Department of Education (CDE) and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CCTC) designed to support the professional development of newly - credentialed, beginning teachers and fulfill the requirements for the California Clear Multiple and Single Subjects Credentials.

Teachers and administrators reported their bilingual program was designed to meet the students» needs with alignment between the curriculum standards, assessments and professional development.

When I worked with the West Orange School District in New Jersey to design professional development on applying brain research to classroom practice, we included teachers in the development and assessment of the program and planned ways to elicit positive emotions.

In this light, the professional development program, Technology Enhanced Communities (TEC), which is presented in this paper, was designed to create a learning community where science teachers can learn to integrate technology into their teaching to support student inquiry.

With models such as Loucks - Horsley et al., (2003) and Bell and Gilbert's (2004), which focus on collaboration among teachers, effective professional development programs can be designed for science teachers to reform their practices.

The Connecticut Office of the Arts HOT Schools Program has designed and offered professional development and mentor opportunities for teaching artists over time, designed to strengthen arts learning opportunities for teachers, teaching artists and students across the state, and which support HOT Schools Teacher Artist Collaborations (TACs).

They praised the California Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment (BTSA) Induction Program as «a state - funded program, cosponsored by the California Department of Education and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, designed to support the professional development of newly credentialed beginning teachers and to fulfill the requirements for the California Clear Multiple and Single Subject Credentials.Program as «a state - funded program, cosponsored by the California Department of Education and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, designed to support the professional development of newly credentialed beginning teachers and to fulfill the requirements for the California Clear Multiple and Single Subject Credentials.program, cosponsored by the California Department of Education and the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, designed to support the professional development of newly credentialed beginning teachers and to fulfill the requirements for the California Clear Multiple and Single Subject Credentials.»

He is a domestic education and workforce development specialist with almost 40 years of experience in the design, development, and management of projects and programs dealing with educational policy, teacher education and professional development, college and career readiness, workforce development, and systemic reform.

Some experimental studies have found positive effects of specific professional development programs on leadership practice — or an association between particular types of professional development and improved student performance, school climate, teacher collaboration, or principal retention — but there is little expert consensus about the most effective design for professional development programs.

Teacher education and teacher professional development programs should increase future and current teachers» awareness of and experience with game - based learning environments designed to help students develop scientific inquiry skills and 21st - century skills (e.g., River City) beyond simple drill - and - practice games and simulTeacher education and teacher professional development programs should increase future and current teachers» awareness of and experience with game - based learning environments designed to help students develop scientific inquiry skills and 21st - century skills (e.g., River City) beyond simple drill - and - practice games and simulteacher professional development programs should increase future and current teachers» awareness of and experience with game - based learning environments designed to help students develop scientific inquiry skills and 21st - century skills (e.g., River City) beyond simple drill - and - practice games and simulations.

El Sol is an award - winning charter school that designs its own curriculum, provides professional development for its teachers, facilitates parental involvement, and offers a number of programs to ensure its students success.

At the heart of the Promethean Professional Development program is a wide offering of experiences and events, developed and delivered by teachers, and driven by best practices to assist educators with designing lessons and activities that support instructional engagement.

In addition, as reasonable and necessary, Title II, Part A funds may be used to pay for substitute teachers if, and only if, those regular classroom teachers they are replacing were hired with Title II, Part A funds to reduce class size or the teachers are participating in Title II - funded «programs and activities that are designed to improve the quality of the teacher force, such as... innovative professional development programs» [Section 2123 (a)(5)(A)-RSB-.

The Mastery Leadership Institute is the premier MasteryConnect professional development program designed exclusively for district and school - level leaders, coaches, teacher leaders, and other influential K - 12 administrators.

For their first five - year renewal, teachers must complete 15 graduate hours, or half of the Continuing Education Option (CEO), and an individualized professional development program designed to replace fifth - year program college courses of study.

Since then, she has served a variety of management roles across the district supporting the integration of technology district wide, leading schools, developing professional development programs for teachers of bilingual and world language programs, and designing and implementing instructional programs for English Learners.

Leading educational organizations work with BloomBoard to build competency - based professional development programs designed to help schools and districts empower teacher growth.

The UF Lastinger Center Equity Coaching program provides school - based administrators, instructional coaches, and / or teacher leaders with a yearlong, job - embedded, practice - centered, professional development experience specifically designed to assist schools and school systems to implement policies and practices that advance the learning and life prospects for students of color.

The absence of such data for large numbers of students limits our ability to understand variation across classrooms in student learning, to design programs of professional development to help teachers make their classrooms function more effectively, and to enable principals and other instructional leaders to provide better information to teachers on their performance and ways to improve it.

Ms. Stevens has extensive experience designing curricula, conducting professional development, designing, reviewing and integrating education technology, writing and managing grants, project and program management, and developing teachers and leaders in both public and independent school settings, in addition to over twenty years teaching experience.

REA provided formative and summative evaluation for The New York Hall of Science's (NYSCI) Design Lab, a multi-faceted project which consists of a unique, museum - based innovation laboratory, a series of permanent onsite exhibits and teacher professional development program that supports design - based approaches to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching and leaDesign Lab, a multi-faceted project which consists of a unique, museum - based innovation laboratory, a series of permanent onsite exhibits and teacher professional development program that supports design - based approaches to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching and leadesign - based approaches to science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) teaching and learning.

This Framework is intended for use by teachers, schools, and districts, as well as researchers and policymakers, to help inform decisions around assessment, accountability, curriculum, instruction, professional development, program design and resource allocation.

Annie Lewis, Vice President, Program Design & Teacher Preparation, will discuss how staff members at Teach for America identified the content of their summer training institute and professional development curricula.