Sentences with phrase «development for student learning»

A review of research on the effect of professional development on increased student learning found that programs had to include more than 14 hours of professional development for student learning to be affected.

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The other founder, Ryan Bubinski, longed for his days at Columbia University, where he taught programming and evangelized the importance of learning to code through a student group he had founded called the Application Development Initiative.

(1) To address the coding skills gap and help prepare more people for jobs in software development, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across tdevelopment, Apple created a powerful yet easy - to - learn coding language called Swift (TM), the free Swift Playgrounds (TM) app and a free curriculum, App Development with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across tDevelopment with Swift, which are available to anyone and are already being used by millions of students at K - 12 schools, summer camps and leading community colleges across the country.

Is a cost - effective solution for short - term projects and business cycle peaks Boosts corporate presence on campus Develops a long - term sustainable recruitment strategy, as you can fill full - time roles with past Co-op students Students are pre-screened and go through a competitive application process Contributes to the development of the future work force Supports continuous students Students are pre-screened and go through a competitive application process Contributes to the development of the future work force Supports continuous Students are pre-screened and go through a competitive application process Contributes to the development of the future work force Supports continuous learning

The program provided an opportunity for employers to discover new talent while providing important learning experiences and skills - development opportunities for students.

«When educators neither prioritize these skills and mindsets nor integrate them with academic development, students are left without tools for engagement or a language for learning,» Stafford - Brizard writes.

Lula Ymca Kids Time emphasizes a balance of intellectual and social development for students to learn and function independently throughout their lives.

MINDFUL MAKERS is a professional development program for preschools and elementary schools wanting to create a more safe and nurturing learning environment for students, even in the face of challenging behavior.

Each Main Lesson relates to the students» stage of development for that year and is linked to other subjects, building upon prior knowledge, experience, and skills in creative ways that engage students in their learning.

To that end, school nurses facilitate normal development and positive response to interventions; promote health and safety including a healthy environment; intervene with actual and potential health problems; provide case management services; and actively collaborate with others to build student and family capacity for adaptation, self - management, self - advocacy, and learning.»

While recess may be fun for students, it's an important part of the school day that provides physical, emotional and social benefits for their learning and development.

TeenLife student, parent and educator members are the first to learn of new developments in the world of experiential learning as well as receive special offers on programs and services that are essential for teen success.

NYFAC also serves professionals and students who want to learn how to better handle children with special needs and is recognized as a worldwide leader in the development of training materials for professionals working with children with autism spectrum disorders.

The Education Enrichment Fund (EEF) Advisory Committee invites applications for mini-grants of up to $ 1,000 to support initiatives that enrich student learning, instructional programs and learning tools, encourage innovative professional development, and promote the standard of excellence in the Niskayuna Central School District.

At 10:45 a.m., Gibson will visit with students and staff to learn more about the not - for - profit center's education and social services programs for farm worker and other eligible families in the Hudson Valley, Agri - Business Child Development Center, 6 Adams St., Kingston.

In return partnership with an academy or within a trust offers reciprocal benefits such as staff development, sharing of expertise and best practice and expanded learning opportunities for students.»

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

My approach should be toward active learning in order to help my students develop independently and take responsibility for their professional and personal development.

For example, «the whole idea that musical training and language development may be connected came from me talking to a couple of teachers who said they had students who were poor readers and who also struggled with learning to play a musical instrument and with copying musical patterns and wondered if those two things could be connected.»

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

It was an intense week of learning and development that left students enthused and inspired: «Thank you for organising this great, exciting and inspiring summer school» «I really appreciated the amazingly high quality of the speakers, of the discussions, as well as of the delegates, and I am really excited by the new interactions I could establish during my stay in Hydra.»

This work has led to development of a huge number of active learning instructional materials and new tools for assessment of student learning.

The development of K - 12 science curricula in many provinces benefitted from the 1997 Common Framework of Science Learning Outcomes created by the Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC, 1997), and from the 1984 Science Council of Canada report, Science for Every Student (SCC, 1984).

She also co-founded and ran Learn to Code, a data science bootcamp for women, teaching 50 + students the basics of data science and software development in Python.

We welcomed our new staff mid-July for summer professional development, and spent three weeks aligning around the vision of RISE and learning the instructional and student support models.

Kate Copping - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Using Data to Develop Collaborative Practice and Improve Student Learning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western ALearning Outcomes Dr Bronte Nicholls and Jason Loke, Australian Science and Mathematics School, South Australia Using New Technology for Classroom Assessment: An iPad app to measure learning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Alearning in dance education Sue Mullane - Sunshine Special Developmental School, Victoria Dr Kim Dunphy - Making Dance Matter, Victoria Effective Differentiation: Changing outcomes in a multi-campus school Yvonne Reilly and Jodie Parsons - Sunshine College, Victoria Improving Numeracy Outcomes: Findings from an intervention program Michaela Epstein - Chaffey Secondary College, Victoria Workshop: Developing Rubrics and Guttman Charts to Target All Students» Zones of Proximal Development Holly Bishop - Westgarth Primary School, Victoria Bree Bishop - Carwatha College P - 12, Victoria Raising the Bar: School Improvement in action Beth Gilligan, Selina Kinne, Andrew Pritchard, Kate Longey and Fred O'Leary - Dominic College, Tasmania Teacher Feedback: Creating a positive culture for reform Peta Ranieri - John Wollaston Anglican Community School, Western Australia

One of the initiatives I am working with now is to improve our blended learning programs and to differentiate our staff development for our teachers, as well as to teach them how technology can differentiate for their students.

It will be most convincing and reassuring for students when they realize that these front and center executive functions will become stronger and more effective through their engagement with and resulting development from the new approaches to learning.

Professional development for maker educators should introduce the materials and methods involved so that the teachers understand what students can learn from making.

Not only were they responsible for their students» learning; they also had to gain expertise in real - estate development.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

Brennan heads up ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators to develop their computer science skills, utilize coding and web development to create educational materials for students, and to network together in a 15,000 - member online community.

As well as providing social and personal development opportunities, learning in new and different places is a stimulating experience that can re-ignite students» enthusiasm for their subject.

I didn't know anything about open education philosophy, but as soon as I read the school's literature — the emphasis on diversity, student choice, and the development of creativity and a lifelong passion for learning — I knew Piedmont was exactly where I needed to be.

For the sake of their growth and development, let's allow students to take greater ownership of their learning, starting with their data.

«J - Term,» as it is known at HGSE, is a time when all students can take advantage of a variety of for - credit courses, Special Topics Seminars (non-credit mini-courses), and other learning and personal development workshops, events, lecture series, and activities.

After - school program staff are an untapped resource that can help support teachers and enhance learning and development for students.

Play has a hugely important place in the development of your students, which is why schools need to provide learning environments that enable opportunities for quality play.

According to the principal and teachers at Cochrane Collegiate Academy, a major reason for the growth in student performance is a signature strategy for classroom instruction and professional development called Interactive Learning.

In her synthesis of research on effective teacher professional development that has demonstrated a positive impact on student outcomes, Timperley (2008) identified 10 key principles, including: providing teachers with opportunities to drive their own professional development, allowing teachers to work collaboratively to learn and apply evidence based practices, establishing a professional learning culture that provides a safe and authentic environment for professional enquiry and ensuring school leaders take an active role in developing professional learning, and maintaining momentum within schools.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

While classroom learning is fundamental for the growth and development of students, it's not the only environment in which they can learn.

The expanded partnership will provide increased options for educators, including professional development series in Literacy, Assessment, and Student and Principal Voice, as well as an ACEL / Corwin bookstore and a selection of online learning modules.

The book represents a culminating work of the ArtsLiteracy Project, a project that develops curricula and professional development practices based on the premise that linking literacy and the arts creates powerful learning opportunities for students both in core academic subjects and in the arts.

«This program will provide important support for teachers to engage in professional development, professional learning, to enhance teaching practice and improve student outcomes.

As a result, many schools are self - proclaimed STEM schools, with leadership driving the development of a vision that encompasses strong professional learning support for teachers to develop students» scientific literacy.

As a graduate student, former special education teacher, and current community manager for Teach.com, I use Twitter and #edchat every day to shape my own learning and development in the education vertical.

In 2008 Jenny received an Australian College of Educators award for Outstanding Achievement in Education for the development of innovative approaches to teaching and learning which respect and support students as individuals and influence, motivate and inspire them to learn.

Alicia, Clearly, the Title I funds are directed at low performing schools... but, our opinion is that we can affect the performance of ALL schools by using our funds to provide parent training and professional development opporunities for staff about strategies that will ultimaeley improve learning opportunities for all students.

31 Units of PSHE Lessons - suitable for all year groups Differentiated learning objectives Worksheets (differentiated) Clips included if appropriate Engaging activities The following units are covered; Alcohol Aspiration Body image and eating disorders Bullying or banter Drugs - Class A, B and C Drugs and the law Employment and careers Enterprise and entrepreneurs FGM and sexual health Finance Friendship Healthy living and eating LGBT and homophobia Mental health Mindfulness Money New Years Resolutions Online grooming and internet safety Peer pressure Personal development and self discipline Personal hygiene Politics Racism - stereotypes and diversity Resilience Revision and exam study skills Rights and responsibilies Safe students Self - esteem Sex and relationships Sexism, gender stereotypes and prejudice