Sentences with phrase «educator professional learning activities»

Although a host of variables intervene between educator professional learning activities and student learning, Guskey and Sparks noted three major characteristics of professional development that have a direct influence on educator learning, which indirectly leads to student outcomes.

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Now, after completing her master's in learning and teaching, the recent Ed School alum is preparing to open Dimensions Family School, a nonprofit organization that provides homeschoolers — both students and educators — with support in numerous areas, including electives, extracurricular activities, professional development, facilities, and community - building.

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 has spent years developing, presenting and monitoring professional development tools and training activities that encourage educators, school communities and other organisations to re ect on and plan how they support learning.

Cheri Sterman, Crayola's director of education, will share innovative approaches to building educators» creative capacity and leadership, and will showcase project - based learning activities from the creatED professional learning program.

KQED Education provides educators and young people multimedia content, experiential activities, and professional tools to create learning environments of the 21st century by promoting civic engagement, creative expression, and problem solving using digital media.

But just as you must decide a journey's destination before you can determine the best route, you must clarify the goals you want to achieve in terms of better educator practice and improved student learning before you can judge the value, worth, and appropriateness of any professional learning activity.

Because of this distance, they should only be accountable for providing evidence that the professional learning activities they plan and coordinate improve educators» knowledge and skills.

Some educators contend that improving student learning outcomes represents too lofty a goal for many professional learning activities.

Topics addressed in the open - ended questions included hardware and software purchases funded by the PT3 grant; ways in which students were using technology in learning; participation in grant - sponsored professional development activities; ways in which the knowledge and experiences from professional development activities were being used; ways in which the combination of hardware, software, and professional development affected the educators» professional, administrative, and instructional work; and their opinions of the importance of computers as tools for teaching and learning in K - 12 settings.

Active learning engages educators in using authentic artifacts, interactive activities, and other strategies to provide deeply embedded, contextualized professional learning.

For 40 years, Project Learning Tree has provided teachers and other educators with high - quality professional development in environmental education and fun activities that meet current education standards for PreK - 12 students.

In addition to regular maker - centered learning activities, the Lighthouse Creativity Lab hosts Designing Making Experiences, which provides intensive professional development educators eager to integrate making - centered learning into their own practice.

The report captured feedback from a nationally representative sample of educators on professional development and micro-credentials and found that nearly 70 percent of educators seek out both formal and informal professional learning activities to become better teachers.

During her time as a superintendent, Lisa's district focused on measuring educator performance data for 10 core competencies — including assessment, instruction and student engagement — based on their ability to impact student learning... but using that data to determine the most effective professional development activities requires the right technology.

The nominee must be employed in New Jersey as a professional librarian, library staff member, certified educator, or teacher assistant, and must have developed creative activities to enhance learning and literacy.

DoDDSPacific Korea Unit 15797 Assist teachers and other professional educators in instructional programs and classroom learning and activities.

Professional learning activities accessed by early childhood educators range from single or multi-session workshops to educational and professional credentials such as certificates, diplomas Professional learning activities accessed by early childhood educators range from single or multi-session workshops to educational and professional credentials such as certificates, diplomas professional credentials such as certificates, diplomas and degrees.

«Professional learning» is then viewed as a range of on - going activities in which early childhood educators are actively engaged in the processes of assessing and reflecting on their own learning and practice.

Currently, professional learning activities accessed by registered early childhood educators range from single or multi-session workshops to educational and professional credentials such as certificates, diplomas and degrees.

The current CECE program proposes a means by which members can document their professional learning using a self assessment and reflective model that reviews a member's «recent professional learning activities, performance reviews, changes in relevant legislation, policy and procedures or other information relevant to... (an individual's) continuous professional learning» (College of Early Childhood Educators, 2013, p. 6).

With an easy - to - use interface, a full complement of nearly 200 advisory activities to reinforce weekly lessons, and online professional learning, the program has everything educators need to help their students succeed socially, emotionally, and academically.