Sentences with phrase «educators teach to the new standards»

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Here's the explanation of the award: «Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's Empire State Excellence in Teaching Award recognizes educational leaders, pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, who exemplify the professional work of thousands of outstanding, progressive teachers and innovative educators striving to attain New York standards and success for all of their students.

Our teachers are struggling to teach using poorly prepared materials on the new standards, and the much - needed training that educators required and the Governor promised never materialized.

The New York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learniNew York State Board of Regents is expected to act on two committee reports Tuesday, calling for a delay the impact of Common Core - related state assessments on educators and students and reducing the level of local school district testing associated with the new teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learninew teacher evaluation law and higher standards for teaching and learning.

New for 2015, a Teaching the Core Video Library includes a collection of classroom videos and lesson materials intended to help K - 12 educators align their lessons to the standards.

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

Educators are concerned because so much is still unclear about the implementation of the tests, and whether the resources being created to align with the new standards will truly teach what students are meant to learn.

(Calif.) Even as a press event by the state superintendent last week focused attention on a handful of schools already teaching lessons based on new science standards, legislation was being crafted that would delay until 2017 development of the tools educators need to bring that new curriculum into all California classrooms.

Common Core concerns raised by teachers were echoed by one local educator, who decided to quit rather than teach under the new standards.

In the spring of 2011, the district launched what it calls its common core blog, which is really more of a comprehensive website dedicated to providing resources and guidance to educators and parents to help them understand and teach the new standards.

Although many Kentucky educators praise the Common Core for its back - to - basics approach in the elementary years and increased rigor, the poor results have raised concerns about whether it was fair suddenly to ask students to do harder work without properly teaching them foundational skills and whether schools have enough resources to implement the new standards faithfully.

We should do everything possible to make sure all educators are well - prepared and supported in teaching these new standards — after all, the future of our state hinges on the success of our students.

As Executive Director, Chris leads CCSSO's work with states to raise the bar on standards, assessments, and accountability, transform educator preparation programs, design new approaches to teaching and learning, and implement and sustain promising reforms across the country.

As educators, we always seem to be in the process of change: new standards, new assessments, new ideas and theories about teaching and learning.

All Florida public school educators are supposed to start adapting their teaching to the new standards this school year; students will be tested on them for the first time in 2015.

Most educators know that the Common Core, Next Generation Science, and other new standards require them to teach more complex content while supporting students to gain deeper skills as they access content.

As Rothman points out, it's important that educators in Indiana and the other 44 states on track to make the transition by 2014 understand how the new academic standards will shape their teaching.

Although knowledge about how local educators are reacting to the new standards legislation is limited (Ingram, Louis, and Schroeder, in press; Kelley, Kimball, and Conley, 2000; Winkler, 2002), scholars argue that the legislation will reduce professionalism and promote rigid and limited «teaching to the test» (Hilliard, 2000; Miller, 2002; Schrag, 1995; Stake, 1999).

Educators complained that they had to teach to new standards but for the most part didn't get the time or training to do this right.

But these new standards are also exciting; they will give educators an opportunity to look at what we're teaching through a different lens and to make our teaching that much more interesting and effective.