Sentences with phrase «effective teachers working»

In addition to teaching, Rachael participated in the inaugural New Mexico Teacher Leader Network, a group of the state's most effective teachers working to foster clearer means of communication between the Public Education Department and classroom teachers.

The Fishman, which is awarded annually to exceptionally effective teachers working in high - poverty public schools, has a long and rigorous application process that gradually winnows down hundreds of applicants to four winners.

Principals bear a great responsibility to equitably distribute teaching staff so the most effective teachers work with students who need the most support.

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As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

There are several effective approaches to teacher training such as working under an experienced teacher as an apprentice teacher, regular workers conferences, and personal conferences with an experienced superintendent.

As in the case of theological education, professional work in institutions preparing teachers is likely to include further liberal studies of particular relevance to teaching along with the study and practice of effective teaching.

Safe Ground is working with Kids VIP and Pact to look at ways of encouraging teachers to be more effective in helping children with parents in prison.

This new professional development course offers teachers, administrators, board members and parents an opportunity to reflect on and work with the challenges of building a Waldorf School Community that is vibrant, innovative and effective, while honoring the unique contributions of each member of the community.

«If you work in a district like that, no matter how effective you are you come out with a scarlet A on your head,» he said, to applause from the audience, which included state legislators, Board of Regents members, school board leaders and teachers union officials.

Once chosen, these master teachers will work to help other secondary level science and math teachers become more effective.

The most effective teachers are those who know their students» background, who teach in a manner that builds on students» previous knowledge, and who challenge their students to work to their maximum ability.

Interactive experiences like sharing toys, working in a team, and listening to a teacher may provide opportunities for children to learn about what constitutes a desirable reputation and the kinds of strategies that are effective for building a good reputation in their social environment.

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.

An active physician, teacher and clinical researcher, Cohn works with other investigators locally and worldwide studying the biologic underpinnings of clinically aggressive, high - risk neuroblastoma in order to develop more effective, targeted treatments.

Though it barely passes as an effective psychological thriller, A Teacher features commendable work from a director who clearly has a great movie inside her waiting to be made.

A powerful way to support the development of growth mindsets among teachers is for them to experience a positive impact in their classrooms, and teachers have shared with us the positive impact they have seen when they have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and work on projects, such as creating more effective lessons.

PAST recognises that staff in schools need training that is quick to achieve, and yet packed with effective strategies which will allow teachers and TA's to work really effectively with the learners with autism they support.

In my work as both a teacher and peer coach, I've seen that effective check - ins have several important functions.

I recently saw an Austin - based middle - school teacher's humorous yet effective door sign that describes how she is focused on intense planning or grading work.

As a result, improving the working conditions of teachers may prove both more effective and more realistic.

But the New Mexico system is different in two critical ways from other states» efforts: its design and launch have been especially mired in political and legal challenges, and its implementation and application have been especially effective at differentiating teachers by the skillfulness of their work.

Teachers could become more effective with their students if they had more time outside of class for planning instruction and grading student work.

Now he speaks at conferences and works with teachers in schools, leading professional development around ideas such as the Flipped Learning Classroom, Blended Learning and the effective use of ICT tools.

Professor Thomas Kane and the team at the Center for Education Policy Research are experts at working closely with districts and harnessing big data to identify effective policies and practices in teacher preparation, teacher evaluation, and learning technologies.

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.

Even if you are the kind of teacher who accepts that you are doing your best and it is up to the student to change, this book will give you an insight into how to be more effective and enjoy your work.

Teachers work with a cognitive neuroscientist and Flinders University staff who help translate the theory into effective classroom practice in mathematics.

Most schools the company works with have at least one ongoing issues around ICT, whether that's around reducing costs or keeping a tighter rein on the IT budget without any financial surprises, recruiting and retaining good technical staff, developing an effective strategy, or building trust in ICT with your teachers so they feel more empowered to use technology in the classroom.

Rebecca Vukovic: Earlier this year, Anna wrote an article where she said that teachers shouldn't be left to manage discipline by themselves and, in fact, it's more effective if they work together to resolve student behaviour issues.

Teachers themselves want to better understand how changes they make to learning design and adaptive delivery can improve their own work and the majority of our students are much more sophisticated judges of effective classroom practice than ever before.

Each centre is now responsible for working with the CAS Master Teachers in their area to promote and support relevant teacher engagement and CPD activities, with the ultimate aim of establishing effective and enduring local communities of practice involving CAS Master Teachers, lead schools and local hubs.

So I encourage my undergraduates to think critically about what they do and to think about how they can work with other teachers, work together to apply fair and effective models around behaviour.

If some teachers could earn improvements in their wages and working conditions from their own efforts rather than from the efforts of their organized representatives or affiliated politicians, then more - effective teachers would have little reason to support the unions financially or politically.

Practical Research for Teachers is in Short Supply Need for Research on Effective Choices That Work in the Classroom

Teachers can coach students to pick appropriate tasks for learning material, coach them to relearn material in a way that students want, and help them plan effective deadlines for work.

The guide, created by developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones and her research team, acknowledges that for an SEL program to be effective, it must work to develop key skills across the many domains of childhood development, and — importantly — it must promote and support teachers» own social and emotional competencies as well.

My work is to figure out, from a regional perspective, how to create these thriving and inclusive team cultures, where everyone feels that they can be part of an effective team that will create the outcomes that we want for our teachers and, in turn, create that ripple effect of what we want for students.

Effective teachers assign work to students that is «appropriate to their current levels of competence.»

[iv] Summarizing this work in Education Next, Dave Marcotte and Benjamin Hansen concluded that «expanding instructional time is as effective as other commonly discussed educational interventions intended to boost learning» such as reducing class size and improving teacher quality.

The public, on the other hand, is best served when administrators put the most effective teachers in the classroom, and ask the least effective to find other lines of work.

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Aside from the fact you can not have effective teaching and learning in a disorderly classroom or school, developing an orderly learning environment also provides a mechanism for getting teachers working more consistently and towards a common end.

In partnership with CLG, the West Clermont team came to recognize that an effective and sustainable reform plan could come about only if it was initiated by those doing the school's work at the ground level, namely, teachers and administrative staff.

In the three years that we have been using the TAP system, we have found that the school - wide rewards part of the bonus encourages teachers to work together to make everyone more effective.

For centuries, effective teachers discovered through experience what strategies to use and how to implement them, without knowing why the strategies worked, or didn't work, on various occasions.

Let us avoid policies that will casually or reflexively strip - mine effective teachers from some schools in order to push them into others, especially if this will hobble schools that have been working well.

The new evaluation systems have forced principals to prioritize classrooms over cafeterias and custodians (and have exposed how poorly prepared many principals are to be instructional leaders) and they have sparked conversations about effective teaching that often simply didn't happen in the past in many schools — developments that teachers say makes their work more appealing.

On Top of the News Mass. hunting for star teachers 05/10/10 Boston Globe Behind the Headline An Effective Teacher in Every Classroom Summer 2010 Education Next Massachusetts will today announce a new effort to recruit hundreds of successful teachers to work in 35 low - performing schools in Boston and other school districts.

Supportive interventions can help some students, but these interventions are often implemented too late (after years of reading failure, despite evidence that taking action is most effective in kindergarten and first grade) and haphazardly (schools and teachers often do not know what can work for various types of students).

But the research on effective professional development points more toward ongoing efforts that are school based and tied directly to teachers work.