Sentences with phrase «engaging teachers keep»

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The impetus behind the company can be traced to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck's co-founders — all former classroom teachers — encountered while trying to keep their students engaged.

A recent study showed that more than 75 percent of parents said they wished teachers would tell them more about the dangers of the «summer slide» and provide tips on how to keep their kids» minds engaged.

Bruce Viernow, a teacher and administrator at Glenbard West High School in Glen Ellyn for 27 years, was an advocate of keeping each and every student engaged.

«The root causes are that we reach our children too late, that we don't keep them in school long enough each day, that we don't make sure that the very best teachers stay in the teaching profession, that we don't engage our parents in a systematic way to help uplift their children,» he said.

Devaney cites an example: A young capoeira teacher needed help keeping the students engaged; a simple suggestion to have a youth member instead of the instructor lead a warm - up session did the trick.

Most teachers already incorporate skill building in their classes to some degree; however, taking time to discuss and actively engage students in the process will keep skill development at the forefront of learning.

The challenges facing a new teacher are clear: how to write a strong lesson plan, how to master the fine art of lesson delivery and how to keep kids engaged in a positive classroom environment are all high on the list.

Keeping students engaged and interested can be a huge struggle for teachers, especially at the primary and secondary level.

Maybe there's that one teacher who is amazingly talented at what she does; or the teacher's aide who serves as a de facto grandmother to half the student body; or the chess club leader who manages to keep young boys engaged in school through early adolescence; or the superstar math teacher who seems solely responsible for a middle school's stellar math scores.

«Two of our science teachers, Robert Clingan and Paul DeChant, have created a project that not only keeps the students engaged but has them offering to return and help after they have been gone a year or two,» says Tim Onsager, assistant principal of West Bend (Wisconsin) West High School.

A veteran English teacher on the importance of choice, plus three tactics to keep high school readers engaged.

Keeping students engaged with hands - on projects can be especially challenging with limited resources and changing curriculums, but here are a few sources of inexpensive tech hacks, perfect for teacher - student collaboration:

Olivia is an accelerated learner, says her teacher MaryEllen Doherty; novel technologies help keep her engaged.

He praises social media for keeping students engaged but also keeping teachers, like himself, engaged.

Mentoring can help fight the talent exodus on two fronts — firstly keeping senior teachers professionally fulfilled and engaged for an extra few years of employment, and also ensuring that their wisdom and experience is passed down to the new generation of NQTs.

The Activity Feed provides a place on the course home page for teachers to communicate easily with students about reminders, upcoming assignments, new content or discussions in an engaging, familiar format to keep all their students on track.

In Structured Literacy instruction, teachers review previously taught concepts in each lesson and introduce new material to keep the student stimulated and engaged.

One district counteracts the problems masked by growing independence and diminished teacher contact with aggressive outreach to keep high school students and families engaged in education.

The site's team of teachers produces new content daily, personalized to each student, to keep the users engaged.

According to research by Cambridge University, encouragement from teachers helps to keep pupils engaged with education after the age of 16.

The beauty of this craft is that as teachers, we can keep academic standards high and at the same time have our students engage in topics of interest, expertise, and concern.

«Time is at a premium and both schools and teachers need to keep their eyes open for new and innovative ways in which to work, making learning more engaging and effective and optimize time spent on tedious admin.

«I keep having to say to teachers, «It's OK if I come into your classroom and it looks very traditional,» because a project for everything is not appropriate, but engaging work is always appropriate.»

Regular training keeps teachers equipped with subject knowledge and instils confidence in delivering engaging lessons that produce outstanding results.

Discovery Education Espresso is helping thousands of teachers by providing dynamic online resources which keep children engaged and make revision fun.

It can also be used to promote student centered group learning that will keep students engaged while reinforcing concepts that were taught earlier in the year or from the previous two years taught by other teachers.

Studies predict that Finland will hang on to its lackadaisical workers, and suggest things like «keep students in school by engaging them with smaller class sizes and better paid teachers» or «get rid of standardized tests» and» individualize learning,» which they'll expand on by saying «create a system that instills curiosity, creativity, passion, and accept that it is impossible to test these things.»

This enables teachers to teach more effectively and keeps pupils engaged by not teaching them what they already know.

Teacher - facilitated modifications helped achieve the goal of keeping everyone engaged in a playful experience.

Gross stressed the element of accessibility for teachers and the ease of alignment, adding that this next brave phase in Newsela's development has been a part of their mission from the very beginning: getting kids engaged in reading, embracing a rigorous and accessible academic atmosphere, and keeping the classroom up - to - date with our world's ever - changing digital landscape.

Keeping students engaged in the classroom is a battle that teachers fight every day.

the teachers were sitting around talking about close - reading, and a social studies teacher was saying how hard it was to keep kids engaged when you are reading the same small chunk of text again and again, in different ways... (contd)

K - 12 leaders in growing numbers are using Education Week as a PD tool to keep their teachers and administrators informed and engaged.

These teachers keep the lessons fun, relevant, and engaging by allowing time and space to discover new possibilities, to change plans, and to adapt opportunities to students» interests.

KIPP teachers blend small - group instruction and technology in creative ways to personalize learning and keep children encouraged, engaged, and continuously learning.

As a science teacher, I'm always trying to keep my students engaged and motivated to learn.

As teachers and schools increasingly engage parents in testing, measuring, and most importantly assessment, here are suggestions to keep in mind when communicating with parents about their children's progress:

Teach Like a Champion became a global bestseller because it offered concrete, engaging, easy - to - implement techniques teachers could use to keep their students engaged, focused, and learning.

Tools for Conquering the Common Core, from Silver Strong & Associates, wins a prestigious 2016 Learning Magazine Teachers» Choice Award for Professional Development, earning high praise for its teacher - friendly approach to building core literacy skills — while keeping students engaged in meaningful learning... (Read the full article here)

The students I talked with — almost all of them first - year teachers — told me that Relay's lessons were helping them plan their classes, practice their presentations, keep their kids engaged.

Broome Street teachers work hard to keep them engaged and prepare them for the future.

Teachers should also work closely with fellow team members and engage in ongoing professional development to keep up with current with best practices in their field.

So teachers who'd had prior experience teaching reading to children of this age knew how to teach it, keep the kids engaged and check for understanding.

Teachers who are most accomplished in helping children thrive in reading are skilled in coaching and in keeping all children academically engaged.

Cooperative learning strategies are perhaps one of the simplest ways teachers can effectively keep their students engaged while promoting equity in the classroom.

Relationships with teachers and other students are the key to keeping students engaged and in school.

By empowering their educators with access to both on - site expertise and DreamBox's MyFlexPD, VCS is hoping to keep their teachers engaged and set them up for success.

In a major blow to the Department for Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.

If the lamination or the knitting needles come out during the training, I feel that I haven't done enough to keep that particular teacher engaged.

Agile Mind's blended programs keep teachers squarely at the center of instructional leadership, supported by challenging, highly engaging curriculum, assessments, and professional supports.