Sentences with phrase «ensure high quality teaching»

As a teacher of many SEN pupils, Hopper is deeply interested in ensuring high quality teaching of communication skills, and advocating the importance of the spoken word.

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Micro Focus requires courses to be taught by Authorized Instructors to ensure high quality knowledge transfer to students.

The engineers and technicians of tomorrow will be encouraged by high quality STEM teaching in schools and colleges, monitored by Ofsted to ensure it includes practical activities, clear engagement and exposure to real - world problems.

Higher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrHigher education We await Lord Browne's final report into higher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrhigher education funding, and will judge its proposals against the need to: - increase social mobility; - take into account the impact on student debt; - ensure a properly funded university sector; - improve the quality of teaching; - advance scholarship; and, - attract a higher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrhigher proportion of students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Commenting on the publication of the Key Stage 2 SATs results today, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «The NASUWT congratulates teachers for their hard work in ensuring that children have access to high quality teaching and are able to progress and achieve during their time in primary school.

«To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a «bar exam,» in addition to longer, more intensive and high - quality student - teaching experience in a school setting,» Mr. Cuomo said.

There's a lot of work left to do, Hammond says, primarily around ensuring that all schools foster a culture of equity and all kids have access to high - quality teaching and learning.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

PASA ensures that the providers, who apply for grants to teach structured activities in the program, are offering high - quality, engaging experiences.

This has wide implications for schools as they will need to offer high quality professional development and training to ensure that their workforce has the knowledge, skills and expertise to deliver personalised teaching for all pupils.

One of the challenges facing school leaders right now is striking the right balance between pragmatism to make sure that every class has a teacher, and ensuring the bar continues to be set as a high as it should be in terms of teaching quality.»

Along with the school's senior leadership team, the SENCO had also identified the need to develop the whole school workforce to ensure that all staff had the skills, knowledge and understanding they needed to provide high - quality teaching and learning opportunities for all pupils.

The Leaders Campaign will offer leaders the opportunity to visit the show and help ensure equal opportunities for all teaching staff to receive the high quality CPD, training and development they need for a successful career in education.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Colorado does a respectable job of ensuring that its high school teachers are well versed in the subjects they plan to teach.

KDP leverages its rich legacy of high standards and excellence in teaching to advance the goal of ensuring high - quality learning for all students that results in career readiness and the ability to lead fulfilling lives.

Although Utah earmarks money for professional development for teachers, it has few accountability measures to ensure a high - quality teaching force — a deficit that lowers its grade.

When instructional standards are made explicit, then programs can plan in ways that ensure that all teachers and teaching assistants have the knowledge, skills, and appropriate attitudes to provide high - quality instruction.

The OECD also stated that the focus of continuing reforms should be on «developing high - quality teaching profession, making leadership a key driver of education reform, ensuring equity in learning opportunities and student well - being, and moving towards a new assessment, evaluation and accountability that aligns with the new 21st - century curriculum».

When teachers are able to balance their time and workloads efficiently, and can actually devote time to teaching, their job satisfaction is likely to increase significantly — this is vital not only for ensuring students are receiving a high quality education, but also for encouraging staff retention.

The report recommends various measures to help close the achievement gap, including: more investment in early years education; ensuring all schools have access to good examples of top quality teaching and leadership; good careers guidance for all pupils; extra support for teachers, such as a mortgage deposit scheme to help high - performing school staff get on the housing ladder; and promoting and measuring character development, wellbeing and mental health in schools.

When national resources are used to minimise student residualisation, to ensure that every school has access to high quality teaching and school leadership, and to promote the use of effective, evidence - based practices in every school, it is more likely that every student will receive a high quality education regardless of the school they attend.

With the introduction of Canvas we can encourage student autonomy, ensure wider curriculum access and provide high quality alternative teaching and learning approaches that match student needs — and in turn facilitate an excellent learning experience.»

It also needs to ensure schools have high quality resources and enough time in the school curriculum to teach RSE.»

«We have worked incredibly hard to ensure that the teaching of GCSE courses to our students is of the highest quality and so I am really delighted that Ofsted agrees with us.

«If we want to have high quality teachers in our schools we need to select the best graduates for teaching courses, ensure that courses are rigorous, and give beginning teachers support and professional development when they begin in the classroom.

In light of these findings, Plan UK is calling for greater support for teachers to prevent incidents of unwanted sexual contact, as well as high - quality statutory sex and relationships education to teach young people about issues of consent and healthy relationships, and ensuring bullying policies address gender and sexual violence, providing a safe environment for pupils to report concerns.

The «Maths Hubs» in Central Lancashire and Cheshire will initially be led by three schools in each region and will help to ensure more teachers in the area have the knowledge and skills to provide high quality maths teaching.

provide staff ongoing, high - quality, job - embedded professional development that is aligned with the school's comprehensive instructional program and designed with school staff to ensure that they are equipped to facilitate effective teaching and learning and have the capacity to successfully implement school reform strategies;

provide staff ongoing, high - quality job - embedded professional development (e.g., regarding subject - specific pedagogy, instruction that reflects a deeper understanding of the community served by the school or differentiated instruction) that is aligned with the school's comprehensive instructional program and designed with school staff to ensure they are equipped to facilitate effective teaching and learning and have the capacity to successfully implement school reform strategies;

To that end, the AHA has a vested interest in ensuring that high - quality skills are taught to each student, that programs are delivered in a way to maximize learning retention, and that students experience a consistent, quality training experience around the world.

The study of teaching quality in the world's top - performing education systems reveals that one of the most important strategies to achieve these results is developing policies to ensure that every student receives high - quality teaching.

Proposed changes to improve teaching practices, including implementation of content - rich curriculum and effective use of assessment data, and proposed changes to professional development are central to our effort to ensure every child in Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences that will build the skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

The SDSU College of Education is committed to preparing teachers, school administrators, counselors, community college faculty and leaders, performance improvement / technology professionals, and community service professionals to provide the highest quality learning environments to ensure student and client success and achievement through our teaching, research, and service.

[103] We intend for the implementation of our proposed revision of the education and child development provisions to improve teaching practices and education service delivery across our programs and help ensure every child in Early Head Start and Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences.

The advocates of this approach hoped to ensure that all students were exposed to high quality — or at least good enough — teaching.

Ensuring quality teachers in every classroom by recruiting, training, retaining, and rewarding teachers and school leaders; creating career ladders and increasing pay for effective teachers who serve as mentors, teach in high - need subjects, such as math and science, and who excel in the classroom; and by identifying ineffective and struggling teachers, providing them with individual help and support, and removing them from the classroom in a quick and fair way if they still underperform.

Those roles taught me that targeted federal programs and smart state policies can have huge benefits for kids (especially the most disadvantaged) and that state governments are ultimately responsible for ensuring that all students receive a high - quality education.

They suggest that the way to ensure high - quality teaching is to set performance goals and hold teachers accountable for meeting them.

Further, we aren't willing to make other changes to ensure a high - quality teaching force.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

It will need to ensure that policies are conducive to attracting and retaining a high - quality and responsive teaching workforce.

To ensure that all children develop the necessary cognitive, social, emotional and physical skills that build the foundation for life - long learning and early literacy; this is accomplished by providing a high quality, safe and nurturing environment, responsive to the culturally diverse and unique needs of each child, through individual and interactive learning opportunities, supported by excellence in teaching and research - based instructional practices aligned with the NYS Learning Standards and the District's curricula, in partnership with parents, staff, policy makers and community organizations.

Will it move us closer to ensuring that every child experiences high - quality teaching and learning every hour of every day?

If so, then we must closely examine all of our practices to ensure that we are doing everything we can to ensure a high quality of teaching in every classroom.

Alexandria, VA (4/24/2014)-- ASCD, a global community dedicated to excellence in learning, teaching, and leading, invites educators to join the association at the Hyatt Regency McCormick Place in Chicago, Ill., on July 31 — August 2, 2014, for an intensive academy that will ensure high - quality teaching and learning implementation in every classroom.

These topics are of great importance to ensuring that students receive a high - quality arts education and are the subject of other clearinghouses devoted to research on teaching and learning within particular arts disciplines.

Enter FIT Teaching (Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching ™)-- a coherent approach designed for schools and districts to ensure that high - quality teaching and learning occurs in every classroom, evTeaching (Framework for Intentional and Targeted Teaching ™)-- a coherent approach designed for schools and districts to ensure that high - quality teaching and learning occurs in every classroom, evTeaching ™)-- a coherent approach designed for schools and districts to ensure that high - quality teaching and learning occurs in every classroom, evteaching and learning occurs in every classroom, every day.

Increase program selectivity to ensure programs produce high - quality teacher candidates and improve the student teaching experience.

This guide provides a roadmap to planning effective lessons that will provide the essential foundation to ensure that all primary level students begin their mathematics journey with high quality teaching and learning.

The best way to ensure increased property values in the future is to build a foundation of high - quality schools with environments conducive to teaching and learning.