Sentences with phrase «few teacher groups»

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But from asking other parents, librarians, and teachers, here are a few books for three different young age groups that you might enjoy with your children:

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

As does inviting more kids than you can manage (the one - per - age thing has to do with group dynamics and function, and I'm not a trained teacher so fewer than that is more in line with my ability to dodge meltdowns and deal with bathroom emergencies).

NYSUT insisted politics played no role in its decision to honor Kennedy, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the teachers have been at war with her ex-husband, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and were one of the few groups to actually advertise against him during the budget battle (not that it did them much good in the end).

«A lot of various groups have gotten together over the past few months to organize this event,» said Kate Haq, Buffalo school parent and secretary of the parent teacher organization.

Each year between 2500 - 3000 scouts, students and teachers visit Green Bank, typically in small groups of a few dozen students with their teachers, for sessions lasting several days.

«He was known within the University as an outstanding teacher who trained many of the current leaders in the field, as a key player in assembling the world - renowned medical oncology group here, and as a compassionate physician who took excellent care of his patients until just a few weeks before his own death.»

During a meditation class a few years ago, the teacher instructed the group to follow the breath, watching the rise of the inhale and the fall of the...

Once Red arrives at his class, he meets a few more outsiders that will be familiar to audiences who have played the app including Chuck, a yellow bird that is super-fast (Josh Gad, Frozen, 2013), Bomb, a black bird that can literally explode (Danny McBride, This is the End, 2013), Matilda, the group's new age teacher (Maya Rudolph, Sisters, 2015), and Terrence, a giant bird who doesn't talk (although voiced by Oscar - winner, Sean Penn, The Gunman, 2015).

Their teacher, Mrs. Tambor, gave them a few minutes after independent work to share their methods in pairs before they gathered at the carpet to discuss the problem as a whole group and evaluate some of the different methods they'd used to solve it.

Rachel Reeves MP, chair of the Asbestos in Schools group, told the BBC: «This is a ticking time bomb because very few teachers and parents know that there is asbestos in schools.

A few days after the data - day review, I visited Powell Elementary, a district school in northeast D.C., for a learning walk on peer - group feedback, or how to get teachers to help one another figure out how to reteach a troublesome lesson.

If teachers are interested in bringing cooperative learning into their classrooms, Panitz recommends that they experiment with a few group activities before they make a total shift into the method.

With a large share of the population convinced that schools and teachers should be given more money, or at least be held harmless, few if any interest groups or politicians have an incentive to dramatize the fact that spending levels and teacher salaries are much higher than most people believe.

But within a few years, the law came under bitter attack by teacher unions, local school officials, and small advocacy groups.

Kids can learn online at school, replacing teachers» rote lectures and one - size - fits - few whole group learning.

Those small groups that meet a few times each year are comprised of a variety of stakeholders — teachers, librarians, administrators, students, parents, and community members with our technology personnel serving as ex-officio members.

A few days later, Educators 4 Excellence, a group unaffiliated with the local teachers union, released a plan that called for student achievement to count for 40 percent of a teacher's score.

A few weeks prior, teachers rank their preferences for which community they would like to learn about based on the students in their classes and the cultural groups they feel less knowledgeable about.

They found that, of the teachers who were ranked in the top 20 percent of effectiveness in the first year, «fewer than a third were in that top group the next year, and another third moved all the way down to the bottom 40 percent.»

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

As former middle school teachers, the trio found that despite the many challenges students face as they transition from «learning to read» to «reading to learn,» few programs focus on this age group, offer help to the seven different reading levels found in middle school classrooms, or assist skilled readers.

This is great for teachers who have access to iPads in a one - to - one environment, who want to create stations with just a few iPads, or who can assign a group of four or five students to a single iPad.

Heisler consulted with neighborhood groups and with the whole Pie Ranch community, now including several teachers at Mission and dozens of kids, before she sold her house and purchased a building at 25th Street and Mission, just a few blocks from the high school, and turned a small downstairs apartment into a café.

Teachers could target their instruction to the level of the group or the class, and since similar students were clustered together, few kids were bored or totally left behind.

«At Silverton the kids change so depending on the subject or the group you may have a different teacher so I may see my grade only for a few hours each day.

In an article for Education Next released a few days ago, I critiqued an education theory advanced by a group known as the Broader, Bolder Approach (BBA), a coalition of teacher union leaders and others, including Helen Ladd, a professor at Duke University, who co-chairs the group.

The pilot group's success convinced the rest of the teachers at Wildwood to keep building on the idea, and within a few years, it had become a school - wide practice.

So instead, I put together an experience in which they worked in groups attacking a pile of different information sources about Archaeotype that I had lined up: a few pages of an evaluation report on the project, a few Web sites that described the software and the constructivist philosophy behind it, a virtual chat with one of the developers in New York, and a room - based videoconference with a teacher who had tested the program.

Although a few members have been prominent supporters of charter school expansion, the group has tended to support traditional public - school interests like greater funding for struggling schools and pay raises for teachers rather than choice proposals.

While few dispute the shortage itself, Benjamin Riley, head of the group Deans for Impact, a new consortium of 18 reform - minded deans of colleges of education, thinks it's not yet clear why potential teachers are turning away.

For instance, a study by the group Public Agenda found that 85 percent of teachers and 73 percent of parents felt the «school experience of most students suffers at the expense of a few chronic offenders.»

After a year of mixed - ability grouping at Cloonan Elementary School in Stamford, Conn., teachers reported fewer behavioral problems and better grades for struggling students.

For example, while Latino students account for 16 percent of observations in the data, the state has too few Latino teachers to estimate precise race - match effects for this group.

The teacher unions are trapped in archaic organizational models characterized by buildings and districts that are too large and too fragmented, compulsory attendance, the 180 - day school year, the 50 - minute period, age - grouping of students in 13 discrete grades, few performance or standards - based activities, and inaccurate assumptions about the dangers of privatization.

The district has rehired about one fourth of the group fired in April, but have hired NO first year teachers who aren't TFA, except a few trained in shortage areas like special education, math, science, etc..

Officials of the teachers union, UTLA, have accused the group of attempting to «dismantle» public education in Los Angeles, and just this week, the school board went on record opposing the GPS Now plan, of which few details are actually known.

As an example, «Some students would be working online, some students would be working in a group with a teacher, a few students working on a math exercise,» McDonald said.

NPE is a national group dedicated to fighting for local public education, and was founded just a few years ago by education luminaries like historian Diane Ravitch and teacher / writer Anthony Cody.

Teacher leaders usually demonstrated these lessons for groups of teachers (ranging in size from just a few teachers to 20 - 30 teachers), rather than working one - on - one with a single tTeacher leaders usually demonstrated these lessons for groups of teachers (ranging in size from just a few teachers to 20 - 30 teachers), rather than working one - on - one with a single teacherteacher.

It's easy to know that this strategy isn't working because now the privatizers are funding fake parent groups to create the appearance of parents wanting what corporate school reformers want — you know, more testing, more charters, fewer union teachers.

A group of teachers and parents are now suing him, saying that school is starting in a few weeks and they have no idea what to teach the incoming children now.

But according to NEA, the reforms suggested by DFER (and many other groups) have «acquired a bit of a stench over the last few years, as the ideas with which it is most closely associated — high stakes accountability, vouchers, merit pay, charter schools, not to mention teacher bashing — have not worn well with much of the public.»

You will, to name but of a few of the roles teachers assume in carrying out their duties, be a communicator, a disciplinarian, a conveyor of information, an evaluator, a classroom manager, a counselor, a member of many teams and groups, a decision - maker, a role - model, and a surrogate parent.

Despite the great variation among student groups — demographic, academic, and otherwise — few studies have examined the extent to which teachers are more effective with one group of students than with another.

... The most daunting task for the city will be to prepare what could amount to thousands of new independent observers in just a few months, said Evan Stone, executive director of the teacher advocacy group Educators 4 Excellence.

Promoting Compassion and Acceptance in Crisis Tips for Teachers and Parents to help children understand the importance of treating all people with dignity and not judging entire groups of people for the actions of a few, when a crisis occurs.

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade K with 43 lessons TOPICS Counting and Cardinality Counting On Counting 0 - 5 Number shapes Groups of 6 - 10 Estimate and count Arranging sets of objects Representing numbers with objects Comparing groups Equal groups More and fewer More than, less than, same as Order of numbers Operations and Algebraic Thinking Joining problems Using the plus and minus sign Separating problems Sums and differences to and from ten Decomposing numbers Number and Operations in Base Ten Compose and decompose numbers 11 - 19 Measurement and Data Nonstandard measurement of height Sorting by height and length Estimating and measuring length Sort by one or two attributes Determine the sorting rule Geometry Left and right Top, middle, and bottom Positions on a line Relative locations Inside and outside Before and after Plane shapes and real - life objects Geometric pictures and designs Attributes of plane shapes Cubes and spheres Exploring shape attributes Shape attributes rGroups of 6 - 10 Estimate and count Arranging sets of objects Representing numbers with objects Comparing groups Equal groups More and fewer More than, less than, same as Order of numbers Operations and Algebraic Thinking Joining problems Using the plus and minus sign Separating problems Sums and differences to and from ten Decomposing numbers Number and Operations in Base Ten Compose and decompose numbers 11 - 19 Measurement and Data Nonstandard measurement of height Sorting by height and length Estimating and measuring length Sort by one or two attributes Determine the sorting rule Geometry Left and right Top, middle, and bottom Positions on a line Relative locations Inside and outside Before and after Plane shapes and real - life objects Geometric pictures and designs Attributes of plane shapes Cubes and spheres Exploring shape attributes Shape attributes rgroups Equal groups More and fewer More than, less than, same as Order of numbers Operations and Algebraic Thinking Joining problems Using the plus and minus sign Separating problems Sums and differences to and from ten Decomposing numbers Number and Operations in Base Ten Compose and decompose numbers 11 - 19 Measurement and Data Nonstandard measurement of height Sorting by height and length Estimating and measuring length Sort by one or two attributes Determine the sorting rule Geometry Left and right Top, middle, and bottom Positions on a line Relative locations Inside and outside Before and after Plane shapes and real - life objects Geometric pictures and designs Attributes of plane shapes Cubes and spheres Exploring shape attributes Shape attributes rgroups More and fewer More than, less than, same as Order of numbers Operations and Algebraic Thinking Joining problems Using the plus and minus sign Separating problems Sums and differences to and from ten Decomposing numbers Number and Operations in Base Ten Compose and decompose numbers 11 - 19 Measurement and Data Nonstandard measurement of height Sorting by height and length Estimating and measuring length Sort by one or two attributes Determine the sorting rule Geometry Left and right Top, middle, and bottom Positions on a line Relative locations Inside and outside Before and after Plane shapes and real - life objects Geometric pictures and designs Attributes of plane shapes Cubes and spheres Exploring shape attributes Shape attributes riddles

Save for a few NAACP branches (including its affiliate in Connecticut, have stepped up in the discussions over Gov. Dan Malloy's school reform effort, and advocated on behalf of Bridgeport mother Tanya McDowell, who will serve five years for trying to provide her child with a high - quality school), the nation's oldest civil rights group offers nothing substantial on addressing issues such as ending Zip Code Education policies, expanding school choice, addressing childhood illiteracy, and revamping how teachers are recruited, trained, paid, and evaluated (especially when it comes to bringing more black men into the teaching profession).

Here we will take a look at teacher and student roles during each element, along with a few activities for each, as well compare the traditional reading group with a dynamic guided reading group.