Sentences with phrase «few teachers involved»

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I've seen quite a few poorly - trained teachers become obsessed with drilling students for exams because they don't know how children best learn; their lessons involved a lot of copying and sedentary learning.

I was contacted a few weeks ago by a new yoga studio asking if I would consider being involved in their upcoming teacher training program.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

One of the few really good jokes, emerging from a parallel romance between one of Connell's teachers (Jennifer Tilly) and his Chicago Bears - obsessed dad (James Belushi), involves a Mike Ditka instructional video called Ditka On Dating A Man Obsessed With Ditka.

Prepare your pencil cases and sharpen your stationery because with only a few weeks to go, National Stationery Week is calling on children, teachers and parents to get involved during April 25 - May 1!

Debate continues about the validity of these findings, but there is no denying that these programs operated in a far different social and demographic setting than programs today and that they were «hothouse» programs: Run by top - notch specialists, the programs served fewer than 200 children, cost at least $ 15,000 per child per year in today's dollars, often involved multiple years of services, had well - trained teachers, and instructed parents on effective child rearing.

Teachers with fewer students find that they have more time to involve parents in their children's education.

Payne: «One of the most popular models for staff development, sometimes called a Train the Trainer model, involves sending a few teachers out to be trained so that they can come back and train others.

However, most of these 57 studies were «interpretive» case studies involving only a few teachers.

Statistical controls must be used if the assessments of teachers, schools, or programs are to be accurate, even though very few educators understand the statistical principles and methods involved.

The University of Maryland's Douglas Besharov calls them «hothouse programs,» noting that they were «run by top - notch specialists,... served fewer than 200 children, cost at least $ 15,000 per child per year in today's dollars, often involved multiple years of services, had well - trained teachers, and instructed parents on effective child - rearing.

A list of contact info for a few of those involved in the Teachers Rock concert follows (gleaned from posters on Diane Ravitch's blog).

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

However, relatively few schools have parent engagement plans, not all teacher or principal preparation programs include courses on parent and community engagement, and few principals allocate professional development time for practitioners to strengthen their skills in successfully involving parents.

Overall, May has been a good month for the school choice movement despite a few lawsuits involving the teachers unions (so what else is new?).

As I chronicled here, the district was caught flat - footed earlier this year when a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing students revealed that, under the terms of a contract negotiated with United Teachers Los Angeles (the local union), complaints against educators that don't result in disciplinary action are disregarded after only a few years (unsurprisingly, the teacher in question had a long paper trail).

Although few details have been released and costs involved could be significant, board members, administrators, teachers and parents voiced their support of the proposal to area news outlets.

As in most districts, the new evaluations replace a system that involved minimal observation, did not account for test scores and graded teachers simply as satisfactory or unsatisfactory, with few ever getting the latter.

My fieldwork in the past few months has included discussions with district senior leadership teams, principals, and teacher leaders, all of whom have been involved in the selection process for new teachers and principals.

Ask your child's teacher (s) to talk about what a typical day at school might involve, and what to expect in the first few weeks of school.

«TPOTing» involves a few hours of classroom observation followed by a 30 - minute coaching session so teachers can discuss areas of strength and areas for growth.

It is also recommended that teachers model a few situations that involve self - regulation (e.g., looking away from an attractive reward, holding hands under the table) and provide memory aids to symbolize social rules.