Sentences with phrase «first as a classroom teacher»

Matt is a veteran public educator, first as a classroom teacher and now serving as an elementary principal in Mineral Point, Wisconsin.

I am a life - long professional educator — first as a classroom teacher, then as a school counselor, finally as a school administrator.

She has 15 + years experience teaching in prek - 12th grade contexts, first as a classroom teacher and then as a mindfulness and yoga content specialist.

Not exact matches

When I first began as a classroom teacher in 1977, I was working with a very different child than the one I saw in 2014.

As general manager of Boston's Dance Umbrella and First Night, and later as a classroom teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she struggled to make sense of tensions she could feel but not explain in racially mixed settingAs general manager of Boston's Dance Umbrella and First Night, and later as a classroom teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she struggled to make sense of tensions she could feel but not explain in racially mixed settingas a classroom teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she struggled to make sense of tensions she could feel but not explain in racially mixed settings.

As a preschool and kindergarten teacher, I saw first - hand how children who started school prepared were able to thrive in the classroom, while children who started school with gaps in their development struggled.

Millennials, who as a rule like to do things their own way, are finding unusual, special and varied names for their babies, leading to grandparents who have learned to keep their opinions to themselves and classroom teachers who may have to guess at a child's gender before the first day of class.

About Blog The mission of the Montessori Teachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiTeachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiteachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practitioners.

In other words, it is akin to what the teacher feels each day as she stands in front of a classroom full of new students — or a site leader opening up the first staff meeting of the year.

We think the first and compulsory step here is to orientate classroom observation in your school as a practical improvement measure with clear links to teacher professional learning.

She spent seven years as a classroom teacher ranging from first to eighth grade.

In addition, if teachers are required to earn a master's degree immediately rather than within five years as now permitted, they may be better prepared when they first enter the classroom, Kelly feels.

93, left the classroom as an ESL teacher in Chelsea, Mass., to serve as the director of operations at City on a Hill Charter School during its startup and first few years of operation.

First Things First on the First Day of School One of the greatest mistakes a new teacher can make in a classroom (especially on the first day) is to assume that the student values the class as much as the teacher First Things First on the First Day of School One of the greatest mistakes a new teacher can make in a classroom (especially on the first day) is to assume that the student values the class as much as the teacher First on the First Day of School One of the greatest mistakes a new teacher can make in a classroom (especially on the first day) is to assume that the student values the class as much as the teacher First Day of School One of the greatest mistakes a new teacher can make in a classroom (especially on the first day) is to assume that the student values the class as much as the teacher first day) is to assume that the student values the class as much as the teacher does.

His experiences as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school leader, district administrator and consultant have provided him with the foundation necessary to understand first - hand the needs of students and educators.

Many teachers are excited about the ability to create a group on Facebook as a private way of interacting with their students in ways that a) not only meet the students where they already are and integrate their lives into the classroom more holistically, but also b) shows that school can be a lot cooler than the students thought by being on Facebook in the first place.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

The gray teacher retention line begins high and drops significantly within the first ten years and continues to decline as time passes as fewer teachers stay in the classroom.

Below are ten tips about designing, developing, and successfully implementing such a program, gathered through my four years of working in the mindfulness and education movement: first with Inward Bound Mindfulness Education, then as a classroom teacher, and now as an independent consultant.

As a proof of concept, a small group of classroom teachers joined me for the very first STEMbite Live, a public broadcast from my kitchen exploring crazy science found in the refrigerator.

For many classroom teachers, the microcomputer «revolution» of the early 1980's fizzled as rapidly as it had begun when they tried in vain to integrate a first generation of generally bland, uninspired, and error riddled software into their lesson plans.

The final report on the Early Reading First program, conducted by outside researchers under contract to the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education, found the program has had the most significant effect in improving classroom activities and materials, as well as teacher practices related to literacy development.

California «When I was first hired to teach technology, I was promised that my classroom would be PC - based and that I would be able to set up the room as I wished,» recalled Lomita, California, computer teacher Sith Nip.

Dreeben and Barr describe as «technological» the ways in which teachers form groups and then instruct them; not technological in the sense of using computers or electronic media but in the sense of applying craft knowledge in the pursuit of an occupational end, in this case, the goal of organizing a classroom full of first graders so that they can be taught how to read.

• Although both treatment and control teachers volunteered to participate in the project, the treatment teachers were more likely to support use of video at the end of the first year, as a replacement for some or all of their in - person classroom observations.

On July 23, 2015 she delivered her first TEDx Talk, Reimagining Classrooms: Students as Leaders and Teachers as Learners.

Responsive Classroom: Investing in Parents During the First Six Weeks of School Investing in parents as well as children during the critical first six weeks of school yields better school - home interactions all year, enriches classroom life, and enhances children's learning, say the authors of Parents & Teachers Working TogeFirst Six Weeks of School Investing in parents as well as children during the critical first six weeks of school yields better school - home interactions all year, enriches classroom life, and enhances children's learning, say the authors of Parents & Teachers Working Togefirst six weeks of school yields better school - home interactions all year, enriches classroom life, and enhances children's learning, say the authors of Parents & Teachers Working Together.

For the master's candidates who will soon be serving as reading specialists in schools around the nation, Mason said the video exercise demonstrates the importance for teachers of focusing on the learners in the classroom first.

However, they are first and foremost a tool for learning, and as such will sometimes be constrained by the various requirements and rules of classroom teachers.

Prior to becoming a superintendent, she worked in many different facets of education including as classroom teacher at both the elementary and middle school levels, principal at the middle school level, director of the Upward Bound Program for first - generation college - bound students, and director of the Basic Skills Academy for at - risk high school youth.

Most recently, before taking this year out of the classroom, I worked as a kindergarten / first grade looping teacher at Two Rivers PCS.

Entering the Ed School both as an aspiring teacher and as someone with little knowledge of education as a whole, my goals were to acquire a repertoire of skills that would allow me to leave HGSE with a solid foundation in preparation my first year in the classroom and to gain as much knowledge about current issues, policies, and trends in education as possible.

First, the argument for eliminating tenure: As Judge Rolf M. Treu of Los Angeles Superior Court ruled on Tuesday, any benefit that tenure provides to teachers is far outweighed by its costs to children and society by keeping grossly ineffective instructors in the classroom.

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

He also pointed out that University of Virginia researchers studying first - grade classrooms found low - income and nonwhite students were more likely to be in «lower overall quality classrooms» (which isn't quite the same thing as having lousier teachers).

The first one was that Maori students identified that they wanted teachers who respected their cultural location as Maori and part of that [is] teachers who are culturally appropriate; so, who understand some of the features of Maori culture, and use in the curriculum and use in the classroom what I would call «Maori iconography» - so students could see themselves in the curriculum.

Every first - period teacher who has looked across a classroom of drooping eyelids and nodding heads is familiar with the effect of a high school day that starts at 7:30 A.M. Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Associated Press, «Sleep not only serves as a restorative function for adolescents» bodies and brains, but it also is a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.»

As she writes in Beyond the Bake Sale, her first book on family — school partnerships, many teachers «tend to be more comfortable with helping families to be involved with their children at home than with engaging families in their classrooms and school buildings.»

One of the most important lessons I learned as an elementary teacher is to avoid having your first contact with a family being the first time a kid acts up or misbehaves in your classroom.

As the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (UWM) considered authorizing charter schools for the first time in 1999, the local teachers union and top administrators in the Milwaukee Public Schools threatened to ban the college's student teachers from obtaining required classroom experience if UWM approved any charter schools that would be managed by the for - profit firm Edison Schools.

When television and video were first introduced in classrooms, many teachers worried they would impede learning — but these are now accepted as powerful learning tools.

Cultural competency requires, first and foremost, that teachers see themselves as lifelong learners who will inevitably encounter new cultures in the classroom, whether immigrant, racial, technological, stylistic, and more.

This year is her first at the helm; she spent most of her past 14 years here as a classroom teacher.

Telia Kapteyn Learning and Teaching Hometown: Atlanta Experience: Taught kindergarten as a Teach For America corps member in Brooklyn, New York; high school English teacher in a rural fishing village in Malaysia on a Fulbright Scholarship; elementary school teacher at a KIPP school in the Arkansas Delta Future plans: First - grade teacher at Brooke Charter School in Roslindale, Massachusetts; cohort leader in Teach For America's Education 4 Justice pilot program, which seeks to prepare teachers to incorporate social justice pedagogy into their classrooms

I was first introduced to the use of the spectrophotometer when a consultant came to the school and showed us as a group of science teachers how these could be implemented in the classroom.

First, all fellows will receive eight months of training before they set foot in the classroom in the fall, as new teachers: this includes coursework in their senior spring, a three - week teaching laboratory in local schools that July, summer classes at HGSE, and mentored teaching at the Cambridge Harvard Summer Academy (CHSA).

Progressives and traditionalists battled over the curriculum in the first two decades of the twentieth century (practical vs. «book - based» learning), in the 1920s (project - based, experiential learning vs. traditional intellectual disciplines), in the 1940s (curriculum for personal adjustment vs. curriculum for knowledge and skills), in the 1960s and 1970s (student - centered, open classrooms and inquiry learning vs. teacher - led classrooms and basic skills), and in the 1990s (over standards, as described above).

First, the story's heroes — public school teachers who kept their heads down and did wonderful work in their classroom — don't quite behave as we might expect from those critical of the reformers» agenda.

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

For her part, Previna insists she is a teacher first, getting those same highs and butterflies in talking with teachers as she used to get from the classroom.