Sentences with phrase «formed teacher groups»

Newly formed teacher groups won the vast majority of school contracts after they formed an alliance with UTLA.

Most of the remaining schools were allocated to the newly formed teacher groups who had greatly strengthened their political position by siding with UTLA against the charters.

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That form of «religion» is an entertainment industry in which standard form for preachers, teachers, and speakers IS to package and promote themselves in a constant competition for top celebrity status, on such venues as TBN, just as aspiring popular music groups and singers are over on MTV.

Teachers and students form one group before their common objects, which are, indeed, subjects, actively making their presence felt in the community.

Once I had accepted my limitations, I asked my teacher for help, I formed study groups with my friends; I formulated new ways of studying which made profound differences down the road.

The school was started by a group of committed parents and teachers who believed they could offer a distinct educational alternative by forming a school guided by the Core Principles of Public Waldorf education.

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On Monday night, a group of teachers «occupied» the steps in front of the state Education Department building and railed against what they say is an educational money machine in the form of a private contractor that writes mandatory tests.

The group, a nonprofit advocacy organization formed in 2001 and historically funded by teachers unions, has long offered itself as a voice for parents and communities of color and, as such, has also been a thorn in the side of successive state and city governments, consistently pushing for more funding in the state budget to meet the needs of underserved schools and fighting against school closures and charter schools.

The organization, StudentsFirstNY, and another group with a similar focus called Families for Excellent Schools have formed a counterweight to teachers» unions, long among the top spenders in the state capital.

The union is one of a handful of labor groups, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Retail Wholesale and Department Store Workers» Union and the Hotel Trades Council, that agreed to form a coalition along with Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and members of the Working Families Party to help Democrats take control of the Senate, which the Republicans have controlled for all but two of the last 50 years.

In 2004, in a process that hewed much more closely to the traditional plot line, the approximately 125 postdocs at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington formed the nation's first postdoc union, becoming a unit of University Health Professionals, otherwise known as Local 3837 of the American Federation of Teachers, which had already organized a number of groups on the campus.

BASIC SYLLABUS SESSION 1 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification Learning the foundation of Yin yoga principles and postures Alchemy fundamentals Group discussion on practice Birthing and yielding cycles Basics of teaching philosophy Student practice teaching Primary Yin yoga postures SESSION 2 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification Review Teaching techniques Flow and transition movement Reading assignment discussion Adapting teaching philosophy for specific audiences and student needs Taoist philosophy Power yoga Student practice teaching Yin yoga posture variations SESSION 3 Yin Yoga Teacher Certification ADVANCED TRAINING - open only to students who have completed session 1 or 2 How to become attuned with your own flow How to create flow sequences of postures for students Practice teaching with specific evaluation and guidance Yin yoga postures - Participants must demonstrate proficiency in content from sessions 1 and 2 Advanced alchemy using birthing and yielding cycles with accompanying postures Medical chi kung, standing forms of exercises (Aura Palm) Alchemical meditations for cultivating elemental energetic properties Relationship of the organs, emotions, and the five elements

In the 2002, a group of Seattle film professionals, enthusiasts, teachers, and critics formed the first incarnation of Parallax View, then a nascent film society, and created the (short lived) Seattle Film Critics Awards.

In 2002, a group of Seattle film professionals, enthusiasts, teachers, and critics formed Parallax View, a small film society whose goal was to champion the cause of film literacy, foster public discussion of the place of movies in society, and promote the serious, sometimes delirious cause of film as art.

Indeed, Skandera and Ruszkowski have started to highlight those efforts, in the form of a coauthored paper on investing in teacher leadership published in December by Chiefs for Change, a group of reform - minded state and district leaders of which Skandera is a longtime member.

The group decided to form a committee and brainstorm ways students and teachers could improve the school climate and help people learn to respect one another's differences.

They were teachers, non-teaching staff members, people who volunteered who wanted to be part of the project — and they formed the Scenario Planning Group.

In one notable effort, a group of universities, community colleges, and school districts in 30 states have formed the Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership to redesign teacher - preparation programs aligned with the common core staTeacher Education Partnership to redesign teacher - preparation programs aligned with the common core stateacher - preparation programs aligned with the common core standards.

There were probably two novice teachers and two experienced teachers in our group and it's created some really great ties between us and those have continued to flourish since [we formed] our peer learning group.»

This staff development can take many forms: attending conferences, reading professional articles and discussing them with colleagues, observing each other, participating in teachers - as - readers groups, and engaging in action research.

«In addition,» Smith said, «we are considering adding an online help - desk form that date / time stamps requests; providing hand - held devices for teachers who have large groups of students (physical education, music, and so on) to use to take attendance; and offering an Intel Teach to the Future program for teachers who wish to be trainers.

A local group of musicians from our high school were supposed to perform, but had to back out at the last minute, so we went to Plan B and had our teachers form groups and perform for our students — which they loved!

The group formed at the first National Substitute Teachers Conference in July 2000.

Before implementing ELT, the Edwards team formed focus groups consisting of administrators, teachers, staff, and other community partners.

The «Friday Report» group was counseled that the system would work only as well as parents held their child accountable for making sure the form was given to each teacher and brought home by the student.

For the classroom teacher, this might take the form, for example, of a roster of students who are flagged because they are consistently receiving low scores on a particular Report Card item or group of items, e.g., having friends.

An alternate form of this activity would involve asking pairs or small groups of students to put in order a shuffled set of teacher - created 3 - inch by 5 - inch index cards (or slips of paper), on each of which is written a step or stage in the star death process.

In March 2010, at a meeting of like - minded teachers in a coffee shop on Avenue B in the East Village, they decided upon a particularly American course of action: they would form an advocacy group with the audacious aim of transforming the profession that many of them had so recently joined.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

The tendency of many, however — this is evident when I observe classes — is to respond to the mandate in either (or possibly both) of two ways: They may engage in some form of «ability grouping» within the classroom — which may well be what teachers «hear» when someone says «differentiate,» though it's surely not what the gurus of the field intend.

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.

An association of third - grade teachers, for example, might form a group for photos relating to appropriate curricula.

Embedded staff development takes many forms: collegial planning, team teaching, study groups, or teacher centers, as in New York.

Endorsed by the U.S. Department of Education as early as 1913 under the label «teacher rotation,» it is a form of classroom organization in which a teacher spends two or three years with the same group of students.

With encouragement and assistance of teacher Aldric Marshall, eight students from Suncoast Community High School in Riviera Beach, Florida, formed a group called Alter8tion and wrote and recorded songs for a CD called «Touch Your Mind.»

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzziGroup Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzigroup... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

IEP Meeting Reminder - Quick form reminds parents and teachers of upcoming IEP meetings Project Choices Visual Checklist - This visual checklist helps teacher track the type of project and gives students an opportunity to choose a type of project for open - ended assignments such as school fairs, museum projects, book reports, group work, etc..

Included in this resource pack are: - A well - presented, thorough, and informative, whole - lesson PowerPoint presentation; - Resources for the reading and interpreting activity - full scene transcript with space for notes; - A template to help scaffold the main task, complete with P.E.E instructions; - Cards for the card sorting group activity - A comprehensive teacher guidance form / lesson plan to assist delivery.

For example, if authorities in Ohio or New Mexico want to identify their state's official content standards for mathematics, then a group of, say, 30 math teachers, math - curriculum consultants, and university math professors are invited to form a statewide content - standards committee.

Mr. G. arranged to have a 4th - grade and a 5th - grade teacher trained on the Highly Gifted approach, and formed a «cluster group» of gifted students in their classrooms.

Researchers at Elon University compared fourth graders receiving PBL in science with a corresponding group receiving the same teacher instruction in thematic form.

The announcement marked a milestone for the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, a private group formed in 1987 to set high standards for teaching and certify teachers who meet them.

The two formed a consulting group known as Picus and Associates and have become increasingly popular among groups seeking to expand school spending, be they plaintiffs in funding lawsuits, teachers unions, or state departments of education.

In the Jan. 30 speech, he said he would form a group including business, labor, and political leaders to craft a 21st Century Education Plan focusing on school finance, teacher quality and compensation, and urban schools.

The New Tech Foundation's Michael McDowell notes that the start of each project — when students form new groups — is the ideal time for team members to establish agreed - on group norms for decision making and communicating with one another, and the consequences of violating those norms, which makes it easier for both the students and teacher to manage the group process if it veers off track.

«It may take the form of one - on - one coaching in an individual teacher's classroom or demonstration lessons for individuals and groups of teachers.

In studying Ancient Greece, teachers form groups of five and have their students reach a consensus on who should be the new patron goddess or god of the fictional city - state Dasteinia.

Thinking alike, and working with Contact Group, providers of best in class communication and data services, former assistant head and director of Sixth Domain, John Roberts has created a new solution that allows teachers to track events — like good news, bad news, sanctions, reports, comments — and to monitor and analyse the behaviour of individual students, classes, forms and even houses.

No group differences were found on social capital measures one year later, suggesting that the structured adaptive approach did not make teachers more likely to form ties that would be useful outside of the intervention.