Sentences with phrase «from teacher collaboration»

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SMART Technologies helps great teachers get outstanding results by taking learning from passive listening to active collaboration.

«Successful meal programs have made continuous innovation and collaboration with students their guiding principles, and they've worked to improve not just cafeteria menus but what schoolchildren are taught about food, with help from principals, teachers, and parents.»

A group of classroom teachers from schools with newly created teacher leadership positions told delegates how educators in the new positions are nurturing collaboration and professional growth among their colleagues.

From 2016 - 2018, in collaboration with AVID coordinators and teachers, Mr. Lopez facilitated small group tutorials in an effort to promote autonomous learning, questioning, and critical thinking skills among the students.

As such, collaboration is at the heart of our operations and we offer access to advanced technologies and services for all aspects of society, ranging from academic research groups, health care providers, industry, governmental authorities, teachers and students throughout Sweden.

The expert input has helped teachers develop the learning progressions, including whole school continua for literacy and numeracy involving collaboration between staff from the Early Learning Centre, Junior School, Middle School and Senior School.

Nurturing a culture of respect and collaboration among administrators and teachers (many of whom come from Teach for America) has been essential in building the YES Prep teacher corps.

Authors» note: This post was adapted from our new book Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration, which will be published this fall by Teachers College Press.

The Meriden Public Schools — with 8,000 students and 700 teachers — have benefited greatly from our collaboration and utilization of memorandums of understanding (MOUs), agreements between two parties that can be used to make adjustments to union contracts.

An effective learning culture in a school has a number of key features, including: engaging teachers in collaboration, using data to inform decision making and learning activities, conducting professional learning that is based on current research and identifying the impact of professional learning on staff and student outcomes from the outset (AITSL, 2013b).

Yassine's dedication to working on literacy problems both real and theoretical led her to a collaboration between a group of HGSE students and the litigants of the first federal case asserting a right to literacy based on gross inequity in Detroit Public Schools (DPS) that culminated in an on - campus event where parents, teachers, and students from DPS led a conversation.

There are a number of important impediments inhibiting teachers from learning from each other — like packed teaching schedules, a lack of collaboration time, and ambiguity about what constitutes best practice.

This approach to professional learning, developed in collaboration with academic partners from Western Sydney University (WSU), has built a strong culture of teachers as «practitioner - researchers» at a whole school level.

Teachers must take the first stroke and swim across the hall and start a collaboration with another teacher from a different department.

This prohibits collaboration between Rose's new effort and NYC's School of One — and means his endeavor would proceed without any communication with DOE» School of One team members, principals, or teachers, and would prohibit them from working with Joel as they pursue i3 implementation.

From her early passion for literacy as a middle school Humanities teacher to her current work in developing leaders, common themes in City's work are collaboration, evidence - based discussion, asking the right questions, thinking and acting strategically, and learning through doing.

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.

Rosenbrock says the annual conference has been a cornerstone of the regional facility and its PD programs as it brings together a large number of teachers from a wide area, building the foundation for plenty of collaboration and the creation of networks within schools, providing a «canvas» for educators who are keen to share in their areas of passion.

Though this is a departure from traditional academics, it's important teachers join in the conversation and do what feels comfortable, which is the type of collaboration we are expected to see in 2017.

With funding from the U.S. Department of Education, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in collaboration with the Boston Plan for Excellence and the Boston Public Schools, has developed the Transition to Teaching Math and Science (T2MS) Program to address the shortage of qualified math and science teachers in Boston's middle and high schools.

«Practical lessons arising from recent innovations in teacher education, professional learning, curriculum alignment and inter-school collaboration can help here,» they said.

Free from traditional constraints, teachers at XP School are able to design creative projects that integrate different subjects, skills and competencies such as problem ‑ solving, critical thinking and collaboration.

Thousands and thousands of teachers from all over the world will log on to what some call the educational collaboration event of the year in order to share the ways they are using Edmodo and other tech tools to personalize learning.

In the second and third year of the project, teachers and researchers met weekly, developed case studies of their classroom experiences, and helped to refine the theory and framework as it emerged from the collaboration.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

Our school has signed up to an inter-school collaboration program of the European Union through which a team of teachers from different countries have to collaborate for the development of the curriculum of a subject.

A teacher who benefits from collaboration tends to appreciate its effect and will use it in his or her own methodology.

«Collaboration can encompass a range of activities, from teachers working together in an informal, unplanned way to the implementation of more formal collaborative approaches, such as professional learning communities.

Creating a cultural shift in a school from teachers working alone in their classrooms to a model of collaboration and interdisciplinary projects usually requires support from the top.

Collaboration — where learners and teachers share the same space and see and learn from each other.

Bill Mitchell, director of education at BCS, which was responsible for originally creating Barefoot Computing in collaboration with the Department for Education, Raspberry Pi and BT, said: «It's essential that all children develop computational thinking skills right from the start of primary school, which is why the Barefoot Computing project is so important as it gives teachers the educational tools they need to develop these skills in their pupils.»

I'm thinking of platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation, where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials; of the amount of data that can be collected to measure students» learning; or of the increasing use of blended learning models in teachers» training, in which online lectures are combined with individualized expert support and feedback from peers.

Members are encouraged both to share and benefit from the experiences of others, participants can access mentoring and collaboration between teachers throughout the state, facilitated through the simple and easy Yammer site.

In June 2010, Cordova came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education with an assistant principal and math teacher from Poe Middle School to participate in a weeklong Data Wise workshop, in which educators learn an eight - step process that includes collaboration, data analysis, and an action plan.

To celebrate this milestone, our team at the Ed School — in collaboration with teachers from around the country — asked hundreds of public K — 12 students, «What would you tell your friend about Scratch?»

Collaboration is also very effective when it comes to effective CPD, so teachers should be given the opportunity to engage in team - working activities, both during and after training, to test ideas from different perspectives, develop new ideas and inclusive practices, and as a method of providing a professional support network.

I can hear the howls of anguish from teachers already: Are parents really ready to be part of the collaboration that is possible?

Taking direction from his staff, Benigni targeted key areas for investment: enhancing professional development for teachers and administrators; focusing on an individualized, student - centered teaching approach, backed by new one - to - one technology initiatives; and making an ongoing commitment to collaboration between administrators and teachers.

They have been collaborating ever since, rethinking everything from pedagogy to learning spaces that encourage more student - driven learning and teacher collaboration.

Each academic wing features classrooms that connect to a central collaboration space and a teacher design lab — enabling educators to see kids in the classroom, collaboration space, or corridors from virtually any spot in the learning environment.

Once a school had a critical mass of such teachers and leaders, the culture began to change from one of isolation to one of collaboration.

Funded by: Smith Richardson Foundation via subcontract w / Brown University Amount: $ 10,843 Dates: 1/1/17 — 7/1/20 Summary: In collaboration with researchers from Brown University Dr. Jones will examine the effects of Boston Public School's autonomous hiring policy reform on student, teacher, and school outcomes, with the broader goal of examining the nature and challenges of the teacher hiring and match process in large urban school districts.

ConnectEd Studios is a digital work and collaboration space that is specifically designed, with input from district and site leaders as well as teachers, to support system - wide implementation of Linked Learning pathways.

It calls for teachers to be rated at one of four levels, from «not meeting standards» to exceeding them, for their professional practices and responsibilities, such as their teaching techniques, their feedback to students and their collaboration with colleagues.

The MET project, which was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, is a collaboration between dozens of independent research teams and nearly 3,000 teacher volunteers from seven U.S. public school districts.

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In this richly - illustrated book — the culmination of a two - year research collaboration — teachers and «pedagogistas» from Reggio Emilia and researchers from Project Zero illuminate ways in which documentation can foster both individual and group learning, creating a relationship between them.

Demonstrated ability to balance collaboration (with teachers, fellow principals, and network leadership and staff) with strong leadership and to set goals and build buy - in from teachers

«I encourage schools to improve collaboration by changing the conversation away from evaluations as a compliance tool — where supervision is being done to teachers — and instead focus on growth and professional development.»

Building communication: Based on teachers» rating of «communication of ideas across teachers» (from survey) as indicative (5) down to absent (1) in school; also based on positive or negative comments in interviews, case study about communication and collaboration across teachers