Sentences with phrase «from teachers and learners»

The response from teachers and learners so far has been excellent.»

Simon's advice is to invest in «inspire moments»; «Show the education community what can be achieved from teachers and learners who are already on this journey.

Not exact matches

For it is only in love that the unequal can be made equal, and it is only in equality or unity that an understanding can be effected, and without a perfect understanding the Teacher is not the God, unless the obstacle comes wholly from the side of the learner, in his refusing to realize that which had been made possible for him.

But when the God becomes a Teacher, his love can not be merely seconding and assisting, but is creative, giving a new being to the learner, or as we have called him, the man born anew; by which designation we signify the transition from non-being to being.

Chris Keates: «The Government should take note of the clear message from this report that the most effective education systems are designed around students and learning, build teacher capacity and engage all learners».

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

«Although some teachers may worry that social media distracts students from legitimate learning, we found that our Facebook group helped transform students from anonymous spectators into a community of active learners — and this has important consequences for student performance,» Dougherty said.

Join our community of teachers and learners to deepen your practice and teaching skills from home.

As a lifelong learner, I love to learn from other teachers, experts, and my students.

Dennis O'Connor, a Milken National Educator from Lake Tahoe, Nevada, told Education World, «I've used David Warlick's Rubric Builder to build materials for an online teacher training course and I list it as a resource for learners in my class.

Multimedia presentations can be used in a range of cross-curricular contexts and these resources from Digital Schoolhouse enable teachers to set differentiated activities for the learners in their class.

In this lesson, learners will be able to: derive and use the standard ruler and compass constructions to construct the: construct the perpendicular bisector of a line segment, construct a perpendicular to a given line from / at a given point, bisecting a given angle recognise and use the perpendicular distance from a point to a line as the shortest distance to the line Lesson can be used as whole class teaching by teachers and at home by learners.

The advantage of this from the learner's point of view is that this two - way traffic of work between teacher and themselves is replaced by a multi-way exchanges from which they can learn.

Debbie Tuckwood, CICM Head of Education and Professional Development, is concerned that while some learners may be happy with distance learning, they miss out on the interaction with their peers and teacher: «People generally learn better from each other,» she explains.

As Richard Spencer, a teacher from the United Kingdom, noted: «Great teachers are great learners and students need to see their teachers learning.»

These worksheets have been written by an experienced English language teacher and used in English classes with learners from a wide variety of countries.

Doctoral learners from the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education will spend a «week in the schools» — the schools of Helsinki, that is — looking at a variety of research areas through the lenses of students, teachers, parents and leaders.

Portions of this column are excerpts from their new book, The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready - to - Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English - Language Learners of All Levels.

As my mentor, Dr. Mary Grassa - O'Neill, constantly reminded her students, each of us at HGSE is both teacher and student, both leader and learner, embodying and acting on the conviction that true education arises from our efforts of inquiring about, engaging with, and learning from each other.

We demonstrated that a regression - based statistical correction for the proportion of the students in each teacher's class that are English - language learners, have education disabilities, are from low - income families, and so forth, wrings most of the bias out of classroom observations.

In order to provide authentic bilingual education, schools must have teachers who are fluent in the language and enough English Learners from the same language group to fill a classroom without combining students from more than two grade levels in one classroom.

Editor's note: This first post in a three - part series is adapted from the new book Navigating the Common Core With English - Language Learners by Larry Ferlazzo and his co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski, an English and ELL / ESL teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

32 Bingo cards for French learners Uses French Vocab Simply give each student a bingo card (32 supplied) and the teacher reads out a random word from the Vocab sheet.

I was struck by the diversity and creativity in the projects, with target learners ranging from cardiology fellows, to kindergarteners, to children with autism, and generative topics including empowering indigenous teachers in the Philippines, religious tolerance, and rational numbers!

Fourth -, fifth -, and sixth - grade students and teachers in the school's Program for Gifted Learners have built a Web page showcasing student artwork and poetry centered on the themes of peace and a quote from the Rev. Martin Luther King, «I have a dream.»

Kirsty Williams said: «I hear it often enough, from teachers and headteachers across the country, that time and funding is too often taken up by school maintenance issues, as opposed to supporting learners.

Included in this resource pack: A comprehensive, whole - lesson, visually engaging PowerPoint presentation, which guides the teacher and learners through the lesson, a writing to analyse help - sheet, an engaging and helpful worksheet, extracts from «The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas» and teacher guidance notes.

They have developed a standards - based report card for the elementary schools to support the paradigm shift, and, as young learners move into the higher grades, administrators hope the students and parents will demand project - based, technology - integrated education from their teachers.

For the most common business use cases, even just the three built - in user types can go a long way - each representing a intuitive and recognizable role that's quite familiar from the traditional education environments; «Administrators» corresponding to a school's administrative offices, «Instructors» being the teachers, and «Students» being the learners.

At the center of reform is the idea of students as proactive learners — readers, writers, and mathematicians — rather than simply recipients of learning from a teacher.

This post is excerpted from their new book, The ESL / ELL Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready - to - Use Strategies, Tools, and Activities for Teaching English Language Learners of All Levels.

A teacher needs to take this into account and help students move from being dependent to becoming more independent learners.

Two other sources of inspiration are Yvonne Pratt - Johnson's article Communicating Cross-Culturally: What Teachers Should Know and this book excerpt from ASCD's Diverse Teaching Strategies for Diverse Learners.

The relentless march of the digital technologies requires a continual re-evaluation of the spaces in which children learn and teachers teach; Ken Robinson in his acclaimed collaborative work with Lou Anonica entitled «Creative Schools — Revolutionising Education from the Ground Up» says «Virtually every day there are new tools for learning and creative work in all sorts of disciplines and new programs and platforms that can help to customise education for every learner.»

The study, from the leading provider of formative assessments to UK schools, looked at children's feelings about school and teachers as well as their attitudes to themselves as learners — their confidence, work ethic and how prepared they felt themselves to be, for instance.

The first excerpt from our book reviewed the Common Core Writing Standards and offered general strategies for teachers of English - language learners.

This selection of practical teaching ideas from Teaching Teenagers: A Toolbox for Engaging and Motivating Learners by Warren Kidd and Gerry Czerniawski (SAGE Publications, 2011) provide secondary school teachers with creative ideas on how to start lessons in engaging and motivating ways.

«This process of stepping back comes with shifting our role from teacher to learner» as parents eventually «grow out of growing our children» and the parent — child relationship flips.

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

Editor's note: This second post in a three - part series is adapted from the new book Navigating the Common Core With English - Language Learners by Larry Ferlazzo and his co-author Katie Hull Sypnieski, an English and ELL / ESL teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District.

It's difficult to say with any precision, because the number of English - language learners, the complexity of teacher requirements, and how preparedness is even defined varies greatly from state to state.

The programme helps people develop digital and enterprise skills for free: https://idea.org.uk iDEA would like to thank everyone involved in the production of this film from the fantastic range of iDEA Pioneer learners who agreed to take part; and the brilliant educators and inspirers who are rolling out the programme in their communities and institutions (in the order they appear in the film): • Naomi Timperley Co-founder, Tech North Advocates and Wakelet Partnerships Consultant • Melanie Powell Associate Head for Student Employability, Manchester Metropolitan University • Alison McKenzie - Folan Deputy Chief Executive of Wigan Council and Director for Customer Transformation • Jeff McCarthy Senior lecturer, Digital Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University • Jayne Sherwood Founder / Director, Joining Communities • Mark Rodaway Headteacher, Calday Grange Grammar School • Nicola Mounsey Computer Science Teacher, Calday Grange Grammar School Special thanks also to all the institutions and learners around the world who are participating in iDEA; and to Jooka who made the film to help us show iDEA in action.

One example of this commitment to the continuum is in New Jersey, where Garden State leaders have not only focused on successful STEM educator preparation and instruction, but are also looking at the long - term economic benefits coming from excellent STEM teachers and successful STEM learners.

This way, staff are confidently identifying and meeting the needs of all learners, and evidence of this can be seen from observations of classroom practice, progress and attainment data, the scrutiny of work produced, discussion with teachers, the views of parents / carers as well as the views of the pupil, too.

Working on a range of activities — from building a website to managing a real beehive — students become more active and engaged learners, teachers say.

The winners from each of the nine categories including Supporting Teachers and Learners and Best use of Digital learning will be announced at a ceremony at Hensol Castle in May.

The primary aims of this study are to document the process of moving towards new, integrated systems in each of these cities; to highlight which strategies moved the cities forward in creating these systems and what barriers the cities encountered; to examine how these cities incorporated the needs of students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from different economic backgrounds into their system designs; to understand how students, teachers, and parents, and others experience elements of the new system and how these experiences differed for students with special needs; and to document quantitative outcomes on a range of measures, disaggregated by student subgroup.

Teachers could consider asking students to translate interesting news stories, not only improving their vocabulary and enabling them to become more independent learners, but allowing them to see things from a different perspective and read about events that are not necessarily reported in the news they are used to watching and reading.

The quality teacher knows this, and the difference between basic effectiveness and robust leading of learning and learners emerges from the mindful and professional combination of a range of positive personal attributes such as humour and enthusiasm.