Sentences with phrase «fully engaged teachers»

STEM Institute requires a two - year partnership between a school and Golden Apple Foundation, which results in fully engaged teachers receiving 100 hours of high quality professional development over the course of those two years.

«Our media specialist and technology aide have enthusiasm, skills, and a collegial approach that has, over two years, fully engaged all teachers and their students in meaningful, challenging learning projects with technology.»

However, since participation in 2014 - 15 was substantially below the standard, please submit a detailed action plan by March 11, 2016 as to the steps the district is taking / will take to more fully engage teachers, students, parents, and the entire school community around the purpose and nature of the state assessment.

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Reflecting on the mystery of teachers one never meets or on the practical uselessness of philosophy, Schall here reminds increasingly busy people that human beings are most fully human when they are engaging in such unserious and impractical activities.

When you think about, we already rely on various people — teachers, coaches, babysitters, family, friends, etc. — but few of them are ongoing, readily available and fully engaged with our kids.

«The NASUWT will be considering the implications of today's announcement very carefully once the detail has been shared and as there has been no consultation prior to these provisions being introduced will seek to engage with the Coalition Government to identify what support teachers, school leaders and schools will require to enable them to protect fully the children and young people in their care.»

Our aim is to provide free access to robotic telescopes and a fully supported education programme to encourage teachers and students to engage in research - based science education.

Because children in this age group can be more fully engaged in instructions, the kids yoga teachers training at this stage emphasizes more accurate execution of yoga poses and better explanation of the benefits the kids will experience.

Another favorite teacher posits that we should do what we need to on the mat to increase consciousness; in other words, modify poses as needed to stay fully present and engaged.

Schools need a strategy to give all relevant teachers the time, resources, and support to engage with the new subject in a meaningful way, so they can develop their confidence and skills in the concepts, technology and pedagogy necessary to fully realise the potential of Digital Technologies and ultimately thrive in a world where mobile devices have become ubiquitous.

Much more commonly observed, however, is the teacher trying heroically — yet unsuccessfully — to fully engage each of his 30 students in the lesson he stayed up half the night planning.

We must provide schools with the antibodies they need to fight off dangerous and harmful material, while giving parents and teachers the confidence they need to fully engage in the conversation around safeguarding children on the web.

«It requires all of us to be socio - linguists,» Snow said, noting that teachers need to understand enough about language and the varieties of language in order to fully engage in contrastive analysis and code - switching.

Bridges in Mathematics is a comprehensive PK — 5 curriculum that equips teachers to fully implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in a manner that is rigorous, coherent, engaging, and accessible to all learners.

At the same time actions taken at «higher» levels did not fully determine teacher actions; rather, teachers co-constructed what DI meant for their day - to - day classroom practice as they engaged in sensemaking about the tools and policies provided to them.

When faced with cuts to important creativity programs, teachers often feel like they can't fully engage their students.

For example, early in the year we found that teachers commonly used worksheets, and while students generally passively completed them, they were not fully engaged.

This led to conference presentations and requests from schools outside my own district to share this fully engaging, student - centered process with their teachers.

Student teachers are fully engaged during the portfolio process especially when sharing their teaching stories.

The charge of teacher educators is to design and model constructivist learning experiences that fully engage students in the effective use of technology to support these designs.

We need to trust that teachers are the educators who best know our students and empower them to create school cultures, curriculum, instruction, and assessment that fully engage students in high quality, equitable, authentic, and relevant educational experiences.

Summary: This article describes a new approach to parent - teacher conferences which more fully engages parents in the education of their children.

To me it is not about creating a «one size fits all education» but rather about helping teachers customize educational experiences so that youth are fully engaged and responsive.

Teachers become more fully engaged in inquiry when they feel ownership and agency in their own learning and inquiry processes.

A sense of emerging mastery is one of the factors that motivate, and thus engage, teachers but the only hard data they have to gauge their success is both inadequate to fully represent their goals and deferred until after the end of the unit, term or year.

Bridges in Mathematics, second edition, is a comprehensive K — 5 mathematics curriculum that equips teachers to fully implement the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics in a manner that is rigorous, coherent, engaging, and accessible to all learners.

Project Zero has been a leader in the study of thinking and learning for nearly 50 years, developing tools and frameworks that fully engage learners — including teachers — and encourage them to think deeply about the topics they study.

«As a former classroom teacher, I understand the adversities that come with ensuring students are fully engaged in learning,» said Dr. Gene R. Carter, Executive Director and CEO of ASCD.

-LSB-...] in itself is a huge success, comparing the the average results — according to our prior research, teachers estimated that more than half of their students» parents (56 %) were not fully engaged -LSB-...]

The National Education Union is willing to engage fully with Government in what will be a detailed and complex piece of work, defining the workload levels acceptable for teachers.»

She observed that in the early years of blended learning, when teachers fully integrated online adaptive curriculum into their lessons as one tool to help personalize and differentiate instruction, not only did the data show improved performance, but students were more engaged in their learning.

«Rocketship may be the first charter school network that is fully scalable because it successfully attracts and develops great teacher talent, engages all students to achieve academically and costs far less,» said Luis de la Fuente, an associate director at The Broad Foundation.

«Instead of teachers being an afterthought when innovative technology tools are available, as is often the case,» said Stanley Litow of the IBM International Foundation, «we've placed teachers at the front of the line and even more importantly, engaged them fully in the development process.»

The solution is to support all public schools, call upon school administrators to do their job (they do have the means to identify, retrain and failing those actions, to fire bad teachers) and wake parents up to the fact that when parents are fully engaged, their children and the children of others will benefit from effective teaching.

In addition, librarians often are assigned to cover teacher planning time or other tasks, crippling their ability to engage fully in building initiatives such as 1:1 device programs, STEM / STEAM projects, or blended learning.

This marked the beginning of Hunter College's commitment to artists as teachers, and to hiring artists fully engaged in the questions of the art of their time.

Other startups are testing approaches to adapt lessons for each student as they progress, whether as fully automated systems, by engaging mentors or enabling rapid customization by local teachers.

To fully realize such benefits of social - emotional learning, however, schools should invest in evidence - based programming and engage every staff member who interacts with children — from teachers to principals to recess monitors — with training on how to model and reinforce effective prosocial approaches.

To fully realize such benefits of social - emotional learning... schools should invest in evidence - based programming and engage every staff member who interacts with children — from teachers to principals to recess monitors — with training on how to model and reinforce effective prosocial approaches.

As early childhood teachers, we must provide activities that lend themselves to not only developing these critical skills, but that also fully engage children in their learning.