Sentences with phrase «gave teams of teachers»

We gave teams of teachers a one - period release for a year and asked them to design and test new coursework.

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Prepare Joint Gifts Instead of everyone giving the classroom teacher or team coach a small gift, pool your resources and put together a group gift.

However at barreASANA, the team took this peaceful state one step further with the teachers visiting each student and applying lavender oil to their temples, giving them a quick massage to relieve areas of tension and making subtle adjustments to their alignment.

GIVE: Two teachers from my -LCB- former — that's weird to say -RCB- first grade team retired this year and Tuesday was the last day of school for everyone!

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Science fair guru Roger Beekman (Matthew Broderick) is brought in with hopes of creating a winning project, but science teacher Mr. Noblet (Stephen Colbert) objects to using outside talent and starts a separate team of his own, bringing in Jerri to give her something to do.

So Gehlbach and his research team designed something that helps: a get - to - know - you survey, which they gave to 315 ninth - graders and 25 of their teachers.

«The shared mission of the four parts of the University of Cambridge who established this project and their unique breadth of experience — from curriculum design and learning materials to teacher support and mathematical insight — is giving the Cambridge Mathematics team the means to turn the insights from their work into practical impact for teachers and students around the world.»

To help address the lack of attention currently given to handwriting, the Write Your Future campaign, from Berol and Paper Mate, created resources to help teachers engage with handwriting and commissioned my team to undertake the Developing Mark Making and Letter Formation study.

Robinson gave an example of a team leader who has responsibility for the teaching and learning of the teachers in his or her team.

At the end of each day, teams sent an email report to our partner at Valve (copied to their teachers), who in turn gave them feedback and suggestions the following morning.

• 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!

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

Give to the Dean's Venture Fund, providing seed funding to teams of faculty to launch promising research initiatives, whether related to creating and sustaining successful schools and school systems, reshaping how students learn and teachers teach, or breaking down barriers to access and opportunity.

«New teachers need people who are observing and giving them feedback,» explains F. T. Clark, of Baltimore's Academic Intervention Team.

Teacher will give students examples of experiments and students will work together in small teams and raise their Independent / Dependent cards to identify the correct variables.

He and a few colleagues crisscrossed the state, giving weekend workshops for teams of students, teachers, and administrators on ways to address homophobia in school communities.

The Time Savers team of educational gurus visit three teachers at different schools to give them ideas to help reduce their workload which they then road - test.

The teachers separated into pre-existing class teams and were given an overview of the year's theme in a game format.

Given the increasing interest in the influence of SEL on students, our research team has been interested in knowing whether SEL also impacts teachers.

Transporting teams of teens can give teachers a headache.

We teamed up with Stanford University to survey teacher sentiment on the platform: 90 per cent of 10,000 teachers rated the resources they used as above - average in both quality and relevance, and more than 30 per cent gave the maximum score for both categories.

Having mixed devices also gave flexibility for use, teachers were free to split students into groups so that the right mix of devices across the groups was gained, for example, if a science class was conducting an experiment those students with backward facing cameras were distributed across all teams so that someone was available to record or photograph the experiment.

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.

Alison continued: «As well as improving their knowledge of the gaming industry and computer science, FXP Festival gives students and teachers the opportunity to develop valuable team - work, creative and communication skills.

With only one teacher and given the difficulty of learning and mastering the language, P.S. 191's School Leadership Team determined that teaching just one class per week in each grade wouldn't be as effective, she said.

Under the guidance of a supervisor, the student - teacher is first asked to present a self feed back of his mini lesson, then the team gives feedback to provide positive reinforcement and constructive criticism.

I recommend a «teaching team strategy,» that gives only experienced teachers primary student responsibility, but in multiple classrooms and with the assistance of the novices.

TAP provides at least nine days of core training, plus ongoing daylong regional training sessions and analyses of video lessons, to prepare master and mentor teachers to conduct professional growth activities such as demonstrating lessons, team teaching, coaching, giving effective feedback, and conducting workshops.

Having the necessary stakeholders, or stakeholder representatives, at the table [for a given purpose] is important, and is more important than identifying a specific number of PLC participants that is most effective; e.g., aligning curriculum across an elementary school with a teacher representative for each grade participating in the PLC and then receiving / sharing information back to grade level teachers at their grade team meetings.

I have a strong team of bilingual teachers, and we're giving students and teachers more support so that they can do this transition well.»

In addition to a comprehensive set of teacher - and student - facing units, performance tasks, and lessons, the SAUSD team shared Professional Learning modules that give teachers 24/7 access to modules covering immediately relevant topics for Common Core instruction.

At that time, teachers should be given an opportunity to fill out «preference sheets» indicating three preferences in order of priority... in the case of special education teachers, the age range of special education classes and education program designation (e.g. staffing ratio, collaborative team teaching, special education teacher support services, etc.) with the understanding that, where advisable and possible, such preferences will be honored.

«Just like with the Teacher EPI, the Principal EPI gives our hiring directors and executive team a really strong research - based evaluation that allows them to say, «This is the type of leader I need at this campus,»» Chris said.

This «rock star,» yet again, brought with her her one string guitar, speaking in favor of South Carolina's House Bill 4419 that «addresses the way teachers are evaluated [i.e., using VAMs], rewards effective teachers with recognition and the opportunity to earn higher salaries [i.e., merit pay] and gives school leaders the opportunity and the tools to build and maintain a quality team of teachers [i.e., humbuggery, for the lack of a more colorful term].»

«We wanted to extend our reach and give teachers more feedback at a classroom level without always having to send in a large team of people,» said Karla Oakley, senior strategist with The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a nonprofit that started offering virtual coaching in 2013, augmenting the in - school support services they have provided for nearly two decades.

Tuesday morning I got to the bus stop, where the mom of another of the 50 or so students served by this two teacher teaching team came up to me excitedly to share the same story: that the kids in these teachers» «switch» class who took PARCC were given Smarties candy, but the kids who refused did not.

Similar to the use of the Effective Teacher Pedagogy form, often school leadership team members will reach consensus on which select observation «look - fors» will be focus areas for a given school year.

Kenji Hakuta's team at Stanford has developed a tool that takes advantage of varied Web technologies to give students and teachers of English a multilayered mental and visual grasp of academic vocabulary.

For example, a change of one standard deviation in turnover on a given grade - level team is associated with a drop in student math scores of.02 standard deviations, while 100 percent turnover on a given grade - level team is associated with a drop in student math scores of between.08 and.10 standard deviations.35 These effects extend beyond students with a new teacher, indicating that increased turnover causes disruption that can affect other classrooms.

However, with so much talent and diversity, getting everyone to value the collective mission over individual progress can sometimes seem challenging, given the fact that traditionally our system is set up for teachers to plan, execute and reflect on their practices independently instead of as a team.

Not only does this help the team fine - tune lesson timing and structure, but also gives teachers the opportunity to be a part of program development.

Through weekly coaching, grade level teams, and over 300 hours of professional development every year, Rocketship teachers are given the support they deserve to truly master their craft.

The Digital Coach will meet virtually with a teacher or team of teachers after they have reviewed the video of their lesson to give them guidance and feedback.

Given the complex needs and challenges that Lampron's students face, it's a huge and important question to tackle — and it's led to a core team of teachers, district staff, support staff, and administrators engaging in conversations around topics such as discipline policies, classroom management, staff roles, forming relationships with students, and shifting school culture to understand the impact of trauma.

After reviewing 13 components of the new contract, an E4E — New York Teacher Policy Team gave the contract an overall grade of C, noting progress in some areas...

Our team is comprised of teachers, students, veterans, full - time workers, part - time workers and retirees; all who are at some point on their journey looking to give back while being surrounded by a community of conscious - minded people.

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Fletcher, who is the captain of the school's cross country running team, spoke about her coach and geography teacher, 35 - year - old Scott Beigel, who was killed as he gave shelter to students in his classroom.

AWARDS 2009 Academic All - A District Team November 2009 A award that is given to student - athletes that preform excellence in sports while maintain a GPA of at lease 2.5 GROUPS Miniority Teacher Recuritment Program August 2008 to June 2009 A groups of African - American students that are looking to advance in the teaching profession.