Sentences with phrase «good team teachers»

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Even as I was being chosen by my peers and coaches and teachers to be the captain of sports teams and academic clubs, even as I was embraced as a best friend and confidant, a very clear «Whites Only» sign still hung boldly over the «family room» in the white American house.

«Parents and teachers told me, «You've got to get rid of the football team, they're ruling the campus, ruining the campus,»» Betters says.

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

Many coaches and PE teachers are well aware of this and will take measures to create teams of similar playing abilities and size.

Brian is a high school special education teacher as well as the athletic trainer for all of his school's teams.

There's the parent bringing birthday treats to school; the well meaning teacher who bought tons of Girl Scout cookies from her students who were scouts (nice) and then passed them all out to the class (not cool); my fellow soccer team parent who thinks a juice and Lay's is a fine post-game snack; etc. etc., to mention the over-the-top incidents I've just recounted here.

The group should include one or more individuals from the following list: • The headteacher or a member of the senior management team • Parents • Governors • The school catering manager and / or area supervisor • Midday supervisors • Class teachers • Pupils (4 - 6 has been shown to be a good number).

FoodCorps is best known for our deployment of 225 full - time AmeriCorps service members to 350 schools in 17 states and Washington, D.C. FoodCorps AmeriCorps service members deliver hands - on cooking and gardening lessons to students, steer students toward healthier options in the cafeteria, and bring teachers, parents, administrators and food service teams together to promote healthy food throughout schools (we call this a «schoolwide culture of health»).

At that meeting, a team of people (parent / teacher / guidance counselor / treating professional) will decide how best to proceed to help the child be successful.

They've clashed over city contracts, teacher layoffs, and pension costs, and Bloomberg's team thinks that Liu is basically using City Hall as a foil to make himself look good for a 2013 mayoral run.

Along with a solid plan of action, Cash is also going to need a good team, Buffalo Teachers Federation President Phil Rumore told POLITICO New York.

A total of 12 individuals and teams chosen from six regional competitions competed for the top prizes; combined with awards to students who score well on advanced placement tests and their teachers, the total Siemens pot comes to nearly $ 1 million.

Interactive experiences like sharing toys, working in a team, and listening to a teacher may provide opportunities for children to learn about what constitutes a desirable reputation and the kinds of strategies that are effective for building a good reputation in their social environment.

It has even made me a better friend, team player, sister and teacher.

Our team of highly experienced and well - qualified yoga teachers ensures each student goes back with fulfillment in their heart and wisdom in their soul.

An all around fitness and martial arts training expert, Ken Blackburn is the Head Master Trainer International Team Leader and Director of Kettlebell Sport Competitions for the IKFF (International Kettlebell and Fitness Federation) In this role, Ken travels all over the US and internationally teaching strength and conditioning workshops, the very popular IKFF CKT (Certified Kettlebell Teacher) course and hosting the most well attended kettlebell sport competitions in North America.

«Longtime yoga teachers Virginia and Khalsa team up to provide novices with an inspiring introduction to the kundalini version of the practice, as well as to offer a fresh perspective for seasoned practitioners.»

The opportunity to study and learn from a diverse team of experienced teachers will aid you in deepening your personal practice and in developing well rounded teaching skills.

A regular part of the team ever since — and a graduate of the 2012 Teacher Training Program (aka The Best TT Class Ever)-- Sarah can be found most days in the Cambridge studio, now as the General Manager.

A Jewish high school teacher, Phyllis Saroka (Rhea Perlman), steps in to take on the thankless job of coaching the school's inept basketball team, which is filled with ne'er - do - wells from the slums.

These visits allowed our team to provide a form of PD as well as to systematically rate the degree to which teachers were implementing each of the three parts of our project / unit sessions as intended.

The schools and classrooms where I've seen the strongest relationship - based cultures are ones where students have input on establishing norms and processes, where team building happens throughout the year so that students and teachers know each other well, and, on the teacher level, where teachers have regular opportunities to collaborate to design meaningful PBL experiences for students and discuss student supports.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

There should also be opportunities to create a variety of differentiated roles for teachers — so that they can pursue their strengths and don't have to be frustrated by their weaknesses (much as happens in other fields)-- as well as increasingly creative opportunities for team teaching, both in a school environment as well as virtually across geographies, to make teaching far less isolating and provide far more opportunities for recognition among one's peers.

If the team truly can't collaborate face to face due to personality conflicts, consider asking your administration's permission to hold virtual meetings through email, Google docs, or an app like Padlet or Flow, where teachers write their responses to agenda items and share documents of best lessons, etc..

Pre-service teachers can learn how to be part of great team by experiencing and seeing this team approach from a range of school staff willing to support them, as well as tapping into university staff, school families and community involvement;

PE teachers across the nation are finding new, better ways to engage their students in team building activities that ignite their passion for physical fitness and help them find their own personal best.

At the end of his most recent student - led meeting, he thanked his faculty support team by saying, «I just want to thank Mr. St. Louis real quick, and all of you for being such good teachers and helping me improve.

If a team approach is used, the principal might want to see if you interact well with teachers already on staff.

For example, Hill said, she sent a team of teachers to a school with particularly good third - grade math teachers.

Morgan: I feel that the most important contribution is simply doing the best job I can to represent teachers and education well and to be a team member who helps make a mission successful — whether it's a shuttle or a station mission or my daily technical job.

A teacher can «translate» the game experience to classroom teams through written reflections and discussions, as well as hands - on gameplay in a fishbowl, where the classroom observes and documents elements of successful collaboration.

We also encourage district - wide teams to apply, as well as teams of college faculty (particularly from schools of education), and teams from organizations that support teachers

We feel confident of this based on the study results: Great teachers can lead small teams to reach a lot more students with high - growth learning — and support their colleagues» success really well.

But we didn't know what methods of extending teachers» reach would work best for students: reaching more students directly with extra paraprofessional support, or leading teams.

• 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!

«Bringing these teams together within the Department will enable us to build on the work already underway to invest in the profession and better support teachers in the classroom.»

The guide, created by developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones and her research team, acknowledges that for an SEL program to be effective, it must work to develop key skills across the many domains of childhood development, and — importantly — it must promote and support teachers» own social and emotional competencies as well.

«It turns out that teams can be a very powerful engine of change,» says Johnson, «but only if principals and teachers invest not only time, but also their best ideas, energy, and selves.»

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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.

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.

JE: Marshall said another common observation in schools is that «virtually without exception» principals, leadership teams and teachers are absolutely committed and passionate about doing the best they can by students.

Like many other teachers on the Tech Team, however, I'm also one of the people others go to when things don't work or don't work well.

For example, a multi-classroom leader who leads a team of teachers, coaching, co-teaching, and co-planning to achieve results for all the team's students, needs demonstrated team leadership capacity, the ability to influence others (directly and indirectly), and the drive and planning habits to serve a larger number of students exceptionally well with a team.

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It calls for flexible schedules, more project - based and interdisciplinary learning, a more engaging and real world — based course of study, increased opportunity for teachers to work in teams, and better integration of technology across subject areas.

So, they provide for a range of activities: they better facilitate group work and social development; they are also seen to help the teachers as they promote the sharing of skills, ideas and experiences; and they allow for team teaching, joint planning and organisation - which is thought to facilitate a more cooperative and supportive atmosphere.

· Members of the team analyse each other's individual class data and discuss and critique different writing strategies used by teachers in the team and evaluate them against good practice literature and school data.

Meanwhile, supplementary materials provide the teacher with guidelines for final team presentations, as well as tools to measure things like student motivation, engagement, and productivity — necessary because most teachers aren't going to know instinctively how to grade something as abstract as video game skills.