Sentences with phrase «greatest challenge for teachers»

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The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

There are so many great poetry resources for teachers, and it's always a challenge to round them all up.

But the great challenge for such a teacher has forever been the difficulty of meeting the needs of every student because of circumstances beyond his or her control.

It didn't take long for the two teachers to seriously consider combining their classes and expertise, though they knew the challenges would be great.

A more open - ended, constructivist approach to the lesson would pose an even greater challenge for our edgling AI teacher.

A perfect storm of greater demand for teachers, fewer people entering the profession (particularly in key subjects), severe pressures on schools funding and a restrictive migration system, means that schools are having to think outside of the normal channels of recruitment to more flexible staffing models to cope with these challenges.

To promote student learning and achievement, research indicates that teacher advancement systems should compensate teachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California Teachersteachers for their expert contributions, particularly in economically disadvantaged schools where teaching challenges tend to be greater (Accomplished California TeachersTeachers, 2012).

The Common Core standards will be an even greater challenge for America's teachers.

The opportunity for teachers to retire early exacerbates the measurement challenge, as early retirement programs give teachers greater flexibility in deciding when they leave teaching.

I do not take credit for all the resources, I worked with great teams of language teachers and together we developed what I believe are relevant, engaging and challenging resources for students and teacher.

Teaching is complex work, and the challenges make it all too easy for teachers to lose focus of a greater vision for students and for society.

In both of these programs, the challenge of raising student and teacher expectations for success was great.

By rehearsing, this gives you an idea on pacing, one of the greatest challenges for most beginning teachers.

REC Education identified the need for more teachers in 2012 as the school system struggles to cope with present levels of demand and faces up to even greater challenges in the coming years.

Given the strong union support for the Obama presidency, there was great speculation within education circles throughout the fall as to whether the new president would turn out to be a reformer — willing to challenge existing practices and the teachers unions in order to achieve dramatic changes in schools — or play it politically safe by backing programs that brought only marginal changes.

Carol Midgett, leadership - program coordinator at the North Carolina Partnership for Improving Mathematics and Science and also a board - certified teacher who entered teaching through alternative certification, says she learned that «without focused, formal preparation, the challenge to succeed is much greater and the chances for survival are limited.»

BPS was burdened by a turnover rate for new teachers of 50 percent in the first three years and, despite an abundance of university - based teacher preparation programs in the greater Boston area, lacked teachers of color, teachers equipped for urban school challenges, and those certified in the hard - to - staff areas of math, science, and special education.

Ambition two is closing the attainment gap by raising standards for every pupil, supporting teachers early in their career as well as getting more great teachers in areas where there remain significant challenges.

Teachers can help older students by including more diverse reading and writing each day, giving students more time for tests and answering questions, providing greater access to textbooks, and using more challenging vocabulary and word retrieval games such a Scrabble.

Teachers, we would argue, have a greater challenge than doctors in many ways: they see many more than one student simultaneously; they must mediate both group and individual learning; and they see students every day for protracted periods.

Equipped with this understanding, teachers know they must create more challenging and personalized lessons in the knowledge that they are helping students to «wire their brains» for greater achievement gains.

At the heart of every classroom stands a hero, a teacher willing to face every challenge and sacrifice for the greater good of others.

Those schools have the greater struggle — more challenges for teachers who are stretched too thin, and increased reliance on scant federal and state funding.

The preservice teachers indicated that their experiences were positive, that digital sources had great potential for elementary classroom use in providing students with multiple perspectives, and that they gave the teacher an opportunity to make history real, challenge assumptions, and foster inquiry, as well as help the students to understand the content more clearly.

Great teachers stand at the summit of one of the hardest, most challenging, and most consequential professions for our children and the country's future economic prosperity.

These strategies free teachers from everyday discipline challenges leaving more time for instruction, resulting in greater academic success.

Our new 6 +1 Trait Writing institute addresses one of the greatest challenges teachers face today: how to scaffold instruction for diverse learners — including English language learners, students with special needs and gifted and talented students — so that all students in your classroom become stronger, more confident writers.

The district's talented teachers and staff have remained focused on providing the best education possible, and district leaders have worked to find a path through these challenges while laying the foundation for improved student performance and greater educational equity.

Linda Darling - Hammond and colleagues have cautioned that statistical models can not fully adjust for teachers who have a disproportionate number of students with greater challenges, or whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning, such as special education students; English language learners; and those affected by poor attendance, homelessness, or severe problems at home.

The Institutes used primary sources to provide participants with examples of how effective history and social science instruction may be enhanced for students in each course range and how teachers can improve student achievement in content areas of greatest challenge.

For districts, the challenges of state laws and teacher contracts are great.

One of the greatest challenges districts are facing in successfully transitioning to blended environments is how to effectively achieve buy - in from educators and help teachers build new instructional skills required for today's classrooms.

As documented under Section 1115 of Title I, Part A of the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), a local education agency receiving Title I funds «may use funds received under this part only for programs that provide services to eligible children under subsection (b) identified as having the greatest need for special assistance... Eligible children are children identified by the school as failing, or most at risk of failing, to meet the State's challenging student academic achievement standards on the basis of multiple, educationally related, objective criteria established by the local educational agency and supplemented by the school, except that children from preschool through grade 2 shall be selected solely on the basis of such criteria as teacher judgment, interviews with parents, and developmentally appropriate measures».

One of the greatest challenges in teaching today is to make pupils more independent — they rely on teachers for everything which is why they struggle with those exam questions that look like nothing they've seen before.

About The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

National Commission on Teaching & America's Future: NCTAF is a bipartisan organization that engages education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

The National Commission on Teaching & America's Future (NCTAF) is a nonprofit organization that was founded in 1994 as a bipartisan effort to engage education policymakers and practitioners to address the entrenched national challenge of recruiting, developing, and retaining great teachers in order to ensure that all students have access to quality teaching in schools organized for success.

Meanwhile, policymakers and education leaders don't need to wait for greater teacher workforce diversity to address the Black - White disparity in gifted assignments, Grissom and Redding wrote, pointing to how special education assignments are currently made, in response to legal challenges.

Public school teachers, parents and administrators need to elevate the issue of how public education in this country is under siege and currently undergoing its greatest challenge for survival from the threat of privatization and high - stakes standardized testing.

However, students are not randomly assigned to teachers — and statistical models can not fully adjust for the fact that some teachers will have a disproportionate number of students who have greater challenges (students with poor attendance, who are homeless, who have severe problems at home, etc.) and those whose scores on traditional tests may not accurately reflect their learning (e.g. those who have special education needs or who are new English language learners).

With new automatic notifications in Smarty Ants, teachers know right away when their students have obtained strong foundational literacy skills and are ready for the greater challenge of KidBiz3000 ®.

These teachers show a greater persistence in their practice and willingness to try new teaching approaches, they set more challenging goals for themselves and their students, and they attend more closely to the needs of students who require more assistance.

A great workshop for counselors, teachers, group facilitators, challenge course instructors or anyone who works with groups to create positive change and enhance learning.

For new teachers, this kind of success can be elusive and the demands of the job overwhelming — and the challenges are even greater when a teacher begins his or her career in a struggling priority school.

Despite a decades - long effort to restructure schools — in part, at least, to give parents a greater voice in school decisions — we see little evidence that teachers perceive much influence from parents, or from students.48 This outcome probably reflects the wellknown and persistent challenges teachers and administrators face in creating authentic relationships with parents for school - improvement purposes.

The Game Jams have been a great way to expand participation in the Student Challenge beyond the classrooms of teachers who have gone through Games for Change training.

In 2007, science teachers said their greatest challenge was making climate change fit in with their curriculum, according to a survey by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint project of NOAA and the University of Colorado at Boulder.

While we can't know for certain what the courts will say about the current dispute, particularly until we know exactly what the basis is for the teacher's challenge of the legislation, the most recent cases from the Ontario Court of Appeal dealing with similar issues do not look great for the teachers.

Application rounds focus on areas of greatest need to ensure that all schools can access effective support, whether in professional development, school - led initial teacher training or support for those schools in challenging circumstances.