Sentences with phrase «help hold teachers»

SLOs are objectives that are teacher - developed and administrator - approved to help hold teachers accountable for their students» growth, although growth in this case is individually and loosely defined, which makes SLOs about as subjective as it gets.

Both bills help hold teachers and schools harmless from the low ISTEP + scores issued this year.

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A recent seminar in Religion, Drama and Literature at Drew University, held with the help of the Danforth Foundation under the auspices of the Commission on Literature of the National Council of Churches, attracted a good number of teachers of English.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Then Dad would help me carve the face, letting me hold the knife and showing me how to carefully cut each angle and line, all the while entertaining me with a steady string of his Halloween teacher - jokes.

But she found a way to embrace it, and with her husband, Ed, who holds a Ph.D. in neuroscience and is a board - certified science teacher, they are helping every kid they encounter love science, too.

But, I have to believe that school administrators, having once been teachers themselves, will help find the proper balance between holding teachers accountable and holding teachers to an impossible standard.

Charter - school supporters will need all the help they can get to try to get a charter - school bill through the Assembly, where the teachers unions hold considerable sway.

She held down a job as a special - education teacher and helped care for her family in the northeastern U.S..

Latino teachers were better perceived across all measures, while students perceived Black teachers (more than their White peers) to hold students to high academic standards and support their efforts, to help them organize content, and to explain ideas clearly and provide feedback.

Yin Yoga is slower paced and postures are held longer which targets the connective tissues helping to increase circulation in the joints and improve flexibility.Dido Nydick Dido is an E-RYT500 certified yoga teacher.

Two small children helped the inner journey go even deeper, and eventually, her technical background and experience and training as a Yoga teacher took hold (in the background of the many science jobs, there was ALWAYS at least one Yoga class being fit into the schedule — if you are a scientist looking for a Yoga teacher (or a Yogi looking to know more about science), talk to Tammy.

TORONTO — «Monsieur Lazhar», Philippe Falardeau's intimate tale of an insightful teacher who helps a classroom of Quebec children through a devastating loss, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association's Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.The award was presented to Falardeau by Andrea Martin at a gala dinner held January 10 at the historic Carlu in -LSB-...]

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

«In addition,» Smith said, «we are considering adding an online help - desk form that date / time stamps requests; providing hand - held devices for teachers who have large groups of students (physical education, music, and so on) to use to take attendance; and offering an Intel Teach to the Future program for teachers who wish to be trainers.

Imagine a teacher holding «office hours» once a week in the evenings for students who need extra help.

The «oohs,» «ahs,» and «yucks» when students are called on stage to help hold up a large snake, the shrieks from the audience while a teacher encases a student in a large soap bubble, and a four - year - old dressed in chemical goggles too big for her face.

To help them better understand those and other issues, teachers were issued books about creating democratic classrooms, which includes holding class meetings and presenting lessons on First Amendment freedoms in class.

Teachers who hold students to a higher standard in math usually have confidence in themselves to help all students meet that standard.

Although some schools will have very competent superintendents in place who are willing to help, head teachers need to make sure that they will be trained or hold the necessary accreditations to carry out these tasks.

The Teacher Advancement Program (TAP) provides teachers with professional support, helps them to use data in instruction, holds them accountable for results, and provides bonuses.

And we would do well to shed the long - held assumption that we know how to help 3.5 million individual teachers become masters of their craft, instead giving consideration to some new ideas about what schools or the teaching profession itself might look like — ideas that could have a much broader impact on instructional quality.

Back to reformers: If these results stand — and possibly improve as more teachers hold these roles and help one another succeed — can we possibly all work together to change policies and systems to support giving every student access to excellent teaching, and giving every teacher outstanding career opportunities without being forced up and out of the classroom?

The meeting — believed by its sponsors to be the first of its kind held in the nation — was convened to help teachers examine their «role and responsibility» in making students aware of the dangers and implications of the nuclear - arms race.

Imagine a national effort to improve the education of disadvantaged children that focuses extra funds on poorer schools, gives principals and teachers the authority to decide how best to help children, and encourages states to raise their academic standards and to hold accountable low - performing schools.

To design a 12 - K curriculum backward from the goal of autonomous transfer requires a deliberate and transparent plan for helping the student rely less and less on teacher hand - holding and scaffolds.

In the second instalment, Gordon explores how documenting professional learning conversations can help understand the images of assessment that teachers hold.

Teachers liked the idea of mentoring students and holding «office hours» to give students extra help, but, like Pomeroy's staff, they had trouble fitting it into the school day.

Fiona Gordon explores how documenting professional learning conversations can help you understand the images of assessment that teachers hold.

On June 27, 2009, High Tech High biotech teacher Jay Vavra and several of his students returned to Tanzania to hold a bushmeat - identification workshop to help local wildlife - protection officials fight poaching.

Better Voice for Teachers is a dynamic, easy - to - follow online course designed to help you hold your pupils»...

Educators can certainly help support safe internet use by educating and holding talks and discussions amongst students in the class room, but teachers can not be held responsible for supervising students when students most need it, outside of school.

The ten winners of the Let Teachers SHINE competition, run by education charity SHINE (Support and Help in Education), were announced at the Capita SIMS Annual Conference held in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

We found that, holding constant the child's grade level, 3rd - grade test scores, and the average 3rd - grade test score in the child's class, parents spend more time helping the child with the tougher teacher with homework than they do helping the sibling with the easier teacher.

The district has also established more rigorous expectations for teachers and principals regarding their pedagogy and the expectations they hold for students, and developed (with external consultation) has developed a tool to help teachers align curriculum with the new grade - level expectations as well as state and national standards, assessments, suggested teaching strategies, and resources.

Using CEL's 5 Dimensions of Teaching and Learning ™ instructional framework, principals and assistant principals across the entire 89 - school district are working to improve their collective ability to analyze the quality of classroom teaching, bringing to life CEL's long held belief that in order to support high quality teaching, district and school leaders must be able to recognize quality classroom teaching and possess the ability to help teachers improve in their practice.

In an AACTE major forum held March 3, a panel of teacher educators from three state universities discussed the power of partnering with nonschool sites in communities to help prepare effective teachers.

These findings hold both promise and cautionary guidance for other teacher educators who seek to help their students join and develop online professional learning communities and engage in praxis - oriented learning and teaching.

How might you use a hold - up during a faculty meeting or professional development activity to help teachers interact and process their thinking about cognitive engagement?

TNTP's Teaching Fellows programs hold the highest standards for certification of any teacher preparation provider in the country, and our teachers are widely recognized for their ability to help high - need students make dramatic learning gains.

Eisenhower Jr High School held their second annual McTeacher's Night Fundraiser at the Hoffman Estates McDonald's in Barrington Square on Higgins Rd.. A McTeacher's Night is organized to help raise money for local schools by having teachers work at...

This handy guide by Jackie Acree Walsh helps teachers develop questions that connect students to learning goals, hold all students accountable for responding, and scaffold and support student thinking.

To have those kinds of teachers we need to prepare them, universities and districts need to take teacher preparation seriously, State Departments of Higher Education and of Elementary and Secondary Education need to see teacher preparation and support as one of the most important strategic options to improve education, holding teacher preparation institutions and districts accountable so they provide the best preparation and support to teachers, we have to figure out ways to help teachers learn what so many of them say they need to learn, like how to personalize instruction, how to manage discipline in their classrooms, how to integrate technology into their teaching, how to implement culturally responsive instruction.

The data SmartFind Express collects about substitute teacher pools hold valuable insights that can help you proactively address unexpected teacher absences.

Interactions with texts requiring minimal teacher support help hold children accountable as independent readers.

The release of student data helps to hold the state accountable to those most directly impacted by the exams: students, parents and teachers.»

Therefore, addressing any preconceived notions or misconceptions that teacher candidates hold regarding VS is necessary, as well as helping them increase their knowledge through multiple resources.

TPACK holds potential for helping teachers develop understanding of how technology can be integrated into teaching and learning, regardless of the shifting technological capabilities and their required skills.

Madison School Board consideration of a proposal to spend $ 273,000 on a new screening program to help hire teachers is on hold.