Sentences with phrase «helping teachers feel»

Helping Teachers Feel Successful (and Stay) in Rural Alaska June 16, 2015 Education Northwest edited the May 2015 edition of the Peabody Journal of Education, which focused on challenges and opportunities in rural school improvement.

We hope the materials will help teachers feel more comfortable talking about diversity and working towards reducing prejudice in their classrooms and beyond.

«She helps teachers feel at ease, and they are able to act things out,» Dodd tells Education World.

Teaching in focus brief number 5 — What helps teachers feel valued and satisfied with their jobs?

That trust also helps teachers feel more comfortable communicating what areas of PD they need to strengthen their skill set.

A commitment to a small but manageable set of strategies helped teachers feel that everyone was putting a common shoulder to the wheel in advancing the literacy reforms.

PD should not be a one - time event; an ongoing coaching model is more effective and helps teachers feel supported.

A lifelong native of independent schools, Alex is motivated by the desire to help students bring their whole selves to school and to help teachers feel equipped to respond to the needs of their students.

«It has helped teachers feel like they have more support.

Learn more about the issue of the Peabody Journal of Education we edited, and see our related blog posts on rural students and STEM in Washington state and on ways to help teachers feel successful (and stay) in rural Alaska.

Identify at least three specific ways administrators can help teachers feel more connected.

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One is that a lot of conscientious laymen feel guilty when they don't have the name «Jesus Christ» on their lips, and their teachers have not helped them to understand any better.

Crew helps pull them out of their shells, and in class they're compelled on a daily basis to interact with their peers and teachers in group discussions and to collaborate on group projects, and before long that kind of interaction begins to feel natural.

Teachers in CSRP receive training in classroom - management techniques: how to set clear routines, how to redirect negative behavior, how to help students manage their feelings — all intended to provide students with a calm, consistent classroom experience.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

Substitute teaching is about helping the children to learn and have a good day while their teacher is out, not about making me feel good.

The part - time course entitled «Teaching Sensible Science,» or TSS, will be offered to help teachers develop a deeper understanding and experience of phenomena - based science so that they can feel more confident using this method in their own classrooms.

The better your relationship with their teacher, the more likely they will feel comfortable telling you if your child is struggling and give suggestions about how to help them excel.

Reassure her by telling her that the teacher knows that the children are nervous, and will probably spend some time helping the students feel more comfortable as they settle into the classroom.

«Teachers feel, and growing research supports, that it helps them academically, it improves school climate, it improves discipline, and it's going to help them to be college and career — and life — ready.»

The first session involved reading an article and stories about painful feelings of adolescents and how caring responses from teachers can help them grow and succeed.

Only by ensuring all teachers understand the importance of good food, good food education and the wider impacts on overall health and well - being, will they feel empowered to access the brilliant range of organisations available to help.

Provide the teacher with your phone number and tell her to feel free to call when help is needed from home.

What can you do to help your child feel good about his teacher?

Although it would have never been possible in my particular adoption circumstances, there are not teachers, doctors, role models, psychologists, etc., in my life who wouldn't say openness and knowing about my beginnings would have helped me tremendously to feel more secure and understand my place in this world better.

If you feel your child needs maturity is affecting their school performance, speak with your child's teacher or school counselor about ways to encourage maturity or help a younger acting child.

Since she wasn't comfortable with being dropped off, I sat in the lobby during her Summer camps to help her feel comfortable enough to trust the teachers and go in and have fun, so I got to see how much time was WASTED opening all those little plastic packages.

Don't hesitate to consult with teachers or other specialists whenever you feel it to be necessary in order to better understand what might be done to help your child learn.

If the teachers claim you do not need to be a part of the homework, take a good look at how much you are contributing because you feel you should, as opposed to the degree to which your children really need you to help.

Teachers and instructors will be able to help your child feel better when they know you are willing to coordinate with them to make the atmosphere in the classroom and the picnics more enjoyable and most suitable for your child.

It provides parents, teachers or anyone involved in the life of a child with strategies to help children manage difficult feelings.

What a gift for a teacher to be able to help her students who are having an argument on the playground to identify their feelings and unmet needs, to see that we have a universal vocabulary of feelings that are web of strength, not a weapon of name calling and division.

In bringing the curriculum at the developmentally appropriate time through art, the teacher is able to arouse the feeling life of the students, thereby helping them to arrive at living concepts which change and grow with the child over the years.

Well, when the teacher asks for volunteers and you feel obliged to help with the Halloween party, you might need another mom to watch Little Baby while you parade around the hallways with your 3 - year old.

In a fun and creative way, Cook spins the tale of Wilma, who with the help of y = her teacher is able to feel more in control of her worries — which will help young readers feel more in control of their own anxieties along the way.

Admitting to another mom at the park that the reason for your hat is three days without a shower, or that your kids had cold spaghetti for breakfast, may help her feel safe enough to admit her son wets the bed and her daughter called her teacher a fat hoebag.

We strongly feel it is the role of the teacher to help create a warm community for the mothers that extend beyond pregnancy, and through the often bumpy road of new motherhood, to a place of vitality, strength and confidence as the role of mother is achieved.

So it's important for parents and teachers alike to help children identify, understand and communicate their feelings.

Many students with challenging behavior lack the skill of self - regulation, and teachers may need to help students identify their feelings and then encourage them to practice self - calming strategies to avoid a meltdown.

First - grade teachers will help foster your child's social development by encouraging her to talk about her feelings, work in groups with other children, and figure out creative ways to solve disputes.

It is important for parents and teachers to understand that the physical and behavioral symptoms are due to anxiety and treatment needs to focus on helping the child learn the coping skills to combat anxious feelings.

However, the child's teacher may be concerned that 1) the speaking child may feel responsible for helping the child with selective mutism and not focusing on their own needs and 2) the speaking child may enable the child with selective mutism to continue to remain mute around others.

Getting all of the great website suggestions and activity ideas really helped me finalize my plan and feel more confident in my new teacher role.

Teacher's greeting: This introduction to the classroom establishes the beginning of a new day and helps your child feel at ease.

pupil behaviour remains a major concern for teachers, with nearly three - quarters of teachers saying they believe there is a widespread behaviour problem in schools; 84 % stated that they did not believe that the increased powers to search pupils, introduced by the Government, would help tackle pupil indiscipline; 55 % do not believe that same - day detentions, a power initiated by the Government, will assist them in maintaining discipline; 52 % did not feel that the power to confiscate items from pupils would be of assistance to them.

After reading reports of how quickly the disease was spreading through Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Hallisey felt moved to help, and with encouragement from her science research teacher, she looked into existing tests for Ebola.

«Teachers and parents help children learn social, emotional, and behavioral regulation skills such as identifying feeling sad, mad, or scared; calming bodies during stressful situations; paying attention; and solving problems together.»

The results, by University of Washington researchers, reveal a practical way for teachers to help narrow the gender gap in computer science by helping girls feel that they belong.

Despite the crunch many teachers feel in fitting all the pieces of core curriculum into the hours of a school year, using class time to have students use the Wizard is a process that helps both Lisa and her students.