Sentences with phrase «helps teachers model»

Book Punch helps teachers model the language arts skills students need to know to meet and exceed local language arts content standards.

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The children and young people of every congregation need adults who are able to help them think critically about life values to be their teachers, leaders, and role models.

This workshop uses a «backwards design» model to help teachers plan engaging units and effective assessment techniques that bring learning to life for students.

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.

This may sound strange, but in addition to aunts, uncles, grandparents, teachers, coaches, pastors, friends, and other role models, I believe that PETS play a big role in helping us raise healthy children.

I do think they can be taught in the classroom — I think most of us can think of a teacher in our past who helped us develop one or more of those skills — but I don't think we yet have an ideal model for exactly how to teach them in the classroom.

And his relationships are not the just traditional ties of Democrats — teachers» unions, party faithful and Hollywood moneybags — but a network of supporters who used a distributed model of phone banking to organize and get out the vote, helped raise a record - breaking $ 600 million, and created all manner of media clips that were viewed millions of times.

On Jan. 15 the UFT was informed by the mediator appointed by the state's Public Employment Relations Board that the city and the Department of Education have refused to take part in mediation designed to help us reach an agreement on a new model for teacher evaluations.

She has been considered so effective that the network promoted her last year to being a model teacher, who helps train her colleagues.

According to Early, further study will help to understand the range of supports for teachers and coaches that would maximize the benefits of these professional development models.

With its neat, uniform handwriting and words separated into syllables, the original manuscript was probably a teacher's model used to help students learn to read and write, Smith and Landau said.

To help teachers expand upon the science in the movie, Science Buddies has developed the Model of a Black Hole science activity that teachers can do with students after watching the movie.

She also noted that the mentor - teacher model piloted by the CSNE last year had been very successful in helping to prepare teachers to present at conferences like WSTA and NSTA.

With the help of digital simulations and models, teachers are not only able to prepare lessons in an efficient manner, but also know the progress of their students.

To help teachers achieve this, together with input from Microsoft, Google, Cambridge University Computer Science department, Computing at Schools (CAS) a BCS partner, has created a model computing curriculum to which Gove referred to in his announcement at BETT and which has also features in the recent DfE consultation document on the subject of ICT in schools.

Although the company helps schools enter into a design process to rethink the use of time, teacher roles, and so forth, the basic model that most schools using Education Elements adopt tends to be pretty consistent.

She also used the flexibility of the transformation model to «help teachers get back their craft,» she says.

Through quick, deep, frequent conversations, teachers can understand students» ideas and support their challenges, act as a guide, and help identify models and sources of inspiration.

With teacher quality, specifically, she says it helped that they followed the turnaround model.

Principals should model their own use of digital learning tools to personalize their work with individual teachers, whether through providing feedback immediately after a walk through (a quick email focused on a particular area) or by utilizing data to help a teacher better identify professional learning experiences that may support their growth and goals.

Moreover, as director of the Making Creativity Visible initiative, I have the pleasure of working with classroom and museum educators over the next 18 months to develop and disseminate tools that will help teachers to model, foster, and assess creativity and make that learning visible.»

In the next section, we discuss models of professional learning that focus on supporting continual professional learning and community - based feedback cycles that help teachers to critically and collaboratively examine and refine their practices.

Teachers helped students select a spider of interest, guiding them through their research, and students worked independently, in pairs, or in small groups to pull together facts about their featured spider and create a spider model.

Pauline Hawkins (@PaulineDHawkins), author of Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System, says the only way to reduce bullying is to be a good role model in your treatment of others, as a parent or teacher.

Secretary da Silva called this method of teaching «teacher - present high school with technological mediation,» and he wanted to know: Would the IDB be willing to make an investment that would help the program transform from an experimental pilot into a radically new, statewide model for education?

Their support for «next generation learning» models was an attempt to help teachers differentiate instruction.

The need for role models to help girls overcome the «impostor» syndrome can not be emphasized enough, and those role models could range from teachers to television.

Since the «right» model of teacher evaluation or preparation is hardly self - evident, much less the «best» way to help teachers use new technologies like computer - assisted tutoring or online instruction, this natural variation provides an invaluable asset.

Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) describes risk - taking as a «culture of learning» and shares strategies from classrooms around the globe that are helping to normalize struggle including, «support, encourage, model (let them teach the class)», «encourage teachers to make mistakes so students see it is OK» and «provide plenty of choices to watch their inner genius interpret what to do.»

The teachers in these classes are less interested in covering con - tent and more interested in helping students learn how to think in the mode of the domain; they enact a «cognitive apprenticeship» model that echoes what happens in extracurriculars.

Nashville, Tenn — Mary H. Futrell, president of the National Education Association has told Gov. Lamar Alexander — whose proposal last spring for a statewide «master - teacher» program helped catalyze the national debate on school reform — that by working with the Tennessee Education Association he can develop a «model reform package.»

«If you really follow the Data Wise model,» City says, «the principal begins to allow teachers to take leadership roles in helping to frame what the instructional challenges are and how the school is going to address them.

The report offers an impressive seven - step model to help policymakers figure out how many teachers will be misidentified by different evaluation strategies under different sets of assumptions.

Kamna Kathuria echoes the sentiment, and on being a teacher and somebody's role model, she writes: «There were a hundred children who looked up to me, who expected me to help them learn.

Uncertainty exists, and teachers are both teaching amidst the uncertainty and helping to create and refine the school model itself on the fly.

Modelling and coaching: demonstrating practices and underlying thinking, helping teachers to plan and implement these in their own practice, observing this and providing feedback, and using a coaching approach to ensure that teachers are always encouraged to be autonomous, confident users of techniques and ideas.

Help the creators of sites that charge understand that taxpayer money or philanthropy — not teachers or parents — should pay for school supplies and that they should find a better funding model than bait - and - switch (offer it free, hook teachers, and then charge them for it).

It would have helped enormously, he told the Committee on Human Differences, if he'd had even one openly gay teacher in high school to serve as a role model.

In the EL model, grades are paired, a process called looping, so Zee's daughter would have the same teacher two years in a row — a structure Zee believed would help her shyness.

The following resources are provided: - Engaging and colourful step - by - step PowerPoint - Poem - Teacher lesson guidance; - Identifying worksheet; - Analysis template; - Writing to analyse help - sheet - Analysis model All images are licensed for commercial use, and are cited on the final slide of the PowerPoint.

Like doctors who have been using VR to assist in surgeries and pinpoint ailments — by generating 3D models of real patient tumors from MRI scans, for example — science teachers are saying VR can help deepen understanding of subjects such as biology and anatomy, which require students to grasp the inner workings of cells and organs that are not visible to the human eye.

Helping [them] transition into this new model, which is not being taught yet in our teacher credentialing and licensing programs, is a big part of how we're contributing to this effort here in the States.

For instance, Korthagen and Vasalos (2008) developed the Quality from Within (QFW) model to help teachers become more aware of their inner qualities and potential.

Scary words from authors whose book, by their own admission, wasn't written to provide a plan or a model for successful teaching, but rather to help teachers formulate their own plans.

A collaborative model for helping middle grade science teachers learn project - based instruction (Abstract).

Divided into multiple, and flexible sessions that can be administered according to your school's individual needs and schedule, this interactive professional development helps teachers and administrators understand and implement the inclusion model while developing effective co-teaching relationships.

One would like to know more about Green Dot's philosophy, practices, model, if any, but all one manages to learn is that, as one teacher explained to the students, «at the new Locke, teachers cared about their students, wanted to help them pass their classes, and would not abandon that effort [implying the former teachers did not «care,» etc.?].

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

This worksheet from Creative Ways to Teach Literacy: Ideas for Children aged 3 to 11 by Virginia Bower (2011, SAGE Publications) helps teachers find their storytelling voices and gives them pointers on how to model storytelling for their pupils.

As our second year progressed, we began to see some positive results: Our use of common teacher and student language about behavior and rules, the emphasis on teacher modeling, and a great deal of practice in living our constitution all helped make the school climate more peaceful and productive.