Sentences with phrase «ideas teachers need»

This document identifies terms that represent the big, powerful concepts and ideas teachers need to know and understand in order to effectively teach the science standards.

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«There are teachers with creative ideas on how to engage students, but they just need a little bit of money for more hands - on experiences,» Pine says.

In an interview with Alberta Prime Time, Peeple co-founder Julia Cordray said that Peeple sprung from the idea that people need a way to find out more information about potential neighbors, teachers, and baby - sitters — ergo, the «Yelp for people» moniker.

Even leaving out the idea I was also taught, that removing oneself from the system was a laudable act of counter-cultural liberation, with which I still have some sympathy, to teach one's children oneself, being able to choose curricula and readings and customize the teaching to every child's needs and gifts, is the kind of thing I was taught, by teachers of impeccable liberalism, to praise.

Furthermore, the idea that I am just an individual, owing little or nothing to anyone, that I need to be autonomous, seems absurd when we consider our own personal origins: we each owe our conception and birth to a mother and a father; our whole lives involve a series ofinterlocking relationships with parents, family, friends, teachers, society and so on.

Students — junior colleagues — need to see their teachers developing new ideas and skills, and they need to share in that developmental process.

If the idea is that you can teach kids «to handle it», then you don't need to educate the teachers or change the root cause of the anxiety source: the classroom engagement.

I also know, from experience, that being alone with children all day can be demanding at times - we all need stimulating ideas and encouragement, whether we are mom - teachers or professional teachers and so I hope that by sharing my joys and struggles in the Homeschooling pages, that I will lift you above the level of dirty finger marks and spilt milk and give you the motivation and inspiration you need to teach and train your children well.

Once children are in school, IDEA mandates that teachers and school officials take their specific needs into account.

Babysitters, nannies, preschool teachers provide many different services as well: counseling / behavioral therapies (think children fighting in a sand box who need to be directed to «use words» rather than hit one another), nutritional guidance (our son's teachers have given us great ideas and resources for healthy meals), arts training (music class, creative arts class), occupational therapist (correct hand hold for four year old grasping a pencil), physical therapist (Hop on one foot, kids!

We would both fill pages and pages of ideas but we want them to be full of what you need the most as your child's first teacher at home.

Cuomo is absolutely right on a few key ideas: Teachers need to be evaluated in light of how their students perform.

No Child Left Behind was not great for us either, but certainly Race to the Top» ratcheted everything up, because it became clear that for districts in need to get money that they would have to make all these kinds of measure and punish ideas that they'd put across, like the teacher evaluation piece and all of that.

Through a partnership with Share My Lesson, we provide ideas and resources for teachers to help their students cope with fear, grief, bullying, gun violence, stereotyping and — perhaps most importantly — how to be an ally to those in need.

The work has given Shepherd and her protégés — including Vanags and Ufnar — an idea of the skills aspiring outreach workers need to communicate science to teachers and students.

While building a community and giving teachers a venue where they can share ideas is among the important goals of the yearly Noyce Summit, this year's event also advanced a $ 3.7 million AAAS initiative, funded by NSF, to help stimulate research and foster evidence - based innovations in the preparation of STEM teachers for high - need schools.

You need to have an idea of what the local market is bearing as reimbursement rates for yoga teachers.

«We need to move away from reinforcing the idea of the teacher as the classroom power base so the teacher may see and facilitate what our young people are truly capable of,» added Linden.

Using a backward - design approach, teachers at each grade level figure out the big ideas that students need to learn that quarter.

Basically, she felt that the list — created by a district over-reliant on the group training model for a certain software or technology tool without including integration ideas — did not reflect the needs of the teachers on her campus.

Parents need to be educated, stakeholders need to be educated, students need to be educated, and teachers need to be educated — and provided the space to wrestle with these ideas.

I've also adapted and included a version of the student booklet with commentary / answers to give teachers an idea of what needs to completed when.

The strong relationships that appear to exist between teachers and students help open the door for students to express their ideas, hopes and needs — all of which are important parts of fostering student voice.

As students generate their questions, project ideas, and products for learning, teachers must align their work to standards and outcomes, which means that teachers need to know their standards deeply in order to serve as translators of students» personalized projects to the standards.

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

From time to time, all teachers and school leaders have the need to be inspired, to gather new ideas...

If the teacher is interested, he starts generating ideas around their particular classroom needs.

This idea links nicely with one of the fundamental themes of the report: the need of teachers to teach at the right level.

[1] Of Jacob and Rockoff's proposals, this third idea seems particularly actionable: New buildings need not be built or retrofitted, and the nature of teachers» jobs would not appreciably change.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.

I am a first - year teacher, and I need some ideas for the first week of school.

The idea of attaching test scores to a teacher's evaluation — that idea needs to be junked.»

DianeRavitch I just don't understand idea that we need to fire x % of teachers: No evaluations, no effort to improve, just fire people.

«What I wanted to do was add some organization to it, and build a community where teachers and students could create and share ideas without needing to know HTML, Java, or anything technical.»

To be effective in advancing human potential, teachers need to manifest what Daniel Pink calls «symphonic thinking» — critically appraising and synthesizing new ideas.

I feel that what this teacher needs to do is filter out non-essential great ideas and focus on what will bring the greatest and most powerful return.

Crellin first developed the idea of learning partners several years ago when teachers realized that they might need some help with the school's stream cleanup and reclamation project.

Time: for any expert input, teachers need time to diagnose and identify a clear area of focus before - hand, and time to plan, teach, observe and reflect upon lessons that implement the ideas afterwards.

The idea that the district needed to adopt a single, uniform approach to reading instruction grew out of one of the superintendent's monthly meetings with the district's teachers of the year, one elected from each campus.

If teachers perceive that these ideas are growing because they work to make classrooms function more smoothly and meet the needs of students more thoroughly, they will adopt SEL friendly practices.

When designing projects and lessons at Crellin Elementary, teachers regularly look at school and community needs with the idea of using those needs as real - world catalysts for learning, instead of inventing problems for the kids to solve.

Teachers need ideas for encouraging students, providing meaningful feedback, and setting students up for success.

Emma believes it needn't be intimidating: «The thing about technology is that different teachers can hook onto different ideas and apps and play to the strengths of the pupils.

Over 100 pages with whole numbers and some great ideas from current teachers, teaching assistants, home school parents, private tutors, special needs tutors providing excellent examples for successfully using these resources in developing students» skills, confidence and academic buoyancy, aiding soft skills and other life skills, generating students» thinking, talking, listening, reflecting, writing and reasoning.

We believe it is one of the first that addresses the specific needs of those teachers wanting some practical ideas on how to introduce and use information and communication technologies in the 3 — 11 classroom.

«We are seeing learners taking a greater responsibility for their work and if there is one little kernel that is right back to what we are on about it, it is that they own their own learning — teachers don't own it for them, they are not transmitting to students what they need to learn, it is learners having an environment; the constructivist idea of education where they grow themselves, self - directed.

Maybe you're a veteran teacher who uses technology regularly and needs some fresh ideas.

Such findings, says RCCP cofounder and national director Linda Lantieri, a former New York City teacher and administrator, should help put to rest the idea that academics suffer when schools address a child's emotional needs.

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Just as for a child who learns how to read it would not be a good idea to ask them to copy the first 15 pages of the phone book to practice letters and numbers, and we would not expect them to develop an affection by for reading, we should not expect a teacher to develop a crazy passion for new technologies if instead of helping them to identify their needs and the types of tools that exist to address those needs, as well as to know the keys that underlie those tools, we are dedicated to inflating them to application manuals of which they will only use 10 % each time.