Sentences with phrase «improve teacher opportunities»

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But having more money in the pool also improves the food that can be served, and while I believe some parents at these schools complain, I've also heard anecdotally that when every child and teacher is sitting down to the same meal, it can have benefits like a more cohesive environment, opportunities for informal nutrition education, and a greater likelihood that kids will try new foods.

Also, the improved pedagogy of how to use the equipment that has been done with teachers and the opportunities for pupils to use in free time will have a long term impact on their skill level and health.

Teachers should use multiple assessments to allow students more opportunities to show what they know and improve over time, and schools might consider eliminating «zeros» and class rankings.

Commenting on the report published today by the NFER into how better part time and flexible working opportunities could support teacher retention, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT - The Teachers» Union, said: «Improving flexible working opportunities in teaching is certainly important in supporting teachers at all stages of their careers to remain the proTeachers» Union, said: «Improving flexible working opportunities in teaching is certainly important in supporting teachers at all stages of their careers to remain the proteachers at all stages of their careers to remain the profession.

Improving flexible working opportunities in teaching is important in supporting teachers at all stages of their careers

«Mulgrew saw the teachers contract as an opportunity to settle scores rather than as a tool to improve schools for kids,» said Jenny Sedlis of StudentsFirstNY.

Mulgrew saw the teachers contract as an opportunity to settle scores rather than as a tool to improve schools for kids.

«We commend the decision of the governor for the window of opportunity it provided for the affected teachers and gave an assurance of improved service delivery in state public schools.

UFT President Mulgrew said, «Teachers look forward to the opportunity to improve their practice.

She has participated in numerous professional development opportunities to improve her astronomy teaching, including the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's (NOAO) Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education Program where Ms. Sepulveda learned to bring authentic astronomy research into the classroom.

About Blog The mission of the Montessori Teachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiTeachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiteachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practitioners.

The process offers an opportunity for intensive, clinical conversations among teachers that center around their classroom practice and ways that they are improving student learning.

This allows the principal to honor and appreciate on a regular basis teachers who take risks, it acknowledges that failure is part of learning and improving, and it provides teachers the opportunity to support each other.

Another theory is that California's elementary school teachers feel less well prepared and well qualified to teach science than any other subject and believe they have few opportunities to improve their preparation.

From a peer and teacher bonding point of view, students get the opportunity to get to know their teacher on a different level which can improve behaviour in the classroom and give them a new level of respect for their teachers.

«This gives teachers an opportunity to reflect on their teaching, work with other teachers while not being with kids, and work on practices that they want to improve.»

He added: «Together with our reforms to improve behaviour and plans to crack down on truancy by deducting the cost of unpaid fines from child benefit, we have put heads and teachers firmly back in charge of their classrooms so they can extend opportunity and give the pupils the best start to life.»

The D&T community also has a part to play by: ensuring the subject is modern, relevant and fit for the 21st century; providing CPD that improves and extends teachers» subject knowledge; and taking every opportunity to publicise D&T and related careers to parents, school management (including governors) and employers.

Piccoli said the program will improve the skills of teachers and, in turn, improve learning opportunities for students.

By equipping yourself to become a great leader, you can play a larger role in making highly effective practices the norm: such as improved teacher collaboration, professional development opportunities, behaviour management and monitoring student progress in meaningful ways.

CAMBRIDGE, MA — A new analysis examines the growing array of groups spawned by the «teacher voice» movement, which promotes opportunities for teachers to have much greater involvement in shaping and improving their profession than they have had under the traditional union - dominated system.

With these changes in selectivity, opportunity, and pay, our nation could go from giving no one what's needed to giving everyone what they want: for teachers, sustainable, well - paid career advancement, rigorous development on the job, and whole careers» worth of engaging work; for students, excellent teaching for all, consistently, increasing their lifelong prospects; and for the broader community, an improved economy, national security, and social stability.

The New Labour government's thrice - repeated education pledge meant a real opportunity to improve literacy and numeracy teaching, including money to help failing readers and information for teachers about phonics, grammar and spelling — essential elements of literacy that had been neglected for decades.

Overall, year - round education offers schools an exciting, almost cost - free opportunity to improve quality time between teachers and students.»

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom...

«When teachers engage in high - level instructional talk and have the opportunity to improve practice collaboratively and in concrete forms, they develop team loyalty, trust, and feelings of responsibility and accountability for each other and for all the team's students.

We are not proposing eliminating the protections of due process, nor are we suggesting denying the opportunity and resources for struggling teachers to improve.

So now, here we are, barely ten years into this huge reform, with our little platoon of teachers and administrators and parents fighting feverishly on the front, beginning to make some progress on test scores and feel some confidence about improving our kids» academic opportunities — and I look up from my trench and, instead of seeing the school house door thrown open with garlands of WELCOME signs, I see teachers back to cheering from the windows as the reform generals scurry away, white flags in hand.

, nails the point when it says that «blended learning can create new career opportunities and improved conditions for teachers.

Rather, we must focus on the end game: however ineffective teachers are identified, and after they have exhausted their opportunities to improve, let's commit ourselves to making it easier to show them the door.

Like the characters who were most successful in adjusting to change in Dr. Johnson's book — those who subsequently found their new «cheese» — the most effective teachers are taking a proactive stance by looking for opportunities within NCLB to improve student learning.

Through online training courses, teachers have the opportunity to cultivate and improve deeper learning skills, without limiting their students.

Most of the action and nearly all the opportunities for improving teacher evaluations lie in the area of classroom observations.

The top reasons TFA corps members said they left teaching were to pursue a position other than K - 12 teacher (34.93 percent), to take courses to improve their career opportunities within education (11.79 percent), to take courses to improve their career opportunities outside of education (10.26 percent), and poor administrative leadership at their school (9.83 percent).

If or when the bridge collapsed, the teacher and engineers used the failure as an opportunity to talk to students about the need to constantly «prototype» or test their work and improve upon it.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom practice and assess student thinking.

By nurturing them as musicians, and providing opportunities for them to «network» informally with other musicians and music teachers, the quality of music making in your school will improve out of all recognition.

In addition to the idea that raising the economic benefits of being a teacher could improve the quality of the teaching workforce, the results also suggest one upside to recessions: they may provide a window of opportunity for school districts to recruit strong teachers who might otherwise have chosen a different career path.

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?

In a new Public Impact policy brief, A Better Blend: A Vision for Boosting Student Outcomes with Digital Learning, which we co-authored with Joe Ableidinger and Jiye Grace Han, we explain how schools can use blended learning to drive improvements in the quality of digital instruction, transform teaching into a highly paid, opportunity - rich career that extends the reach of excellent teachers to all students and teaching peers, and improve student learning at large scale.

The positive impact of that approach led her to seek out opportunities to share with other teachers the implications of mind, brain, and education research to improve student learning and achievement.

«Last week the education secretary announced a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers, working with the unions and professional bodies, and we've been consulting on how to improve development opportunities for teachers, whether they decide to move into a leadership role or want to continue teaching in the classroom.

It has won the backing of Teach First, the National Association of Head Teachers, the Association of School and College Leaders and the Careers Development Institute and gives schools the opportunity to return and repeat the assessment as they work to improve their provision.

A few months after a national panel of experts and a survey of history teachers both lamented a lack of opportunities for students to develop and hone their writing skills, the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released here last month, seem to offer more evidence of the need to improve writing instruction in schools.

We are consulting on proposals to improve development opportunities for teachers across the country and have a range of generous bursaries to recruit teachers into subjects like maths and physics.

Paula Musson, Head Teacher from Peterhead Central School was equally thrilled, saying: «We are proud to have taken up the EducationCity PlayLive challenge as we like to offer our students multiple opportunities to improve their literacy and numeracy.

So, we see this as a tremendous opportunity to impact how schools achieve critical goals like getting every student the courses they need to graduate or improving instruction through increased teacher - collaboration time.

For us here at Teacher, our annual survey provides another opportunity to hear from our readers and listeners, what they'd like to see more of, and how we can continue to improve the content we provide.

«Our objectives for the program were to increase attendance, improve their fitness and activity levels, build their self - esteem, provide them with opportunities for leadership development and try to improve their community links, [and] their associations with outside bodies,» McInerney tells Teacher.

Classroom teachers can provide opportunities for activity during the day, especially if the school does not have required physical education classes, in order to help to improve students academic achievement.