Sentences with phrase «improve teaching effort»

Whenever we propose anything to change it, they put up a nightmare scenario of principals firing everyone for no reason and never proactively, constructively, suggest a fairer system which would decrease absences and improve teaching effort and quality.

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For example, last year we started a program where we had an outside instructor come in and teach ESL classes to small groups of our employees in an effort to improve communication within a very diverse crew.

Chris has his own blog, as he describes below, and I asked him if he would be willing to share here his efforts to try to improve this situation in his Iowa City school district, where he is now the parent of three children and teaches legal writing and analysis at the University of Iowa College of Law (but the opinions he expresses here are entirely his own).

They may compare themselves to their peers by saying, «He is better at drawing than I am» or «She is a better soccer player,» so it's important to teach your child that with practice and effort, she can improve her skills.

Praising kids for a solid effort teaches them that even though things don't always go as planned, it's important to persist and improve.

On the efforts by the President Muhammadu Buharu administration to improve electricity in Nigeria, Fashola said «Federal government is implementing off - grid renewable energy solutions such as rural mini-grids, standalone home solutions, IPP for Federal Universities, Teaching Hospitals and large - scale solar PV projects such as the Jigawa solar city.

CREATE is a joint effort between the College of Natural Science and the College of Education to improve the teaching and learning of science and mathematics K — college teaching.

Roseman's presentation, «Achieving Science Literacy for All: Contributions from AAAS Project 2061,» described the origins of Project 2061, its standards - based approach to improving science teaching and learning, and its current efforts to help educators achieve science literacy for all.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

Efforts to improve safety standards and practices in academic labs are multiplying at universities and colleges across the country, but teaching safety as rules and compliance is insufficient, experts agree.

As part of her efforts to improve workplace climate at her institution, Jennifer Sheridan runs workshops teaching strategies for addressing unconscious biases.

As part of UBC's ongoing efforts to improve undergraduate teaching and learning, Code and colleagues selected two especially difficult topics covered in large first - year calculus classes, and designed week - long «teaching interventions» to more actively engage students.

They also learned about ongoing efforts worldwide to improve science teaching through the use of rigorous research methods.

Some programs worked in one country but failed in another: Teaching emotional regulation to former child soldiers in Sierra Leone improved their social relationships, for example, whereas a similar effort for Palestinian children increased symptoms of PTSD.

Through The Shine Project, Ashley has created a non-profit organization called The Shine Scholarship Project, which aims to improve the lives of at - risk kids by teaching them the skills that they need to become successful leaders, and raising money through fundraising efforts in order to send them off to college.

As a way to bring the group's efforts to educators beyond Boston, a book, Data Wise: A Step - by - Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching and Learning, was published in 2005 by Harvard Education Press.

All of the efforts to establish new standards, develop new assessments, improve the quality of teaching, and increase funding will produce few positive results if the effects of that activity do not reach the classroom.

The challenges for schools and those involved in efforts to improve the teaching and learning of soft skills are significant given the nascent nature of the enterprise and the significant gaps in knowledge.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Colorado does a respectable job of ensuring that its high school teachers are well versed in the subjects they plan to teach.

«Although there are efforts to create teams of teachers to improve teaching and learning in schools, only recently has there been a broad effort to appoint expert teachers as instructional coaches or teacher leaders,» Johnson says.

Mike Petrilli talks with David Cohen about the depressing track record of efforts to improve teaching and learning.

Under the latest round of S.S.I. grants, Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, and South Carolina will each receive up to $ 2 million annually to support widespread, coordinated reform efforts that incorporate the efforts of public - and private - sector agencies to improve the teaching of science and mathematics.

Jon Schnur, chairman of the board of New Leaders for New Schools, and Joshua Wyner, of the Aspen Institute, see no tension, and argue that equity - focused efforts to improve teaching and learning benefit students across the board.

All these efforts are well intentioned, and some of them have had a noticeable impact on improving teaching and the teacher force.

In an effort to take a look at the reasons for the growth and to improve teaching in the field, the American Philological Association and the American Classical League commissioned a two - year study on the topic.

The unions vigorously opposed those efforts, leading Rhee to move instead to improve the teaching force by terminating unqualified teachers.

One of the most ambitious efforts to improve teaching is called Teachers for a New Era, a $ 65 million project underwritten by four venerable foundations: Carnegie, which initiated the effort and has the largest stake; Annenberg; Ford; and the Rockefeller Foundation.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

«Heather Hill is a scholar with an outstanding record of research, teaching, and practice, whose expertise bridges classroom practice, school - and district - level efforts to improve instruction, and policy issues related to schooling.

Accountability systems have worked well with other reforms — such as effective choice policies, the expansion of early - childhood - education and other school - readiness programs, and efforts to improve the teaching force through evaluation and tenure reform — to improve education for children around the country.

Today, much of his legacy on K — 12 education rests on efforts to revamp evaluations in the hopes of improving teaching across the country, which his administration pursued via a series of incentives for states.

Prior to his time in Chicago, Knowles served as deputy superintendent for teaching and learning at the Boston Public Schools — where he created two organizations devoted to building the pipeline of high quality teachers and school leaders — and served as codirector of the Boston Annenberg Challenge, a nationally recognized effort to improve literacy instruction.

There is recognition that high quality instruction is the key to improved student learning, and teachers and school leaders are engaged in ongoing efforts to understand and meet the needs of individual learners and to improve on current teaching practices.

The Joyce Foundation supports coverage in Education Week and on edweek.org of policy efforts to improve the teaching profession.

Interns work closely with a small but lively research staff to produce influential publications and web - based content that provide information on efforts to improve teaching and learning.

In her continuing efforts to improve her teaching, a middle school teacher moved from reworking the curriculum to updating her room.

Proposed changes to improve teaching practices, including implementation of content - rich curriculum and effective use of assessment data, and proposed changes to professional development are central to our effort to ensure every child in Head Start receives high quality early learning experiences that will build the skills they need to succeed in school and beyond.

These states aren't alone in this effort; a number of other organizations are creating different kinds of resources to help improve teaching practice — some in relation to the Common Core State Standards and some in conjunction with educator evaluation.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL Education Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.»»

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Instead of requiring its teachers to complete minimum degrees or coursework in the subjects they plan to teach, Oregon requires its high school teachers to demonstrate subject - matter knowledge by passing tests in their areas of endorsement prior to certification.

Efforts to Improve Teacher Quality: Mississippi requires its high school teachers to pass subject - matter exams in the areas they plan to teach to earn their licenses.

Seventy - five faculty members at Case Western Reserve University wrote in an open letter to voters that incumbent Deborah Owens Fink «has continued to sideline important issues associated with improving public education in her effort to debase and distort the teaching...

New teacher evaluation systems are the latest effort to measure and improve the quality of the teaching workforce, but these new systems have already raised concerns that they will be subject to the same rating inflation by administrators that plagued previous systems.

All are based on the belief that teachers can teach more effectively if their skills can be improved, their tools can be better, and their efforts can be more energetic.

In an article for Teacher magazine, Jessica Cuthbertson describes life as a «teacherpreneur,» which for her means splitting her days between teaching 7th grade English and supporting efforts to improve Colorado's schools in partnership with a nonprofit.

When school systems begin to use measures of effective teaching to assess the effectiveness of their own efforts, teachers will understand that the burden for improving teaching does not sit upon their shoulders alone.

At Rick Hess's prompting, I recently had the pleasure of a 90 - minute chat with John Thompson, a thoughtful critic of the many efforts aimed at improving teaching and learning.

In addition, except for respondents from one state, respondents believed that states, not the federal government, were driving leadership efforts aimed at improving teaching and learning.

In this section we address our second question about the state «s leadership role in efforts to improve teaching and learning: How do clusters of policies — systemic efforts at shaping education reform — get embedded in state agencies and transmitted to create a local impact?

Many states are redeveloping teaching standards in an effort to improve education.