Sentences with phrase «individual teachers in the classrooms»

These family nights could be organized and offered school wide as large events or in smaller venues by individual teachers in classrooms.

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Efforts are also under way to bring under control any individual teachers who express creationist sentiments in the classroom, especially if they make use of unapproved materials.

He argues that the place to begin to counter the objectivist epistemology that still grips the academy is in individual classrooms where teachers, disciplining themselves first, create spaces «where obedience to truth is practiced.»

As classroom teacher, my perspective is that everyone is an individual, a tree in a forest, but that we are also in unity — we learn, share, and grow together

«the care and dedication of individual teachers»...» the loving approach of the teachers»...» the personal attention my child receives in the classroom»...» the depth in teaching the developing human being»... «that the teachers and staff are well - acquainted with my child and every concern I've had about my child has been met with the staff's full attention, concern, and capability to professionally address the matter at hand»... «how the teachers «hold» each child and class»...» mindfulness toward the children's needs»... «love that the teacher stays with the child through 8th grade»

«Teachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent inTeachers can make a huge difference in individual classrooms and schools, and how we prepare teachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent inteachers is very important,» Tough told me in a recent interview.

«It's important to know that the traditional professional development seminars that teachers undergo don't usually get into the depth of coaching individual instructors on how to create a dynamic climate and environment, how to shape the emotional and psychological mood in a classroom.»

Some teachers see each child as an individual and seek to provide challenging experiences for every child in her classroom.

The original individual evaluation pathway was established as a means to address teacher shortage areas and included a sunset date of February 1, 2007 for certificates in childhood education and February 1, 2009 for all other certificates in the classroom teaching service.

The city packed more students into its classrooms for the second year in a row, a new Department of Education report confirmed, giving students less individual time and making teachers» jobs more difficult.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

And further analyses revealed that the classroom improvement effect was not influenced by various individual - and classroom - level factors, including student race, student intervention condition, and teacher team, in either study.

A new study in the journal Early Childhood Research Quarterly finds that kindergartners and first graders with high maintenance temperaments showed less disruptive behavior and more active engagement and on - task behavior in the classroom, thanks to a program that helps teachers, parents, and students recognize and adapt to individual differences.

Successful technology integration must include an element of reflection to stay focused on how individual teachers and learners will use this technology in the classroom.

By year three of the program — when individual teachers will implement it in their classrooms — we will have a consistent behavior matrix for all to use and a catchy acronym with a logo and posters to support our efforts.

In this context, the responsibility of schools is to ensure high quality assessment of classroom practice as part of accreditation and registration as well as developing a growing understanding of the use of classroom observation and feedback as key tools for improving the quality of teaching and learning practice for individual teachers, teams and schools.

As the classroom teacher, I came up with a list of objectives based on each student's individual education plan, and translated those objectives into measurable actions in the classroom (e.g., student X participates in collaborative writing, student Y engages in the editing process).

Teachers need support in reaching beyond the classroom to see that the individual emotional needs of all students are met.

They're sitting at individual desks and there's teachers and curricula, and more interestingly for us, very strict behaviour expectations and expectancies for the kids, not just in the academics but more in terms of how to behave in the classroom.

It is valuable for teachers to assess and acknowledge individual student effort in mathematics classrooms.

Because we work with all students in different areas of their school life, we're able to collaborate with special educators and classroom teachers to paint a whole picture of an individual student or class.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classrooIn the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classrooin the classroom.

Administrators and teachers can also take advantage of the Report Card items to identify both individual students and classrooms that need additional help, e.g., a classroom in which a lot of students are receiving low scores on self - management skills is a classroom in which the teacher needs help in classroom management.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

The morning meeting format is simple and easy for entire schools to implement at one time, but individual teachers can obtain impressive results by using the method in their own classrooms, even when it isn't a school - wide approach.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

EW: In most classrooms, teachers need to work with individual students or with small groups of students.

The program is housed in a single classroom with five rows of individual computer stations, a desk for the teacher at the back of the room, and a few small tables for collaboration.

A study published in Education Next by Eric Taylor and John Tyler found that teacher evaluation systems that include high - quality classroom observations can improve the effectiveness of individual teachers.

Mehta and Fine (read sidebar) discovered that even in underperforming schools where boredom was near universal, «there were individual teachers who were creating classrooms where students were really engaged and motivated.»

For all the True Believer energy and aggressive efforts to push an agenda, it remains difficult to discern the impact of Edutopia, either in winning converts to its vision for public education or changing the classroom practice of individual teachers.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

Early in the fall, classroom teachers across the country are busy assessing their students» academic levels, learning styles, and individual needs.

The approach gives teachers a chance to understand the individual learning styles of their students, which means it can be especially beneficial for kids who have challenges in the classroom.

Finally, an individual teacher's eligibility for a bonus depends on school - wide performance gains, not just gains in individual classrooms.

So, in 1998, Rosenberg left his law practice and founded Adopt - A-Classroom, an organization that asks individuals and businesses to contribute $ 500, so a teacher can buy classroom supplies.

Individuals and teachers alike have developed varying levels of familiarity with the Apple platform both in and outside of the classroom.

In The Power of Teacher Rounds, Troen and Senior Lecturer Boles provide a practical step - by - step plan for facilitating successful rounds, focusing on individual teachers» classrooms and discussing how they can play a role in the implementation of the Common CorIn The Power of Teacher Rounds, Troen and Senior Lecturer Boles provide a practical step - by - step plan for facilitating successful rounds, focusing on individual teachers» classrooms and discussing how they can play a role in the implementation of the Common Corin the implementation of the Common Core.

We have a very small teacher grant program that provides up to $ 5,000 for individual teachers to work in classrooms.

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

Teachers here know that our research - based reward system measures the progress individual students make in their classrooms, and educators who do the best job tailoring instruction to meet each child's specific needs tend to receive the highest marks.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

«Given the crisis - level teacher shortage that many districts are already experiencing, we need to provide the support and opportunities necessary to keep this diverse group of individuals in the classroom, teaching effectively.»

«It may take the form of one - on - one coaching in an individual teacher's classroom or demonstration lessons for individuals and groups of teachers.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

The attachment pages are provided so that teachers can have flexibility in how they are used i.e., within the classroom or as individual home study activities.

«Understanding [«troublemakers»] as canaries in the mine, as responding to poisons and toxins that are invisible to us in the classroom air, really shifted my whole focus [as a teacher] away from thinking I need to intervene on individual children and instead asking myself, what is this behavior a response to in the environment, and what is this kid making visible to us that, if altered, could actually make the classroom a healthier place for all of the children?»

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