Sentences with phrase «learn from teachers whose»

Have you ever been part of a staff development process where the key function is to learn from teachers whose students are consistently high achieving?

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Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50

Where education, training, or socialisation are formalised, with instructors or teachers whose role and duty is differentiated from the role and duty of those who learn, the matter of ethics arises.

The definition of Ahimsa I learned (handed down from Swami Satchidananda, whose translation of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is used by yoga teachers worldwide) is not causing pain to any living being — including ourselves.

After using that tool, teachers in New York State selected mathematics materials from Common Core, a private organization whose name predated the standards, and chose Expeditionary Learning materials for English language arts.

In fact, because schooling has become a community - wide affair, teachers don't hesitate to ask for help from anyone whose expertise might be valuable during a particular learning activity.

Speaking from more than 40 years of experience in the field — and speaking for all learners who hope to succeed, the teachers who want them to succeed, and the local school leaders whose aspirations for success have been thwarted by assessment traditions — Stiggins maps out the adjustments in practice and culture necessary to generate both accurate accountability data and the specific evidence of individual mastery that will support sound instructional decision making and better learning in the classroom.

It will indeed be a cause to cheer if and when policy - makers start to turn their sights away from the zero - sum game of whose schools are outperforming on ELA and Math tests and towards the ends that chartered schools were supposed to lead us in the first place: teacher empowerment, innovation, entrepreneurism and new models of teaching and learning to name just a few.

In a recent article, Zachary Wright, a high school teacher, wrote, «As a White male teacher, whose goals are to not only teach, but also learn from my students, I need to be aware of, and need to name, the privilege that...

This enrollment milestone reflects not only a cultural shift but also a host of challenges for educators, including more students living in poverty, more students learning English as an additional language, and more whose life experiences will differ from those of their teachers.

Students inevitably encounter teachers whose styles of instruction differ from their own learning preference.

More importantly, families are recognizing that the «experts» really don't know what they are doing, that it is the very practices championed by traditionalists — from near - lifetime employment for teachers regardless of their ability to help kids succeed;, to the overuse of the overdiagnosis of learning disabilities (especially among young black men, whose reading deficiencies are often diagnosed as being special ed problems)-- are the underlying reason why schools fail to improve student achievement.

He created Project S.A.M.E. a US - Soviet Youth Exchange that brought students from the US and USSR together to advocate for peace; founded Students Concerned about Bias in Society (SCABS) who fought for implementation of Title IX in Maine schools; directed the University of Maine Aspirations Project and launched 35 statewide student leadership teams to bring students» voices to educational reform; conducted program evaluation research on the effects of the Maine Civil Rights Teams Project whose 50 student teams fought against bigotry and intolerance in Maine communities; founded the Center for School Climate and Learning and worked in hundreds of schools supporting students, teachers and administrators to bring youth voice to school reform in the US; co-authored two books, The Respectful School, and Transforming School Climate and Learning to share what I have learned.

There, you and a group of your K - 12 talent management leaders will come together to help advance student achievement and learn from influential educators, such as Todd Whitaker, whose experience as a teacher, coach, principal and middle school staffing, curriculum and technology coordinator has made him one of the leading authorities on staff motivation, teacher leadership and principal effectiveness.

For teachers, whose jobs are increasingly challenging, the solidarity mindset can keep them from diagnosing and addressing the learning issues of the children in their care.

Administrators told the board they plan to spend about $ 50,000 more than is budgeted on specific efforts at Sylvanie Williams — more social work support and therapy, to help students whose personal circumstances are keeping them from learning, more substitute teachers and stipends for current teachers who are spending additional hours tutoring the students, more laptops for some of the computer - based learning programs, and money for busing students to weekend tutoring sessions.

Kids who don't learn in traditional ways — kids who have difficulty communicating in a way that pleases a teacher — kids who fail within a system that was never designed for them to succeed in the first place — kids whose lived experiences are different from the narratives in those narrowed POVs in textbooks.

As we learned both from Adelanto and from the first - ever Trigger attempt in Compton, rescission drives are often backed by district officials (who have a financial stake in each of their campuses) and teachers unions (whose members stand to lose their jobs if new management finds they don't meet higher educational standards).

The programme is aimed at those teachers whose teaching is inconsistent in securing good and better learning from students.

Note from Dr. Cruz: I am deeply thankful to teacher Ellen Dahlke, from 5 Keys, for allowing us an opportunity to come inside, and learn from the wisdom of men, who are currently caged, but whose wisdom is for free (dom).

Boys whose fathers engaged in physical play but without excessive direction were rated as more popular by their teachers.48 Effects of fathers may vary across children's ages, with fathers of adolescent sons frequently playing important roles in those son's transitions, as seen among Arnhem land Australian aborigines.49 Among the Aka hunter - gatherers of Central African Republic, males of varying ages report that they predominantly learned subsistence and social behavioural norms from their fathers.50