Sentences with phrase «like teacher professional development»

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Commenting on the launch of a consultation by the Secretary of State for Education on professional development for teachers and calling for expressions of interest in a College of Teaching, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union in the UK, said: «This Government can establish whatever framework it likes for professional development but unless teachers are given a contractual entitlement to access such development, the current system of inequality and ad hoc arrangements will continue, with access being on the basis of grace and favour and the whims and preferences of individual employers.

The city will spend $ 1.8 million for professional development for arts teachers, $ 785,000 to provide arts education for English language learners and special needs students, and $ 220,000 to expand existing student programs like a two - week arts intensive for middle schoolers.

The RET program offers teachers like Bencivengo and Hart a way to meet these standards, while at the same time providing a hands - on research experience, guidance in designing neural engineering curricula and other professional development opportunities.

What is needed is a competitive certification process that establishes key criteria for entry into the teaching profession; gives public schools greater freedom to hire and fire teachers; and treats teachers like professionals and their schools like professional institutions by allowing them to tailor professional development to meet the needs of teachers.

Albemarle supports maker education through funding for supplies and spaces, a wide range of professional development, and division - wide resources — like instructional coaches — who work closely with teachers.

Our current system is laden with input regulations like textbook mandates, certification requirements, and notches on teachers» professional - development belts.

Math teacher and professional development specialist Karen Lea explains how planning a lesson is a lot like telling a story, and how important it is to hook students with a good beginning.

Gerstein has run a number of professional development courses that seek to instruct teachers in how to model a growth mindset amongst students and one of her key principles is encouraging teachers to see themselves as learners, and, just like students are all capable of learning and improving, so too are teachers (Gerstein 2014)

Professional development courses for teachers and administrators — like computer science's Hector Chacon — are offered in many school districts in the cooperative method of teaching required to make CTE a success, while professional organizaProfessional development courses for teachers and administrators — like computer science's Hector Chacon — are offered in many school districts in the cooperative method of teaching required to make CTE a success, while professional organizaprofessional organizations and so

Like Jared, teachers are working so hard to get up to speed with technology, apps, devices, networks, and professional development.

These weeks discussed issues like recruitment, selection, induction, teacher evaluation, clinical supervision, motivation, conflict management, professional development, and termination or dismissal.

If you'd like to exchange ideas about books online with other educators, join the Connected Educators book club or start your own; «Online Teacher Book Clubs: Promoting a Culture of Professional Development» includes tips on how to get started.

«If you think about 80 new syllabuses, 80 new subjects if you like, being redeveloped from scratch and the professional development that goes with that for more than 17,000 teachers, we need to take more time to do that really well,» Mr Rider said.

Since these competencies aren't generally taught in mandatory professional development courses or teacher preparation programs (there are a few exceptions like San Jose State University in California or The University of British Columbia in Canada), we can not assume that all educators have them in equal measure.

At Centerpoint, time for a monthly wellness group — where teachers, administrators, and social workers support each other on their personal wellness goals like exercising and creating work - life balance — is built into the professional development schedule.

Teachers in TNTP's survey report feeling like professional development systems are disjointed and impersonal and aren't customized to fit their needs.

So, we paint a clear picture of what great teaching looks like and partner with our deans and principals, along with external partners like Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion team, to provide network - wide professional development and individualized coaching support to help our teachers improve their practice and reach all studelike and partner with our deans and principals, along with external partners like Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion team, to provide network - wide professional development and individualized coaching support to help our teachers improve their practice and reach all studelike Doug Lemov's Teach Like a Champion team, to provide network - wide professional development and individualized coaching support to help our teachers improve their practice and reach all studeLike a Champion team, to provide network - wide professional development and individualized coaching support to help our teachers improve their practice and reach all students.

But most emphasized things like professional development, ensuring an «equitable distribution» of good teachers and principals, and» [m] aking education funding a priority.»

Maybe because I just spent the lunch hour listening to charter school teachers eagerly compare notes on professional development sessions like «Inspiring Enthusiasm for Mathematics» and «From Compliance to Excellence: going Beyond Special Education Regulations to Harness Student Potential.»

It functions, in some ways, like a consulting firm for the city's Catholic schools, providing professional development for teachers and principals; bolstering fundraising, marketing, and public relations efforts; and strengthening management.

Like all professionals teachers need continuing professional development (CPD) which allows them to grow in their roles and adapt to meet the new challenges their jobs present them all the time.

We need to address issues like access to resources, teacher professional development and ageing classrooms to get the full benefit of STEM education in primary schools.

Despite the challenges that effective technology integration poses for educators, there is hope in the powerful suggestions provided by preservice teachers and those teachers who continue their professional development through opportunities like the National Writing Project and its regional and state sites across the country.

There are schools where administrators are experimenting with models of teacher - led professional development like EdCamps.

We asked teachers about their approach to teaching, the lessons we had observed, the principal «s role in guiding and supporting their work, factors that have the greatest influence on student learning, district influences, professional development opportunities, the school community, the extent of parental involvement, and what they would tell a new teacher about what it is like to work at this school.

Most obviously, teachers — like students — often have little experience with argumentation, and our results and potential for the development of argumentation skills and practices via logic extend to teacher professional development settings.

Substitute teachers will feel like they are part of the professional development community, will reinforce what they learned in SubSkills, and will feel appreciated by the district.

Derogative terms like, «sit and get,» «drive - by,» «irrelevant,» «too limited and truncated» are common descriptions of professional development by both teachers and researchers.

Thinking Like a Journalist Fareed Mostoufi This workshop plan was written to be facilitated with teachers as part of a professional development.

And in light of the recent critical study of teacher professional development by The New Teacher Project, schools and districts are asking hard questions about the impact of professional development on teacher practice in specific content areas like math or liteacher professional development by The New Teacher Project, schools and districts are asking hard questions about the impact of professional development on teacher practice in specific content areas like math or liTeacher Project, schools and districts are asking hard questions about the impact of professional development on teacher practice in specific content areas like math or liteacher practice in specific content areas like math or literacy.

Although the series is now over a decade old, many of the recommendations made by the task forces are still relevant today, such as providing effective professional development for teachers and principals, professionalizing teaching, political and policy challenges like bipartisanship, and dispelling myths about the challenges of leading urban districts.

Online Enrichment Professional Development is for teachers and school leaders who have been teaching or implementing Cambridge programmes and qualifications for at least a year and would like to develop their practice in specific areas.

It considers factors like teacher professional qualifications, effective classroom practices, and school - wide support for teaching development and growth.

CAPE Educator Director, Scott Sikkema, describes our new understanding of how a teacher's dedication to arts integration practices like professional development, documentation, and teaching artist collaboration, the better their students performed on all areas measured by the PAIR project.

Video segments show how strategies and resources like collaborative teaching, professional development, formative assessment, and technology help teachers and students meet the goals of Common Core math standards.

If you teach Cambridge International qualifications and you have experience of training teachers we are looking for people like you to become teacher trainers for both our syllabus - specific Introductory and Extension training and Enrichment Professional Development workshops.

As elsewhere, policymakers in California must eliminate contradictions between policies, look for gaps where no policy currently exists, such as instructional transition from prekindergarten to kindergarten, and ensure that newly aligned policies like those concerning professional development have sufficient breadth and depth to cover all teachers who need help.

Enrichment Professional Development is for teachers and school leaders who have been teaching or implementing Cambridge programmes and qualifications for at least a year and would like to develop their practice in specific areas.

That second finding, in particular, will have a positive impact if it prompts school districts to clearly define what teacher effectiveness looks like and to measure professional development programs in terms of how they help teachers get closer to that goal.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

We used a professional development day to allow teachers to observe a colleague at another school to see what engagement looked like elsewhere.

As schools try to provide professional development that builds teachers» expertise and to implement initiatives like the Common Core standards, they should discover how much expertise school librarians can offer.

More often, teachers we spoke with talked about whether they felt supported by their administration, whether they felt like they were part of a community, whether they had a strong team to work with, or whether they were getting professional development to push their practice and develop them as leaders.

Programs like this and ongoing «lesson study» professional development in Japan help active teachers continue to refine their understanding of the best ways to teach specific content.

A professional development session can leave a teacher feeling knowledgeable and excited, or feel like the session was a waste of their time.

I want to be clear that this is not scripted curriculum or anything like that, but we are going to be utilizing common materials across schools so that when scholars move from school to school they have consistent instruction, teachers can collaborate and plan with each other and we can can provide common professional development across the district.

By taking hard - to - fill positions — like high school math teacher — or going to high - need schools, participating in extra professional development or meeting two goals they set at the beginning of the year with their principals, teachers can earn from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars more each year.

Examples of professional development that have been successful at raising student achievement can help policymakers and practitioners better understand what quality teacher professional learning looks like.

• Edu - tweeters act as a filter for educational content that is available on the internet • Twitter facilitates positive, supportive, contact between teachers but not sustained educational conversations • Edu - tweeters are not prone to tweeting inane meaningless comments • The majority of hashtags posted within Edu - Twitter contain educational links • Twitter offers connections with a network of like - minded educators • The key characteristics of effective professional development could be accomplished through the use of Twitter.

On the contrary, since 2008, there have been massive state funding reductions for essential educational supports like teachers (3.5 %), teacher assistants (22.9 %), instructional supplies (51.9 %), and textbooks (78.1 %); funding for mentoring, staff professional development, and literacy coaches has been eliminated entirely.