Sentences with phrase «meeting with teachers around»

Although these topics can be addressed in one session, meeting with teachers around a topic for an hour two or three days in a row encourages and allows teachers to implement strategies, reflect on their learning, and then add new skills.

In meeting with teachers around the world, she notes that they are most surprised by the depth of research available, and by the fact that most school districts are not taking advantage of the research.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, the school's teachers met Friday at Parkland City Hall, with hugs and Kleenex all around.

On Tuesday 21st January T and I set off extremely early in the morning to London joining the commuters on the train to one of the main London Stations and then onto the Tube for a trip to West Minster Palace to meet with other parent bloggers who believe strongly like we do that together we can make a change for these children with our voices, teachers, students, volunteers, representatives of Save the Children and Beanstalk, MP's from around the country and peers of the realm to talk about reading, books and how we can make a difference.

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

New Zealand yoga teacher Donna Farhi notes that in her travels around the world, she's found that dysfunction in the sacroiliac joint (SI joint)-- the meeting of the two posterior surfaces of the pelvis with the sacrum, the triangular - shaped bone at the base of the spine — has become the most common injury among female yoga practitioners.

It will be such a fantastic opportunity to meet with teachers from around the world, and learn about the very latest digital technologies.

Meanwhile, tutors and teachers walk around looking for students who need help, or meet by appointment to work with individuals or small groups.

When the deadline for outfitting every public school classroom with a «highly qualified» teacher rolls around at the end of the 2005 - 06 school year, many states are likely to claim they've met it.

Then, in terms of adaption to local context and thinking through how the curriculum might relate — one of the things I found in the review, both in some of the written submissions and in some of the meetings I had with teachers and parents — they were seeking greater capacity to respond to local context, to build the curriculum around that.

Created around specific school needs, and recognising Brentfield's high percentage of pupils with English as an additional language, the partnership also provides the school with cutting - edge digital resources, helping teachers to meet the learning needs of each individual child.

During morning meeting, teachers do a go - around check - in with students, use a common and consistent language around behavior, and address any classroom issues.

For these meetings, teacher leaders developed agendas around mathematical issues related to implementing Investigations, featuring activities that would help teachers as they used the new curriculum in their classrooms (e.g., introducing new assessments and working through math games teachers would use with students).

Hosted by teachers at their schools, these lively, grassroots gatherings are a great place to meet other arts teachers, share your best practices, problem - solve with peers around challenges in your classroom, and maybe do some creating of your own!

These include: · Use of instructional programs and curricula that support state and district standards and of high quality testing systems that accurately measure achievement of the standards through a variety of measurement techniques · Professional development to prepare all teachers to teach to the standards · Commitment to providing remedial help to children who need it and sufficient resources for schools to meet the standards · Better communication to school staff, students, parents and the community about the content, purposes and consequences of standards · Alignment of standards, assessment and curricula, coupled with appropriate incentives for students and schools that meet the standards In the unlikely event that all of these efforts, including a change in school leadership, fail over a 3 - year period to «turn the school around,» drastic action is required.

During the entire time I was involved with discussions about cuts at staff meetings and informal discussions around the lunch room, not once had I heard any teacher or staff member desiring the cutting the Art, Music, PE, or Science teaching positions.

Interdisciplinary planning begins with an opportunity for arts and non-arts classroom teachers across content areas to meet regularly to create a plan for instruction that centers around a theme, concept, issue, problem or topic and allows each discipline to bring their curricular goals to the planning process.

Our own troubleshooting work with teachers at the schools is scheduled separately around these off - site meetings, focused on supporting particular activities that teachers are conducting — so that there is a real need for focus when we are there.

In her role as State Teacher of the Year, Amy T. Andersen will work closely with the New Jersey Department of Education, give presentations around the state and participate in national activities, including an opportunity to meet the President of the United States.

With dozens of specific tools organized around key phases of instruction, Tools for Thoughtful Assessment meets this challenge directly, and provides administrators with tools to help all teachers meet their needs, their students» needs, and their professional development goWith dozens of specific tools organized around key phases of instruction, Tools for Thoughtful Assessment meets this challenge directly, and provides administrators with tools to help all teachers meet their needs, their students» needs, and their professional development gowith tools to help all teachers meet their needs, their students» needs, and their professional development goals.

Our principals lead data meetings that begin with looking at formative assessment data on our students, but that end up with having important conversations that center around the needs of each student and how the teachers can help one another to meet these needs.

It is also important that you meet and begin to build relationships with key people around the school such as the school secretary, the library media specialist, the janitorial staff and the individual in charge of teacher absences.

The principal was visible in classrooms and around the school, observing instruction, interacting with students, teachers and parents, actively engaged in meetings and workshops, and accessible.

Our FACE Teacher Cohorts (Elementary and Secondary) each meet six times throughout the school - year, built around the academic calendar and focus on relationship building, academic partnering, and communicating with families.

Developed in collaboration with secondary schools from around the country, Abl's Master Scheduler is a smart, flexible platform that enables school leaders to quickly visualize tradeoffs and meet the unique needs of every student and teacher.

The Achievement School District will spend the next three weeks meeting with teachers, parents, faculty and district leaders to determine which of the two schools with such similar demographics and challenges it should hand over to LEAD Public Schools charter school under orders to quickly turn the school around.

Teachers around the state already have raised complaints about the governor's agenda in local meetings, letters - to - the - editor and other forums, but Tuesday's rally allowed them share their opinions directly — and loudly — with lawmakers gathered in Indianapolis for the 2011 legislative session.

In New York and in other locations around the country, the teacher unions have put state and local officials on notice that attempts to punish teachers for speaking honestly about the testing scheme will be met with the full resources of the union.

Meanwhile, the school's teachers met Friday at Parkland City Hall, with hugs and Kleenex all around.

Make time for you and your child to walk through the new school, familiarising yourselves with the routes your child might take moving around the school and meeting your child's teacher (s).