Sentences with phrase «more challenging for educators»

However, New York City revamped the system in 2012 to make it more challenging for educators to receive tenure, and this in turn has led less effective teachers to voluntarily exit the school system.

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In their white paper on academic integrity, Ms. Levine and Challenge Success have a series of suggestions for parents (and educators) interested in fully supporting the message that honesty is more important than grades.

They also pushed for the full restoration of Teacher Center funding and more state aid to allow for the expansion of the UFT's Community Learning School Initiative and the Positive Learning Collaborative, a joint UFT - Department of Education program to create safe and supportive learning environments by providing educators with strategies to respond to challenging student behavior.

For another, the presence of pedigreed scholars who dare to challenge ed school verities can make it more comfortable for graduate students, young faculty, and aspiring educators to question received dogFor another, the presence of pedigreed scholars who dare to challenge ed school verities can make it more comfortable for graduate students, young faculty, and aspiring educators to question received dogfor graduate students, young faculty, and aspiring educators to question received dogma.

If we don't, history has already provided a glimpse as to what might happen... disruptive innovation compels educators to go against the flow, challenge the status quo, take on the resistance, and shift our thinking in a more growth - oriented way... There is time to go down the path less traveled and create systems of excellence that will be embraced by our learners and in turn better prepare them for their future.

This presents a challenge for educators in group settings (namely, the classroom) and once more suggests the importance of individualised and differentiated approaches to instruction where possible.

In November 2010, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan presciently observed that, in coming years, educators would «face the challenge of doing more with less,» but warned against discouragement: «Enormous opportunities for improving the productivity of our education system lie ahead if we are smart, innovative, and courageous in rethinking the status quo.»

Clearly, religious organizations have long sponsored missionary and humanitarian efforts in the developing world in ways far more extensive than educators have done.So often these have been inspired by women, making me wonder why concern for global poverty has become a gendered activity.In their important book, Half the Sky (2009), (required reading for Ghana participants), authors Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl Wu Dunn argue that the lack of global attention to the plight of women is the greatest, challenge in the world today.

[Psychologist and educator] Lev Vygotsky, for example, believed that studying challenging material in this way enabled students to learn more complex material than they could learn without support.

Check out NCTSN's Self Care for Educators resource (PDF) for more information and tips on these challenges.

She challenges educators to think of the CCSS as more than a checklist of tasks, but instead a map for student literacy learning.

The challenges of modern schools and the learning and behavior challenges of modern students, in combination with along with the demands of a busy life, make it more important than ever for an effective educator to be calm and assertive, strong on the inside, respectful and empathetic toward self and others.

He said, «The charters are specifically looking for educators who have not had the experience of being in a union, which means that, by and large, they're looking for teachers who may find it more challenging to raise their voice about curriculum or school conditions.»

Last year, in a survey of more than 1,000 Boston educators, Educators for Excellence - Boston found that 91 percent of teachers say student trauma poses a major challenge in the ceducators, Educators for Excellence - Boston found that 91 percent of teachers say student trauma poses a major challenge in the cEducators for Excellence - Boston found that 91 percent of teachers say student trauma poses a major challenge in the classroom.

Both programmes are ideal for any ambitious and passionate educators who wish to inspire, challenge, and promote more successful and innovative learning.

Offering more than 80 sessions, this conference will enable educator attendees of all levels to restock their professional toolboxes and restore their spirit for taking on the big challenges facing schools and educators everywhere.

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.

«We could have rolled this out in a more thoughtful way, where teachers felt more engaged and valued prior to using them for personnel decisions,» said Evan Stone, the director of the New York chapter of Educators 4 Excellence, a teacher coalition created to challenge the strength of national teachers» unions.

In Helping Educators Grow: Strategies and Practices for Leadership Development, Drago - Severson suggests that transformational learning «changes the way we see and understand the world» and is significantly more challenging than informational risking (7).

Despite the challenges, or maybe because of them, more and more Idaho educators and schools are embracing innovation and creating new learning options for students.

Educators of gifted students felt more strongly that the regular curriculum was not challenging enough for gifted students, that the programs for gifted students should address the emotional needs of the students, and that middle school teachers need more staff development in the characteristics and needs of gifted students.

With the renewed interest about bullying in schools across the country, more educators, administrators, and students are looking for effective ways to address the challenges bullying presents.

Duncan opened: «For the next several years, preschool, K — 12, and postsecondary educators are likely to face the challenge of doing more with less... [This] can and should be embraced as an opportunity to make dramatic improvements....

The Fellowship began as a 17 - member group that met monthly to discuss wins and challenges in our classrooms and schools; now, we count more than 665 as members focused on several important issues: Directly supporting current and aspiring black male educators through recruitment and retention efforts; advocating (and agitating) for policies and practices that support and empower black men; and connecting and professionally developing black male educators through our convenings.

«To date, our challenge as educators has been to replicate efficacy for vastly more students, and expand the impact of promising programs that weren't reaching enough students to make a significant difference,» said Dowling.

This is so important in the work of Inclusion, Diversity & Equity as the resistance is real and the challenges to help individuals do the work necessary to become more effective educators for all students, especially those most marginalized.

The more that is known about helping teachers adjust to change in their working lives, the more successful others, such as teacher educators, may be in giving them the assistance they need in continuing on in this challenging profession and developing the requisite new skills to prepare students for a world where change is, perhaps, the only constant.

As described by the US Department of Education, ``... it's more important than ever for our youth to be equipped with the knowledge and skills to solve tough problems, gather and evaluate evidence, and make sense of information... to think deeply and to think well so that they have the chance to become the innovators, educators, researchers, and leaders who can solve the most pressing challenges facing our nation and our world, both today and tomorrow....

And if the strike is over evaluation, it becomes more and more challenging to secure a 16 - percent raise in tough economic times, and then say one doesn't believe in greater accountability for those educators serving in the system and demanding those raises.

Using hands - on activities and project - based challenges, Teacher Design for Education (TD4Ed) harnesses the creativity and problem - solving skills educators use everyday... Read More»

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The new regulations don't appear at first glance to support the challenging environment for Educators - by introducing more classroom challenges and more pressure to change the layout of the physical space - Educators will inevitably spend less time enhancing the development of young children and more time adapting to yet another set of regulatory changes.

Concerns are being voiced loudly that Early Childhood Educators (ECEs) will face heightened challenges in their classrooms - needing to care for the needs of «new toddlers» (1 year olds) and more mature toddlers (up to 2.5 years) in the same room at the same time.

Also noted on Twitter was the absence of some senior medical educators, perhaps illustrating the challenges for those seeking to create institutions that are more culturally safe.

The idea that parents and caregivers might proactively build the rudiments of resilience is not without precedent.67, 68 Vygotsky suggested that the role of parents, caregivers, and teachers is to work within the child's zone of proximal development so the child will learn to master skills that were previously beyond their independent ability.69 This is the theory behind both Reach Out and Read70, 71 and more recent efforts to decrease obesity by nurturing the foundational motor skills needed for an active lifestyle.72 — 74 The current challenge, then, is for pediatricians, home visitors, and early educators to collaboratively increase the capacity of caregivers and communities to nurture those rudimentary but foundational SE, language, and cognitive skills as they emerge developmentally.