Sentences with phrase «more creative teacher»

Weed out bad teachers and incentivize better and more creative teachers, but focus primarily on providing preparation and support for «average» teachers, who in most instances are educating our children.

Not exact matches

«There are teachers with creative ideas on how to engage students, but they just need a little bit of money for more hands - on experiences,» Pine says.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

I've seen creativity in more than just fibre arts and the written word: I've met creative coders, out of the box business builders, imaginative project managers, doctors with ingenuity, resourceful teachers, pastors with vision for creative community.

Sometimes it takes more than our own resources to pluck up the courage to follow our hearts, whether it is your mother, grandmother, teacher or best friend it seems there is often a certain individual that above all others has inspired us or spurred us on to make more of our creative lives.

In a fun and creative way, Cook spins the tale of Wilma, who with the help of y = her teacher is able to feel more in control of her worries — which will help young readers feel more in control of their own anxieties along the way.

Although this decision to exclude Sarah from circle time appears to wrongly shame her, one of her teachers demonstrated both compassion and insight to see that this form of physical structure — sitting on the chair at the table — with an activity to calm her mind and busy her hands — coloring — in fact enabled Sarah to participate fully in their discussions and add to it with more intelligent, creative contributions than most of the other students.

MORE THAN 2 MILLION POSITIVE DISCIPLINE BOOKS SOLD The Positive Discipline method has proved to be an invaluable resource for teachers who want to foster creative problem - solving within their students, giving them the behavioral skills they need to understand and process what they learn.

This continuing program has awarded more than 40,000 new books to students through creative, teacher - led literacy projects.

Goddard said other research suggests teachers who feel efficacious put forth more effort, are more creative problem solvers, and are less likely to give in to negative thoughts when things go wrong.

After almost 15 years of teaching at YogaWorks, and 7 years leading the Teacher Trainings there, Annie moved to Exhale Center for Sacred Movement in Venice, CA in 2010 to work in a more creative milieu and evolve the SmartFLOW method.

The only title more fitting would have been Bad Movie, though I suppose that might not be necessary, as any film where the creative minds behind it all can't come up with a title better than Bad Teacher should tell you how much thought and effort they will put into the finished product.

New features including seamless integration with learner devices are enabling co-creation, collaboration and formative assessments, all of which are designed to save teachers» time and help them to be more creative in how they teach.

As a teacher, I want my students to go far beyond just studying famous people and to take their newly acquired knowledge and insights and implement it into their own lives — lives which will hopefully be more creative as a result

There should also be opportunities to create a variety of differentiated roles for teachers — so that they can pursue their strengths and don't have to be frustrated by their weaknesses (much as happens in other fields)-- as well as increasingly creative opportunities for team teaching, both in a school environment as well as virtually across geographies, to make teaching far less isolating and provide far more opportunities for recognition among one's peers.

Tableau believes that data analytics tools are a critical partner in both school and university learning processes, and offers software to help students and teachers develop not only data skills, but a more data - driven, analytical and creative mind - set which is so needed in today's workplace.

In his signature visual style, Khan sketches a plan for how digital learning tools can make room for teachers and students to embrace more real - life creative learning experiences.

This isn't to say that the medium can not be picked - up by individual teachers, but a creative, supportive environment of colleagues seeking to engage pupils in an outdoor environment is inevitably more productive.

Already a teacher at Sanders - Clyde Creative Arts School in Charleston, S.C. — a turnaround school that is a part of the Charleston Promise Neighborhood, an effort modeled after the work of the Harlem Children's Zone — Hobson felt that she could do more.

Rob Grimshaw, CEO of TES Global said: «Schools are having to work hard to recruit teachers but they're succeeding by becoming more flexible and creative.

Several teachers at the school are now using the checkbox homework system, and the charts are getting more creative.

This process is often best done in collaboration with other teachers — it makes it more creative and you can share the development time.

Google Certified Trainer Kasey Bell (of the blog Shake Up Learning) and Matt Miller (teacher, blogger, and author of Ditch That Textbook) help you raise your Google for Education game with creative tips for using Google Slides, Hangouts, Chat, Earth, Docs, Forms, Sheets, and more.

In his signature visual style, Khan sketches a plan for how digital learning tools can make room for teachers and students to embrace more real - life creative learning experiences, and how Khan Academy and the Discovery Lab summer camp fit into that big picture.

But my reason for writing this blog is not to lament over the teacher retention problem but rather focus on what we, as educators, can do to recruit more creative, intelligent, qualified individuals into the field.

Yet, some school leaders are finding creative ways to give teachers and themselves more time for year - round professional growth and for adapting to new tools and techniques.

These cliparts are a great resource for teachers and educators for their school and classroom projects such as for creating bulletin board, printable, worksheet, classroom decor, craft materials, activities and games, and for more creative and fun projects.

TeachersPayTeachers rewards creative teachers with more income and gives them a financial incentive to produce more.

Very Old SoW i produced on my PGCE, some good background information for teachers and one PowerPoint exploring different avenues for students to develop a sense of the spiritual through art, architecture, music, dance... incomplete but the more creative tasks the better.

In this classroom there is a more inviting learning atmosphere, and teachers walk among students, rather than just sitting or standing in front of the room; it is a space where students can choose where to sit, work, and collaborate with their peers; there are round tables, work areas, and even creative elements like beanbags.

Twice a month, it's Technology Thursday for teachers at New Orleans's Martin Behrman Charter Academy of Creative Arts & Sciences, where Assistant Principal Cherie Goins, also the school's technology coordinator, presents a three - hour training session that brings staff up to speed on technology for teaching, record keeping, research, and more.

The good news is there's work afoot to create better tests that will challenge students to demonstrate more creative, adaptable skills — and, in turn, encourage teachers to teach them.

EdNext: Observers have noted that many states appear to be complying with NCLB's highly qualified teacher (HQT) provision mostly through creative bookkeeping, and are doing no more than they must when it comes to public - school choice or supplemental services.

We've a century or more of cautionary history suggesting that well - intentioned policies designed to strengthen teacher preparation by embracing the residency presumption can all too easily stifle creative efforts to boost quality, meet particular needs, or boost cost - effectiveness by using technology or staff in unconventional ways.

Spanish Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing Packet 29 - 32 Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing address the needs of teachers who want creative visual prompts, the lists of linking, transitional, temporal and other essential words, and the guidelines for better and more fluid writing..

Spanish Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing Packet Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing address needs of teachers who want creative visual prompts, the lists of linking, transitional, temporal and other essential words, and the guidelines for better and more fluid writing.

Each Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing Packet includes: • 4 pages of different 6 - framed pictures stories (good for speaking practice, too) • stimulus questions for each story • vocabulary • lists of linking words, temporal words, transitional words and many more words for more better writing • guidelines for excellent writing using Perfect Picture Stories • simple rubric for easier grading and checklist for students Perfect Picture Stories address the needs of teachers for the creative visual prompts, the lists of linking, transitional, temporal and other essential words, and the guidelines for better and more fluid writing.

Spanish Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing 25 - 28 Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing address needs of teachers who want creative visual prompts, the lists of linking, transitional, temporal and other essential words, and the guidelines for better and more fluid writing.

If research on teacher moves matters, we need to be more creative about catalyzing the low - hanging fruit.

Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing (9 - 12) Perfect Picture Stories for Excellent Writing address needs of teachers who want creative visual prompts, the lists of linking, transitional, temporal and other essential words, and the guidelines for better and more fluid writing.

As school systems add more and more curricula for teachers to cover — and put more and more emphasis on standardized test scores — many teacher say they have less time to be creative.

«I think as money becomes less plentiful, we become more committed to being very creative in maintaining the programs that we see are most successful,» explains Moustris, who gets high marks from academy teachers for almost always finding a way to get them the supplies and equipment they need.

«From arts and music to math and computer science, we are hearing more and more examples of creative teachers incorporating Soundtrap's technology into a range of subjects and curricula in the UK and around the world,» said Soundtrap CEO Per Emanuelsson.

Again, there's nothing here that creative, hard - working teachers can't already do, it's just that technology makes it more routine and less exhausting.

For teachers, it allows them to employ more creative methods of teaching and provides a more level playing field for all students in the class, with those that might struggle with conventional teaching methods suddenly able to express themselves in other ways.

You have a little more creative freedom with art or science teachers, but there are some school supplies that are universally appreciated.

Also, an obstacle faced by some ICT teachers, especially those with a more engineering - or technology - focused background, is that they can feel somewhat exposed teaching the creative aspects to web design.

If the teacher is using the creative process as a means of awakening her class,... children will be more alert.»

Whatever you think, schools are being judged and scrutinised now more than ever about what facilities they are offering to children to fulfill learning criteria in the early years curriculum and this provides a great chance for landscapers to be creative and help in providing teachers with fantastic, unique outside spaces.

Flying under the radar will be the reform choices of the few creative school boards that are willing to make changes in order to reward and retain their best teachers and find ways to devote more money to the classroom.