Sentences with phrase «more teacher movement»

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In particular, he cited the power of the network's grassroots movement in Wisconsin, noting that they have more activists than the state's members of the teachers union.

It is similar with his teacher Donald MacKinnon and with MacKinnon's successor, Nicholas Lash: each of them had the capacity to found a school or movement but has rather done his theology in a more ruminative, interrogative mode.

Like my own teacher, she represented a movement toward acknowledging the boyishness of boys or the girlishness of girls; but being a step removed from the actual mother, she could be firmer and more systematic.

The federal government has assisted the movement through a grant of the National Institute of Health for more than $ 20,000, to educate public school teachers in TM.

The result is a picture of Jesus as a prophet and a teacher — but one who was «more than a prophet» and certainly one who taught «not as the scribes» — rather than as a social reformer, the «founder» of a religious movement, an ethical philosopher, or a fanatical apocalyptist.

Scaffolding the main lesson are handwork and woodworking, Mandarin and Spanish, strings and music, eurythmy and movement, and more — all taught by specially trained teachers in a wonderful coordination and harmony of subject material throughout the curriculum.

El C took a movement class for toddlers with a teacher who knows more about little kids than almost anyone I've ever met.

Parents, teachers / schools, child care providers, psychologists, social workers, nanny's and more can be a part of this growing movement to help empower our youth to be responsible, respectful, and resourceful.

To help our children explore their world and satisfy their curiosity, we seek educational situations that are no more than a 1:6 teacher to child ratio and learning opportunities that are rich with movement, multisensory, project based and diverse.

September is going to be back - to - school month, with posts on issues like: what on earth to pack in that empty lunch box every morning; how we all feel about making meals «cute» (heart - shaped sandwiches and the rest); an interview with some moms who've gone way beyond heart - shaped sandwiches — the Yum - Yum Bento moms; an interview with a public school teacher who has become a cause celebre in the school lunch reform movement; and more.

Tisch, who served nearly 20 years as a Regent and six as the Chancellor, led the controversial movements to adopt rigorous Common Core standards and tie a portion of teacher evaluations to student test scores, and also implemented more difficult state exams during her tenure.

CEO for the anti-corruption nonprofit Mayday PAC; She's an antitrust and media expert, covered extensively in her book, Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin's Snuff Box to Citizens United; Director of Internet Organizing for Howard Dean's campaign; Cofounded «A New Way Forward», designed to break up big banks «too big to fail» which damaged small businesses after the 2008 crash; Involved with Occupy Wall Street; National director of the non partisan Sunlight Foundation which works to make Congress more transparent; Works to support education and backs the teachers and parents in the anti common core opt out movement; Helped to organize the movement to ban fracking in NYS;

Dianne and Amber made this movement known to me and have made me a better, more inclusive and understanding teacher for it!

Therefore, many Western teachers started to use those adjustments as a basis for a more fine - tuned and balanced form of assistance, finally creating a type of adjustment that guides movements and helps prevent injuries.

A next - level anatomy, movement and cueing training to revolutionize how you teach — and attract more students to class!RequirementsHave a journal handyYoga Teachers: It's optimal to do...

Nonverbal Cues: A teacher can use subtle body movements (like proximity) or more explicit hand signals to cue self - regulation.

One last example: Because of the standards and accountability movement that began in the 1980s and extended through today, public schools publicly report a wide array of data related to test scores, poverty rates, teacher characteristics, and much, much more.

Contrary to what one might expect given the opposition — or at least hearty skepticism — of teachers unions to the charter school movement, districts with a greater union presence were more likely to have a charter school and to have a greater share of public school students enrolled in charter schools in 2003 — 04.

More than half of all teachers now have fewer than 10 years of experience, and this younger generation is driving the movement.

Yet the name and rhetoric of the movement suggest that many teachers do want teaching to become more professional.

The movement also includes proposals to give teachers more control over the profession through independent, state - level standard - setting boards and to give the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Education, the body that accredits education schools, more control over the number and origin of undergraduate degrees granted in education each year.

In turn, these teachers have guided more than 1 million students through a thorough analysis of some of the most complex events in history: the Civil Rights movement, the «forgotten» Armenian genocide, the Holocaust, apartheid in South Africa.

9 • solve one - step problems involving multiplication and division, by calculating the answer using concrete objects, pictorial representations and arrays with the support of the teacher • recognise, find and name a half as 1 of 2 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • recognise, find and name a quarter as 1 of 4 equal parts of an object, shape or quantity • Compare, describe and solve practical problems for: lengths and heights [for example, long / short, longer / shorter, tall / short, double / half]; mass or weight [for example, heavy / light, heavier than, lighter than]; capacity / volume [for example, full / empty, more than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTImore than, less than, half, half full, quarter]; time [for example, quicker, slower, earlier, later]; • measure and begin to record the following: lengths and height; mass / weight; capacity and volume; time (hours, minutes, seconds) • recognise and know the value of different denominations of coins and notes • sequence events in chronological order using language (for example, before and after, next, first, today, yesterday, tomorrow, morning, afternoon and evening) • describe position direction and movement including whole half quarter and three quarter turns PLUS MANY MORE OBJECTIMORE OBJECTIVES!

We are starting to see the growth of a real nationwide movement as more and more schools and teachers come on board.

WASHINGTON — The National Education Association has made another step toward allying itself more closely with its chief rival, the American Federation of Teachers, as well as with other education associations and the labor movement as a whole.

Does the accountability movement in schools force teachers to spend more time teaching to the test?

In recent years, the Maker movement has generated a new following in education with many teachers adding interesting new tools and materials like robots, 3D printing, e-textiles, and more.

In some ways, Social Justice Humanitas Academy, with its emphasis on teacher leadership, rather than on a more collaborative decision - making model involving parents, students and community partners, makes it a bit of an outlier in the movement.

Again, the movement is toward seeing the unions in a negative light, but still more than two teachers in five see the union as having a good effect on schools.

What began as a single after - school guitar class has since exploded into a national movement that brings free, weekly music lessons to over 250,000 public school children through the efforts of more than 1,700 teachers in 124 school districts nationwide.

If it is the case that professionalized teachers are more likely to seek parental and community involvement, then the dynamic in education resembles a current movement within the medical profession, where many practitioners now seek to involve patients as partners in making complex decisions about health care.

His own conversion to the school reform movement offers one more reason why defenders of traditional public education such as the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers can no longer count on the Democratic Party for unquestioned support.

In larger schools, students and teachers will need to share spaces, requiring new ways of thinking about scheduling and coordination, not to mention allowing for more freedom of movement for students.

Building on the promise of the competency - based movement and the urgent need to engage more aspiring teachers earlier, the Educators Rising Beginning to Teach microcredentials aim to become a key part of a systemic solution for improving how aspiring educators demonstrate their skills and knowledge on their road to becoming accomplished teachers.

As teacher unions step up their calls to stop the «corporate agenda» in education and to confront the «privatization» movement, there is a far more real and serious threat facing teacher unions.

Her complex feelings reflect the nationwide ambivalence toward the growing movement to hold teachers more accountable for what their students actually learn.

The report accelerated a nationwide movement to overhaul teacher evaluations to more accurately reflect the range of teacher performance in U.S. classrooms.

The recent positive psychology movement has given a new impetus to revisiting the perennial problem of teacher burnout, suggesting that intervention efforts could be more productively shifted from

TFA, suitably representative of the liberal education reform more generally, underwrites, intentionally or not, the conservative assumptions of the education reform movement: that teacher's unions serve as barriers to quality education; that testing is the best way to assess quality education; that educating poor children is best done by institutionalizing them; that meritocracy is an end - in - itself; that social class is an unimportant variable in education reform; that education policy is best made by evading politics proper; and that faith in public school teachers is misplaced.

Help us push the UFT leadership to be more democratic and inclusive of rank - and - file teacher input, and lend your expertise towards fighting what Diane Ravitch calls the «corporate education deform movement.»

By contrast, Villaraigosa has been more closely allied with the charter school movement over a period of many years as well as being a harsh critic of teachers unions, both in Los Angeles and statewide.

What can be done to encourage more secondary teachers to include movement?

PS: Rick, It is more than just the «teacher unions» that are shocked and upset that Dan Malloy would join Michelle Rhee or any of the others who are leading the anti-teacher movement.

More than 7,000 public school teachers from Chula Vista to Eureka have joined this thriving movement to either lead a new charter school or to teach at one.

The study — funded by the Department of Education and the National Institutes of Health — found first - grade teachers with a higher percentage of students with math difficulties in their classrooms were more likely to use student - centered instructional methods (such as the use of calculators, or movement and music to learn math) that have not been associated with achievement gains.

The late Al Shanker, the legendary former president of the American Federation of Teachers, encouraged the charter - school movement, but Schroeder said the union began to change its thinking more than a year ago as more studies were published.

It is a movement of teachers, administrators, parents, and students who are demanding something more of their schools than just higher test scores.

The accountability movement in education — which was inaugurated by teachers unions, a fact nearly always overlooked by critics — has led to greater understanding of the power of teaching to change students» lives and the power of teachers to become more effective in response to feedback from peers and administrators.

«We want to thank the supporters of the charter movement, including students, parents and teachers, for recognizing the important role of charter schools in public education, and for supporting efforts to expand quality education opportunities to more students.

A staggered school day with both students and teachers working on alternate, overlapping schedules would afford smaller class sizes, more minutes of instruction, and more opportunities for student movement, activities, and enrichment.