North Carolina initiated the project in part to meet
the need for professional development for Early Head Start (EHS) teachers in new and expanded programs.
Officials said the district is currently battling administrative issues, such as employee retirements,
the need for professional development for newer staff and high health care costs.
Not exact matches
In the same way that companies recognize the
need for feedback and
professional development, they're noticing the value of flexible hours and remote working.
While it can be challenging
for someone to reach past his or her pride to say, «I
need help,» counseling is one of the best tools available
for personal and
professional development.
«Management truly cares about employees»
professional development and in finding a great fit
for each employee in a high - impact role — matching an employee's dream job to our customers» critical
needs.»
We also provide a much
needed forum
for our members to converge and discuss current non-competitive issues of mutual interest, as well as provide a range of
professional development opportunities
for industry colleagues.
Whether it is networking,
professional development or connecting with one of our exhibiting companies you
need to plan ahead, set up appointments and register
for the educational sessions you are interested in attending.
The focus of the training, delivered via
professional -
development workshops and phone - coaching sessions, was the personal interactions in the classroom between teachers and students; the coaches gave teachers strategies designed to help them build a «positive emotional climate» and show «sensitivity to student
needs for autonomy.»
By advocating
for successful governmental policies, setting standards
for professionals in the education industry, and providing
professional development seminars, it helps teachers, administrators, parents, related students and other educational support staff to best support and educate the special
needs children with whom they work.
This should be accompanied by greater
professional development for a media community which
needs to provide adequate analysis and report the news in an appropriately rigorous way.
NYFAC also serves
professionals and students who want to learn how to better handle children with special
needs and is recognized as a worldwide leader in the
development of training materials
for professionals working with children with autism spectrum disorders.
He will outline
developments on the exam front: «[I] t is fundamental that we have a set of examinations that are seen by all as being of the highest standard and which develop the relevant technical skills and knowledge
for the many and varied tax related roles that people undertake... I am therefore extremely grateful to a past President, John Beattie, who has been leading a comprehensive review of our entire exam system to ensure it is as relevant as possible to the
needs of today's tax
professional.
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.
Alabi identified creative and clear headed
professionals as essential tools
for national
development, saying it behoves on journalists to be savvy in finance, budgeting, auditing and other relevant fields to be able to put government on its toes with a view to ensuring that budget proposals are not just in line with the
needs of the people but to be seen to be well implemented.
«It's the only way that teachers get the relevant, hands - on
professional development we
need to improve instruction,» said Vice President
for Education Catalina Fortino, who directs the UFT Teacher Center.
The report highlights many important problems that countries like the United Kingdom have been focusing on to provide better support to early - career researchers, such as «the multi-facetted role of the early career researcher and the
need for professional development in areas beyond research such as people management and winning funding,» writes Ellen Pearce, director of Vitae, a U.K. organization that promotes the
professional development of early - career researchers, in an email to Science Careers.
Given the paucity of academic openings and most universities» perplexing reluctance to bring their own, presumably well - trained, postdocs into their tenured ranks, there is thus a pressing
need for professional -
development training to equip postdocs
for opportunities beyond the campus.
The findings highlight a pressing
need for new curriculum and
professional development for teachers to help students, and English learners in particular, to develop their academic language skills, Thompson said.
The slow rate of improvement in postdocs» attitudes toward their
professional and career
development point toward the
need for a culture change more profound than what has so far occurred, Mellors - Bourne says.
Factors that «clearly play a role in faculty attitudes» about students spending time on
professional development activities include «[p] ressures...
for scholarly productivity» and the
need to produce usable data, the report notes.
Our graduate
professional development course made the participants aware of the skill set they will
need for lifelong career
development.
Teachers reported they felt they were meeting the
needs of students and findings suggest a
need for more
professional development and additional planning time as these networks take root.
The overarching goal of the
Professional Development Core (PDC) is to address the unmet need for more diversity in the biomedical research workforce by creating and nationally disseminating transformative, high - impact, professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral
Professional Development Core (PDC) is to address the unmet need for more diversity in the biomedical research workforce by creating and nationally disseminating transformative, high - impact, professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral d
Development Core (PDC) is to address the unmet
need for more diversity in the biomedical research workforce by creating and nationally disseminating transformative, high - impact,
professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral
professional development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral d
development programs to support mentees from diverse backgrounds in biomedical / bio-behavioral disciplines.
Crowdfunding is a great option when you
need classroom materials, money
for field trips, or even
professional development.
Our main goal is to represent all LRI graduate students and advocate
for their unique
needs and concerns in order to maximize academic and
professional development
This includes a pilot program called the Postdoc Job Search Boot Camp Program which was aimed at 1) helping postdocs becoming independent, self - directed job - seekers and not
need to rely solely on their faculty / PI
for their
professional development needs; 2) build an individual's capacity
for seeking out resources
for expanding and supporting their own career
development; and 3) building a community of support
for job seekers.
To represent the
needs of our graduates, we established INTA (The International Natural Therapies Association), which provides a forum
for professional development and a worldwide referral network
for those looking
for a practitioner.
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.
Modern work practices and the
need for continuous
professional and personal
development are directing the ways we learn.
It will take a lot to make public schools more effective
for all students: greater academic rigor, higher standards of conduct, more parental involvement, meaningful
professional development for teachers, stronger incentives
for the students themselves, and, of course, more access to health and social services
for the many students who are in
need of such.
But schools
need more time and Title I money
for professional development.
This means principals
need rigorous
professional development and opportunities
for deeper learning, too.
There is a very clear understanding that if you are a child born with a disability or additional
need or this is identified at the 2 year
development check then it will be relatively easy
for professionals to work together to formulate an education, health and care plan to meet individual
needs.
Firstly, the report authors identify the
need for professional development of teachers to enable successful school - industry collaboration.
This has wide implications
for schools as they will
need to offer high quality
professional development and training to ensure that their workforce has the knowledge, skills and expertise to deliver personalised teaching
for all pupils.
This experience catapulted me into the awareness that in order to transform schools we'll
need to pay a lot more attention to
professional development for teachers and leaders.
Finally, in the
professional development domain Ingvarson says individuals «review their performance in the light of standards
for accomplished teaching and feedback about its impact», which means they can set goals and pinpoint the PD they
need to help achieve them.
That then ends up leading to another
need for PD,
for that
professional development from our teachers.
Likewise, senior leaders should be embedding regular opportunities
for continuing
professional development (CPD) across the whole school, giving teachers the skills and knowledge they
need to teach today's children about the digital world appropriately and effectively.
In schools, if you get inside the data and actually have a look at what the students are doing, what their areas of strengths are, where they
need to build, perhaps as a school there might be some areas of weakness, then you can target some
professional development for teachers and maybe target some additional support staff in the classes.
What kind of
professional development is
needed to train teachers
for new goals?
Adjunct Lecturer Paul Natola agreed that
professional development is a key issue in conquering math education and cited a
need for mandates and systematic changes.
Bound up in this is the
need for school districts to provide adequate
professional training and
development for substitutes, who are in short supply, and to encourage a positive working relationship between classroom teachers and their substitutes.
Schools also
need to ensure that there is high quality continuing
professional development opportunities
for all staff.
The report, «Learning To Lead, Leading To Learn: Improving School Quality Through Principal
Professional Development,» stresses the
need for continual, hands - on training in the classroom
for principals.
One of the key messages within the Green Paper and reinforced in the new Ofsted framework is the
need for high quality
professional development opportunities
for the school workforce and those who work with schools supporting children and young people.
Educators looking to add effective and efficient
professional development opportunities
for staff
need to look no further than online, according to a new book edited by Wirth Professor Chris Dede.
Those districts are turning to Kaplan
for a range of services — from intervention services
for students with the greatest
need to
professional development for teachers.
The author argues
for the
need to shift discourse and focus from delivering and evaluating
professional -
development programs to understanding and supporting authentic
professional learning.
Effective performance and
development requires setting clear goals, derived from an identified
need, and which include a plan
for translation to practice and inform the selection of
professional learning activities.