Sentences with phrase «of challenges for educators»

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.

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This is the most challenging task for us, his primary educators, a task that requires the full use of our hearts and our time.

would LOVE to try this flour for bread - baking for myself and my family; we have type 1 diabetes along with Celiac disease so I do a LOT of cooking and baking at home and love to share recipes with all my patients who have gluten and diabetes challenges as well (I am also a Nutritionist and diabetes educator)

Challenge Success has become a trusted «voice of reason» for parents and educators, and has received significant media attention and tremendous public and private support.

Kids With Cameras follows the progress, challenges and triumphs of a group of children with autism and Aspergers syndrome participating in a film camp hosted by non-profit Actors for Autism, and taught by award - winning educator Brad Koepenick.

Of interest today, these compromises included questions of assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public educatioOf interest today, these compromises included questions of assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public educatioof assessment and accountability, an ongoing challenge for all Waldorf educators and a particular question for those in the sphere of public educatioof public education.

«The great challenge for educators is finding that spot where the most people are satisfied and an equal number of people are dissatisfied in each direction,» he adds.

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.

Madeline Levine, Ph.D., a psychologist, consultant, educator and co-founder of Challenge Success at the Stanford School of Education, and author of Teach Your Children Well: Parenting for Authentic Success.

«Two days of testing is a natural next step, as long as the assessments continue to cover the material needed to truly measure every student's strengths and challenges, and the changes are implemented carefully and with the input of educators and communities,» High Achievement New York, which advocates for higher standards, said in a statement.

Adopted by nearly every state and largely commended by educators, the standards were designed collaboratively by education leaders and teachers to prepare students for the challenges of the modern workplace.

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

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.

Arguing for the need to focus on «solutions rather than on catastrophic consequences of climate change,» Wibeck suggests effective methods for moving forward with climate change communication, emphasising a need for strategic interaction between communicators and educators, arguing that it is necessary if the public role in challenging global climate change is going to increase.

«There has been a widespread pattern of discrimination against educators who would challenge evolution in the classroom,» Casey Luskin, a policy analyst for the pro-intelligent design Discovery Institute, in Seattle, Washington, told ScienceInsider.

It also provides the premier interdisciplinary forum for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of Nanotechnology.

Like many educators, they grappled with the challenge of the seemingly competing needs for teaching curriculum and time for reflection.

VideoAmy has collected this playlist of videos and resources for educators everywhere who are facing the challenge of mapping their practice to the Common Core State Standards.

Whilst quality and accountability is essential to teacher and principal development, and the notion of professional standards is supported in principle, it is of concern to many educators that the complexity of professional growth, development and training has been reduced to a set of basic competencies that may not truly reflect the complex nature of teaching, the principalship, teacher education and the preparation of teachers and educational leaders for contemporary times and a challenging future.

Our panel of judges consists of teachers, entrepreneurs and industry experts, and for Bett 2016 they are again searching for the most innovative and relevant ideas that truly meet the challenges that educators and learners are faced with.

I understand that for a CEO of a company, it is hard to work with a «lousy product» but for an educator teaching the Statistics 101 course, shouldn't the numbers be a challenge, a source of motivation?

In this article for District Administration, regular Edutopia blogger Suzie Boss tells the story of how schools are meeting the challenge of standardized tests and moving past the «bubble» exam; she also highlights how educators are overcoming fear and anxiety around assessing critical thinking and content.

Having now seen thousands of educators make time to participate in the Shadow a Student Challenge, we have come to insist on a shadowing day for the start of any school innovation project.

Two educators present ideas for transforming our classrooms to meet the challenges of the future in this excerpt from their new book.

«It's important for educators to know what we need, and it's good for us to have a better idea of their challenges,» said Tikoian of Sovereign Bank, who shadowed Margaret Tincknell, principal of Bernon Heights Elementary School in Woonsocket.

They outline the challenges that early educators face, emphasize the importance of a rigorous and regulated (R2) learning environment, propose strategies for impact and implementation, and detail the...

Drawing on the latest knowledge in the areas of research, policy, and practice, the volume provides insight into contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and failed strategies while offering solutions and ideas for policymakers and educators.

In this regard, advancement of technology and spread of knowledge have certainly brought new opportunities for learners, new challenges for educators, and, possibly, new dangers as well for all stakeholders.

Educators are living with the new tech challenges all over the world, so if they were calling the shots, how would they approach the development of meaningful professional development programs for their communities?

If we, you and I together, take this challenge and indeed build that community of collaborative and diverse learners and give to the world what Harvard's Graduate School of Education has already given to us, I believe that the prophesy of the Jesuit French educator Tielhard de Chardin will come true about the HGSE graduating class of 2008 - that women and men will decree, long after we have walked across this stage, that for the second time in history, humankind discovered fire.

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.

New York — Practicing educators praised the College Board, at its annual meeting here last week, for providing a sensible approach to educational reform, and they challenged the organization to continue pressing for a high - school curriculum that develops students» competencies as well as their knowledge of specific subjects.

He made sure that the push to hold educators accountable for results stopped short of challenging protection of dismal teachers and stymied efforts to send strong teachers into weak schools.

Likewise, student assessment is one of the most challenging practices for today's educators, but this site makes it seem easy.

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.

Professor Richard Murnane, the student - selected faculty speaker, reflected on five decades of education and the five challenges currently facing all educators around the world: make equality a reality for all children; use money so it affects students» daily experience; create schools that prepare children for the future; make school choice work for the most disadvantaged; and create school accountability systems that improve education for all our children.

However challenging the new curriculum is for educators, the focus needs to be on how best to implement it for the benefit of students and schools.

What we found in our initial prototypes — launching an innovation lab space, creating a design thinking professional development experience, and running student - facing design challenges for middle - and high - school classes — was that the design thinking process functioned as a kind of oasis for educators, reconnecting them to their creativity and aspirations for helping students develop as deep thinkers and doers, not just as test takers.

Most educators agree that differentiated instruction can dramatically help students to succeed, but good differentiation needs careful planning to make sure students of all abilities are engaged and it can be a challenge when teachers are already so pressed for time.

He said, «In the present environment of high stakes testing, budgetary challenges, increased demands on educators and competition for students attention, everyone in the school benefits when humor is part of the pedagogy.

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.

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For the educators participating in Levinson's «Dilemmas of Ethical Educational Leadership» session — as part of the Leading 21st Century High Schools institute recently offered by Programs in Professional Education (PPE)-- ethical challenges are a part of the job, whether promoting students they know aren't prepared to move on, or dealing with staff cuts, or grappling with how many resources to dedicate to a...

For the educators participating in Levinson's «Dilemmas of Ethical Educational Leadership» session — as part of the Leading 21st Century High Schools institute recently offered by Programs in Professional Education (PPE)-- ethical challenges are a part of the job, whether promoting students they know aren't prepared to move on, or dealing with staff cuts, or grappling with how many resources to dedicate to a teacher before cutting their losses.

A sharp divide among Democrats was in full view at the party's national convention in Denver, where urban mayors and educators, gathered at a forum sponsored by Democrats for Education Reform (DFER), challenged the dominant role of teachers unions in shaping policy.

This is relevant for pedagogy, she says, because many of these language challenges are invisible to educators, curriculum designers, and researchers.

Also, most children are using the internet as a tool to complete school projects and learn new things outside of the classroom, so it's challenging for parents and educators to have it both ways.

Two central challenges for educators are identifying the correct levels of academic difficulty for each student and finding methods for ascertaining whether texts are appropriately challenging.