Sentences with phrase «of collaborating with teachers»

Many of our executives are former educators who believe deeply in our mission of collaborating with teachers to provide rigorous and riveting learning for all students.

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TweetThe STEM Education Coalition Policy Forum was proud to collaborate with the Afterschool Alliance, the Association of Science — Technology Centers, the Education Development Center, and the National Science Teachers Association to host the first of a series of briefings on informal STEM education.

Crew helps pull them out of their shells, and in class they're compelled on a daily basis to interact with their peers and teachers in group discussions and to collaborate on group projects, and before long that kind of interaction begins to feel natural.

She spent a number of years as an Early Literacy Instructor training teachers, working with credential programs in local universities, guest lecturing at various venues, and collaborating with parents and teachers to promote literacy in the community.

In an atmosphere of free and open inquiry, students and teachers debate, collaborate, and investigate, challenging assumptions — and one another — with insights backed by rigorous study.

Since teachers» priority is to help kids learn, collaborating with parents to develop a robust IEP is a critical piece of the success puzzle for kids who learn differently.

He said his outfit would collaborate with the leadership of NAGRAT, GNAT and CCTAG to mobilize the unpaid newly recruited teachers to physically show Ghanaians to disprove GES» statement.

The report called on the Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection to collaborate with the Ghana Education Service to ensure that head teachers act as first - line managers or supervisors of the programme to complement the work of zonal coordinators.

The current secretary of state for education, Nicky Morgan, has spoken recently of her commitment to the «self - improving, school - led system», characterised by bottom - up innovations coming from «networks of schools and teachers collaborating with one another to drive up standards».

Over the past five years, the United Federation of Teachers, New York State United Teachers and the American Federation of Teachers have spent a total of $ 5.5 million on groups collaborating with a coalition known as the Hedge Clippers, according to records.

Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has paid a visit to the wives of six Turkish teachers who on March 29 were said to have been abducted and flown to Turkey by Turkey's notorious National Intelligence Organisation (MİT) by collaborating with Kosovar groups in its intelligence units.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

At each school, a trained site coordinator — a licensed school counselor or school social worker — collaborated with classroom teachers to evaluate how children were doing academically, behaviorally and socially, and in terms of their health.

We contribute to the training of the next generation of scientists and engineers, collaborate with K - 12 teachers on ways to improve science teaching using an inquiry - based approach to learning, and improve the science literacy of the community at large.

In addition to her role as director and teacher in both the preclinical and clinical medical school programs in psychiatry, Dr. Poag has contributed to NYU School of Medicine's C21 Curriculum, collaborating with numerous departments to create novel teaching tools including online modules, interdisciplinary selectives, and activities at the New York Simulation Center for the Health Sciences Simulation Center.

Bent On Learning collaborates with physical education teachers, guidance counselors and school administrators to offer yoga and meditation to grades Pre-K — 12 and make movement, breathing and relaxation techniques a regular part of a child's school day and learning experience.

A powerful way to support the development of growth mindsets among teachers is for them to experience a positive impact in their classrooms, and teachers have shared with us the positive impact they have seen when they have an opportunity to collaborate with colleagues and work on projects, such as creating more effective lessons.

Joining an online community of science teachers is a great way to find resources, inspiration and like - minded colleagues to collaborate with as you re-tool your courses for the next school year.

Students read books, sing songs, draw pictures, and... go outside to take photos, shoot video of themselves offering explanations, collaborate with their teacher, and publish to a broader audience.

When the teachers are of mind to lower the school walls, to genuinely collaborate with homes, to distribute the control of the learning and teaching, to understand that formal schooling occupies less than 20 per cent of the children's learning time each year and to recognise the learning and teaching occurring in the remaining 80 per cent, the school can then seriously contemplate a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) program.

But now teachers of even the youngest students are using technology so kids can see and chat with their peers one town over or collaborate with students as far away as China.

Because we work with all students in different areas of their school life, we're able to collaborate with special educators and classroom teachers to paint a whole picture of an individual student or class.

The University's Associate Professor Susan Colmar collaborated with NSW Department of Education Senior Psychologists Nash Davis and Linda Sheldon to develop the Memory Mates program, which trains teachers to support primary school children to adopt and use ten attention and working memory strategies.

Stand By Me: Using Teacher Listservs to Collaborate With Other Educators Educator Brenda Dyck reflects on the power of educator listservs.

From the very beginning, Mission Lab was considered a critical design aspect of Quest to Learn — a design lab in the school where game designers and learning designers from Institute of Play could work daily with teachers to research, collaborate, and design game - based and game - like learning experiences for students.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

In five of the six schools, teachers met with assigned teams on a regular basis (in the sixth school, teachers were strongly encouraged to collaborate but not assigned to teams).

Leaders of AL teams at CPAHS have drawn from Lingard and Renshaw's assertion that teachers must take on a «researcherly disposition'to improve their practice and that this is further strengthened when «research - informed» teachers collaborate with researchers (Lingard, & Renshaw, 2009).

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

When I work with teachers, we always collaborate to design projects with the appropriate level of voice and choice for students, which depends on factors such as time of the year, age level, content, and many others.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

I am dreaming, writes Rashmi Kathuria (@rashkath), of the day «when a teacher gets a chance to connect, collaborate, discuss and share with teachers all across the globe.»

Art teacher Pete Sotelo is looking to add to his «collection» of lesson plans by collaborating with other art teachers on - line.

While this positive response is certainly dependent on the special nature of the objective - setting process in Denver — a process in which teachers collaborated directly with their principals to set goals based on individually measured baselines for the students they taught, in the subject matter they taught — this response still flies in the face of preconceptions that teachers fear pay for performance based on student growth because it will harm collegial relations.

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.

In the seventh grade, we are collaborating with my colleague Mary Ann Devine, a science teacher, who has dreamed up a unit involving the study of endothermic and exothermic reactions.

There has been a lot of discussion about how students will be using the digital campus to collaborate with each other, their teachers, and their lecturers.

Teachers should also be better supported to collaborate and exchange information about students» difficulties, character and strengths with their colleagues, so that they can collectively find the best approach to make students feel part of the school community.

Increasingly, institutes of higher education are collaborating with K - 12 teachers to help them use digital tools to get at - risk students excited about learning.

Within a matter of hours, I saw teachers connecting with other teachers to form Skype chats with their students for book talks or creating wikis so that their students, from across the globe, could collaborate on projects.

Cerf has also collaborated with Booker's successor, Mayor Ras Baraka, a former city councilman and high school principal whose 2014 campaign was based on his opposition to Anderson and her reforms and had the backing of the Newark Teachers Union.

The Gijón SmartKids program is developed by CTIC with the support of the City of Gijón, where teachers and innovative companies collaborate.

In the course of a day, teachers interact with students, dialogue with parents, collaborate with colleagues, and report to supervisors.

As a result of intentional staffing, formal opportunities to collaborate on the creation of learning experiences and resources with Lead Teachers is possible.

The learning centres facilitate group learning where teachers can share, collaborate and work closely with smaller groups of students within the same area as up to 140 students.

«We're preparing academic teachers to teach in career technical education (CTE) schools and collaborate with other CTE teachers,» says Nancy Farnan, director of San Diego State's School of Teacher Education, «Typically teachers don't have experience with collaborating.»

Grades: 6 - 8, 9 - 12 The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics has collaborated with Texas Instruments to create this site that complements the CBS television show «Numb3rs».

To control the physical aspects of students» making, Emily collaborated with art teacher Lisa Yokana to establish constraints for the project.

As my first year progressed I found it easy to collaborate with a couple of teachers in subject areas other than mine but for the most part I was alone — on my own when it came to learning, growing, and developing into the social studies teacher I wanted to be.

If you are a gamer like me, or have a friend you can collaborate with, you might be able to gamify an activity from your teacher's bag - of - tricks.