Sentences with phrase «of educational assistants»

The basic responsibilities of educational assistants are to provide support to teachers in the classroom so that they can concentrate on teaching activities solely.

He requires the support of an educational assistant every minute of the school day.

Not exact matches

«The purpose of the garden is educational,» says Danise Coon, assistant director of the Institute.

Pardew obvously absorbed this educational lesson in playground bullying and placed an impolite hand on an assistant ref in 2012 when boss of Newcastle.

Noel's former assistant, Jean Pierre, accused her of forging his signature and misusing his Social Security number when Noel was digging into his educational background.

The applications are then reviewed by a panel of state educational leaders from various professional associations, including the School Administrators Association of N.Y. State; N.Y. State United Teachers; the United Federation of Teachers; and the N.Y. State Parent Teacher Association, along with the assistant provost for educator preparation at the State University of New York (SUNY).

It can be a significant expense for societies to investigate these claims and in some cases it is unclear whether these societies have legal obligations to inform the researchers» home institutions of their findings, said Jodi Wesemann, assistant director for educational research at the American Chemical Society.

Brooke Blevins, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction and Karon LeCompte, Ph.D., assistant professor of curriculum and instruction in Baylor's School of Education studied the effectiveness of iCivics, a free online website founded by retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor that teaches civics concepts using 19 educational games.

«The adolescent brain is very sensitive to feedback,» says Sabine Peters, assistant professor of developmental and educational psychology and lead author of the article.

«If we are seeing this amount of variation in Texas, imagine what we would see in a state where the population is newer and educators have less experience serving immigrants and English learners,» said Madeline Mavrogordato, assistant professor of K - 12 educational administration and lead author.

Back on campus at McGill University in Montreal, I became a part - time curatorial assistant at McGill's entomological museum, which had me delivering educational talks to school kids, cataloging specimens, and taking care of live cultures of such creepy - crawlies as giant walking sticks from Papua New Guinea and Madagascar's hissing cockroaches.

The rule's exceptions, who are exempt from the overtime provisions regardless of how much they earn, include numerous employees of higher educational institutions, including teachers (from graduate assistants through tenured professors), coaches, and graduate and undergraduate students — but not postdocs.

Other contributors were Nathaniel von der Embse, assistant professor of school psychology at the University of South Florida; Stephanie Iaccarino, doctoral student in the educational psychology program at Temple University; Ariel Mankin, doctoral student in the school psychology program at Temple University; and Eran Magen, Director of the Center for Supportive Relationships.

The paper was co-authored by Joseph Simons - Rudolph, a teaching assistant professor of psychology at NC State; Christine Brugh and Eileen Schilling, graduate students at NC State; and Chad Hoggan, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and human development at NC State.

Kessler Foundation, in partnership with Shepherd Center and key stakeholders, will identify educational needs and develop an online course to help new personal care assistants (PCAs)- who are typically unfamiliar with the special needs of people with SCI - understand the unique effects of spinal cord injury, the types of care needs that people with SCI have, and how the assistance that PCAs provide helps those with spinal cord injury live healthy, productive lives in the community.

As a graduate student, she developed and presented a range of educational outreach and development programs, including a two - day discipline - specific pedagogical training for incoming teaching assistants, as well as four animated videos of classical ecology papers.

Though it can be difficult, it's worth reflecting on the good times you shared with your pet, says Sarah Kate Bearman, PhD, an assistant professor of educational psychology at the University of Texas at Austin.

The other empty positions are those of deputy undersecretary for management and assistant secretary for postsecondary education, educational research and improvement, civil rights, and vocational and adult education.

Before his new job began late last month, Mr. Whitehurst was the assistant secretary in charge of the Department of Education's office of educational research and improvement.

John B. Diamond, an expert on the relationship between family background and children's educational experiences, will join the faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Education as an assistant professor of education on July 1, 2004.

Student - led conferences are emerging as a way to actively engage students in their learning process, wrote Donald G. Hackmann, assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University in an ERIC Digest, «Student - Led Conferences at the Middle Level.»

«I think this is the first attempt to have a common research agenda that can be broadly communicated to the field,» Francie M. Alexander, a deputy assistant secretary in the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, said in an interview.

Hackmann, an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Iowa State University and author of Student - Led Conferences at the Middle Level, has conducted research about student - led conferences.

98, assistant director of the Commercialism in Education Research Unit at Arizona State University, recently coauthored a report on the for - profit educational management industry under the supervision of Alex Molnar, a nationally recognized opponent of commercialization in schools.

Diamond is currently an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee in the department of educational policy and community studies.

«It's an attractive idea in a lot of ways,» says Harvard Graduate School of Education Assistant Professor Vivian Louie, whose research looks at the role of the immigrant family in the educational experiences of second - generation Chinese Americans who are consistently presented as high academic achievers.

The speaker was Chester E. Finn, Jr., assistant secretary and head of the Education Department's office of educational research and improvement, which sponsored the event.

«In spite of decades of trying,» asserted Chester E. Finn Jr., the department's assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, «our field has not yet succeeded in persuading many people, save for our own fraternity members, of course, that education research is valuable or worthwhile except in situations where its work is palpably joined, in ways that any layman can understand, to real life issues, problems, and...

- Sandra Vergari is an assistant professor of educational administration and policy at the University at Albany, State University of New York.

With a career forged in educational grantmaking, state education policy, and academe, Kent McGuire seems to have spent a lifetime preparing for his new role as assistant secretary of the Department of Education's office of educational research and improvement.

With a rising immigrant population, a well - documented achievement gap between white students and students of color, and broadening gaps in wealth of Americans, Deb Delisle, the assistant secretary for elementary and secondary education for the U.S. Department of Education, said that the odds that are against these children were are really related to a gap in «educational opportunity.»

Packed with geography and history, yet exciting enough to keep teen and adult players engaged for hours, Civilization III was, in many ways, already an educational game before Kurt Squire, an assistant professor of education technology at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, decided to try it out on groups of eleven - to fifteen - year - olds at an inner city Boston school.

Assistant Professor Jon Star, an educational psychologist who studies children's learning of mathematics, is one of the six researchers involved in the project.

Pollock, an assistant professor of education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, argues in her new book, Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (Princeton University Press, May 2004), that both clumsy race talk and an insistence on avoiding race labels in schools have actually fueled racial disparities in educational opportunity and attainment.

Perhaps personal devices — mobile phones, tablets, and laptops — will ultimately embed these voice - activated assistants in a more appropriate way for an educational environment — and spare schools the costs of purchasing standalone devices.

Let's hear another perspective,»» says Assistant Professor Hunter Gelhbach, an educational psychologist who studies how improved educational settings can enhance social interactions of teachers and students.

«We're making progress,» said Douglas N. Harris, an assistant professor of educational policy studies at the Wisconsin Center for Educational Research, based at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

In the belief that contemporary society is destroying the traditional concept of childhood, Ms. Suransky, an assistant professor in the University of Michigan's educational psychology department, explores ways to restore the curiosity, moral sensibility, and playfulness she believes children have lost.

An ELSA network is made up of specialist teaching assistants who have had additional training from educational psychologists to offer support to children at times of emotional distress, like a divorce.

Helen Barrett, an assistant professor and educational technology coordinator for the School of Education at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, provides another definition, one developed by the Northwest Evaluation Association:

Kevin Bushweller is an assistant managing editor for Education Week who oversees coverage of educational technology and the K - 12 marketplace.

Team members representing the educational sector could include school building committee members, superintendents, principals and assistant principals, teachers, directors of curriculum and instruction, parents, special educators, and local and state education leaders, and policymakers

James V. Shuls is an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Missouri — St. Louis and Distinguished Fellow in Education Policy at the Show - Me Institute.

Having also served as director of mathematics, executive director of curriculum and instruction, and assistant superintendent for curriculum and professional development, she draws on her experience in curriculum and educational technology as the district embarks on major reforms in technology integration and blended learning.

SPA Assistant Professor Seth Gershenson researches the effects of marijuana usage on educational productivity.

At the Lawrenceville School, she has taught, been an assistant housemaster, overseen the early warning system, a program to close the achievement gap, served as an instructional leader, worked with University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Study of Boys» and Girls» Lives» to foster student action research projects and coordinated the educational support program.

This program promotes educational excellence for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade (PreK - 8) schooling and calls attention to the fundamental importance of the assistant principal.

Ms. Gantwerk was then appointed to the position of Assistant Commissioner for the Division of Student Services, the division responsible for state and federal programs serving the needs of the student populations most at risk for educational problems including; students with disabilities, economically disadvantaged students (Title I) homeless, migrant and limited English proficient students.

Once at HGSE, Mundy - Shephard credits two courses — Associate Professor John Diamond's Race, Class, and Educational Inequality and Assistant Professor Natasha Warikoo's Cultural Explanations for Ethnic and Racial Inequality in Education — with prompting her to consider how the intersection of racial and sexual minority identity impacts school experiences and educational outcomes, particularly in the context of bullying, harassment, and microaggressions and participation in Gay Straight Alliances (GSAs).

Christopher T. Cross, assistant secretary for educational research and improvement, told senior members of his staff last week that he had been relieved of his position effective April 1.