Sentences with phrase «of real educators»

No less than one of your real educators ought to peruse over your statement for substance and clarity.

He could have organized a panel of real educators and parents to review programs in other countries, like Finland, and pulled the best practices for America's schools.

«The opinions expressed in this survey are those of real educators eager to see their profession progress,» stated AAE Chairman and President Gary Beckner.

Not exact matches

He says an absence of focused educators in this subject is the real crux of the problem.

My Rotman Executive MBA class was a diverse group of forward - thinking, hard - working individuals from surprising backgrounds: in a team of doctors, lawyers, general managers, senior executives, financial whizzes and real estate directors, we also had musicians, artists and educators.

If administrators and senior faculty set their assignments with real seriousness and adopt them into the company of educators with great care, that invitation can function as a genuine call to profession.

We, a small group of theological educators, went to a Demolition Derby — a real one, with cars, and then trucks, smashing into each others in a muddy arena, and more than a thousand people watching from the grandstands.

The goal, Vasconcelos said, was «to get back on the track of simple civilized normality» (italics added), that is to say, an eminently traditional and conservative goal.65 It is not surprising that a later educator would judge Vasconcelos's work as minister of education «chaotically inconsistent, its accomplishments much more apparent than real.

But there are scores of millions of Americans who would choose not to recognize same - sex «marriage» as the real thing, if they were fully free to choose, as employers, educators, landlords, providers of goods and services, social service providers, and so on.

The real issue is not the threat such projects pose to the authority of the home and school, but the fact that young people come to high school so dismally uninformed religiously by home and church that responsible educators feel obliged to take up the task.

One year ago this month, I travelled to Oak Brook, Illinois to attend the annual McDonald's shareholder meeting along with five other moms: Sally Kuzemchak of Real Mom Nutrition; Casey Hinds of KY Healthy Kids; Leah Segedie, founder of the Mamavation community; Migdalia Rivera, associate campaign director at MomsRising.org; and Rosa Perea, a Chicago - area health educator.

Additionally, each kit contains detailed information on the use and care of cloth diapers, a helpful class outline for educators, full color brochures branded with participating Sponsor logos, and washing guidelines from our sister organization, the Real Diaper Association.

I'm hoping to eventually become a high school English teacher and this book was a real eye - opener and should be of extreme importance to all educators.

He ticked off a list of school governance reforms the union is pushing for in Albany: don't allow the citywide Panel for Educational Policy to be controlled by one person; give Community Education Councils a real voice, especially concerning co-locations; and require that the schools chancellor be an educator.

That tally included a broad array of people, from business owners to real estate players to educators to cops and firefighters and everyday citizens.

«At the moment, New York needs a caring pragmatist willing to address real concerns raised by caring parents and educators who see a system being manipulated from above to the detriment of their children,» he said.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

That's a risky proposition for many educators, but with a little real - time encouragement and trial and error, teachers usually see that their students are capable of more than they may have imagined.

One way that BTI educators and teachers are doing this is ongoing development and implementation of plant biology curricula that connect basic scientific concepts to real world issues.

Interview with Lily Nichols, a real food - focused registered dietitian and diabetes educator, chatting about the ins and outs of balancing a ketogenic diet while pregnant.

American viewers may stumble on occasional Down Under references, but this multipart mockumentary (think Sacha Baron Cohen Goes Back to School, but more family friendly) is a fresh take on familiar themes — partly due to the seamless mix of actors and real - life students and educators.

But doing so will not prove easy and likely requires that educators, vendors, and researchers alike do a better job of calculating the real cost of implementing blended learning.

So, where can teachers and real educators get a foothold on this huge mountain of greed?

One disappointing element of the task force's report vis - á - vis accountability is its weak endorsement of the No Child Left Behind Act - such as its dissatisfaction over the act's «relatively slow timelines,» Washington's «scant leverage over states and districts,» and the «few real consequences on educators whose schools fail.»

But a growing number of K - 12 educators and groups have come to see the 3 - D virtual environment as having educational potential that is very real.

For educators who think real life does not offer enough opportunities to practice their profession, there's Second Life, an Internet - based virtual environment that counts thousands of educators among its enthusiasts.

After the object exercise, the students watch short video clips of educators (all with Ed School connections) being interviewed in real life.

Caldis, who is taking a year off teaching at school to teach pre-service educators at Macquarie University, says connecting learning to the real world and getting students out of the classroom to carry out their own investigations increases engagement and interest in the subject.

Wherever they fall on the spectrum of scale — the challenges facing educators today are real, complex, and varied.

Instead of focusing solely on social media, connected educators should stay tuned into their classrooms, meet other educators face to face, and model real - world engagement.

Author of Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World and co-author of Reinventing Project - Based Learning: Your Field Guide to Real - World Projects in the Digital Age, I'm inspired by educators who push the boundaries of the traditional classroom.

Below, dive into real - world examples of how educators are engaging students.

Worried that this is threatening the quality of education in the classroom, Hess uses stories from educators that demonstrate how these barriers can be broken in order to cultivate powerful learning environments and drive real improvement.

Capture & Create 81 % of educators believe that e-learning is becoming more popular, so combining the e-learning environment with the real world environment is a growing trend moving forward into 2017 *.

Boudett and City's Meeting Wise: Making the Most of Collaborative Time for Educators (2014), the latest publication to emerge from the project, recognizes the importance of meetings as the place where much of the real work of school improvements happens.

Although many of these methods point to real qualitative areas for growth, we also know they simply can't replace the voice and direct guidance of the educator in the classroom.

If the chartering strategy depends on disrupting the existing arrangements for how public education functions, then most charter laws have a structural flaw that will dramatically limit the ability of charter schools to deliver real change for educators and students.

I hear hundreds of stories a day of educators who are working to create environments that enable real learning against incredible odds.

The structure of the single - point rubric allows us as educators to work toward returning grades and teacher feedback to their proper roles: supporting and fostering real learning in our students.

The Next Generation Science Standards require educators to shift their classroom focus from transmission of information to application of knowledge through real - world experiences.

Real improvement requires another set of eyes in the classroom, as well as the ideas, intuition, and insights of an expert educator.

Lots of educators who decide to create small schools, often by negotiating special arrangements with the local school district, do so because they don't have any confidence that the system can be changed in any real way.

In October of last year, former UN Assistant Secretary - General for Policy Coordination and Inter-Agency Affairs Thomas Gass noted, «Educators have an essential role in making sure the SDGs become a real social contract with the people.»

The real gem for educators here is the depth of the reporting.

TeachingChannel doesn't follow the «webinar» format, but it does a great job of creating video - based PD sessions that get the camera in the classroom, allowing you to watch strategies in action with real students and real educators.

I was part of this group of principals from throughout the country, all serious educators working hard to improve their schools and create real learning communities for students and teachers.

For the majority of educators, the answer to all of these questions is sadly, yes, and therein lays the real issue in education.

I continue to believe, as I wrote a couple of weeks ago, that poverty, though a real challenge, has been used as a convenient excuse by too many educators; an excuse not to improve, not to seek changes in school organization and instructional techniques, not to raise expectations.

Never in the history of education has the learner ever had the opportunity to be so well supported nor has there ever been the opportunity for educators see where and how to improve education resources in real time and be able to immediately act to make course improvements.

At the University of Southern California, with its 37 - year tradition of creating joint projects for its graduate students and the local community, a number of educators within the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences are seeking new ways to combine their cutting - edge research with real - world practice.