Sentences with phrase «of teacher research»

Articles may be designed to help readers understand the diverse nature of teacher research.

Through the commentary the teacher educator provides his or her outside perspective of the teacher research study, thereby enhancing the dialogue and extending the meaning, not to merely summarize or restate the findings of the teacher research.

To support the idea of continuing teacher research as a part of daily teaching practices, it is critical to advocate for the importance of teacher research and the need for teaching to be a collaborative process across all educational settings.

I was fortunate in the development of this teacher research study to have the time to support a teacher co-inquiry group.

The teachers read an article on the importance of teacher research (Stremmel 2007), and we discussed it during a staff meeting.

In 1992, he received a grant from the DeWitt Wallace - Reader's Digest Fund to develop a national project of teacher research groups in twelve cities across the U.S..

Choosing Your Voice: Narratives from the Classroom Communing with Chaos: The Real Process of Teacher Research Inside the Kingdom: The Children and Their Classroom Making the Classroom Culture Visible: The Collective Voice of the Teacher Researcher «Did You Write Down All of My Words?»

: A Moment of Teacher Research

Thinking and Speaking for Ourselves In this article, we have drawn on the Teachers Learning Collaborative to illustrate the potential of teacher research for informing our field, as well as to demonstrate a particular model within which such research can be accomplished.

Spencer Foundation — Practitioner Research Communication and Mentoring Grant (2001 - 2002) Principal Investigator A Project to Design and Assess a Sustainable and Replicable Model of Teacher Research at City on a Hill Charter Public High School in Boston, Massachusetts, was a two - year research project that analyzed the effect of a whole - school initiative to instruct teachers in research methods and implement a teacher research component for faculty and intern teachers at the school.

Bill Lucas Director of the Centre for Real - World Learning and Professor of Learning at the University of Winchester shares his experience of teacher research groups to divulge his discoveries of fostering rich environments for learning.

During lesson study, a group of teachers researches and writes a lesson plan on a particular theme.

The General Teaching Council / National Union of Teachers research (see Adams, 2005) highlighted the importance of professional development activities, including opportunities for peer review, observation and feedback, expertise, and a structured planned dialogue between parties.

Not exact matches

It could be something as simple as saying «I'm going to respond to the email at the middle of my inbox to start with,» or if you're a teacher, «I'm choosing to grade these papers because grading these papers would help my university earn money, and that money helps me do cancer research.»

Ron Mock, a former Ontario Hydro Electrical engineer and founder of Phoenix Research and Trading, now oversees $ 171 billion in assets in more than 50 countries on behalf of 316,000 past and present teachers.

For the study, the research team asked teachers to prepare and deliver identical lessons to groups of third graders.

«A Pew Research poll showed that viewers of humorous news shows such as The Daily Show and The Colbert Report exhibited higher retention of news facts than those who got their news from newspapers, CNN, Fox News, or network stations,» points out teacher Sarah Henderson in Edutopia.

«But all it takes is a couple of dedicated teachers with a little support and guidance to run important research programs that can produce winners in this competition and more importantly kids who are going to go on to become scientists and change the world.»

The no - holds - barred piece draws on recent research published in Teaching and Teacher Education, as well as older reviews of the scientific literature on so - called digital natives, to review whether the recent mania for tech in education has solid scientific foundations.

Her agenda also includes proposals to connect every US household to high - speed internet by 2020, train 50,000 new computer science teachers, increase the research and development budgets of the National Science Foundation, and bolster cybersecurity, Reuters reported Tuesday.

The teachers: Salvatore Scibona was named to The New Yorker's «20 under 40: Fiction Writers to Watch» and is the author of 2008 National Book Award finalist «The End,» the research for which he conducted while on a Fulbright Fellowship.

Naming an endowed Chair or Professorship at the Rotman School will help recruit and retain the world's leading teachers and researchers, enhance our curriculum, foster research and advance the academic performance of tomorrow's business leaders.

While you could argue the choice of topic was motivated by the political and professional interests of the 40,000 - member provincial teachers» union and regulatory association — and someone is sure to — no one can claim Environics is not a quality public opinion research firm using solid methodology.

The curricula of such schools is designed to be of particular usefulness to teachers, physicians, clergymen, social workers, law enforcement and probation officers, industrial leaders, directors of alcoholism programs, and other persons interested in alcoholism education, research, and rehabilitation.

His seminar on Tertullian was my introduction to serious historical research — one came away with a sense of having been in the room with that fiery Latin teacher and having glimpsed the whole oikoumené of classical and Christian antiquity.

In Europe the academic teacher is expected to do both research and teaching, and there can be no doubt that this combination is very healthy and has good effects on the quality of both research and instruction.

The full exercise of this right requires that trustees and administrators protect teachers and students against pressures from outside in favor of certain methods and conclusions of inquiry, and that support for teaching and research be kept as free as possible from exerting a controlling influence on academic pursuits.

Research findings on the group showed that the teachers had developed new listening skills, improved teacher - to - teacher relationships, and increased their understanding of themselves, each other, and their students.5

But within each of the natural sciences is a variety of workers: the technician carrying out routine operations, the teacher training a new generation, the research expert making new discoveries or developing industrial applications.

Instead, the teacher is basically a researcher who needs the student to help achieve the goal of research in a cooperative enterprise.

However, half of all Americans (51 %) and two - thirds of Republicans (64 %) do want a Sunday school teacher — or at least someone who shares their religious beliefs, according to a study released today by the Pew Research Center.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

Under the impact of this modification of the «Berlin» model, theological schooling tends to undergo a movement from pure academic research to applied academic research (both done at the hands of academic theologians) to popularization of the applied research (by theological school teachers) to repetitions of the popularizations by practitioners (the students).

I have been student or teacher at many types of institutions: the small liberal - arts college, the «Research I» state university that completely dominates a small town,....

Once or twice my Harvard teachers lightly groused about my choice of research outside the text of the New Testament.

Before coming to Stanford, Yeager had taught English at a low - income school in Tulsa, and he was especially motivated to find ways to translate some of this innovative research into practices that could help teachers improve the lives of their students.

Roland G. Fryer, Jr., «Aligning Student, Parent, and Teacher Incentives: Evidence from Houston Public Schools,» NBER Working Paper 17752 (Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, January 2012)

I'd talk about the latest research on the biology of adversity and describe the doctors and mentors and teachers and children I encountered in my reporting.

At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Each year, our 60 faculty and staff members work with more than 6 intern teachers, 25 student teachers, researchers, and visitors to perform the major functions associated to Laboratory Schools: the development of innovative practices in education, research, the preparation of new teachers, professional development for practicing teachers, and the education of children using best established principles of education.

Her major research interest has been in finding practical applications of current brain research for teachers and parents.

Research confirms that teaching kindness in schools increases the well - being of not only the students but the teachers as well AND when you combine it with Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and mindfulness, the outcome could be quite astounding!

Teachers then collected the forms and sent them to the office, where the research team prepared the snack packs out of sight of students to prevent participants from noticing a connection with the previous day's activities.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

Completed over four years of observation, journaling by Waldorf teachers and writing, the research is our first, peer - reviewed research on the effectiveness of the Waldorf approach to assessment (without standardized testing.)

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

Download one chapter at a time due to the very large file size Chapter One Waldorf Education and Education Reform Chapter Two The Waldorf Understanding of the Purpose of Education Chapter Three Research Objectives and Procedures Chapter Four How Waldorf Teachers Set Learning Goals Chapter Five Teaching and Making Assessments in a Waldorf Classroom Chapter Six Formal Assessments in Waldorf Education Chapter Seven Learning - centered Assessments: Waldorf Methods in Concept Chapter Eight The Preparation, Profession, and Practice of a Waldorf Class Teacher Chapter Nine Teacher Evaluation in Waldorf Elementary Schools Chapter Ten Waldorf Education and the Future of Assessment for Learning

We publish a Research Bulletin twice a year and prepare and distribute educational resources, including a growing collection of e-books and articles to help teachers in all aspects of their work.

Volume XV, Number 2 The Inner Life and Work of the Teacher — Margaret Duberley The Human Body as a Resonance Organ: A Sketch of an Anthropology of the Senses — Christian Rittelmeyer Aesthetic Knowledge as a Source for the Main Lesson — Peter Guttenhöfer Knitting It All Together — Fonda Black The Work of Emmi Pikler — Susan Weber Seven Myths of Social Participation of Waldorf Graduates — Wanda Ribeiro and Juan Pablo de Jesus Pereira Volunteerism, Communication, Social Interaction: A Survey of Waldorf School Parents — Martin Novom A Timeline for the Association of Waldorf Schools of North America — David S. Mitchell Reports from the Research Fellows More Online!

Volume XVII, Number 1 (Download) The Task of the College of Teachers: Part 2 — Roberto Trostli «Spirit is Never without Matter, Matter Never without Spirit» — Liz Beaven The Artistic Meeting: Creating Space for Spirit — Holly Koteen - Soule Contemplative Practice and Intuition in a Collegial Context — Martyn Rawson Contemplative Work in the College Meeting — Elan Leibner Work of the Research Fellows Review of The Social Animal by David Brooks — Dorit Winter Report on the Online Waldorf Library — Marianne Alsop