Sentences with phrase «only engages teachers»

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Importantly, the study found that only teachers with high knowledge and skills for science — not literacy or math — created quality scientific opportunities for students, such as providing science materials and engaging children in science experiences in the classroom.

Further, while 99 percent of preschool teachers engaged in literacy instruction three to four times a week, that figure fell to 75 percent in math and only 42 percent in science.

We knew we had to make it not only engaging for the kids but teacher friendly as well.»

«My students were really the reason I applied to HGSE, to become a better teacher, to not only rely solely on the way I had been taught, but to find ways to connect with them and make music engaging,» Cueva says.

But because the law applied only to schools and not to other public employers, such as police and fire departments, teachers unions argued that it engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.

«Two of our science teachers, Robert Clingan and Paul DeChant, have created a project that not only keeps the students engaged but has them offering to return and help after they have been gone a year or two,» says Tim Onsager, assistant principal of West Bend (Wisconsin) West High School.

Increasingly, new teachers have been taught not only that they should engage in test prep — even forms of test prep that clearly produce bogus gains — but that doing so is good instruction.

We have left his lesson live on Education World because the information on the pages is for the teacher's use only; it is still valuable information that can be used to create an engaging lesson for students.

Although only a quarter (23 %) of teachers have used VR in the classroom thus far, 97 % of these found that it made for more engaged students.

have shown that this new technology not only saves significant time for teachers in lesson prep and marking, but pupils are noticeably more engaged.

Not only do we provide opportunities for our teachers to avail themselves of in - house CPD, but we also encourage them to engage with external agencies to access, for example, HEI provided courses or commercial programmes.

Teachers accomplish this not only by making their classroom content and instruction engaging but also by making their assessments authentic.

Edcamps are a type of teacher - organized unconference that allows educators to get together, often for only a day, to engage in discussion - based professional learning.

Instead of a teacher being out on a full one day MFL course, they need only be out of the classroom for an hour, engaging in their own personal learning and discovering their own abilities with foreign language.

The benefits of mastering particular domains of history, engaging with specific texts chosen by teachers from a rich menu of options, and undertaking a systematic study of not only math and science, but also geography, religion, and philosophy, would be substantial.

Although there are lots of ways to engage families throughout the year, given that most open houses are fairly well attended (at least at the elementary level) and one of the first events of the school year — and sometimes the only face - to - face contact parents have with teachers — it's critical that schools rethink their back - to - school night.

However, this departmental strategy only goes so far in a teacher's efforts to actively engage students.

So in the early days of [mental health initiative for secondary schools] Mind Matters it's interesting to note that to start with we thought we were engaged with teachers in only talking about students.

Not only is it able to help prepare children for later life but it can also help teachers to better engage students by offering teachers new and innovative ways of teaching a subject.

Even though most teachers reported that students were highly engaged when working with digital content and were better able to learn the material, only one - fifth of Rogers pilot teachers said their students did better on benchmark tests the first year (see Figure 1).

Teachers unions only won the privilege of engaging in collective bargaining in the last 50 years, about when student achievement began to stagnate and costs to soar.

Digital devices Fourier Education's einsteinTM Tablet + not only acts as a familiar platform for teachers and students but it also includes everything teachers need to get their students actively engaged with real - world, hands - on science learning.

Digital Schoolhouse, delivered by Ukie, the only trade body for the UK's games and interactive entertainment industry, uses play - based learning to engage the next generation of pupils and teachers with the new Computing curriculum.

Fifty lucky primary schools will get a spectacular science lesson delivered to their pupils absolutely free by Empiribox — creators of the only complete science solution for KS1 and KS2 that makes it easy for teachers to deliver captivating lessons designed to thrill, engage and firmly embed a love of science in their class.

Teachers who transform lives understand not only how to teach curriculum, but also how children develop into capable, caring, and engaged adults.

After reading, teachers should not only revisit the opening questions, but they should engage students in discussing their favorite parts of a narrative text or the information that they learned or confirmed in an informational text.

Bored and cooped up, Thomas, age seven, teaches his four - year - old brother how to play Mouse Trap; Eva's father, during a typical before - school routine, must teach her to button a coat because she's only ever snapped one; and Claire, a veteran classroom teacher, skillfully turns a student's witty remark into an engaging way for her students to choose summer reads: speed - dating their books.

Not only does this reinforce the mindset of learning from one another (which is often a goal in the work that teacher leaders do with teachers), but it highlights the common purpose and practices that a group of teacher leaders are engaged in.

Often times, teachers think they have designed this wonderful lesson where all students will be willfully engaged and motivated to participate, however, in actuality, there may only be a few students who are engaged in the lesson.

Most teachers feel prepared or very prepared to engage in a variety of assessment activities; however, only with regard to administering assessments do most teachers say they feel «very prepared»;

I truly believe that our future teachers will be well prepared to not only teach our students, but come in confident in the knowledge that they have the support they need to stay in the profession and to remain active, engaged teachers within the Sanger Unified School District.

With the D2L platform, teachers are not only able to promote engaging learning, but involve the entire classroom community in it.»

Real Time Teacher Coaching supports teachers not only in engaging with their students, but in utilizing high - leverage pedagogical strategies to ensure every student learns.

In a major blow to the Department for Education's workload agenda, the report also reveals that half of school leaders have not engaged with the government's flagship «workload challenge» programme at all, and that only # 91,000 has been spent on programmes to support workload or pupil behaviour — even though these were flagged as key issues to keep teachers in the profession.

The opportunity for social studies teachers to integrate primary sources into the classroom and engage their students in doing history has now become more of a reality due to increased access to archival material, once only available to historians visiting the archives.

But, the responsibility for engaging principal support can not lie only with the teacher leaders.

The glaring problem with the Florida law appears to be that while all teachers are subject to the evaluations, only some are engaged in the underlining instructions from which the evaluations are largely based.

We found that the Ning was an environment that allowed for real - time discussions of praxis that engaged not only our students, but other preservice and in - service teachers from around the world.

It is not only that teachers must have time to work and learn together; the time they have must be extensive enough to engage in serious work (a class period is better than nothing but probably inadequate given logistics) and must be used well.

The only long term sustainable course of improvement for the thousands of remaining teachers lies in developing their expertise to engage students in high quality learning.

Clearly that relies on leaders, teachers and support staff taking ownership to drive through and sustain new systems and processes, and that is only possible where all members of the school community are engaged in and contributing to the process.

This holistic approach has yielded results in places like Putnam City West High School in Oklahoma City, where educators have engaged parents and the community to boost the graduation rate of Hispanic students by 70 percent; and Denver, where the teacher - led Math and Science Leadership Academy is taking a collaborative approach that focuses on mentoring and professional development to boost student achievement; and in Las Vegas, where a teacher empowerment program has led to remarkable gains, including at Culley Elementary School, a «high achieving» school where only five years ago, less than a quarter of students were at grade level.

A successful teacher must not only believe strongly in KSL's mission, but also have the ability to adapt, learn, and most importantly, engage kids ages 2 - 12.

Sequoia Choice teachers are determined to provide lessons that are not only educational, but engaging for the online learner.

These activities not only engage students in more intellectually challenging work that reflects 21st century skills, they also serve as learning opportunities for teachers, when they are involved in using the assessments and scoring them together.

Regardless of how important the content, how engaging the activity, how formative the assessment, or how differentiated the instruction, unless all students see, recognize, and understand the learning target from the very beginning of the lesson, one factor will remain constant: The teacher will always be the only one providing the direction, focusing on getting students to meet the instructional objectives.

Teacher education programs will need to not only give preservice teachers experiences with multimodal compositions but also prepare them to engage students in larger discussions about the selection of modes to best address particular rhetorical situations.

A sense of emerging mastery is one of the factors that motivate, and thus engage, teachers but the only hard data they have to gauge their success is both inadequate to fully represent their goals and deferred until after the end of the unit, term or year.

RTTT has cash - strapped school systems engaged in wasteful «jumping through government orchestrated hoops»... How many school systems spent untold time vying for this RTTT money only to be denied it anyway because they weren't pro charter, or weren't in favor of linking student test scores to teacher evaluations?

When the teacher is only with the class for one to two days a week, they must be very engaging to keep the students» attention.