Sentences with phrase «practicing teachers and educators»

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Licensed as a parent educator and early childhood teacher, she has pioneered efforts to bring topics such as temperament, neurobiology, the importance of sleep, and emotion coaching into homes, schools, medical practices, and businesses.

Here to explain is Lee Fernandez, a teacher of RIE parenting practices with over 40 years of experience as a parent educator, and a trainer of child care professionals.

«Her dedication to engaging students in a hands - on way, her drive to continue her own learning and growth as an educator and her generosity in sharing best practices with her colleagues makes her the perfect example of a great New York state teacher.»

«She is an outstanding educator whose dedication is evidenced beyond her commitment to students in the classroom; a true teacher leader consistently modeling and sharing best practices, an inspiration to all.»

Innovative programs and teacher training practices build the capacity of educators and families to partner in meaningful ways.

Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have honed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices.

It's also assisting several educators with their postgraduate studies, «I am currently doing a thesis for postgraduate studies and use Teacher regularly to inform myself of what is new, what practices are currently being implemented, how they are working and what references have been used.»

A new toolkit from Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research provides resources to help educators leverage video observations in school communities to improve teacher practice and student learning.

He was a public school educator for 22 years and is a co-founder of Powerful Learning Practice, a unique professional - development program that has mentored over 3,000 teachers worldwide in the past three years.

The community of educators that has developed around Bett is testament to the fact that teachers, business managers and school leaders have long recognised the need to come together, discuss and discover best practices and the best products.

Seeking feedback from students, teaching with passion and striving for evidence - based practice are just some of the suggestions offered up by educators in this year's Teacher survey.

Seeking feedback from students, teaching with passion and striving for evidence - based practice are just some of the snippets of advice offered up by educators in this year's Teacher survey.

Among other things, great school systems decentralize pedagogical methods to schools and teachers, and put in place incentives for frontline educators to share innovative practices across schools.

The Center's three - pronged approach will include sponsoring research; developing strategies and practices; and assisting teachers and other educators as they address gender issues in their schools and communities.

Professional Conferences Reflect, Restore Passion Brenda Dyck reflects on the importance of teacher conferences — where educators by the hundreds share great ideas, best practices, and their passion for teaching!

New and more established teams will have a chance to assess their own collaborative habits, learn from other educators, discover more powerful collaborative strategies, and practice a step - by - step process for implementing teacher rounds as a strategy for building a stronger professional culture.

Indeed, some teacher educators resist moving from the old practice of course - based teacher education and simply overlay a new surface of standards language.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

Drawing on research from Project Zero's Agency by Design project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they afford.

Thus the use of OER is accompanied by these open education practices and pedagogy among teachers, librarians, and others, increasing the professionalism of educators nation wide.

The goal was to establish a program that reflected the diversity of the field itself, bringing artists, teaching artists, researchers, administrators, classroom teachers, and out - of - school educators together for a year of study on the foundational issues that inform all aspects of arts education theory and practice.

In other words, it recognizes teachers whose ideas and practices find favor with other educators.

He makes similar arguments about how efforts to improve teacher quality, instructional approaches like Success for All, and high - expectation techniques practiced by educators like Jaime Escalante and Rafe Esquith are not promising models for reform because their success is due to the selection of students or other factors that can not be replicated on a broader scale.

Forsten, as well as many other teachers who have tried looping, believes the practice allows educators to develop rich relationships with students and their families, create trusting and caring classroom environments, and help kids overcome both academic and developmental obstacles.

«Write» on Target In its weekly «Teacher Feature,» Education World highlights neat activities and classroom practices from educators in all locations and at all levels.

The trio found that higher percentages of Louisiana ELA teachers were able to correctly identify practices and approaches aligned with Common Core than educators in other states that have adopted the Common Core or similar standards.

Several years ago, I read a book by educator Ron Clark called The End of Molasses Classes: Getting Our Kids Unstuck — 101 Extraordinary Solutions for Parents and Teachers, in which he describes an event that involves having students practicing social skills in a competition called The Amazing Shake.

Other educators got in touch to share how they've begun to explore different topic areas and changed their practice after listening to a Teacher podcast or reading about a new piece of research.

Some current projects include: Cultures of Computing, an examination of how K - 12 teachers design learning environments to support novice programmers, focusing on teachers» design intentions and how those intentions are enacted; ScratchEd, a model of professional learning for educators who support computational literacy with the Scratch programming language, involving the development of a 25,000 - member online community, a network of in - person events, and curricular materials; and Cultivating Computational Thinking, an investigation of the concepts, practices, and perspectives that young people develop through computational design activities.

We designed a free three - day teacher - training workshop to give educators active - learning tools, showing them how to conduct action research, gather data and analyze their own teaching practices, engage students with critical - thinking exercises, and more.

The TES scoring rubric used by the evaluators, which is based on the work of educator Charlotte Danielson, describes the practices, skills, and characteristics that effective teachers should possess and employ.

A new study tracking the classroom impact of the No Child Left Behind Act in California, Georgia, and Pennsylvania suggests that teachers are adjusting their teaching practices in response to the law — but not always in ways that educators and policymakers might want.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the goal of MET is to help educators and policymakers identify and support good teaching by improving the quality of information available about teacher practice.

An independent panel of Maryland educators and citizens will recommend that teacher candidates take competency tests and that all practicing teachers be evaluated according to statewide standards.

Donna Wilson and Marcus Conyers are the authors of more than 40 books and professional articles for educators, including, most recently, Teaching Students to Drive Their Brains: Metacognitive Strategies, Activities, and Lesson Ideas (ASCD, 2016), Smarter Teacher Leadership: Neuroscience and the Power of Purposeful Collaboration (Teachers College Press, 2016), Positively Smarter: Science and Strategies for Increasing Happiness, Achievement, and Well - Being (Wiley Blackwell, 2015), Five Big Ideas for Effective Teaching: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to Classroom Practice (Teachers College Press, 2013) and Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children (Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013).

Educators contended that states were tying the employee - evaluation process to the new standards and assessments too quickly, before teachers and students had been able to put the Common Core into practice.

Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have homed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices.

By practicing preventative law, educators and their governing boards should be able to limit, if not eliminate, liability because courts recognise that teachers and administrators can not be liable for all incidents in which students are injured, particularly if accidents occur spontaneously.

Research shows that high quality teaching and leadership teams learn from each other's practices, experiences and support, and that's why we will always keep you, the reader, at the heart of Teacher magazine, providing educators and educational leaders with a strong voice and a platform to share and collaborate.

In the second of two articles exploring how educators are using early years data to inform practice, Teacher finds out how one Adelaide primary is supporting students and parents during the transition and orientation to school.

In 2015, teachers have continued to use technology for connecting with other educators to share ideas and grow in their professional practice.

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A researcher at Project Zero since 1988, she studies and supports practices for engaging both students and educators in deep learning and thinking, particularly through reflection, collaborative inquiry, documentation of student learning, and the collaborative assessment of student and teacher work.

The study encourages educators and teacher educators to be sensitive to the influences that teachers» educational views (on learning, teaching, and technology) have on their practices and on their capabilities and need to interact with others (authority figures and colleagues).

Teachers have many opportunities to do this, and developing empathy as a practice can actually make our work as educators easier.

First, most educators are familiar with the methodologies and empirical practices of related disciplines so acquiring the necessary cross disciplinary knowledge to become an interdisciplinary teacher will not be overly stressful or time consuming.

Along with the online survey reports, teachers and principals will have access to the Panorama Education Playbook (Playbook), an online professional learning tool that allows educators to share practices and create a personalized playbook of instructional strategies based on their survey results.

Her research focuses on teacher and teacher educator development, teachers» multicultural understandings, and international comparative analyses of education practice and policy.

The School Liaison group, made up of four Oakland - based educators, will help make AbD ideas and work visible at each partnering school, design and lead OLC study groups, and provide support for all OLC teachers as they connect AbD and PZ ideas to their own practice.

Driven to understand what makes exceptional teachers so effective, Lemov studies their practices and shares their techniques — collected in «The Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices,» or «The Taxonomy» for short — with other educators.