Sentences with phrase «professional teachers in our classrooms»

Screening provides administrators with the opportunity to assess an applicant's ability to function as a professional teacher in the classroom.

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The focus of the training, delivered via professional - development workshops and phone - coaching sessions, was the personal interactions in the classroom between teachers and students; the coaches gave teachers strategies designed to help them build a «positive emotional climate» and show «sensitivity to student needs for autonomy.»

Administrators, teachers, and parents are becoming aware of the amazing benefits for students, and school nutrition professionals are amazed at increase in participation when grab - n - go, classroom, and Second Chance models are introduced.

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

«It's important to know that the traditional professional development seminars that teachers undergo don't usually get into the depth of coaching individual instructors on how to create a dynamic climate and environment, how to shape the emotional and psychological mood in a classroom.»

Tia is also involved in all aspects of the sanctuary's educational programming — developing curricula and interpretive materials, developing and implementing classroom teacher professional development, working on numerous grants in communities and schools, and developing and teaching natural history and food - based programming.

Both types of courses are professional development workshops that model, teach, and encourage teachers to use inquiry - based, hands - on methods of teaching STEM subjects in their classrooms.

School Board Vice Chair Patsy Jordan, a former classroom teacher, spoke of how the Farm Bureau's «amazing» professional development programs for teachers gave her great tools to use in the classroom.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

Leslie is also a Lazure artist whose beautiful work graces our Upper Brookside classroom, and prior to becoming a Waldorf teacher was a professional fiber artist specializing in surface design and wearable art; she also spent several years as a speech pathologist.

The curriculum is established by our professional teachers in partnership with the parents, who play an essential role in their children's learning by working in the classroom.

«Teachers are the professionals in the classroom.

The Conference, which is being held in Cardiff, has heard that too many employers are denying teachers the opportunity to engage in appropriate training and professional development to support high - quality classroom practice.

A group of classroom teachers from schools with newly created teacher leadership positions told delegates how educators in the new positions are nurturing collaboration and professional growth among their colleagues.

Gaab frequently leads professional development workshops for teachers, participates in school «brain awareness days,» and meets with teachers and principals to help them find ways to translate research on how the brain learns into meaningful classroom applications.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

Both Cox and Newton say that their work keeps them close to schools — for example, doing research in classrooms or running professional - development workshops for teachers.

These days, most new science teachers are career changers; thanks to a growing demand in much of the world, midcareer professionals — especially those with training in science, mathematics, technology, computer science, and engineering — are finding professional fulfillment teaching schoolchildren, inside and outside the classroom.

In their applications, districts will have outlined a variety of strategies to improve student performance, Utrup noted, including changes in teacher preparation and retention, professional development, and evaluation of classroom performancIn their applications, districts will have outlined a variety of strategies to improve student performance, Utrup noted, including changes in teacher preparation and retention, professional development, and evaluation of classroom performancin teacher preparation and retention, professional development, and evaluation of classroom performance.

She has participated in numerous professional development opportunities to improve her astronomy teaching, including the National Optical Astronomy Observatory's (NOAO) Teacher Leaders in Research Based Science Education Program where Ms. Sepulveda learned to bring authentic astronomy research into the classroom.

We think the first and compulsory step here is to orientate classroom observation in your school as a practical improvement measure with clear links to teacher professional learning.

As a part of this professional development, a team of teachers is engaging with building leaders, district leaders, and other experts / thought leaders to help shape the vision for teaching and learning in our classrooms.

Without such definitions, teachers are left to guess at best practices and to glean from professional readings what they might look like in a classroom.

Ultimately a theme emerges: «Professional learning can not live up to its potential unless it's rooted in the content teachers teach in their classrooms,» Weiner and Pimental conclude.

Skype is used by many teachers to bring guest speakers like authors and college professionals into the classroom from anywhere in the world.

That's why the education secretary recently announced a strategy to drive recruitment and boost retention of teachers, working with the unions and professional bodies, and pledged to strip away workload that doesn't add value in the classroom.»

It would encourage 30,000 experienced professionals by 2015 to become adjunct teachers and «provide real - world applications for some of the abstract mathematical concepts being taught in the classroom.»

Education's eternal embarrassment is that the same standards of professional learning expected for our children in classrooms are not applied to teachers themselves.

Not all universities make the leap from classroom behavior to ideology: The «Teacher Education Professional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is noProfessional Dispositions and Skills Criteria» at Winthrop University in South Carolina are only basic indicators of professional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is noprofessional commitment, communication skills, interpersonal skills (among them, «Shows sensitivity to all students and is committed to teaching all students»), emotional maturity, and academic integrity; acknowledging social inequities is not mentioned.

Heavy investments in highly targeted professional development for teachers and principals in the fundamentals of strong classroom instruction;

@Madelyn: One of the key considerations for professional learning is that we model what we want to see teachers doing in the classroom.

CAS offers support, training and resources to help deliver the new curriculum through its nationwide network of teachers and professionals committed to supporting computing and especially computer science in the classroom.

Now in its 11th year, the Discovery Education Summer Institute is a celebrated week - long professional development and networking event, bringing together teachers from across the US and Canada who are passionate about using digital media in the classroom.

PLCs go a step beyond professional development by providing teachers with not just skills and knowledge to improve their teaching practices but also an ongoing community that values each teacher's experiences in their own classrooms and uses those experiences to guide teaching practices and improve student learning (Vescio et al., 2008).

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

According to the principal and teachers at Cochrane Collegiate Academy, a major reason for the growth in student performance is a signature strategy for classroom instruction and professional development called Interactive Learning.

«We have used the cases in both classroom teaching and in professional development workshops for teachers, social workers, and other professionals who work with children and families,» says Lopez.

While we can measure the difference a good teacher makes in the classroom, we can't develop a mathematical formula for creating these heroic professionals, so judges will instead focus on easy - to - measure but inaccurate metrics like teachers» salaries as proxies for teacher quality.

Bound up in this is the need for school districts to provide adequate professional training and development for substitutes, who are in short supply, and to encourage a positive working relationship between classroom teachers and their substitutes.

Domain 5 — the idea of teachers in the school sharing and showcasing best practice to support professional learning of others, and this idea of a self - reflective culture, focus on improving classroom teaching, that was... this really informed our vision.

Anything that might reduce a teacher's latitude and ability to make professional choices in the context of each unique classroom is off the table (which explains the aversion to focusing on any specific curricula).

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Jennings is a founder of CARE for Teachers, a «mindfulness - based professional development program designed to reduce stress and promote improvements in classroom climate and student academic and behavioral outcomes.»

MyTeachingPartner - Secondary is a Web - mediated professional - development system focused on improving teacher - student interactions in the classroom.

The database includes information about each student's classroom teacher in a given year, which allows us to estimate how much the student learned in that year and to connect that information to such professional characteristics as teacher certification, acquisition of a master's degree, teacher experience, teacher test performance, and the specific school of education the teacher had attended within Florida, if the teacher had attended one of the eleven schools for which adequate numbers of teacher observations were available.

When principals were asked what they would use extra funding for, 82 per cent said assistance for teachers in the classroom, 56 per cent said specialist support and 56 per cent said funding for professional development for teachers.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classrooIn particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classrooin use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classrooin the classroom.

Another project saw # 1.1 million provided to Computing at School — a community of teachers, IT professionals, academics and parents — to help train primary teachers already working in the classroom through online resources and school workshops.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

Denver's Professional Compensation for Teachers (ProComp) plan, widely heralded as the leading national example of performance pay, awards more money for earning another degree than for demonstrated performance in the classroom.