Sentences with phrase «provide teachers of all grade»

The BPS Teaching & Learning Challenge (TLC Program) will provide teachers of all grade levels and content areas the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to:

The BPS Teaching & Learning Challenge (TLC Program) will provide teachers of all grade levels and content areas the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to: Transform their instructional practices to include meaningful use of digital tools...

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Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

Waldorf Elementary Music Teacher Education at Sunbridge Institute is a 3 - week intensive designed to provide Waldorf grades 1 - 8 music teachers with an informed understanding of the Waldorf curriculum and the anthroposophical view of child development.

The Canvas LMS provides a seamless environment for students, teachers, and parents to access course content, assignments / assessments, grades, and attendance, along with the integration of additional technology tools such as OneDrive and Office 365.

Designed by Chicago Children's Museum's education experts, PWN provides teachers with engaging instructional strategies to introduce, reinforce and deepen the understanding of grade - level math concepts through innovative classroom activities, math work stations, and children's literature.

Board Members also heard updates on several major CCSD projects: the proposed adoption of new instructional materials for math classes across Grades K - 12, which will provide teachers with a system of integrated text and online resources that eliminates the need to seek out additional resources in order to cover all standards and individualize instruction; and the implementation now underway of a new business management system that increases the efficiency of timekeeping, payroll and personnel operations, which will save CCSD time and money.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

The amount shown for each University of Natural Health & Degree and Certified Programs, which provides natural health training, is the total cost for tuition, a complete set of books and examinations, teacher guidance and test evaluations, grade reports, and an embossed diploma.

Rubrics simplify teacher assessment of student work and provide students, parents, and administrators with an answer to the age - old «Why did you give it this grade?»

For Amy Wallace, a kindergarten and first - grade teacher from PS 142, on New York's Lower East Side, puppets have provided a welcome relief from the rigorous strictures of the public school curriculum.

(The digital grade - cards (PDF) provide a real - time picture of student progress toward mastery, and the school uses the 21st Century Partnership for STEM Education's online grade - card system, which is a proficiency - based assessment that gives access to the school's parents and teachers.)

During the training, we provided a grid of benchmarks to be met for each grade, projects and activities they might do with their classes to meet those benchmarks, and evaluation sheets to ensure that teachers can show parents and administrators what skills students have successfully implemented and what deficiencies still need to be addressed.

The WebQuest Page This ultimate resource for teachers interested in using the WebQuest model not only offers an excellent list of WebQuests sorted by subject and grade level, it also provides advice for creating your own WebQuests, training materials and templates, WebQuest news and resources, and more.

Within each grade level, instead of providing a variety of interventions to numerous small groups, each teacher focuses on one intervention, like fluency or phonemic awareness.

This summer,» Smith noted, «the committee provided a full day of training for all teachers at each grade level.

Provides comprehensive data for individual states in the following categories: summary of grades, student achievement, standards and accountability, efforts to improve teacher quality, school climate, resources: equity and spending.

Teacher comments have long been provided alongside academic grades to recognize the essential role of many abilities and competencies in academic performance and future potential.

Some decisions were easy: to provide a program from 7th grade through graduation; to move students through the program on an individual basis; to ask our teachers to be well educated, but to act more as generalists than specialists; to keep teachers» student loads down, and to offer advisories instead of more formal and distant «guidance counseling»; to offer only one foreign language, but to expect all to learn it; to put our money into more adults, some of them young adults, rather than into high rents or new furniture.

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom...

In our balanced budget I proposed a comprehensive strategy to help make our schools the best in the world — to have high national standards of academic achievement, national tests in 4th grade reading and 8th grade math, strengthening math instruction in middle schools, providing smaller classes in the early grades so that teachers can give students the attention they deserve, working to hire more well - prepared and nationally certified teachers, modernizing our schools for the 21st century, supporting more charter schools, encouraging public school choice, ending social promotion, demanding greater accountability from students and teachers, principals and parents.

For the best principals, the rate of teacher turnover is highest in grades in which teachers are least effective, supporting the belief that improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.

The survey, conducted in February 2003, provides evaluations by their principals of 202 elementary - school teachers in grades 2 through 6.

A lot of teachers teaching «combo» classes (classes that include two grades), have told me how MathStories.com has helped them to teach such heterogeneous classes by providing them with appropriate work sheets.»

Written for both pre-service and in - service teachers, the book includes 11 cases, each with an objective to improve the teaching and understanding of mathematics at the 7th - through 12th - grade levels and to provide opportunities to examine classroom practice and assess student thinking.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

«Our proposal for a higher grade apprenticeship following the award of QTS provides a realistic and appropriate framework for supporting new teachers at the start of their careers and staunching the flow of talented young people from the profession.»

However, promoting positive expectations broadly among teachers of all subjects and grades can provide critical support for student success at any age.

Jan Powell, a fifth - grade teacher at Our Lady of the Assumption School in Enoggera, Brisbane, Australia, also appreciates the possibilities the CIESE Internet projects provide.

• The Common Core asks teachers to assign texts that provide language complexity appropriate to the grade level, but significant proportions of teachers — particularly in the elementary grades — are still assigning texts based on students» present reading prowess.

With funding from the World Bank, ICS Africa provided each of the 140 selected schools with funds to hire an additional 1st - grade teacher on a contractual basis starting in May 2005, the beginning of the second term of that school year.

For example, providing students with the same teacher and classmates in both ninth grade and tenth grade «cuts out weeks of the getting - to - know - you, so the teacher can build on that existing community,» Pieri says.

As teachers, we are often asked to «do» a lot more than necessary: memorize standards, plan lessons, prepare for various assessments, call homes, provide a warm environment for our students (and visitors), attend faculty meetings with varying effectiveness and relevance, grade mounds of papers, and take what little time we have left to eat and sleep, usually less than we should.

Teacher Brooke Armstrong agrees that the grading system provides a «more accurate measure» of how her students are doing, and she notes that work ethic seems to be the biggest hurdle for many students.

Provided the movement of teachers in and out of a grade has not changed the makeup of students enrolled in that grade, this finding supports the conclusion that measured value - added of teachers is an unbiased predictor of future test - score gains, as there appears to be no other explanation for the resulting improvement in test scores.

There are several factors that could possibly be contributing to this pattern in results, such as teachers adopting new strategies in response to the removal of the January series; a slight shift towards Facilitating Subjects affecting outcomes at grade A; and as the A * continues to bed in it becomes more important for highly selective universities and as such provides a greater incentive for students.

To help teachers in their efforts to integrate technology and science, Greece provides students and teachers with a number of technology resources: At the elementary level, each school contains a wired computer lab, capable of serving an entire class; a wireless, mobile computer lab; five student computers in each grade 1 - 5 classroom; and three student computers in each pre-K and kindergarten classroom.

As a fourth - grade teacher, I can truly appreciate how a well - constructed project - based learning experience offers opportunities for stronger, more consistent reinforcement and support of important foundational learning skills and concepts across multiple disciplines and provides me more time for individualized and differentiated instruction for my learners.

Forms and Testing First - grade teacher Jill Perkins provides a number of useful — and sometimes hard - to - find — templates, including a weekly lesson plan, ABC flash cards, a handwriting practice page, a 100s chart, and a classroom grading aid.

Andrea Guengerich Education Policy and Management Hometown: Austin, Texas Experience: High school teacher in Brownsville, Texas, one of the largest cities along the Texas - Mexico border; position at Breakthrough Austin, a community - based organization that provides a path to college, starting in middle school, for low - income students who will be first - generation college students; director of University of Texas Programs for Breakthrough; chair of the College Advising for Undocumented Students Taskforce, a collaboration between six nonprofit organizations and the public school district in Austin Future plans: Teaching 6th grade at a project - based learning school in Mexico City that seeks to educate the whole child

12th grade English teacher Johanna Paraiso of Fremont High School in Oakland uses Google Hangouts to provide after - hours instruction to small groups of students, often while recording the sessions.

To address these shortages of time and training, Drive to Write technology coaches and instructional specialists provide teachers with ongoing support during the school year on integrating writing assignments and feedback into lesson plans and using free cloud - based technology to distribute, comment on, and grade assignments.

• Overwhelming parental support for the following elements of an education agenda: Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year Provide extra resources to turn around struggling neighborhood schools; hold charter schools accountable; provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide more support / training for struggling teachers; expand / improve new - teacher mentoring; reduce class sizes, especially in the early grades; make public schools hubs of the neighborhood with longer hours, academic help and health services for families; provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year provide extra pay for teachers in hard - to - staff schools; and ensure access to high - quality preschool for all 3 - and 4 - year - olds.

ALEKS, which runs on computers on the periphery of a 9th - grade classroom, provides teachers with detailed diagnostics, helping them to focus on the areas where students are struggling, and lets students take lessons at their own pace.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

• Good principals are likely to make more personnel changes in grade levels where students are under - performing, supporting the belief that «improvement in teacher effectiveness provides an important channel through which principals can raise the quality of education.»

For example, Brittany, a fifth - grade teacher, explained that laptops were provided at her grade level for each student because the required end - of - grade tests were only available online: «We got them [carts with classroom sets of laptops] because of the science tests moving online.

Based on our analysis of South Carolina's teacher retirement plan, it earned an overall grade of F. South Carolina earned a F for providing adequate retirement benefits for teachers and a F on financial sustainability.

At the same time, she facilitated ongoing improvement efforts mandated at the district level prior to her appointment (curriculum writing, implementation of a commercial mathematics program)-- collaborating with grade team and subject leaders, specialist teachers, and trainers provided by the externally developed mathematics program.

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