Sentences with phrase «providing teachers more time»

Improving professional development and providing teachers more time for meaningful collaboration;

According to O'Donnell, the bill will remove obstacles for many students to attend college while also reducing testing time and providing teachers more time to bridge the gap in learning.

Not exact matches

You may find that your child wishes for more physical activity during the day, or would prefer to spend more time reading texts than listening to their teacher provide explanations.

While your child might show some warning signs at home, chances are that he or she spends more time at school (and is tired out when he or she gets home), so your child's classroom teacher can provide specifics about potential areas of concern.

«Trusting teachers and freeing them up from the daily grind of targets, testing and inspections that change as often as the weather will ensure that there is more time spent on what teachers do best, providing a stimulating and fulfilling experience for all our youngsters ensuring success and interest in the classroom and beyond»

«Our members need skilled employees now more than ever, and our schools must provide our children with the skills necessary to compete outside the classroom,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «This study proves that New York is leading the nation — not only by setting high standards, but by taking the time to listen to parents and teachers about improving them.

The changes, which Education Commissioner John King said are already under way, include increasing public understanding of the standards, training more teachers and principals, ensuring adequate funding, reducing testing time and providing high school students the option to take some traditional Regents exams while Common Core - aligned tests are phased in.

Even naysayers like me could have provided more helpful feedback if we gave the standards time to foment in a teacher's pedagogy.

To improve special education, we need to ensure full funding so that districts can hire certified special - education teachers; reduce paperwork so special - education teachers have more time for planning and instruction; and provide administrators with training in special education.

Lucie Boyadjian, principal of Glen Oaks School, in Hickory Hills, Illinois, summed up the principals» feelings about providing more hands - on experiences for future teachers: «More time in the classroom with direct instruction allows the undergraduate the opportunity to experience an entire year's worth of classroom activities.&ramore hands - on experiences for future teachers: «More time in the classroom with direct instruction allows the undergraduate the opportunity to experience an entire year's worth of classroom activities.&raMore time in the classroom with direct instruction allows the undergraduate the opportunity to experience an entire year's worth of classroom activities.»

A NSW department program called Early Action for Success had provided better tools to assess learning; more time for teachers to collaborate; and access to an expert instructional leader to show how use of small data could improve teaching.

This then allowed teachers to spend more time in lessons coaching and facilitating learning and less time providing whole class instruction and demonstration.

Those who believe their schools are «doing it right» told me that adapting the curriculum to meet the needs of individual special education students also forces them to adapt the curriculum to more closely meet the individual needs of each student in the class — and that the ongoing support of special education teachers and paraprofessionals provides them with the time and resources they need to do it successfully.

The Massachusetts Expanded Learning Time (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectivenTime (ELT) Initiative is based on the notion that providing teachers with more time to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiventime to teach and plan, and giving students additional exposure to academic enrichment and extracurricular activities, will increase student achievement and teacher effectiveness.

The number of new teachers of mathematics being produced by the university has more than quadrupled in that time, and many local teachers have said that the opportunities provided by the center have made them feel more like respected professionals and more inclined to remain in teaching.

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

Stoll: The money should be spent on reducing class size, on providing teachers with more prep time, on improving school grounds so that students have the ability to study nature in nature, on providing lessons in the humanities and in other technologies, such as plumbing, woodworking, auto mechanics, home economics.

The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a national, nonprofit organization that works to provide systematic support to new teachers, and more recently principals, through the use of full - time mentors.

More teachers believe collaborating with colleagues is essential to their work, but many districts still don't provide time for teachers to learn, share and collaborate.

The contract for the Gen www.Y students at Washington Middle School who work with the student teachers, on the other hand, lays out their responsibilities, including spending 10 - 15 hours of class time with an assigned Evergreen MIT student, participating in an interview, reviewing the MIT student's Web page to make it more «student friendly,» and providing advice on infusing technology.

On average across countries, students who reported that their teacher is willing to provide help and is interested in their learning are also about 1.3 times more likely to feel that they belong at school.

Not that video games will take over the classroom but that they will provide teachers with one more useful tool to employ when the time is right.

When time came to resubmit a proposal for a $ 200,000 state grant, which they had received each of the past six years, they came up with a plan to infuse more developmental activities into the kindergarten program, provide more professional development for teachers, and buy instructional materials.

Links to previous exam papers and texts so students can practice even more This unit is the whole package that can be given to the students to work through, form the basis of lessons in the build up to the exam, or form the basis of a revision programme over time I have provided a Word document of the entire guide, followed by a Word version for the students and one for teachers for ease of printing; the teacher guide has the answers for some of the tasks.

We've since created additional apps which complement one another to help schools save even more time, so teachers can reduce their workload and focus on providing their students with the highest quality lessons and work on maintaining a healthy work life balance.

None of the strategies listed here encroach significantly on teachers» time, but all provide the possibility to understand students better and to assess more efficiently and effectively.

Curriculet allows Summit teachers to test for understanding in real time and provides them with a dashboard to view quiz results, time on task, and other metrics that help them coach more effectively.

Voice - activated devices can allow students to avoid getting stuck because they can't ask a question to unlock their growth in real time, and the technology has the potential to provide far more data to teachers about where their students need supports.

Drawing on research with teachers, principals and superintendents in three urban districts, the Rennie Center's brief recommends that policymakers at both the state and district levels provide teachers with more time and support for the integration of data into their instructional planning.

Students should be provided with calculators and access to computers beginning in kindergarten, and teachers should spend less time on computational skills and more on mathematical concepts and problem - solving, according to the nation's largest organization of mathematics teachers.

Teachers also have more time to adapt teaching strategies to their individual students, and to provide needed help before it's to late!

They're scrapping the bell schedule and implementing more flexible systems that can better address students» academic and personal needs and provide time for meaningful dialogue and work among teachers.

«So, again pulling out the research about what are the goals for mathematics, what is global research about the effective teaching and learning of mathematics... while at the same time encouraging or expecting our teachers to provide our students with high challenge tasks and gradually build more and more of them into their repertoire...»

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.

«We recognise there could be logistical challenges faced by schools in accommodating more part - time teachers, but finding a way to overcome these difficulties may provide a major boost to teacher supply.»

This led some economists of the time to conclude that «input - based» policies such as providing more money to schools, reducing class sizes and improving teacher qualifications had «failed», and that improvements in schools now depended on giving teachers direct incentives to raise student performance:

They also provide more opportunities for professional development and joint planning time with accomplished veterans, and generally pay teachers more in relation to other highly skilled occupations.

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.

Implementing the flipped class using digital curriculum provides teachers with more face - to - face time with students, allows for true differentiation, compels students to take responsibility for their own learning, and enables students to master rigorous course concepts.

Approaches that will help teachers to provide specific feedback in a more time - efficient manner (both in terms of the time taken for students to receive feedback and the time taken for teachers to mark work)

When teachers provide constant, controlling behavioral feedback, as Arpino and Walmsley were being taught to do, they waste precious time they could be spending giving feedback related to the academic content of the lesson, which is far more powerful in terms of raising student achievement.

«To make that figure more realistic, in a school of 500 students that is the equivalent of nine full - time teachers — that sort of resource would make a huge difference to what schools are able to provide.

Teachers can help older students by including more diverse reading and writing each day, giving students more time for tests and answering questions, providing greater access to textbooks, and using more challenging vocabulary and word retrieval games such a Scrabble.

The platform provides countless ways for teachers to create engaging lessons and resources, makes teacher collaboration and sharing of materials easy, and automates routine tasks so teachers have more time to focus on their students.

Once again, these finding are consistent with adult learning in that these process elements value adult identity and experience, engage adults in the development of their own learning activities, allow dialogue and sharing of experience, provide time for teacher reflective practices, and provide more authentic and immediate use of learning.

Personalized learning plans allow students to spend more time on concepts they struggle with while teachers provide one - on - one attention and guidance.

Over time, teacher assessments provide more detailed and actionable information than standardized tests.

Gigante and Firestone (2007) found that teacher leaders who were provided time to work with teachers during the school day, in addition to the support of administrators, were more likely to engage in tasks that advanced teacher learning than teachers without time and administrator support.

Raymond hand - picked the principals for the schools, gave them full hiring authority, created positions for additional teacher coaches and site administrators, provided extra training and time for collaboration, and gave the schools more latitude to choose their curriculum.

When teacher leaders had less time available, they were more likely to engage in «managerial» support strategies, such as providing resources to teachers, than direct instructional support practices, including demonstration lessons.