Sentences with phrase «quality of their work with students»

The passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act gives states a new opportunity to hold districts and schools accountable for the quality of their work with students prior to 3rd grade.

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Dr. Loughlin has published empirical papers in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the Journal of Organizational Behavior, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology, as well as co-authoring book chapters on work stress, workplace health and safety, and the quality of youth employment (several of these publications have been with her students).

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

Since returning from California, Chagnon and other members of the Challenge Success team have worked with teachers to emphasize quality over quantity in homework assignments and craft policies to reduce students» workload.

Mass Audubon worked with the Student Conservation Association, an AmeriCorps trail crew and led a volunteer effort to make sense of the existing trail network and simplify it so the visitor has a high - quality trail experience.

Wes Streeting, president of the National Union of Students (NUS), said: «We need to make sure government is working with college providers to ensure quality isn't compromised and people aren't left languishing on the dole.»

After four years and half a billion dollars on a failed school turnaround program, NYC students need a leader who will work with urgency to give them the quality of schools they deserve,» said StudentsFirstNY Executive Director Jenny Sedlis.

«A quality education with high expectations for all students is clearly a major priority for New Yorkers, and that's exactly why two years of work has gone into revising the standards,» said Steve Sigmund, the group's executive director.

To get an understanding of the quality of their spheres, Tadigadapa's doctoral student Chenchen Zhang and recent doctoral graduate Eugene Freeman worked with Alexander Cocking, a doctoral student in the lab of Penn State laser expert Zhiwen Liu, professor of electrical engineering.

Pourhashem worked with environmental engineering graduate student Quazi Rasool and postdoc Rui Zhang, Rice Earth scientist Caroline Masiello, energy economist Ken Medlock and environmental scientist Daniel Cohan to show that urban dwellers in the American Midwest and Southwest would gain the greatest benefits in air quality and health from greater use of biochar.

«Ontario's universities are working hard to provide a quality education to students with operating grants that are well below the Canadian average,» says Paul Davenport, president of the University of Western Ontario.

«Students often remark on the quality of the internship assignment... and how the opportunity to work with and contribute to a team of professionals solidified their decisions to pursue a specific STEM [science, technology, engineering, mathematics] career.»

We are working with them diligently to figure out how to make the partnership more and more cohesive for students so that they are receiving the highest quality of services and support possible.

Filmed by EL Education, «Austin's Butterfly, a true story about a Presumpscot Elementary School first - grade student who was tasked with making a scientific drawing of a tiger swallowtail butterfly, shows the impact of feedback and revision on creating high - quality work.

Simply put, the facets of a quality school model with high expectations will work for all students, regardless of race, ethnicity, or immigrant or socioeconomic status.

Files Included with this Lesson • Teacher Notes and Resources • Quick Getting Started Tutorial for Students • 3 Lessons for Projects with grading rubric including: o Create a Web Site o Create a Blog o Create an Online Portfolio • List of project ideas for each assignment Students love authentic work and sharing their knowledge with the world is a great way to teach creativity, pride in quality and the importance of copyright.

Fatheree and Lindvahl are very proud of the high - quality film their students produced, but they're more impressed with how the kids worked as a team while employing a wide range of skills.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

She is also creating rubrics with students, to internalise markers of quality that will enable students to judge their own work.

It was a tight contest, with many students from all over the region submitting pieces of high quality work that showed both excellent written skills and good imaginations, but Kirsty did really well at producing a finished article that was a cut above the rest.

A more complete and accurate conception, in line with the colloquial meaning of the term, recognizes that standards also refer to the desired qualities of student work and the degree of rigor that must be assessed and achieved.

Due to all the hard work and collaborative energy of teachers, administration, school - based leadership teams, community partners, students, and families, the Edwards has reached and continues to meet our goals for student achievement and for providing middle school students in Boston with quality education in academics and enrichment.

I credit these qualities — along with the tireless dedication of our teachers and school leaders, who instill in our students the values of integrity, humility, hard work, and service — for our remarkable success.

A guiding principle in all of Dr. Moody's work is to create effective instructional programs capable of providing each and every student with equal access to a quality education.

Every time I spoke with him about his work, it was clear that he was engaged and intellectually capable of producing high - quality product, yet whenever I gave students time to work, he spent that time talking to friends or looking at websites that had no connection to impending deadlines.

As part of their work with the project, Gilford's biology students tested the water quality of a number of local streams last year, and each class participated in a different community - outreach project that gave their lessons real - world impact.

What students are expected to know and do should be described clearly and coupled with examples of quality student work.

As educators and experts assess the quality of student mental - health services in light of the deadly shootings last month at Virginia Tech, the gunman's immigrant background is focusing attention on what those who work with immigrants say is a lack of services tailored to such groups.

Given this reality, many education leaders have rightly made it their priority to recruit high - quality teachers to work with their students, and many of the leading education reform efforts focus on teachers.

Over my 35 - year career as a public school teacher and educator at Expeditionary Learning, I have been obsessed with collecting student work of remarkable quality and value.

In our work with public school educators seeking to close the achievement gap for disadvantaged students, we have confronted this question often and have come to believe that the critical difference between schools that excel and schools that do not is the quality of execution.

Revision and reflection, one of BIE's 8 Essential Elements, requires PBL teachers to provide students with regular, structured opportunities to give and receive feedback about the quality of their work - in - progress, demonstrate perseverance, and polish their products until they successfully meet the established criteria for success.

Our mission is three-fold: to provide high - quality, developmentally - appropriate educational programs for children; to provide a clinical setting in which students preparing for careers working with young children can observe and participate in the application of theory into practice; and to facilitate educational research opportunities that engage participants in the process of investigation, reflection, and documentation.

Handy set of 20 original photos to take the hard work out of searching for those perfect good quality images needed for assisting students with their outcomes.

Of course, because the reported sources of benefit are conversations with colleagues about student work and exposure to a wide range of student work of varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teacherOf course, because the reported sources of benefit are conversations with colleagues about student work and exposure to a wide range of student work of varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teacherof benefit are conversations with colleagues about student work and exposure to a wide range of student work of varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teacherof student work of varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teacherof varying quality (Gambell & Hunter, 2004; Goldberg & Roswell, 2000; Masters & Forster, 2000), it stands to reason that similar activities in an Australian context would have similar impacts on teachers.

And KIPP is working with Common Core, Inc., the non-profit that developed Eureka, to create a new K — 8 English curriculum for KIPP schools that is designed to build student knowledge systematically through the use of high quality works of literature, nonfiction, and informational text.

For example, the 2015 FCC Broadband Progress Report states that approximately 35 percent of schools lack access to fiber, meaning the high - quality broadband with appropriate speed students need to work.

So, in a nutshell, it would be (as I've said I think in the report), we need to continue to focus on high quality, localised at the point of where the teaching and learning actually occurs — there is a role for going elsewhere and going to large conferences and hooking up internationally on ICT and so on — but actually rolling your sleeves up with some external expertise in a sustained way in the site where you actually do your teaching work with the students.

Barron and Darling - Hammond (2008) recommend providing students with several opportunities to review and revise their project work (as a way of delivering a polished performance) and providing comments rather than grades during these assessments to focus attention on the quality of work rather than the worker.

As early implementers, these educators have gone both to the «source» of the standards and used other proxies for quality and alignment: They've worked directly with and learned from the standards» authors themselves and / or used tools created by them (e.g., the Publishers» Criteria developed by Student Achievement Partners and several other groups).

If you or your school are interested in working with Dr Lawrence Ingvarson and Dr Kate Reid to collect evidence of student perceptions of teacher quality, please contact them at [email protected] or visit the SPTQ webpage.

«We have worked incredibly hard to ensure that the teaching of GCSE courses to our students is of the highest quality and so I am really delighted that Ofsted agrees with us.

For example, IES provides the foundations of factual information and research with the collection of clear, consistent, high - quality data through the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).1 It is through the efforts of IES, which conducts its work free from political influence, that we are able to understand trends in our student populations, schools and universities, and an array of inputs and outcomes that span early childhood to adult education.

For two hours a day, for thirty - six rigorous weeks a year, BHSFX students at all grade levels work in teams with a unique set of materials and class requirements (read: silicone, latex, and a syllabus that includes the phrases «eye fabrication» and «hair punching») to produce work of professional quality — as professionals.

Descriptions and images of those featured projects and dozens of others are available at Models of Excellence: The Center for High - Quality Student Work, a newly launched, searchable repository of exemplary K — 12 assignments that embed the visual arts with other disciplines.

Continuing my elaborate plan to take CS50x, the introductory computer programming MOOC from Harvard, and to share what I'm learning about quality online course design from the student perspective, this week began some real programming, complete with cryptic coding commands, and lots of time spent staring and / or cursing at the computer screen while trying to figure out exactly why the program wasn't working.

However, despite the enthusiasm for both school restructuring and transformational leadership, the findings from international meta - analytic work comparing the impact of various approaches to educational leadership, along with wider developments and concerns over quality teaching and student performance noted in earlier chapters, caused a re-examination of the worth of instructional leadership.

I think caring is demonstrated through such actions as having high expectations, spending time with the student and not ignoring them, encouraging them, showing attention to maybe things like a poor quality of work, or being late, or missing school.

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«I felt my relationships with some students improved and the tone in my classroom improved as they stopped seeing poor grades as something mean I did to them, and began to realize that their time and effort in turning in homework and redoing poor quality work was a function of their time and effort,» Slentz said.