Sentences with phrase «serve teachers and learners»

Scaling this shift in approach across a global company hasn't been quick or easy, but it has allowed us to better serve teachers and learners.

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The teacher, as an enabler or equipper or coach, no matter how expert he is as a scholar, is in his teaching function asked to help the student to release and develop powers of observation and reasoning that will serve him as a continuing learner.

«The basic purpose of this commission, according to the governor's charge, was to «comprehensively review and assess New York State's education system, including its structure, operation and processes...» In failing to deal at all with such major issues as funding, special education, the lack of appropriate supports for English language learners, as well as ignoring major current controversies such as implementation of [teacher evaluations] and common core systems, the commission has ill - served students, parents, and the public at large.»

Mulgrew said the full payment of the CFE funds would help New York City public schools reduce class size and better serve the growing population of English language learners and special education students with more teachers, guidance counselors, social workers, school psychologists and school nurses.

But keeping in line with the lengths I must achieve with my present piece, let me put forward theories and thoughts that do not belong to me, and that would perhaps authenticate my present synopsis.Were you to ask a boffin about the reasons why learners respond better to teachers using humor in the class, I am sure (s) he would tell you that, «Humor in educational settings serves a variety of positive functions beyond simply making people laugh.

We push ourselves to the limits to serve our learners, but with mounting pressures on our time and greater teacher accountability, it is not beyond the realms of possibility that burnout can strike.

Charter schools have long been accused of perpetuating racial isolation, relying on uncertified teachers, and not serving their fair share of special education and English language learners.

Time spent among students and teachers was an example of serving learners» needs well with a meaningful context, rather than incremental skills to be acquired (IBO).

The majority of communities in the United States have English language learners (ELLs) and consequently, the great majority of teachers are engaged in identifying how to serve this group of students.

Her posts are rich in tips and strategies for any teacher who wants to serve English learners at the peak of their learning potential.

For improving systems of preparing, recruiting, and developing teachers and education leaders to serve the needs of diverse learners.

Teachers have a responsibility to be educational leaders and life - long learners in order to serve as role models for the their students, according to National Teacher of the Year Dr. Betsy Rogers.

Odysseyware is the central driving force behind the technology - based curriculum at the Academy, which serves over 400 learners, and provides a solution that is both student - and teacher - friendly.

Under the proposed rules, teacher colleges will be motivated to steer their graduates away from school districts and schools that report low student achievement test scores, i.e., those serving poor and minority children and new learners of English.

This means that the goal of co-teaching can not just be to bolster student success it must also be to transfer skills, strategies, and understandings to classroom teachers so that they themselves can serve language learners well.

What to watch: HIDOE intends to expand the efforts of the Teacher Induction Center to better support teachers serving special education students, English language learners, and students in the Hawaiian Language Immersion Program.19 Stakeholders and policymakers should consider how to expand and improve the induction program's services to reach all of Hawaii's teachers and then study the effect on various student populations.

At IDRA, Dr. Nilka Avilés leads teacher professional development in science education particularly serving English language learners, and in strengthening college access and readiness for underserved and underrepresented students.

I have been friends with each of the three English Language Learner (ELL, ESL, ESOL) teachers that have served my district since I began teaching, but I especially enjoy our new ESL specialist, who is passionate and eager for ESL students to comprehend all possible materials.

Support networks of teachers and administrators are critical for rethinking our curriculum and our role in larger community issues, to best serve the needs of poor, inner - city second language learners.

Dr. Ximena E. Zate served as Program Administrator and Director of the Bilingual / ESL Technical Assistance Center (BETAC) in Eastern Suffolk BOCES on Long Island, where she provided educational services for English language learners and English as a Second Language / Bilingual teachers and district administrators in Suffolk County.

Pérsida Himmele has served as an elementary and middle school teacher, a district administrator, an English language learner program consultant, and a public speaker on issues related to student engagement and teaching in diverse classrooms.

Teachers in our Teacher Leadership Network will explore challenges and identify best practices in classrooms serving English Language Learners, the fastest growing student populations in the US.

Mitra describes how a high school in California that serves many low - income students and English language learners (and with a high dropout and teacher attrition rate) involved students extensively in its school reform efforts.

William Himmele has served as an ESL teacher and a Speech Pathologist, a higher education administrator, an international consultant and a speaker on issues related to increasing student engagement and teaching English language learners.

In fact, a survey of teachers, administrators, and student learners where at - risk student populations were identified was recently conducted on the schools in this area, including those specifically serving the population of at - risk students directly involved in the ATTTCSE project (Gonsoulin, 2006).

Dr. Kinsella details cross-curricular writing instruction imperatives for educators serving English learners and striving readers, including a focused yet accessible analytic rubric for each assignment, targeted lessons on language and rhetorical devices for specific writing types, explicit analysis of an appropriate writing model, and brief, frequent doses of interactive, teacher - meditated writing practice to build critical competencies for longer, independent assignments.

Teacher preparation programs experience that sense of success when their candidates — working with students and mentors in local schools — show that they can tie their subject - matter knowledge, instructional skills, and assessment abilities together to serve the needs of all learners.

A new report in the Wall Street Journal reveals that a charter school run by the United Federation of Teachers in Brooklyn serves a disproportionately small number of English - language learners and students with special needs.

Danijela Duvnjak, director of teaching and learning at Hmong College Prep Academy in St. Paul, Minnesota, struggled to hire and retain teachers to serve the school's English - language learner student population.

Though educators are ever cognizant of the fact that technology alone is not the panacea that will solve the literacy struggles of students, a thoughtful integration of literacy instruction with new technologies such as wikis can serve as the vehicle to transport both teachers and their students of this Web 2.0 generation on their learning journeys in ways that are broader and more meaningful than any individual learner could travel alone.

The TALENT Act addresses this by ensuring that federal teacher training funds can be used to better prepare educators to spot emerging talent and to better serve the unique needs of these learners.

Students, parents, and teachers can view and edit the learner profiles, allowing the profiles to serve as a communication tool among those involved in a student's education.

Since then, she has served a variety of management roles across the district supporting the integration of technology district wide, leading schools, developing professional development programs for teachers of bilingual and world language programs, and designing and implementing instructional programs for English Learners.

She has spent the last three years teaching fifth and sixth grade English Language Arts and has served as the English Language Learners Teacher at a small charter school in south Nashville.

As part of this vision, the NTC scales high quality teacher induction services to a national audience and works closely with educators and policymakers nationwide to serve low - income students, minority students, and English language learners, who are otherwise often taught by inexperienced teachers.

In fact, teacher tenure has served as an important protection to allow teachers to advocate for students — especially with regard to maintaining manageable class sizes, safe instructional spaces, the needs of students who are English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities.

At each inquiry session a volunteer serves as the «public learner»: a teacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learning data.

Irene enjoys working collaboratively with teachers and district leadership to better serve English Learners.

In California, these shortages are impacting districts serving low - income and English learner students the hardest, but even affluent districts are struggling to recruit and retain high - quality teachers,» said Linda Darling - Hammond, President and CEO of LPI and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.

At each Mills Teacher Scholars inquiry session a teacher volunteer serves as the «public learner,» a teacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learninTeacher Scholars inquiry session a teacher volunteer serves as the «public learner,» a teacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learninteacher volunteer serves as the «public learner,» a teacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learninteacher or staff member who is willing to publicly share their thinking, their questions, and their student learning data.

It also serves the purpose of assisting teachers, LEAs, SEAs, administration and other educational staff «develop and enhance their capacity to provide effective instructional programs designed to prepare English learners, including immigrant children and youth, to enter all - English instructional settings» and to encourage parent and community engagement in the ELL community.

Worse still, they led to unwarranted sanctions for many schools serving concentrations of English learners, including having to «reconstitute» schools which could involve staff dismissals, closing schools in many low - income communities, and causing the flight of many good teachers from schools labelled as failing.

For several years Ms. Johnson led the professional development program for one of IDRA's Transitions to Teaching projects, MASS (Math and Science Smart), funded by the U.S. Department of Education to recruit and prepare elementary, middle, and high school teachers to serve English language learners and diverse student populations.

Governor Malloy's tenure has been characterized by denigrating teachers, vigorously opposing adequate funding of public schools and vastly increasing financial support for privately run charter schools which fail to serve the state's neediest children, including English Language Learners and students with disabilities, have disturbingly harsh disciplinary policies, increase racial isolation, drain public money from needy public schools and have even been implicated in fraud and theft.

Edutopia Edutopia is the result of the George Lucas Educational Foundation's vision of a new world of learning where students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and those they serve are empowered to change education for the better; where schools provide rigorous project - based learning, social - emotional learning, and access to new technologies; and where students become lifelong learners.

Nilka Avilés, Ed.D., is an IDRA senior education associate focusing on teacher professional development in college readiness and science, particularly, in serving English language learners.

This applies for any educational setting and creates a clear outline for ensuring teachers at any grade level continue to develop the skills needed to serve all learners.

Just off of Schwab Hall, the Koret Education Center, with a resource library and classrooms, will serve as an educational hub for students, teachers and lifelong learners.

Edutopia Edutopia is the result of the George Lucas Educational Foundation's vision of a new world of learning where students and parents, teachers and administrators, policy makers and those they serve are empowered to change education for the better; where schools provide rigorous project - based learning, social - emotional learning, and access to new technologies; and where students become lifelong learners.