Sentences with phrase «skilled educator focused»

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Experienced educator / presenter focusing on mindfulness, parenting, stress reduction, building balanced lives, and study - organization skills

But new research from a spate of economists, psychologists, neuroscientists and educators has found that the skills that see a student through college and beyond have less to do with smarts than with more ordinary personality traits, like an ability to stay focused and control impulses.

Mindfulness — a set of skills that helps us be more present, calm, and focused — can be a catalyst for social and emotional development and professional growth for educators.

I kept having that feeling of — I know what he's talking about, I've lived it for years as an urban educator — but I've never seen anyone make such a clear argument for the fact that schools need to focus on developing students» social and emotional skills.

Using resources and tools like the ones below, educators at KIPP King Collegiate High School focus on honing critical thinking skills across all subjects.

Still, as faculty chair of HISL, Peterkin knew that the weeklong institute — a Program in Professional Education focused on helping school district leadership teams develop the leadership skills and strategies necessary to build capacity and significantly improve instruction — was exactly what the Meridian School District educators needed.

Although wider press coverage of the OECD's report focused on the findings that heavy investment in ICT failed to improve results, Andreas Schleicher, OECD director for education and skills stated that the key to success was to «find more effective ways to integrate technology into teaching and learning to provide educators with learning environments that support 21st century pedagogies and provide children with the 21st century skills they need to succeed in tomorrow's world».

As part of this research effort, Fuller analyzes America's middle - skills jobs market focusing on what employers, policymakers, and educators can do to close the skills gap, especially in areas critical to U.S. competitiveness.

Educators need to put the focus on employability skills in order to instill a level of confidence within their students that makes employers want to give them a chance.

She describes a «tension in education reform» between initiatives that focus on accountability and those that focus on helping educators improve their skills.

«These grants to the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Center for Collaborative Education will offer the funding necessary to provide educators with the knowledge and skills to create the kind of small, focused learning environments that help all students achieve.»

Focus on educators» skills to promote social perspective taking skills in their students.

Focus on Higher - Order Literacy Skills Education Next, February 27, 2013 «After years of attention from educators but little measurable achievement growth, something more has to be done to address the instructional needs of Hispanic students.

Helping students develop the skills to focus is something educators and parents recognize as critical to driving better learning outcomes.

For U.S. educators, a successful peace education program focuses on helping children develop the skills they'll need to get along with others, solve conflicts in nonviolent ways, contribute positively to their communities, respect intergroup differences, and value diversity.

As evidence has mounted showing that failure is often determined by what happens in the toddler years, educators have converted kindergarten and preschool from «playful social experience to a more narrow educational opportunity focused on so - called cognitive and academic skills.»

Designed to be used by preK - 12 educators for professional development, this Focus On will help teachers develop the skills to recognize, address and prevent bullying.

Deans for Impact believes that teacher educators should focus on how students acquire and retain information to help them build their critical - thinking and problem - solving skills.

Beyond Standardized Testing: District Focuses on Assessing the Whole Child Concerned that high - stakes testing was narrowing student assessment down to a few scores, educators in one Illinois district developed a system to assess a wide range of skills — including thinking skills and social skills — they wanted students to master.

Most educators, guided by the standards alone, have continued to focus on skills.

While the national discourse focuses on the merits of school choice initiatives in their own right and for their own sakes, as leaders of state and local education systems, as educators of diverse regional, political, and professional backgrounds, we believe that these policies are better thought of as means to critical ends, and that the goal of these and other education policies should be, above all else, the enhancement of skills for America's youngest generation and expanded opportunity for children to thrive as adults.

By helping students train their brains to focus more, and strengthen their brain functions, educators can use mindfulness to improve students» skills, relax their thinking, and process more in a reasonable time period.

Thriving Under Pressure focuses on helping educators manage the stress and pressures of the workplace by integrating practical skills, mindfulness practices and leadership strategies.

Educators of the gifted find that overuse of some cooperative learning strategies, particularly those focused on learning of basic information and skills, results in a lack of challenge for advanced learners, inordinate use of these learners as «junior teachers,» and inappropriate pressure for these learners to solve instructional problems (Robinson, 1990).

Given the demand for STEM skills in the work force, businesses and educators alike realize that they must focus on these two groups specifically — and early — so that they do not squander the needed talent and potential of millions of young people.

Over the past 30 years, Joan Cole Duffell has been an educator, writer, and leading advocate for positive outcomes for children, focusing on promoting children's social - emotional skills and the prevention of child abuse, bullying, and other forms of violence.

To prepare global - ready students, educators need to focus on developing their own skills such as global competence, problem - solving and emotional intelligence, as well as attitudes of openness and curiosity.

Working from the assumptions that every teacher of every subject can share equal responsibility for teaching and evaluating skills, educators can infuse inquiry - based learning in schools today by creating performance rubrics focused on student competencies, and by making skills - oriented growth 60 % of their grade.

UbD is based on a backward design approach and is used by thousands of educators to create curriculum units and assessments that focus on developing students» understanding of essential ideas and helping students attain important skills.

This paper from Linda Darling - Hammond, Gene Wilhoit, and Linda Pittenger recommends an accountability approach that focuses on meaningful learning, enabled by professionally skilled and committed educators, and supported by adequate and appropriate resources, so that all students are prepared...

Early childhood educators are justifiably concerned that demands for academic standards in preschool will result in developmentally inappropriate instruction that focuses on a narrow set of isolated skills.

April 23, 2016 (St. Paul)-- Nearly one hundred teachers from across Minnesota joined Educators 4 Excellence - Minnesota for its annual member summit today, which focused on providing teachers with the skills to address racial disparities in school discipline.

Educators repeatedly express concern that standardized tests focus too much on basic skills and not enough on deeper learning, and that testing, including test prep, takes too much time.

«That's why the NEA Foundation created the Global Learning Fellowship: to provide educators with comprehensive professional learning focused on authentically integrating these global skills into classroom instruction.»

Giving all educators the breadth of knowledge and practical tools that help students strengthen their literacy skills is the focus of Read, Write, Lead.

The initiative has improved educator knowledge, understanding, and skills in teaching of English language arts and mathematics through the application of Focused Instructional Modeling - Mathematics (FIM) and Academic Language Development (ALD) pedagogy.

Her focus informs educators, parents, and students about important skills needed to increase work place success.

However, most of these tests are multiple choice, standardized measures of achievement, which have had a number of unintended consequences, including: narrowing of the academic curriculum and experiences of students (especially in schools serving our most school - dependent children); a focus on recognizing right answers to lower - level questions rather than on developing higher - order thinking, reasoning, and performance skills; and growing dissatisfaction among parents and educators with the school experience.

Common Core focuses on fundamental skills in language arts and mathematics that several researchers and educators testified Wednesday are superior to Wisconsin's current standards.

The project focuses on makerspaces, which help foster the skills necessary for students to participate in a global society, and will assist in the development of a school - based team of educators who will champion the culture of a makerspace and facilitate its use by students and staff alike, both during and after the school day.

This experience is all too common when educators attempt to focus on 21st century skills.

The Fisher Fellowship is an intense year - long fellowship where experienced educators focus on creating their school visions, enhancing their leadership skills, and observing strong school models from across the country.

Through a partnership with Digital Promise, the thought - leader in competency - based educator development, BloomBoard offers a library of over 200 micro-credentials which focus on a variety of skills such as data literacy, teacher leadership, and deeper learning.

«Similarly, personalizing professional learning for educators by focusing on the skills that are most relevant to their professional needs is efficient and effective.

Courses for educators are offered on a variety of topics, from «How to be a better reading teacher» to «Understanding how to teach children with ADHD or autism,» all with a focus on detailing education best practices, or skills and methods that have been proven effective through independent research.

Fall Forum 2016 will gather educators and advocates skilled at and committed to student - focused, teacher - led, equitable, and challenging learning.

While the roles, definitions, training, and skills differ from country to country, all are have a singular purpose: to support educators and families address personal issues students face so that they can focus on their education.

The main focus for Bright IDEA 3 will be on training educators on Building Thinking Skills (Parks and Black); Gifted Intelligent Behaviors (Costa, Kallick, and Frasier); and Task Rotations and Learning Styles (Silver, Strong, and Moirao).

The training focuses on the critical step of helping educators understand and hone their own social emotional skills and practices so they can deliver high - quality SEL to students.