Sentences with phrase «studies teacher capacity»

As someone who knows the subject inside out, and can efficiently align lesson objectives with school and state standards, I will be an immediate contributor to Hayfield Community Schools, in a middle school social studies teacher capacity.

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Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

The data collected in this study suggest that parents, teachers and DSTAs felt that their schools» capacity to respond effectively to students» needs during a parental deployment benefitted from the employment of a DSTA.

Jordan M&E Partnership In this 4 - year project, 12 national education policy research studies will be implemented, including national student assessment, TIMSS and PISA studies, Teacher Observation, School over - and under - capacity Study, etc..

There is also a research study open to participating Victorian government schools focusing on «Realising the Potential of Australia's High Capacity Teachers», which contains a substantial amount of pedagogical training on understanding and teaching self - regulated learning skills to primary and secondary schools students (Grades 5 - 8).

Teachers involved in the «Realising the Potential of Australia's High Capacity Students» study have been completing professional development to increase their knowledge and teaching of self - regulated learning skills.

In this case study, educators at Queensland's Bribie Island State School share details of a distributive leadership model that not only builds teacher leadership capacity but also increases community voice.

Study Tracks Growing Understanding of UDL Education Week, May 15, 2012» «A significant amount of this money was used to improve the capacity of general education to serve students with disabilities, not develop separate special programs,» said [Professor] Thomas Hehir... «All of that [effort] is about giving teachers the skills to teach students with more diverse needs.»»

The studies succeeded in building teacher capacity and confidence, but also brought to light five concerns about STEM that current education policies and programs do not adequately address.

Studying elementary schools in Arizona, Smith (1991) found other negative effects of testing on teachers: «Testing programs substantially reduce the time available for instruction, narrow curricular offerings and modes of instruction, and potentially reduce the capacities of teachers to teach content and to use methods and materials that are incompatible with standardized testing formats» (p. 8).

In its 10th Year, the Leadership Academy is funded by a statewide Teacher Center grant to be a Learning Community studying Leadership.Its mission is to empower individuals to realize their professional and personal leadership capacity through learning together, enhancing individual and group skills, and to set and achieve goals that advance distributive leadership within the New York State Teacher Centers» Organization.

Coaching and capacity building for teachers, teacher leaders, and administrators in partnership with the Center of Advanced Study of Teaching and Learning (CASTL) at the University of Virginia

Professional development instituted as part of the study engaged arts specialists from 59 schools as community and curriculum builders in collaboration with non-arts teachers, all the while building their own leadership capacities.

As seen in this study, Twitter's capacity to connect preservice teachers to new and diverse ideas and people recommends it as a social networking platform with real educational applications and potential.

Our AEP Ethnic Studies PD will help develop teacher capacity for the implementation of Ethnic Studies in your school district through custom educator training experiences, as well as help your current Ethnic Studies program reach even higher academic outcomes for your students.

The Center for American Progress (CAP) identified some of these obstacles in a November 2012 study of early - adopter states, including restructuring and staffing state education agencies; lack of capacity and the tight fiscal climate; debates concerning local control and the proper role of the state; training administrators who will be conducting new teacher evaluations; and determining how to evaluate teachers who do not teach in tested subjects or grades and therefore lack student achievement data (McGuinn, 2012).

Although we worked collaboratively with the classroom teacher, she was not included in data collection or analysis, since teacher efficacy or pedagogy were not under investigation; rather, the students» capacities for historical thinking as they interacted with various digital technologies were the focus of the study.

In the context of several school - university partnerships and university interdisciplinary collaborations she has developed, Dr. Heaton is leading efforts to build the capacities of preK - 8 teachers and studying their learning.

News Release Monday, January 13, 2014 Media Contact Van Schoales, CEO, A + Denver [phone] [email protected] Year Three Innovation Schools Study shows small differences in school culture, student achievement and workforce capacity between Innovation schools and comparison group A + Denver, Colorado Education Association, Denver Classroom Teachers Association, and Denver Public Schools released part three of an evaluation...

Carr's work with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) includes working with BOCES organizations and with school and district leaders to build capacity for successful implementation; creating protocols, tools, and templates for district - wide design of scope and sequence documents and units of study tied directly to the CCSS; facilitating summer Leadership Institutes for school teams to plan strategic actions to bring the CCSS and data - driven instruction to routine use in all classrooms; and conducting professional development through interactive keynotes, workshops for teacher leaders, leadership seminars, and individual coaching with school and district administrators.

Recent studies have pointed to «the value of strong social networks among teachers for the spread of reform implementation and innovative climate... and their capacity to change» (Moolenaar & Sleegers, 2010).

As in several of our previous studies, 53 we found significant but much weaker relationships between leadership and teacher capacity.

In that study, as in the present one, leadership was most strongly related to teachers «work setting and had weaker effects on teacher capacity than on teacher motivation.

One earlier studies incorporated approximately the same measures used in the present study of teachers «capacity, motivation, and work setting.45 Instead of collective leadership, however, that study used a measure of individual leaders «transformational practices.

This STORE strategy of developing a foundational curriculum of six exemplar lessons as a vehicle for building teachers» capacities to then develop or adapt innovative materials themselves resembles a teacher professional development study that looked at student outcomes of a science education innovation in three comparison groups: (a) teachers implementing a predeveloped curriculum with adaptations as needed, (b) teachers being taught how to carry out their own instructional designs then developing their own curricula, and (c) a hybrid condition where they were expected to do both.

This guidance document provides recommendations to policymakers in five areas: policy development; government and resources; curriculum development; capacity building of teachers and education planners; and public awareness, communication and stakeholder involvement, based on the case studies, as well as brief profiles of climate change and education in 16 countries» sustainable development policy processes.