Sentences with phrase «studies teachers meet»

The broadcasting and social studies teachers meet once a week for a common planning period.

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When the members of the school board of Dover, Pennsylvania, a small community near Harrisburg, required students to read a short statement concerning intelligent design before studying ninth - grade biology, they met stiff resistance from some parents and teachers.

Returning home after his two years of study abroad (chiefly at Oxford, but also in Germany, where he met and married Hedwig von Bötticher, of Gottingen), he began his career as teacher of New Testament at Berkeley Divinity School (1911), then located at Middletown, Connecticut, now at New Haven.

All of the work of the congregation — the committee meetings, the youth groups, teacher training meetings — are occasions for Bible study and meditation guided by Scripture.

For parents / caregivers that are interested in obtaining these levels of educational support for their child, a child study or student support meeting should be requested through the child's teacher or guidance counselor.

Students of Hamburg social studies teacher Jason Steinagle traveled to Albany to meet with state Sen. Chris Jacobs, R - Buffalo, who was one of the bill co-sponsors, as well as state Sen. Patrick Gallivan, R - Elma.

«The formidable challenges to improve the way we educate culturally and linguistically diverse students mean teachers and schools can no longer work in isolation,» said Lynch School of Education Associate Professor Martin Scanlan, co-author of a study presented today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

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I then went to City College in New York City to study full - time, where I met two very influential teachers, Phil Ziegler and Danny Lehrman, who were both interested in bird behavior.

In the last the discussion of the meeting there were 4 conclusions about improving education in science: to motivate and pay teachers well (primary and secondary levels), to promote science via the media (government back up), to inspire leaders to start the change, and to develop a good mentoring system so the student can study at home and go back to the professor with questions.

In 1998, she began studying with several Yoga Masters and in 2002 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker of ParaYoga and was initiated into the lineage of Sri Vidya.

In 1927 he met his teacher and studied Ashtanga yoga with him for more than 25 years.

So, he set to work and read every book he could find, studied every teacher he could meet, and talked to every girl he could talk to to figure out dating.

By that point, Moore had been studying A.S.L. for a month with deaf actress and teacher Alexandria Wailes, and says she greeted Simmonds by signing, «I'm so excited to meet you,» then finger - spelling her name.

Given all this, it is perhaps unsurprising that the biggest ever study on teacher evaluation, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project (MET), revealed that even the very best observation approaches had limited success in identifying the teachers also associated with the highest gains in pupil attainment.

Through the program, Sostaric and others gain an appreciation for children and teachers, work in and get to know the diverse communities in which they study, and meet other college students.

These studies make worthwhile reading for any teacher or school leader interested in shrinking the opportunity gap in our country while also meeting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Teachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties oTeachers meet this mandate by linking academic subjects with the arts: The math curriculum, for example, incorporates principles of design, and science teachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties oteachers use musical instruments to study sound and stage lighting to demonstrate the properties of light.

The Morning Meeting was first proposed to me by a new teacher who had studied it in her pre-service classes.

In an effort to ensure that their students will succeed and that their schools will meet AYP goals, many teachers spend virtually all their instructional time on literacy and mathematics, with little attention to science and social studies.

In one case study, teachers met regularly to develop video clips of their best teaching practices for the National Board Certification application (Brantlinger et al., 2011).

Similarly, in a case study of four middle school math teachers who participated in a yearlong series of ten video club meetings to reflect on their classrooms, teachers in the video club «came to use video not as a resource for evaluating each other's practices, but rather as a resource for trying to better understand the process of teaching and learning» in a supportive, nonthreatening setting (Sherin and Han, 2004).

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

A study suggests that many states» own perspectives on how close they are to meeting the federal requirement for a «highly qualified» teacher in every classroom is a little too rosy, and that significant policy changes may be required to meet the goal.

But the SAT scores of prospective teachers who actually seek licenses are nearly equal to those of all college - bound seniors, the study found, and scores for people who meet state licensing requirements exceed those of...

In the largest study of instructional practice ever undertaken, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project is searching for tools to save the world from perfunctory teacher evaluations.

The studies, presented during the April 12 - 16 meeting here of the American Educational Research Association, may fan the growing nationwide debate over how to determine whether a teacher is qualified.

After assessing where their understanding was incomplete, students should write what they will do to learn the material (such as meet with the teacher during study hall, review textbook examples before tests, or practice their multiplication tables).

Michael McShane is research fellow in education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and coeditor with Frederick Hess of Common Core Meets Education Reform: What It All Means for Politics, Policy, and the Future of Schooling (Teachers College Press, 2013).

At JSIS, all teachers participate in weekly Wednesday meetings — which rotate through grade - level meetings, subject - specific meetings, classroom visits (called peer observations), and book - study discussions — and monthly PLC meetings.

Teacher Erin Okata integrated social studies, language arts, science, math, fine arts, and technology into the project as a way to help students develop an awareness of ocean life and to meet specific Hawaii state curriculum standards.

As this will be there third year that some subjects have not met the government's target number needed to enter training, as identified by the DfE's Teacher Supply Model, the shortfall will extent to the loss of a whole cohort of trainees in subject such as design and technology, business studies and physics over the three year period.

A study by researchers at the National Center on Performance Incentives at Vanderbilt finds that teachers who were offered rewards of up to $ 15,000 if their students met goals for test - score gains did not outperform teachers who were not offered the bonuses.

In the second and third year of the project, teachers and researchers met weekly, developed case studies of their classroom experiences, and helped to refine the theory and framework as it emerged from the collaboration.

The study group on multicultural education, which will meet for the first time in January, will examine how teacher training and curriculum materials can better reflect the increasing cultural diversity of the classroom, said Brenda L. Welburn, NASBE's deputy executive director.

In physics class, a teacher had the students do a feasibility study to see how much energy the greenhouse used, and whether the solar panels produced enough energy to meet the needs of the space.

The findings, discussed at the fall meeting of the Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, are part of a comprehensive, three - year study of the program, which trains 10,000 teachers each year.

Principals also can use it as a way to direct book studies with their teacher teams or conduct electronic coffee meetings with parents and the community.

Meeting or activity shall mean those school - initiated meetings or activities attended by parents or persons in parental relationship who are hearing impaired, which are specific to the academic and / or disciplinary aspects of their child's educational program, including, but not limited to, parent - teacher conferences; child study or building level team meetings; planning meetings with school counselors regarding educational progress and career planning; suspension hearings or any conference with school officials relating to disciplinary actions.

It draws on diverse sources: our daily poems and the poets we study, the weekly newsletter and other school publication, teachers» styles of speaking and writing, songs we sing at our whole - school morning meetings, current events, our history textbook, children's literature, the classroom walls, and writing by the students themselves.

For each learning study, the teachers met for about seven meetings in which they pre-planned the study, designed pre - and post-tests, planned and revised three lessons and finally summarized their findings.

First, there is little evidence that teachers meeting to study student data, such as benchmark test scores, actually affects instruction or student learning.

Yoon and associates (2007), in reviewing experimental professional development studies in which teachers were randomly assigned to various professional development programs, uncovered only nine studies that met this rigorous research strategy.

However, the Lesson Study model, which involves regular (meeting two or three times a month) collaborative activities, builds a routine among the small group of teachers that actually leads to teacher and student learning over time.

The study highlights the challenges that teachers of young children face in meeting the needs of children who are developmentally diverse.

Wayne Nadeau, a social studies teacher at Lamoille Union High School in Hyde Park, Vt., was elected to serve a paid, three - year term on the executive committee during the NEA's annual meeting in New Orleans on July 4.

The coach moves on to another Coaching Cycle group, and the teachers continue to meet on their own, repeating the strategy with new content, and eventually acting as peer coaches and mentors for each other as they study and practice additional strategies in a focused way.

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The review also flagged up current shortages of language teachers, with studies previously covered by Schools Week showing another 3,500 languages teachers may be needed to meet demand driven by the EBacc.

Over the duration of the last academic year I have been studying this theory, using learning observations, meetings with teachers, student voice, book looks and learning walks (supportive strolls) as sources of information from which I could hopefully draw some conclusions.