Sentences with phrase «support meaningful teaching»

Effective mentors use inquiry - based questioning and support meaningful teaching and learning through an analysis of individual needs and goals based on teacher standards (Feiman - Nemser, 2001).

Finally, we envision that these schools positively influence the conditions in which all schools operate, serving as examples of and advocates for education policy that supports meaningful teaching and learning that allows all students to use their minds well in school and throughout their lives.

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While I don't agree that the church's «message should be one of... finding a partner, getting married and sticking together» — given the many ways to live well today, that's an extremely narrow and heteronormative view — the book does speak to the ways the church is a place of support, friendship and guidance for men, whether by offering engaging activities (at the risk of sounding cliche, group sporting events for example) or teaching classes to build marketable skills or acting as an employment center to help them find meaningful careers with decent wages or offering essential mental health counseling.

It lays out eight math teaching practices to support deeper learning in the subject, including «facilitate meaningful mathematical discourse,» «pose...

As important as better assessments are, they must work in tandem with high - quality curriculum; meaningful, job - embedded professional development; and all the other pieces that will support educators preparing to teach to these new standards.

«My most meaningful work is to teach, support, and learn with and from my students.

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This fall, as school districts scattered around the country are considering «no homework» policies, teacher educator Curtis Chandler looks at research on whether and how homework can support learning and suggests teaching apps to help make it short, meaningful, and accessible.

In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced teachers and by providing teachers with increased supports for instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's classrooms and to receive meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from school leaders.

PL schools interested in supporting personalization through progressive teaching should ask themselves how they could use technology to support deeper, meaningful learning in ways that go beyond using tech for drill - and - skill learning.

• A deep - seated belief in the inherent right of all children to a quality education; • A professional life dedicated to improving education for teachers and their students; • A passionate commitment to improving teaching and learning in America; • Unwavering dedication to the professional integrity and competence of teachers; • Visionary and boundless energy, eternal optimism, and expert leadership; • An innate capacity to inspire collaboration and mobilize support that enabled unparalleled achievements in the history of American education reform; and • A clear vision coupled with steadfast commitment and fierce determination which has led to historic milestones in American education and meaningful impact on teaching and learning.

Once these are agreed we can look to build a set of descriptors and in turn rigorous, meaningful assessment processes that recognise (and indeed serve to support and develop) the high - quality teaching already happening in many classrooms across the country, rather than adding to teacher workload.

The DFS program is designed to help teachers make their lessons more meaningful by engaging them in «authentic instruction» — a method of teaching that incorporates students» prior knowledge, uses critical thinking skills, and then supports students in applying their knowledge to the real world.

«Along with meaningful evaluations, feedback and support for educators, the Teacher Excellence Fund is another key element to modernizing teaching and strengthening our schools.»

In the Teacher Practice Networks initiative, facilitated by the Center for the Future of Teaching & Learning, districts and outside organizations partner to leverage their combined expertise to develop teacher leadership skills; deepen content pedagogical knowledge; and support meaningful, teacher - to - teacher professional learning.

Mission's school - wide outcomes include: (1) Utilizing student work to drive instruction, inform teaching practices, and support student achievement at the highest level; (2) Emphasizing Post-Secondary Success at all grade levels to ensure that students are academically prepared, eligible, and have a deep awareness of all post-secondary options upon graduation from high school; (3) School - wide family engagement to create meaningful partnerships, build strong relationships, and deepen avenues of communication with all families in order to provde the highest levels of support to its students.

One of the most important keys for Meaningful Student Involvement is the consistent support and willingness of adults to integrate students in all aspects of schooling, including teaching, learning, and decision - making.

+ Provides coaching experiences for teachers, including review of lesson delivery, providing feedback, and modeling demo lessons + Develops / curates quality instructional resources to share with teachers, including lesson plans, unit plants, and assessments + Facilitates professional development workshops for group sizes ranging up to 100 participants + Designs rich and meaningful professional development sessions aligned to math instruction + Continues own learning through research and self - driven PD to stay current of latest trends in math education + Maintains open communication with supported teachers to nurture a professional learning community of educators + Communicate actively with key stakeholders on progress of teacher development + Provides reporting documentation of services delivered, as required EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE: + BA / BS Degree in Education or related field + 4 + years of work experience teaching math in a K - 12 setting + Expert in math content at least across a 5 year grade level band (g. grades 4 — 8) + Record of result in effectively coaching teachers + Experience designing and delivering professional development for adults + Experience working in blended learning classrooms is a plus + Master's degree preferred + Excellent communication skills are essential OTHER JOB REQUIREMENTS: Some local traveling required.

This calendar is an organizational tool for the leadership team and staff, captures the work that supports student achievement efforts and teacher growth, and highlights meaningful connections to keep the focus on teaching and learning.

It prepares district and school administrators and / or leadership teams to: • Make data actionable and competency - based • Use data to bring coherence across improvement initiatives & maximize their impact • Build a system - wide culture of data - literacy and student - focused teaching and learning • Create capacity to collect evidence needed to validate successful implementation and gauge impact on achievement Leaders will learn what it takes to initiate, support, and sustain the meaningful and productive use of data throughout an organization — with an emphasis on how to support teachers» use of data.

Teaching, teacher evaluation, and providing meaningful support for teachers to grow in an environment that is both supportive and focused on student learning is a serious endeavor.

School leaders and those who support teacher learning can benefit from the experiences in ExCELS by including teachers in a meaningful way in the ongoing conversations about what quality teaching looks like, and equally as important is how to get there together.

We look forward to partnering again with Teaching Matters to bring a meaningful opportunity to our teacher leaders and provide another support for developing their instructional skills aligned with the Common Core,» says Amy Way, Executive Director of Teacher Recruitment and Quality, NYC DOE.

Students of National Board Certified Teachers learn up to two months more than their peers, with an even greater impact for students of color and low - income children.54 A career continuum supported by a system of meaningful professional learning would put teaching more on par with other modernized professions such as medicine, engineering, and architecture.55 Such a continuum should support every teacher to aim for accomplished practice from the start of their career, to work in school - based teams to demonstrate and improve their knowledge and skills, and to expand their impact as accomplished teachers through a variety of leadership roles, which would allow them to continue teaching students.

Meaningful engagement with technology during preparation supports preservice teachers in their efforts to develop the technological pedagogical content knowledge (or technology, pedagogy, and content knowledge [TPACK]; Mishra & Koehler, 2006) needed to understand «complex relationships between technology, content, and pedagogy and [use] this understanding to develop appropriate, context - specific strategies and representations» (p. 1029) in their future teaching.

For Chartered Teacher Status, subject NPQs or similar training programmes to have wide value and recognition, new roles which are classroom based but involve supporting others by sharing teaching expertise need to be established as a high - status and meaningful career pathway.

They note, «In our 25 + combined years of teaching experience as well as our work as educational consultants who support middle and secondary teachers around the country, we've witnessed up close the ways in which these Activator formats ignite students» attention and interest, maximize participation and drive well - paced lessons that deepen learning in meaningful ways.»

In an accountable system, students are engaged in meaningful learning, taught by competent and caring professionals, and supported by adequate resources to ensure that they graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to be effective citizens and contributors to a democratic society.

Meaningful technology use can support positive teaching and learning outcomes that include effective instruction, support for authentic learning, increased student learning, and alterations in teacher pedagogy (Culp, Honey, & Mandinach, 2003; Darling - Hammond et al., 2005; Pope & Golub, 2000).

[3] To support this focus and to make training for teachers more meaningful, the state should require that preschool teachers have a specialization in early childhood (rather than, for example, a bachelor's degree in K - 6 teaching), or can demonstrate that they have the knowledge needed to teach early childhood.

Our team's orientation was to bring about greater equity and fairness in the system with a more meaningful approach to providing support to improve teaching.

In the book, Tucker concludes, «high - performing states and nations are focused on building coherent systems of teaching and learning, focused on meaningful goals and supported with universally available, strategic resources.»

MASL believes that both the Library Media Specialist and support staff personnel are totally involved in the teaching / learning process, working with students.and teachers, using every means possible to help make learning a meaningful and rich experience.

The following seven guiding ideas provide support to teach consumer and financial literacy through the Knowing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

The following seven guiding ideas provide support to teach consumer and financial literacy through the Growing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Following are seven guiding ideas to support your teaching of consumer and financial literacy through the Showing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

The following seven guiding ideas provide support to teach consumer and financial literacy through the Showing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

«We are proud to expand our support of the Tang Teaching Museum, an institution that continues to pioneer new ways of integrating the fine arts with a diversity of disciplines, creating deeply meaningful experiences for the communities it serves — whether through on - campus scholarship or access and education initiatives that serve public schools and build audiences well beyond the region,» said Laurie M. Tisch, President of the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund.

While I don't agree that the church's «message should be one of... finding a partner, getting married and sticking together» — given the many ways to live well today, that's an extremely narrow and heteronormative view — the book does speak to the ways the church is a place of support, friendship and guidance for men, whether by offering engaging activities (at the risk of sounding cliche, group sporting events for example) or teaching classes to build marketable skills or acting as an employment center to help them find meaningful careers with decent wages or offering essential mental health counseling.

The following seven guiding ideas provide support to teach consumer and financial literacy through the Growing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Inquiry group meetings that are distinctly separate from general school business allow for deep discussions and shared support from fellow teachers, making the teacher's work more meaningful and their teaching practice stronger.

Following are seven guiding ideas to support your teaching of consumer and financial literacy through the Showing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

The following seven guiding ideas provide support to teach consumer and financial literacy through the Showing stage in a way that is meaningful and empowering for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students.

Parents should be taught the skills to change their own behaviour and become independent problem solvers in a broader social environment that supports parenting and family relationships.40 A small increase in parental exposure to an evidence - based programme can produce meaningful change at a whole population level rather than individual improvement at an individual case level.3, 9