Sentences with phrase «talking to teachers around»

Hope Street Group Teacher Fellows like AAE - PACE member Jill Cullis are talking to teachers around the country about their ideas for improving teacher prep.

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Also in July, mining giant Glencore announced it was in talks with Ontario Teachers» Pension Plan for a 50:50 venture for its royalty assets (including a royalty for the Antamina copper - zinc mine in Peru, which was expected to fetch around $ 250 million).

On Tuesday 21st January T and I set off extremely early in the morning to London joining the commuters on the train to one of the main London Stations and then onto the Tube for a trip to West Minster Palace to meet with other parent bloggers who believe strongly like we do that together we can make a change for these children with our voices, teachers, students, volunteers, representatives of Save the Children and Beanstalk, MP's from around the country and peers of the realm to talk about reading, books and how we can make a difference.

The more she is used to not talking around her teacher, for example, the more ingrained it will be.

It covers themes that most teachers only dance around and students are hard - pressed to get straight talk about.

At ISTE I saw systems where the teacher wears a wireless microphone around his or her neck and if it is the students that are talking to the whole class, they pass around a handheld version to use.

It's better for teachers to say, «Point your eyes toward me» and wait for compliance, instead of saying, «Stop talking, turn around, turn to page 237, take out a pencil, and head your paper with «Geology Frame.»»

,» Holly Korbey explores research around student study habits and talks to veteran teachers about their experiences with students using technology in the classroom.

«It comes naturally to a teacher to want to talk and explain, but it's important to turn around that dynamic for ELLs,» says Kessler.

I've seen students with their backs to their teachers and their teachers trying to talk through or to their backs, rather than saying «you need to be turning around, thank you, and facing this way and listening».

The Expo is also the place to put faces to names — so whether it's buttonholing a member of the Music Education Council or a representative from your particular exam board, or seeking out advice by talking to professional associations ranging from the Incorporated Society of Musicians and Musicians» Union to the European Piano Teachers Association UK, Association of British Choral Directors or the British Kodály Academy — with around 150 exhibitors, it's likely that the person you're looking for is in the building.

the teachers were sitting around talking about close - reading, and a social studies teacher was saying how hard it was to keep kids engaged when you are reading the same small chunk of text again and again, in different ways... (contd)

There is a real «buzz» here with teachers talking about possibilities for flipping content, lessons and classes.The conversation around pedagogy and student engagement was really important and we are so excited about all of the tools that you showed us as we were able to implement them in our classes straight away.We have even flipped our professional learning sessions for staff!

Free Technology for Teachers has won several Edublogs awards for its quality content, and Byrne has traveled around the world talking to teachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital clTeachers has won several Edublogs awards for its quality content, and Byrne has traveled around the world talking to teachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital clteachers about how to engage students successfully in a digital classroom.

As the education director, Sand has many responsibilities, including «talking to educators interested in or already using the program and doing coaching, teacher trainings, workshops, and conferences; doing research for and helping produce curricula; supporting the group's regional directors around the United States; and getting out the word about the project.

A key tool in the campaign, it says, is a 90 - minute film called «IndoctriNation: Public Schools and the Decline of Christianity in America» which was released in 2011 which features the producer, Colin Gunn, traveling around the United States in a bus with his family and talking to various «education authorities» who are really extreme libertarians, evangelical preachers, teachers who have left public schools because they couldn't bring Jesus Christ into the classroom and politicians who oppose public schools.

Our authors talk about how to do that, too — from teaching study skills for independent learning to making students more aware of their own behavior to enlisting them to help their teachers turn schools around, embrace technology, and learn new professional skills.

In wealthy school districts around the country, parents and teachers talk often about keeping computer use to a minimum.

«If the teachers I talk to from around the state every single day are talking to their delegates, I have a shot at this,» he said.

But when you talk to progressive union leaders and the teachers at the vanguard of this new movement, it's striking how much they have in common — even accounting for disagreements around specific policies.

Rubin, who walked around in front of the justices more than the other two lawyers presenting, talks about how charter schools that are not governed by the statutes do not perform better than some of the schools that are, and he tries to explain why some predominantly minority districts have low - performing teachers.

That being said, teacher evaluations seem to be the talk of the nation and I recently participated in two teacher webinars that focused largely on teacher evaluation and the way it's done around the country.

After the teacher and coach or study team talk with students and examine their work, it is time to examine the post-discussion questions (Phase 3) in the observation tool to drive deeper levels of conversation around student learning.

She enjoys learning languages (she is fluent in Spanish and working on French), long nature walks, reading and talking about topics around critical race theory, yoga (she is a registered yoga teacher — 200 hours) and is a certified professional coach that provides empowerment coaching to women during her free time.

History doesn't show that accountability turns around schools; at some point, someone must go into the schools, talk to the teachers, talk to the students, and observe classes to see what's needed.

I got my friends to attend forums, talked with teachers about student voice, listened to the opinions of educators around my community, and shared the resources I've come across along the way.

I had many foreign teachers in school and I would always follow them around talking... just to practice.

State Sen. Oscar Braynon, D - Miami Gardens, said that teachers would now have to be included in the talk that he and other African - American fathers have to give their kids in addressing how to act around armed authority figures.

The most important thing we can all do is to talk to young people about their use of technology and help them to navigate the complex online environment with a strong support network of family, friends, teachers and professionals around them.