Sentences with phrase «taught by other teachers»

This lack of collaboration time drove Teach Plus, a national nonprofit that educates teachers, to develop a Common Core training program taught by other teachers.

Experienced and relatively effective math teachers who transfer from one school to another create a «spillover» effect — meaning math scores go up for the students taught by the other teachers in that grade level.

More than a decade of research from across the country confirms that students taught by Board - certified teachers learn more than students taught by other teachers.

More than a decade of research from across the country confirms that students taught by National Board Certified Teachers (NBCTs) learn more than students taught by other teachers.

It can also be used to promote student centered group learning that will keep students engaged while reinforcing concepts that were taught earlier in the year or from the previous two years taught by other teachers.

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By the end of the four days, the educators know intimately about the monetary policy process, and they can teach other teachers and their students much more accurately.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

Let us continue to examine the nature of the synoptic tradition by considering the results of the work of the scholar who has probably done more than any other to make available to contemporary scholarship historical knowledge of the teaching of Jesus, Joachim Jeremias of Gottingen, whom we are proud to acknowledge as our teacher.

I'm currently taking a lactation support class (taught by RN and IBCLC Gini Baker, who trains many doctors, nurses, doulas, teachers and other breastfeeding counselors / educators), and it has really opened my eyes to many of the points you make — including the possible relationship between fertility issues and breastfeeding issues (and between breast augmentation and breastfeeding issues).

By: Joe Newman In my last blog I said that our culture had swung its emphasis from teaching children that respecting others (parents, teachers, community members, etc.) to teaching them that respecting themselves was most important, and that either extreme was unhealthy for children.

Based on the best selling Positive Discipline books by Dr. Jane Nelsen and co-authors Lynn Lott, Cheryl Erwin, Kate Ortolano, Mary Hughes, Mike Brock, Lisa Larson and others, it teaches important social and life skills in a manner that is deeply respectful and encouraging for both children and adults (including parents, teachers, childcare providers, youth workers, and others).

Commenting on the publication by the Department for Education of School Workforce statistical data on headteachers» salaries, Chris Keates, General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «Headteachers and other school leaders have an important and critical job to do in leading and managing teaching and learning in schools.

«A petition originated by the NUT and National Association of Head Teachers has now been signed by other teaching unions and many other well - known individuals and organisations.

Many institutions depend heavily on graduate student teaching: a 2003 report by agitators for a graduate student union at Yale, [16] for instance, claims that «70 % of undergraduate teaching contact hours at Yale are performed by transient teachers: graduate teachers, adjunct instructors, and other teachers not on the tenure track.»

Classically, Aṣhțāṅga Yoga means eight - limbed Yoga, we will address each limb and will teach āsanas from the Hatha Yoga system (referenced in the Hatha Yoga Pradipika, Gherand Samita, and other Hatha yoga scriptures) as shared with us by our teacher, Baba Hari Dass.

I was reminded of this when I was approached recently by a kundalini yoga teacher and musician who has been struggling with her health to the point that she can barely teach — how critical it felt to get her back into the space of sharing her gift to awaken others to their own.

Although part of our basic 200 hour Phoenix Rising Yoga Teacher Training, this course can also be taken by yoga teachers from other schools of yoga as part of our 300 hour bridge program in Therapeutic Yoga Teaching.

Teaching hours must be accompanied by 5 student evaluations that include: * Student name and contact information * Number of hours student attended classes and dates (month and year) * A brief evaluation of the teacher's communication skills and understanding of the principles of Yin yoga (as an art form not a science) Optional: Hours accrued from attending other Yin yoga workshops and / or additional Yin Yoga Certification week session (s) taught by Paulie Zink.

It is important to understand that Hatha Yoga or the advance stage also known as Raja Yoga or any other form of Yoga taught by any teacher - would not exist without Ashtanga (the eight limbs).

Other benefits highlighted by these stakeholders included: Literacy and numeracy assessments can be used to celebrate learning, identify strengths, needs, barriers to learning and allow teachers to make informed and objective judgements about learning; Focusing teachers» and schools» attention on the need for phonics to be taught explicitly and systematically to achieve the necessary level of word reading skills that are required to develop skilled reading; Early identification of children with learning difficulties or [those who] need additional instruction.

There should also be opportunities to create a variety of differentiated roles for teachers — so that they can pursue their strengths and don't have to be frustrated by their weaknesses (much as happens in other fields)-- as well as increasingly creative opportunities for team teaching, both in a school environment as well as virtually across geographies, to make teaching far less isolating and provide far more opportunities for recognition among one's peers.

By connecting with others who have discovered methods of physical and mental renewal, teachers have a better chance of staying enthused about teaching despite the many inevitable setbacks during the school year.

A new research - based practice guide, released today by beyondblue, seeks to provide teachers, families and other professionals with everyday strategies to build resilience in young people and teach them to think positively.

The inquiry will look into the quality of teaching, the impact of the subject on young people and teacher training for Holocaust education, as well as the absence of teaching regarding other genocides and the implementation of the recommendations made by the Prime Minister's Holocaust Commission.

Regardless of whether or not teachers agree with each other on pedagogy, most teachers I speak to would feel comforted by the idea that teachers had a hand in developing, testing, and giving feedback for the standards they taught.

While there may be other mechanisms through which increased school spending improves student outcomes, these results suggest that the positive effects are driven, at least in part, by some combination of reductions in class size, having more adults per student in schools, increases in instructional time, and increases in teacher salaries that may help to attract and retain a more highly qualified teaching workforce.

Content: A section of a larger site owned by Prufrock Press, which sells books and other products about gifted and special - needs students, the «Teaching Gifted Children» area offers a number of articles that take teachers through every aspect of educating gifted children, beginning with how to identify them in the first place.

Teaching positions that are filled by teachers who are certified, but who are teaching in academic subject areas other than their area of preTeaching positions that are filled by teachers who are certified, but who are teaching in academic subject areas other than their area of preteaching in academic subject areas other than their area of preparation

Yet, many teachers at some point in their teaching career become frustrated by their students» inability to think creatively, and others — as best exemplified by Sir Ken Robinson's famous Ted Talk, blame schooling itself for killing the imagination.

It never occurred to me that teachers would be «evaluated» based on the scores achieved by other teachers» students or that districts would have to scramble to find any tests they could just so that they could claim to be evaluating teachers, even those teaching physical education or the arts, based on scores on standardized tests.

On the other hand, if I were commissioned to find a teacher for a group of adolescent boys and if, by some miracle, I could secure either Socrates or the latest Ph.D. from Teachers College, with his equipment of the latest technologies and techniques of teaching, with all due respect to the college that employs me and to my students, I am fairly certain that I would jump at the chance to get Socrates.

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Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

This follows a joint submission made to the STRB last week by NAHT and other teaching unions to address the decline in teachers» real pay over the last seven years.

For each objective teachers are given detailed information about what content should be taught to meet the objective, the level of knowledge that has been developed in earlier grades, assessment ideas that can be used to determine if the student has mastered the objective, and ways the skills covered by the objective can be linked to other objectives.

All five of the instruments yielded scores that were related to student achievement gains, in the classroom of students where the teacher was observed as well as in other classrooms of students taught by the same teacher.

In The Paideia Proposal, Mr. Adler and 21 other educators argued that teachers should help all children gain access to a common core curriculum through a combination of didactic teaching, coaching, and teaching by asking questions.

[v] In California, Steele et al. found that a $ 20,000 bonus to high achieving teaching candidates to work in high poverty schools increased the probability of their placement in a high - poverty school by 28 percent and their probability of remaining in the high - poverty school at the end of four years was similar to other teachers in those schools.

The achievement gains based on that measure were more reliable measures of a teacher's practice (less variable across different classes taught by the same teacher) and were more closely related to other measures, such as classroom observations and student surveys.

Another possibility is that schools will seek to increase the time available for sports and other parts of the curriculum that can be taught by PE teachers — the only subject with a real over-supply of teachers.

If a teacher is teaching how to write a topic sentence for a paragraph, some students will find this a simple question of mastering one new chunk of information while others will be swamped by a confusing mess of words.

Department for Education data also reveals that children in many English secondary schools are being taught other core academic subjects, including chemistry, geography and languages, by teachers lacking subject expertise.

The software can be used by teachers, teaching assistants or other personnel within a school.

A citizens» panel appointed by Gov. Toney Anaya of New Mexico has recommended boosting teachers» starting salaries from the current average of $ 14,800 to $ 25,000 by 1989, in order to make teaching competitive with business occupations and other higher - paying professions.

The donation, which is contingent on being matched dollar - for - dollar by other donors, will help fund Teach For America's recruitment of members on more than 200 college campuses as well as its eight - week teacher - training program.

They say examples of parent perceptions include teachers being «bogged down» by the curriculum and not having enough time to teach the basics, differing attitudes (some are enthusiastic and encouraging and others less so), and that they don't understand every child has their own way of learning so they can't provide the right support.

«By working in groups to improve instruction, teachers are able to develop a shared language for describing and analysing classroom teaching, and to teach each other about teaching.

A new practice guide, released today by beyondblue, seeks to provide teachers, families and other professionals with everyday strategies to build resilience in young people and teach them to think positively.

Some have argued that the legal basis for this mandate can be found in section 1111 (a)(8), the so - called «equitable teacher distribution» requirement, which asks states to submit plans to the Secretary that describe «steps that the State educational agency will take to ensure that poor and minority children are not taught at higher rates than other children by inexperienced, unqualified, or out - of - field teachers, and the measures that the State educational agency will use to evaluate and publicly report the progress of the State educational agency with respect to such steps.»