Sentences with phrase «teacher collaboration serves»

As a former mathematics educator, administrator, and supervisor, she understands that teacher collaboration serves as a vehicle for improved student achievement.

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The Early Learning Center also serves as a learning lab where New Legacy students explore healthy child development and positive parenting and then apply the learning — in collaboration with the early learning teachers — in the classrooms.

Project U-Turn, a collaboration among foundations, parents, young people, and youth - serving organizations such as the school district and city agencies in Philadelphia, grew out of research that analyzed a variety of data sources in order to develop a clear picture of the nature of Philadelphia's dropout problem, get a deeper understanding of which students were most likely to drop out, and identify the early - warning signs that should alert teachers, school staff, and parents to the need for interventions.

In addition, teachers and administrators often reference physical proximity in describing why and how they interact with one another, with chance encounters due to proximity serving as a supplement to more formal collaboration.

Linked Learning Lens enrolled its first group of up - and - coming teachers at San Diego State in 2008, in collaboration with ConnectEd, the organization that serves as a hub for Linked Learning in California, and three other California State University campuses — Fresno, Sacramento and San Bernardino.

In this instance, the concept of multiple intelligences may not even be raised directly with students, but, rather, may serve as a tool for fostering dialogue and collaboration among their teachers.

Does the school employ a variety of collegial and sustained professional development activities (e.g., mentoring relationships between new teachers and experienced teachers, high - quality teacher induction programs, professional development drawing on school - level expertise, professional learning communities, collaboration among teachers, and relationships between teacher teams and social service support providers that serve students and families)?

These resources help maximize the benefits of parent - teacher collaborations to serve each child's educational needs.

«This collaboration will be part of the solution to take teacher leadership to scale — using the ample existing body of work on this as a springboard for action,» U.S. Secretary of Education Duncan said, «I've heard from so many teachers who are tired of the heartbreaking choice between serving their students and serving their profession.

An accepted approach to ameliorating this problem is the implementation of induction programs, which serve to support beginning teachers over time through professional development, mentoring, and collaboration (Smith & Ingersoll, 2004).

«Too often, teachers in schools serving students from high - need environments lack access to excellent peers and mentors and have fewer opportunities for collaboration and feedback.»

In her school, scheduling and staffing deliberately provide abundant teacher collaboration time and teacher - leadership, crucial for teachers to innovate and improve as they serve the school's high - need population.

Based on our experiences at Meadow Park Middle School and our knowledge of the literature, we formed a few strategies other schools can employ when looking to increase teacher collaboration to better serve students learning English.

The questions or discussion points served to clarify some aspect of understanding for the teacher candidates or may serve to provide an opportunity for reflective thought by any participant of the collaboration stage: teacher candidate, postsecondary faculty, or inservice teacher.

«LPI and CSBA's collaboration has enabled us to hear directly from district leaders who are on the front lines of this crisis, including many who are struggling to serve their students well in the face of shrinking ranks of qualified teachers and swelling class sizes.

For this vision to become a reality, we need to overhaul the way we operate schools, realizing that prioritizing initiatives like collaboration, professional development, and differentiated teacher ladders will improve teachers» capacity for effective instruction and, thereby, the outcomes of the students they serve.