Sentences with phrase «teacher development efforts»

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Members interested in this area of work aim to identify, compile and develop resources and create opportunities for exchange in order to establish a stronger foundation for productive, collaborative human rights efforts, and contribute to the professional development of science, engineering and health teachers and human rights educators.

In his keynote talk at the 2015 Forum titled «Continuing Efforts to Improve Science Education in the U.S,» DeBoer reviewed the history of science standards development in the U.S. and the role of Project 2061 for an audience of several hundred science teachers from various Chinese provinces, many of whom were being recognized for excellence in teaching.

The study's lead author Shannon Lipscomb, an assistant professor of human development and family sciences at Oregon State University - Cascades, said the findings point to the reason that some children develop problem behavior at care centers, despite the best efforts of teachers and caregivers.

The Heliophysics Educator Ambassador (HEA) program is a collaborative, multi-mission effort that provides professional development and resources to middle and high school science teachers who then train other teachers at local, regional and / or national workshops, conference and meetings.

The responsibilities will include leading efforts to improve the diversity of students entering scientific fields, creating professional development workshops for K - 12 teachers, expanding collaborations with other science educators, and mentoring student research projects (plasma physics or education) in our Science Education Laboratory.

Teachers can save significant time and effort related to resource development through the implementation of OER.

Some of the best professional development «meets teachers where they are» by building on top of what they are already doing, rather than ignoring their current efforts and asking them to throw out the baby with the bathwater.

As part of that effort, Kathy Alexander, the director of outreach and education for the region's district attorney's office, taught a five - week professional development seminar for teachers about violence in the schools.

The company is passionate about praising and encouraging children at school in order to boost their self - esteem and support their academic development, as a «Well Done» sticker, «Teacher's Award» badge or «Super Effort» stamp may seem small, but they make a child feel really proud of their achievements, spurring them on to work harder.

Any effort to understand why the teacher unions succeeded as they did must begin by recognizing that their emergence was not an isolated development in the American labor movement.

Effective professional development is often seen as vital to school success and teacher satisfaction, but it has also been criticized for its cost, often vaguely determined goals, and for the lack of data on resulting teacher and school improvement that characterizes many efforts.

In Boston, MCAS is an important part of a seamless standards - based reform effort that includes clear expectations for what students should learn, curriculum aligned with the standards, high - quality instruction and professional development to help teachers improve their practice, and assessments that provide students with a way to demonstrate what they have learned and how they can apply it.

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional - learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster - Wright, 2009; Accomplished California Teachersteachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional - learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster - Wright, 2009; Accomplished California TeachersTeachers, 2012).

More than 20 public school districts across the country, including the large urban districts of Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, have quietly entered into «compacts» with charters and thereby declared their intent to collaborate with their charter neighbors on such efforts as professional development for teachers and measuring student success.

Teacher professional development is essential to efforts to improve our schools.

Edcamp is a teacher - organized grassroots effort to re-imagine educator professional development, born out of a desire to make it more valuable, more educator - centered, and more democratic.

Oklahoma also has 27 categorical programs that provide money for such efforts as reading initiatives, professional development, textbooks, employee health benefits, and teacher retirement.

But the research on effective professional development points more toward ongoing efforts that are school based and tied directly to teachers work.

In tackling this task, Feinberg says, they «backed into» the five essential tenets of the KIPP model: High Expectations (for academic achievement and conduct); Choice and Commitment (KIPP students, parents, and teachers all sign a learning pledge, promising to devote the time and effort needed to succeed); More Time (extended school day, week, and year); Power to Lead (school leaders have significant autonomy, including control over their budget, personnel, and culture); and Focus on Results (scores on standardized tests and other objective measures are coupled with a focus on character development).

This is despite the fact that school districts invest considerable resources in professional development in an effort to improve teacher performance.

This is despite major efforts to spread best practices widely, including the work of education schools and $ 15 billion spent annually on teacher professional development.

High - quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort on resource development and advance student learning inside and outside the classroom.

Still, many teachers applaud these efforts for developing holistic metrics for effective teaching and for including classroom teachers in all aspects of program development and implementation.

CCSSO's effort aims to «significantly increase» the percentage of school districts in targeted states in which curriculum and materials adoptions are of high quality and aligned to state standards; and to increase the percentage of professional - development and teacher - prep programs that include training on those curricula.

Some of these might be categorized as efforts to build the capacity of the current system by simply paying for professional development sessions on particular topics; others might be thought of as attempts to change the system by developing new approaches to hiring, compensating, and evaluating teachers.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

Second, à la the Shanker manifesto, efforts should be made [by the federal government] to develop all manner of tools, materials, lesson plans, professional development, curricula, and more that [the federal government determines] will help teachers implement the standards in their classrooms — and to help students master them [as determined by the federal government].

In addition to regularly assessing student performance, Sherman Oaks utilizes a tool (the California Standards for the Teaching Profession) to help teachers self - assess their own growth over the course of a year as a result of the school's staff development efforts.

The seminar — promoted through a collaboration between HGSE and the Center for Public Policy and Educational Evaluation (Centro de Políticas Públicas e Avaliação da Educação, or CAEd) of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora in Brazil — focused on education reform, specifically U.S. efforts to develop 21st - century skills through teacher education, leadership development, and the definition of standards for teachers and school leaders.

«Through providing appropriate experiences at each stage of development by combining their efforts, parents and teachers can help pupils contribute to the happiness and well - being of their families.

The initiative has put teachers at the center of efforts to develop resources and professional development to support implementation.

Teachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trustTeachers will remain caught between ideologies of short - term economic efficiencies and the findings of educational research — between bottom lines and holistic student development; caught in the rough - edged cogs of funding formulae about resources and student achievement; caught by the Gonskis in the public - private funding debate; stuck between the so - far - disappointing results of national, standardised testing and teacher accountability (more effort is made to hold teachers accountable than trustteachers accountable than trust them!).

Working for the past 20 years to define the characteristics and fundamental elements of an evidence - based high - quality induction program that accelerates the development of both teachers and their students, New Teacher Center (NTC) established the Teacher Induction Program Standards (TIPS) in an effort to create an industry standard that can be adopted by school districts, educational institutions, state agencies, and policymakers as the benchmark for success.

Yet increasing numbers of professional - development efforts in the out - of - school realm resemble those used to improve the quality of classroom teachers.

Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content for school classrooms, has announced that it has partnered with Mission Grove Primary School in Walthamstow, London on a new professional development effort that will support teachers as they prepare today's students to meet tomorrow's challenges.

The Compass Advantage views education and child development as integrated processes nurtured through the collaborative efforts of parents, teachers, and out - of - school programs.

This webinar delves into digital - literacy efforts in the United States — including the development of learning standards — while also looking at where the average school's efforts are now and how administrators and teachers can improve them.

This study explored how a yearlong professional development model guided by the Technology Integration Planning Cycle supported teachers» technology integration efforts.

The AFT provided dozens of teachers to the development and review effort, president Randi Weingarten said.

From a policy standpoint, the adoption of SEL standards, funding for teacher professional development, and the incorporation of school climate into measures of accountability are all potential levers (among many) to support empowerment efforts.

The districts in The Mirage spend an average of nearly $ 18,000 per teacher, per year, or six to nine percent of the districts» annual operating budget, on development efforts (the charter management organization in the report spends an average of $ 33,000 per teacher or 15 percent of its annual budget).

Best Behavior is a professional development program designed for administrators and teachers to support their efforts in creating and maintaining a positive and supportive school culture that facilitates academic achievement and the healthy social development of students in a safe environment that is conducive to learning.

TNTP identified professional development as efforts carried out by districts, schools, and teachers themselves.

Instead, teachers view leadership as a collaborative effort, a «banding together» with other teachers to promote professional development and growth and the improvement of educational services (Troen & Boles, 1992).

Goddard and colleagues say further studies are needed on collaborative practices but that their study provides preliminary support for efforts to improve student achievement by promoting teacher collaboration around curriculum, instruction and professional development.

As education leaders who have implemented successful education reforms around the country, we believe that Title II - A, the largest Federal resource dedicated specifically for the development of teachers and school leaders, is vital to our efforts.

Then, over the course of the year, PEFNET plans to begin mobilizing consultants to help the funds move away from such narrowly framed programs as teacher mini-grants and one - day staff - development workshops to more sophisticated efforts that...

During his first five years as chief of Boston schools, Payzant focused the district on literacy instruction, creating a new team of literacy coaches who worked with classroom teachers in a small set of schools, using money freed up from an «audit» of professional development endeavors that revealed too many disparate efforts around the district.

We examined teachers «perceptions of principals «efforts to involve others, and teachers «descriptions of their own leadership for improvement (measured by sense of collective responsibility and the development of shared norms and values).

As federal officials weigh proposals to improve the quality of mathematics and science education, a new report highlights state - led efforts to recruit new teachers into those subject areas and boost their skills through professional development programs.