Sentences with phrase «teacher learning conversations»

AR: I loved what you said about how when you support teacher learning conversations, the magic isn't in the protocol, but in the mindset, and in understanding how we create the conditions for that mindset to develop, like the idea of the public learner.

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Teachers are overworked like everyone else, but as one teacher at Emerson Elementary pointed out that breakfast - in - the - classroom time can be valuable — learning how to do hygiene, table manners, using breakfast time to talk about how to eat properly, how to carry on a conversation while eating, even something as simple as handwashing!

In informal conversations, Fong learned that teachers were concerned that some students with passing grades weren't ready to move on.

To see parents learn through interesting conversations with each other was also rewarding for the teachers.

Teachers at Loudoun County School Division had a thoughtful conversation about the power of sustained inquiry, which is based on questioning skills, and how student reflection was critical to learning.

«From my point of view,» wrote Professor Sara Lawrence - Lightfoot in The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other, «there is no more complex and tender geography than the borderlands between families and schools.»

And so Superintendent Johnson volunteered to give the young cellist a ride home; she learned a lot from their conversation: he had never ridden the downtown trolley, he had rarely been in downtown Memphis, and he didn't know what a cello was before a teacher encouraged him to join the orchestra.

The process offers an opportunity for intensive, clinical conversations among teachers that center around their classroom practice and ways that they are improving student learning.

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

Other teachers have chosen to be involved in book circles, professional learning conversations or the development of workshops for Bialik's fifth Cultures of Thinking Conference.

Which brings me to the question that I hope might kick off your conversation: «What did your best teachers and coaches do for you — without the benefit of maps, algorithms, or data — to personalize your learning?»

The main focus of coaching and mentoring conversations for school improvement is to build the competency and capability of teachers, so that they can take steps towards achieving the school's strategic vision and priorities in the curriculum, teaching and learning, and assessment, and can effectively make judgments about students» progress and outcomes.

Finally, Symonds specials teachers are regularly involved in conversations and meetings to ensure student success in learning.

However, teachers can acknowledge conversations about graphic novels and movies in the learning spaces to demonstrate the complex analytical reasoning that their students are voicing.

In this blog post, classroom teacher Matt Weyers explains how he shifted the conversation in his classroom from getting a grade to student learning.

The principles of professional learning and training for teachers and principals that were advocated valued the centrality of dialogical conversations with educators as the core of professional development.

This training of teachers as assessors for the process is also helping to build a different culture of learning, based on the statewide conversation about what constitutes good teaching.

A critical role for those groups interested in supporting teacher leadership is, I think, helping classroom teachers learn how to operate in policy conversations and how to engage in tough - minded but respectful back - and - forth with policymakers, advocates, and the rest.

Standards invite all those involved in the endeavor — current teachers, school administrators, teacher educators, and state education officials — to a conversation about the meaning of good teaching and its impact on student learning.

Since Knapp Elementary held its first «ParentCamp,» its learning community has been engaged in conversations far beyond those 27 discussion sessions led by local parents and teachers.

And I discovered that doing it well means respecting what we know about teacher learning, which has to do with self - assessment, reflection on practice, and professional conversation.

There is a centrality in the national conversation, a sense of opening in the educational world, and an explosion of new forms of learning for teachers and students that I think create possibilities that were not there before.

She explains that the roles «have the potential of undermining students» natural conversations» and says that the chapter about discussion in her book Getting Started With Literature Circles focuses on alternatives for teachers who want students to learn to discuss without roles.

Ideally, such conversations can help teachers and administrators develop a shared vision of teaching and learning goals.

Such conversations can hopefully add teachers» voices to important discussions about instructional and learning goals.

(Personal Learning Network, School Leadership, Teacher Leadership) #edchat Radio is a ten - minute show that highlights conversations from the weekly #edchat Twitter chat topic.

Since Knapp Elementary held its first «ParentCamp» on April 27, our learning community has been engaged in conversations far beyond those 27 discussion sessions led by local parents and teachers.

A coach can foster conditions in which deep reflection and learning can take place, where a teacher can take risks to change her practice, where powerful conversations can take place and where growth is recognized and celebrated.

Just before each unit we [other teachers in her grade level] sit down and we talk about what, what are the objectives, what do the students have to learn, what activities can we do to ensure... success of all that... we were doing a graphing activity and the students graphed and we [other teachers in her grade level] were discussing the graph out in the hallway and um, she happened to walk by and she just kind of sat down and joined us and so then I just asked her... some feedback on, you know, how my conversation went and what I could have [done] to... deepen the kids» understanding.

The week was highlighted by a global student - teacher - parent - leader panel conversation as representatives from the American and Finnish educational systems spent an hour discussing the core beliefs behind best practice teaching, learning and leading.

If you weren't able to connect during that week, every moment of the #PennFinn13 trip was captured on our team's blog of 30 + entries to encourage continuous dialogue, learning and relationship - building among trip attendees and those students, teachers and leaders who continue to carry the conversation on Twitter and our Facebook page.

Teachers and school leaders, if they like to learn, do so through observation of and conversation regarding perceived «best practices.»

In T - school, teachers learn that «a good lesson flows like a quality conversation.»

See also GROWING UP (1)- FRIENDSHIPS and GROWING UP (3)- CONVERSATIONS With an easy - to - follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many students will self - direct their learning.

See also GROWING UP (2)- RELATIONSHIPS and GROWING UP (3)- CONVERSATIONS With an easy - to - follow format, a non-specialist teacher or teacher aide can deliver this workbooklet with confidence, add ideas and many student will self - direct their learning.

The teachers also liked the new model better, saying that it felt less like they were defending the grades they gave students and more like a conversation about the students» learning.

Of course, pieces of this — particularly the scripted questions — might be relevant for portions of the day when teachers might bring students together to have group conversations that deepen the learning, but planning to control all the activities minute by minute in a blended - learning environment is a non-starter.

My recent encounters in Reggio Emilia in April with pedagogical documentation prompted this question: How can we learn more about the images our teachers hold of assessment through documenting professional conversations about assessment practice?

In the second instalment, Gordon explores how documenting professional learning conversations can help understand the images of assessment that teachers hold.

What made this experience unique was our opportunity as teachers to read the anonymized transcript of the student conversation and process together the implications for teaching and learning.

They create a blended environment where teachers and students engage in both physical and online conversations so that learning is no longer confined to a single means of communication or even an arbitrary class period.

Fogarty says the program is a model of learning that's engaging part of the whole community in teaching and also changes the dynamic between teachers and students because it positions the conversation more about what learning is being selected, who's doing the selecting and how to balance that knowledge.

A long - time family friend is a science teacher at BAMS, and weve had some great conversations about education during my time working with the Learning First Alliance (LFA).

Troy is a Microsoft Expert Educator and 21st Century Learning Design facilitator, and is excited to be a part of the powerful conversations that assist teachers design and implement engaging learning experiences that embed innovative technLearning Design facilitator, and is excited to be a part of the powerful conversations that assist teachers design and implement engaging learning experiences that embed innovative technlearning experiences that embed innovative technologies.

All teachers are experts, so when you enter into conversation with another teacher about PBL, make a specific effort to learn something about how this teacher runs his or her classroom.

Then, let's show them that we are and perhaps have some of these conversations that would otherwise be «secret teachers» business» and show them that we are still learning.

Deliberately planning for and structuring frequent learning conversations offer powerful learning opportunities for teachers to see learning through students» eyes, and develop their next teaching approaches.

Fiona Gordon explores how documenting professional learning conversations can help you understand the images of assessment that teachers hold.

«There is a real sense of urgency and opportunity in the national conversation about education, along with an explosion of new forms of learning for both teachers and students that I think create possibilities that were not there before.»

For teachers, the key is how to get the learning to spill out of the classroom and continue the conversation.