Sentences with phrase «teacher learning focused»

The module addresses Standard 2 by focusing on how educational leaders can understand and facilitate teacher learning focused on the obstacles faced by students of color and students who are situated in poverty.

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We're conditioned by our teachers, peers, parents, uneducated coaches and everybody else pumped to give advice that you must «learn to work on your weaknesses,» and «strengthen your weaknesses,» but all young millionaires focus 100 percent on their best skills and strengths.

The increase in funding will help ensure that students, teachers and school district staff can focus their energy on teaching and learning.

Kara Carrero, a former high school teacher writes the fabulous blog ALLterNATIVE Learning, which has a focus on healthy, green and sustainable living in the context of the family.

By focusing on the day - to - day necessities of a healthy schedule; an engaging, personalized, and rigorous curriculum; and a caring climate, this book is an invaluable resource for school leaders, teachers, parents, and students to help them design learning communities where every student feels a sense of belonging, purpose, and motivation to learn the skills necessary to succeed now and in the future.

It illustrates that people are hungry for an alternative to the status quo where content is increasingly brought through computers rather than teachers, academic learning is being pushed down to younger and younger children, and the focus in the classroom is «teaching to the test.»

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EL's whole - school reform model combines a highly detailed, interdisciplinary curriculum that focuses on active learning, teamwork, and character education with training and coaching for teachers and school leaders.

Here's a teacher trick I learned over the years... Focus on relaxing your face.

An increased focus on social and emotional learning can improve the classroom climate and help kids see that the teacher truly cares.

«We have known for years that breakfast is the most important meal of the day — and we hear from principals and teachers that students are more focused and ready to learn when they start the day with a healthy meal,» said Judy Mobley, President and CEO of Children's Hunger Alliance.

It is important for parents and teachers to understand that the physical and behavioral symptoms are due to anxiety and treatment needs to focus on helping the child learn the coping skills to combat anxious feelings.

The broad sector policy thrust for Education is Sustainable and Efficient Management of Education Service Delivery with focus on teacher development and accountability; improved Quality of Teaching and Learning at all Levels, inclusive and Equitable Access at all Levels, skills Development and Training for Employability through Quality TVET and strengthened Mathematics, Science, ICT and Technology Education.

«We need to find ways to create a better learning environment, to allow our teachers to focus solely on teaching the fundamentals, and to expect positive outcomes.»

Commenting on the statement on licensing teachers by Tristram Hunt, Shadow Education Secretary, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT, the largest teachers» union, said: «When this proposal was made by the last Government in 2010, it was in the context of a national framework of pay and conditions of service which recognised and rewarded teachers as highly skilled professionals and which provided them with rights and entitlements to working conditions which supported them in focusing on teaching and learning.

The report from the 2020 Vision group wants teachers to focus on personalised learning to ensure no child is left behind and the brightest are stretched.

«In a context of unmanageable and unsustainable levels of teacher workload, the Government will need to demonstrate that its proposals will bring downward pressure on the workload and bureaucratic burdens placed on primary teachers and headteachers and enable them to focus on their core responsibilities for teaching and leading teaching and learning.»

We often report on the struggles of Common Core Learning Standards in the classroom, but in this Focus on Education report WBFO»S Eileen Buckley takes us inside JFK Middle School in Cheektowaga to hear about how educators and students are embracing it successfully and how future teachers are gearing up for the challenge.

The conference heard concerns from new teachers about the impact of excessive workload and bureaucracy on their ability to focus on teaching and learning.

«The Chief Inspector is right to send a clear warning about the Government's obsession with further structural changes as being the way to raise standards for pupils; what matters is creating the conditions in which teachers can focus on teaching and learning, without unnecessary and wasteful distractions.

«Joel misses the essence of teacher - student interactions, and the extent to which teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers teachers focus on students» physical and emotional well - being, in addition to their academic learning,» said Eric Nadelstern, the former New York City deputy schools chancellor and visiting professor of practice at Columbia University's Teachers Teachers College.

Eva Moskowitz, founder of the growing charter network, said she hopes sharing her curriculum and teacher training resources at no charge will help shift the focus of debates on education from politics to the nitty - gritty of what children need to know, how they learn best and how to pace instruction.

«The more weight put on standardized tests for children or teachers, the more school systems will focus on test prep rather than real learning.

«So I hope that the present government will maintain the same level of funding and support for training teachers and support staff to ensure that children with SEN continue to remain a priority and that the focus on how best to maximise children's development and learning is maintained.»

Cola has focused on public engagement on many fronts, working to inspire K - 12 students and their teachers to learn about the latest research in nano - and energy technologies.

To support the development of young students — particularly in low - income schools, which are at risk for having less effective teachers and less engaged students — researchers are looking to classroom interventions focused on social - emotional learning.

To cultivate that untapped talent, Singer said, educators have solid evidence of methods that work in STEM education — such as focusing on conceptual learning, problem - solving, and use of representations such as diagrams and evolution trees — but those methods are used in very few undergraduate classrooms where STEM teachers receive their training, Singer said.

The main focus of the study was on the interaction between the teacher and students in various technology supported learning environments.

«We need to expand that focus to include boys, laying a foundation for both girls and boys to learn and communicate with peers, parents, teachers and health providers as they develop positive self images and healthy practices in order to move this age group from vulnerability to empowerment.»

Let yourself settle into a supportive retreat setting with yoga teachers from many different parts of the country, and focus on learning more about the art of teaching and practicing this yoga we all love so much.

Let yourself settle into a supportive retreat setting with a «sangha» of yoga teachers and serious students from many different parts of the country, and focus on learning more about the art of teaching and practicing this yoga we all love so much.

Our Astanga - inspired, athletic, vinyasa classes are all building on a theme — every month, we have a specific focus that our teachers use to inspire their sequences — which gives students the chance to learn more about a posture or major tenet of the practice in a uniquely consistent way as each of our teachers approach that focus or theme in his or her own way.

Having said that, it is equally important for yoga teachers to allow for moments of silence as silence is equally important in yoga learning and allows an opportunity to the learners to reflect and focus on their individual practice.

Teacher Trainees in this course will: • clarify their ethics as a yoga teacher • create both a Kundalini class series and a Dream class series • teach in small group sessions with colleagues • learn to maintain a focus on Light and build an adjustable class framework to meet students»Teacher Trainees in this course will: • clarify their ethics as a yoga teacher • create both a Kundalini class series and a Dream class series • teach in small group sessions with colleagues • learn to maintain a focus on Light and build an adjustable class framework to meet students»teacher • create both a Kundalini class series and a Dream class series • teach in small group sessions with colleagues • learn to maintain a focus on Light and build an adjustable class framework to meet students» needs.

Our Grounded trained Yoga Teachers will create a safe nurturing space for kids to explore their potential with creative movement, fun strength and flexibility poses will be offered while learning to focus through breathing and relaxation techniques.

Students learn so much during the teacher training process, it's hard to know what to focus on while you are studying for your final test out.

For my classroom, I still strongly believe in the concept of student as worker, teacher as coach (thank you CES), and I continue to structure learning so that students — and not the teacher — are the focus.

The tendency is to focus on what the teachers are teaching and their techniques, but when we videotaped classes, we saw a dynamic learning environment in which students were constantly sharing.

The public release of these ratings — which attempt to isolate a teacher's contribution to his or her students» growth in math and English achievement, as measured by state tests — is one important piece of a much bigger attempt to focus school policy on what really matters: classroom learning.

Teachers and students can find local partnerships to help focus the service learning and project work.

Instead of a top - down approach, the teacher has proceeded from the bottom up, putting the focus on each student to be the agent in the learning process.

Many students attend SES because of the environmental focus, but Bodette has heard a wide variety of reasons for students» attachment to the school — from being given the opportunity to learn a great deal of information in depth to working together to being known by other students and teachers to being able to present research to outside audiences.

Research studies focusing on whether male teachers help boys learn better have provided contradictory results.

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.

This shows that standardised testing of schools and subsequent rankings are not needed, as schools and teachers are professionals focusing on the learning of all students.

Then we focus on success stories in three states: Learn how Maryland has increased the percentage of high school graduates, how Oklahoma has increased the number of appropriately credentialed teachers in its schools, and how Georgia has increased the percentage of high school graduates who move immediately on to postsecondary studies.

Teacher practice is a core area to focus on, but without naming and valuing the structural conditions which support teachers to develop these pedagogical skills, the promise of deeper learning can't be realized.

Benefits: Greater accountability; Drawing teachers focus on what skills need to be taught; Identification of students who have not reached expected benchmarks in reading and numeracy, supported by evidence and data; Improved preservice teacher training and teacher professional learning.

Two leading educators have told Education Matters that the key to engaging high school students with STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) is through teachers, and have called for a greater focus on professional learning.

Susan Caldis, Secretary of AGTA and President of the Geography Teachers» Association of New South Wales (GTANSW), says the focus has been on inquiry - based learning and fieldwork, and how those teaching methods can be linked to the new curriculum topics in the primary and secondary years.