Sentences with phrase «teacher organizations use»

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program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides to help classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works to train middle and high school students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, New England's largest conservation organization and a leader in nature - based education for more than 60 years, this month debuts a new, easy - to - use online program catalog for teachers, science coordinators, administrators, and others looking for educational enrichment programs and field trips.

In a letter sent Monday to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders, the New York State Educational Conference Board — a group of seven organizations including the New York State School Boards Association and New York State United Teachers — asked state officials to clarify what aid estimates schools should use when they are developing their own budgets for the upcoming fiscal year.

The organization aims to reduce or eliminate the use of high stakes testing, increase teacher autonomy in the classroom and work to include teacher and family voices in legislative decision - making processes that affect students.

In October, Drakes and Donovan will be among a group of teachers giving a presentation on their experiences using the Toward High School Biology unit and helping to lead a workshop to introduce the new unit to attendees of the 2017 Area Conference of the NSTA, the world's largest organization of science educators.

The research team measured teacher - child interactions at the start and end of the program using the Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS), an observation tool with three components: emotional support, classroom organization, and instructional support.

If substantiated, these findings may also highlight a strategy for policymakers and practitioners from pediatricians to parent - teacher organizations to use in ameliorating social disparities.

A primary role of school systems, states, districts, and charter - management organizations, the pair write, «is to create the conditions in schools through which teachers can become experts at teaching the curriculum they are using and adapting instruction to the needs of their particular students.»

Tip: If you decide to send materials to a sister school or another organization overseas, be sure to ask teachers or administrators there what they need — and what they can't use — to make your shipments as effective as possible.

Using lesson plans devised by the G - 8 Host Committee and the Georgia Council on Economic Education, a nonprofit organization that provides resources for teachers, students have been learning parts of the languages of the countries that are represented, studying their monetary systems, and researching facts about British...

After using that tool, teachers in New York State selected mathematics materials from Common Core, a private organization whose name predated the standards, and chose Expeditionary Learning materials for English language arts.

Teachers, instructional designers, educational institutions, companies, and even organizations have started to heavily rely on the use of social media in formal learning, to share practices, promote information and educational material, share opinions, views and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.

In listening to him speak via podcast, I was struck by something he said along the lines of, «By the time teachers are done learning how to use File Transfer Protocol, Web page creation software, and site organization principals, the enthusiasm for updating content is gone.»

It does not hurt to let the teachers and educators try the various alternatives that your organization is looking and use their feedback while narrowing down on a tool.

There are many books, workshops, and organizations offering «differentiated strategies» that, when used, will instantly have teachers differentiating for their students.

To increase awareness of world hunger and to help find solutions to the problem, an organization called Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger provides teachers with a comprehensive curriculum on hunger issue designed for use on or around World Food Day, which is October 16.

The New Teacher Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz, is a national, nonprofit organization that works to provide systematic support to new teachers, and more recently principals, through the use of full - time mentors.

Last week, the Clayton Christensen Institute published a case study that describes how Leadership Public Schools, a charter school management organization that operates three high schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, used technology to rethink how teachers delivered instruction in math intervention courses.

, from Film: 21st Century Literacy, an organization in the U.K. that provides curriculum materials and guidance to encourage teachers to use films and teach visual literacy in the classroom.

Because email volume can be overwhelming, this session demonstrates how teachers can better manage their email and use it as a tool for personal organization.

Chelsea Dale is the founder and president of On Giants» Shoulders, a not - for - profit organization which advocates a strategy for repetitively motivating under - performing elementary and middle school students to respect their teachers, peers, schools, and the learning process using 15 - minute, once - per - week online chats with academically accomplished high school students who appreciate the value of education.

In the past, we used to study a course, focus on our course books provided by the school, college, or organization, and learn from teachers only by attending classes in particular places at fixed times.

English, who before enrolling in the Arts in Education (AIE) Program worked as a theater teacher and in nonprofit arts organizations, theorized that exercises utilized in the theater — often constructed around listening, connecting, and sharing — could transcend the stage and be used by people from different backgrounds to interact in powerful ways.

Teachers also can use the site to post requests for content experts from partner organizations to Skype into their classes.

The entire teacher workforce can now collaborate nationally on innovations in practice that address the problems they encounter in implementing the new Curriculum using Scootle Community, an online network that uses analytics to detect patterns in teacher practice and recommends content and connections to support teachers» organization and co-creation.

While some people certainly do tweet about what they're having for breakfast, teachers, administrators, and educational organizations use Twitter in a whole different way — making smart use of those 140 characters to share resources, wisdom, and inspiration.

Initially funded at $ 650 million, i3 allowed school districts, charter schools, and non-profit organizations working in partnership with one of those entities to apply for grants to support innovative programs aligned with one of four broadly defined federal priorities (e.g., supporting effective teachers and principals or improving the use of data).

This could be five education organizations, like Edutopia or Scholastic, or five people that you find by using the search terms like «Apple Distinguished Educators» or «AP English teachers.»

Overall, the prominent uses of laptops were for searching and exploration (i.e., using physics simulations), student expression (i.e., student presentations and written reports using PowerPoint and Word), communication (i.e., via email, discussion boards, and IM, between students and between students and teachers), and organization (e.g., OneNote helped students organize thoughts, plan, and complete homework).

Led by Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen, the General Assembly, and the State Board of Education, business organizations, foundations, and Republican Senator Bill Frist's SCORE initiative, reform partisans have increasingly supported the use of TVAAS data in the assessment of school and teacher performance.

An organization that promotes the use of technology in the classroom by putting teachers who have specific requests in touch with donors who can help make those wishes come true has launched a new service to link teachers with volunteers.

The e-mail exercise is just part of a larger effort by Uplift Education of Dallas, Texas to use predictive research to help them identify teachers who are most likely to be effective with students and remain with the organization.

Though, unlike U.S. education reformers, Finnish authorities haven't outsourced school management to for - profit or non-profit organizations, implemented merit pay, or ranked teachers and schools according to test results, they've made excellent use of business strategies.

Not only is acceptance into university teacher education programs a highly competitive process, the autonomy, professional engagement of teachers is evidenced in their development of teaching materials, use of collaborative planning time, and the organization of professional spaces on school campuses (see Jen b.) Within this environment why would a teacher ever choose to take up the mantle of headmaster or school principal?

Fortunately, many teacher preparation programs, school districts, and nonprofit organizations are working together, using funds provided through Title II of ESSA, to ensure that new teachers are prepared to lead a classroom of their own.

In addition, a third organization — Educators 4 Excellence, which represents more than 800 teachers, is also planning to endorse the use of student achievement data when it unveils its own proposal for a new teacher evaluation system in coming weeks.

The teacher would provide clear expectations for student - produced lab reports that are also evident in the text, and would also point out rhetorical devices such as verb tense, use of headings, and organization, which are specific to one type of writing in science.

In order to attract and retain the excellent teachers that students in this country deserve, school districts must adopt human capital best practices used to attract talent, increase productivity, and improve outcomes within high - performing organizations.

The California Joint Legislative Audit Committee voted Wednesday to audit Alliance College - Ready Public Schools over the charter management organization's use of funds in its unionization conflict with the LA teachers union, UTLA.

Prior to being an employee of CEC, Brian had the privilege of using the organization to foster his own understanding in student growth legislation, teacher evaluation, teacher mentoring, assessment analysis, and designing a school transformation model.

Numerous organizations have spent and will continue spending a considerable amount of resources providing primary source materials on the Web and developing lesson plans to help teachers use them.

Focused coursework on instructional leadership; organizational management; the use of multiple sources of data for the purposes of instruction, development, and evaluation of teachers; and the development of highly effective school organization

Students Matter, the nonprofit organization that filed Vergara v. California, sued 13 California school districts last year, saying those districts were not in compliance with the Stull Act and their collective bargaining agreements explicitly prohibited the use of student standardized test scores in assessing teacher performance.

Since then she has also co-founded the Institute for Social and Emotional Learning (IFSEL), a dynamic consulting and teacher training organization that operates using mostly a consensus model, and works with schools across the country to implement SEL best practices, strengthening policies and systems that promote empathy and respect.

The Mind Trust will use $ 1.02 million of the grant for TNTP, an organization that recruits and trains accomplished mid-career professionals to become teachers in hard - to - staff schools and subjects.

The American Educational Research Association became the latest organization to caution against using value - added models — complex algorithms that attempt to measure a teacher's impact on student test scores — to evaluate teachers and principals.

I was happily working alongside a diverse team of educators from all across America to update our organization's founding document, using both research and our experiences in the classroom to productively and civilly discuss what students and teachers need in order to elevate our profession and increase student achievement in our communities.

The index uses data indicators such as teacher experience, student expenditures, transportation, and suspensions to bring together data that will help community organizations and leaders construct a narrative on how to improve education equity in our city.

The organization takes a holistic approach to selection, rather than «using a blunt instrument like cut scores on Praxis or content exams, which can dramatically impact diversity in a negative way,» says Anne Mahle, who currently serves as senior vice president for public partnerships but led recruitment for many years.149 Although the average GPA of corps members is 3.42, TFA maintains a relatively low cutoff requirement of 2.5 and instead places greater emphasis on candidate evaluations designed to measure characteristics that TFA's research has shown its most effective teachers share.

In partnership with more than 100 supporting organizations, Teach to Lead has spurred thousands of teachers to take the reins of change in their schools and communities using their own ideas.