Sentences with phrase «teacher teams focus»

Participating teacher teams focus on a learning gap identified from one of their classrooms, then identify a technology resource or tool to support students in overcoming the learning gap (Figure 7).

Students and teacher teams focusing on learning deeply have the force to achieve learning beyond the traditional education dam and shoot out over the spillway to not only understand the torrent of available knowledge, but to also add to it in phenomenal ways.

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«I actually rallied my entire team of science teachers in 6th, 7th, and 8th grades to set our plans aside and focus on the same thing for that day,» she says.

We started with parents and going forward, we will be focusing on educators — teachers / leadership teams at schools / staff / counselors and anybody associated with education.

The basic tenets of IR hold that visiting teams do not discuss individual teacher «data:» they focus on trends that they see related to the «problem» they are looking to address at scale - be it student engagement, poor writing skills, boy / girl performance gap, etc..

My work has focused on developing engaging math and science curriculum, team teaching, supporting teachers as they grow in their expertise and area of interests and most importantly, cultivating a culture of curiosity where my students see themselves as authors of their own learning.»

Before implementing ELT, the Edwards team formed focus groups consisting of administrators, teachers, staff, and other community partners.

The researchers identified two types of teams: content teams, in which teachers focused on curriculum, lessons, and pedagogy; and cohort teams, in which teachers discussed behavior, individual student needs, and school culture.

The HGSE team took a different approach by focusing on mentoring and improving teacher's performance rather than firing them.

By developing a framework for effective teacher teams that includes five criteria — leadership, task focus, collaborative climate, structure and process, and personal accountability — Troen and Boles provide school leaders with the tools needed to navigate this relatively new terrain and to make effective teacher teams a reality.

We're developing resources [now] for kids operating around the reading age of five or six years of age, in order to be able to more adequately cater for our student population... I guess the next step as well is working with teachers in more of a coaching and mentoring focus as well, so that we'll work with them around their pedagogy to make sure that they're supporting each other through that teams approach and through that mentoring approach, but also through a more managed process so that we can give them that support that they need to develop their teaching expertise as teachers, but also as teachers within a detention centre context.

Some Teacher Team members believe the new Secretary of Education should focus on adapting today's curriculum to meet the needs of tomorrow's world.

Opportunities for secondment to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT), which are often focused on internal professional development and career progression routes, are also available to our teachers.

She teamed up with a science teacher, who dealt with the actual genetics / heredity aspect of the project, and Varcadipane focused on the statistical analyses.

The Royal 7 seventh grade team teachers weathered the bumps and stalls along with everyone else, and continued to focus on what mattered most to them: their students» needs.

Every teacher in the school is on a focus team, continually collaborating with colleagues to improve their approaches to instruction, Ventura explained.

In the Wilderness Arts and Literacy Collaborative pathway, Salvin and team teacher Sherry Bass pushed students to make their exhibitions interactive: After a unit focusing on northern California geology, immigration, and migration, students completed projects integrating painting and poetry with history and geology.

The stronger the focus and commitment from a team of teachers, the more likely the school will accomplish the results it is aiming to achieve, and more.

Developing curriculum is not a primary focus for Izard and his team, but the library's learning department has its own home page, an excellent resource for teachers who wish to incorporate Turning the Pages books in their lessons.

Kim ODonnell, a fifth - grade teacher, is the writing focus team leader.

This fall, I coached teams of teachers in a couple of schools on focusing their instruction on no more than three of the English Language Arts Power Standards for grades 10 - 12 that would be assessed on the first benchmark exam.

The Leadership Team (Principal, Deputy, Head of Curriculum, Head of Special Education Services, Guidance Officer, Master Teacher, Support Teacher Literacy and Numeracy, and Business Services Manager) act as instructional leaders and facilitators of staff learning focusing on the following key elements:

In early September, in their grade - level teams, teachers determined which of the power standards to focus on based on this criteria:

The research team is extending an existing evidence - based, teacher - and child - focused curricular intervention that targets self - regulation and executive function skills in PreK - 3rd grade classrooms, called «SECURe: Social, Emotional, and Cognitive Understanding and Regulation in education.»

A trusted provider of co-curricular and out of classroom learning to schools from the UK and overseas, Kingswood delivers residential learning experiences that focus on team building, problem solving and fun, helping young people to challenge themselves and bond with their peers and teachers, so that they are more engaged in the classroom and go on to achieve more at school and beyond.

We call on the DfE to recognise the importance of Early Years» representation on school senior leadership teams and governing boards, as well as bringing a stronger focus on Early Years pedagogy to initial teacher training in order to protect, strengthen and improve the quality of Early Years provision in schools.»

In a 2016 study, psychologist Karrie Godwin and a team of researchers measured how attentive elementary students were during class, and discovered that they spent over a quarter of the time distracted, unable to focus on the teacher or the current task.

The Foundation focuses its grant making on inquiry - based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams of teachers, for use in their own classrooms.

The principal, working collaboratively with a leadership team, focuses on building a learning community that involves all teachers and places top priority on the education and healthy development of every student, teacher, and staff member.

«I love two things about Doug Lemov and the Uncommon Schools team: a relentless focus on student learning, and a dedication to the proposition that the best professional development occurs when teachers learn from teachers.

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«The Council is focusing its resources on supporting teachers and teams as they make their own professional decisions — informed by reflection and research — about how best to foster literacy learning.»

During his tenure in Delaware, his team focused on improving policies and practices across the educator effectiveness continuum: educator preparation, licensure / certification, recruitment, placement, evaluation, professional learning, and teacher - leader career pathways.

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.

Members could be a grade level team, a department, or a group of teachers focusing their practice on the same element.

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These studies reported on a range of factors that influenced the functioning of teams led by teacher leaders, including: focus on subject matter, group dynamics, and the training received by the teacher leader.

Our team expertly handles administrative and governance tasks liberating school leaders and teachers from back - office tasks to focus where they should: the classroom and students.

At KIPP, we believe that part of the Leader Team equation includes a senior, school - based Operations Leader who drives operational excellence and leads operations responsibilities so that the Principal, APs, and teachers can focus on teaching and learning.

The school will form a Creative Leadership Team focused on coaching teachers and linking students» curiosity and math to artistic creations — making multi-modal learning memorable.

Neufeld and Woodworth's study (2000) of teams that included teacher leaders found that high - functioning groups (those that fully involved teacher members and facilitated cross-school discussions on instruction) were collaborative, collegial and focused on instruction.

In this first year, the team will focus on Alexander Calder's mobiles to help teachers see integration strategies and help students design mobiles that integrate art, measurement, geometry, spatial relations, force, motion and simple machines.

«We know that head teachers and senior leadership teams in schools are increasingly finding that the administrational side of their roles are acting as obstacles to their ability to focus on educational objectives.

Ms. Kovatch joined the Brooke Mattapan team after having served as the lead middle school math and science teacher at The Cloud Forest School in Monteverde, Costa Rica, a non-profit, bilingual school with a focus on environmental education and sustainability.

Findings from across these studies suggest that teacher leaders are more likely to provide instructional support when leading teacher teams within their subject area focus, although the form of instructional leadership may be influenced by subject area.

We distributed school leadership between specialists and grade - level team leaders; and we discussed increasing students» achievement in a collaborative team setting where teachers internally focused on what actions they could take to make improvements.

Throughout the year, the teachers will submit evidence on several Digital Promise microcredentials aligned with the TEAM rubric, focusing on specific areas (such as thinking, questioning, and problem solving) that have previously proven daunting for teachers in the state, as well as for administrators, who have struggled to give constructive feedback in these areas.

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This school's Creative Leadership Team is focused on «Artists» Inquiry and Critique» professional development to help teachers embrace simple yet deep ways of integrating the arts into other content areas — and assessing their teaching using the critiquing processes that artists use.

These factors included the subject matter focus of teams, group dynamics, and teacher leader preparation.