Sentences with phrase «teacher training initiatives»

She has extensive experience in instructional coaching, and has led teacher training initiatives for GW University, Project Lead the Way, Office of the State Superintendent (OSSE), Engineering is Elementary, the National Science Teachers Association, the New Teacher Mentor Program, Teaching in Action, and the Imagine Community Charter Schools.

I don't know anything about the CSU - led teacher training initiative, but I have a hard time believing it reached the vast majority of English teachers in California.

The Harvard Teacher Fellows program, a teacher training initiative centered at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, prepares aspiring educators to teach in under - resourced urban schools.

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Apple will expand these initiatives and add new programs to support teachers and teacher training.

André Shearer, CEO and co-founder of Cape Classics, says the funding has enabled the IEF to realise a key initiative — the establishment of the Indaba Montessori Institute outside Stellenbosch, for the training of Early Childhood Development (ECD) teachers who will positively impact the lives of thousands of children.

The initiative will have a long term effect on the delivery of school sport as it is anticipated that half of the 6,000 teachers involved in the scheme will also access free training offered in partnership through the Youth Sport Trust.

«The N - Power Teacher Corps initiative which will engage and train 500,000 young unemployed graduates, is a paid volunteer programme of a 2 - year duration.

He also lauded the governor for training and retraining of teachers, information communication technology classrooms, distributions of tablets of knowledge and educational materials including o'meal initiative among many others.

The program offers training and financial support to turn scientists into teachers, but «a recently completed evaluation by Abt Associates of Cambridge, Massachusetts, suggests that the initiative is not having nearly the effect its supporters anticipated.»

But the AAU initiative also calls on universities and colleges to offer undergraduate students more opportunities to do research, shorten the time it takes for students to earn Ph.D. s, reduce attrition rates, and train better K - 12 science and math teachers.

Embodied Jewish Learning offers classes, workshops, on - line learning, retreats, teacher trainings, and strategic consultation and guidance for Jewish Wellness Initiatives throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

As an initiative, the school has established a branch in the very capital, Tehran, where yoga enthusiast from all over the country are welcome to learn and train under brilliant teachers of Yoga.

He said his education initiatives focus on recruiting, training, and hiring teachers, which will help reduce class size and improve teacher quality.

The participants, all representing schools sharing in the $ 1 billion in annual grants from the federal initiative, applauded the program for pumping what recipients say are sorely needed resources into instructional materials, teacher training, and support services for struggling elementary schools.

There are few initiatives to train or support teachers to incorporate virtual reality into student lessons in meaningful ways, and it's not certain that implementation could be done at scale.

The National Head Start Association was so opposed to the teacher - training and curricular aspects of the Good Start, Grow Smart initiative that the chairman of the association's board, Ron Herndon, took the remarkable step of sending a letter to all Head Start programs, asking them to boycott the national teacher - training session the administration had planned for November 2002.

The district selected thirty - three veteran teachers to become full - time coaches to lead the initiative and launched an intensive training program that continued through the initiative's first three years.

Not only has President Barack Obama announced a $ 250 million public - private initiative to recruit and train more STEM teachers, but also the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top Fund grants competition is giving bonus points for applications that stress STEM instruction.

Noting the AFT's focus on the standards in its education journal American Educator and the NEA's $ 60 million investment in teacher training projects, a February 2014 Education Week article described the two national unions as «among the initiative's biggest boosters.»

When this multimillion - dollar initiative is finished, HISD will have the nation's best system in place for recruiting teachers, judging their performance, training them to overcome their shortcomings, and promoting the best ones into jobs where they can have the most impact.

Investment in educational hardware and software, while «a major component in educational restructuring and reform initiatives,» has not been matched by coordinated efforts to train teachers to use the equipment effectively, a new report from the Southern Regional Education Board concludes.

Some 400,000 teachers worldwide will be trained to apply computers and Windows - based software to classroom lessons, under a three - year philanthropic initiative led by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., both companies announced last week.

The new initiative will be led by Silverdale School in Sheffield, and the plan is to find schools of all types that are willing to train language teachers.

(The bottom line: a highly selective program such as Teach For America is particularly useful in recruiting top - notch talent into high schools, though elementary school teachers might benefit from more pedagogical training than these fast - entry initiatives can provide.)

His responsibilities include training and helping teachers integrate technology in their classes, creating and managing the online course program, facilitating tech training for parents, and leading outreach and training initiatives for parochial schools in the San Diego area.

The overall plan for the course is to introduce and train teachers in the concept of GoodWork and offer support as they implement their own initiatives in their own schools.

The first message implicit in this sort of initiative must be that learning is a lifelong process that does not end with the completion of one's training as a teacher.

All courses offered through this CPD initiative will be delivered by trained and approved providers (Master Teachers) and are evaluated fully to ensure quality.

Research in many nations suggests that laptop programs will be most successful as part of comprehensive initiatives that also address changes in education goals, curricula, teacher training, and assessment.

More than $ 13 million in teacher training funds were earmarked by the California legislature last year to help implement the initiative, which calls for a balanced approach to...

The federal government deployed powerful resources to promote math reform and the National Science Foundation spent hundreds of millions of dollars training teachers in three different systemic reform initiatives.

This plan, announced in September last year, sought to place Australian students amongst the top five highest performing nations in rigorous international performance tests through a combination of additional, targeted funding using a model mirroring the Gonski proposal, new initiatives in teacher training and accountability, personalised student learning plans, greater school autonomy, and a raft of other Commonwealth initiatives.

What to know: The New Mexico ESSA plan includes a Teacher Ecosystem, a map that describes a series of initiatives to attract, develop, and retain teachers in the areas of recruitment, preparation, compensation, training, and teacher leadership.41 Among many other initiatives, New Mexico will implement a Pay for Performance Pilot program as a recruitment and retention stTeacher Ecosystem, a map that describes a series of initiatives to attract, develop, and retain teachers in the areas of recruitment, preparation, compensation, training, and teacher leadership.41 Among many other initiatives, New Mexico will implement a Pay for Performance Pilot program as a recruitment and retention stteacher leadership.41 Among many other initiatives, New Mexico will implement a Pay for Performance Pilot program as a recruitment and retention strategy.

To avoid initiative fatigue and help teachers implement Colorado State Standards — the state's version of the Common Core State Standards — they created extensive support systems like SchoolVault, an online formative assessment tool, and pilot programs to provide trainings for Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC) and Math Design Collaborative (MDC).

The initiative's goals are to create accomplished - level teacher - leader standards, develop training and support to meet those standards, and activate at least 1,000 teachers to be leaders for their profession by 2017.

Christina Wong, the special assistant to the superintendent who oversees implementation of the Lau Action Plan, said the universities receive information about hiring needs and new district initiatives to inform their instruction and training of new teachers.

Providing teachers with adequate training and access to the research behind the new tools or pedagogy they'll be asked to implement is an essential step in obtaining buy - in for any new initiative.

The federal Race to the Top initiative, for instance, considered whether states had a plan for linking student growth to teachers (and principals) and to link this information to the schools in that state that trained them.

Beginning in 2014, Leading Educators partnered with AUSL Chicago to deliver trainings for school and teacher leaders working together to drive new initiatives within their schools.

While compact activities have continued with joint principal training, teacher effectiveness initiatives, and Common Core implementation, success has varied widely.

The Kent School District has created a web site dedicated to its laptop initiative, including a robust section on the policies, infrastructure, technical specifications, student and teacher training, family involvement, and more.

While in Seattle, she also directed a parent leadership and training initiative for under - represented parents, participated as a Brainerd Fellow at Social Venture Partners Seattle, and worked as a Research Assistant focused on diversity recruitment and retention and school / community partnerships at the University of Washington's Teacher Education Program.

As the program director of the Using Data initiative at Teaching Matters, he conducted ten institutes, each six days long, to train teacher teams to analyze student achievement data and develop strategic action plans.

President Trump has proposed slashing $ 10.6 billion from federal education initiatives, including after - school programs, teacher training, and career and technical education, and reinvesting $ 1.4 billion of the savings into promoting his top education priority: school choice, including $ 250 million for vouchers to help students attend private and religious schools.

32 administrators and teachers from seven area counties have graduated from the initiative's training.

Most recently, he worked as a Teacher Fellow for New York City's CSforAll initiative, where he trained pre - and in - service teachers and collaborated with industry professionals on the expansion of CS programs to all students in New York City.

The Race to the Top initiative, initially financed through the 2009 federal economic - stimulus legislation, gave Democrats the political cover to push for priorities such as expansion of charter schools, alternative teacher training, and teacher performance evaluations tied in part to students» academic gains — issues that previously had been associated most closely with Republicans.

Yet throughout India, a number of digital initiatives are underway aimed at improving education in areas that lack sufficient trained and experienced teachers.

A # 67m initiative, covering the next five years, will give extra maths and science training for 15,000 existing teachers and recruit an additional 2,500 teachers.

If coaches or teacher mentors in your school are interested in using the Teaching Schema for Master Learners, what staff - development initiatives would be necessary to ensure adequate training and support?