Sentences with phrase «teacher visits to the homes»

Washington Post columnist Jay Mathews urges the new chancellor of the D.C. public schools to continue teacher visits to the homes of students.

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so my 14 year old daughter comes home from school to tell my poor unsuspecting wife and i that the visiting sex - education teacher needed a volunteer, but since no one did, she picked my daughter casile for her lesson.

«He and Ann would ensure they were available for their home teachers to visit, and he was faithful in doing his home teaching.»

Instruction is given to children of distinguished families by a teacher — called a guru — who visits them at their home; children from ordinary families of the common people go to the guru's home or to a place of worship.

so my 14 year old daughter comes home from school to tell my poor unsuspecting wife and i that the visiting sex - education teacher needed a volunteer, but since no one did, she picked my...

As parent conferences and home visit became increasingly difficult to schedule because of family work and travel schedules, we realized that precious daily parent / teacher conversations were being replaced by conversations with au pairs and caregivers.

Second, the lead teacher makes a home visit a few days prior to the scheduled start so that your child can experience her in the comfort and familiarity of family environment.

Encourage the teacher to make a home visit if the school doesn't routinely do it.

Make a visit to school and take pictures of the teachers and environment so your child can remember and talk about school while at home.

Efforts should include visiting teachers who come to the home to play learning games with babies and toddlers.

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rathome visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low ratHome Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The pupils were encouraged to visit the teacher at his home to deliver flowers and gifts and parents were asked if their sons and daughters could contribute towards a leaving gift.

This is her second visit to Sweet Home Central School District after visiting with teachers and parents in July.

The organization works closely with families through home visits to help parents take on the role as a child's first teacher, Garcia said, encouraging «language - rich relationships» that build a child's vocabulary and processing abilities.

Researchers used surveys of mothers and children, home visits and interviews with fifth grade teachers to complete the study.

On NPR, Elissa Nadworny looks at how «home visits» by preschool teachers to meet with the parents of their students are being used to raise attendance.

While I've heard the advice to conduct home visits with a partner teacher, I personally felt that going alone made it more comfortable for the family.

Feeling alienated from her child's education, she and other parents rallied for teachers to make home visits.

I met Branch at D.C.'s family - funded Flamboyan Foundation, which trains — and pays — teachers to visit their students» homes as part of a strategy to use better relations between schools and families as a means to improving academic achievement.

The book profiles heroic charter school teachers and leaders and chronicles their 80 - hour work weeks, their meetings in teacher's homes to retool instruction because of new data, and their personal commitment to taking students to visit colleges.

UNO teachers conduct two home visits each year to create the trust necessary for us to challenge families and be challenged in return.

Whenever I coach new teachers, I encourage them to visit the homes of students as early as possible.

The first year I did this, there was a lot of pushback from students who weren't used to having a teacher visit their home, but in the second year, the tenth graders were able to sell the idea for me.

As a teacher at a small Oakland, California public high school called Life Academy, where each teacher also holds a mixed - grade level advisory class of about 20 students, I began conducting home visits for my advisees as a way to clarify my relationship to them as more than a teacher.

At some schools, the new model of parent - teacher engagement starts with a visit by the teacher to the student's home.

Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.

We are asking our schools to do teacher - based home visiting programs with parents as a way of establishing a strong relationship between teachers and parents.

The program, created by the Sacramento Area Congregations Together (ACT) Parent / Teacher Project, bridges the communication gap between school and community by training teachers to conduct home visits.

Teachers also visit home and encourage parents and children to practice new skills they learned in school.

Working together, parents and teachers addressed students» behavioral issues early on, enabling the school to reduce suspensions to five in the year following implementation of the Parent - Teacher Home Visit Project.

When changing such troubling habits raises objections, it's clear why it took several years to end open campus at lunch, require uniforms, have teachers greet each student with a handshake, make home visits routine, and place administrators beyond the school's gates so students could safely walk to catch city buses.

In spring 1998, parents and teachers proposed the home visit program to the school board.

Teachers» visits to students» homes can take many forms.

Many school districts now have programs that require teachers to visit their students» homes at least once each school year.

In Branson, if parents are uncomfortable with the idea of a home visit, they are invited to meet the teacher at school.

«Teachers report that sometimes it can be a challenge to find a mutually agreeable time for a home visit,» Bonnie Schmidt, principal at the Tyron Hills Pre-Kindergarten Center in Charlotte, North Carolina, told Education World.

Some teachers have reported they were uncomfortable at first with the idea of visiting their students» homes, but most of those discomforts seem to dissipate once the actual visits begin.

Farr approvingly cites the testimony of two teachers who were unable to make contact with their students» parents over the phone: «We would just start taking kids home, and we would wait at home until the parent came home, and we would just make home visits constantly,» recalls the unnamed TFAer.

The schools scheduled parent - teacher conferences, home visits and, finally, three Truancy Review Board hearings, where a panel of school and social workers hoped to get Terrell and Norris to sign an attendance contract (the couple skipped two of the hearings).

This hilarious video was made to prep teachers in Kentucky's Henderson County Schools before they embarked on their one - day «Home Visit Blitz» to try to connect with the families of every student in their K - 12 district — that's over 7,000 kids!

Inspired by the idea of building closer connections to students» home lives, the district, with a cadre of volunteer teachers, embarked on a goal of visiting every home of the 2,800 kids enrolled.

If we brought a group of Japanese teachers to America to visit schools and participate in home stays, and sent one group to an Indian Reservation, another to Harlem, another to the Amish country in Pennsylvania, one to a Los Angeles barrio, another to a Hasidic community in Crown Point, etc., how different America would look to each group.

Runby CSU physics instructor Brian Jones, teacher - in - residenceSheila Ferguson, a teacher - in - training, and a crew of undergraduateinterns, the Little Shop of Physics visits K - 12 classrooms asclose to home as Rocky Mountain High School — and as far afield asAzerbaijan.

If that existed, perhaps teachers would be more amenable to proposals like home visits.

Reality Check: In the Sacramento Unified School District, teachers make home visits to students» families.

She visits schools throughout California and the country to promote home visits as a means of building successful partnerships between parents and teachers and trains teachers who are preparing to embark on a home - visit program.

Teachers also used that initial home visit as an opportunity to share information with parents about a schoolwide restructuring effort designed to increase student achievement.

The newest and most important innovation on this front might be the National Parent Teacher Home Visit Project that Rollins spoke to me about.

The «Parent Buddy Project» arranges for prospective teachers to visit a family's home several times a semester.

(2) A program must use information from paragraph (b)(1) of this section with informal teacher observations and additional information from family and staff, as relevant, to determine a child's strengths and needs, adjust strategies to better support individualized learning and improve classroom practices in center - based and family child care settings and improve home visit strategies in home based models.