Sentences with phrase «teachers about instruction»

This means we can give good feedback to these teachers about their instruction based on relatively few raters.

Principals and assistant principals spend an overwhelming amount of their day either talking to teachers about instruction, observing instruction and planning or securing resources to support instruction.

Not exact matches

«This system was designed decades ago,» Gates continued, «and it doesn't reflect what educators have learned about helping students and teachers do their best work,» namely, that students learn far more effectively when their instruction is tailored to their specific needs.

But if you take Jesus seriously as a teacher, you can not simply take his instructions on how human beings should relate to one another, but also his teachings about his role and his destiny.

Abelard, the professor, uses the image of the «persuasive teacher» and interprets Christ's suffering as divine instruction about love.

To this I can only reply that this is what I myself was taught, first, as part of instruction given in my parish as a child and later, with many refinements and qualifications, in lectures in theology as an ordinand — although I should add that my teacher was himself, quite obviously, very ill at ease about the scheme, left it to the very end of his course, and even then touched upon it gingerly.

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.

For the most part, feedback from teachers cited concerns about rodents and bugs, too much going on [in the classroom], spills, and taking away from instruction time.

Teachers turn this time into an opportunity for additional instruction, tying in nutrition lessons with math, history, or science; there are opportunities to talk about good table manners as well.

Teachers in the district's three schools are paid about $ 12,000 more than the state average, and the schools offer an array of top - notch educational opportunities, including low class size, foreign language instruction, fine arts and orchestra programs, low - cost preschool and a full - day kindergarten, before - and after - school care, and several extracurricular sports teams.

Think carefully about whether it might be a better allocation of resources to invest in improving all existing classes and working with teachers to differentiate instruction for all learners.

«There's a complicated answer to that question that I can't get into now,» Polanco told The Post at his home when asked about Benitez's instructions to teachers.

Additional information about the New York State Teacher of the Year Program is available in the Office of Curriculum and Instruction at the New York State Education Department at [phone] or on the Teacher of the Year website.

Dr. Vanden Wyngaard and district staff will provide an overview of state exams and how the Common Core Learning Standards are changing instruction for students at all grade levels, as well as information about how the tests are used in the new statewide evaluation systems for teachers and principals.

On this tab, any special instructions teachers need to get familiar with the materials for the activity are provided, as are guided notes for how to lead the activity in class, including what to do and what to talk about with students.

In small groups teachers are better able to individual instructions so no learner remains in doubt about any aspect of the teaching course.

That I am participating in a yoga program or programs (classes, private lessons, teacher trainings, workshops or special events) offered by Prairie Yoga during which I will receive information and instruction about yoga and health.

Most of these comments come from folks who have dabbled in ashtanga, or read about the practice, without fully diving in to experience it under the instruction of an experienced teacher.

So we could also say, «Bad Yoga Teachers Can Wreck Your Body», which strikes me as a good reason to encourage current and prospective yoga students to think seriously about where and from whom you are receiving your yoga instruction.

I also blog regularly about writing instruction at https://matthewmjohnson.com/blog/ and am the author of a book for new teachers called Finding Success the First Year: A Survivor's Guide for New Tteachers called Finding Success the First Year: A Survivor's Guide for New TeachersTeachers.

She claims that «if we really cared about improving the education of all students, we would give teachers the autonomy to tailor instruction to meet the needs of the children.»

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.

Back in 2014, I spoke with Vicki Davis, a fellow teacher and education blogger — and author of one of my favorite books about writing instruction, Reinventing Writing: The 9 Tools That Are Changing Writing, Teaching, and Learning Forever.

Our team also observed control - group classrooms to gather information about what business - as - usual social studies instruction was like, and to determine whether any control - group teachers used PBL (none did).

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

Lucie Boyadjian, principal of Glen Oaks School, in Hickory Hills, Illinois, summed up the principals» feelings about providing more hands - on experiences for future teachers: «More time in the classroom with direct instruction allows the undergraduate the opportunity to experience an entire year's worth of classroom activities.»

Ultimately, state leaders need to insist on a high - quality assessment that gives teachers and parents the information they need to know about whether students are on track for success, and how instruction needs to improve.

«I think for a long time teachers have been encouraged to target children's individual difficulties with explicit instruction, but my findings highlight actually just how much teachers will need to know about the range of strategies a child uses and the types of errors they make if they are going to use explicit instruction effectively.

It's about gathering evidence (lots of different ways to do this) of learning during the course of instruction so that teachers can keep learning on track to meet lesson goals.

These teachers care deeply about students, paying attention to the climate in the classroom, their students» engagement during instruction, or their response to feedback.

In challenging the use of value - added models as part of evaluation systems, the teachers» unions cite concerns about the volatility of test scores in the systems, the fact that some teachers have far more students with special needs or challenging home circumstances than others, and the potential for teachers facing performance pressure to warp instruction in unproductive ways, such as via «test prep.»

The new mindframe suggests that when thinking about assessment, including formative assessments, as a reflection of a teacher's effort more than the students» it turns assessment into a positive force for designing instruction.

As administrators know, there's nothing abstract about the process of getting millions of students into their seats, assuring they receive the instruction they're legally entitled to, and welding teachers, principals, and their schools into a coherent, smooth - functioning system.

I can teach teachers about differentiated instruction ~ anticipatory set ~ or cooperative learning strategies.

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To start last year, teacher Kevin Durden gave his fourth graders step - by - step instructions for blogging about literature and posting comments on their classmates» blogs.

Besides talking about the pharmacy industry and reading to some students, Kramer also observed teachers asking for support in conferences, classroom instruction, activities, and disciplinary action.

«No Child Left Behind» Places Premium on Reading Instruction in Content Areas Every teacher is a teacher of reading, and the No Child Left Behind Act is about to make that more obvious than ever!

RESNICK: The teacher still plays an incredibly important role, but in this approach it's not so much about delivering instruction.

From the early days, I was dismayed that most government agencies saw charter schools more as an escape valve for angry parents and disaffected teachers, not as a way to create better schools by establishing binding performance goals and consequences, placing the locus of authority and accountability at the school level, and pushing schools to be distinctive and purposeful about their instruction.

These are lessons for teachers about how to do successful virtual instruction — online training for teaching online.

But with automatic scoring and the appropriate analytical tools, teachers could learn rapidly about what their students know and adjust instruction quickly.

• In the Measures of Effective Teaching Project, students were surveyed about many dimensions of the instruction they received and these were correlated with their teachers» value - added estimates.

Classroom Instruction — It's About the Journey, Not Racing to the Finish The No Child Left Behind Act and achievement tests that test the entire wide curriculum require teachers like Max Fischer to get control of the curriculum; to examine how best to create learning experiences that make important concepts memorable.

But too often, teachers are worried about how they are being evaluated, spending too much time on projects that don't have clear objectives to support instruction, or putting on a show for observation day.

Outwardly, Success is similar to other «no excuses» (Moskowitz dislikes that term) charter schools: students are called «scholars» and wear uniforms; a longer school day and year allow for about one - third more instruction time than district schools provide; rooms are named after the teacher's alma mater; a culture of discipline and high expectations reigns.

The second is the critical nature of scheduling: ongoing, collaborative time for teachers to talk about data and instruction is vital to the program's success.

The key to mentoring success is «the ability to engage teachers in conversations about what effective instruction looks like,» adds Fleischmann.

Teachers also report that lesson study has been a means for them to deepen their content knowledge and their knowledge about effective instruction.

Peter Westwood, author of What Teachers Need to Know About Differentiated Instruction discusses in this Q&A.