Sentences with phrase «teachers and educators understand»

The session was designed to help teachers and educators understand their critical role and responsibility in the school reform agenda.

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In the churches, a major role of the Christian educator (and that includes the minister and lay teacher), is to help people understand what the media are really saying and doing to them - and how they can avoid being taken in by its worldview.

This book is written for Christian educators, trainers, teachers, and lay people who are facing the question: «How can we say what we mean about God so that our assertions will be understood, accepted, and responded to?»

Through the guidance of a highly experienced Waldorf early childhood educator, you'll delve into child development; learn about rhythms, transitions, and the cycle of the year; explore the importance of play; examine the inner development of the teacher; experience circle time activities and lessons in handwork, art, and movement; go though an early childhood student's morning routine; and develop a true practical understanding of Waldorf early childhood education.

As a former teacher, I understand firsthand the obstacles that many New York educators are facing and the resources they so desperately need in order to help our children,» she said at the time.

Middle and high school teachers and informal educators receive content understanding and experience with hands - on activities and interact with scientists through face - to - face workshop opportunities.

Professional development for maker educators should introduce the materials and methods involved so that the teachers understand what students can learn from making.

To better understand this phenomenon, Gardner and Davis conducted 40 in - depth interviews with teachers, convened seven focus groups of educators and leaders, analyzed visual and literary works, and surveyed over 2,000 youth to gain insight into the question.

Whether you are teaching librarians or teachers, your professional development needs to get all educators to understand that the process and meaning a student gets from making are the most important aspects to making and education.

The tool allows educators to get immediate insight into their student understanding in real - time, as they can create quizzes in seconds and also share them with other teachers.

There's also a section on teacher professional development that notes there's inconsistency among educators «in their understanding, interpretation and delivery of sport in physical education, and how they value and utilise sport to support broader curriculum objectives».

Lessons of the Holocaust To help you provide your students with the information and insights they need to understand the events and implications of the Holocaust, Education World interviews Warren Marcus, a teacher educator for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

His experiences as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, school leader, district administrator and consultant have provided him with the foundation necessary to understand first - hand the needs of students and educators.

In order to provide these lessons and aid educators, the PZC is organized around plenary sessions, study groups, and mini-courses that help teachers to encourage students» efforts to understand content, recognize and develop student's multiple intellectual strengths, help students learn to think critically and creatively, and assess student work in ways that promotes further learning.

Spillane argues that problems in implementing education policy are due primarily to insufficient attention to the «sense - making» needs of educators, by which he means the ability of teachers and administrators to understand the task assigned to them.

Last summer, CRLS sent 17 educators to the PZ Classroom, Teaching for Understanding: Enhancing Disciplinary Understanding in Teachers and Students.

Understanding the critical role educators play in that and working in partnership with teachers and education groups sits at the heart of our strategy.»

Race: A Teacher's Guide A substantive teaching tool to help middle and high school educators understand and address race and human variation, from the Race Project.

Debra Ferguson is an education consultant and author who, as an experienced educator, understands the pressures and challenges teachers face on a daily basis.

Stay tuned: Tomorrow, Teacher will be speaking to one of the educators involved in the research project to find out how staff and students have been working with the robots to develop skills, knowledge and understanding in the new Digital Technologies Curriculum.

First, despite the fact that the work of educators targets the organ of learning, the brain, most teachers and school leaders have little understanding of the architecture of the brain and how it receives, filters, and applies information.

As educators strive to guide students to meet higher standards and gain deeper understanding, teachers need to become expert with a new set of skills and knowledge.

«In Australia, we've adapted that into a full teacher training program, where we help teachers understand how to integrate the curriculum into their classrooms and other ways that educational communities - such as libraries and community centres - can use and partner with educators to create digital making spaces, or some version of a Code Club in their school or library.»

Established by experienced teachers and educators who understand students» interests inside the classroom as well as their strengths, weaknesses, and difficulties in learning a language or acquire a business skill.

Statistical controls must be used if the assessments of teachers, schools, or programs are to be accurate, even though very few educators understand the statistical principles and methods involved.

Principals» Classrooms Visits Help Build Better Readers When principals and literacy coaches understand what students are learning and teachers are teaching — and participate in literacy lessons — they set a positive tone for the school that can lead to improvement in reading, say author and educator Dr. Beth Whitaker.

The ways of understanding teacher quality are changing as information systems allow states and districts to track educators and their students over time.

Understanding school context is best done by analyzing school and student data to determine student learning needs and then determining how to enhance teacher capacity to meet these needs, being certain to align educator learning to accepted subject and curricular standards (Guskey, 2002; Learning Forward, 2011).

We work with education leaders to measure the effectiveness of teachers, principals, and schools; to examine the equitable distribution of effective teaching; and to understand the factors that help educators have a greater impact on the students they serve.

Were that the case, so many more teachers would have a thorough knowledge of content and pedagogy, a strengthened ability to craft thoughtful lesson plans, an understanding of differentiation, and a flexibility to evolve as an educator.

Her research focuses on teacher and teacher educator development, teachers» multicultural understandings, and international comparative analyses of education practice and policy.

Programs for educators support teachers» growth in content understanding and implementation of sound teaching strategies.

Through ongoing field research and workshops our team of educators is continually developing new understandings of how teachers who «teach like champions» propel powerful student learning.

I understand your point that we as educators need to find better ways to facilitate conversations among ourselves; and I agree that the use of Twitter or similar applications can help connect two similar - minded teachers that are isolated from one another in a geographic sense.

Driven to understand what makes exceptional teachers so effective, Lemov studies their practices and shares their techniques — collected in «The Taxonomy of Effective Teaching Practices,» or «The Taxonomy» for short — with other educators.

High - functioning schools and school systems understand the link between building a cadre of effective, committed educators and providing teachers with ongoing support, development, and opportunities for growth and leadership.

This not only benefits the educator but also the student, as they can pause and replay certain parts that they did not understand instead of having to ask the teacher to repeat themselves.

It is therefore the position of the Association for Science Teacher Education that the qualified science teacher educator should possess a strong knowledge base in understanding how implementing technology in science curricular contexts may be used to promote the teaching and learning of sTeacher Education that the qualified science teacher educator should possess a strong knowledge base in understanding how implementing technology in science curricular contexts may be used to promote the teaching and learning of steacher educator should possess a strong knowledge base in understanding how implementing technology in science curricular contexts may be used to promote the teaching and learning of science.

A common base of understanding about reform efforts, shared between teacher leaders, educators, and other community members, along with the community's recognition and value of their leadership expertise, helped teacher leaders to be successful in these roles.

Finally, teacher educators can help teachers understand that implementing technology into instruction is a process of learning and may require new teaching practices, such as releasing more responsibility to students, similar to what Samira discovered was possible and important with her first graders.

Teacher educators must explore with preservice teachers how digital technologies shape and are shaped by education and examine the deeper theoretical and pragmatic understanding of the core purpose of social studies to prepare civic life.

After the plans became available for public review, organizations like Bellwether Education Partners, the Collaborative for Student Success, Alliance for Education, National Council on Teacher Quality and the Brookings Institution reviewed the submissions to understand their overall strengths and weaknesses, and to determine whether elements like educator equity and benchmarks for federal accountability were present.

Whether your teachers are brand new or have many years of classroom experience, FlexPD supports educators as they build a deeper understanding of math, refine best practices in pedagogy, and create effective, standards - based, learner - centric environments.

As a result of her extensive volunteerism, Bonnie understands the kind of support a school board must provide to both teachers and students, in order to cultivate an environment where educators, learners and parents all participate to help each child reach their maximum potential.

Through their participation in a school - based teacher - as - researcher program, teachers not only gain insight into the pursuit of understanding and the practice of teaching, but redefine their roles as educators, researchers and policy makers.

With extensive experience in education as a teacher, coach, chief academic officer, and consultant, Jason brings to his work a deep understanding of educator effectiveness and organizational change and its impact on stakeholders at all levels.

The teacher educators who engage in the clinical aspects of teacher preparation and development assume a unique role that affords them the opportunity to acquire understandings about the realities of teaching in today's schools.

Abstract: It is now commonly understood by researchers and educators that the quality of teaching matters to the lives and learning opportunities of children, and that the ways teachers are prepared for their profession therefore matters greatly.

This report examines the perceptions of frontline educators regarding the support they receive in understanding and implementing the Teacher and Principal Evaluation (TPE) system, and the use of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) to measure student growth and improve instruction.

Thousands of educators across the country use the Understanding by Design (UbD ®) framework, created by the late Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, to get a handle on standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a standards - based curriculum that leads to student understanding andUnderstanding by Design (UbD ®) framework, created by the late Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, to get a handle on standards, align programs to assessments, and guide teachers in implementing a standards - based curriculum that leads to student understanding andunderstanding and achievement.