Sentences with phrase «teachers and others involved»

My intended audience is teachers and others involved in education including home schooling parents.

We are working to achieve this by making it easy for teachers and others involved in STEM education to access subject - specific, high impact professional development and quality - assured resource.

Not exact matches

«Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other hand, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking I was born to rule over her; and in the end she became my teacher in non-violence.»

If hundreds or thousands of people are involved, and they can not all fit into a bus, the pastor can brief «bus teachers» in advance, or use some other similar method of discipleship.

Thus the clinical and theoretical material is integrated; psychological and theological understanding is related; and the student is helped to think critically about his own work, to benefit from the insights of his peers as well as those of his teachers, and to honestly face the problems involved in his relationships with others.

The assessment and planning steps should involve teachers, child nutrition staff, other school staff as appropriate, parents, students, and the community as a part of the required wellness policy.»

Rachel Anderson, psychologist and founder of Consciously Parenting NZ liases with the early childhood centres and other organizations that host Genevieve's seminars and Tabitha Johnson, primary teacher and mother of two is involved with the development of eBooks and other products that PPI offer.

Other Ideas for Getting Involved The Food Trust's Healthy School Toolkit - This toolkit guides teachers and other members of the school community in implementing The Food Trust's highly successful Comprehensive School Nutrition Policy InitiaOther Ideas for Getting Involved The Food Trust's Healthy School Toolkit - This toolkit guides teachers and other members of the school community in implementing The Food Trust's highly successful Comprehensive School Nutrition Policy Initiaother members of the school community in implementing The Food Trust's highly successful Comprehensive School Nutrition Policy Initiative.

As individuals, we are a group of parents, teachers and helping professionals who have experienced the transforming power of insight and organized ourselves into faculty, staff, facilitators and volunteers to help pass on this insight to others involved with children.

I tried to get other teachers and parents involved, but my efforts fell flat each time.

While serving as an elementary classroom teacher in the Toronto District School Board, she was actively involved in identifying and supporting numerous children with autism and other special needs.

Names and contact information for teachers and any other adults involved in a supervisory role with your child, such as in after - school programs

I'm getting involved and meeting other teachers, which means my days aren't as lonely as they were in the beginning.

PANDA includes materials and guidelines for involving families, teachers, administrators and other segments of the child's community.

Additionally, featuring proponents, like yourself, will inspire other teachers and parents to get involved.

You can make your children learn self - control, ways to get along with others, self - help, and other aspects of socialization, but this is only possible when both parents and teachers are involved continuously in encouraging preferred behaviours, boundary limits, etc..

Unions involved in the new ballot line would include the United Federation of Teachers, 32BJ and RWDSU, among others, the source said.

Unlike in other states where governors were intimately involved with Common Core implementation, Cuomo has largely stayed out of the process, letting state education commissioner John King and the state Board of Regents take the heat from parents and teachers over the rocky rollout.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are claiming that the inability to raise taxes by even a modest amount could mean cuts in the classroom.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are... [Read more...]

Garriott has been an avid support of the Challenger Center network, noting that they offer a place where students, teachers and other curious people can learn more about the science and technology involved in space travel.

Two other studies — one involving 79 pairs of teachers in Los Angeles (which I wrote with Douglas Staiger) and the Measures of Effective Teaching study involving 1,591 teachers in six different school districts (which I wrote with Dan McCaffrey, Trey Miller and Douglas Staiger)-- randomly assigned teachers to different groups of students within a grade and subject in a school.

Likewise, according to The Civic and Political Health of the Nation: A Generational Portrait (a survey of Americans conducted in 2002), students who reported that their teachers led discussions of politics and government were more involved in their communities and more attentive to the news than other students.

There is no other free reading challenge that involves so many children, introduces families to their library, encourages children to choose books freely and independently and is endorsed by parents, teachers and the Department for Education.

Several years ago ~ when I worked in a position that involved sending my self - contained gifted students to specials classes (art ~ music ~ physical education and other electives) ~ the teachers began complaining about the behavior of some of my students.

The practice Powell was showing off involved having its teachers present their reteaching plans — developed on data day — to a handful of teachers from other grades and specialties.

As part of a move toward site - based management, some schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District have tried to involve parents and teachers in hiring principals and other staff members.

We're proud to be partnering with Barefoot Computing and that the workshops BT and other volunteers across England have been involved have been such a success; it's great to hear from teachers that the programme has boosted their confidence.

In its decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit parted ways with the rulings of two other federal appeals courts in similar cases, involving teachers in Boston and Kalamazoo, Mich. (See Education Week, May 18, 1983.)

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

A high - school English teacher in her ninth year, Keigan and other fellows have been involved in shaping the details of SB 191, the Colorado reform bill that made major changes to teacher - related policies, including evaluations and tenure.

Two arguments support maintaining a connection between state requirements for licensure and the programs that prepare teachers to stand for licensure, whether those programs are housed in higher - education institutions, in school districts, in other organizations, or in collaboratives involving any combination of groups.

The core group of teachers and heritage educators will be involved in activities that will empower them to engage their students and other target groups in critical debate from multiple perspectives promote pluralism, and combat the idea that history is a single, unchangeable truth.

In other words, whereas consequential decisions to retain, promote, and compensate teachers based on their value - added to student achievement surely involve error, the districts we studied are using state - of - the - art value - added systems that minimize such error as much as is presently possible.

«I look at problems in education that are persistent and challenging,» he said, «and work my way back to the kinds of pedagogy, content, assessment, teacher professional development, parental input, and other variables involved to see if there might be a way that technology could make a difference.»

Which is why Teitel says he and the other facilitators spend a lot of time at the beginning helping rounds participants understand that everyone involved — not just teachers — is working on their practice.

Because a tenure decision involves thousands of future students as well as future colleagues and supervisors at other schools in a district where a teacher might work, it makes no sense to leave the decision in the hands of their current supervisor alone.

A teacher would receive an «advanced» score on questioning skill if she asked students to explain their thinking, if the questions involved many students in class, and if the students began asking questions of each other.

Ultimately, she sees her research and work on the Justice in Schools project as a means to help bridge the gap among key players like parents, teachers, administrators, school boards, and others involved in decisions.

You know students benefit if they are involved, so let them organise and lead on some of the activities whilst the teacher plays other roles such as facilitator, coach or assistant.

And if we give them a pathway to professional development, where we're creating master teachers, they are helping with apprenticeships for young new teachers, they are involved in a variety of other activities that are really adding value to the schools, then we should be able to give them more money for it.

Primary teachers, regularly involved in training and in - servicing around literacy and numeracy, often feel pressured to focus on these areas at the sake of other learning areas.

For the other books, I wrote the section at the end, «For Parents, Teachers and Other Adults,» explaining the math underlying the story and providing ways to involve children with the mathematical ideas.&rother books, I wrote the section at the end, «For Parents, Teachers and Other Adults,» explaining the math underlying the story and providing ways to involve children with the mathematical ideas.&rOther Adults,» explaining the math underlying the story and providing ways to involve children with the mathematical ideas.»

Of course, every classroom is unique, and we all face different challenges: Some teachers suffer from in - box fatigue trying to keep up with a constant barrage of parent emails, while others struggle to get parents involved at all.

Others, such as Netley Primary School in North London, got involved in Onesie Wednesday, encouraging students to turn up to school in onesies to show that it's OK to be different and letting them design onesies for their teachers to wear.

Similar issues involving union rights and teacher prerogatives percolated in other states as well, including Indiana, Tennessee, Ohio, and even Massachusetts.

For example, in Macomb, Mich., a fifth grade teacher and principal organized a back to school barbecue the Saturday before school began to encourage parents and other adults to get involved in the new school year.

Payne: «One of the most popular models for staff development, sometimes called a Train the Trainer model, involves sending a few teachers out to be trained so that they can come back and train others.

If an activity involves «unrationalizable» ingredients — hard - to - control components such as teacher personality and parental influence — changes in elements outside it will have precisely the impact we've seen so many times: progress in some places, decline in others; enthusiasm among these teachers, no reaction among those; and unintended consequences.

Directly following their days at HGSE, Reimers brought the delegation to Washington, D.C. to meet with senior officials in the U.S. Department of Education and other leaders involved in teacher education and standards reforms.