Sentences with phrase «teachers at individual schools»

Emanuel, who promised a longer school day during his campaign, attempted to go around the union by asking teachers at individual schools to waive the contract and add 90 minutes to the day.

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At the same time that she was ingesting all this psychological research about motivation, Farrington was also studying the related sociological literature, which was concerned with how institutional structures affect individual behavior and, specifically, how certain educational structures — like school funding mechanisms, teacher contracts, or patterns of segregation — might incline students toward success or failure.

Teachers at Waldorf schools are trained to focus on the individual child as well as the group.

At Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencAt Pope John XXIII, teachers are required to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experiencat Avery Coonley look inside their student's «Smart Folder» to see a slide show of their child's daily classroom experience.

So teachers at Mango Elementary School in Fontana, Calif., are replacing homework with «goal work» that is specific to individual student's needs and that can be completed in class or at home at his or her own pace.

We also need the collective will of the individual parents and teachers who are «on the ground» at schools each day to «unjunk» our classrooms.

Nolan said the measure does not preclude individual school districts from using the test score results as part of their teacher evaluations, if everyone at the school agrees.

«Michael Gove has suggested that he wishes teachers to be «free from stifling bureaucracy» and yet at the same time plans to put in place a curriculum that will force all schools to teach the same subjects regardless of the needs individual learners, employers and their local communities.

The community partners honored at the event — three individuals and one program — have had a major impact on the lives of students and teachers in the city school district.

The education department will also have the powers to create a second test for individual school districts, if teachers at the school don't want to use the existing standardized tests as a measure of their performance.

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

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The good examples we found were those human rights - oriented / social justice - oriented individuals (school principals or other teachers) who were taking steps in their own small way to support refugee students at their schools.

Over half (51 per cent) say staff numbers at their school have decreased in the last two years, with nearly two - thirds (65 per cent) saying they are not able to give pupils as much individual attention in lessons due to the loss of support staff and a similar number (64 per cent) saying pupils are not always taught by a teacher trained for the subject or age range due to the loss of teaching staff.

Teachers at risk There have been reports of staff and teachers being harassed online, either by individuals within the school or by external Teachers at risk There have been reports of staff and teachers being harassed online, either by individuals within the school or by external teachers being harassed online, either by individuals within the school or by external parties.

It's reassuring to hear that you're using Teacher content to inform your teaching practice and to initiate change at an individual and whole school level.

The morning meeting format is simple and easy for entire schools to implement at one time, but individual teachers can obtain impressive results by using the method in their own classrooms, even when it isn't a school - wide approach.

Although there is plenty of data to understand the growth of charter schools or the numbers of students in districts, because blended learning is a phenomenon that doesn't occur at the school level — it instead occurs at the level of individual classrooms and teachers — capturing what's happening is difficult.

The promoted individuals are identical to the baseline career teacher in terms of age at entry into teaching and initial salary; the difference is that they are promoted to these administrative posts at the median promotion age for their respective positions (age 38 for school leadership, age 45 for superintendents).

[1] Using data from the American Community Survey, they show that in 2015 just over half of American children aged 5 to 17 were white, but nearly 80 percent of young teachers (whom they define as individuals aged 25 to 34, with a bachelor's degree, and teaching at the prekindergarten through high school level) were white.

This allows administrators to easily monitor student performance at specific schools, compare general progress among neighboring schools, or track an individual teacher's qualifications and workload.

This year's recipients are Marisa Bober, a mathematics teacher at Charlestown High School for grades 9 - 12; Elise Cucchi, a seventh grade humanities and French teacher at the Mary Lyon K - 8 in Brighton; Xavier Rozas, who has built an integrated media program to support and highlight staff and student achievements at The English High School in Jamaica Plain; Christopher Tsang, a sixth, seventh, and eighth grade humanities teacher at The Harbor School; and Tanya Milner, an eleventh grade United States history and freshman Advancement Via Individual Determination teacher at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School.

Having strong family support and, particularly in the case of early career teachers, a supportive culture at school (including mentoring) are seen a factors influence individual resilience.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

CPD is identified as part of the teacher performance management strategy which is matched to the needs of a whole school, including departmental areas and individual circumstance, and plays a big role here at the school.

Scope: Comparative data about class size, proficiency on standardized tests, percentage of students who receive free or reduced - price school lunch, and proportion of first - year teachers at a school; there's also a forum for parents to write reviews about individual schools.

Despite its prevalence and salience for a child's educational progress, teachers and administrators typically have little formal or confirmed information about child maltreatment — either for an individual child or at the school level.

New Teacher Placement, Retention Can Exacerbate Achievement Gaps Education Week, July 18, 2012 «Marty West, an assistant professor at Harvard Graduate School of Education, said the results point to the need for districts to take a closer look at who they keep and lose both in individual schools and the district as a whole.

'' (Students) get more individual attention so they feel like they're truly important and what they do is important,» Loretta Poland, a second - grade teacher at the district's Northridge Elementary School, told the Bee.

This year's new cohort consists of principals, researchers at major educational research organizations and centers, teachers who have been highly effective in the classrooms, an executive director for a region of Teach for America, policymakers from ministries of education, a founder of a volunteer organization working on programs for homeless youths, an education fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, leaders of professional development programs for teachers, a director of development for a private school, and individuals who bring years of experience in the corporate sector and are now turning their energies to the education sector.

Curricula, teaching methods, and schedules can all be customized to meet the learning styles and life situations of individual students; education can be freed from the geographic constraints of districts and brick - and - mortar buildings; coursework from the most remedial to the most advanced can be made available to everyone; students can have more interaction with teachers and one another; parents can readily be included in the education process; sophisticated data systems can measure and guide performance; and schools can be operated at lower cost with technology (which is relatively cheap) substituted for labor (which is relatively expensive).

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

State testing and accountability are aimed at schools, not individual student learning, and reports are released once a year, after students have moved on to other teachers.

Shimizu, from Japan's Tsukuba University, adds that while these huge events take place on a single day, lesson study is embedded in the culture and a regular occurrence at an individual school level where most teachers participate at least once a term.

The legal interpretation of «online publishers» reaches far beyond giant news sites to include individual content creators such as James Buss, a teacher at Oak Creek High School, in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

Students at Pangburn's school have a 50 - minute silent period during regular school hours where homework can be started, and where teachers pull individual or small groups of students aside for tutoring, often on that night's homework.

More can also be done to align working conditions of preschool and primary school teachers; increase flexibility and responsiveness to individual communities, families, and children while at the same time strengthening coherence of services; overcome structural and informational roadblocks to co-operation and continuity; and to better facilitate collaboration among staff, managers, parents, and the community based on reciprocal communication, inclusivity, mutual trust, and respect.

Information about individual performance is aggregated across pupil populations at the classroom (and teacher), school, district, state, and national levels and cumulated over time.

These licenses will be available to individual primary & secondary schools starting at # 2,495 per year for 500 user licenses (# 4.99 per license) to provide to students and teachers.

Teacher's aide Bev Napper (pictured in 2004) works with a first - grade student at Bottenfield School in Champaign, Ill., on his Individual Education Plan, part of Bottenfield's response to the No Child Left Behind initiative.

She also works with individual schools to ensure that teachers have the tools and knowledge they need to provide ongoing, rigorous instruction for students who may be at risk of reading failure.

By participating in parent - teacher conferences and volunteering at school, they may encourage staff to attend to their children's individual needs.

Although there is no significant difference on any of the individual indicators, the sum of responses indicates that teachers» overall perceptions at a district school improve after a charter school opens nearby.

At Shallowater Intermediate School, «we use volunteers for everything from making copies and cutting out letters and shapes to monitoring classrooms so that teachers can give reading and math assessments to individual students,» said Jack Noles.

As advocates pore over the results of teacher surveys being conducted nationally, at the state level, and even at individual schools, observers are beginning to ask questions about how the information can be used to inform policies to improve teachers» working conditions and promote teacher and leadership effectiveness.

As Michelle Uetz, a teacher at Prescott School District notes: «Previously, I did not feel that my individual concerns and needs were important to the union.

When an individual learning plan (ILP) becomes the focus of a student's day at school, the student becomes the focus of the teacher.

At the beginning of a course or school year, it is important for teachers to invest students in individual and broader class goals.

Christodoulou, who used to be head of assessment at Ark Schools before moving to her new post this summer, said the purpose of the tests was to give teachers a way to measure the «absolute» progress of their individual pupils over the year — rather than be stuck with their «relative» progress against the rest of the nation as shown by the government's headline progress measures.

Daniel Koretz, a professor at Harvard's Graduate School of Education, says it's hard to pinpoint an individual teacher's role in student growth.