Sentences with phrase «teachers get the support they need»

«We need to make sure that the students, their families and the teachers get the support they need on a long - term basis to ensure that they can lead productive lives,» Weingarten told reporters after private sessions with the teachers.
It is vital that teachers get the support they need to prepare for the transition from the ICT curriculum to the new computing curriculum which comes in to force in September.
California should ensure that its new teachers get the support they need, and that supervisors know early on which new teachers may be struggling or at risk for unacceptable levels of performance.

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For instance, could she join an extracurricular activity in which she would get to know her teacher or another teacher better and meet her need for non-parental adult support?
In other words, just when tweens need the most support from teachers they believe they are getting the least.
So how can we ensure that ALL moms, including teachers like Heather, get the support they need and deserve from their employers?
«Stigma, lack of awareness and fear around mental health care prevent many parents and teachers from getting kids the support they need,» said physician and Child Mind Institute president Harold Koplewicz.
Your daughter will do best in a classroom that is giving her the support that she needs, but until you determine what her needs are, it will be hard to get her that support, however warm the teacher or classroom is.
Security and theft are big issues, and the dining room is just a big, scary place... If I could hope for one change it would be for smaller schools... it is just one solution for a system that needs a lot of solutions and a lot of change... longer lunch periods, teachers willing to eat with the students, nutrition education, getting rid of the soda and snack vending machines that fund the sports programs, and more money and support for school food service programs...
Identifying children who may have characteristics of ADHD early on and getting parents and preschool teachers the education, skills, and support they need to help these little ones can really have a positive impact on these kids and their families.
«We want to reward the high - performing teachers, we want to get those teachers that need help the help and support,» Cuomo told reporters in Rochester a week ago.
«We need to see class sizes reduced to at least 20 to ensure pupils get the maximum support and attention from their teacher
«Am just in a sad mood, how on earth will a teacher take JSS students to a hotel in Effurun for an after exam party and in the end 2 of the innocent students got killed and thrown into the hotel pool, one of two dead kid is the «son» of our own Florence Omagbemi Super Falcons head coach, pls I beg all of you to put her in your prayers, she needs all our support in this her trying times, I hope the Delta State Ministry of Education will act on this?»
«The focus, I think, has been on making sure that teachers and students get the kind of training that teachers need to support students, so you are seeing increases with the trend going in the right direction,» responded Elia.
«The teachers don't get the support they need when disruptive students make it impossible to teach all the kids who aren't causing trouble,» DeFrancisco said.
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A survey conducted by the charity found that teachers and other school staff see the limited capacity of existing Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services as a major barrier to getting children the support they need.
School boards need to support principals in getting rid of marginal teachers.
Secondly, after the initial support to get them up and running and to build confidence, computing teachers need formal recognition of the knowledge and skills they have developed.
In schools, if you get inside the data and actually have a look at what the students are doing, what their areas of strengths are, where they need to build, perhaps as a school there might be some areas of weakness, then you can target some professional development for teachers and maybe target some additional support staff in the classes.
Tracey Mackin, Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, adds: «Quite early on we latched onto the recognition that if any report is going to have any value for students across multiple year levels... it needs to be focused and specific enough to prompt questions, and to get the student talking to the teacher, or their parents, about what they might need to support their future [learning].
Its solution is found most often in creating a positive, supportive school culture and climate, where teachers are treated as professionals and given the opportunity to collaborate, problem solve, and get needed, reasonable supports in timely ways.
However, students who aren't lucky enough to connect with a teacher may not get this type of support when they need it most.
Voice - activated devices can allow students to avoid getting stuck because they can't ask a question to unlock their growth in real time, and the technology has the potential to provide far more data to teachers about where their students need supports.
Children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) are not getting the support they need, according to the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL).
Conducting all of this online takes the process to the next level, helping schools save time and money, while ensuring every teacher gets the support and training that they need.
«BT's tech literacy programme is designed to inspire young people to «get» tech concepts and to find them exciting and relevant, but we're also aware that teachers need to feel confident to support young people.
Diagnosed in second grade with a learning disability, Grant says she was supported in her public schools in Massachusetts and Kentucky and feels the legislation helped her get the accommodations she needed as both a student and later as a teacher.
In the absence of well - considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher «mentor» who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need.
This is again where one of the issues was raised for me, in that when you look at a lot of the research and a lot of the media commentary, when they say «up to half of all teachers leave in the first five years», they're always talking about «and it's because they're stressed, it's because they don't get enough support, they're not treated well...» all of which is absolutely an issue that needs to be considered, but it's not the whole story.
They have the skills needed to support other teachers and can offer advice on how to get ready for the new computing curriculum.
When teachers engage kids in talking about their particular strengths, weaknesses, interests, and ways of learning — and in developing a classroom where everyone gets the help and support they need to grow as much as possible — I see kids who are very enthusiastic about that approach to teaching and learning.
Finding a wellness - accountability buddy — a peer who agrees to support and keep you accountable to your wellness goals — or using a professional learning community as a space to check in with other teachers are also ways to get that support, offers Alex Shevrin, a former school leader and teacher at Centerpoint School, a trauma - informed high school in Vermont that institutes school - wide practices aimed at addressing students» underlying emotional needs.
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Why do we support schools of education that continually crank out teachers that need «professional development» as soon as they get into a classroom?
My greatest hope is that getting an education will be easier for my daughter, and that teachers will support her needs when she's struggling.
And as that process moves on, you're going to discover that there are — the full 100 % needs continual growth and continual improvement — so as you strive to improve the performance of all teachers you are going to find some that simply are not going to cut it no matter what kind of support you get.
The Best Ways To Integrate Special Needs Students NPR, May 2, 2012» «I think that it's important for people to start understanding that, that kids who have disabilities have a right to be educated in inclusive settings to the degree that is appropriate, but people who run schools also have an obligation to make sure that the teachers and the children get the types of supports that they need,» said Professor Thomas Hehir.»
Teaching effectiveness measures have great potential to provide teachers with feedback as they work to hone their craft and to help school system leaders understand where support for better teaching and learning is needed, whether that support is effective, and, ultimately, how to design a system of supports to get better results.
So, in curriculum implementation efforts, too often new materials are acquired because they are «shown to be effective,» but teachers get insufficient support in terms of what kind of knowledge and skills they need to use those materials effectively.
To improve education, the report found that states need to get the South's finest to become teachers, give students the support they need, strengthen students» ability to go to college or get a job after high school and match resources with students» needs.
Texas Teacher of the Year Tara Bordeaux strives to create a safe, supportive environment for her students because she recognizes not all of them get the support they need outside the school walls.
Throughout this process, our No. 1 focus has been ensuring our teachers and students get the resources and support they need and deserve.
«As school leaders, principals play a key role in evaluating and supporting teachers and we need to make sure that they get fair and useful feed - back that will ultimately benefit both teachers and students» said Evan Stone, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of E4E.
Just as we expect teachers to know and meet the needs of every student in their class, teachers should get the same support from principals.
As budget discussions move forward, we're hopeful the legislature will follow the Governor's lead to fund what works, give teachers a much needed pay raise and support schools that get results.»
Headden's research found that new teachers leave the profession in large numbers mostly because they don't get the support they need.
District administrators and other leaders of initiatives external to the school, need to develop principals» understanding about the kinds of support teacher leadership work requires and work with them to get that support in place.
We needed to understand what effective coaches do to support teachers» learning if we were to support districts in getting a good return on their investments.
Research behind VAL - ED (the Vanderbilt Assessment of Leadership in Education tool to assess principal performance, developed by researchers at Vanderbilt University) suggests that there are six key steps - or «processes» - that the effective principal takes when carrying out his or her most important leadership responsibilities: planning, implementing, supporting, advocating, communicating and monitoring.40 The school leader pressing for high academic standards would, for example, map out rigorous targets for improvements in learning (planning), get the faculty on board to do what's necessary to meet those targets (implementing), encourage students and teachers in meeting the goals (supporting), challenge low expectations and low district funding for students with special needs (advocating), make sure families are aware of the learning goals (communicating), and keep on top of test results (monitoring).41
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