Sentences with phrase «teachers grouped around»

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Limited to an exclusive group of serious players worldwide, the Platinum Partnership provides the unprecedented opportunity to network with and learn from Tony and master teachers from around the world, while traveling to some of the most spectacular destinations on earth.

Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

For the folks invited, the experience starts the moment they reach the auditorium — Starz24 has teamed up with Glenda's Gals, a group of local teachers and guidance counselors that perform community service around Greenwood.

Founded in 1989, Center Families programs include support groups for LGBT parents and prospective parents; trainings for teachers and school administrators; advocacy and activist efforts; support around alternative insemination and other biological parenthood options; forums on custody issues when LGBT parents separate; financial planning for alternative families; and recreational programs for children 8 and under (Halloween Parties, Holiday Parties, Play Days, etc.).

Those less - happy labor groups include public employee unions, who will offer formal testimony Friday afternoon at a legislative budget hearing, and teachers» unions, who are mobilizing against the governor at meetings around the state and trading press barbs with the second floor on a near - daily basis.

Notable donors: Voice of Teachers for Education Committee, a group associated with education union NYSUT; Coalition for Public Charter Schools, a pro-charter school political action committee; Neighborhood Preservation PAC, a fund representing building owners around the state; New York State ALF - CIO, a state trade union; Angela Battaglia, Vito Lopez's longtime girlfriend; Councilman Stephen Levin.

A coalition of schools groups — ranging from the umbrella organization for the state's teachers union and the Council on School Superintendents — called for a variety of funding reforms for districts around the state ahead of next year's budget negotiations.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Anyone staying late in the lab at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) on a Thursday night will witness a small but dedicated group of Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) students and a BTI graduate student or postdoc huddled around a microscope, discussing basic biology concepts, or laughing about a bit of science news — a teaching arrangement that has benefitted students and teachers alike since 2010.

Teachers make the world go around One of the best ways to build your yoga practice is through private sessions or small group sessions.

His first feature film, Les Revenants («They Came Back, 2004), did not have homo intrigue — unlike his second film, Eastern Boys (2013), which revolved around the surprising encounter between a Parisian teacher and a group of young immigrants.

During most classes, students work in groups based on the particular benchmark activities or assessments that they are mastering, while the teacher and tutors walk around and provide assistance.

Meanwhile, tutors and teachers walk around looking for students who need help, or meet by appointment to work with individuals or small groups.

«A significantly greater proportion of females than males were worried about finding their way around or getting lost, hard classes, hard or unfriendly teachers, getting to class on time, fitting in or making friends, negative peer group pressure, being bullied, being made fun of, older students, new and more students and riding the bus.»

You also should ask 5 - 7 additional teachers to help you with this project by allowing a small group of students into their classrooms for a look - around and being available for a five question survey.

Teachers can simply find a specific site or group of sites related to a topic and build an activity around the site or sites.

The old - style Parent Teacher Association (PTA)-- whose national membership has declined from more than 12 million in 1965 to around 5 million in 2010 — is seen by these groups as an extension of the educational establishment.

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.

These functions include the ease with which teachers and other adults who are regularly around individual students can directly observe the soft skills they are expected to support, the clear implications for intervention suggested by low scores on a particular skill by a particular student or group of students, the signals sent to administrators about teachers and groups of students who may need additional help, and the usefulness in communicating with parents.

A group of teachers at High Tech High engaged in a week - long project slice around the question: «What is our responsibility to our global neighbors?»

Many teachers associate a wide variety of challenges and concerns with group work: kids goofing off, copying from each other, and letting one student do all the work, as well as issues around the teacher not feeling in control.

We believe that, particularly in light of the growth of online and blended learning, we are living in an era in which we can feasibly redesign school around students» needs and strengths and free up teachers to teach individual and small groups of students more often.

And so one of the things that our group is doing right now is we're engaging with teachers from all around the country, in fact all around the world, to try to learn from them what they're doing in their own classroom practice to instill a growth mindset in their students and to help students see intelligence, and to see their academic ability, as things that they can grow.

Groups of students sit with their teachers around large farm tables set with tablecloths, centerpieces, and plates painted with delicate blue flowers.

Georgieva, the co-founder of Digital Bodies — a group that researches and consults on VR for education — says that while virtual reality is still seen as supplemental in K — 12 classrooms, that thinking is shifting as the volume of content increases and teachers and students feel the excitement around it.

Useful tips from veteran PBL teachers are organized around themes such as Getting Started, Creating a Culture of Self - Management, Managing Student Groups, Technology, and Assessment / Evaluation.

Rather than teaching all the students the same subjects, in the same way, at the same pace — like in today's schools — the teacher rotated around the room and worked individually with small groups of students.

As the teacher I can move around the groups checking what the students are saying.

Teachers who plan to use computers with cooperative groups, for instance, need to experience what it's like working together around a computer.

I remember being the teacher with the rows of desks, and I remember the questions running through my head that first time I shoved those desks around to create a table group.

Our school implemented PLCs this year, so we have «late - start - Wednesdays» during which small groups of teachers meet and plan around goals we set in the fall.

For instance, a teacher aware of a strong collectivist presence among his or her students might orchestrate classroom activities that revolve around group work and solving potential conflicts as a whole (e.g., taking a class vote).

[It] could also be a situation where there's perhaps two teachers, or one teacher might do an introduction at the beginning but then you break the class into groups and perhaps run two different ideas or two different activities around the same topic for the day.

«For schools looking for a smart, spacious and affordable solution to moving small groups of pupils or teachers around, the Master Bus fulfils their requirements perfectly,» he says.

Through the labs, small groups of teachers observe each other's classes and then offer constructive feedback around a stated objective.

A group of Education Masters students I was teaching happened have representatives from almost every major land - mass around the world and, as they were all practising teachers, this was too good a chance to miss.

The task group frames the danger this way: «How can we be sure that teaching supervisors are themselves developed and equipped in cultural competence outcomes in order to supervise beginning teachers around issues of race, class, culture, and gender?»

Eliminating tracking might be effective in small classes where teachers can give personal attention to a manageable group of students, but budget constraints — in New Jersey and in many districts around the country — necessitate a high student - to - teacher ratio.

A: Setting an SGO around a shared set of standards and a common assessment for a particular group of teachers who are teaching the same subject and grade makes sense.

There are examples of groups of teachers coming together to turn their schools around in various communities, and there's no reason to assume it can't happen here.

Along the way Payzant cultivated a generally positive relationship with the wide variety of education groups in and around Boston, including the local teachers union.

The small number of specially qualified teachers — and the fact that they must work their schedules around literacy blocks, lunchtimes, and other set schedules — forces many schools to group special - needs students rather than to spread them out evenly among all the classrooms.

As the education director, Sand has many responsibilities, including «talking to educators interested in or already using the program and doing coaching, teacher trainings, workshops, and conferences; doing research for and helping produce curricula; supporting the group's regional directors around the United States; and getting out the word about the project.

Education secretary Nicky Morgan today announced three working groups to tackle concerns around teachers» workload.

Independent groups start charter schools with public - school funds, yet in return for a renewal process based on achieving goals articulated in a charter document, they have more flexibility around management and educational programs: their teachers need not be unionized, for example.

A group of of education chiefs from around the nation, as well as some teachers, parents, student groups and business organizations, lended their official support to the Vergara lawsuit today by filing several amicus curiae or «friend of the court» briefs.

You can find groups that will train teachers and students about mindfulness around the world.

Orchestrating preparation around what a group of teacher leaders is doing, what they are learning, and what they still need to learn, underscores the idea that teacher leader practice should have some similarities and a common purpose.

And some organized groups (teachers, superintendents, parents) are familiar faces around the General Assembly as education legislation is discussed, debated, and voted on.

Around 5 p.m. every day, teachers get an alert telling them how students will be grouped and what lessons they'll need to teach.