Sentences with phrase «teachers hone»

Each Wednesday, teachers hone in on a particular topic: math, reading, writing, exploratory, etc. and check in on each student's personalized goal that was co-created from ongoing small group rotations, student work data, and data from online learning programs.
At North Star Academy, there is a relentless focus on supporting teachers and helping teachers hone their approach to the classroom — and more time makes it possible.
Additionally, the team leveraged formative assessment practices, such as gathering and acting on student data, to help teachers hone instruction even more precisely.
I've put this together to help trainee teachers hone their skills for the QTS Numeracy test, but it's full of little tricks that will help in everyday life too, so it's relevant to everyone really.
This summer Puleo worked as a curriculum adviser helping budding Explo teachers hone their lesson plans, content, and management skills.
To help teachers hone this knowledge, Sadler and his colleagues have made the kind of tests used in their study publicly available.
PS 249 Chapter Leader Lara Terry explains to UFT President Michael Mulgrew how the program takes advantage of the expertise in the building to help teachers hone their craft.

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The United Federation of Teachers is taking aim at Andrew Cuomo's proposal to extend the charter cap as it hones its strategy to combat the governor's ambitious package of education - policy changes.
That appears to be the reason for the change of course, with board members seeking his removal now honing in on a subsequent article Paladino published in ArtVoice, revealing information from an executive session devoted to teacher contract negotiations.
In working to meet this goal we have come to recognize that our program also helps FHCRC scientists hone their teaching skills by discussing their science with teachers and their students.
Post these classes, considerable feedback from your teacher shall help you hone your skills and further refine you as a yoga teacher.
Hone in on the modalities of yoga, developing yourself as a teacher and a student.
The teacher from Wolverhampton shows off his new, gym - honed.
While the story in Whiplash seems rather straightforward at first - a young musical prodigy is noticed by a prestigious jazz band teacher, who brings him in to improve and hone him - it doesn't take long for things to start twisting and turning.
Percy's wheelchair - bound teacher Chiron (Pierce Brosnan) accompanies him to a camp for demi - gods where Percy hones his fighting skills.
As the book's title suggests, the best model for parents and teachershoned over millennia of human evolution and trial and error — is not the carpenter who works diligently from an established blueprint, but the patient gardener who provides a safe space to let nature take its course, and then gets out of the way.
As technology becomes more central to the learning experience, helping students to work flexibly, hone investigative problem - solving skills, and connect easily with teachers and peers, universities are expected to provide the latest equipment and programmes.
How do we, as teachers, use cutting edge decisions to hone rhetoric skills?
Guided by research, educators at Cochrane Collegiate have honed in on ten top teaching methods, and teachers receive weekly PD to help them implement the practices.
Teachers recognize the book as a great tool for honing students» observation skills.
Teachers have the computer tools that those in many other professions enjoy, and many receive training to hone their use of technology in instruction.
This creates room for teachers to be inventive, too,» Coronado says, «and hone new skills.
Companies Honing Tools to Survey Students About Teachers Education Week, 8/27/14 «The hope for me, and for Panorama, is really that this has an impact on the caliber of data we get back,» [Associate Professor Hunter] Gehlbach said.
Teachers need to be able to see their own strengths and weaknesses clearly and recognize where they need to hone their skills.
During the first training, Daniels shared tips and lessons she's honed so far as a Parachute teacher — the things you can't learn from a manual or online training course.
The impact The REC's recent discussions with the Department for Education, SSAT (formerly the Schools Network), the Teaching Agency and the Guardian Teacher Network have honed in on how radical changes to the education system will impact on specialist recruitment agencies.
I am really excited about this wonderful opportunity to hone my skills in policy and leverage my experiences as a former teacher and school leader.
The development of reflective practice is learned at the outset during Initial Teacher Training, but it's a skill set that needs to be honed and refined throughout teachers» careers.
The approach, which is constantly being honed, begins with rigorous, and increasingly scientific, selection and includes extensive ongoing support and training once they hire a teacher.
Collaboration hones teachers» skills.
Facilitating meaningful professional development so that teachers can continue honing their craft.
The AFT worked hand - in - glove with the IBM Foundation to hone this tool and see how it empowers teachers and benefits students.
A great teacher will hone their craft, imparting thatsame intrinsic motivation to their students that drives their own success in the subject.
Much like a summer institute for teachers to hone their writing skills, the Youth Writing Project is a summer program with WP teachers at the helm to guide kids of all ages through innovative writing activities.
A few months after a national panel of experts and a survey of history teachers both lamented a lack of opportunities for students to develop and hone their writing skills, the latest results of the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released here last month, seem to offer more evidence of the need to improve writing instruction in schools.
In the School Leadership Program (SLP), you will join a dynamic and diverse cohort of experienced teachers and education professionals ready to develop and hone their leadership knowledge, practice, and skills.
Picture this: Starting the day with reading a lesson and watching videos on the school LMS; rushing to the school to greet the teacher on the projector screen, hurrying to the many Virtual Classes scheduled during the day, taking MOOCs for honing extra skills; managing countless apps, one for every new skill; then finishing the day with the online tutoring session to learn a new language.
So I think the «I do, We do, You do» is a really effective way... because what it does is it hones teachers» ability to focus on the I do — «I need to explain this really clearly because I want all the kids to get it».
With students, I've noticed that although all teachers are in theory teaching digital citizenship, librarians have the opportunity to really hone in on critical literacies.
Luck, and his ability to find the story in anything, has worked well for Littlefield — a former high school teacher who honed his writing skills at the Ed School — and the show, which is about sports, but not about sports.
It allows the teacher to get to know each student better, it is a time each day that the teacher is communicating with each student and the teacher can really hone in on each child's developmental level and what they know and need help with.
There are people who are gifted with a natural attunement to creative thinking, just as there are gifted athletes, scientists, and teachers, but dedicated study and practice can hone one's creativity.
It allows teachers to hone in on practices they need to know, want to know, and are excited to learn.
This is an important part of this research because lots of research into prac in the past just concentrates on the pre-service teacher's experience, whereas this research really hones in on what it is to be a drama pre-service teacher.
I suggest that the skills are best learnt alongside the development of teacherly competencies and demonstration of professional standards for teachers and are honed and practiced with real learners.
I also had difficulty differentiating between summary and analysis, much to the chagrin of my teachers, who worked diligently to help me hone my writing.
Further, the current site doesn't hone in on the areas of interest that would be most important to students or teachers.
Deputy mayor Richard Buery and United Federation of Teachers president Michael Mulgrew will travel to Cincinnati this week to tour the Ohio city's famed community schools as New York City hones its own strategy for the program, Capital has learned.
Too little of a class gives you the ability to hone in on certain skills but then lacks the discussion and becomes a teacher led class.
Maquita has honed a Chinese program team with whom she works closely to develop effective classroom management strategies for new immersion teachers.
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