Sentences with phrase «teachers in classrooms across»

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Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

In other words, being a Christ - follower entails becoming a teacher — not a classroom teacher necessarily, but a Gospel teacher who can sit across the table and explain to someone else the basics of the Christian faith.

Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches to teaching character strengths, and in classrooms across the country, teachers are talking to their students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.

Although school was out for students and teachers, we continued to work with school nutrition directors, managers, and their staffs across the country, preparing for the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, and beyond.

Minority students across Erie County would do better in school if they saw more teachers who look like them in the classroom or in the halls.

Marching around saying it's «bullshit» whilst our politicians tour their constituencies in stab - proof vests, our bankers screw society for personal gain, our teachers describe classrooms as battlegrounds, our towns and parks have become no - go zones most evenings, our social workers come across the most appalling instances of abuse, just to name but a few of the most obvious examples - well, I think you need to produce a little more than some statistics and a bit of bad language to turn the narrative around.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

«The reality is the teachers are going to be the ones that make it work in a classroom every day for the kids across the state,» said Elia.

The Bank actively supports in - classroom and out - of - classroom educational programmes, infrastructure development, students» scholarship and teachers training across Africa.

In a radio interview on Friday, Mr. Bloomberg noted the spreading financial woes of local governments, saying, «Towns and counties across the state are starting to have to make the real choices — fewer cops, fewer firefighters, slower ambulance response, less teachers in front of the classroom.&raquIn a radio interview on Friday, Mr. Bloomberg noted the spreading financial woes of local governments, saying, «Towns and counties across the state are starting to have to make the real choices — fewer cops, fewer firefighters, slower ambulance response, less teachers in front of the classroom.&raquin front of the classroom.»

In an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve LearninIn an effort to make retrieval practice a common strategy in classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learninin classrooms across the country, the Washington University team (with the help of research associate Pooja K. Agarwal, now at Harvard University) developed a manual for teachers, How to Use Retrieval Practice to Improve Learning.

Developed with classroom teachers, Genres in Writing breaks from the traditional use of the personal essay and teaches children how to approach, prepare and execute writing across multiple genres, such as the persuasive, expository and historical.

After the proposition passed, state union representatives immediately lobbied the state attorney general to issue a «clarification» explaining that performance pay actually meant an across - the - board bonus for every teacher in a school or district, regardless of performance, and that funding classrooms directly actually meant passing the funding through the district first so the district, rather than the school, can make the major funding decisions.

Like Garcia, teachers across the country sometimes must travel circuitous paths to use online resources in the classroom.

It is now seeking eight new classroom teachers to join as trustees, who will be involved in leading the organisation as it opens membership to teachers and schools across the country.

Kirsty Wainwright - Noble, from Towergate's Education Division said: «Stress levels in the classroom are reaching tipping point, and it is taking its toll on retaining and recruiting teachers across the country.

Now in its 11th year, the Discovery Education Summer Institute is a celebrated week - long professional development and networking event, bringing together teachers from across the US and Canada who are passionate about using digital media in the classroom.

Teachers are using Voxer in their classrooms, schools, and PLNs to share meaningful feedback, expand authentic communication, hold back - channel conversations, and connect across boundaries.

All three curricula have been piloted by teachers across America in a wide variety of K12 teaching environments, including rural, urban, and suburban; all grade levels; regular ed, special ed, and ESL classrooms.

In classrooms across the United States, teachers, students, and society are being bombarded by what Harvard Graduate School of Education Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth calls, «math wars» — an ongoing battle over how to teach and assess mathematics.

Education leaders from across Australia met today to discuss their continued commitment to strengthening initial teacher education (ITE), in a bid to develop higher quality, classroom - ready graduates.

In the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classrooIn the school with more teachers, the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classrooin the classroom.

Education leaders from across Australia met on Thursday to discuss their continued commitment to strengthening initial teacher education (ITE), in a bid to develop higher quality, classroom - ready graduates.

8 teachers from primary schools across the UK will be flying to Chicago this summer, after being recognised for their work as digital pioneers in the classroom.

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.

Although many parents and politicians argue passionately against mobile classrooms — the majority of which never move — teachers across the country seem much less perturbed by their use, and in many cases, actually prefer them.

Over the past decade, teachers across the U.S. have started teaching mindfulness in their classrooms.

«In the classroom, online safety or digital citizenship should not be discussed during a designated month; instead, students should hear it from all teachers and the components should be woven across the curriculum all year long,» writes Shaelynn Farnsworth.

Cho's influence is being felt in classrooms across the nation, particularly among English teachers.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

The effectiveness - based layoffs result in fewer layoff notices and are much more equitably distributed across student subgroups; black students in particular are only marginally more likely to have been in a classroom with a teacher who received a layoff notice under this system.

Across the country, students, teachers, principals, and staff members are helping each other make sense of the mix of raw emotions happening in communities, schools, and classrooms in the wake of the 2016 election.

An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce authentic digital artifacts where students think and work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.

Early in the fall, classroom teachers across the country are busy assessing their students» academic levels, learning styles, and individual needs.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

The teachers attending «Day of Discovery» were from Discovery Education's partner schools across the Midlands, London, and the South East, all of whom use pioneering digital technologies and content in their classrooms.

The partnership is the latest initiative from Skype to reach its goal of connecting one million classrooms across the globe through Skype in the Classroom, a free online community that helps teachers use Skype to enrich educational experiences for students.

It's an ideal resource for teachers looking to exercise firm but relaxed control in the classroom while getting the message across clearly and effectively.

It might involve working with teachers to develop the use of a specific technology (such as the collaborative suite represented by Google Apps for Education) in their classroom or across the school.

«One of the things I learnt very quickly in the maths classroom is that a lot of the kids in high school didn't have that mathematical literacy, that numerical thinking that they needed,» she tells Teacher, adding that it was after reading a research paper about numeracy moments she was inspired to implement change across the school.

To help keep your classroom running like a well - oiled machine in the coming year, we've collected some successful — and often fun — classroom management techniques from teachers across the country and around the world.

Under a CB plan, for example, annual retirement compensation is a fixed percentage of teachers» salaries, and so retirement compensation is earned more evenly across their years in the classroom.

The unpacking process led to building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about student progress and achievement within and across teams in the school.

There are plenty of curriculum models (Tylers seminal 1949 work ~ Bruners definition of curriculum ~ Wiggins and McTighes Understanding by Design model ~ and Jacobs curriculum mapping instrument come to mind) ~ but none of these strategies help guide curriculum leaders to sit down teams of teachers to develop user - friendly curricula that can be institutionally implemented in classrooms across a grade - level or content - area and that are aligned with state or national standards.

Across the country in Washington, D.C., Andrea Smith, a 6th - grade math teacher at E. L. Haynes, a high - performing public charter school, shares Bergmann's enthusiasm, but focuses on a different aspect of the flipped classroom.

With a focus on improving educational outcomes in classrooms across the country, what role could a survey play in determining the similarities between teachers and their students?

They suggest that in a school with more teachers, «the diffusion of responsibility for test - score gains across many teachers may erode the incentive that any individual teacher has to increase effort in the classroom.»

«Teachers who want to work in these environments have a responsibility and an important role to play in influencing and contributing to these approaches, so that when kids move across classrooms, they have common instructional experiences, a consistent understanding of behavior expectations, and teachers who are reaching out to engage their parentsTeachers who want to work in these environments have a responsibility and an important role to play in influencing and contributing to these approaches, so that when kids move across classrooms, they have common instructional experiences, a consistent understanding of behavior expectations, and teachers who are reaching out to engage their parentsteachers who are reaching out to engage their parents.»

The impact on students, and the teachers themselves, from across the network has been extraordinary and affirms that elements of teaching in transformational classrooms remain universal.

«In the classroom, online safety or digital citizenship should not be discussed during a designated month; instead, students should hear it from all teachers and the components should be woven across the curriculum all year long.»