Sentences with phrase «teachers meet together»

As teachers meet together to plan units and analyze student work, the discussions lead to sharing teaching strategies and planning rich learning experiences to meet the needs of students.

Just over half of all children are in schools where their teachers meet together regularly to plan sequenced and coordinated instruction.

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In 1874, Bishop John Vincent brought together a group of Sunday school teachers for a combined two weeks» training course and recreational period at an old camp meeting ground on Lake Chautauqua in New York.

Finally, after a wonderful meeting together, the teacher prepared to leave.

Luke 22:66 - 70 [66] At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and teachers of the law, met together, and Jesus was led before them.

The teacher meets the student in the area of the subject matter: he teaches him to cultivate the soil, and they work on the ground together.

Notice, it's bringing materials home, it's handwriting, it's math calculation — get an idea of what's going on, so that you can go in and meet with your child's teacher and be able to let them know what you're seeing at home and be able to start working as a partnership together.

In this way, parents and teachers can work together over time, orchestrating their efforts to best meet the changing needs of the child and the class as a whole.

While it's not an appropriate time to speak to the teacher about your child's specific needs or your concerns, it is a good time to meet your child's teacher and express a desire to connect with him or her later to work together for your child's success at school.

On Tuesday 21st January T and I set off extremely early in the morning to London joining the commuters on the train to one of the main London Stations and then onto the Tube for a trip to West Minster Palace to meet with other parent bloggers who believe strongly like we do that together we can make a change for these children with our voices, teachers, students, volunteers, representatives of Save the Children and Beanstalk, MP's from around the country and peers of the realm to talk about reading, books and how we can make a difference.

The advisory group is the direct result of a Jan. 23 meeting, organized by UFT Vice President for Education Evelyn DeJesus, which gathered together 40 teachers from the UFT's English language learner focus group to discuss their concerns with top city and state officials.

The new book brings together current thinking and findings about energy education: what students should know about energy, what can be learned from research on teaching and learning, what the major challenges are for teachers, and how to meet those challenges in the future.

#TraditionsToGo #CollectiveBias As a teacher the holidays are full of parties, get togethers, potlucks, and staff meetings.

School leaders also agree to carve out time for teachers to look at the data together, and to take part in the cycle of meetings and reviews themselves.

When a team of teachers operates effectively, there is one group leader and usually five to six committed educators who are all working together to meet student needs.

It means that teachers and administrators go together to school board sessions and parent information meetings, speaking with one voice.

What I mean by this is that one of the reasons that schools do not improve as fast as we would like them to is that when teachers get together for a purpose, rarely has research been done by the teachers, neither have ideas been mapped out prior to the meeting.

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Humboldt teachers have grade - level meetings every week to review their data together and strategize, as well as sharing tips and practices.

He broke the news in an adrenaline - charged staff meeting that one teacher said felt like a movie scene as they decided to band together and fight the decision.

I want to make sure that the projects teachers and students are creating and implementing together meet some minimum quality indicators.

«It was a valuable meeting of the minds and cross-fertilization with people who knew curriculum and technology and how to put them together, and also how to train teachers.

There are also peer networks that can work really well for beginning teachers but again these meetings that we put together for these young people, or inexperienced teachers I guess, we need to have more experienced teachers that are acting as mentors but also that can steer those conversations more towards problem solving and critical discussions, rather than a venting of «what happened in my class last week», «what disaster occurred».

This would encourage children to learn a second language and invite teachers to work together to meet the challenges that arise in every classroom.

The most effective advisories meet regularly, stay together for several years, and involve staff development that helps teachers support the academic, social, and emotional needs of their students.

I was part of a teacher's choir that met once a week during that time — just for the joy of singing together.

Here's what this approach looks like: Administrators make frequent short, unannounced classrooms visits (at least once a month), followed promptly by face - to - face listening / coaching conversations; teacher teams meet regularly to discuss planning, pedagogy, and assessment results; and teacher assessment is saved till the end of the school year, pulling together observations, other points of contact, and teachers» self - assessments.

Intermediate teacher Lori Scobie, in her first year of teaching when we worked together on literature circles, had all groups meet at once while she roamed among them.

And teachers who themselves are math experts may well be able to piece together a coherent program that meets their students» needs using the standards as their guide.

The value of a faculty's dividing into teams, for example, is to enable teachers to work effectively together to improve instruction and enable students to meet or exceed rigorous standards that are embodied in the curriculum.

Without top - down support, teachers eventually stopped formally meeting together to align their work, they no longer relied on regular grade - wide assessments, and they eventually returned to working in isolation.

Secondary head teachers in the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) will be meeting Muslim groups to consider how they can work together to work out the logistics of the clash between Ramadan and the exam season.

Sponsored by the Washington - based American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education and the National PTA, based in Chicago, the three - day meeting brought together policymakers, researchers, teachers, parents, and university deans and faculty members to discuss...

By the end of the sometimes emotionally charged meeting, three teachers accept the challenge and agree to work together on an interdisciplinary project.

At the beginning of the school year, when many parents attend a meeting or get together before the first day, it could be useful for teachers to ask the parents what kind of platforms they are already using, so that they can engage easily.

Small groups of teachers who typically work together as part of a grade - level, department, or project team appeared to work best for data - analysis meetings.

The judges said: «Meets a real need in bringing together a wide range of resources which teachers would have difficulty in finding for themselves.

Funded by: Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation Amount: $ 2,500 Dates: 4/2/17 — 5/1/17 Summary: Dr. Travis Bristol, Assistant Professor in the School of Education, will host a breakfast and discussion at the 2017 AERA Annual meeting designed to bring together senior and junior scholars, as well as graduate students to develop a research agenda for increasing, supporting, and retaining a diverse teacher workforce.

With teachers working together to collect, analyse, discuss and act upon data, the objectives of meeting professional standards and improving learning outcomes of students are shown to be both achievable and essential to effective teaching today.

My request was met with resistance as the teachers explained to me it was an unnecessary use of time since they had already worked together to write the test and had even determined how many points each question was worth and typed those points on the side of each item.

There were all kinds of Common Core meetings and training sessions being scheduled by the school district, but Grossman and Palmer wanted to try their version of Common Core training again: Bring teachers together, talk about the standards, have teachers try a lesson, come back and talk about.

Teachers, administrators, partners, and students work together during weekly planning meetings and a one - week Professional Development Institute (PDI) to develop rich, engaging, transdisciplinary hands - on capstones.

Burlington, Vt — Convening what the state schools chief called «the largest faculty meeting I have ever seen,» Vermont officials late last month brought together a 12th of the state's teachers to brief them on their pioneering assessment program.

The event, which took place November 3, 4, and 5 at HGSE and the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden Street in Cambridge, brought the AME conference together, for the first time, with the annual meeting sponsored by Harvard Law School (HLS) and Facing History and Ourselves, a nonprofit organization that helps increase student and teacher awareness of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism by examining the historic conditions that led to examples of collective violence such as the Holocaust.

Once on the job, teachers also need ample opportunities to plan together to meet the educational needs of their high - ability learners.

On the morning the dance video was presented, the meeting opened with a lengthy discussion inspired by an art teacher and a writing teacher who work together at a Boston - area independent school.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool) focused their conversations with mentors on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.

The purpose of this additional monthly collaboration time is to allow teams of teachers to meet together regularly to review student progress and to plan more effectively for instruction.

The MSP also included principals in teacher leader meetings so that they could discuss together how the leadership work could be implemented.