Sentences with phrase «teachers move beyond»

Would reflection on personal practice related directly to stages of adoption have helped faculty members and teachers move beyond activities focusing on lower cognitive skills?

This three - day interactive academy, presented by experienced educators and ASCD authors Harvey Silver, Tom Dewing, and Daniel Moirao, will expand on the original concepts presented in the best - selling books The Core Six and The Strategic Teacher and will help teachers move beyond instructional strategies to the larger concept of instructional know - how.

Teacher professional development and education should foster teachers» TPACK so that more teachers move beyond the use of PowerPoint, when practical, to share primary sources with their students to do history.

It's our responsibility to help teachers move beyond superficial engagement and support them in creating cognitively engaging environments for all students.

«Our goal is to have all teachers move beyond [using technology for] simple fact - finding.»

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I have not been able to move beyond the belief that Jesus was one of the great teachers of mankind.»

About what a young boy in his class had said to a cluster of girls, how he referred to the girls» private body parts and what he wanted to do them, in such horrifyingly derogatory terms that this seasoned teacher could not even repeat it — and was at a rare loss as how to handle or move forward — beyond an immediate suspension.

Being exposed to varying backgrounds and perspectives may also help tweens move beyond adolescent egocentrism, which in turn benefits their interactions with peers, teachers, and parents.

New York State United Teachers on Jan. 15 launched a nearly $ 1 million ad campaign urging Gov. Andrew Cuomo to move beyond politics and ensure the state adequately and equitably funds its public schools.

About Blog The mission of the Montessori Teachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiTeachers Institute for Professional Studies is to provide experienced Montessori teachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practiteachers the opportunity to move beyond the initial learning gained from Montessori training courses and the first years of classroom teaching by offering a variety of services that will advance their knowledge, improve their skills as practitioners.

When an intriguing new drama teacher (Chris Messina) casts Abigail over Melissa in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, Abigail's confidence blooms, and soon her relationship with Jeremy begins to move beyond just fantasy.

Read more about how schools and districts can move beyond these «pockets of excellence» to create a broad - based approach — and how to support teachers as they expand their classroom practices, as well as their confidence and capacities.

Making Thinking Visible: How to Promote Engagement, Understanding, and Independence for All Learners A well - organized, research - based guide for teachers who hope to move beyond test scores to meaningful lessons that support higher - level thinking.

So, we need to move beyond just seeing this as a homogenous role within schools and realise that for an organisation to be evidence - informed, different people can play different roles — right from doing primary research, right through to teachers almost demanding that the training they are sent on has got good evidence behind that.

For a long time, Khan has talked about how the use of Khan Academy videos can allow teachers to move beyond lecture mode and the lower levels of Bloom's taxonomy to help students engage in project - based learning and apply their learning.

«It is important to move beyond the dated paradigm of teacher as appraiser, merely collecting and returning work with a grade.»

As a teacher, I hope to encourage others to travel as extensively as possible as I believe that it is only the personal experience that allows us to truly understand and move beyond a «single story»

The need to improve student study skills has driven some teachers to find unique and creative ways to persuade students to move beyond simply reading material to fully understanding it.

If and when a high school teacher is interested in moving technology integration beyond PowerPoint lectures and Internet research, what's next?

Proponents of teacher micro-credentials hope to move beyond this model.

To complement the slave narratives, Claremont history teachers lead a mini-unit on racism featuring excerpts of writings by Howard Zinn and Winthrop Jordan to move conversations «beyond a second - grade understanding of racism,» says Smith.

Also, with mobile technology, teachers can move beyond formal learning spaces into the world outside of the classroom.

As educators, we must offer core principles that inspire teachers, parents, and communities to move beyond modern notions of success — to instill abilities that matter most for healthy youth development.

However, without the dialogue that comes with open communication available through transparent learning, it's impossible to ever move beyond our idealization of parent - teacher communication to conversation and collaboration.

SAMR articulates the idea that teachers should move beyond replication when they integrate technology and instead strive for more transformative uses with students.

In an effort to provide ongoing feedback to teachers during the course of the school year, measure annual student growth, and move beyond narrowly - focused bubble tests, the U.S. Department of Education has awarded two groups of states grants to develop a new generation of tests.

As a result of constant innovation, learning is no longer limited by traditional confines and we're moving beyond students tied to their chairs, desks, and textbooks - and teachers locked away in classrooms.

I believe that these rigorous standards have the potential to dramatically improve the quality of instruction in the typical American classroom — to move teachers far beyond the test - prep and bubble - kids obsessions of the No Child Left Behind era.

The current debate over school funding must move beyond teacher salaries and whether the books in public schools are tattered.

It's not just about tailoring instruction, but arming teachers with insights that enable them to move beyond outdated heuristics on student potential.

We'll consider factors, including current leadership experiences that can indicate if you're ready to move into larger positions, and discover how to be supported as you make this important transition from assistant to principal or from teacher leader in the classroom to school leader and key person in the school, community, state and beyond.

We need to move beyond the current practice of blaming teachers to a system of shared accountability so that donors, ministries of education, local education agencies, implementing agencies, directors and teachers are all responsible for producing measurable improvements in teaching quality.

More important, teacher conversations must quickly move beyond «What are we expected to teach?»

They mentioned insights about the nature of their own role as a teacher, moving beyond presenter and evaluator to designer, collaborator, and facilitator.

Teachers feel more connected to their vocation and have moved beyond being a subject teacher to being part of team which collaborates to provide learning contexts which cross traditional subject boundaries.

As a result, the tests tend to leave the best teachers — those with wider teaching repertoires who are able to move students beyond the basics — at a disadvantage, while putting pressure on the entire school system to focus on low - level skills.

Beginning in 2008, CPS piloted the Excellence in Teaching Project, a more robust evaluation system that was the first step in moving beyond the rudimentary checkboxes that failed to delineate great teaching or to provide meaningful feedback to teachers and administrators.

Policymakers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more personalized models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and that take place within teachers» classrooms, considering the context of one's students, classroom, and school.

Local decision makers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more practice - based models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and take place within teachers» schools, considering the context of their respective students, classrooms, and school site goals.

By modeling what good questions sound like and encouraging students to do the same, the teachers helped their students move beyond «I don't get it.»

Feelings of frustration on the part of teachers are normal and understandable, but there is hope and a place to start that moves both student and teacher beyond helplessness to collaboration in the process.

These types of activities move teacher candidates beyond tasks requiring rote memorization and teacher - directed instruction.

In an unusual move, Baltimore County teachers filed a grievance this week against the county school board saying new education initiatives are forcing them to work long hours beyond their normal day.

(James J. Barta and Michael G. Allen); «Ideas and Programs To Assist in the Untracking of American Schools» (Howard D. Hill); «Providing Equity for All: Meeting the Needs of High - Ability Students» (Sally M. Reis); «Promoting Gifted Behavior in an Untracked Middle School Setting» (Thomas O. Erb et al.); «Untracking Your Middle School: Nine Tentative Steps toward Long - Term Success» (Paul S. George); «In the Meantime: Using a Dialectical Approach To Raise Levels of Intellectual Stimulation and Inquiry in Low - Track Classes» (Barbara G. Blackwell); «Synthesis of Research on Cooperative Learning» (Robert E. Slavin); «Incorporating Cooperation: Its Effects on Instruction» (Harbison Pool et al.); «Improving All Students» Achievement: Teaching Cognitive and Metacognitive Thinking Strategies» (Robert W. Warkentin and Dorothy A. Battle); «Integrating Diverse Learning Styles» (Dan W. Rea); «Reintegrating Schools for Success: Untracking across the United States» (Anne Wheelock); «Creatinga Nontraditional School in a Traditional Community» (Nancy B. Norton and Charlotte A. Jones); «Ungrouping Our Way: A Teacher's Story» (Daphrene Kathryn Sheppard); «Educating All Our Students: Success in Serving At - Risk Youth» (Edward B. Strauser and John J. Hobe); «Technology Education: A New Application of the Principles of Untracking at the Secondary Level» (N. Creighton Alexander); «Tracking and Research - Based Decisions: A Georgia School System's Dilemma» (Jane A. Page and Fred M. Page, Jr.); and «A Call to Action: The Time Has Come To Move beyond Tracking» (Harbison Pool and Jane A. Page).

Jessica shares her reflections from participating in «Move Beyond Satisfactory: Rally to Unite for Excellence» and encourages teachers to continue sharing...

Instead of only 100 of my own students growing to proficiency and beyond, I would now move to coaching a cohort of teachers, who then, in turn, would impact an entire grade level of learners.

The day after Trump was elected, the Charlotte School board voted 9 - 0 in support of a plan to move beyond «separate but equal» schooling and adopted an economic diversity program that is good for students, good for teachers and good for the community.

Every principal, every teacher and every parent should have such a faith in students they are charged with educating by moving beyond simply listening to student voice and towards engaging students as partners throughout the education system.

As a facilitator at these meetings, I am struggling with moving teams of teachers beyond just sharing / swapping curricular work to having the types of discussions you highlight in your presentation.

To stimulate professional learning, we need to move beyond teacher evaluation based on numbers, ratings, and rankings.