Sentences with phrase «teachers move students»

Maybe the teacher moves the students into a pose...

And what formative assessment strategies help teachers move student learning forward?

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With a clear four - step methodology to help readers move from idea to action, templates for readers to map out their problems and the opposing ideas for solving them, and with practical and memorable stories, from music mogul Jay - Z, to the founder of Vanguard Group, Creating Great Choices was written with MBA students, business managers, non-profit and government agency leaders, teachers, and even elementary school students in mind.

Smoke from the gunpowder billows in the hallway, moving into the rooms filled with terrified students and teachers.

First, a move to negate the communal - denominational approach to educational enterprise and to make intellectual dialogue among concerned teachers and post-graduate students of different religious and secular ideological faiths for exploring a new relevant common anthropology and social ethic in a pluralist India, central to the Christian college.

The teacher decides which picture the students need to understand, then they move together into action on it according the pace of the student's individual and the class's collective rhythm.

For teachers and students, and for the graduate student teaching assistants who were organizing as well, the issue was whether, in the event of a strike, classes should be moved off campus, so that no one would be crossing a picket line.

This being said, however, I must in all seriousness bemoan one very important omission, which seems to me to open the doors to those perplexing questions I referred to earlier: there is no greater and more moving passage about friendship than Augustine's description, in Book IV of the Confessions, of his «very dear» (but unnamed) friend, an acquaintance from childhood, a fellow student and then fellow teacher of rhetoric.

-- Critical concerns for docents, teachers and chaperones include times when students must cross busy streets, walk near moving traffic, visit public restrooms and utilize playground equipment in Sam Hicks Monument Park.

Most science teachers can give their students the definition of horsepower — one unit is generated when 550 pounds is moved one foot in one second.

After three short months of work, a committee of teachers, students, parents and administrators came to the school board earlier this month with a recommendation that Gunn move to the 75 - minute block model in August.

The teacher will also guide students in following directions and completing tasks together («Let's hold hands and move in a circle!»)

In informal conversations, Fong learned that teachers were concerned that some students with passing grades weren't ready to move on.

Tim's piano teacher from the past several years has moved back to the UK, so he has started working with another teacher; he says she is excellent, and she seems to like teaching an advanced and motivated student.

Miller Place is the first Long Island district to publicly acknowledge the posting of armed security personnel since the Feb. 14 shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that killed 17 students and teachers but other local systems are moving in that direction.

Standardized tests should be used as diagnostic tools to move children forward in their educational journey and not as a benchmark to stigmatize students and teachers.

Going forward, move toward basing teachers» and principals» ratings, in part, on a 3 - year average of student test scores.

«I believe long term in Common Core, and I believe the move to Common Core is exactly right,» said Cuomo, after he and the legislature agreed to delay the effects of the Common Core - related tests on students and teachers for another two years.

While the state Department of Education has claimed implementation of common core aims to better prepare students for college and careers, many parents and educators have criticized the move because they believe teachers are being forced to abandon true learning for «teaching to the test.»

Tisch said she opposed the move to «decouple» students» test scores from teachers» job ratings on grounds that it might detract from state efforts to improve instruction in low - performing school districts.

That is more information released than in prior years, a move the group says allows parents and teachers to view students» constructed responses and also give feedback.

An overhaul of federal education law moving through Congress — the biggest legislative change in 14 years — holds the prospect of a major shift in New York's contentious debate over the linkage of student test scores to teachers» job evaluations.

But her stance on Common Core could factor into Rosa's relationship with state Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, who has supported the move toward higher standards, as well as the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

«As schools and teachers move forward with implementation of the Common Core, I would expect, over time, educators will get more familiar with the standards, and they will get better at adapting their materials to the needs of their students.»

The move came after a raucous joint hearing at Wadleigh on 114th Street and Frederick Douglass Boulevard, held by Community Education Council 3 and the DOE, where politicians, parents, teachers, students and clergy vowed to take whatever steps were necessary to keep the school open.

On the same day that the Shadow Education Secretary will say that he wants to move away from «the narrow, «exam factory» vision of recent years a unique alliance of teachers, students, parents, local government representatives, governors, international experts and businesses has come together to produce a vision of what is being called Big Education.

Charter school leader Deborah Kenny's op - ed in today's The New York Times argues against the move by many states toward teacher evaluations based on multiple measures, including both student progress on achievement tests and the reviews of principals.

While many challenges exist for our schools, the hard work and support by state leaders, teachers, parents, students and communities continues to move us in the right direction.»

Then the tests are moved to an earlier date in April (even less time to teach) because this private company who we're paying big bucks to can't get the job done in time to evaluate the teachers and have the student information so we can properly place them.

70 percent of our students can not move on to universities and teacher education institutions even if they wanted to.

Jolan Nagi, a Richard R. Green parent, said the 600 - student school has been through a lot in the past few years, including the sudden death of a teacher, but the community has been getting excited about the prospect of moving to lower Manhattan.

With the start of the school year, the UFT is launching a radio ad campaign on Sept. 7 that features UFT President Michael Mulgrew calling on all New Yorkers to» join us and celebrate the talent, dedication and hard work of students and teachers as we move our public schools forward.»

Like so many other good teachers, Cantello says she has since kept in touch with former students, continuing to encourage them as they've moved on to college and careers.

After the yin portion is completed, teachers will get you in a comfortable position to relax, while certified level 1 reiki providers & SPY yoga instructors will connect with each student to help move some energy and find full relaxation.

Often students must master a certain level before being granted permission by the teacher to move onto the next level

Each of our teachers offer a different flavor to their classes and when a student (as we are all students) are working on different postures - it can be nice to get a few perspectives to feel reassurance we are moving in the correct direction.

Whilst living in London in the 1990s, I became an avid yoga student and, inspired by my two brilliant teachers (Liz Lark and Louise Reilly), I followed the path to teach yoga when I moved to New Zealand from 2000 - 2007.

The pacing of the class gives me, as the teacher, a chance to observe students — how they move, how they breathe — and guides the way I structure the rest of the class.

We are asking our students and teachers to join the challenge by creating a team under yoga moves MS and than send this request to friends and family.

There is a trend in yoga around adjustments - where a teacher approaches the student to change their form, and move them into some idea of a «correct» pose.

is the moving story of how Marshall University, its students, teachers, and members of the community were able to fight back after a horrible plane crash took the lives of their football team and supporters on November 14, 1970.

Though Tris and Four are constantly moving from one location to the next, they don't really accomplish anything of value, like students who are assigned busy work by a substitute teacher.

Potentially filling Sundance's quota for difficult relationships, Hannah Fidell (profiled in our IONCINEPHILE series) will have moved from the heated, self - deprecating rapport between prof and student in A Teacher (selected for the NEXT section in 2013) to a tumultuous, uphill / downhill portrait of couplehood in 6 Years.

Schools are also attempting to move away from teacher - centered learning environments, to student - centered collaborative environments that are supported by appropriate technology.

There is strong evidence that teachers moving between districts have the opportunity to teach higher - achieving, higher - income, nonminority students.

She looks at the classroom board, her eyes moving slowly over the words of a problem that her teacher projected there as the students came in from recess and sat down for their math lesson:

For example, at the start of the pilot, Linda Rogers, a teacher at Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, Calif., was already practicing the move of helping students hold themselves accountable, but found that the things she was doing weren't translating into increased learning gains for all of her students.

Asked to name a few, several people in the Ed School community talked about the academics — notably, the fact that she pushed through not just one but two new doctoral degree programs, and that she moved faculty and students to think about how their work will not only be admired by other academics, but will actually have an impact on real kids, real teachers, and real schools.

Our latest publication, «How to create higher performing, happier classrooms in 7 moves: A playbook for teachers,» offers to blended - learning classrooms an early iteration of what Doug Lemov's Teach Like A Champion gave to traditional classrooms: detailed descriptions of specific teacher moves that define high - quality, student - centered teaching.

Stations with self - guiding questions for reflection can be a great way to allow students to move through the writing process at their own pace, and the teacher can rotate through the stations, addressing small groups of students instead of the whole class.