Sentences with phrase «teachers share materials»

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Besides providing school curriculum, Amazon also has created a tool for teachers to gather and share their own materials and course work, in addition to service that teachers can use to tell parents what school supplies their children will need.

«The NGSS represent a daunting challenge, but I think NSTA has the expertise on staff to give teachers the professional development and the course materials they need, as well as the opportunities to share information with their peers.

Another teacher used an interactive whiteboard to share classroom materials with students at home.

One of our teaching fellows just returned from the South Pole and will be designing curriculum materials to share with teachers nationwide.

Open source digital textbooks, which contain free, typically changeable material that can be shared between teachers, have been in the works for several years and are just one part of a larger movement to transform learning through the use of technology.

«Technology provides great platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials.

«The shared mission of the four parts of the University of Cambridge who established this project and their unique breadth of experience — from curriculum design and learning materials to teacher support and mathematical insight — is giving the Cambridge Mathematics team the means to turn the insights from their work into practical impact for teachers and students around the world.»

The free - to - access lesson plans, student worksheets and digital libraries celebrate the success of Indigenous land management programs, while providing teachers with classroom - ready material that helps students explore our shared histories, cultures and achievements.

Teachers, instructional designers, educational institutions, companies, and even organizations have started to heavily rely on the use of social media in formal learning, to share practices, promote information and educational material, share opinions, views and comments, embodying them in training programs and individual courses.

This year, we've got Andrew Coy, senior advisor for making in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, sharing why making is critical in schools today; Alixandra Klein, a Vermont - based entrepreneur who makes jewelry using a laser cutter and upcycled materials, talking about the importance of art and creativity; and Dr. Jorge Valdes of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (and also a high school science teacher here in New Jersey) discussing intellectual property, patents, and the inventor's mindset.

Both invite students to reflect on the material presented during class and share their observations with the teacher.

Students are more likely to report that their teacher confers with them regularly, checking to see if they understand new material and inviting them to share their insights and ideas.

On these open - source sites, materials created and reviewed by educators are shared under a Creative Commons license, which means other teachers may use and adapt the content for free.

Part way through the day, Jaya noticed that the parents had stopped quietly organizing books, and were listening to the presentation, engaging in pair - shares with each other about the prompts that the presenter offered the teachers, and browsing over the shoulders of teachers to read their materials.

The participants, all representing schools sharing in the $ 1 billion in annual grants from the federal initiative, applauded the program for pumping what recipients say are sorely needed resources into instructional materials, teacher training, and support services for struggling elementary schools.

RH: And is the plan that those materials can then be shared with their next grade - level teacher, or for college admissions?

Mentor teachers should share ready - to - use materials and avoid responding to problems with the phrase, «That would never happen in my class.»

The same goes for teachers, who should definitely share educational materials and links with students using Twitter as the main platform.

Blogs are maintained by an individual, in our case a teacher or student, who writes a post, or regular entry, sharing a commentary, description of an event, or other audio - visual material such as a video.

The book contains a wide range of tasks, activities and 10 complete lesson / project plans that teachers can use to help students understand visually presented information, how and why the information was collected, research and check the validity of the sources on which the information was based and think about and share how the materials relate to their own lives.

A Canadian travel photographer with a passion for U.S. historic sites and presidential history is sharing his visual archive to allow students and teachers to illustrate their reports and classroom materials.

Any teacher can join for free, manage her lesson plans, organize teaching materials, and share (or not) with her school, a wider professional learning community, or the entire world.

In addition to sharing tips and material, master teachers also open up their classrooms for a film crew to visually capture what their teaching looks like.

Now, a host of new web sites, from A to Z Teacher Stuff to Lesson Planet to Lessonopoly, are trying to solve that problem and make it easier for teachers to share, find, and make better use of lesson plans and accompanying materials.

While it is best to hold regular grade - level meetings with teachers in your school, and even your district, curriculum sharing websites are re-defining the realms teachers can explore to find new methods and materials.

It cuts out the textbook, allowing teachers to share and modify course materials freely, anywhere in the world.

With a former Stanford classmate, Westendorf built a Web portal where teachers could share materials, resources, and instructional videos for math and English language arts instruction in grades 2 — 12.

I'm thinking of platforms for collaboration in knowledge creation, where teachers can share and enrich teaching materials; of the amount of data that can be collected to measure students» learning; or of the increasing use of blended learning models in teachers» training, in which online lectures are combined with individualized expert support and feedback from peers.

Morgan pledged to «provide an online digital platform where teachers can share best practice about character education, evaluate new ideas and find online professional development materials - as well as sharing their own data to build a proper evidence base.»

Teachers are encouraged to download fully comprehensive lesson plans, presentations and materials to share with their pupils and get them excited about good oral hygiene and brushing their teeth.

The platform provides countless ways for teachers to create engaging lessons and resources, makes teacher collaboration and sharing of materials easy, and automates routine tasks so teachers have more time to focus on their students.

Since 2007, the website has offered teachers a global community to share materials and develop curriculum together.

The system introduced in Clintondale assumed that at - home students would get to know the materials recorded and shared with them by the teachers and their previous homework assignments would be solved during classes under the teacher's supervision.

These projects have enabled teachers from across district and state lines to share materials with one another.

Its main characteristic is the fact that students learn before class from materials prepared and shared by a teacher.

Teachers have shared training opportunities, observed each others» lessons and exchanged teaching materials.

Second, allow teachers to have a hand in developing and improving the shared materials they'll use in classrooms.

A limited body of experimental evidence does suggest that teachers, in allocating class time, interacting with students, and designing class materials, are more favorably disposed toward students who share their racial or ethnic background.

So, creating platforms to allow teachers to share the resources they have designed should drive up the quality of instructional materials while also driving down their cost.

In addition, the materials and webinars developed for the shared leadership aspect of the project and agendas and materials from the various meetings (with teachers in each region, with higher education groups, with higher education and P - 12 groups, and with state agencies) will be available on the CO ASCD website.

Could today's technology have helped me and my cohort of teacher trainees more easily share the materials that we spent so much time developing?

Directed by the teacher, expert groups share information from their examination of materials, which leads students to uncover the significance of the Gettysburg Address.

Two teachers and their students sharing the same space, furniture, books, materials, and bulletin boards — orderly chaos on a daily basis!

Through the professional development program, teachers created thousands of teaching materials, including lesson plans and learning activities, which were freely accessible on the TPSNVA website for teachers anywhere to share, use, and rate.

What do teachers do who are used to sharing only worksheets, tests, homework assignments, and other materials?

This 4 - year program, situated within the IdGlobal Project at Project Zero, will also support a group of up to ten Globalizing the Classroom Teacher Fellows through the development of materials and instructional units that: 1) incorporate HARC's content and PZ's frameworks; 2) are pilot tested and documented in the classroom; and 3) will be shared on GSOC's and Project Zero's websites for broader dissemination.

As Jeffrey Litt, the leader of New York City's Icahn Charter Schools, has pointed out, schools that go through this communal process can foster real collaboration among teachers, enabling them to build on one another's strengths and reduce their workloads by sharing materials.

Teachers can record audios to share additional information and revision materials with students to download and review at a time that is convenient for them.

One LIFT superintendent shared that adopting stronger materials has allowed teachers to spend their time preparing lessons, improving their content knowledge, and collaboratively planning with other teachers to ensure their instruction is of the highest quality — rather than spending that time online searching for materials.

The training will be driven by teachers» individual needs, will be ongoing and will include online platforms to allow teachers to share material.