Sentences with phrase «through teacher groups»

Others organize through teacher groups that directly influence education policy.

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Sometimes it can feel that way and then again I am like another mom said I in two different groups I have a lot of teachers and friends that I know through my older kids and then others that know me strictly through my younger kids so that is a little weird.

Officials will be working with parents, teachers and principals through focus groups to gain feedback on how the school day should be structured.

Your child will blossom through small and large group instruction with caring, nurturing, Christian teachers.

«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

New York State United Teachers, with local unions and advocacy groups, announced Thursday an upcoming effort to lobby Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the state Legislature, the state Education Department and the Board of Regents to end testing in pre-kindergarten through second grade.

Through my experience in schools and talking in particular to head teachers, I saw that there is a group of young people who aren't just disadvantaged economically.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

Children who participate in collaborative group work to learn about significant social issues become better decision - makers than their peers who learn the same curriculum through teacher - led discussions, a new study finds.

Another key point that came through in the focus groups was that the support of principals and school administrators was absolutely vital for teachers to feel this sense of collective efficacy.

In popular vinyasa or flow yoga classes, the teacher leads a group of students through a series of yoga postures linked together with continuous movement and -LSB-...]

Teachers make the world go around One of the best ways to build your yoga practice is through private sessions or small group sessions.

You will receive personal coaching, participate in brilliant group discussions and refine your skills as a teacher through teaching practicums and guiding each other in meditation, yoga asana, breathwork and yoga nidra.

She was a recent teacher trainee in a group I lead through a modified yoga teacher version of my Retreat to Your Root in Nicaragua.

Over the course of 30 or 60 consecutive days, you will build confidence and strengthen skills through a highly individualized program with responsive teachers and a supportive group of fellow trainees.

Useless to discuss at length, The Chorus is essentially another in a line of literally dozens of films in which an inspirational teacher changes the lives of a group of troubled / lower - class / underestimated children through will, kindness, and a rogue spark of crinkly - eyed genius that irks to no end the evil dean / headmaster / school board / community.

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.

The Project will provide follow - up support to the teachers who complete the course through the use of videotaping and school - based inquiry groups.

Furthermore, we need to support teachers so they understand how effective differentiation can be achieved through a team - taught learning environment, utilising small group workshops which drive the overall learning intentions.

Curriki hosts thousands of educator - vetted, openly licensed, online educational resources and allows for the creation of groups through which students and teachers can collaborate.

Next comes the «we do,» where the teacher can ask students to go through an activity as a whole group.

One of the teenagers, listening to the pitch for Deeper Learning Collaborative — a consultant group that brings instructional leaders together to spread deeper learning through their school via coaching and teacher collaboration — pointed out that many systems have teachers with little interest in getting better.

A composite measure on teacher effectiveness drawing on all three of those measures, and tested through a random - assignment experiment, closely predicted how much a high - performing group of teachers would successfully boost their students» standardized - test scores, concludes the series of new papers, part of the massive Measures of Effective Teaching study launched more than three years ago.

These companies, which manage over 16,000 school trips from the UK each year, were able to guide groups and teachers through any problems that they may have experienced as a result of not being able to cross the Channel on the expected date.

Teachers helped students select a spider of interest, guiding them through their research, and students worked independently, in pairs, or in small groups to pull together facts about their featured spider and create a spider model.

The teacher can guide students through a lesson, launch the same app on all devices at the same time, or launch different apps for groups of students.

Through personal purchase, through parent - teacher groups, through grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computeThrough personal purchase, through parent - teacher groups, through grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough parent - teacher groups, through grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough grants, through business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough business partnerships, through parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough parental contacts, through fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough fund raising, and through classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computethrough classroom supply budgets, brilliant teachers amazingly amass digital cameras and clickers and sensors and classroom computer labs.

Now imagine that while the teacher is doing small - group instruction on decoding and such, the other children rotate through stations, including an online video station.

Children can develop their knowledge of THE FRANCOPHONE WORLD - and through guided whole - group discussion - their home / host country too, in a cooperative, communicative and interactive way, in part independently of the teacher.

One benefit of pursuing education reform through the judiciary is that the power of special interest groups — namely, the teachers» unions — is drastically diminished in courtrooms, where political lobbying and campaign contributions are far less influential.

Villaraigosa had to negotiate with statewide teacher groups since they continue to sway Democratic legislators through old alliances and rich campaign contributions.

Based on the literature reviews, observations in the schools and meetings with the departments at the Ministry of Education, the team presented several key policy considerations to the Ministry: (1) utilize a website, the National Play Day, and the Jamaican Teaching Council as platforms from which educators can develop and share best game - based learning practices; (2) promote a culture of collaboration through the Quality Education Circles (local discussion groups for educators), and by allocating time for teachers to develop and share game - based learning strategies; (3) provide resource support for schools in the form of workshops and training; and (4) create a monitoring and evaluation plan to be conducted at the school level.

Each year I hosted an afternoon training [session] with my grade - level team that began with a group meeting and ended with parents rotating through teachers rooms and the school office learning various activities like using the copier, working with small groups, and conducting fluency testing.

With a smaller number of students at any one time, teachers can focus on pushing the ratio of higher order thinking through Socratic seminars and other targeted strategies of instruction only possible in a small group setting.

«The whole point of the project is to allow kids to get to know each other before they go through their exchange,» says Trevena, who initiated the project after a dinner conversation with a group of teachers from both Modesto's school district and the Japanese school.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

Although most of EVC's work is with teachers and students, their parents, friends, and community members join in the dialog during end - of - term screenings of student work and through portfolio roundtables during which students present and comment on their work to a small group of teachers, peers, EVC staff, and others.

Teachers can select specific questions or let pupils work through a range of questions in pairs or groups.

Teacher Training: Staff Development Through Peer Mentoring K - 12 teachers can be a challenging group to train.

Arts Group Launches Teacher Web Site Arts Integration Solutions, the education services arm of the Opening Minds through the Arts Foundation (OMA), has launched an interactive arts integration training and resources Web site for teachers, artists and school teams.

Allen's 2014 book, Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality, grew out of her experience leading a group of low - income night - school students through a line - by - line reading of the Declaration — what she has called a transformative experience in her career as a teacher.

High school teachers also are required to plan together, and walk - throughs showed which ones were not participating in group planning, said Clark.

Teachers can maintain groups within Apple Classroom and instantaneously see how certain groups are progressing through the assigned task.

He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - school route.

They report that prominent organizations such as the National Research Council and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workTeachers of Mathematics, for at least the last three decades, have «called for teachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group workteachers to engage students in constructing their own new knowledge through more hands - on learning and group work.»

The teacher should think through what the project requires students to do, both in terms of academic tasks (such as writing an editorial, creating a poster, summarizing an argument) and in terms of the process of completing the project (discussing ideas and making choices in a group, giving constructive feedback on others» work, or making an oral presentation).

Our group included teachers from kindergarten through high school, ages twenties through sixties, fourteen women and one man.

Children can develop their knowledge of SPAIN AND SPANISH - and through guided whole - group discussion - their home / host country too, in a cooperative, communicative and interactive way, in part independently of the teacher.

These groups expose students and teachers to the world of work through school - to - career programs and internships.

Michael McDowell, who trains teachers on managing group dynamics through the New Technology Foundation, a ten - year - old nonprofit organization that helps communities replicate the New Tech model nationwide, says teamwork is one of the greatest challenges project - learning teachers face.