Sentences with phrase «values teacher learning»

Create a school structure that values teacher learning.

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This principle of value in and for itself is violated when what are termed liberal studies (and what may be so for other students) are pursued for the purpose of becoming a professional in liberal learning (as scholar and teacher).

Helping students make the shift in attitude that Sommers describes can seem daunting in our current educational climate, where performance is valued over learning, and where parents and teachers often resort to questionable motivational techniques («if you don't do well, you'll end up working at McDonald's») to encourage students.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

Through each page, parents, teachers, child - care providers, babysitters, and grandparents will feel empowered to see play - based learning's value in common household items and scenarios.

Promote the parent as the child's first most important teacher for helping children not only acquire necessary academic skills and knowledge as well as teaching and sharing values, encouraging and supporting creativity and fostering curiosity and a love for learning.

Research indicates that any Value Added Measure (VAM) that utilizes one measurement to an inordinate level such as the 50 % suggested by the Governor is ineffective in correlating a teacher's effectiveness as it relates to student learning.

Over the years that I have been teaching, I have learnt many of the values that underpin being a teacher besides just teaching.

It's challenging for me to find a moment to relax, yet as a yoga teacher, I've learned firsthand the irreplaceable value of quieting the body and mind.

Growth mindset teachers see the challenge as an opportunity for students to learn when their efforts and mistakes are highly valued.

Furthermore, the classroom culture that teachers create is what gives real - world relevance and value to what students are learning online.

Olinger, STEAM teacher and social entrepreneur, gives an insightful strategy for learning about what students value and then teaching in ways that will engage them by appealing to those values.

A second study, recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Gary Chamberlain, using the same data as Chetty and his colleagues, provides fodder both for skeptics and supporters of the use of value - added: while confirming Chetty's finding that the teachers who have impacts on contemporaneous measures of student learning also have impacts on earnings and college going, Chamberlain also found that test - scores are a very imperfect proxy for those impacts.

Ever since the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) manifesto was launched in 2008, highlighting the powerful educational value of school trips, when asked whether the benefits of taking pupils on educational visits outweigh concerns over cost and safety, teachers and instructors have always answered with a resounding «yes».

In the ASG survey, 84 per cent of parents said they felt their child's school values their involvement in their child's learning and 83 per cent attend parent - teacher interviews and consultations.

Teacher practice is a core area to focus on, but without naming and valuing the structural conditions which support teachers to develop these pedagogical skills, the promise of deeper learning can't be realized.

The board tries to clarify these standards by explaining, for instance, that «commitment» is interpreted as meaning that «accomplished mathematics teachers value and acknowledge the individuality and worth of each student, believe that all students can learn,» and so on.

Guest blogger Heidi A. Olinger, STEAM teacher and social entrepreneur, gives an insightful strategy for learning about what students value and then teaching in ways that will engage them by appealing to those values.

The most effective teachers we see are using an interactive, multi-disciplinary approach that values and involves students at all phases of curriculum from choice of content and learning strategies to assessment.

The most sophisticated approach uses a statistical technique known as a value - added model, which attempts to filter out sources of bias in the test - score growth so as to arrive at an estimate of how much each teacher contributed to student learning.

New teachers from good education programs recognize the value of teaching and learning from each other.

PLCs go a step beyond professional development by providing teachers with not just skills and knowledge to improve their teaching practices but also an ongoing community that values each teacher's experiences in their own classrooms and uses those experiences to guide teaching practices and improve student learning (Vescio et al., 2008).

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

As tablet technology unlocks a wealth of new teaching and learning opportunities, it's vitally important that teachers have the support to integrate and adopt the technology correctly, enabling them to gain maximum value from the school's investment.»

But the Qudwa Forum also expected teachers to be passionate and compassionate; to encourage students» engagement and responsibility; to respond effectively to students of different needs, backgrounds and languages; to provide continual assessments of students and meaningful feedback; to promote collaborative learning, tolerance and social cohesion; and to ensure that students feel valued and included.

Teachers and students recognised real value in project based learning.

They said they valued the relationships they'd made, and «even the learning,» but felt the school day was «structured to the needs of teachers and sports teams,» he said.

Teacher librarian Craig Seasholes of the Washington Library Media Association made this video advocating for the value of libraries as a vital resource for student learning.

The principles of professional learning and training for teachers and principals that were advocated valued the centrality of dialogical conversations with educators as the core of professional development.

According to the interpretation in the NYT and LA Times, it would be correct to say «teachers who care about student problems tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who spend a lot of time on test prep.»

Teachers are not on «the side» of anything; they are smack in the middle of effective learning, which is why a MOOC may radically increase the volume of knowledge transfer but will never replace face - to - face interaction with equal value for the individual student.

One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.

She could learn about his work linking value - added measurement (VAM) scores of teachers to their students» long - term life outcomes

The teacher is freed to add significantly more value by serving as a learning coach, mentor, and much more — including by bringing students together to have important discussions and apply their learning with other students at all levels of learning where that is appropriate.

It is a crucial means to organize and transform the work of faculty, teachers, librarians, independent scholars and learners to create, curate, and enhance content to add value and coherence to what students learn.

Learn about the gestures that touch educators hearts as Education World talks with teachers this week about what makes them feel honored and valued.

Teachers should be rewarded for producing useful student outcomes, most notably, student learning gains, measured by value - added standards (i.e., improvement) rather than by levels of achievement at the end of a course.

We will also learn a lot about what schools and teachers in different countries are doing to promote the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values that make people globally competent.»

According to the research, any value gained through smaller classes gets more than offset by the hit students take when many fewer of them have great teachers, and many more of them have ineffective teachers — ones who induce far less than a year's worth of student learning growth.

We know that in schools where teachers are trusted and their voices are valued, learning becomes everyone's job.

Tracey Mackin, Director of Curriculum and Pedagogy, adds: «Quite early on we latched onto the recognition that if any report is going to have any value for students across multiple year levels... it needs to be focused and specific enough to prompt questions, and to get the student talking to the teacher, or their parents, about what they might need to support their future [learning].

This is reinforced by the results of the Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS) which show that, in countries where teachers believe their profession is valued, there are higher levels of student achievement.

Crellin recognizes this and works hard to make sure that their learning partners feel appreciated and valued by both students and teachers.

We excluded kindergarten and first - grade teachers because earlier achievement exams were not available for their students; this prevented us from developing a «value - added» measure of student learning.

Over my 35 - year career as a public school teacher and educator at Expeditionary Learning, I have been obsessed with collecting student work of remarkable quality and value.

To me, the value of a Web 2.0 tool is in its ability to enhance the student's learning experience, and allows teachers to be inspired to cultivate learning in a purposeful, dynamic way.

Learning in HPE is enhanced when primary teachers are aware of the five interrelated propositions underpinning the Australian Curriculum: HPE; focussing on the educative purposes, developing health literacy, including a critical inquiry approach, taking a strengths based approach and valuing movement.

This bundle provides teachers with a progression for the learning of place value and practice games and activities to gain a strong foundational understanding of the number system upon which all else is built.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...