Sentences with phrase «various teachers groups»

In securing endorsements from the various teachers groups, Avella said his campaign was sending a strong statement that the state's educators stand alongside him.

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There will also be information and training days for various groupings of people for whom the pro-life message is deeply relevant, like clerics and religious, teachers, medics, social workers.

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

In the middle of the last school year they hosted conversations with individuals and groups from the various sectors of the school: parents, teachers, founders, staff, board members, donors, and older students.

She has given presentations about breastfeeding and led support groups in various settings, including a half way house for incarcerated mothers, a crisis pregnancy center, a school for Montessori teachers, and at her church as part of the class attended by expecting and new parents in preparation for the baptism of their baby.

«A lot of various groups have gotten together over the past few months to organize this event,» said Kate Haq, Buffalo school parent and secretary of the parent teacher organization.

In fact, it works well when teachers meet with various groups throughout the week while the individual children are practicing reading.

It's imperative to understand that each space is inhabited by various teachers with a very specific — and different — group of students.

To explore various aspects of and perspectives on the problems in mathematics and science education, Education Week invited seven authorities on the subject — including representatives of government, professional groups, industry, and teacher education — to participate in a round - table discussion.

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.

In a model of stunning governmental efficiency, the group managed to «listen» to 2,100 New York students, teachers, parents, and various other stakeholders.

At the beginning of each school year, a group of teachers from various disciplines makes up a list of words for the entire year...

Therefore, we're training teachers to measure and pay attention to the range of learning styles in the group and to use various techniques to meet individual students» needs.

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 buzziGroup 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 buzzigroup... 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 buzzigroup... 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...

St. Louis has a strong public school cartel, an alliance of teachers union leaders, central board administrators, and various public - school interest groups that has an established routine for managing the schools and is typically skeptical of any proposal for change.

Teachers at this middle school have engaged in professional development on a range of instructional approaches including explicit academic vocabulary instruction, the use of sentence stems, and various structures for small group discussion.

In order to promote the integration of 21st century skills into all aspects of public education - professional development of teachers, curriculum, and assessment — the NEA has entered several partnerships with influential members of the business community and various educational groups.

Mr. Fernandez has given the districts until the end of this month to either adopt the teachers» guide, called «Children of the Rainbow, First Grade,» or propose alternatives that conform to the board of education's policy on educating to eliminate discrimination against various groups, including people with different sexual orientations.

School districts and teachers» unions don't negotiate on what the retirement benefit should look like or what level of benefit it should offer to various groups of teachers.

Includes: • map activities with place names • different calendars • comparing houses • Roman and Viking soldiers • language activities for the various groups Teachers» notes are also included.

The teacher found numerous SMEs at a local volunteer coalition involved in various aspects of cleaning the river, including one group developing a work of consciousness - raising art to be floated on a barge.

In growing the movement for integrated schools, participants at the Harvard conference discussed how various constituencies — civil - rights groups, business leaders, people of faith, students, and teachers unions — might support diversity.

There are examples of groups of teachers coming together to turn their schools around in various communities, and there's no reason to assume it can't happen here.

Such groupings allow the teachers the opportunity to differentiate as they move in and among the various groupings.

It is helpful for a teacher leader providing leadership in a group setting to demonstrate credibility based on familiarity with different constituents (e.g., the teachers, administrators, and community members on a curriculum committee) and knowledge of their various needs and interests.

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.

In this study, I examined the experiences of a group of secondary preservice teacher candidates (N = 38) who followed various Twitter hashtags for 1 hour and then reflected upon these experiences in a brief written reflection.

What to watch: Various stakeholder groups in Oklahoma expressed a desire to use federal funds on policy changes to elevate the teaching profession through recruitment; residency and mentoring; differentiated pay and other incentives; culturally relevant teaching; teacher leadership opportunities; and improvements to both the evaluation and licensure systems.

They also list all of the groups in the state they meet with throughout the year to discuss various issues, including Indiana Association of School Principals, Indiana Federation of Teachers, Indiana's Charter School Association and Indiana Small and Rural School Association, among others.

A significant need exists to enhance teachers» knowledge of mathematics content and instruction to address the learning needs of all students and to begin to ameliorate the performance differences between U.S. students and their international comparison groups, as well as between various subpopulations within the United States (Mullis et al., 2012; NCES, 2013).

Any teacher who has taken a group on a field trip, had students enter projects in a science fair, had a class garden, collected and measured the pH of various water sources, or any one of a thousand activities that involve students in studying and interacting with the real world around them, has conducted a project - based learning activity.

This study was conducted in two phases including focus groups to determine teachers» perceptions on the effectiveness of arts integration among their special needs populations and a pilot project that examined the efficacy of rubrics in measuring various skill areas.

The Center on Education Policy conducted five elementary teacher focus groups covering various classroom issues including the implementation of ESSA.

Many education policy makers and advocacy groups are busy using Twitter to disseminate various narratives about education and teacher preparation.

Because the term is interpreted differently by various groups, we took care when designing our measures to use descriptions of teacher approaches that are consistent with differentiated instruction but that did not use the term «differentiated instruction.»

The researchers recommend that professional development designers combine the various conditions: Start with discussions facilitated by outside leaders who help the teachers learn to use the rating instrument and then turn leadership of groups over to teachers.

Our teachers spend far less time evaluating and grouping students» needs, which means that teachers have more time to identify and apply various interventions for our mix of learners.

The hastily called hearing sought to be a forum for the various groups to air mounting concerns about implementation of the new standards and especially the new testing, which will not only gauge how much students have learned but will also be used in measuring teacher performance under the state's new evaluation guidelines.

I could see it happening during my visit as I wandered through CERAS to observe the various small groups holding their meetings: elementary school teachers («generalists») and literacy specialists, secondary school teachers of single subjects like math or social studies, all completely focused and engaged.

Then there is the «Advancement Project,» a group heavily funded by billionaire globalist George Soros which has ties to various teachers unions.

This document represents the work of a team of educators representing various grant projects and organizations, including: KyNT3 — Network to Transform Teaching administered through the Educational Professional Standards Board, Instructional Transformation Grant administered through the Kentucky Department of Education, CTL — the Collaborative for Teaching and Learning, The Fund for Transforming Education in Kentucky, the Kentucky Education Association, Hope Street Group, and the Bluegrass Center for Teacher Quality.

Teacher training programs in Delaware focus on specific age groups, various subjects, and exceptional student needs.

That's why my organization, the Education Trust, recently invited over 150 black teachers to join us for a series of focus groups in various parts of the country (Griffin & Tackie, 2016).

The toolkit also offers specific action strategies for various role groups, including community members, teachers, principals, district officials, and policymakers.

What is it like for students to learn in various environments — public schools, private schools, charter schools, boarding schools, in homogenous settings, with a multi-cultural group of peers and teachers?

Members of our group are actively engaged in teacher research, though in various stages, from defining questions to collecting data, to analyzing and going public with what we have learned.

Using the comments of each teacher across the three interviews, the study group meeting notes, study group action plans, facilitator logs, and the end - of - year reports, we built a scale indicating the degree to which a school was perceived to be implementing the various components of the school change framework (see Table 5).

Practice What You Teach follows three different groups of educators to explore the challenges of developing and supporting teachers» sense of social justice and activism at various stages of their careers: White pre-service teachers typically enrolled in most teacher education programs, a group of new teachers attempting to integrate social justice into their teaching, and experienced educators who see their teaching and activism as inextricably linked.

Over the course of a year, a working group, comprised mostly of teachers but also including various other stakeholders, sat side - by - side with Insight consultants and developed an Instructional Framework from scratch.

These are groups formed for a short period of time (2 - 4 wks usually) and formed around a strategy that students from various groups are having difficulty with Teachers often pushed back when I recommended the text for the book be at a decodability appropriate for the groups lowest performing member.