Sentences with phrase «watching teachers teach»

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»

I would like to go into the school myself and attend some of the classes and watch the teachers teaching and talk to some of the teachers and students.

Late in their teacher preparation experience, when students are deemed «ready» to teach, they are sent for a brief stint in a classroom, where the experience can be as meaningless as grading papers while watching a teacher teach.

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After watching 17 of their classmates and teachers be shot dead in just minutes, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas — and other schools around the country — taught us all a lesson in leadership.

Instead of teaching to the lowest common denominator or watching the smartest kids complete their work and put their heads down with nothing else to do, the teacher is able to track, react, and adjust the information being provided to each student — as needed and on the fly.

Enjoy watching your capable, experienced teachers as they work with youngsters 20 months to 14 years, knowing that they're teaching not only art, but the ability to focus and to make independent decisions — a skill many adults lack!

Watch a few asanas taught by Senior Iyengar Yoga Teacher John Schumacher.

What makes Teach: Tony Danza worth watching are the teenagers themselves and the glimpses of other teachers who make the place work.

This is intimidating for many teachers, but the benefits of allowing your literacy coach to watch you teach are worth the discomfort.

Though Raybon is an English language arts (ELA) teacher, she's integrating more civics into her class this year as she has watched students struggle — more than ever in her 13 years of teaching — to make sense of current events.

Due to the interest from teachers, the stories have been turned into videos which can be shown on the class room white board and used as a teaching aid or watched on a laptop or tablet.

Ray Boyd: Initially we got teachers into the process of having another staff member actually watch them, watch them teach.

Also watch Madeline Noonan, a fifth grade teacher, host an effective morning meeting on the Teaching Channel.

Craig Kemp (@mrkempnz) describes risk - taking as a «culture of learning» and shares strategies from classrooms around the globe that are helping to normalize struggle including, «support, encourage, model (let them teach the class)», «encourage teachers to make mistakes so students see it is OK» and «provide plenty of choices to watch their inner genius interpret what to do.»

But my advice to my sister is the same as my advice to myself: ask more - experienced teachers to watch you teach and evaluate your teaching, go watch them teach, ask them for suggestions.

So what we did was, and it was a long process it didn't happen overnight, initially we got teachers into the process of having another staff member actually watch them, watch them teach.

Giving teachers control of a camera, the opportunity to watch themselves teach, and allowing them to discuss their videos talk with external observers, peers and supervisors will provide be a more effective mirror than any observer's written notes.

In my new position as a gifted resource teacher, I now have the opportunity to watch a handful of teachers, in a handful of different grades, teach each day.

Some celebrity teachers have had documentaries filmed in their classroom, which allow you to watch them teach and learn about their projects.

A principal's impact on the quality of the teaching staff (whether negative or positive), for example, probably increases over time as the share of teachers who were hired on her watch rises.

Having watched his father teach his entire life, Solis says he knew what he was getting into and, in order to succeed, he needed to create a coalition with other teachers in which to learn.

While we continue to develop daring new live experiences for young audiences, we are working with artists to capture and offer «virtual performances» so students and teachers outside of NYC can watch BAM performances at their local cinema, on their computers or devices, participate in virtual workshops with BAM teaching artists, and access BAM's extensive archive and library of educational resources.

Watch how one teacher used a rubbish bin and some paper to teach his students a lesson about how privilege works.

You can watch a teacher and her advisory students in the fourth Envision Education Deeper Learning video from The Teaching Channel.

For example, on the Teach Like a Champion blog, watch how math teacher Taryn Pritchard uses an observation sheet, and note her description of how she pre-plans to assess students» mastery levels in only ten seconds.

We all know a teacher we admire, but are we watching too many of them yelling in state houses and on the picket line to continue to trust the teaching force as a whole?

In sharing a classroom, beginning teachers, working in cohorts, will learn specifically how to plan and critique lessons by watching their mentors teach and then having seasoned veterans watch their own teaching practices.

There are practical challenges, like finding time for teachers to plan together and watch each other teach.

Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers about the frequency of visiting another teacher's classroom to watch him or her teach; having a colleague observe their classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a colleague to get advice about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).

While attending a father's day back - to - school event at his youngest daughter Debbie's school in 1953, he watched with the other fathers from the back of the class as her teacher taught fourth - grade arithmetic.

Our literacy coaches have also recorded themselves teaching a lesson and then had the teachers watch and discuss the strategies used and instructional decisions made by the coach during the lesson.

What to watch: The PDE will use Title II, Part A funds to continue supporting current initiatives, such as two promising grant programs: One promotes partnerships between LEAs and EPPs to improve their teachers» ability to serve low - income and minority students and a second dedicates funding for high - quality clinical experiences, particularly for educators teaching in high - need areas.

To make it easy for teachers to watch, share, and learn new techniques to help every student grow, Performance Matters has partnered with Teaching Channel.

The PDE has also proposed several new initiatives worth watching as they develop, including: a statewide teacher recruitment initiative aimed at high school students; a pathway to teaching specifically for paraprofessionals; pilot programs for improving mentoring and induction; and initiatives to improve the diversity of the workforce.60

«The only way I'm going to get better at teaching is to watch real teachers in action — not to mock bad teachers, but to closely observe good ones and learn from them,» she says at Gatsby in LA, her blog, where she is chronicling her experiences.

Consistent with the TeachStrong coalition's ESSA guidance for state actors, these states are leveraging ESSA's flexibility to support efforts around recruiting teachers of color; improving the teacher preparation experience; providing induction and mentoring to novice teachers; increasing teacher pay; and creating or encouraging career pathways, with the goal of ensuring that all students — and especially students in low - income schools — are taught by high - quality, prepared, meaningfully supported teachers.2 The author also notes what other initiatives and actions policymakers and advocates should watch for and consider as they work to modernize and elevate the teaching profession.

Teachers watch a colleague teach a lesson, then debrief together about what they observed both teacher and students saying and doing, providing constructive feedback.

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.

Teachers and administrators then watch each other teach and provide constructive feedback.

Their mission of creating «an environment where teachers can watch, share, and learn new techniques to help every student grow» 2 dovetails perfectly with the Performance Matters mission of delivering world - class professional learning solutions to accelerate measurable improvements in learning and teaching.

Watch last week's new Teacher Support in an Opportunity Culture video — drawn from our interviews with teachers and multi-classroom leaders, who just couldn't stop talking about the long - awaited support they get and give to help everyone extend great teaching to all their students.

Watch one way that a teacher focuses children on the thinking skill compare as she develops the geometric concept of quadrilaterals with phase II instruction in the explicit teaching model which is aligned with several of the teacher's Common Core aligned state standards.

I have had to watch over the past 20 years, teachers be stripped of what they love to do - teach with expression and creativity.

The teachers watched the consultant work with their own students and they left with specific next steps for their own teaching.

After watching 6th grade teacher Andrea Smith teach her students what it meant to divide by fractions, Eric wondered, «could powerful learning experiences be captured so that teachers didn't have to re-invent the wheel every time they taught a standard?»

Because an immediate response is not necessary when watching a tape of their teaching, videotapes afford teachers the luxury of being able to engage in reflection once a lesson has transpired (Sherin, 2000).

Watch Maryland's National Teacher of the Year, Michelle Shearer, teach science concepts using a variety of strategies tailored to the different learning styles and needs of her high school students.

I Have to Leave LAUSD... Teaching Ate Me Alive City Watch: A teacher explains why he's leaving the profession: «It wasn't one single incident that made me quit teaching in a public middleTeaching Ate Me Alive City Watch: A teacher explains why he's leaving the profession: «It wasn't one single incident that made me quit teaching in a public middleteaching in a public middle school.

Over the last six years I've watched dozens of talented, intelligent teachers leave the public schools in the Bronx neighborhood where I teach.

These raters» testimonials — unsolicited by us — that using the MQI and watching video had resulted in important changes in their own teaching led us to think about using the instrument in a similar way with classroom teachers.