Sentences with phrase «week of effective teaching»

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Formerly called «Future Faculty Fellows Apprenticeship,» the program provides training sessions that introduce effective teaching strategies, and guide participants through the development and teaching of a 10 - week course.

Four - or eight - week intensive programs provide tools for current and new teachers of Japanese language, with an emphasis on an effective methodology for teaching Japanese to North American learners.

Over recent weeks, educators across the nation have struggled to develop balanced information and effective teaching strategies to help students understand the historical, religious, and cultural context of the war in Iraq.

My good friend Jay Greene is back this week with yet another assault on the Gates Foundation and its Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project, the final results of which appeared on Tuesday.

With only one teacher and given the difficulty of learning and mastering the language, P.S. 191's School Leadership Team determined that teaching just one class per week in each grade wouldn't be as effective, she said.

This is an obvious swipe at Teach for America, the program that turns out effective teachers despite the fact they go through an initial training for just five to seven weeks and avoid years of useless education school blather.

Our team of coaches meets for about three hours each week to delve into the latest research on school leadership, effective teaching strategies, the change process, and the craft of coaching.

And we can not even begin to question the dedication of teachers and the obscene amount of hours worked in an academic year, I'm no mathematician but just a quick calculation would indicate the average teacher works 60 hours per week, based upon this very broad assumption it's possible to suggest the average teacher works approximately 2000 + hours during an academic year, so it does beg the question, considering the Maxwell Curve; How much more effective and «healthy» would the teaching profession become if the principle of «less is more» underpinned it's mantra?

As Dropout Nation noted last week in its report on teacher evaluations, even the most - rigorous classroom observation approaches are far less accurate in identifying teacher quality than either value - added analysis of test score data or even student surveys such as the Tripod system used by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as part of its Measures of Effective Teaching project.

Factors considered important to the reform included the following: (a) meeting for 1 hour a week in study groups; (b) meeting in cross-grade groups; (c) reflecting on teaching in study groups; (d) considering research - based «best practices» in study groups; (e) completing action plans in study groups; (f) selecting substantive topics for study; (g) maintaining topics over time; (h) meeting as a whole faculty once a month to discuss reform efforts; (i) working on parent partnerships and making effective use of the external facilitator; and (j) making effective use of the internal leadership team.

The idea is gaining traction nationally, however, with the release this week of the final report of the massive Measures for Effective Teaching (MET) research project conducted by the Bill & Belinda Gates Foundation, which looked at a variety of ways of evaluating teachers.

But EEF found mastery appeared to be «more effective when used as an occasional or additional teaching strategy» because impact fell for longer periods of over 12 weeks.

Course content: — Research - based program typically taught as a 12 week course — Education & Research on BPD — Skills training for families based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy — Relationship Mindfulness — Effective Communication — Validation — Development of a Support Network

During the second week, a teach session of PDI was conducted followed by four coaching sessions in which the therapist actively coached the mother on using effective commands and implementing the time out procedures.