Sentences with phrase «well as their classroom teachers»

An author, editor, and adjunct professor, as well as a classroom teacher, Stedman has studied and traveled extensively in the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, and Mongolia.

She also encourages her players to seek feedback from coaches as well as their classroom teachers, as a result fostering communications skills that will help them succeed in their academic endeavors.

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In fact, last year the government added one such credit — for teachers» classroom supplies — while dropping four as of Jan. 1 2017, including the children's fitness and arts credits, as well as the education and textbook credits for students.

The Academy is in the midst of a growth spurt offline as well, with an excess of 1 million registered teachers around the globe incorporating the supplemental teaching tool into their classrooms.

The autism wing at Double Churches Middle School was expanded to include five full Marcus Model classrooms as well as three additional full - time teachers and six paraprofessionals.

In this view, classroom space becomes the place for a creative interplay of forces, where ideas, as well as teachers and students, come alive.

Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

Overall, it can indeed be challenging and disheartening for a parent to have a child who does not easily or happily leave each day for school because of their sensitivity or adaptability to a formal classroom setting; you'll feel better if you and your child's teacher can work together as a team.

If the kids seem happy and interact well with the teacher, chances are good that the teacher's classroom style will be a fit for your child as well.

At Scholar's Choice, we want to make sure we are supporting teachers in the classroom through the products we offer as well as through the advice and free resources we provide on our Community Blog.

The toolkit continues with fact sheets addressing common questions about breakfast in the classroom, as well as a brief breakdown of the roles of various stakeholders; teachers, as well as custodians and school nutrition staff.

At best, the harvest of salad greens (for example) can make a nice big salad that every student in one classroom can enjoy as part of a class lesson (and here the teacher's creativity comes into play — the lesson can be math, with the kids figuring what percentage of the salad is romaine and what percent arugula, or it can be science, or even spelling.)

This event, where parents visit their child's school shortly after school starts in the fall, is a chance to tour the classroom and meet the teacher as well as other parents.

Her uniquely effective parenting and teaching strategies were developed through her years of training in sociology, special education, and philosophy, as well as field - tested through her experiences as a classroom teacher, laboratory school instructor, university instructor, seminar leader, volunteer in Rwanda, and mother of three grown children.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

But personal best is something that we want children to understand and to measure themselves against rather than having society or teachers or classrooms always hold up perfectionism as a goal or a standard for children or teens.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

As a result, they know how to interact properly with their teachers, the staff and their fellow students, turning their school and their classrooms into a better place.

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

Families were invited to visit their classrooms, theatre and playground, as well as chat with teachers and administrators on the morning of February 3 at their open house.

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

This resource can be used by school nurses and teachers in the classroom as well as a tool to introduce families in the school community to the basic concepts of food allergies.

The process, which took roughly XX hours over the course of four months, helped overcome terminology barriers between the medical professionals and educational personnel, as well as helped teachers understand the impact of concussions on academics and vice-versa, including cognitive function, classroom environment, and symptom resolution.

Working as a classroom teacher (and as a parent of three of my own), I know that some children are better able to adapt to and cope with new or different situations while others need to be supported and taught more intentionally how to manage their feelings.

As sad as I am that my child's copious amounts of free time are now gone I'm suspecting that the structure his teacher is providing in the classroom is actually really good for my soAs sad as I am that my child's copious amounts of free time are now gone I'm suspecting that the structure his teacher is providing in the classroom is actually really good for my soas I am that my child's copious amounts of free time are now gone I'm suspecting that the structure his teacher is providing in the classroom is actually really good for my son.

The parents work with the teachers in the classroom as well as in other areas such as, fundraising, cleaning, maintenance and public relations.

The Cove School currently employs a director and a classroom teacher as well as hosting visiting teachers for our enrichment program.

They offer teachers classroom strategies as well as guides to help educators effectively respond to children showing signs of a mental health or learning disorder.

Teachers use read - alouds as well as poems, songs, and rhymes to teach topics across all subjects, and classrooms are filled with signs and labeled objects which help kids make connections between objects and words, and words and letters.

State lawmakers earlier this year agreed to a package of education policy changes that linked test scores to evaluations as well as in - classroom observation and made it more difficult for teachers to obtain tenure.

Marching around saying it's «bullshit» whilst our politicians tour their constituencies in stab - proof vests, our bankers screw society for personal gain, our teachers describe classrooms as battlegrounds, our towns and parks have become no - go zones most evenings, our social workers come across the most appalling instances of abuse, just to name but a few of the most obvious examples - well, I think you need to produce a little more than some statistics and a bit of bad language to turn the narrative around.

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

But Cuomo has defended his proposals, saying he wants to reward good teachers even as he wants to remove poor performing teachers from the classroom.

«Trusting teachers and freeing them up from the daily grind of targets, testing and inspections that change as often as the weather will ensure that there is more time spent on what teachers do best, providing a stimulating and fulfilling experience for all our youngsters ensuring success and interest in the classroom and beyond»

After all, he's the man who will negotiate the new state budget and have a major say on such issues as raising the minimum wage, getting bad teachers out of the classroom and increasing funding for buses and subways, as well as Metro - North and the Long Island Rail Road.

According to the poll, having a quality teacher in every classroom is seen as the most important factor in providing a good education of the twelve factors that were tested.

The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what good quality early childhood education should look like, from best practices and teacher education standards to enriching classrooms and play spaces.

In order to ensure that the best teachers are hired and retained in the classrooms in which they are needed most, he proposed offering full tuition as an incentive to top CUNY and SUNY students who pledge in return to serve as public school teachers for a minimum of 5 years.

Having a quality teacher in every classroom is seen as the most important factor in providing a good education of the twelve factors that were tested.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome ProjecAs a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Projecas teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

Put a limit on the time you spend preparing for class and anguishing over tomorrow's — worse, yesterday's — lecture; the best way to improve as a teacher is to stay relaxed and pay attention while you're in the classroom.

Dr Lyonette added: «Those women who did survive all these struggles tended to do quite well but many either dropped out and returned to their old job or finished the degree and then went into a job which didn't really require a degree at all such as a classroom assistant instead of a teacher.

Those standards, although voluntary, would in turn require new textbooks, as well as new ways to train teachers and measure what students are learning in the classroom.

A new report on how teachers use video games in classrooms identifies features they find most useful to track student learning, as well as gaps where better tools could help link games more closely to the curriculum.

The program is taught by classroom teachers who train alongside educators from the Carnegie Institution and universities, as well as by «model teachers» who train with BioEYES staff for three years before running the program on their own.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

In 2012 over 3,026 high school and middle school students and 265 teachers participated in BTI programs including summer institutes, workshops, classroom experiments and activities as well as presentations and tour at BTI.

Lisa Flynn, E-RYT 500, is the founder and director of ChildLight Yoga ® and Yoga 4 Classrooms ®, organizations providing evidence - informed yoga and mindfulness education to children, as well as training and support for thousands of educators, kids yoga teachers and professionals worldwide.

Her work has been featured by several TV news programs including Fox News and WMUR - TV's Chronicle NH, as well as in Kiwi Magazine, Parenting, Yoga Journal and Yoga Teacher Magazine, and online outlets including Forbes and YogaGlo, among others (see ChildLight Yoga and Yoga 4 Classrooms press / media pages).