Sentences with phrase «which collaborates with teachers»

Red4EdNC is a part of this group which collaborates with teachers, parents, business and civic leaders.

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The University's Associate Professor Susan Colmar collaborated with NSW Department of Education Senior Psychologists Nash Davis and Linda Sheldon to develop the Memory Mates program, which trains teachers to support primary school children to adopt and use ten attention and working memory strategies.

I think all teachers are motivated by a passion to collaborate with each other and improve their pedagogy — which is exactly what our flipped classroom program is all about.

When I work with teachers, we always collaborate to design projects with the appropriate level of voice and choice for students, which depends on factors such as time of the year, age level, content, and many others.

A recent investigation of achievement in one large Tennessee school district (in which I am collaborating with Sanders and Paul Wright of the SAS Institute) has found that 20 percent of math teachers are recognizably better or worse than average by a conventional statistical criterion.

While this positive response is certainly dependent on the special nature of the objective - setting process in Denver — a process in which teachers collaborated directly with their principals to set goals based on individually measured baselines for the students they taught, in the subject matter they taught — this response still flies in the face of preconceptions that teachers fear pay for performance based on student growth because it will harm collegial relations.

Teachers developing interactive lessons for more advanced concepts, however, should keep in mind that Cisco's report doesn't distinguish between lessons in which students interact with prepared material and those in which they collaborate with peers.

June Cousens, a grade 4 teacher at Master's Academy & College in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, participated in a project in which her students collaborated with grade 10 students to read, understand, and perform Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

New literacies are commonly referred to as «21st - century literacies,» which include proficiency with digital tools as well as the ability to collaborate, create, design, navigate, and evaluate multimedia texts (National Council of Teachers of English, 2013).

I look forward to collaborating with more Fox Hill students and teachers on the fourth edition of the Fox Hill news which is expected to air at the end of April.

Take for example the scenario in which preservice teacher Rob Dent collaborated with a classroom teacher to develop a technology infused unit of study, called «Who Wants to Be a Pioneer?»

However, with the right school culture teachers will still collaborate so that all students improve, which reflects positively on the teachers and encourages continued collaboration.

Further, he built a relationship with Children's Literacy Initiative of Philadelphia, which developed a plan for teachers to collaborate and plan together, to use data to implement authentic lessons, and build collegiality, which helped establish an improved climate and culture.

As such, the principal should have the decision - making authority to effectively bring about systematic change necessary for school improvement.Collaboration Principals should strive for facilitative leadership, which is accomplished by delegating to and collaborating with teachers, developing teacher leaders by pursuing common goals, and engaging stakeholders in the decision - making process.

He noted that FirstLine is, for example, collaborating along with four New Orleans charter networks in a Xavier University teacher residency in which diversity and community roots are key factors in recruiting candidates.

Under Garcia's leadership, SEIU collaborated with both the Los Angeles Parents Union, which I co-founded, and Green Dot Public Schools to help parents gain the advocacy skills to communicate with teachers and district administrators to demand quality education.

He makes a strong case that library media specialists should be very aware of state standards, know which ones are tested, collaborate with teachers to teach information literacy skills related to those state standards, and then collect data on the impact of the library instruction.

At other times, the groups are engaged in cooperative learning in which more fluent students collaborate with struggling students and teachers coach the partners in speaking and conversation skills.

Principals will need to collaborate with their teacher leaders, listen to the needs of their staff, and consider how to make sure that their schools are teacher - and student - friendly environments in which the norm is trying new things.

Professional development programs in which teachers collaborate with other teachers, reflect on their classroom practices, and receive support and feedback have been shown to foster teachers» professional development (Grossman, Wineburg, & Woolworth, 2001; Huffman, 2006; Loucks - Horsley, Love, Stiles, Mundry, & Hewson, 2003).

We seek articles on such topics as expanding our view of data beyond test scores, setting up a school culture in which teachers collaborate to examine student data and translate it into meaningful action, using qualitative data - collection techniques like peer observation and home visits, harnessing technology to organize data and make it more useful, and sharing data with school stakeholders to help them understand its implications and to mobilize support.

Several schools systems with which I collaborate have made the journey to a new teacher practice successful by following these 5 steps:

New Jersey will leave a large part of the decision making up to districts, with the majority of ESSA funds «allocated to districts which [they] may choose to expend ESSA funds (Title II, Part A in particular) to collaborate with an educator preparation program to create a teacher residency program, whereby a teacher resident receives a stipend for the time he / she spends in the classroom.»

TNTP's Teaching Fellows program meets rigorous selectivity and training standards: Before candidates enter the program, TNTP Teaching Fellows complete a three - phase selection process, during which Teaching Fellows must demonstrate content mastery and the traits of successful teachers.51 Teaching Fellows enroll in a teacher preparation program concurrently with their service, and have the opportunity to collaborate with other Fellows, staff, and experienced teachers.

Instead of short - term workshops, districts should collaborate with teachers to identify evidence - based strategies based on teachers» needs to ensure that teachers receive consistent feedback regarding which skills they should prioritize, along with the appropriate supports to implement new skills.

LE collaborates with schools and school districts that serve economically disadvantaged students to maximize the leadership development of mid-career teachers, which ultimately improves the quality of teaching and learning in schools.

After months of communicating with potential schools we were able to find several different locations in which we could collaborate between teacher and teaching artist in individualized iterations of a social justice curricula.

PDK is a professional association in education which runs various programs for teachers, collaborates annually with Gallup on a poll of the nation's education perspectives, and publishes Kappan Magazine, a forum on practice, policy, and research.