Sentences with phrase «who visit their classrooms»

In the interim, teachers are assigned mentors who visit their classrooms to help improve their mathematics instruction.

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«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.

Our Open House events are for the entire family and will allow you to visit classrooms, meet teachers, and talk with other parents who can provide their own perspective of life within the Berkeley Rose community.

While at PS / MS 126, Fariña also visited a preschool classroom and chatted with school parents who making paper decorations in honor of Chinese New Year.

As a father of school age kids, and as someone who has visited hundreds of classrooms and schools, he believes deeply that all great schools have one thing in common: outstanding adults who make magic for the kids they serve.

In each classroom that we visited we witnessed teachers who were constantly formatively assessing students, using questions, online games, projects, rich tasks or online quizzes.

The annual Bett show is a great platform to demonstrate what technology has to offer but it's important to remember that those who visit make up a small percentage of the total number of UK teachers, and many of them are «evangelist teachers», who are already incorporating technology well in the classroom.

The photo shows a student showing me her iPod screen, but it should have been a photo of superintendent Jennifer Walters, who joined the classroom visit that day.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

A few days ago, I visited a math teacher who was busily preparing his classroom for the start of the school year.

Included: Principals talk about the benefits of walk - throughs, and how to initiate walk - throughs with teachers who might fear frequent classroom visits by the principal.

For example, recruit pupils for extra-curricular groups; arrange extra rehearsals; follow up on interests shown in the classroom (eg finding a child who is learning the guitar at home, informally, and getting them involved in a school group); produce a programme for the school concert which includes every child's name; liaise with other staff members (eg with the Art Department to provide a cover for said programme); organise refreshments; run a Parent Support Group for music; arrange for matching T - shirts for the jazz band or school choir; deliver a «sponsored sing» for charity; visit an old people's home to perform for the residents; and a host of other things which make for «a musical school».

REVIEW: Many students who may never have the opportunity to travel to northern Arizona to see the Grand Canyon can now visit it virtually right from their classroom.

Visit Matt Cook's classroom at Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Keller, Texas, and you are likely to find students who are glued to their cell phones — and their teacher couldn't be more pleased.

Several of the people who have contributed to DonorsChoose projects at her school have come to visit the classrooms.

But Oksana Florescu, Puente's counseling - training coordinator, says regular visits to the classroom by someone who mentors students and provides information about college are crucial.

Now, as a principal, when Bednar visits classrooms in his school, he is looking for Mrs. Hinck, the teacher who lit the spark in him to become the teacher and principal he is today.

This year we are seeking nominations from establishments who are creating novel, innovative and inspirational approaches to learning outside the classroom whether it is in the school grounds, on visits to museums, art galleries or farms, through adventure activities or on cultural exchanges abroad.

Included: Principals share the benefits of walk - throughs; how to initiate walk - throughs with teachers who might fear frequent classroom visits by principals.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

Losing it would carry us back to the pre-Coleman era when schools were judged not by their results but by their inputs, promises, and services, and teachers were evaluated by brief classroom visits from supervisors who arrived with no data, no rubrics — and no ability to do anything about problematic instructors.

It is a distinction between principals who provided support to teachers by «popping in» and «being visible» as compared with principals who were very intentional about each classroom visit and conversation, with the explicit purpose of engaging with teachers about well - defined instructional ideas and issues.

Teachers Need to Visit Other Classrooms Student teachers who are matched with exemplary teachers have a great advantage because they have a chance to observe at least one method that works.

We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool) focused their conversations with mentors on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.

«It would be hard to justify ratings by outsiders watching videotapes at a remote location who never visited the classroom and couldn't see for themselves a teacher's interaction and relationship with students.»

We have found some success by starting with teachers who volunteer to participate, creating some success in these classrooms which we then try to make public, and then using data as well as actual classroom visits to make a compelling case for the value of the work.

CEL worked with Pittsburgh educators to develop a strategic approach to professional development which included showing ITL2s how to work side by side with teachers, providing classroom modeling, site visits, group and one - on - one coaching, and instructional rounds, said Mary Beth Crowder - Meier, a CEL educational consultant who worked closely with the ITL2s.

Over the past decade, we have visited and observed numerous school and classroom Web sites, and have talked to countless students and teachers who have conducted online projects.

In Michigan, for example, each state pre-k classroom works through its QRIS with an early childhood specialist, who provides curriculum training and visits classrooms on a monthly basis to support and mentor teaching teams.

Principals trust teachers who do not mind when they visit the classroom.

Principals themselves agree almost unanimously on the importance of several specific practices, according to one survey, including keeping track of teachers» professional development needs and monitoring teachers» work in the classroom (83 percent).32 Whether they call it formal evaluation, classroom visits or learning walks, principals intent on promoting growth in both students and adults spend time in classrooms (or ensure that someone who's qualified does), observing and commenting on what's working well and what is not.

To motivate teachers to participate in the required program, those who visited the most classrooms would receive gift cards.

The typical teacher evaluation in public education consists of a single, fleeting classroom visit by a principal or other building administrator untrained in evaluation who wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that often don't focus directly on the quality of instruction.

The Secretary's visit to the school will be closed press out of respect for the students and faculty who are returning to their first full day back in the classroom.

After interviewing various students, teachers, parents, administrators, and other education and community leaders who had been part of each school at different times in its history, I visited classrooms and collected written case studies, newspaper accounts, memos, and other communications about significant events.

Your first - year teacher program might include home visits, neighborhood visits and interviews with community members who can help you better understand the world of your students and the possibilities they bring with them to your classroom.

When William Loskoch, Ms. Jones's principal, visited her classroom one day in December, he frequently stopped her co-teacher, Sarah Vistocco, 24, who had started at the network in May, to redirect a discussion or ask her to reinforce the rules.

They're recruiting «scientists who are willing to volunteer to advise on curricula, answer a classroom's questions, or visit a school — for instance, to do a lab or to talk about what you do.»

Ricky Thacker recently drew the attention of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who visited his mathematics classroom at Betsy Layne High School in Floyd County.

Staffers visit kindergarten classrooms to identify children who, even at their young age, are seen by their teachers as likely future candidates for prison or early pregnancy (because the students carry a great deal of family and social baggage and because, even as five - year - olds, they are extremely hard to manage in the classroom).

«I came into office thinking I knew everything I needed to know about the direction we needed to go with public education,» said Osmond, who served as CEO of a for - profit education company... [After] a dozen classroom visits and hundreds of emails from educators, Osmond says he came to understand the challenges public school educators face in the course of a typical day: overcrowded classrooms, outdated technology, language barriers, behavioral issues, and students who are hungry and unbathed.

«Too many teachers work alone in their classrooms and are visited by administrators who come to evaluate them,» she says.

Today you can visit almost any school or classroom in the country and find students who struggle.

After spending 2 - 3 half and full days in our classroom for a trial visit, we accept students who are curious learners and who are still EXCITED to learn new things.

Teachers in the CPC program have at least a bachelor's degree along with a certification in early childhood education.18 Staff compensation is relatively high compared to most preschool staff, mirroring the salary schedule of the Chicago Public School system, which reduces teacher turnover.19 In addition to teachers and classroom aides, students also are monitored by parent volunteers, home visit representatives, clerks, nurses, speech therapists, and other administrative staff who are associated with the public school program.

Most often we visit school classrooms, camps and after - school programs, but we will gladly present to anyone who is interested in learning about animals.

That's because Alberta Guide Dogs is routinely visiting elementary school classrooms and making students more aware of Guide Dogs and how they help individuals who are blind or...

Specially trained volunteers and their screened pets comprise this elite team of Pinellas Pet Education Partnership teachers who visit nearly 1,000 classrooms annually.

Other interesting stops included lunch with a local family in Acul, a visit with the old gentleman who makes the famous black salt of Nebaj, a hike into the hills near Acul and a visit with a classroom of elementary school children.

«Visiting a classroom at Jiaotong University at the time, we could see that there were a lot of strong engineers [who were] very well trained,» Langourieux told TechNode.