Sentences with phrase «with meaningful teacher»

A coherent instructional guidance system, in which curriculum and assessment were coordinated within and across grades with meaningful teacher involvement.

Not exact matches

He says spiritual mentors like a Sunday school teacher in Fayetteville, Arkansas, and some of his Redskins players helped him get back on track with a deeper, more meaningful Christian faith even while the struggles were at their worst.

We prefer to stick with small, meaningful gifts because they can mean so much more and are a great way for kids to show their teachers exactly what they mean to them.

Rachelle Doorley is an arts educator with a passion for helping families and teachers find easy ways to set up meaningful creative projects for kids.

Gaab frequently leads professional development workshops for teachers, participates in school «brain awareness days,» and meets with teachers and principals to help them find ways to translate research on how the brain learns into meaningful classroom applications.

A goal of this program is to train yoga students to become exceptional yoga teachers with an ability to lead people of all kinds into a meaningful and authentic yoga practice.

Stacy's instruction in the Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training, as well as as a lead instructor of UB's 200 - hour Foundational Yoga Teacher Training, combines a wealth of knowledge in yoga and pregnancy / birth with an ability to inspire and prepare individuals to lead practices in a meaningful, relevant way.

She created and leads Urban Breath Yoga's 85 - hour Prenatal Yoga Teacher Training program, which offers yoga teachers, OB / GYNs, midwives, doulas, and others who work with pregnancy and birth an opportunity to bring yoga techniques into their work in a meaningful and valuable way.

We aim to make meaningful connections with children, their families, and their teachers to enable the child to achieve their goals by providing quality, innovative therapy services and resources Occupational Therapists.

As teachers, it's on us to connect with the parents on a more meaningful level.

The Children's Commissioner recommends compulsory lessons on relationships from as early as five, with additional teacher training to help them deliver lessons in meaningful way for children.

The research suggests that these practices improve student writing only along with the qualifier of enthusiastic teachers who create meaningful systems for their own classrooms.

We can say that if a teacher is effectively engaging kids in meaningful learning, then there should be no problems with discipline or kids freely accessing their devices.

When teachers are deliberate with planning a lesson, the learning trajectory and meaningful student engagement is clearly exposed.

But even as she acknowledged toward the end that technology has a role to play, she missed spotlighting how technology can help us redesign schools to allow students to achieve what appears most important in her mind: the chance for students to have far more meaningful face - to - face interactions with teachers and peers — a counterintuitive yet important part of blended learning's promise for many students.

They concluded that performance on standardized tests from 1999 to 2002 was «significantly positively correlated» with «a school's ability to ensure a clean and safe physical environment,» «evidence that its parents and teachers modeled and promoted good character education» and opportunities «for students to contribute in meaningful ways to the school and its community.»

As a result, I encourage regular teachers (like myself) to embrace this term and use technology to create a blended curriculum that combines engagement and active learning in the classroom with meaningful work done online.

Creating meaningful solutions for students, parents, teachers, colleagues and administrators begins with a deep understanding for their needs.

Rather than lecturing or delivering whole - class instruction though, the teacher, who can be armed with data about where students are in their learning, can meet one - on - one with each student and have meaningful conversations about the work she is doing.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

«Our media specialist and technology aide have enthusiasm, skills, and a collegial approach that has, over two years, fully engaged all teachers and their students in meaningful, challenging learning projects with technology.»

Edutopia blogger Lisa Dabbs underlines the importance of teaching with authenticity by recalling her own new - teacher struggles to make education a meaningful experience for her students.

Instructional Coaching: Driving Meaningful Tech Integration: Learn how Hampton High School in Allison Park, Pennsylvania, has employed a full - time instructional coach to support teachers by providing resources, support, and know - how on working with technology.

Schools need a strategy to give all relevant teachers the time, resources, and support to engage with the new subject in a meaningful way, so they can develop their confidence and skills in the concepts, technology and pedagogy necessary to fully realise the potential of Digital Technologies and ultimately thrive in a world where mobile devices have become ubiquitous.

Having said that, there is ample evidence that when meaningful instruction designed by the teacher is combined with motivational tool technologies, students» cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement can be significantly increased — more than technology could ever achieve alone.

From my time as a teacher, I learned how challenging and rewarding the teaching profession is, how meaningful real connections with students can be (I'm still in contact with quite a few of my students from St. Jude), and how important it is to take a growth mindset to this work.

So when you go into that teachers» lounge, go with the intention of engaging in meaningful pedagogical dialogue, eating your lunch, or reading a good book — otherwise, I say skip it!

This is complete with a mark scheme and a student / teacher / peer assessment tool to aid students with the DIRT following the assessment and to build meaningful and useful feedback to move forward and make progress.

As a result of countless conversations with teachers and parents, I've found that there are some basic things for schools to do to make homework more appealing and meaningful.

«Glossing» is a technique that streamlines the revision process for teachers and students, allowing for more effective conference time and focused assessment opportunities, more meaningful reflective writing and revision time, and less time wrangling with paper load.

Teachers will have far more time to work with students one - on - one and in small groups and target their interactions in more meaningful ways.

You'll see an evaluation system for teachers and principals, with student achievement built in as a meaningful component.

Natural environments allows for a less formal approach and engender positive learning and meaningful relationships with peers, teachers and supporting adults.

Mobile devices won't have the same impact on all students, but they will allow teachers to work with «it depends» in meaningful ways.

These people could be teachers, administrators, coaches, parents, older siblings or friends, but the important thing is that the student forms a meaningful relationship with the charismatic adult.

When teachers move from the front of the room to working besides students, students begin to take a deeper ownership of the learning process and produce a meaningful connection with the material.

Math teacher and teaching strategist Karen Lea looks at meaningful ways to connect learning objectives with Common Core State Standards.

The questioning skills have been included to support the teacher lead the pupils through the lesson with open and meaningful questions.

Missing from my schedule is meaningful time to collaborate, troubleshoot, or brainstorm with fellow teachers.

In an interview with Tes, Leora Cruddas, ASCL's policy director, said: «We welcome the letter from the secretary of state and the opportunity for deep and meaningful discussions over pay and conditions, workload and teacher qualifications.

Unfortunately, there were a few teachers who must have had one too many bad experiences with evaluation conversations and basically told me to read out their evaluation, let them sign it, and avoid engaging in any meaningful conversation.

If teachers are meeting to do work that they see as meaningful with people that they respect, the engagement won't be a concern.

Teachers have found that just connecting students with meaningful out - of - school experiences can change the way kids use their minds.

Recently, the Independent Education Union (NSW / ACT) held a conference at the University of Technology Sydney for academics and teachers to share their knowledge about mentoring with the aim of beginning a meaningful discussion.

The department structure isolates teachers and prevents them from working with one another on cross-disciplinary projects that would be more meaningful and interesting to students.

It helps the teacher communicate in progressive and meaningful ways with the child or a group of children on a range of issues.

Time spent among students and teachers was an example of serving learners» needs well with a meaningful context, rather than incremental skills to be acquired (IBO).

This approach demands that teachers ask meaningful questions with interdisciplinary connections.

Once a teacher can debrief a lesson with an administrator or fellow teacher using a well - designed rubric, meaningful conversations about improvement can begin to occur.

As teachers, let's take on the challenge of expanding that definition and begin having students bring in meaningful artifacts from the outside world to share with their classmates (yes, middle and high school teachers, too).