Sentences with phrase «with teachers based»

«I can have conversations with teachers based on data,» she says.

The short answer is we can know, with some probability, what's going on with teachers based on their early career performance in terms of how they're going to be doing on value - added in future years.

Not exact matches

That's the thinking behind Smarter Science, an Ontario - based program that arms science teachers with the tools to get kids thinking like scientists all year long.

What it does: Operates a cloud - based platform that allows post-secondary teachers to interact with students

Students are set up with iPads or laptops and plug away at interactive math exercises; then the program delivers feedback to the teacher based on the students» performance.

Instead of hiring instructors with a built - in client base, Fields created a «Teacher Training Institute» to teach brand new instructors how to lead a class the Sonic Yoga way.

Initially, he was a teacher and an assistant principal in the LaGrange and Wheeling school districts while operating Inland on a part - time basis with Messrs. Dan Goodwin, Bob Baum and Bob Parks.

He compares it to the way teachers motivate students; grades based entirely upon the final exams are usually enough to incentivize the best students to go above and beyond to achieve high marks, but many students perform better when faced with regular testing throughout the school year.

i His writing and his work with Impact Investing draws on broad experience as an artist, bio-dynamic farmer, Waldorf teacher and co-founder of three social enterprises: 1) From 28 - 34 a farm based campus for young people who wanted a college experience without intellectual academics; 2) from 43 - 46 a biological healthcare company and 3) from 46 - present a workflow technology firm focused on personalizing healthcare.

Small, faith - based schools with religiously motivated teachers are more likely to offer the special attention, loving intimacy and moral standards hat an increasing number of dysfunctional homes can not provide.

A faith based on Christ as my present, accessible, here - with - me - now teacher.

The caution is against replacing the old set of abstractions, brought to the learning situation by the student, with a new set of abstractions chosen on the basis of a pattern apparent only to the person in charge, i.e., the teacher.

These teachers are charged with using a biblical faith as a basis for illuminating today's world, and they are frustrated by the difficulty of interpreting first - century Eastern literature to a twentieth - century technological society.

Feuerbach agreed with his theological teacher, Schleiermacher, that «[t] he basis of religion is the feeling of dependency», but went on to assert that «that upon which human beings are fully dependent is originally, nothing other than Nature.

It is simply a conclusion based on unhappy experiences with college teachers of theology.

Without casting Enlightenment rationalism as categorically evil, Wright details some of the problematic consequences of Enlightenment assumptions regarding the biblical text: false claims to absolute objectivity, the elevation of «reason» («not as an insistence that exegesis must make sense with an overall view of God and the wider world,» Wright notes, «but as a separate «source» in its own right»), reductive and skeptical readings of scripture that cast Christianity as out - of - date and irrelevant, a human - based eschatology that fosters a «we - know - better - now» attitude toward the text, a reframing of the problem of evil as a mere failure to be rational, the reduction of the act of God in Jesus Christ to a mere moral teacher, etc..

He preferred to do without the support of philosophy when it came to theology; here, ironically he linked directly if superficially with his modernist nominalist teachers, who always insisted that philosophy and theology were entirely distinct disciplines and that theology was coherent within itself, based on revelation.

These include skills of logical analysis and straight thinking based on the gathering of sufficient data, in an atmosphere in which differing with the teacher is considered a normal response.

The Bible Literacy Project offers serious competition with the publication of The Bible and Its Influence, which is to be accompanied by a teaching manual and a university - based, online teacher - training program.

I'm a 27 year old language teacher and writer based out in Mexico with a passion for football and swimming.

Crew helps pull them out of their shells, and in class they're compelled on a daily basis to interact with their peers and teachers in group discussions and to collaborate on group projects, and before long that kind of interaction begins to feel natural.

Come for a walk with Ms. Jennifer, our Forest Preschool teacher, and discover the beauty of an outdoor based program.

Some tasks include: Review, clean out, and notify me of important emails on a regular basis; Draft responses to important emails upon discussion and review with me Review daughters school blogs and notify me of all important dates, projects, performances; Assist in responding to emails and drafting emails to teachers on issues related to daughters Track daughters school grades and academic performance on a regular basis via a website.

-- Christof Wiechert Social Emotional Intelligence: The Basis for a New Vision of Education in the United States — Linda Lantieri Rudolf Steiner's Research Methods for Teachers — Martyn Rawson Combined Grades in Waldorf Schools: Creating Classrooms Teachers Can Feel Good About — Lori L. Freer Educating Gifted Students in Waldorf Schools — Ellen Fjeld KØttker and Balazs Tarnai How Do Teachers Learn with Teachers?

For years I took a packed lunch to work with me when I was a teacher and now I have two kids in school they both take packed lunch to school every day — sometimes it consists of basic sandwiches, yoghurt, fruit, and an oat - based cookie or granola bar, other times a build your own lunch for them.

It's probably a good idea to touch base with your child's teachers or guidance counselor, to see if they have any suggestions or helpful information.

Teachers taught 17 farm to school standards based lessons, including science and nutrition lessons in a greenhouse with first through third graders.

Our regular visits from your teacher naturalists, combined with hands - on experiences allowed students to participate in authentic STEM project - based learning.

I have an extensive knowledge base of child development and over 20 years of experience working with young children and families as a Certified Early Childhood Educator and Montessori Teacher.

New teachers graduate college with a background in courses based on things like classroom control, following federal standards, legal issues pertaining to what teachers may and may not do and, possibly, a few classes on a specialty subject.

This is a wonderful assortment of movement and song based activities and games that can enrich any teachers repertoire for working with children.

Following her graduation from California State University at Chico with a degree in Child Development, Angela worked as the head teacher for a Montessori - based preschool for 16 years in Redway, California.

Dawn combined her years of working with children as a math teacher, her strong desire to bring happiness to families, and her love of spreading the love into a Family Happiness Coaching business that helps her fulfill her true purpose on a daily basis.

And on a purely personal level, when you have to deal with teachers, administrators and fellow parents on a regular basis, it can be very, very hard to buck prevailing norms.

Try and keep emotion out of it; parents need to have fact - based knowledge from their child's doctors, specialists, special education experts, parents of kids with similar special needs, attorneys, teachers, and anyone else who can provide information.

For older elementary schoolers she suggested it might be a good idea to touch base with your child's teacher or administrators to ask if the event has been brought up in class or if it is being talked about?

I was on a first - name basis with the teachers, who every day at pick - up would tell me how my guy was doing, something clever he had said in class that day.

With community support, we eliminated high - fructose drinks from school vending machines and banned sweets from classroom parties (a hard swallow for those drinking the same sugary punch as Cookie Crusader Sarah Palin); changed the tuition - based preschool food offerings to allergy - free, healthful choices; successfully lobbied for a salad bar and then taught kids how to use it; enlisted Gourmet Gorilla, a small independent company, to provide affordable, healthy, locally sourced, organic snacks after - school and boxed lunches; built a teaching kitchen to house an afterschool cooking program; and convinced teachers to give - up a union - mandated planning period in order to supervise daily outdoor recess.

The type of learning you're describing, with open classroom discussion, a lot of choice for students, inquiry - based learning, projects, it seems at odds with the kind of call - and - response, very teacher - directed style that you see at a lot of so - called «no excuses» charter schools that produce high test scores with disadvantaged populations.

With more than a decade of experience as elementary school teacher and parent educator, Amanda Morin has discovered that teaching is more than just lesson plans, it's an interactive process that involves parents, teachers and students working together to create a base of knowledge.

* A study of parents of 86 children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2 - 13 years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children, and they were underrepresented in psychiatric populations compared with children who did not cosleep.

The best way to head off any long - term homework problems is to touch base with your child's teacher regularly.

Low family income during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical diagnostic interviews.7

Eight existing home visiting programs met the minimal legislative threshold for federal funding: Early Head Start, the Early Intervention Program, Family Check - up, Healthy Families America, Healthy Steps, Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters, Nurse - Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers.40 In August 2011, the Coalition for Evidence - Based Policy built upon the government's review by evaluating the extent to which programs implemented with fidelity would produce important improvements in the lives of at - risk children and parents.41 Through this review, one program was given a strong rating (the Nurse - Family Partnership), two were given medium ratings (Early Intervention Program and Family Check - up), and all other programs were given a low rating.

The Orfalea Fund — in partnership with First 5 of Santa Barbara County — committed significant time, energy, and financial resources to help early childhood education center directors and teachers develop cutting - edge, evidence - based skills and competencies.

To help our children explore their world and satisfy their curiosity, we seek educational situations that are no more than a 1:6 teacher to child ratio and learning opportunities that are rich with movement, multisensory, project based and diverse.

Double - check your concern with a teacher or someone else who knows your child and has a wide base of comparison.

Early childhood teachers and other experienced teachers carefully observe and interact with each child over the course of the last year of kindergarten and evaluate readiness based on a multiplicity of factors such as physical and emotional maturity, fine and gross motor skills, and hand - eye coordination.

• The School Nutrition department partners with the Cherokee County Farm Bureau to foster an engaged farm - to - school community with support from a broad range of community members including parents, teachers, administrators, farmers, Cooperative Extension, Master Gardeners, the Upper Etowah River Alliance, local churches and faith - based organizations, the Boy Scouts of America, and more.

Whether you're planning a birthday party, conducting a homeschool program, looking for a fun morning with your preschooler, or working with other organized groups (such as scouting groups, science clubs, etc.), the teacher naturalists at the Boston Nature Center and Wildlife Sanctuary can create interesting, hands - on inquiry - based programs.