Sentences with phrase «with traditional educators»

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This book is for pastors and Christian educators who wrestle with the difficult issue of how to include people from traditional and nontraditional families in the life of a congregation.

As an educator, we are calling on all, especially chiefs, traditional leaders, opinion leaders, Assembly members, political parties and everyone, to ensure that the galamsey menace is dealt with.

Although the well - meaning educator is forced to add a cautionary note to his counsel after one student causes uproar on campus, his philosophy does arm his students with the insight to look beyond the traditional approach to poetry.

It also describes more «traditional» educators like Mary Laurie, a high school principal who eschews data on students for relationships with them and «no - excuses» for a kind of personalized tough love.

«The biggest challenge that I'm faced with as an educator,» acknowledges Friedrich, «is traditional thinking in teaching.»

With so many creative educators in our schools, alternatives to the traditional classroom structure are bound to happen.

Combine the traditional escape and enrichment of summer reading with social media resources for sharing discoveries with like - minded educators and readers.

Along with the traditional learning styles (visual, auditory, tactile), online educators should consider digital learning styles (students familiarity and skill levels with the technology).

Which is exactly how we tend not to think about education reform — and is exactly what engenders fear and loathing in traditional educators, whether because major surgery is just plain scary or because they're worried about their jobs or just because they're not too comfortable with technology themselves.

He has received national attention for moves favored by reformers, such as opening 75 new schools operated by outside groups and staffed by non-union teachers; introducing a pay - for - performance plan that will eventually be in 40 Chicago schools; and working with organizations, including The New Teacher Project, Teach For America, and New Leaders for New Schools, that recruit talented educators through alternatives to the traditional education - school route.

I see, however, a major problem - many of educators still understand it as a simple conglomerate of an eLearning course, used as a pre-work or post-work, with traditional training.

Although open houses are a rare chance for parents and caregivers to walk freely around the school and meet with educators, unfortunately, as Mapp points out and as the audience reaction clearly confirms, traditional open houses just don't work.

She is working closely with the faculty and administrators to explore innovative new opportunities for developing and delivering outstanding programs for educators beyond its traditional capacity.

By moving away from the traditional «sit and get» sessions and creating the space for staff to collaborate on design challenges and invest in their passions, site administrators provide educators with opportunities to develop their own maker mindset.

Lubbers, who had become interested in charter schools after hearing educators in traditional schools complain about red tape holding them back, says that vesting the mayor (who is of course beholden to voters) with authorizing power offered the very desirable combination of freedom and accountability.

The theory became highly popular with K - 12 educators around the world seeking ways to reach students who did not respond to traditional approaches, but over time, «multiple intelligences» somehow became synonymous with the concept of «learning styles.»

Teachers are at varying stages in their degrees of knowledge and «sophistication» with regard to education technology and the traditional «sit and get» sessions can be valuable for those teachers who are not yet ready to become Connected Educators.

Most online course providers allow students to complete the practical training components of the course without needing them to step foot within a university campus, with the course offering students a multitude of pathways to become traditional or online educators, being able to choose subjects within their teaching courses that interest them.

Legacy Traditional Schools mission is to provide motivated students with the opportunity to achieve academic excellence in an accelerated, back - to - basics, safe learning environment taught by caring, knowledgeable, and highly effective educators in cooperation with supportive, involved parents.

Charter and traditional schools are blending veteran educators together with new ones.

In traditional «top - down» models of teacher professional development, educators are given ideas to try out in their own classrooms, but are not always successful with the implementation.

This is the type of student growth that every educator, parent and elected official should expect of schools, traditional or charter, charged with educating youth.

http://www.interdys.org/index.htm Core Knowledge Preschool vs. Traditional Preschool This website is about A School Reform Movement taking shape in hundreds of schools where educators have committed themselves to teaching important skills and the Core Knowledge content they share within grade levels, across districts, and with other Core Knowledge schools across the country.

Some traditional educators believe that for - profits, which typically charge around $ 4,000 for a program leading to certification, accept applicants with little regard for demand or how they might perform in the classroom.

K12 is a company of educators with the nation's largest network of K - 12 online school teachers, providing instruction, academic services, and learning solutions to public schools and districts, traditional classrooms, blended school programs, and directly to families.

However there are several quotes from the research that has me as a father and concerned education advocate asking questions of whether this study is aligned with educators in both charter and traditional schools and reform proponents and parents working toward a better education system in our communities, cities, and ultimately nationwide.

We believe, as earlier described, a charter system that is intended to advance education, work with children and families as well as educators from traditional schools is the only way to empower parents.

TLA, a California - based nonprofit group, works to spread blended learning — an approach combining traditional teaching by an educator in a classroom with self - paced online learning directed by the student — to schools across the country.

Digital portfolios allow educators to combine a traditional approach with ongoing feedback in a way that shifts assessment from a snapshot to an ongoing conversation.

For many educators and parents working with learners who struggled in traditional classrooms, Gardner's theory came as a relief.

This shift, coupled with more traditional forms of exams and progress monitoring, can give educators a more holistic understanding of student growth.

Hess urges educators to break free of traditional restraints and to create schools capable of evolving with the students and communities they serve.

Inspired by educators who push the boundaries of the traditional classroom, she also has developed informal learning programs that teach youth and adults how to improve their communities with innovative, sustainable solutions.

Dr. Chan was already a veteran educator and administrator in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) when, in 1993, with the support of teachers and parents, Vaughn Learning Center in Pacoima became the first traditional school in the state to convert to a charter school.

A groundbreaking summit that plans to share best practices between LA Unified traditional school and charter school educators is at capacity with more than 350 people signed up for the Saturday event planned by Superintendent Michelle King.

As part of the project, cohort members will participate in instruction coaching and collaborative meetings with colleagues, and host and participate in site visits to build a network of informed educators to transform the traditional classroom experience.

Jamie is an educator with 13 years of elementary school teaching experience in diverse environments, including traditional public schools, independent schools, and charters schools; Amana Academy and Atlanta Neighborhood Charter School.

English teacher educators may wish to coordinate other traditional methods - course tasks (like having teacher candidates create their own assessments, research a professional issue like computer grading, or plan instruction that addresses students» cultural / linguistic backgrounds) with SWAP materials in order to allow them to consider the consequences of their own instructional decisions and conceptions of writing and writers.

Educators from traditional K - 12 district public schools or public charter schools in those cities, along with leaders of innovative non-profit organizations, will then be invited to submit proposals on how to redesign new or existing schools to personalize learning for every student by tailoring individual instruction through the use of technology, better preparing them for success in the 21st century.

There are plenty of ways educators are taking on the shortcomings of the traditional classroom environment to offer more personalized instruction that is supported by data and in tune with their students» individual needs.

In addition to a full line of traditional comprehensive print resources for classroom use, The Hub offers educators a full service digital option with a look at the methodology applied in real classrooms, video tips and strategies from master teachers, instructional PowerPoints and direct to student content.

Educators today seem to be faced with a choice: continue teaching centuries - old ways of organizing the world through traditional disciplines such as mathematics and... Continue reading How Do We Prepare Students for a Complex World?

In an effort to distinguish traditional science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) programs from those with a focus on ecology and sustainability, some educators have recently been adding «green» to STEM programs.

And both administrators and educators agree that the Edcamp model is more productive and valuable than traditional, presentation - oriented professional development, with close to 97 % stating they developed beneficial contacts at Edcamp.

In our case, teachers and a teacher educator were not only hesitant to assume the position of expert in the wikispace, they were not especially comfortable with new digital epistemologies that replace traditional notions of truth with an emphasis on knowing how to construct knowledge collaboratively, gain or structure attention, invent new rules and conventions, or innovate successfully in contexts where there are few or no established rules (as also found by Knobel & Lankshear, 2006).

I am a TFA alumni but I also work closely with young educators from both alternative and traditional certification programs.

Online learning is also viewed as less of a threat to traditional classroom settings than when it first hit the K - 12 scene, with many educators now seeing the benefits of the two learning styles operating together to build well - rounded learners.

Working with community - based partners, educators at many community schools interact with families beyond traditional parent - teacher conferences.

These schools would be teacher - led with educators free of several rules and regulations that apply to traditional school districts so they could be innovative and test out new approaches to learning.

Such networks «work against the traditional isolation of teacher from teacher, university from classroom, novice from experienced educator... to craft a new professional community with a new discourse for the understanding and improvement of practice» (Raphael et al., 2001, p. 606).