Sentences with phrase «classroom teacher network»

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Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

Volvox The Volvox network provides teachers with authoritative briefings, proven laboratory protocols, classroom activities addressing the social impact of bioscience, accounts of the careers of young scientists and numerous other educational resources to help motivate them and their students.

The same can be said for teachers as well, technology bought from outside the classroom — such as a USB stick — could actually contain corrupt files that could attack a network, or a link in a personal email clicked on by a student or teacher could actually result in a phishing virus.

CAS offers support, training and resources to help deliver the new curriculum through its nationwide network of teachers and professionals committed to supporting computing and especially computer science in the classroom.

Now in its 11th year, the Discovery Education Summer Institute is a celebrated week - long professional development and networking event, bringing together teachers from across the US and Canada who are passionate about using digital media in the classroom.

So each classroom teacher, after completing the Pilot Program training, received five networked student stations for his or her classroom.

Apple Classroom 2.0 allows teachers in one - to - one classrooms using iOS 10.3 or later, Bluetooth, and a Wi - Fi network to link students» iPads together in a virtual class.

STIR is working with state and national governments to build local teacher networks aimed at increasing teacher motivation and professionalism, leading to mastery of classroom practice and improved student outcomes.

It's designed to help IT teams manage networks, empower teachers in the digital classroom and protect students online.

This technology is not new to education, but historically tends to be used more by network managers to monitor and control their school's IT from the back - office, rather than being used by classroom teachers themselves.

They included providing the British Computer Society (BCS) with more than # 2 million to set up a network of 400 «master teachers» to train teachers in other schools and provide resources for use in the classroom.

Too often, teachers have worked at home to identify and select Web pages for use in classroom lessons, only to find that a network filter prevents students from using those sites.

The introduction of wireless networks and bring - your - own - device (BYOD) programs in classrooms has increased the demand for teachers to effectively utilize technology worldwide.

The National Education Association should support efforts to connect elementary and high school classrooms to a national, fiber - optic telecommunications network and take other steps to bring teachers into the information age, according to a new report.

Designed for newbies, the two program tracks network teachers with other state educators and covers topics for success inside and outside of the classroom.

Disruptive innovation theory would also posit that vendors who could get their broadband requirements down might successfully target pockets of nonconsumption and the low - end of the market, among schools whose current networks offer limited connectivity, but where teachers are still trying to integrate software into their classrooms.

PrimaryAccess is supported by the University of Virginia's Sciences, Humanities, and Arts Network of Technological Initiatives (SHANTI), and we are committed to providing a robust cloud - based environment for teachers to freely use in their classrooms.

Kids love social networking, but many teachers are leery of the risks of introducing the controversial technology into the classroom.

The network aims to help a small cadre of teachers help each other successfully integrate select PL components in their own classrooms with the goal of amplifying those teachers» learning schoolwide and, ultimately, citywide.

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Addressing dropout rates and providing strategies to make students feel more connected online, we look at how to improve the online classroom experience through the use of tools, creativity, social networking, and teacher - student contact.

For example, PBL teachers share project ideas, receive feedback, and interact with other PBL classrooms using the Buck Institute for Education's (BIE) Project - Based Learning network on Edmodo and Edutopia's PBL discussion group.

Squire has since published curriculum support and is developing an online network to aid teachers who wish to use Civilization III in their own classrooms.

With so many devices entering the classroom, the right wireless network has become themost critical component to help teachers do their jobs.

Farr's team works with all network partners to discover how in classrooms all over the world, teachers are making huge strides with kids living in poverty.

The impact on students, and the teachers themselves, from across the network has been extraordinary and affirms that elements of teaching in transformational classrooms remain universal.

Jackson is the author of «Surviving and Thriving with Computers,» a chapter in The Student Handbook (spring 2002, Southwestern Publishing, Nashville, TN) and «Excellence for All and From All: A Look at Standards In One Inclusion Classroom» (Winter 2001) from The Bread Loaf Teacher Network Magazine, dedicated to e-mail-based learning in the English classroom.

James Spillane joins EdNext editor - in - chief Marty West to discuss how school administrators can use classroom assignments to promote teacher interaction, which is the subject of his new article, «The Schoolhouse Network.»

With digital record keeping, phones in the classroom, and access to local networks to communicate with parents, administrators, and colleagues, teachers can spend more time teaching and less on paperwork.

Participants tended not to be classroom teachers, but to come from a network of public agencies, nonprofits, and academic centers, such as the Arts in Education Program at Harvard University.

For 12 years, eMINTS, which stands for Enhancing Missouri's Instructional Networked Teaching Strategies, has been educating teachers and other learning professionals about how to use technology to enhance inquiry - based learning in K - 12 classrooms.

So how are teachers using networked technologies in the classroom?

I recently spoke with Rami — who is active in the Connected Learning in Teacher Education network, to which I also belong — about how teachers have adapted Minecraft in their classrooms.

«Connected» classrooms, which enable students and teachers to share information and collaborate using integrated systems on a school's WiFi network, are helping to transform learning across all subjects to replace more traditional teaching methods.

To understand the direct benefits of music technology in the classroom, I asked teachers from our associated schools and industry professionals within our network, to give us feedback on the ways music technology enhances music education in a classroom environment.

As a result of these classroom results, Jessica was named the 2014 - 2015 Teacher of the Year for the KIPP Chicago Network.

The creative tension between the autonomy that our expert teachers value so highly, and the common aspects of shared accountability that enables BASIS Curriculum Schools to maintain academic quality control across the network, is the nexus at the heart of our classroom learning culture.

What does a classroom look like when students (and teachers) have the tools and networks they need for learning that is fully connected?

After teaching in Houston, Feinberg and Levin launched KIPP: Knowledge Is Power Program, a network of charter schools meant to prepare any kid, regardless of prior academics or conduct, for college.Nationwide, there are now 99 KIPP academies, each a partnership among students, teachers, parents, and staff designed to prioritize learning and maximize classroom time.

Who Should Attend: Principals, assistant principals, department heads, classroom teachers, and coaches, members of school networks, leaders of school improvement and turnaround efforts

A new OECD report, Schooling Redesigned: Towards Innovative Learning Systems, shows how to take schools, classroom, teachers, and students out of their default state of seclusion and into the expanding network of global and diverse learning systems.

To infuse research - based practices into more classrooms, 150 teachers and leaders in Small Learning Community schools in the district began taking courses this fall through WIDE World, capitalizing on the advantages of networked technologies to access HGSE research across distance.

Unlike the social networking sites that students access outside of the classroom, Yammer is not an invitation for students to post whatever they want; it is moderated by a teacher or administrator.

In this role, she is responsible for developing and implementing all NCTR programming for new residency sites and network partners with the end goal of ensuring students in high - need classrooms are taught by effective teachers.

The EEF said the schools will build networks with other schools and develop a programme of support and events to «get more teachers using research evidence in ways that make a difference in the classroom».

«The Twitter chat was a great opportunity to network with educators from different parts of the world, gather different insights strategies and resources that teachers are implementing in their classroom.»

The Network Impact Overview provides a selection of this evidence showing that residencies are fulfilling their goal to strengthen teacher preparation and ensure new teachers enter the classroom ready.

How often does a teacher observe a high school student making notations about classroom culture and diversity or asking questions about professional learning networks and how they enhance classroom practice?

Working as a school leader within the Seton Catholic Schools network is unique because it allows principals to get out of the office and into classrooms, working with teachers to build classroom culture, co-plan lessons and analyze student achievement.

Teachers from districts within the Eastern Upstate TC Network partner to prepare their classroom implementation strategy plans and data gathering instruments to meet the needs of the growing number of their students who are living in poverty.