Sentences with phrase «classrooms of students across»

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Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

This past Friday, students across the country walked out of their classroom to protest gun violence and while students were participating, walking out at Flour Bluff High School three seniors there decided to take another position.

Students across South Florida walked out of their classrooms Friday as part of a protest against gun violence.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

In my time at DTS, though, I have only come across a handful of students who have reached this level of classroom etiquette.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

She suggests being cautious of schools where teachers are constantly interrupting students to correct them or talking loudly across the classroom.

Although school was out for students and teachers, we continued to work with school nutrition directors, managers, and their staffs across the country, preparing for the implementation of breakfast - in - the - classroom in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Virginia, and beyond.

«This federal funding for Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc will bring real results to young students across the Mohawk Valley by providing them with the resources they need to succeed both in and out of the classroom.

«By rewarding donations that support public schools, providing tax credits for teachers when they purchase classroom supplies out of pocket, and easing the financial burden on families who send their children to independent, parochial or out - of - district public schools, we can make a fundamental difference in the lives of students, families and educators across the state,» he said.

The Bank actively supports in - classroom and out - of - classroom educational programmes, infrastructure development, students» scholarship and teachers training across Africa.

The report also clarified longstanding questions on the viability of implementing universal pre-K across the city, with new details on how the city will provide space for the new pre-K classrooms and students, and guidelines for what constitutes «high - quality» pre-K instruction.

According to Jo Ellen Roseman, director of Project 2061 and the principal investigator for the new curriculum project, textbooks rarely take advantage of the opportunities to help students make connections across physical and life sciences, nor do they provide experiences to challenge the misconceptions that many students bring to the classroom.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Open to 13 -15-year-olds students across the UK, the competition — a collaboration between BBC Learning, BBC Comedy and the National Literacy Trust - called on secondary school students to become classroom jokers and was given backing by some of the UK's top comedy talent, including Charlie Higson, Kerry Howard, Marcus Brigstocke and David Walliams.

Even as schools across eastern Louisiana are closed today — some of them indefinitely — local and state officials are laying plans to assure that students have classrooms to go to as soon as possible.

Using social media allows teachers and students to reach beyond the walls of the classroom and make connections across the country and the globe.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

In classrooms across the United States, teachers, students, and society are being bombarded by what Harvard Graduate School of Education Senior Lecturer Katherine Merseth calls, «math wars» — an ongoing battle over how to teach and assess mathematics.

Teaching of the contributions of Hispanic Americans, and learning about the cultures from which they come, will be the focal point of many classroom activities and discussions in the weeks ahead as students across the United States recognize Hispanic Heritage Month — September 15 to October 15.

Davis, who teaches high school technology in Camilla, Georgia, has blown out the walls of that parallel classroom by orchestrating student collaboration across continents, between places as distant as the United States and Bangladesh.

Not only will it widen the opportunities for other students to experience learning beyond the walls of the classroom, but the cost of the trip per student can be spread across the group to lighten any pull on the purse strings.

Children whose first language is not English are appearing in greater numbers in classrooms across the U.S., and helping those students learn is no longer just a job for a few teachers of English - language - learners.

Students in classrooms across the United States are a reflection of the diverse people, perspectives, histories, and values in our society.

Hands Across the School: In each classroom, students were given paper cutouts of hands.

Technology is bringing academic competition from the podium of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, where only top students participate, to classrooms across the United States.

And the work paid off; in 2010, Lima teleconferenced in on the first graduation ceremonies for Media Center students, held simultaneously in hundreds of classrooms across the state.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

The placemats consist of the following: Key Events (x18 Placemats with a summary of all the required Books for the new OCR Classical Civilisations A-Level) Key Themes (x9 Placemats with a summary of each theme across the whole Odyssey) Key Characters (x6 Placemats with a summary of each character and their impact within the Odyssey) These are excellent revision tools and can be used to support the learning of students both within and outside of the classroom.

Across the country, students, teachers, principals, and staff members are helping each other make sense of the mix of raw emotions happening in communities, schools, and classrooms in the wake of the 2016 election.

According to more than 40 studies of elementary, middle, and high school English classrooms, discussion - based practices improve comprehension of the text and critical - thinking skills for students across ethnic backgrounds and socioeconomic contexts (Murphy, Wilkinson, Soter, Hennessey, & Alexander, 2009; Applebee, Langer, Nystrand, Gamoran, 2003).

The National Education Association reports that, as of 2004, nearly every general education classroom across the country includes students with physical and / or learning disabilities.

(Just as we did with classroom observations, to avoid generating a spurious correlation between student survey responses and achievement scores for the same group of students, we estimated the correlation across different classrooms of students taught by the same teacher.)

Project - based, interdisciplinary learning requires teaching teams to integrate a theme or project into rigorous lesson plans from a variety of disciplines, and to coordinate delivery among teachers and across classrooms so that projects progress apace and students meet curriculum goals.

Central to the mission of this low - income, minority school is a commitment to the Expeditionary Learning Schools Outward Bound model of instruction and schoolwide reform that emphasizes project learning that extends across curriculum areas and takes students out of the classroom and into the community.

The achievement gains based on that measure were more reliable measures of a teacher's practice (less variable across different classes taught by the same teacher) and were more closely related to other measures, such as classroom observations and student surveys.

Youve just provided a voice - to - voice learning experience that will expand the walls of your classroom and open up possibilities for your students to become global partners with students across the country or across the world.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Our best evidence of the effects of laptop policy comes from a separate analysis that compares the exam scores of students assigned to the unrestricted - use and tablet - only classrooms to those of students in classes where laptops were banned, while adjusting for the minor differences in the backgrounds of students across groups and including controls for the instructor, the class hour, and the semester.

In other words, student responses were not only consistent across classrooms, they were predictive of student achievement gains across classrooms.

The partnership is the latest initiative from Skype to reach its goal of connecting one million classrooms across the globe through Skype in the Classroom, a free online community that helps teachers use Skype to enrich educational experiences for students.

All five parts of the Growth Mindsets Primary Collection in one place, with a discount on the individual prices: - 25 Ways to Encourage Trial and Error in the Classroom - 25 Ways to Give Effective Feedback - 25 Ways to Promote Metacognition - 25 Ways to Target Student Effort - 25 Ways to use Language to Promote Growth Mindsets That's 125 strategies, activities and techniques covering the key areas of classroom practice you can focus on to develop growth mindsets across the board.

Khan Academy in Idaho launched in May 2012, spreading out across nearly 600 miles of the state and serving 12,800 students in 570 classrooms.

We measure peer domestic violence at the cohort level (that is, across all students in a grade at a school) as opposed to the classroom level due to the possible sorting of students into classrooms according to their achievement and behavior.

The unpacking process led to building teacher capacity and understanding, and the development of plain language statements that classroom teachers could use to make accurate, fair and consistent judgements about student progress and achievement within and across teams in the school.

Farr came to the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Tuesday to engage with students in the International Education Policy and Education Policy and Management master's programs and help foster deeper understanding about what works and what is still needed in classrooms across the world.

This annual effort focuses on improving education across America and takes place during the months of August through October when students around the nation head back to the classrooms.

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.

While teachers are implementing elements of Learning Across the Curriculum or Readers» and Writers» Workshop, they use the system of LASW to identify student concerns and refine classroom practices.»

Our classroom and visit resources support object - based learning across the curriculum and are designed to meet the varied needs of students from EYFS through to Key Stage 5.