Sentences with phrase «teachers worked in small groups»

Teachers worked in small groups to test and document their learning.

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Moved by these concerns, in awareness of such needs, pastors and teachers of theology, administrators and boards of theological seminaries and now groups of these gathered loosely around a staff of inquirers with their advisers have undertaken for a brief space of time to examine their work and to ask large and small questions about its adequacy and improvement.

«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

Teachers working with small groups of children would no doubt find this book useful in providing starting points for discussions about the important ethical issues surrounding evolution and genetic engineering.

At KIPP Empower, a blended - learning school in Los Angeles that turned eyes with its 991 API (out of a possible 1000), the school uses blended learning to allow students to work in small groups of no more than 10 students at a time with the teacher so that students have lots of opportunities to engage and interact.

As students begin to work with the teacher in small groups during Week 3, they must also learn how to productively manage independent work time.

Strategies such as one - to - one or teacher aide support, working in small groups, calming or relaxation activities and the explicit teaching of prosocial behaviours were all cited as common ways to support students in this area.

Teachers helped students select a spider of interest, guiding them through their research, and students worked independently, in pairs, or in small groups to pull together facts about their featured spider and create a spider model.

CDU staff members work on - site with pre-service teachers in small groups.

Those who have met or exceeded standards work independently in small groups, and the teacher checks in with them throughout the class.

When teachers began asking for time to work with students in small groups, Humboldt Elementary found the time for them.

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.

Students can pursue objectives working with teachers, online, in small groups, or whatnot, at a pace that's right for them, while allowing them to skip past the objectives they've already mastered.

EW: In most classrooms, teachers need to work with individual students or with small groups of students.

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.

I think [Common Core] is essentially a federal initiative at this point, having been created by a small group of people, including very few if any teachers, working in conjunction with the Duncan administration, and it has been at the very least aggressively encouraged for states to adopt, particularly through the Race to the Top funding.»

Although most of EVC's work is with teachers and students, their parents, friends, and community members join in the dialog during end - of - term screenings of student work and through portfolio roundtables during which students present and comment on their work to a small group of teachers, peers, EVC staff, and others.

The 12 administrative subdistricts within the Houston school district hired teacher trainers to provide continuing support, working with teachers individually (in their classrooms) and in small groups.

Linda Howard, for example, a sixth - grade English teacher at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., describes her experience teaching in a model in which students rotate between working online and face - to - face: «I get to work with small groups a lot more.

In a flipped - learning model, the teacher is continually interacting with small groups of students or working with them individually.

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

Rather than teaching all the students the same subjects, in the same way, at the same pace — like in today's schools — the teacher rotated around the room and worked individually with small groups of students.

Maybe teachers are using small doses of digital instruction so they have more time, or smaller groups of students, for the main event: introducing kids to great works of literature, or big ideas in science, or the sweep of human history.

Like all of the other Symonds» students, he began his days with a morning meeting, worked with teacher support in large and small groups, experienced academic choice, lived by rules and consequences, attended art, music, physical education, and media classes, and became a part of the Symonds community.

These sites and apps can be used independently by upper elementary students, and kids as young as kindergarten may have fun working one - on - one or in small groups with the teacher.

For example, experimental work can identify effective approaches to teaching literacy for the relatively small group of teachers who participate in such studies.

Freitag soon discovered The Fairfax Transition to Teaching Partnership, an alternative certification program based at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Students spend one year interning at a Fairfax County (Virginia) public school — substituting, observing, assisting teachers, and working with students one - on - one and in small groups — and take summer and evening courses required for certification.

«I work in small group instruction,» said another third grade teacher.

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Teachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across theTeachers at Pearl - Cohn work together in small groups called flocks, an approach devised by a group of teachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across theteachers as a way to ensure that academic expectations and standards of behavior were applied consistently across the school.

«And finally, I'd arrange for a permanent substitute to be on hand, say two days a week, to cover classes in one - or two - hour slots so teachers could work one - on - one and in small groups with our technology aide and media specialist.

During the school day, each student alternates between working in a small group with a teacher and working with adaptive software on a computer.

Each classroom (at least among the three I visited) represented a unique approach to teaching and learning — one English classroom looked like a Flex model, where some students were working alone and others had sorted themselves into small groups to move through online assignments, and still others were in small group instruction with the teacher.

In the traditional classroom model, teachers may try to combat this issue by separating students into small groups or creating independent study time so they can work one - on - one with students who are struggling.

One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works best at that moment, until the student meets the learning objective.

Others work in small groups with a teacher, who will typically oversee two or three groups of students, the content and groupings informed by data from the student's work online.

Dr. Dillon has worked to grow leadership capacity in this area as well as with teacher groups, large and small, from K - 12 to support their journey to bring a blended, personalized learning experience to all students that they serve.

This time for small group instruction was not achieved by each teacher working in isolation.

Although the transfer from the camp setting back to their classrooms seemed to work well for the teachers, because the two settings were different, some teachers may have had more difficulty in applying course concepts, such as Hannah who taught small group ESL instruction.

In addition, Hannah was an ESL teacher who spent the majority of her day going into other classrooms or pulling students out to work in small groups with heIn addition, Hannah was an ESL teacher who spent the majority of her day going into other classrooms or pulling students out to work in small groups with hein small groups with her.

To the contrary, all four of the most effective schools used a collaborative model for reading instruction in which Title I, reading resource, special education, and regular teachers (as well as ELL teachers in one school) worked together to provide small group instruction.

However, California teachers spent over four and one - half hours per week with students engaged in small group reading activities, such as working in pairs or teams and small group discussions.

As noted in the second link, according to proponents of flipping, it allows teachers more time to work with students on small group and individual areas of need instead of spending in - class time lecturing.

Boys work with the class teacher to provide small group coaching in problem solving.

It is usually an activity that the students accomplish individually, with a partner, or in small groups while the teacher monitors the work.

From the beginning of your program you will be learning about the teaching profession in your UNC classrooms while participating in hands - on learning experiences with teachers and students in our local partner schools via tutoring, working one on one, and in small groups while working your way toward teaching full lessons.

In every BVP elementary school classroom, scholars have the opportunity to work in small groups with their teachers, with their whole class, and independently throughout their daIn every BVP elementary school classroom, scholars have the opportunity to work in small groups with their teachers, with their whole class, and independently throughout their dain small groups with their teachers, with their whole class, and independently throughout their day.

Remediation / intervention practices allow teachers to work with Tier II and Tier III students on targeted skills based on assessment data in small groups.

Thus allowing teachers to work in small groups and one - on - one to provide additional support for student learning.

You will need the flexibility and experience to work with student of varying ages in both one - to - one and small group situations, as well as supporting the teacher in whole class lessons.