Sentences with phrase «about small learning communities»

Until this year I didn't know anything about small learning communities.

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They're learning about what a smaller, deeper community looks like.

The caucus also provides opportunities for Senators and staff to learn about the science and art of brewing beer, and the unique cultural and economic contributions made by small brewers to their communities.

Readings and conversations about child development, learning, health, Waldorf education and community help us to recognize the smaller and larger themes at work in our daily life with children.

Breaking down schools into smaller learning communities, such as teams or «houses,» is one such strategy that allows students and adults to more readily get to know and care about each other.

The comments come from current Teachers, Teaching Assistants, SEND co-ordinators, heads of house, inclusion managers and Form Group Tutors...: We used this in small groups in our new class every morning for a week, what a great start, everyone is still buzzing... Builds a strong sense of belonging to something special... your class... Encourages differences and similarities to recognised and valued... Hugely improves our efforts at inclusion... The students quickly came out of their shells and are blossoming... Reveals much of the nature of the students... Gets us buzzing as a group... Encourages participants to take part in their own game and go and find things out from others... brilliant ice breaker game... Helped to resolve a huge problem we had in getting students to gel... Switches the students brains on from the moment go... Helps to break down various barriers... Gives a big boost to developing important life skills... This gives a great insight and a fantastic array of examples, clues and hints as to the characters of each individual in the group... Helps participants learn some things about themselves... Helps participants learn some things about others... Helps you learn about the participants (you can be a player as well on some occasions)... Makes it easy to develop class rules of fairness and cooperation... Builds a sense of purpose... Creates a sense of community and togetherness... Brilliant, just brilliant... our school is buzzing...

I started creating handouts with tips for a number of topics, things like managing routines and homework, finding out about your students, teaching large and small groups, setting up individualized prescriptive instruction, learning about the school community, even preparing for guest speakers and field trips.

In her District Administration article «Sustainable Professional Development,» Susan McLester includes substantial information about the creation of learning communities and on - demand coaches that are available commercially to meet the needs of a district, especially a small one that may not have the level of expertise or the availability of personnel to provide the necessary coaching and support to help its teachers create and sustain the new skills, practices, programs and methodologies they want to implement.

«The Coolest School in America» — How Small Learning Communities are Changing Everything describes the creation and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can beLearning Communities are Changing Everything describes the creation and development of learning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can belearning communities that are changing the conversation about what schools can be and do.

Second, few educators of the gifted would argue with the core tenets set forth in Turning Points (Carnegie Task Force on the Education of Young Adolescents, 1989) that middle school programs should: (1) create small communities of learning within larger school settings, (2) teach a solid academic core, (3) ensure success for all students, (4) enable educators closest to students to make important decisions about teaching and learning, (5) staff middle schools with teachers trained to work effectively with early adolescents, (6) promote health and fitness, (7) involve families in the education of learners, and (8) connect schools with communities.

Fall Meeting is a unique experience, different than most educational conferences, in that we spend most of our time in small learning communities, having conversations about the complexity of teaching and learning, with a primary focus on educational equity.

Founded by Global Kids and Former Principal Brad Haggerty in September 2004 as part of the Prospect Heights Educational Campus, the High School for Global Citizenship is an innovative small high school in Central Brooklyn that aims to create a community of active learners who are engaged participants in the democratic process and are learning about foreign policy issues and the connections between their personal lives and international events.

«Smaller learning communities and small schools are all about relationships,» he said.

Pringle also learned about the school's High Point Scholars program where students can participate in project - based learning, service - learning projects, community development work, outdoor education, peer mentoring, small group instruction, and weekly field trips.

Initial inquiries are most effective to learn about the positions and their respective roles within the small, community - centered, and competency - based learning environment of Next.

Learn about Minnesota New Country School, where teachers created small learning communities, self - directed and project - based learning programs, and authentic assessment.

About 10 years ago, many large high schools were separated into small learning communities, which are considered separate schools and 2.)

This study identified three essential tasks — building community, reinventing curriculum, and generating knowledge about change — which small learning communities must take up in order to become intimate and rigorous learning communities.

Facilitating a series of one - to - one or small group discussions, how members of a particular sub-group of students (the disengaged, high - achievers, young women, young men, or students not from the majority culture in the surrounding community, for example) are feeling about their learning experiences; or shaping a new initiative in the classroom or school.

Reorganizing the schools into a number of self - contained small learning communities or academies helps teachers learn each of their students» names, keep the hallways clear and form stronger bonds with students and other teachers.Interdisciplinary teacher teaming further reinforces the physical organization through common planning time during which teachers develop integrated lesson plans and share information about the performance of their students in different disciplines.

The things I learned about the women's strong connection to their community and that they had been planning a wedding before a man broke into their small house while they were sleeping — it brought the purpose of this kind of work back into focus for me.

There are many activities that take place in schools outside of the classroom that could present opportunities to incorporate authentic learning experiences about money and finances such as small fundraising ventures, excursions, community days and art and craft shows.

The community center, which is open to the public on Fridays and Saturdays and available for scheduled visits on other days, allows visitors to learn about and interact with various small animals and birds.

Their small meetings consist of volunteers who want to learn more about pit bulls and meet other advocates in the community.

The unique mix of monthly day long seminars and small class atmosphere give participants an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the issues facing their community and to engage with civic leaders.

Learn more about small - town life in New England in the early nineteenth century by visiting the oldest community - based museum in the country, the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, and enjoy your complimentary copy of «A Walking History of Middlebury.»

Luloff conducted a slide presentation documenting her recent trip to India where she learned more about the process of Indian block printing through working alongside a community of textile block printers in a small village called Ajrakpur in the state of Gujarat in Northwestern India near Pakistan.

With learning about this crisis, it also made me realize that one of the aspects of CU that is lauded above all else, its small community in a big city, was being taken away.

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