Sentences with phrase «act as classroom»

We have recently completed the construction of a modern Animal Care Center in Blount County to be used to house animals, ensure proper medical care, perform spay and neuter procedures and act as a classroom to educate the general public about proper animal care.

With that notion in mind, the following annotated bibliography is divided into four areas that will allow teachers to act as classroom tour guides.

6th form students from St George's School Ascot have been giving their time to help improve literacy and help teachers by acting as classroom assistants with young pupils.

Not exact matches

As students walked out of the classrooms, the House passed the bipartisan STOP School Violence Act, a school safety measure that provides $ 50 million to schools for training programs and revamped reporting systems.

Education and Training professionals act as facilitators to learning by using classroom or virtual presentations or individual instruction to help students learn complex subjects.

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.

No wonder the country is descending into international laughing stock and jobs created through scientific innovation are steadily shifting offshore when even those charged with educating your children act as if creationism has any validity in the science classroom.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

As students get back to work in classrooms, Congress is rolling up its sleeves to debate new rules involving the Child Nutrition Act, which sets standards for 30 million school lunches a day and is scheduled to expire later this year.

In fact, Baby Pine inadvertently served as one heck of a classroom prop, triggering thought and discussion about single motherhood, the lack of affordable daycare in this country, and why so many Americans find the natural act of feeding one's baby offensive.

The SMART SCHOOLS BOND ACT OF 2014, as set forth in section one of part B of chapter 56 of the laws of 2014, authorizes the sale of state bonds of up to two billion dollars ($ 2,000,000,000) to provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connectivity to equalize opportunities for children to learn.

And Gov. Andrew Cuomo's proposed Smart Schools Bond Act, Proposal 3, which would generate $ 2 billion to improve classroom technology and other elements of educational infrastructure, also saw approval, as did Proposal 2, the constitutional amendment that would eliminate the need for legislative bills to be printed and supplied to every lawmaker before being considered.

The Bond Act, as it reads on the November ballot, would provide access to classroom technology and high - speed internet connections, as well as offer funds to build more pre kindergarten classrooms, and replace the trailers that some overcrowded schools in New York City have been using to teach students.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

From acting as a scheme to give classroom science teachers access to professional scientists to help them with project work, the programme has grown rapidly.

The three - act HBO anthology, which revolves around the abortion debate, was shot on stock that appears to be of Seventies vintage even in sequences meant to take place in the Fifties and the Nineties, contributing to its classroom - instructional vibe as much as the message - oriented scripting.

Pensions have acted as a strong incentive for late career teachers nearing the prescribed retirement age to stay in the classroom, «pulling» teachers to stay in the system.

In classrooms where units build on each other, such as math, this protocol comes in handy at the end of a unit, acting as a bridge to the next.

Students with disabilities are served by a system of policy and practice that extends from expansive federal laws such as the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) all the way down to the interactions between a single special education teacher and a single student within one classroom.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

In addition to working in the classroom environment, he has acted as a consultant in the area of technology and curriculum design / implementation, as well as an instructor in the preservice teacher education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

These spikes act as an incentive for teachers to stay in the classroom until their pension wealth reaches its peak and then push them into retirement shortly thereafter, as pension wealth accumulation turns negative.

Help your students consider their long - term role as environmental stewards by planning global education projects that challenge students to think (and act) beyond their classrooms.

In reality, I am present for the acting club, as it occurs in my classroom, but I don't have to do anything apart from the occasional reminder to help with behavior management (although it's really enthusiasm management).

They can direct parking to smooth parents» arrival, they can act as guides and greeters to lead parents to meeting places and classrooms.

It enables teachers to surface latent skills that can act as an impetus for students to engage in STEM subjects within the classroom.

This situation acts as a barrier to effective classroom learning for immigrants.

The teacher leader's role is to monitor the pulse of the classrooms and to pass information to and from the Leadership Team, all the time acting as the «voice of the classroom» in team discussions and decision making.

But I've sat in classrooms and watched as «smart» kids twiddled their thumbs (or acted out) in boredom and frustration while the instructor toiled to get basic concepts into the heads of those who, for whatever reason, were finding it much harder to learn.

A handy two - sided support map for younger children which could act as a handy classroom prompt.

Life Lessons When dealing with bullying in your classroom, be sure that every act of discipline provides an opportunity for bullies to discover their own compassion and develop it as they would a muscle.

Like many of our education colleagues around the country, we have struggled with the constraints brought on by the federal No Child Left Behind Act, initially seeing its demands for consistency as the enemy of classroom creativity and innovation.

Great article, as a Maths publisher speaking directly to schools we recognise that we have responsibility to act in a way that benefits the classroom.

As schools, colleges and universities attempt the tricky balancing act of cutting costs while improving service levels, more and more are discovering the benefits of deploying Fujitsu scanners in the classroom and administrative offices.

Other elements include a wide corridor alongside classrooms acting as a gallery for student artwork.»

As a result, it has been difficult for observers to determine which factor or group of factors was most responsible for these gains: a revised and strengthened licensing system; revised or new licensure tests; the use of first - rate standards in most classrooms, in annual state student tests, and in the professional development programs all teachers took for license renewal; and / or the major changes in K - 12 governance and finance introduced by the Massachusetts Education Reform Act of 1993.

Once students are confident with the terminology, we create our own courtroom in the classroom and role - play the stages of hypothesis testing with students acting as the jury, prosecution, judge and defence.

One of the most important lessons I learned as an elementary teacher is to avoid having your first contact with a family being the first time a kid acts up or misbehaves in your classroom.

My favorite classrooms are noisy, with students challenging each other and the teacher acting as a highly skilled coach, not just standing in front spewing out meaningless knowledge to be memorized.

He says, through his videos, pre-service educators are able to observe what a classroom dynamic is actually like without being there in the room and acting as a distraction to the students, which often makes students behave differently.

Acting with a benefit mindset is not something students put on one Saturday a month for two hours as a grudging act of service — it is a way of being, a way of well - being, that yields powerful results inside and outside of the classroom.

Another solution to increase the effective use of EdTech in the classroom is the presence of an EdTech champion in schools: someone to act as an in - house advocate of technology and its trouble - shooter, leading technology adoption across the school.

A year after the Every Student Succeeds Act became law, it remains a work in progress as states, districts, and a shifting cast of federal officials prepare for ESSA's classroom debut in the 2017 - 18 school year.

As the ALEKS algorithm gets better and Bill Gates throws more gold bricks at Sal Khan and more people flip their classrooms, though, it's clear to me that the second act isn't our job anymore.

The ISTE Standards act as a roadmap for bold, innovative educators and education leaders to re-engineer their schools and classrooms for digital age learning no matter where they fall on the journey to meaningful, effective ed tech integration.

Indeed, the regular classroom is becoming even more standardized as schools adjust to meet the testing and accountability mandates of the federal No Child Left Behind Act.

Architects used a pinwheel concept to arrange the main spaces, with the library acting as the hub and classrooms all around.

You can help to reinforce that sense of community within your classroom as you review reading comprehension skills with cause and effect task cards, set the challenge for 100 acts of kindness within one month!

After seven years in the classroom I still find myself as enraptured by the act of awakening young readers to the world of words as I am by the words themselves.

Used in teacher preparation programs, the ATLAS cases serve as a way to expose pre-service teachers to real - life examples of how accomplished teachers think and act in the classroom in different scenarios.