Sentences with phrase «actual classroom work»

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«Teachers have enough to worry about between lessons, grading, managing their classroom, and the actual work of educating our children.

Still, that has not stopped neuroscience from insinuating itself into classrooms worldwide in the form of teacher - training programs, computer applications and curriculum changes — not one of which is based on actual knowledge for the simple reason that we lack even «fundamental principles» of how the brain works, they write.

According to the Department of Education3, on average, UK teachers work 57.5 hours a week, but tasks such as lesson preparation, marking, supervising children and other administration result in just 19.3 hours being spent in the actual classroom.

I need to provide documentation of what I've learned during the past five years, along with proof (video tapes and actual student work) that I'm applying effective methods in my classroom.

I considered the flipped classroom, where you show pre-recorded instructional videos as homework and the students then do the actual work in class.

An innovative teacher, Fran coordinates actual and digital global projects with partnering classrooms across the globe to co-create and produce authentic digital artifacts where students think and work creatively, then implement tech tools to demonstrate quality communication in studied target languages.

What is unique about National Board Certification is that it assesses not only the knowledge teachers possess but also the actual use of their skills and professional judgment in the classroom as they work to improve student learning.

Those resources introduce more than 50 children's books that are useful for teaching math ideas and present vignettes of actual classroom lessons that use them, along with samples of student work.

BTR is implementing a model that emphasizes training teachers on - site in actual classrooms with students and lead teachers, similar to the way medical residents grow into effective doctors by working directly with patients under the guidance of veterans.

Adopting a new literacies framework helps teachers recognize technology as more than just a way to get students» attention but as an actual part of the work that students do in the classroom (Bailey, 2009).

Literacy researchers typically look closely at actual classroom practices, teachers» understanding, and artifacts of students literacy learning, and they work more directly with teachers than either policy or measurement researchers.

These studies reported on preparation programs that provided the opportunity to participants to perform as leaders, whether in a role - play in front of other program participants (Nesbit et al., 2001), while working with classroom teachers in an actual teacher leadership position in a school or district (Howe & Stubbs, 2003), or with the support of a mentor in a teacher leader training program (Harris & Townsend, 2007).

In our CACREP - accredited master's program in School Counseling, you'll gain the preparation you need to work in diverse school settings, with hands - on training in actual K - 12 classrooms, and valuable networking opportunities via community and professional organizations.

We have found some success by starting with teachers who volunteer to participate, creating some success in these classrooms which we then try to make public, and then using data as well as actual classroom visits to make a compelling case for the value of the work.

This teacher could also help by serving as the «contact classroom» to check whether the video and audio are working properly before and during the actual broadcast.

Elementary Education majors spend seven out of eight semesters — up to 1,500 hours — learning in actual classrooms, working hands - on with diverse students in grades K — 6.

They submit evidence including lesson plans, student work samples, written reflections, and classroom video of actual teaching performance.

The clinical faculty are often former classroom teachers with expertise in the actual work of teaching.

Compared to the actual programs of teacher preparation — including extensive coursework and work in classrooms as well as a rigorous external performance evaluation — the now passed regulations amount to the slimmest preparation, 16 credit hours of instruction and less than a week worth of time in an actual classroom.

Illustrated with student work and filled with actual classroom experiences, this resource book offers valuable teaching tips and suggestions, as well as five different types of writing assignments for math.

While studying toward a degree in education, students will be required to work in an actual classroom setting to gain valuable real - world experience.

The operative word here is «representative,» as the teacher candidates are not assessed by observing their work in an actual classroom, with real live children... «Because a teacher's interaction with students is an integral part of certain high - leverage teaching practices, ETS and TeachingWorks are designing and prototyping virtual classrooms with interactive avatar students.

And you can believe that graduates of traditional teacher education programs (who spend 4 to 5 years studying their content area, pedagogy, learning theories, child development, and gaining experience in school classrooms working with actual students and practicing teachers) aren't as «good» as the graduates of elite colleges and universities (who didn't major in education and only get a few weeks of training before entering the classroom.)

The real work kicks in when leaders try to navigate a confusing and still - developing field to select an evidence - based program that will translate the findings of researchers into actual results in the classroom.

It's no longer enough to have one classroom computer and let students play a game when their work is finished, as the standards dictate that basic keyboarding (actual typing instruction) will begin in early elementary school and computer literacy will involve actually creating original works on computers.

Until you're ready to leave the world of the classroom and do actual field work, you just won't understand what engineers deal with every day.

Despite the fact that law students consistently request (on those rare occasions when they are asked for their input on the curriculum) more skills - based training that will prepare them for legal practice and working with clients, law schools provide little, if any, classroom teaching directed at accomplishing actual tasks.

The program also includes 160 hours of actual experience working in either a tutorial classroom setting, or in an outside facility within the medical billing field.