Sentences with phrase «address classroom issues»

Candidates are provided opportunities to collaboratively address classroom issues that arise in both the general and special education environments.
During morning meeting, teachers do a go - around check - in with students, use a common and consistent language around behavior, and address any classroom issues.
When looking at creative approaches used to address the scenarios, 94.5 % agreed or strongly agreed that they tried to devise a creative approach to address the classroom issue.

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For example, in addressing the issue of creativity in the classroom he tells us, «Good teaching is at the heart of the undergraduate experience.
In The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom, I address a wide variety of topics including: how wellness policies and the new federal «Smart Snacks» rules relate to classroom junk food; the tricky problem of birthday treats and how to respond to your opponents on that issue; the use of junk food as a classroom reward; the use of candy as a teaching «manipulative;» kids and sugar consumption; and much more.
These are just a few areas in which breakfast - in - the - classroom can become a handy tool to help address food insecurity and hunger, as well as reduce tardies / absences, trips to the nurse, and disciplinary issues.
These are just a few examples of how breakfast - in - the - classroom has been used as a creative tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardiness and absenteeism, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!
The toolkit opens up with fact sheets on the importance of breakfast, particularly for children; hungry children act out and have difficulty focusing, and breakfast in the classroom is an excellent tool to address those issues.
We didn't address the huge amounts of junk food often served at school holiday and birthday parties, but that's a classroom issue, too.
Make sure the plan addresses key issues that require attention in the classroom and elsewhere in the school.
These are just a few examples of where breakfast - in - the - classroom has become a tool for administrators and educators to address food insecurity, disciplinary issues, tardies and absences, and trips to the school nurse — and that's on top of improved academic outcomes for students who eat school breakfast!
«Some issues that we were hoping to see addressed were not, among them the baselining of funding in the budget for initiatives such as legal aid for anti-eviction services and Teacher's Choice, a program that reimburses educators for the purchase of classroom supplies of their choice,» she said.
A group of Suffolk County school district superintendents have sent a letter to state education commissioner John King urging him to address their concerns about over-testing, the fast pace of mandating Common Core standards inside the classroom and issues with new teacher and principal evaluation programs, according to Friday's Newsday cover story.
«The governor has heard the message that we need to address the issue of overtesting, which is why he has asked the chancellor of SUNY system to come up with recommendations by June 1 on how we can minimize testing in the classroom,» said Hochul.
In the classroom environment, popular culture can make the learning process more engaging, invigorate the content linked to key learning objectives, and potentially address issues students have with key concepts.
All participants are required to design action projects in which they identify an issue of equity in classrooms, schools, or the district and develop a research - based intervention to address it.
Proactive teachers use a technique called family meetings to address the myriad issues that arise in a classroom.
C - DRUM's legal mediators help school - aged students and families work with educators to address the issues at hand and get the kids back into the classroom.
Addressing issues of diversity in the classroom can often be challenging because, as Kim noted, as a society we are conditioned from a young age to make assumptions about things by association and categorization.
We want to reinforce classroom learning and values at home and be well - equipped to address some of the issues that come up while our kids are navigating technology and digital media to support their schoolwork.
Cameras in the classroom can be used to help address and deter a number of day - to - day issues such as bullying, smoking, drug use, theft and violence towards staff.
Another factor, not only in a cluster - based arrangement, another thing that needs to be thought about is a more differentiated communication out to sites and out to schools, cognisant of the fact that in some schools teaching principals have significant classroom contact and yet have to address systems issues as well, and surely there are ways to have a better targeting approach to things.
A team - oriented approach to teaching, one that encourages educators to think about the success of a student well beyond the year they spend in a particular classroom, is a vital part of education, agreed panelist Tim Daly, president of the education nonprofit TNTP, which addresses issues of teacher quality.
So far REMIX has presented the film OT: Our Town, which documented a Compton, California high school's production of the American stage classic, Our Town; and has hosted a conversation about hip - hop in education, and the ways it can be used as a tool in classrooms to address issues of literacy, race, and social justice.
At the same time, he argues that high standards and accountability are no longer enough to address the issues some of our students — too often, students of color and children from low - income families — bring with them to the classroom
If, as educators, we feel powerless to address bigger issues such as living - wage jobs and health care reform, Gorski (2008) proposes that we ask ourselves, «Are we willing, at the very least, to tackle the classism in our own schools and classrooms
Ullman says that, given all this information, it's no surprise that principals and teachers are going to be erring on the side of caution when addressing these issues in classrooms.
The Commission will examine state and local policies to increase parent and family engagement, including: how the school calendar meets the needs of students and families to optimize engagement such as parent - teacher conferences and half - days; district and school - level policies to address student attendance issues; access to information regarding teacher effectiveness; and parental involvement in school policies such as placement of students in low - performing schools and in the classrooms of ineffective teachers.
• CCTV in classrooms to address issues of bullying and also assist with teaching training — for the latter, this technology can be used as an alternative to having a teaching colleague present in the classroom throughout the entire lesson.
Simon Nelson, Chief Executive at FutureLearn, said: «Gender equality is widely discussed in today's workforce, so it's critical to address this issue as early as possible by opening up a dialogue in the classroom too.
The third is an infographic by Daniel Grafton that addresses important issues concerning Flipped Classrooms.
In a series of recent conversations with the mental health professionals I trust, with colleagues who have a long history of putting students» mental well - being first — and of course with students — I've assembled a list of strategies for classroom teachers to implement that might help not just treat the symptoms but also address the underlying issues.
Dana Mortenson: One potential consequence of conflict for educators is to refrain from saying anything, sharing any perspective, or addressing contentious political or social issues in the classroom.
Use clips from the film BULLY, along with additional classroom resources, to address issues of ostracism, bullying, and encourage upstander behavior in your school and classroom.
«Most school districts have policies that address playground supervision issues such as teacher / student ratios, and those are typically larger ratios than in a classroom setting,» she said.
The issue has been addressed in Kane and Staiger (6), using a dataset with random assignment of teachers to classrooms, and in Chetty et al. (15), who look at effects based on changes in teaching staff.
Rather than using the age - old classroom techniques, here are some newer ways to address this issue that I have found make a real difference.
Then I began to consider some of the issues that I address in my book Blended Learning in Grades 4 - 12: Leveraging the Power of Technology to Create Student Centered Classrooms (to be published June 2012 by Corwin Publishing).
Internationalize your classroom this year with projects that engage students in meaningful, real - world work to address globally significant issues.
The Executive Development Program addresses a comprehensive set of leadership skills, issues and challenges intended to dramatically improve instruction in the classroom and the practice of school leadership.
«Kersten's primary concern is that the initiative addresses the reality of how issues of race, class, culture and gender play out in classrooms and affect student achievement.
Bryan Hassel and Emily Ayscue Hassel have written for Education Next about a new way to address this issue, something they call Opportunity Culture, which allows teachers to take on leadership roles while remaining in the classroom.
This proposal addresses chronic issues with alternative routes to teaching: poor induction methods into the profession, difficulty connecting academic certification requirements with real - life classroom challenges, and difficult school placements.
We need to address issues like access to resources, teacher professional development and ageing classrooms to get the full benefit of STEM education in primary schools.
Using a variety of assessments, videotapes of classroom instruction, and surveys (student surveys are featured in the preliminary report), the project is attempting to address some of the heretofore under - addressed issues in the measurement of teacher quality (especially non-random classroom assignment and how different classroom practices lead to different outcomes, neither of which are part of this preliminary report).
Critical issues included: addressing benchmark results, having the leadership team visible in all classrooms, researching and initiating appropriate interventions, supporting teachers through coaching, and providing resources and removing barriers to learning.
Coaches will have the skills to surface and address issues of equity in the classroom.
These issues are addressed in fuller, in - depth learning be that classroom based or eLearning.
Teachers have taken to avenues such as social media, public radio, and the news to address Ferguson issues in the classroom.
The California Federation of Teachers and the California Teachers Association said the ruling doesn't address the daily issues teachers face in the classroom.
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