Sentences with phrase «allows classroom groups»

A free iPad app that allows classroom groups to exchange ideas in the pages of digital texts.

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Sonja Hill from the Children's Hunger Alliance explained that when the program is fully implemented in the fall students in grades Pre-K to 2 will have direct delivery of breakfast to their classrooms, allowing the students to eat together in the room as a small group while beginning their school day.

For example, an outdoor classroom allows for noisy musical instruments, creative messy art projects or group work to be completed.

AV manufacturers are also offering wireless presentation solutions, allowing multiple devices to connect to a central display in the classroom for content sharing and group collaboration.

This tool enables collaboration between multiple groups in a classroom environment, as students and teachers can share content sources, allowing them to discuss their work on a main screen in front of the class.

We installed flexible and / or collaborative classroom furniture (e.g. node chairs, U-shaped reading tables) that allows for individual, partner, and small - group work as well as whole - group collaboration.

You also should ask 5 - 7 additional teachers to help you with this project by allowing a small group of students into their classrooms for a look - around and being available for a five question survey.

For example, «Do Now» s (a commonly used technique for keeping students on task while waiting for whole - group instruction to start) can become «Start Now» s, which allow each student to dive into their individualized content as soon as they enter the classroom.

The modern classroom isn't complete without a collaborative website that allows you to put together videos as a group.

Proponents of tracking and of ability - grouping (a milder version that separates students within the same classroom based on ability) say that the practices allow students to learn at their own levels and prevent a difficult situation for teachers: large classes where children with a wide range of different needs and skill levels are mixed together.

Formed in reaction to a provision that allowed teachers in training to be identified under federal law as «highly qualified» and concentrated in low - income, high need schools, this group has developed a new, comprehensive framework for teaching quality that will allow the nation to put a fully - prepared and effective educator in every classroom and school.

By emphasizing shared responsibility and regular meetings, Learning Clubs create a powerful support group that allows teachers to test and refine their work in integrating the best research - based techniques into their classroom practice.»

Allowing free schools to open where there is a «social need» would increase community integration and help prevent racist abuse in classrooms, a free school campaign group has claimed.

Students work at Personalized Ability Level ~ Multi-grade classrooms allow students to work with a peer group of their own ability level while exposing them to curriculum before expected mastery.

In 2014, parents of students at Horace Mann Elementary School in Northwest Washington, D.C., spent over $ 470,000 of their own money to support the school's programs.1 With just under 290 students enrolled for the 2013 - 14 school year, this means that, in addition to public funding, Horace Mann spent about an extra $ 1,600 for each student.2 Those dollars — equivalent to 9 percent of the District of Columbia's average per - pupil spending3 — paid for new art and music teachers and classroom aides to allow for small group instruction.4 During the same school year, the parent - teacher association, or PTA, raised another $ 100,000 in parent donations and collected over $ 200,000 in membership dues, which it used for similar initiatives in future years.5 Not surprisingly, Horace Mann is one of the most affluent schools in the city, with only 6 percent of students coming from low - income families.6

A Kindergarten teacher allowed students to pick their activity during group work by moving their magnetized name, and students in an upper grades classroom were given their station rotation assignments on a PowerPoint slide projected on the board each day.

TOPICS Expressions and Relationships Place Value Operations with Whole Numbers and Decimals FEATURES Warm - up activities to begin the learning process Fluency practice using VersaTiles Small - group and independent practice opportunities Re-Engagement activities for students needing additional instruction Ways to incorporate the mathematics into daily classroom routines ExplorAction Activities allow students to discover key concepts Teacher tips and games to reinforce concepts INCLUDES 2 VersaTiles Number and Operations Books 2 VersaTiles Fractions Books 1 Hands - On Standard Number & Operations Teacher Resource Guide, Grade 4, Common Core Edition 1 Hands - On Standards Fractions Teacher Resource Guide, Grade 4, Common Core Edition 6 Fraction Number Lines 5 Base Ten Factor Tracks 2 Fraction Tower Equivelency Cube Sets 2 VersaTiles Mini Answer Cases 1 Here, There, Everywhere!

A spokeswoman for the union said the rules allow classroom assistants to teach small groups of children under the supervision of a qualified teacher, but they should not teach whole classes or prepare teaching material.

Study Island Group Sessions is our latest classroom response system solution, designed to allow teachers to easily engage students in whole - class activities and provide immediate access to actionable data.

Classrooms are organized in pods around computer labs, allowing students to rotate from large - group instruction into individualized tutoring, small - group project work, online learning and independent study.

Despite rhetoric to the contrary, «Most regular classroom teachers make few, if any, provisions for talented students» (U. S. Department of Education, 1993, p. 2) Furthermore, the trend toward using heterogeneous cooperative learning groups in contemporary classrooms may lend itself to the exploitation of highly gifted children, especially in settings where group grades are given or where no homogeneous groupings are allowed (Robinson, 1990).

Flex - grouping allows teachers the opportunity to organize collaborative and cooperative activities in the classroom.

The action comes despite a 2010 ruling from the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court that invalidated federal regulations allowing the practice after civil rights groups complained that teachers in the alternative programs - or internships - were disproportionately given classroom assignments at schools in low - income neighborhoods and those serving at - risk students.

ClassFlow is teacher - designed lesson delivery software that energizes the classroom learning experience by allowing teachers to showcase lessons on any interactive display, share digital lesson materials with students, administer quizzes and polls, and assign group learning activities using mobile devices.

A tracking system is often the foundation of a differentiated classroom, as it allows you to strategically put students in heterogeneous or homogenous groups, or pull a small group of students aside for additional support.

Other Breakthrough Schools are exploring multi-age classrooms with student groupings based on skill level; community partnerships that give students real - world, interest - driven education opportunities; and accelerated pathways, allowing students to complete high school content by grade 10, granting them access to college credits in grades 11 and 12.

The Small - Group Kits are uniquely designed to reinforce skill with specific activities allowing teachers to differentiate their classroom instruction.

Of course, there are approaches like cooperative grouping that have good research records, but that allow for a mix of whole class, small group, and individual work without the large losses of time evident in most small group centered classrooms.

School administration began academic and behavioral town hall meetings each quarter in classrooms which allow staff the opportunity to engage in small group discussions about safety and security.

When identifying classroom rules, teachers should consider allowing students to help create three to five nonnegotiable expectations for the group, and then follow up by asking students to justify the importance of the rules they create and the positive implications that the rules will have on their learning.

Determine the extent to which individuals and groups at state, district, school, and classroom levels possess the will and skill required to improve student learning, and the extent to which their work settings allow and encourage them to act on those capacities and motivations.

If your group hasn't had the means to support teachers this way, start small — even $ 25 per classroom can allow a teacher to purchase some new books.

The resulting platform, myLC, allows classroom teachers to continuously group and regroup students and competencies based on progress — a process that creates greater student ownership and agency.

It would allow for regulations to be implemented that would allow «state monitors» in classrooms across the state to control how animal welfare groups advocate for animals.

Other public property that historically has not been open to such activities, but which the government has allowed access to for such activities on a permanent or limited basis, include schools that open classrooms for after - school use by civic, social, or rec groups.

Online learning allows individuals to study at their own pace, equating to better comprehension and recall than the traditional «group average» pace of the classroom.

In addition, programs need to be staffed at a level that allows for teacher - child ratios that are appropriate for the age of the children and the size of the group, such as those required for programs accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.44 Low teacher - child ratios enable teachers to focus on the individual needs of the children and engage them in meaningful interactions.45 This means having both an adequate number of teachers specifically assigned to a classroom, as well as providing sufficient substitutes or floaters to cover for breaks, planning time, and paid leave.