Through an online, confidential, survey students are
asked about their classroom experience; factual matters about which they are in a good position to make informed judgments.
Next month, I'll answer a few more questions, addressing TLC leadership, prioritization, the possibility of Dylan Wiliam Center demonstration schools in the near future, and a question that people often
ask me about classroom formative assessment.
Not exact matches
The revolutionary, almost subversive, thing
about asking is that it goes beyond making it OK to have secret questions and inner doubts and gives us permission to raise our hands in God's
classroom with a «Pardon me, but I don't get it.»
Do we not have to
ask about the relation between theory and practice in both
classroom and field, in both profession and academy?
The faculty of two esteemed divinity schools have been
asked to use more inclusive language to talk
about God in their
classrooms.
The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions
about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on
asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the
classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.
One school
asked the inspectors to leave, saying that it upset and unsettled the children to have a stranger enter the (primary)
classroom and demand that the children talk
about something they were uncomfortable with.
«I
ask our coaches to go in and visit with
classroom teachers
about the youngster's presence in the
classroom — not just how he does on test scores, but his presence.
More important than the labels of «play - based» or «academic - focused,» though, is what actually happens in the
classroom and how teachers respond to emotional situations, so
ask about specific scenarios when you're considering a school.
She also suggests speaking with the school and
asking about the age range of the children who will be entering into the
classroom that year.
The second graders were able to
ask the high schoolers
about plant care and identification and prevention of plant diseases in preparation for planning their own
classroom garden.
One of the most frequently
asked questions we hear
about breakfast - in - the -
classroom is in regard to the different delivery models.
We will
ask them what works and what doesn't, learn their best practices for a successful breakfast - in - the -
classroom program, and learn more
about what students want on their school breakfast menus.
Parents concerned
about food rewards in the
classroom or out of control birthday parties should go directly to their district superintendent and
ask to see a copy of the district's wellness policy.
«Another boy then
asked why they were going around collecting trash, and this gave us an opportunity for an organic conversation
about our
classroom community, responsibility, and accountability.
When a picture of our homeschool room became the most popular picture I've shared on Instagram, many of you
asked details
about specific parts of the picture, so I decided to write
about our homeschool
classroom.
I went up the
classroom stage and delivered my oral presentation
about the subject the teacher
asked me.
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Open up the
classroom for discussion
about challenges and
ask successful students to voluntarily share their solutions.
Classroom flow: Find a colleague or student who has a free period when you teach, and
ask him or her to come and observe how you and your students move
about the
classroom.
Ask students to research
classroom, library, and online resources to learn more
about Manitoba.
Photosynthesis may be an unlikely topic to inspire an opera or ballet, but in a 2nd grade
classroom here recently, the children were
asked to use dance to help them learn
about that process.
«It's
about supporting the child but also supporting teachers and schools to be confident delivering Aboriginal perspectives within the
classroom and also
asking educators to look at Aboriginal pedagogies and how they can use that within the
classroom.»
Telling time with the human floor clock was such a success in my
classroom ~ that other teachers have
asked me
about it.Read more
about it here.
After reading
about hamsters,
ask students to share the top five things they would
ask a teacher who was interested in keeping a
classroom pet.
asked a handful of educators to offer their best ideas
about what it will take to create meet the challenges of the 21st - century
classroom.
Teachers were
asked to think specifically
about why they wanted a blended learning environment and what gaps it could address in the
classroom.
This can be used a barometer for the health of a
classroom; when
asked, do students take the opportunity to dig into things they actually care
about, or do they try to
ask the simplest question in order to «get done» with the subject?
In a private setting, they would
ask me
about my culture, my family and where I came from, but in the
classroom, I was just another student wanting to learn like everybody else.
We found that the pathway to becoming the leader of a
classroom starts in middle and high school, so we
ask: How do we engage middle and high school students to think
about teaching as a career?
Besides talking
about the pharmacy industry and reading to some students, Kramer also observed teachers
asking for support in conferences,
classroom instruction, activities, and disciplinary action.
I
asked some regular
classroom teachers to tell me
about their experiences with inclusion.
Dan Willingham, a cognitive psychologist at the University of Virginia and author of the American Educator's «
ask the cognitive scientist» column, offers a bridge between the laboratory and the
classroom in his volume, Why Don't Students Like School: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions
About How the Mind Works and What It Means for The
Classroom.
FROM THE P - FILES: Principals Share Parent Involvement Ideas This month, Education World
asked a number of principals to tell us
about ways their teachers involve parents in the
classroom and the school.
No matter where you are on the tech - savvy spectrum, if you were
asked about a favorite app or website that impacts teaching and learning in your
classroom, you'd be able to contribute to the discussion.
When recently
asked about the risk involved in schools taking pupils on trips, chief executive of the Council for Learning Outside the
Classroom (CLOtC), Elaine Skates, asserted: «To anyone who thinks that school trips are too risky I would
ask them
about the risks of not taking children outside the
classroom for learning, the risks of not expanding their horizons, the risks of not helping them to achieve all they can.»
Student Feedback:
Ask students — the digital natives — if they have any creative ideas
about ways in which Facebook can enrich their learning experience, both in the
classroom and beyond.
«We have collegial observations and the observation form that we use has space [for] questions that the observing teachers
ask students
about what's happening in the
classroom, the learning strategies that are being used and how much they understand of the learning intentions and so on,» Taylor explains.
Indeed, a BBC interviewer recently compared his research to the holy grail of education and
asked him for a thumbs - up or thumbs - down
about common
classroom practices.
I was eager to
ask her
about the current stakes for education, as the tides are changing rapidly across the globe towards mixed
classrooms.
«This is one of the pieces that's easy to fix, but we don't get it right,» Mapp says,
asking the audience to think
about a typical school open house, where parents are shunted from the auditorium or cafeteria — where they hear from the principal
about rules and requirements — to the
classroom, where they hear from the teacher
about more rules and requirements.
Students are accustomed to consuming media in the
classroom for the purpose of conveying content, but are rarely
asked to think
about the media product itself.
Using a collaborative brain - storming tool called tricider, Nik
asks us to contribute ideas on what we'd like to see in an ebook
about exploiting online video in the digital
classroom?
* Higher - income parents, college - educated parents, married parents, and white and Asian parents indicated that they would be willing to take slightly more steps to gain information
about a school (such as tour the school,
ask friends / neighbors, observe a
classroom, etc.) than other parents.
This report presents the findings of a survey of English language arts (ELA) teachers from Common Core states,
asking them to answer questions
about the texts their students read and the instructional techniques they use in the
classroom.
For visual thinkers, it is a relief to draw in the
classroom, to be
asked to draw an experience instead of write
about it.
So talk to them,
ask how their weekends went, give them high - fives in the hallway, smile across the lunchroom at them, make a special point to
ask about their schoolwork while you are conducting
classroom walk - throughs, play tag on the playground with them whatever contact you can make, make it.
Edutopia.org
asked several innovators in the field
about what practical steps teachers and administrators could take right away — without making any major investments or waiting for policy shifts — to improve technology integration in our
classrooms.
Few earnest champions of
classroom technology understand the multiple and complicated roles teachers perform, address the realities of
classrooms within age - graded schools, respect teacher expertise, or consider the practical questions teachers
ask about any technological innovation that a school board and superintendent decide to adopt, buy, and deploy.
First segment of a six - episode series
about a workshop where eighth - grade students in New York City are
asked to dream up the basic elements of the
classroom of the future using design thinking.