Sentences with phrase «at classroom life»

Through a detailed look at classroom life in racially and socioeconomically distinct public high school settings, it explores how local notions of ability shape the implementation of classroom practices in general and of detracking reform in particular.

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We learned a major pain point at this life stage is the lack of funding for those critical out - of - classroom experiences (i.e., study abroad and attending conferences / seminars) that can change lives.

Poor performance in the School of Communion translates into failure in the classroom and trouble at work — places where the virtues gained in family life are essential for success.

Moreover, there can be no divorce of the classroom from the lives of students in the dormitories and the lives of the professors at their homes.

At fraternity parties and many other places of undergraduate life outside of the classroom, the boys hold the stronger cards.

When your social life consists of learning math in a church classroom once a week and helping your mom pick up wholesale groceries at Sam's Club, you cling to church social outings like velcro.

At St. Francis, education extends beyond the classroom walls as our students are encouraged to develop their talents and discover their passions in every area of their lives.

As her report put it: «The research suggests that, while there may be little return to trying to make students more gritty as a way of being (i.e., in ways that would carry over to all aspects of their lives at all times and across contexts), students can be influenced to demonstrate perseverant behaviors — such as persisting at academic tasks, seeing big projects through to completion, and buckling down when schoolwork gets hard — in response to certain classroom contexts and under particular psychological conditions.»

While I've always felt that Waldorf teaching was my life's calling and absolutely loved my time in the classroom, I was looking for a way to put my expertise and love for Waldorf education to use in a new way - one that would allow me to continue working to promote Waldorf Education in the world, but also give me more time at home.

At the Alabang Elementary School in the southern part of the capital region, some 450 families live side by side in classrooms and on any available floor space.

Through a few simple yet meaningful things such as frequent conversations between his parents and teachers, his mother's involvement in the classroom, and stimulation of his natural curiosity at home, Dylan's parents have helped their son gain a sense that school is important and that doing his best at schoolwork is his current role in life.

So we really need to focus in on serving our children healthy foods at school (in the cafeteria, school store, classroom and vending machines) and at home, if we want to ensure that our children live long, healthy lives.

At the KIPP charter schools, established 18 years ago to improve the odds for low - income and underprivileged kids, fifth graders are drilled to sit up, listen, ask questions, nod, and track the speaker — a classroom acronym teachers call SLANT — to instill unfamiliar rules for appropriate behavior in school, college, and professional life.

While that «live - and - let - live argument» doesn't fly with me when it comes to truly non-nutritive foods like sugary birthday treats in the classroom or junk food in cafeterias, I think there's enough evidence (or at least controversy) over the nutritive value of milk that I'd keep it available.

We love the recent post over at the USDA blog by Dr. Robert Lewis of the El Monte School District, in which Dr. Lewis writes about his district's efforts to improve the lives of students using health - promoting messages in the classroom.

In - classroom, universal breakfast «went live» in Little Rock at Mabelvale Elementary on April 12th, and participation in the program at that first school has increased 55 %; not only that, lunch participation has also increased!

If you find one that come sin panels they can easily be placed in the grass at a park, ball game, classroom, at the beach or pool and inside the living room of Dear Aunt Margaret who has breakables all over the home.

Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash says the computers and systems can help students accelerate their learning to catch up with their peers, especially their suburban peers who live in worlds filled with technology and equipment at home and classrooms working electronically with the homes.

The lives of pupils and teachers at the Ejisu state experimental school are threatened by a dilapidated classroom block.

This winter in the San Francisco Bay Area, many children will sit in classrooms and play on the jungle gyms at recess and then go home to attentive parents who work hard to give them every advantage in life.

Live classroom sessions are mostly conducted during after school hours and sessions are archived for teams that wish to watch at alternate times.

Using it at home or in the classroom can enhance your grasp of the public concerns surrounding genomic progress and its influence in our lives.

Studying at Atmavikasa implies taking your Yoga practice beyond the classroom and integrating it with your life.

She studied to be a classroom teacher only to find that a life of travel and service is where it is at for her.

We usually keep some of the Enjoy Life soft cookies in my son's classroom at school so he has a sweet (and safe) treat when classmates bring cupcakes.

Perhaps having lived in Southern California for most of my life, I tend to think that the screenplay by New York native LaGravenese grossly overstates some of the depictions of the community here as largely violent and filled with racial tensions that cause conflicts on a daily basis in nearly every classroom and city block at all times.

But then it could be argued that the hoops action is almost incidental in this fact - based story, for the title character, Richmond High School (though actually filmed at my alma mater, Long Beach Polytechnic High School, which somehow became the go - to ghetto high school filming location after I graduated) basketball coach Ken Carter (Samuel L. Jackson), is less concerned with how his young charges fare on the court than they do in the classroom and, ultimately, in the game of adult life.

I looked around at my current colleagues and noticed that those who really do well in this profession are the ones who are good at attending to the fine details, are task oriented, and enjoy the parameters that life in the classroom can offer.

Many organisations and parent bodies aim to build awareness of the benefits that can be gained from schools, communities and parents working together in partnership, whether that's supporting children's learning in the classroom and at home, or helping to improve overall school life and processes.

Still, Nancy makes time to keep social and ethical development at the forefront of classroom life.

However, at this early phase in the technology adoption life cycle, schools must carefully consider all aspects of the use of mobile solutions in the classroom before investment.

They have to manage their students, deal with the flow of classroom life, and engage students in discussion about the topic at hand.

Practical teaching ideas were at the heart of the new Resources Live Zone at the show, which offered demonstrations of resources in action, enabling teachers to take back inspirational ideas to use in the classroom.

At its core, yourClass is a virtual classroom that offers synchronous one - to - many and many - to - many live video.

An education system dominated by games may change the balance in classrooms — power may shift from living teachers to game designers, and from students who are adept at abstract thinking to those better at doing things, even virtual things.

Everything is aimed at showing young people (primarily aged 7 - 19) the exciting and rewarding opportunities out there for them with the right experience and qualifications, by bringing classroom learning to life.

By providing classrooms of the very highest standards and with a design life of at least 60 years, buildings from Portakabin help to ensure that there is no compromise on the quality of the learning environment.

Extension schools can also be a bridge, said Wayne Smutz, dean of continuing education at UCLA, which is trying to raise scholarship money for this purpose and is designing pop - up classrooms to operate in neighborhoods where low - income students live.

Influences that Derail Student Learning TribLive, 4/12/13 «Richard Weissbourd, a lecturer in education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, is showing — through research in a range of classrooms — how teachers, principals, school boards and legislators can rescue such kids from dead - end lives before they give up on schools.»

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

You may explore questions eg «What's a saint» and «Are angels real» - and thinking about what make heaven and hell in the lives and experiences of our students - at home, in the playground and in the classroom.

The new curriculum integrates history, science, and art into daily classroom life, explains Michael Birnbaum in the Washington Post, but some teachers say that the integrated curriculum makes it more difficult to differentiate instruction for students at different levels.

Jane Horsfield at Sheffield Inclusion Centre has been using EDLounge, an online learning platform, and EDVirtual, a virtual classroom that has live - streaming capabilities, for the last 18 months as part of the outreach work she has been doing to deliver lessons for children unable to attend school.

For 16 years, Rafe Esquith and his students have lived by the four - word mission statement that rules his classroom at Hobart Elementary School in central Los Angeles: Be nice.

The prevailing wisdom is that standardized testing drains the life out of a classroom, saps students of interest and engagement, brings on unnecessary and at times crippling stress, and limits the view of what students are really learning in school.

We are aware that if a teacher's wellbeing is at its peak — its optimal — teachers are going to walk into a classroom with a particular feel about them; if they're rested, if they have a growth mindset, if they have an optimistic outlook on life, that's going to be evident in the classroom and the students will pick up on that.

SweetRush's end - end services embrace analysis to evaluation and they excel at delivering innovative blended learning solutions including live and virtual classroom and the full gamut of custom - developed eLearning modalities.

Undertaken by Associate Professor Sivanes Phillipson and Associate Professor Shane N. Phillipson at the Faculty of Education at Monash University, the report reveals that parents want teachers to do more when it comes to teaching their child about social and life skills inside the classroom.

At SOF, students develop the learning skills and habits of mind that are essential in the classroom — and the rest of their lives.

«Getting to know the kids and what is going on in their lives outside the classroom helps them learn best,» says Shanske, a teacher at Crossroads.