Sentences with phrase «began as a classroom»

When I first began as a classroom teacher in 1977, I was working with a very different child than the one I saw in 2014.

The program began as a classroom course known just as PIRP.

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What began as a handful of tutoring videos the former hedge fund analyst uploaded to YouTube to help his cousins with their algebra homework has since mushroomed into a massive digital classroom for the world.

I send a tote box of safe snack foods to the classroom at the beginning of the year and replenish it as needed.

When a child has been having problems in the classroom, such as not completing assignments, fidgeting in their seat, not paying attention, or talking during class, their teacher may begin to think ADHD.

Here in Houston we've already implemented the same program district - wide, and for those unfamiliar with it, «in - class breakfast» means just that: children receive a free breakfast (regardless of economic need) and bring it into their classrooms to eat at their desks as the school day begins.

Dr. Cox began his career in the classroom as a high school physical education and health teacher so he truly understands the importance of teaching kids to develop healthy habits.

By: Jenny MontagueAs I begin another school year as food service director in Kalispell, Montana, I can't help but wonder if my enthusiasm, anticipation, and anxiety aren't exactly the same emotions the students are feeling as they await the return to their classrooms.

Although begun primarily as a parenting intervention, the scope of the program has expanded to include a teacher - based classroom management component and a child - based component to improve regulation strategies and school readiness.

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.

Even in the classroom, as soon as I began our space unit my students faces would just light up and I knew that I had their attention the entire time!

But in recent weeks, Cuomo has indicated he will begin to emphasize a new direction in education after a legislative session that saw yet more changes to the state's teacher evaluation system that linked performance reviews to tenure as well as student test scores and in - classroom observation.

Mr. Pagourtzis, he said, began shooting as soon as he entered the classroom.

As children settle into their classrooms for the beginning of a new school year, parents steel themselves for the pending battle.

Fourteen teachers arrived from schools as close as Ithaca and as far as Anaheim, Calif. to attend the BTI Plant Biology Curriculum Development Projects (CDP) teacher institute July 13 - 17, to begin their year - long journey to translate plant research into classroom learning opportunities for middle and high school STEM students across the country.

As administrators and school boards around the country consider the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), Science Buddies is helping teachers begin ramping up, now, for some of the ways in which traditional classroom science projects and assignments may change.

As we prepare to begin school this year and I set up the classroom, I'm sharing my personal homeschool ideas, so I hope you'll share yours in the comments so we can all learn from each other.

Schools across the country are beginning to see this dream come true as they introduce yoga into their physical education programs, classroom setting and after - school club offerings.

Ryan began his deep dive into health and fitness as an Athletic Training major at the University of Central Florida, but his most significant learning was done outside of the classroom.

Whether I've taught writing in the classroom or tried to bring an abstract problem to life as a journalist, the one constant throughout has been the creation of a narrative with a beginning, a middle and an ending.

Teachers began employing aspects of Responsive Classroom practices, such as Morning Meeting and Logical Consequences — in their classrooms.

The proportion of new teachers training with the charity who identified as LGBT + has increased from five per cent of those who started in classrooms in 2014 to nine per cent who joined at the beginning of this school year in September 2017.

Using these ten questions as a guide to focus the beginning - of - the - year planning sessions, a TIS can decide which program or technology device to suggest for classrooms and how to go about coaching the teachers with this goal in mind.

Off to a Good Start begins with a brief introduction that presents six priorities for teachers to consider as they establish classroom attitudes and atmosphere.

As we approach the beginning of April, which is National Poetry Month, I've put together a selection of videos about the power of poetry for young people — both in the classroom and beyond.

Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET: Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?

«One of things that disappointed me when I began as a teacher was that there was so little room for fun and play in the classroom,» says Wallace.

Broward Sheriff's Detective Zachary Scott told the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission that teachers trying to lock down their students as the gunman began his attack couldn't lock classroom doors from the inside, but had to grab a key, open the door, and turn the lock from the outside.

During the past few years, as I've reentered K - 12 classrooms in addition to my undergraduate coursework, I'm learning that how I begin the day or class sets the tone for how well the instruction will be received and the content will be remembered.

As a result, there is a greater chance that they will begin to use the technology in their classrooms.»

This can take many forms in the classroom — low - stakes multiple - choice formative assessment, group discussion, open - ended essay prompts, etc. — and it can occur at the beginning of class, as a transition activity, or to end class.

During a recent lecture, researchers from the University of Connecticut provided an update on their work with Operation Houndstooth as well as shared with educators some ways to begin working the theory into classrooms.

In order for students to identify themselves as capable mathematicians, they need to feel safe enough in our classrooms to begin that pursuit of meaning.

Community building doesn't have to wait until a problem arises — it can be a time of offering positive encouragement as well or at the beginning of the year to help build bonds of commonality within the classroom.

The gray teacher retention line begins high and drops significantly within the first ten years and continues to decline as time passes as fewer teachers stay in the classroom.

Project Au - Some began as an effort to build empathy and social skills between a fifth - grade classroom and preschool children with special needs — and it quickly turned into more than we could ever have imagined.

Beginning next week, students in Dade County, Fla., public schools will start «logging on» microcomputers to solve geometry problems or to work on reading skills as part of a pilot program designed to acquaint students with computer technology and to supplement classroom instruction.

As the conversation shifted to their classroom experiences, though, things began to splinter somewhat.

For many classroom teachers, the microcomputer «revolution» of the early 1980's fizzled as rapidly as it had begun when they tried in vain to integrate a first generation of generally bland, uninspired, and error riddled software into their lesson plans.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

Wood, who began his career as a social studies and history teacher in South Carolina, says he didn't really understand the impact of policy on what he did in the classroom until U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley invited him to Washington in 1993 to write the guidelines and serve as chief reviewer for the department's new Technology Innovation Challenge Grants program.

Soon I began to look at classrooms to see if students interacted the same as dogs in choosing and following a leader.

As the weather gets colder and cold and flu season approaches, you might begin to hear some frightening sounds in the classroom: sniffles and sneezes and coughing.

As the school year begins and teachers inventory their supplies, set up and decorate their classrooms, it's important to think not only about how they will use technology in their classroom, but about how they will ready their classrooms and their procedures for using technology.

Starting in October, seven classrooms, again in Massachusetts and North Carolina, as well as Colorado, began testing several specific sections of the guide as part of Selman and Elizabeth's study — the first of its kind.

What suggestions do you have for teachers as they begin thinking about how to use Chem Now in their classroom?

As a classroom teacher, I am beginning to see a reason for the legislation.

As I reflect, those great first days were usually after a summer where I spent extra time setting up, designing bordering for student work displays, dusting each individual book in the classroom library, fine - tuning and perfecting those beginning lessons: the handouts, the pacing, and the mini-lessons.

This Weather Photo Poster Display Pack can be used for classroom displays, as well as being a super visual resource to engage students as they begin their learning journey about types of weather!

Donna Wilson's Early Career and Pioneering Leadership Dr. Wilson began her career as a classroom teacher in Oklahoma and realized many of her students were not benefiting from standard teaching practice.