And like most of
the best classroom moments, we had some fun in the process.
Not exact matches
The crew is all skiing (
well, excepting those who are in high school
classrooms at the
moment, but be assured they get plenty of weekend time on the slopes), and as always, I have grand hopes for my Tuesday's at home.
We had a wonderful 2014, with really exciting
moments for breakfast - in - the -
classroom as
well as SNF's fundraising and scholarship efforts.
Lafia intriguingly employs childhood iconography in the more troubling
moments (Chucky destroys another
Good Guy doll and buries it beneath a swing set, and he commits a brutal murder with a plastic ruler in a kindergarten
classroom), so when the film's final set - piece takes place in the actual
Good Guys factory, filled with countless clones of that godawful doll, you'd expect there to be some appropriately traumatic imagery backing everything up.
For
good measure, Silva repeats her comments in staccato Spanish as she sprints around the
classroom, normally a McKinley science lab — but for the
moment very much a painter's studio.
When I think over the years, I focus on remembering my beautiful, brilliant students, and the
moments when we were both learning — in Yosemite and the Grand Canyon, as
well as in our dingy portables and
classrooms.
Ignoring for a
moment the use of audio - visual aids and other
classroom technologies, without
good design for speech, teaching, at its most basic form, becomes redundant.
Building school community: Miyake - Trapp observes that administrators in the
classroom «can also openly engage in reflective processes by sharing
moments of
classroom success as
well as challenges.
All this is encapsulated into a reinforcement - based approach for recalling or evaluating what people have assimilated from the program or session through the use of interactive quizzes, sharing of
best moments, or creating a plan for applying
classroom practice in real life.
One example is the School of One program in New York City in which the old model of one teacher handling 25 students at once in one
classroom is broken up into a new model of each student being assigned each day to a large class, a tutor, a computer simulation, or a small group, whatever works
best at that
moment, until the student meets the learning objective.
Even if the administrator has a
good understanding that the evaluation is just a
moment in time, and that the whole picture of teaching and learning is not being seen, a few visits to at teacher's
classroom hardly warrants a comprehensive evaluation of the teachers effectiveness.
Digital storytelling efficiently facilitates efforts to capture
classroom moments for preservice teachers to reflect upon and revise practice, as
well as to develop a teaching consciousness.
Why not use a captivating text and essential question from a
well - designed assessment to spark a
classroom conversation in which students defend their ideas, collaborate with one another, and experience authentic «ah - hah»
moments?
Traditional
classrooms tend to favor the
good listener / sequential (organized) learner, but students who do not fit that learning style tend to miss the learning
moments and may exhibit problematic behaviors in the
classroom (i.e. daydreaming / not paying attention, disorganized, etc.).
She taught Great Expectations courses for a couple of years and then became a new teacher consultant for OKCPS, scaffolding new educators and helping them be the
best teachers they could be from their first
moments in the
classroom.
Before we continue talking about last week's «Speak About What's Unspeakable,» I thought it might be
good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable
moments - events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities — that made for uncanny entry points in the
classroom...
Also, find
classroom - ready reference guides, our green - living guide
Good Stuff, our timeline of key
moments in the modern environmental movement, and bound volumes of World Watch magazine.