Sentences with phrase «better classroom results»

The online Professional Learning Environment (PLE) instills a deeper understanding of program strategies through collaboration with other educators, delivering better classroom results while inspiring a new generation of students.

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Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide teachers with the adequate resources to perform their jobs effectively, such as teacher - requested books for their students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed to reward students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

In 2007, Robert Pianta of the University of Virginia published in Science the results of a large - scale survey of American public schools that he and a team of researchers had undertaken, observing regular instruction over the course of an entire school day in 737 typical fifth - grade classrooms across the United States, as well as hundreds of additional first - and third - grade classrooms.

As a result, research has shown that homeschooled children tend to develop better social skills than those who spend a large part of their days in a classroom, rather than out in the «real» world.

As a result, they know how to interact properly with their teachers, the staff and their fellow students, turning their school and their classrooms into a better place.

In general, the results suggest that after adjustment for confounding, there were small but consistent tendencies for increasing duration of breastfeeding to be associated with increased IQ, increased performance on standardized tests, higher teacher ratings of classroom performance, and better high school achievement.

«Not only is inclusion better than exclusion from a moral and social - justice standpoint, but the inclusion of diverse views from diverse people with diverse life stories and experiences leads to a better, more robust decision - making process and far superior results whether in a classroom or in a boardroom,» said Lana D. Benatovich, president of the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.

In addition, the Budget puts forward the state's largest investment in education to date, including an increase of more than 5 % in school aid; statewide, universal full - day Pre-k; a bond act to modernize classrooms; as well as signature reforms to fix Common Core implementation and protect students from unfair high stakes test results; and strengthen and support Charter Schools.

As the results showed, attachment and group emotional intelligence emerge positively related to psychological well - being; in other words, «the students with the greatest attachment have the highest well - being, just as the students in classrooms with greater emotional intelligence do,» explained the researcher.

However, the exercises did not lead to better results later, when the children entered a formal classroom setting.

This practice would result in other positive impacts ~ such as teachers being better equipped to identify potentially gifted children in their classrooms.

The same can be said for teachers as well, technology bought from outside the classroom — such as a USB stick — could actually contain corrupt files that could attack a network, or a link in a personal email clicked on by a student or teacher could actually result in a phishing virus.

Whether you do all your studying from home as an online student or you just need some tips to make the most of your time outside the classroom, here are five of the best ways to optimize your learning environment for better results.

These results strongly point to the desirability of developing and running blended courses in EFL classrooms, and in continuing to research the best practices for blended foreign language learning.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Doing this not only enhances the classroom experience for everyone including you, but also results in better retention and success rates among your students.

Using a multi sensory approach and a variety of teaching and learning styles to teach a mixed ability group of students has shown better results in my classrooms and I have generated this idea based on my 14 years teaching experience.

His peer instruction approach has since grown into the flipped classroom movement, and research shows that it consistently produces better results than traditional lecture - based classrooms.

And these evaluation systems are strikingly better than what they replaced: slapdash approaches involving a couple of classroom visits by a building principal for some teachers in some years that resulted in virtually all teachers being classified as high performing.

«Hearing those attitudes makes me want to get into a classroom, teach well, produce strong results for my students, and combat this attitude that teaching is somehow unprofessional or something people with no «real» skills do.»

Krueger's results indicate that students in kindergarten classrooms that had 7 to 8 fewer students than regular - sized classes performed about 3 percent of a standard deviation better for every one student fewer in their class.

We expect to use the results of this research to shape both the Instructional Partnership Initiative, which makes innovative use of feedback from our teacher evaluation system, as well as other state strategies for classroom improvement in years to come.»

Several research reports in the UK, since 2008, found that the use of film in literacy classrooms resulted in measurable improvements in writing (including more sophisticated vocabulary and more complex sentences), reading, critical and creative thinking skills as well as a host of other personal and interpersonal benefits (Marsh and Bearne, 2008, Brooks, Cooper and Penkem 2012).

Therefore, write a creative 140 characters long description of the great field trip you will all take together... if the classroom results are good for everyone.

Such results encourage the teachers at Craigslea to continue implementing the strategy of deliberate practice in their classrooms, but the best result was that the students gained personal satisfaction from their creativity and performance, as well as commitment to ongoing learning as musicians.

The result is a better classroom experience for everyone!

As a result the smartboards housed in all the school's classrooms were no longer considered as a dependable resource for learning and a better alternative was sought.

As a result of shifting demographics, it's important for schools to consider classroom strategies, family engagement practices, and how to best navigate cultural divides, said Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo, program chair for EIS

Thus, we have already tested it in more than 45 schools in Spain, with very good results from the point of view of usability and opinion of the teachers and students, who say that these games are useful and effective in reinforcing what they are learning in class, and students are having a great time, that is, that when it comes the time when they are told «and now let's play Little», they think it's great because they remember it as something playful in the process of classroom learning.»

Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's in the best interest of students and innovation in the classroom.

The promise of the Common Core included not just multi-state standards but also multi-state assessments, assessments in more - or-less every grade with results at every level of the K - 12 system: The child (though not by name, except to parents and teachers), the school (and, if desired, individual classrooms and, by implication, teachers), the district, the state, and the nation, with crosswalks (in pertinent grades) to international measures as well as to NAEP, the primary external «auditor» of state and national achievement.

There, she concludes — as do I — that policy - driven efforts to suppress forceful discipline by teachers and principals result in more disruptive youngsters remaining in more disrupted classrooms where they distract, upset, and diminish the effectiveness of teachers, interfere with classmates» learning, and drive more families with well - behaved children to flee to whatever better options they can afford.

She also encourages her players to seek feedback from coaches as well as their classroom teachers, as a result fostering communications skills that will help them succeed in their academic endeavors.

By making more spending the only path to better results, we forgo the more important discussions of how, for instance, better pedagogy might improve outcomes, or how better management can direct more money to classrooms by creating transportation and procurement efficiencies.

Well - designed projects challenge students to choose an issue that matters to them, invest time in authentic research, interact with the world outside the classroom, and then do something that will achieve real results.

As a result of shifting demographics, it's important for schools to consider classroom strategies, family engagement practices, and how to best navigate cultural divides, said Associate Professor Natasha Kumar Warikoo, program chair for EIS «Even though one out of every...

As educators, incorporating empathy into instruction can have positive results for your immediate classroom, as well as for the community outside of the school building.

Acting with a benefit mindset is not something students put on one Saturday a month for two hours as a grudging act of service — it is a way of being, a way of well - being, that yields powerful results inside and outside of the classroom.

This report summarizes and analyzes two recent studies that demonstrate that more than 80 percent of seniority - based layoffs would result in better teachers leaving classrooms and worse teachers staying.

When responsibilities involved with leadership are not well delineated confusion results and tensions mount, not only for lead teachers but also for those who work with them (i.e., administrators, classroom teachers).

[171] As a result, in paragraph (b)(1), we propose to require mental health consultation to support teachers because warm and responsive teacher practices and effective classroom management are critical to helping young children maintain or achieve healthy emotional well - being and to creating a classroom environment conducive to learning.

Indeed, one might expect even better results if clicker use were more integrated into the classroom culture in an ongoing manner that rewarded students for their participation.

The collaboration has resulted in innovations in classroom and leadership practices in participating schools, as well as impacted the communities they work in.

«The NVS study results suggest that as those standards are implemented, NAEP needs to ensure that it continues to be well - aligned with the mathematical content being taught in the nation's classrooms.»

All six evaluations, which include today's two new results, have found this approach to have a marked positive impact: the programmes resulted in an additional two to four months» progress for pupils, giving teachers and school leaders solid evidence on the best ways to use teaching assistants in their classroom.

Likewise, in a March 2011 Rutgers poll, 60 % of adults thought it would be «fair» to base teacher evaluations on student results on statewide tests as well as classroom observations, while 37 % thought it «unfair.»

Research is clear that co-taught classrooms, in which a special education teacher works alongside a regular education teacher, result in better outcomes for students.

The bottom line: reading comprehension is a slow - growing plant, and the demand for rapid results on annual tests may be encouraging poor classroom practice — giving kids a sugar rush of test preparation, skills, and strategies when a well - rounded diet of knowledge and vocabulary is what's really needed to grow good readers.

He says good teaching ought to be rewarded and that test results are a measure of progress in the classroom.