Sentences with phrase «beyond class lessons»

The Alberta government's showpiece bill this fall explicitly prohibits schools from telling parents their children have joined a peer support club for LGBT students, and clarifies that existing notification policies about discussions of sexuality and religion don't go beyond class lessons.

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Yet, my personal approach to parenting is a mix that goes well beyond the bits and pieces of these books that I found helpful — among the bits and pieces that I feel don't apply to my family but certainly they may apply to another family — and include bits and pieces of how I was raised, the lessons learned reflecting on years of parenting already behind me, thoughts from friends and family members, my instincts, the reality of unavoidable challenges, scientific studies, blogs and websites, parenting classes and support groups, teleseminars, conferences, and so much more.

Certain techniques were flagged up «no hands rule; use of mini-white boards, Kagan, learning environments that are supporting; bolstering self - esteem; positivity; curiosity; creativity; identify students to lead plenary at end of lesson at the beginning; Get class blogging — quadblogging; tallies for whole class rewards; encouraging independent learning; wait time when questioning; talk about their thinking and reasoning; conversational learning; talk with learning partners before answering any questions; pair and share; Glazer learning model structure for lesson delivery — a good mix of interaction and independent work; offering choice to pupils; cross class working; allowing time to play; list / describe / explain / evaluate; new audiences beyond the school; project based learning and philosopy; swapping age - groups; cross-curricular working; read to them every day; invite varied guests in; learning by discovery using pupils» interests; stand back and watch with purpose.

We trained ourselves as observers to reliably document instruction in the lessons we observed based on our modification of Newmann «s assessment of authentic instruction.313 We recorded what we saw and heard on an observation form that included two main sections: 1) basic information about the context, details of the lesson, how class time was used, how students were organized for instruction and learning, the kinds of technology used during the lesson, and a description of any positive or negative features in the classroom; and 2) assessments of instruction using four of Newmann's five standards of authentic instruction: higher order thinking, deep knowledge, substantive conversation, and connection to the world beyond the classroom.

Our faculty are role models for our students, and learning beyond the classroom is considered as important as the formal lessons taught during class.

Children experiencing emotional distress due to factors beyond their teachers» control quite often have trouble concentrating in class yet to be considered «highly effective» under Danielson, Virtually all students are intellectually engaged in the lesson.»

It must go beyond the lessons in Social Studies classes.

Learning experiences go beyond the workshop format to include such things as teacher inter-visitations, demonstration lessons, in - class coaching and teams of teachers doing lesson study, curriculum planning and analysis of assessment data.

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• Skilled in the design of innovative and hands - on classroom instruction that builds upon national, state and global historical events • Demonstrated expertise in motivating students to move beyond rote memorization by building upon lessons learnt in earlier classes • Documented success in assisting students in handling critical analysis of historical events • Well - versed in assessing student performance and designing remedial programs