Sentences with phrase «book about classrooms»

I share in the book about classrooms where teachers know it's valuable to make a mistake that helps everybody understand in the end.

«By reading a book about classroom design — this book about classroom design — you have a chance to organize your teaching in a way that supports all of the other professional development and reading and twittering and reflection you do.»

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Hippy, yeah I get what you're saying about not learning anything new in school, and not much from the teachers you had, I also read constantly and learned more through my books and travel than in classrooms.

PT: In the book, I wrote about supports in two different realms — one being in the home, in early childhood, and one being in the classroom.

In Paul Tough's first book, «Whatever It Takes: Geoffrey Canada's Quest to Change Harlem and America,» he focused on the Harlem Children's Zone, a 97 - block area where Canada set about overhauling the neighborhood with comprehensive social programs, such as after - school activities and parenting classes, that extended beyond the classroom and reshaped the childhood experience.

«And when parents read books with their kids, two things happen: The kids see that what they're learning has interest and value beyond the classroom and kids and parents have shared material to talk about — what they each liked and disliked in the story, what they found boring or engaging, etc..

The book is written in a question - and - answer format and features a central character, Angus the Answer Dog, who addresses basic queries about starting school, including what a teacher does and what you can find in a preschool classroom.

Jane Nelsen talks about her book Positive Time - Out and how parents and teachers can avoid power struggles at home and in the classroom.

Commenting on the success of the initiative, BHA Chief Executive Andrew Copson said, «Alom's book is a perfect tool for helping young people to think critically about the world around them, whether used in the classroom to stimulate discussion or simply read at home for pleasure, with the warmth and colour that only autobiography can provide.»

While not teaching in the classroom or practicing in the studio, she is also working on a book about mindfulness, trauma informed meditation and yoga, and finding safety in the body.

I teach 8th grade science, so I wrote a book about using primal ideas in the classroom.

About Blog I believe education is for life and not just in the classroom, but in stacks of books, messy projects, adventures, cooking experiments, random questions leading to library excursions and Internet searches, the daily grind, and even lazy days when boredom makes way for creativity.

After a quasi-lecture about his history with the film in Georgetown University's Healy Hall, we've walked through classrooms, courtyards and churches that all played significant roles in the making of the picture and the book that inspired it.

Whether it's about people who are different than your students (window books), an affirmation of their identity (mirror books), or one that exposes bias or shares stories of people who stood up to injustice, reading books is a core part of the elementary classroom curriculum and therefore a seamless way to address the topic.

Resources includes a list of recommended picture books, suggestions for sharing picture books with small children, art activities for children to do at home or in the classroom, and information about Eric Carle.

There are a lot of books that talk about humor in the classroom, but not many that get beyond fun exercises or what feel to me like gimmicks.

There are so many brilliant teachers out there with so many good ideas for making things better in our classrooms, and if we stay connected and keep suggesting new books, talking about books, and trying different techniques — both new and old — our students will respond.

Wertheimer's recent book, Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance, explores the challenges faced by public schools when incorporating lessons about world religions into their classrooms, looking at specific examples in several areas...

Talk about books: Another way to make students aware of the reading all around them is to talk about it in the classroom.

I spent last year on leave writing a book for K - 12 teachers about how to begin blending online work into their traditional classrooms.

The author of Tools for Teaching, his third book on classroom management, shares his thoughts about the difficulties teachers face in classrooms today.

Everyday, when I stood in the hall outside my classroom, I would stop him and we would chat about the plot or characters in the book.

To help them better understand those and other issues, teachers were issued books about creating democratic classrooms, which includes holding class meetings and presenting lessons on First Amendment freedoms in class.

In a new book, entitled Teachers» Voices, Teachers» Wisdom, seven San Francisco Bay - area teachers talk candidly and compellingly about their lives in and out of the classroom.

In a review of his book Teach Like a Champion for Education Next, I noted Lemov's approach promised to change the conversation about classroom practice from «teacher quality» to «quality teaching.»

Podcast: Mike Petrilli talks with author John Merrow about his book — and what he's learned from the countless hours he's spent as a reporter in America's classrooms.

The book offers ideas about setting up libraries in classrooms and the value of offering students a wide selection of books, adults reading aloud, and many other things that go into Calkins's idea of helping children live a «richly literate life.»

Participants then go to assigned classrooms for teacher - led discussions about specific books.

My English classroom transforms into a kingdom, as Joana writes about my stool (the throne) and our textbook (the Holy Book).

Today Ed Next's Mike Petrilli talks with John about his book — and what he's learned from the countless hours he's spent as a reporter in America's classrooms.

Elizabeth's own experience as a teacher is part of what led to her excitement about the possibilities of a transmedia connection between books and movies in the classroom.

She'll also go into classrooms to do a «movie club» with the students, where they'll watch the film version of The Giver together and then talk about the film and how it contrasts with the book.

Stories about space were read aloud to the children, topic books were left in the classroom library for them to explore and «read».

The Palisades School District, of which Durham Nockamixon is a part, sent a small group of interested teachers to a national conference on looping and multiage classrooms where, Tubiello says, they were inspired by the writings of educator Jim Grant, a passionate advocate of continuous learning and author of several books about looping.

Video conferencing, blogging, creating videos and books, teaching and learning from other peers in the classroom, in the school and in the world about what they are interested in is embedded into the daily instruction of my classroom.

Large conferences like ASCD have incorporated Edcamp - style sessions, and Edcamp organizers have written both a white paper and a book about the model and its impact on educators and their classrooms.

Her post did, however, catch me off guard because my Broad piece and my book, which she also discusses, are about a particular subject (systems), while her thrust is about something quite different (classrooms).

But this book contains so little about education - virtually nothing about classrooms, schools, or districts - even that point gets lost.

Although his first book is about exploiting video, he's planning a whole series of books about the full range of things we need to know regarding the digital classroom.

Students read a book called And Tango Makes Three about two male penguins who find an abandoned egg and eventually coparent the resulting penguin chick, which promoted discussion in her classroom about all types of families.

If you wish to add your ideas about what you'd like to see in a book about video in your digital classroom you can add your voice hereIf you want to contribute towards this project you can learn more about it here.

While there are many books and ideas about how little or far you can go with them ~ I will give you a condensed version of what preparation is required in my classroom to pull off a successful evening for all students ~ teachers ~ and parents:

It is a detailed and extensive resource which includes a wide range of classroom activities for pupils of all abilities: Making predictions about the story Animated film of The Owl and the Pussycat Retelling strategies and comprehension questions Cloze exercise and storyboarding activities Tackling unfamiliar words and using a dictionary Rhyming words lesson with interactive game Identify adjectives in The Owl and the Pussycat A lesson on using adjectives to improve writing Compound words lesson and activities Create a children's story book Full unit of work overview

Articles, books, and journals have been written about how to support our new teachers — guidance on lesson planning, suggestions for classroom management techniques, and support in professional decision - making are just a few of the many components our novice teachers need as they begin their academic journey.

But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words in the story.

Older students might use a screencasting app such as Explain Everything or Educreations to show their mathematical problem solving, create a book trailer from their summer reading, or publish a public service announcement (PSA) about appropriate iPad use in the classroom.

This book discusses the link between instruction and management, describes daily routines that contribute to a smoothly run classroom, and talks about the how - to's of dealing with problem behavior.

A «Nuts and Bolts» Approach to Classroom Successes A former teacher, Dr. Jane Bluestein turned her pages of tips for teachers about classroom management and organization into a book and then a business.

Among the books educator Lisa Signorelli has read about teaching children in high poverty schools, she finds Disrupting Poverty: Five Powerful Classroom Practices is the easiest to understand and contains very impactful strategies to use in the classroom.

Click above to read more about the Agency by Design framework and its uses in classroom settings through the book Maker - Centered Learning: Empowering young people to shape their worlds.