Sentences with phrase «by classroom meetings»

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AMA Mexico catalyzed community members to plant 3,000 new trees in the park and weekly meetings focused on community development take place in the on - site classrooms built by the city of Puebla.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Click here to register Peek into the Waldorf classrooms, meet the teachers, followed by Q&A with faculty & administration.

Confronted with rising rates of child obesity and a surge of youth allergies, many local schools seized the moment to take a firm stand against junk food served anywhere and any time in the building — including fare offered by parents for classroom parties, bake sales and club meetings.

When you settle on a specific preschool, prep the child by may be visiting the school, let the child meet his teacher and also see the classroom that he will be in.

Recentanalysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

Recent analysis by the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) project found that teachers» student survey results are predictive of student achievement gains and produce more consistent results than classroom observations or achievement gain measures.

The off - color quip came in response to concerns by public - school dad Eric Greenleaf, who said at a meeting of parents and officials at state Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver's downtown office that there will be «huge shortages» of classroom space in lower Manhattan in coming years.

«Community schools are a model that works wonders for our children by meeting their needs both inside and outside of the classroom.

They take education efforts into classrooms and village meetings, distributing posters and comics explaining the risks posed by the parasite.

These challenges need to be met via regular mindfulness practices as norms in the following areas: school administrators, school union leadership, school structure and process, teacher and classroom structure and climate, effective mindfulness curriculum and QUALIFIED trainers, effective teaching skills, and optimal motivated learning by students.

During his incarceration he meets cellmate Diego (played fabulously by Jordi Molla) Diego upon hearing him in a prison classroom where, to get his inmate...

«120 Beats» is written and directed by Robin Campillo, who co-wrote 2008's Palme d'Or - winning «The Class», and the chatty, lively mass meetings here will be familiar if you remember that earlier film's sparkling classroom debate.

The Pact, which is about teen suicide, came directly from my classroom experience, when a young suicidal girl was dealing with her depression by writing in a journal, and meeting with me to discuss it.

The bell rings for afternoon classes, but the Muses, inspired by the Muse - like power of YouTube to help them bring culture into their classrooms, agree to meet the next day at lunchtime.

Councillor Henry Vann said, «The programme of works delivered by Scape and Willmott Dixon includes a mixture of bespoke primary schools which adopt a standardised approach, along with Connect classroom extensions and Sunesis schools to meet the growing demand for primary school places in the area.»

The findings, which were released here last week during the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, are part of a larger research effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to explore how the organization of schools and classrooms affects student achievement.

Reports published by the Neag Center for Gifted Education and Talent Development at the University of Connecticut have shown that most general education classroom teachers are poorly equipped to meet the needs of the gifted, and that gifted students can spend as much as half the school repeating curriculum and waiting for classmates to catch up.

Tools for Teaching: Instruction Meets Discipline While school discipline codes focus on large infractions, discipline management within the classroom is dominated by continuous small disruptions.

In fact ~ gifted education concepts can really assist general classroom teachers ~ as well as those who work with higher performing students ~ in meeting their learning goals by differentiating instruction and helping to build upon students strengths and interests.

Technology can be used to make the walls of the classroom and school more permeable by way of virtual visits and meetings.

Many teachers are excited about the ability to create a group on Facebook as a private way of interacting with their students in ways that a) not only meet the students where they already are and integrate their lives into the classroom more holistically, but also b) shows that school can be a lot cooler than the students thought by being on Facebook in the first place.

But with students who fail to meet behavior expectations, more often than not we respond by assuming willful disobedience, removing students from the classroom, and assigning disciplinary consequences.

During the next day's morning meeting, the class would debrief together about each group's visit by sharing pictures and videos, and having a classroom discussion about their experience.

The morning meeting format is simple and easy for entire schools to implement at one time, but individual teachers can obtain impressive results by using the method in their own classrooms, even when it isn't a school - wide approach.

Blended classrooms are designed to meet personal learning needs of every college student by allowing tutors to formulate personalized educational strategies and instructions.

Pioneers of virtual classrooms erred by approaching this type of training the same way they approached virtual meetings.

Here's what this approach looks like: Administrators make frequent short, unannounced classrooms visits (at least once a month), followed promptly by face - to - face listening / coaching conversations; teacher teams meet regularly to discuss planning, pedagogy, and assessment results; and teacher assessment is saved till the end of the school year, pulling together observations, other points of contact, and teachers» self - assessments.

The Praxis Exam is used by many states to ensure that classroom teachers meet a minimum standard of knowledge.

Problem - based learning meets case - based reasoning in the middle - school science classroom: Putting Learning by Design into practice (PDF).

92, Ed.D.» 99, and Ponsford provide a clear blueprint that educators of all experience levels can use to help transform their classrooms by adding new digital and web tools to meet the specific needs of students.

«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements, visited classrooms and teachers, and also met with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.

In an interview last week, Reed E. Hundt, the chairman of the F.C.C., said for the first time that some portion of the billions of dollars that the federal government expects to raise through the unprecedented license auctions should be spent to help meet Vice President Gore's challenge to wire every classroom in the United States by the end of the decade.

Morning Meeting Messages: 180 Sample Charts from Three Classrooms, by Rosalea Fisher, Eric Henry, Deborah Porter

By pooling data across a network of agencies, we help smaller districts and charter organizations meet the 200 - classroom target sample size, with 100 classrooms each in the treatment and control groups.

Targets are set and agreed in closed meetings, action plans are created and delivered to class teachers and we end up routinely undermining the authority of classroom teachers by pretending that higher up the food chain there is a magic bullet.

Savvy administrators can meet the needs of teachers and, at the same time, set the tone for a wonderful school year by visiting classrooms those first days and weeks routinely and regularly, making sure teachers can focus on providing excellent instruction instead of having to hunt down, for example, five additional chairs or a working projector.

And when I was a classroom teacher, I was frequently surrounded by problems that could feel insurmountable: seemingly unattainable standards, hours of meetings, mountains of paperwork, and more.

Professor Brian Cox, Professor for Public Engagement, says, «I have been delighted to be involved in filming these video resources, travelling around the country and meeting teachers and pupils who are inspired by science and involved in exciting, practical science in the classroom.

It draws on diverse sources: our daily poems and the poets we study, the weekly newsletter and other school publication, teachers» styles of speaking and writing, songs we sing at our whole - school morning meetings, current events, our history textbook, children's literature, the classroom walls, and writing by the students themselves.

A finding of the MET report was that there is a significant interdependent relationship among student achievement, classroom observations and feedback by supervisors, and student feedback.

One of the five variables valued by the MET report was «student perceptions of the classroom instructional environment» in which a field - tested instrument (i.e., Tripod Survey) was used.

MET could have allayed those concerns by telling teachers that test score gains produce information that is generally similar to what is learned from well - conducted classroom observations, so there is no reason to oppose one and support the other.

The flipped classroom is commonly associated with short video films and tutorials prepared by the teacher, in which he or she presents important issues for students to learn and understand before the next class meeting.

Those include introducing and reviewing software, Internet resources, and other appropriate materials, and making the information available to staff; coordinating computer usage in projects and activities within, across, and between curricula and schools; working with classroom teachers, individually and in grade level teams, to plan, organize and implement the use of technology through such activities as demonstration lessons, team teaching, and joint planning; providing both building - based and district - wide staff development at faculty meetings, district professional development days, and after - school and summer workshops; and keeping abreast of current technologies by attending conferences and workshops on a regular basis.

Elmore and the Network focus on effective instructional practice as a means of achieving successful student learning; by observing actual classroom settings in schools with particular focuses in mind, they hope to find effective strategies to meet their goals.

We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool) focused their conversations with mentors on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.

To combat the heat generated by sunlight baking the classroom those first and last weeks of school, a small personal fan, attached to a length extension cord to meet the nearest socket, is also tucked away.

Typically these stories begin with accounts of academic struggle or classroom behavior issues, followed by numerous meetings with teachers, administrators and counselors, a barrage of assessments and, finally, a diagnosis — and a label.

By emphasizing shared responsibility and regular meetings, Learning Clubs create a powerful support group that allows teachers to test and refine their work in integrating the best research - based techniques into their classroom practice.»