Sentences with phrase «children in a single classroom»

In 2003, her savings became the seed capital for Shepherds Junior School, where she started with six local children in a single classroom.

Not exact matches

«Oftentimes, if a school sees the child and thinks they might be strong in a single subject, that's a reason to put them in a classroom with students of the same physical age, not the developmental age,» he says.

Unfortunately, schools segregate children by age (kindergarten kids are age 5, first graders are age 6, etc.), which makes it difficult for gifted children, especially highly gifted children, to find their intellectual peers in a single classroom.

These children are not all in special education classrooms, alternative schools, or special programs: they're in every single one of our classrooms, no matter the geographical setting, socioeconomic level, or racial or ethnic group.

First and most obvious, we've organized the entire, massive K — 12 system around an age - based, grade - level, 180 - days - per - year calendar; around mostly self - contained and generally low - tech classrooms; and around a pedagogical model centered on a single teacher teaching a uniform curriculum to twenty to thirty children for a prescribed amount of time each day, children who don't have much in common except that they're more or less the same age and (usually) live in pretty much the same community.

In describing this groundswell of support, Gardner has often speculated that MI theory provided empirical and conceptual support for what educators had known all along: that the notion of a single, general intelligence does not accurately depict the children that educators see in their classrooms each daIn describing this groundswell of support, Gardner has often speculated that MI theory provided empirical and conceptual support for what educators had known all along: that the notion of a single, general intelligence does not accurately depict the children that educators see in their classrooms each dain their classrooms each day.

The model was developed for rural schools because Colbert and her cofounders recognized that children in these communities have unique circumstances surrounding their schooling, such as the need to leave school during harvest season to work the family farm or single - classroom schools that serve many grade levels at once.

Aside from the fact that schools don't offer to return money when an extra child enters this hypothetical classroom, the ebb and flow of students in and out of every school building everyday is subject to so many variables that it is nearly impossible to single out one.

In the recent national report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998In the recent national report, Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998in Young Children, a National Academy of Science Committee concluded that «quality classroom instruction in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998in kindergarten and the primary grades is the single best weapon against reading failure» (Snow, Burns, & Griffin, 1998).

For example, fourth - grade children are mastering long division, but children with disabilities in the same classroom may be mastering single digit divisors into two or three digit dividends.

(by Dr. Seuss, Jack Prelutsky, and Lane Smith), for example, shows students that the classroom experience can be rich and colorful if we choose to not be clones — like the children in Drearyville where everyone dresses the same and marches to school single file.

At the elementary level, DCPS and many other schools have groups of children rotating between stations in a single classroom, with each group spending a third of their time working at computers loaded with software geared to their needs.

For children who need more support than a teacher can provide in a classroom, but don't warrant an EHC plan, there's a new single category called «SEN support».

As the only child of a single parent serving active duty in the Air Force, the classroom is where I found my identity.

Although these tests are a single isolated event in each child's schooling experience, the classroom opportunities a student has each day to develop the new skills and understandings — articulated in the standards to which these tests have been aligned — are the schooling experience.

• Assist the teacher in classroom activities while catering for emotional, psychological, social and cognitive needs of physically or mentally disabled students • Provide one to one tutoring and reinforce daily lessons in small groups • Identify weak areas of students and develop individualized lesson plans accordingly • Supervise the children during play and lunchtime • Inculcate strong moral and social values among the students to make them responsible citizens • Facilitate the teacher in conducting various classroom activities • Maintain all teaching aids in an organized manner • Devise need - based AV aids to facilitate teaching process • Assess multiple instructional strategies for effectiveness and change the teaching methodology as per requirement • Carefully record and gauge each student's progress and discuss the same regularly with teachers and parents • Encourage students to participate in extracurricular activities and boost their confidence in all possible ways • Communicate home assignments clearly, mark homework and test papers • Assist students in completing classroom assignments • Maintain daily attendance and early departure records • Discuss individual cases of individual needs and interests with teachers and parents of the student • Develop and implement targeted instructional strategies to cater for particular needs of each student • Observe students» behavior at playtime and chalk out a behavioral intervention plan to address any inappropriate, violent or disruptive behavior • Operate adaptive technological equipment single - handedly • Maintain complete confidentiality of student data • Aid physical, speech and rehabilitative therapists in their sessions and encourage the student to cooperate with them

As an example, one study exposed elementary school children to a single episode of the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers and then observed verbal and physical aggression in the classroom.83 Compared with a control group, children and especially boys who had watched the violent program committed significantly more intentional acts of aggression such as hitting, kicking, and shoving.

Fact: Children raised by single fathers were less well behaved in the classroom.

Fortunately, teaching social - emotional learning (SEL) skills in the classroom doesn't mean singling out children with behavioral issues.

I also feel there are SEVERAL mentally challenged children who are immersed in with the regular classrooms that cause great disruptions in the class as I have witnessed in one of my children's classes there is a student who has not finished a single homework assignment this year does not stay in their seat talks and wants attention and disrupts the class taking away valuable time fro the students.