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Boston Summit attendees will have the unique opportunity to participate in Sphero teacher and classroom challenges with prizes awarded during the November 5 - 7 Summit.

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Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an increasing number of students with learning challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.

We challenge even the biggest breakfast - in - the - classroom skeptic to argue with numbers like those.

The same as in any classroom, in your home there will be good days and bad days and you will be challenged by the conflicts and relationship issues that you will have to deal with.

In partnership with the CPS Office of Social Science & Civic Engagement, the EPIC Challenge is designed to be implemented by science or social studies teachers as a classroom - integrated service learning project.

The logistics are challenging; we have six different buildings — it's kind of a community college design — with 84 homerooms, and some classes are upstairs, which makes delivering to the classroom difficult.

Shedd Aquarium got into the holiday spirit with a fun, annual contest that gave Chicago - area teachers an opportunity to fold environmental education into their classrooms» holiday celebrations with its Wreath - Cycled Classroom Challenge.

«The NUTs Breaking the Mould project, in which the National Union of Teachers has worked with a small group of primary schools to consider how «traditional» gender stereotypes could be challenged in the classroom through reading materials, is a really useful resource.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — With the new school year underway, Westchester County Executive Robert P. Astorino today re-issued his challenge to all Westchester County students in grades 6 through 12: Win a free season pass to Playland by earning high achievement in the classroom.

Following a visit to classrooms at PS 209 in Whitestone, Queens, UFT President Michael Mulgrew met with new District 25 chapter leaders on Sept. 20 in a discussion of their responsibilities in a time of challenges to public education.

John Concannon, a retired police captain who has unsuccessfully challenged City Councilman Mark Weprin (D - Oakland Gardens) and state Sen. Tony Avella (D - Bayside), said Cuomo had not pushed to get enough educators with classroom experience on the state Board of Regents or otherwise placed them at the helm of Common Core implementation.

The real challenge, then, is working with a classroom of students with diverse backgrounds, strengths, and weaknesses.

In an introduction to the special JSTE issue, editors Joseph Krajcik and Ibrahim Delen call attention to the current challenges posed by NGSS, which calls for a shift from classrooms where ideas are merely presented to students to those where «students grapple with data and ideas and use those ideas to explain phenomena and design solutions to problems.»

Negative comments highlighted some of the challenges of a flipped classroom, particularly loss of real - time interaction with lecturers and the perception of the model as a cost - cutting maneuver.

They add that veterans feel separate from the rest of the student body because of their extended gap between high school and college, older average age, and deployment experiences, thus creating additional challenges for them to integrate with the rest of the classroom.

Going forward, the challenge will be for researchers and policymakers to develop more evidence - based online tools that teachers can implement with students in their classrooms.

New teachers deal with a multitude of challenges during their first year in the classroom, which is why many school districts develop mentoring programs to ease that transition.

Between the challenges of school, OT and other therapies and busy home lives, the yoga classroom may very well be the only place a child with a disability is really able to relax during the week.

In between planning for lessons and producing teaching materials, teachers are faced with another challenge, how to dress stylishly for the classroom.

Transitioning from the classroom to a corporate office was a bigger change than I had expected, and with that change came the challenge of curating office - appropriate looks for a business environment.

Australia About Blog The aim of the student blogging challenge is to connect student bloggers with a global audience while supporting teachers with their classroom blogging.

Read educational articles, parenting articles, & more Children with attention deficit disorder and / or learning disabilities can be a challenge for any classroom teacher.

They identify five «essential [teaching] acts» that can be analyzed and taught: listening with care; motivating the student; modeling caring by hearing and responding to the pain of others, and by creating a sense of security in their classrooms; evaluating by clarifying, coaching, advising, and deciding on an appropriate challenge for this boy or that girl; and reflecting and renewing.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

With the distance between schools and small classroom size, we face many of the same challenges that affect rural schools all over the world when it comes to the provision and breadth of curricular choices.

Transmedia storytelling — telling a single story across multiple media platforms — as a means to help students engage with challenging cultural issues of civic responsibility, diversity, and social justice can be an important tool in the classroom, especially in an age where students are finding it increasingly difficult to see over the wall between their school lives and their «real» lives.

Brunsell discusses themes from five different action - research projects in blended classrooms, illustrating some of the benefits of and challenges to blending online social learning opportunities with traditional face - to - face discussion.

One of the hardest challenges that new (and even experienced) teachers face is trying to stay up to date with the vast range of materials and resources that are out there and available for teachers to use in their classroom.

In these meetings, we took the opportunity to talk with his new teacher and his previous teacher about my son's strengths and challenges in the classroom.

Now, a year later, not only do I consider it one of the best commitments to a classroom routine that I've ever made, but I also have a burgeoning collection of ideas about what flops and what flies when it comes to launching our class period each day by pairing a poem with quick, engaging, and challenging activities.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

Its challenge is to continually demonstrate how its products make a difference in UK classrooms and compete with many new players in this fast - moving market.

If our child is having a mediocre classroom experience, we may have to make more school visits, talk to more parents to find out if they are dealing with similar challenges, and have more meetings with teachers and administrators (all things we really should be doing anyway).

While the traditional classroom teacher is bound to confront students with reading difficulties, most teachers have not received much (or any) preparation for the specific teaching challenges these students present.

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Do you face daily challenges with space inside and outside your classroom?

Grouping gifted children together within the classroom (not all the time, but occasionally based on the learning objective at hand) provides them with an opportunity to collaborate with similar - ability students, which can cause them to positively challenge each other to higher performance levels.

The inquiry will likely lead to updated advice for teachers to help them cope with 21st century challenges in the classroom.

Quality technological provision is a huge challenge with the funding squeezes upon schools, but evidence from my classroom strongly suggests that it is an investment worth making.

Schools are also using their kitchen and gardens as spaces to help students who nd the traditional classroom setting challenging, including students with special needs or behavioural disorders.

When I invited young adults who have been challenged with these disorders into our classroom, they shared their personal and professional journeys, which deepened the sense of community, understanding, and acceptance of all learning styles and challenges.

Understanding classroom challenges, Jan collaborated with teachers, OTs, and administrators to build the three programs that comprise the Learning Without Tears curricula: Get Set for School ® for kindergarten readiness, Handwriting Without Tears ® for K — 5, and Keyboarding Without Tears ® for K — 5.

We rarely look at ADHD as an advantage, but I've found that having students with ADHD in my classroom challenges me to update the way I teach so that my curriculum is more versatile, interesting, and compatible with the skills all students will need in an increasingly fast - paced world.

It is beyond dispute that, because disadvantaged children come to their classrooms with an array of educational and personal challenges, they need additional resources to compete successfully with their more - affluent peers.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

At the time, I didn't know why this activity worked so well, but I was thrilled to be avoiding many of the classroom management challenges that my new - teacher colleagues were dealing with.

Mike Petrilli talks with Education Next about the challenges of teaching high - achieving and low - achieving kids in the same classroom, and about one school in Montgomery County, Maryland, which is using a blend of ability grouping and differentiated instruction with great success.

With nearly half of all new teachers leaving their classrooms within five years and as many as a third of the nation's teaching force readying for retirement, some education and political leaders seem to believe that education can solve its human - resource challenge by becoming more like the military: sign individuals up for short - term enlistments, prepare them in intensive boot - camp experiences, and then send them to the front lines.

Observe the teacher with classroom management challenges and ask him to reflect on the atmosphere in his classroom.

Indeed, it's one thing to think, rather generically, about the achievement gap between races and socio - economic groups, but as I saw up close and personal in that sixth - grade classroom yesterday and as Mike makes vividly clear in his Ed Next story, our relatively recent headlong rush to celebrate diversity — and integration and «mainstreaming» — has brought with it new achievement gap challenges.