Sentences with phrase «classroom design project»

In Boston, I was able to share approaches for a technology - rich reading and writing workshop and an innovative classroom design project.

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Just one experiment a week will help build children's confidence and excitement about the sciences, boost success in the classroom, and give them the tools to design and execute their own science fair projects.

A project designed to assist early care and education programs in meeting the social and emotional needs of children who exhibit challenging behaviors in the classroom.

A project close to her heart has been designing the curriculum and training teachers for Laurie Berkner's The Music in Me, an early childhood music program based on her music and classroom philosophy.

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.

Contributions will give Newtown teachers the opportunity to design classroom - specific projects and buy needed supplies.

For six years beginning in 2002, Lanham oversaw jobs including the $ 1 billion «Project Connect,» which was designed to bring the Internet to city classrooms.

PlantingScience (PS) is an online platform where middle and high school students reflect with scientists on plant - based research projects designed and conducted by the students in their classrooms.

Thanks to support from Sparkfactor.org, the knowledge and insight gained from Purdue WIEP and girlSPARC events has been compiled into a Best Practices resource designed to help guide program coordinators in planning and holding successful Raspberry Pi Projects Kit events in out - of - school, classroom, or other group settings.

With Science Buddies» broad mix of free scientist - authored resources for STEM education, including hands - on project ideas and activities, lesson plans, career profiles, science news articles, concept videos, and complete project guides for science and engineering projects, if you are teaching it to your science class, Science Buddies has materials designed to help you bring the material to life in - class or to supplement and extend classroom learning.

With more than 1,100 free projects, Science Buddies has projects for every student, and the Project Guide helps supplement and guide classroom instruction related to the Scientific Method, Engineering Design Process, or individual steps of doing a science pProject Guide helps supplement and guide classroom instruction related to the Scientific Method, Engineering Design Process, or individual steps of doing a science projectproject.

Although their brain - controlled drone certainly was innovative enough to earn a good grade, Magbagbeola, Kinn and the other students on their project team actually had goals outside the classroom in mind when designing the drone.

From this starting point, there exist different approaches to developing this global awareness, such as: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

My bandwagon collection included books on mastery learning, portfolio assessment, cooperative classroom structures, technology integration, backward design, multimedia projects, personal learning paths, authentic task development and, most recently, differentiated instruction and integrated curriculum.

All participants are required to design action projects in which they identify an issue of equity in classrooms, schools, or the district and develop a research - based intervention to address it.

Revised classroom and facility designs will look to deliver savings of around # 6m for an average secondary school in comparison to a BSF project.

The result of that meeting was a design project that created a logo for Seattle's Beacon Hill Elementary School — a logo that expresses the mission and spirit of the school, focuses classroom instruction, and unifies the community.

There exist four major ways to develop global awareness within the international schools: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

Using a design experiment methodology, each project / unit was field tested multiple times in classrooms outside of our study and iteratively revised as warranted by the data.

On a larger scale, the Fresno Unified School District — the fourth - largest school district in California, with more than 73,000 students — recently completed a large retrofit project in 984 portable classrooms at 84 school sites, designed to save the district over $ 365,000 in annual electricity costs.

At this point, new learning methodologies get involved: Flipped classroom, learning by doing, project - based learning, problem - based learning, gamification, design thinking, visual thinking, personalized learning, etc..

Developed by the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD) and the First Amendment Center, the First Amendment Schools Project is designed to move First Amendment's ideas out of textbook discussions and into practice in classrooms and school hallways, while deepening educators» understanding of the First Amendment.

The organizations are focused on supporting schools with 21st century school and classroom design, customized project based learning curriculum, deep learning strategies, and educational technology, to name a few.

Every summer for the past 11 years, HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education have offered the Project Zero Classroom, a one - week, intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K — 12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address learning dilemmas.

Sylvia Martinez, president of Generation YES, says the platform enables teachers to design project plans and classroom lessons that are aligned to the Common Core.

Drawing on research from Project Zero's Agency by Design project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they Project Zero's Agency by Design project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they project, this course offers classroom teachers, maker educators, administrators, and parents an opportunity to explore firsthand maker - centered learning practices and the opportunities they afford.

In our visits to PL schools, we're seeing a move away from traditional lecture - based formats in favor of lively classrooms where students tackle self - designed projects.

Mark Stead, from the Severn Wye Energy Agency will host a workshop where primary aged children will present what they have learned through the «Energy Detectives» project and participants will use this information to design an energy saving plan for their own classroom.

The nine design teams in Reeder's freshman - sophomore geometry class presented their school designs, plans, and budgets to Seattle architects Kirk Wise and Mark Miller, who were charged with selecting the project with the best concept, best use of site features, and best building and classroom design; cost was also a factor.

This guide will help teachers explore sustainable design principles as part of a wider topic or classroom project on the built environment.

«In the last year of the project, we'll use what we have learned to develop and design ecosystems and global warming curricula to be tested in classrooms.»

By using the backward design process, you can effectively map out a project that's ready to go in the classroom.

When I feel frustrated with the project that I designed, with my students, or with the climate in my classroom, I step back to ask questions, reflect, and consider revamping my approach.

Students from Multimedia Project classrooms outperformed comparison classrooms in all three areas scored by researchers and teachers: student content, attention to audience, and design.

Every summer for the past 11 years, HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education have offered the Project Zero Classroom, a one - week, intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K — 12 educators create classrooms,...

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

Now in its 14th year, the PZC, offered in collaboration with HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education, is an intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K-12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address a range of learning styles and promote a culture of deep thinking to build complex knowledge in the arts and other academic areas.

Textbooks, if present, are more likely to be used as references — a tool to help students design and build their projects — unlike traditional classrooms where memorizing the textbook itself may be the goal.

Whether project - based learning (PBL), game - based learning (GBL), Understanding by Design (UbD), or authentic literacy, find an effective model to institute in your classroom.

As a project extension, designs can be built using cardboard and a free corner of the classroom, or with help from community members at an actual event.

Well - designed projects challenge students to choose an issue that matters to them, invest time in authentic research, interact with the world outside the classroom, and then do something that will achieve real results.

If there's one thing I've learned in my 10 - year teaching career, it's that designing valid and reliable assessments in a project - based learning classroom is a time - consuming process — at least it is for me.

I think of the Rube Goldberg machines built by engineering students in our makerspace, and I imagine the classroom furniture and prototypes being built by the students in my own Art and Tech elective class, projects that start with 3D models and prototypes and end in functional designs that are in use throughout the school.

In addition to the work that teachers do in their own classroom, the architecture, science, and social studies teachers joined the model - building phase of the architecture project to help and support students, ask questions, offer a new perspective on their design, and help them push through any obstacles.

In T - 550 this semester, Brennan's students are using these resources to design and produce their own interactive Scratch projects that could be used in classrooms.

She's learned to design classroom projects that cultivate in her students everything from computational thinking strategies to narrative storytelling skills.

Using the project - based learning (PBL) design principle of an authentic audience, below you will find high school English teacher, Melissa Meyers, describing both the promise and the challenge of integrating educational technology in to our classrooms:

For a recent project, special education teacher Kelli Meadows helped students design and build a mobility device for a classmate with special needs who struggled to walk the distance between classrooms.

The Foundation focuses its grant making on inquiry - based projects designed by individual teachers, and small teams of teachers, for use in their own classrooms.

«It's imperative that classroom design is driven by the desire to create personal and authentic learning experiences for students,» says Tom Murray, director of innovation for Future Ready Schools, a project of the Alliance for Excellent Education.