Sentences with phrase «classroom examples teachers»

Mendler states that dealing with difficult students is the number one cause of burnout for most teachers, and he provides numerous authentic classroom examples teachers can utilize.

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Add to these examples the amount of information available at the student's desk and in the classroom, and one begins to understand the changes in the teacher's role.

For example, textbooks can be converted onto a disc, and laptops and recording devices can be used in the classroom to help with teachers» notes.

At best, the harvest of salad greens (for example) can make a nice big salad that every student in one classroom can enjoy as part of a class lesson (and here the teacher's creativity comes into play — the lesson can be math, with the kids figuring what percentage of the salad is romaine and what percent arugula, or it can be science, or even spelling.)

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

Observed impact (by class - teacher) on children's behaviour in classroom, for example one child much happier in school and with calmer behaviour since her fathers has been attending this group.

-LSB-...] These are just a few examples of the junk food rewards my kids have received over the years from teachers in their classrooms.

Marching around saying it's «bullshit» whilst our politicians tour their constituencies in stab - proof vests, our bankers screw society for personal gain, our teachers describe classrooms as battlegrounds, our towns and parks have become no - go zones most evenings, our social workers come across the most appalling instances of abuse, just to name but a few of the most obvious examples - well, I think you need to produce a little more than some statistics and a bit of bad language to turn the narrative around.

Both Cox and Newton say that their work keeps them close to schools — for example, doing research in classrooms or running professional - development workshops for teachers.

To avoid having classroom discussion dominated by students who feel more confident about the subject, for example, teachers use index cards to call on every student in the class.

There are many more instructional strategies that teachers can use to help students get the most from classroom technology — check out the Triple E Framework website for some examples.

One example of 21st - century education is the flipped classroom, which provides students with an overall picture of a topic before the teacher addresses it.

The traditional sort of mainstream idea of Flipped Learning is that teachers will take what they used to do in the classroom - you know, lecturing and presenting information to students and classroom discussions for example, and do those things outside the classroom.

The program — for and about teachers — will focus on the most important challenges and opportunities facing America's teachers, and feature examples of great teaching from various schools and classrooms across the country.

For example, some of the partnerships were in the form of weekly phone calls to provide advice on science fair projects, while others were classvisits to help teachers and students learn how to adapt solar energy in their classrooms.

There are countless examples, but two stand out: the Edcamp movement of educator unconferences; and the ScratchED online community for teachers who use Scratch in their classrooms.

Collette Weir, a kindergarten teacher at CDCH, offers another example, based on classroom experience.

Warlick's site is a prime example of the Web's supplying valuable tools to the working teacher in the classroom.»

For example, when class begins, students can put on their VR headsets and connect to their teacher's virtual classroom.

In choosing this year's «Better Balance,» for example, the editors signaled that something is awry in the existing balance between the «hard» elements of standards - based reform (namely the academic standards, assessments, and interventions that make up a state's accountability system) and such «soft» components as teacher training, instructional materials, and classroom environment.

For example, I was visiting in a first - grade classroom where the teacher had cut flash cards in half.

PBL experts will tell you this, but I often hear teachers ask for real examples, specifics to help them contextualize what it «looks like» in the classroom.

Teachers can follow up by building reflection time into their classroom practices, having students journal about or talk in circle about tough situations they face, and encouraging students to think deeply about their values and life goals, for example.

Music teachers, for example, are often talented conductors and producers who are able to express their personal interests while engaging young musicians, and English teachers may be poets or authors in their spare time and inspire the next JK Rowling in the classroom.

These teachers could be empowered to shape their schools, by taking part in choosing the curricula they use in their classrooms and the formative assessments they use to measure student progress, for example.

For example, having a common core subject teacher and moving to other classrooms for electives and phys ed only.

For example, Robinson tells us: «If you're a teacher and you change what you do in your classroom, you are, for those students, the education system; and if you change your practice, you have changed the education system for your students; and if enough people change, that becomes a movement.

For example, in Domain 3 — this idea of a culture that promotes learning and the idea of shared commitment to improving teachers, and the notion that teachers would invite leaders to observe them in their classroom.

One example is an end of semester or end of unit assignment or portfolio task developed by the subject or classroom teacher.

Perhaps I am an extreme example of what not to do, but I have witnessed a general sense that teachers, when it comes to their performance in the classroom, tend to stick to themselves.

Teachers who have never worked with computers in this way often struggle with the concepts of computational thinking and there is still a great deal of confusion in the classroom around certain terminology, such as «algorithm» for example, particularly at Key Stage One.

Charters that succeed with low - income children go full bore: all - out culture building in the classroom, students and staffers willing to endure longer school hours, bright teachers willing to adapt to precise training regimens and relinquish a fair amount of privacy (giving out their cell - phone number for afterschool homework questions, for example).

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

«By way of example, the teacher survey undertaken by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class».

For example, having students participate in creating a tableau about the Underground Railroad is one example of how teachers might use drama in their classrooms to teach specific curricular objectives.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

The committee report recommended that authors of educational - psychology textbooks offer examples of how these principles play out in school, and provide more classroom scenarios for pre-service teachers to interpret.

Ohio uses the Educational Testing Service's Praxis III performance assessment to measure the skills of novice teachers through classroom observations, interviews, and examples and descriptions of classroom work.

Denver's Professional Compensation for Teachers (ProComp) plan, widely heralded as the leading national example of performance pay, awards more money for earning another degree than for demonstrated performance in the classroom.

Yes, one of the answers to teacher recruitment might be you — and the example you set in the classroom.

For the classroom teacher, this might take the form, for example, of a roster of students who are flagged because they are consistently receiving low scores on a particular Report Card item or group of items, e.g., having friends.

The recommendation, exemplified through the worked example of The Brookings Soft Skills Report Card, is to use measures of soft skills that are naturally occurring, easily observed, at low levels of abstraction, relevant to the expressed mission and instructional goals of a teacher or school, and useful as feedback at the classroom and parental levels.

For example, in order to assess the «multidimensional perception» of teachers (i.e., «Expert teachers develop a high level of - withitness,» that is, they show that they are aware of events that occur simultaneously»), the researchers used a survey of each teacher's students and observed teachers during a three - hour, prearranged classroom visit.

Principal Clora Johnston offers examples of classroom management tricks many master teachers use.

Both peer evaluators (experienced classroom teachers who serve as full - time evaluators for three years) and administrators must complete an intensive training course and accurately score videotaped teaching examples according to a specific rubric.

«Not only does the Extreme Read expose a math teacher, for example, to a young adult novel he or she would not typically have used in the classroom, but it allows students to see teachers and adults other than their language arts teacher as readers,» she added.

I'd research examples of how other teachers were using this tool by simply performing a search for «Edmodo in the classroom.»

For example, past Specialized Studies candidates have included physicians interested in understanding the education of medical students, a career military officer interested in translating classroom practices into training, social entrepreneurs leading innovative educational ventures in the U.S. and abroad, teachers and administrators interested in implementing cutting edge reform in unique settings, as well as so many others who have benefited from designing their own courses of study.

Teachers involved in TAP receive detailed rubrics for every aspect of the program, complete with specific descriptions of what they are accountable for in the classroom and examples of exemplary, proficient, and unsatisfactory performance.

We do find, for example, that the average achievement gains in a teacher's classroom in 2002 — 03 is a modestly stronger predictor of the principal's rating than the gains in any previous year.