Sentences with phrase «classroom instructional time»

Have you benefited from increased classroom instructional time because of less time spent helping students who can not independently manage difficult or emotionally charged situations?

One of the most interesting aspects of the department's action plan is its specific call to restrict testing to no more than 2 percent of classroom instructional time.

«Our students are losing valuable classroom instructional time, which is depriving them of their right to an education, decreasing their chances at success in college and careers, and affecting the morale of staff members.»

Have you benefited from increased classroom instructional time because of less time spent helping students who can not independently manage difficult or emotionally charged situations?

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Although a common concern surrounding BIC is that teachers will lose crucial instructional time, Ms. Candelaria says breakfast time is learning time in her classroom.

Meals are picked up from a cart in the hallway, in the cafeteria, or directly delivered to the classroom where students eat breakfast while the teacher takes attendance, collects homework, or teaches a short lesson plan, so no instructional time is lost.

Please read this letter from the Vermont Secretary of Education stating that meals served in the classroom count as instructional time.

Early problems included addressing concerns about additional work from the custodial staff and teacher concerns that that in - classroom breakfast would take away from instructional time.

There are many other factors to consider, such as administrators making time to visit classrooms, capable instructional leadership, clear expectations and common language around school or district initiatives, creating a culture of risk taking, etc..

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

While most content has remained consistent throughout time, instructional design, educational policy, and classroom tools and structures have been in constant motion.

To make matters more complicated, for the first time in four years, I'm back in the classroom with a full - time program after being the math instructional coach and data specialist for my school.

What followed was the Obama administration recommending limiting testing to 2.5 percent of instructional time in the classroom.

All teachers were evaluated by five structured classroom observations aligned to the district's Teaching and Learning Framework, which defined domains of effective instruction, such as leading well - organized, objective - driven lessons; checking for student understanding; explaining content clearly; and maximizing instructional time.

Through a 2 - year professional development program that incorporates continuous quality improvement methods, UBC provides classroom teams and school leaders training and in - classroom coaching to maximize language instructional strategies, instructional time, effective interactions and attendance.

• 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!

Teacher specialization also usually means that students move classrooms throughout the day (even if they stay with the same class of students), and these constant transitions can decrease instructional time.

My lessons and tests must incorporate one or more of of the four Cs to, in my opinion, be worthy of spending precious instructional time in the classroom.

They said discipline was the biggest waste of instructional time in the classroom and that they needed tools to help with it.

Since the flipped classroom model moves teachers away from the «front of the room,» they have more time to interact with students and implement a wide variety of instructional strategies — including formative assessment.

Yet traditional classroom desks and chairs often make it tough for students to collaborate or rotate through activities without wasting time and disrupting instructional flow.

Funding instructional assistants is a constant challenge for the school and the district, and instructional assistants may only be available part - time in upper - grade - level immersion classrooms.

According to faculty at JSIS, full - time, native - speaking teachers and instructional assistants in immersion classrooms play an important role in the success of the international school model, particularly in the younger grades.

By moving entry - level information outside the classroom — typically (but not exclusively) through self - paced, scored videos — teachers can reframe learning so that students spend more instructional time engaged in deeper discussions, hands - on applications and project - based learning.

If, however, teachers must choose a smaller number of practices on which to focus their improvement efforts (for example, because of limited time or professional development opportunities), our results suggest that math achievement would likely benefit most from improvements in classroom management skills before turning to instructional issues.

A child with an attention deficit can pose serious management problems for the classroom teacher and, if not managed successfully, can take up a considerable amount of instructional time.

Research indicates when instructional time is mainly devoted to academic subjects, when classroom time is well managed, and when curriculum and instruction is provided at a level of difficulty appropriate to the individual student — the subject matter matched to the readiness of the students to learn — then students will learn.

Observations of child - care settings and pre-K, kindergarten, and 1st - grade classrooms show that some children spend most of their time engaged in productive instructional activities with caring and responsive adults who consistently provide feedback, challenges to think, and social supports.

In this webinar, we'll discuss how educators and administrators are using industry - leading tools and smart strategies to personalize learning, improve classroom management, and gain back valuable instructional time.

Online learning comes in two broad categories: purely online courses, in which a student is never in the same room as an instructor, and «blended courses,» in which students spend time in a physical classroom with an instructor, and, also, time online with instructional videos and digital content.

The classroom teacher rotating her time through several groups of students while the Title I staff give Title I students additional instructional time.

Clever helps us get students logged into i - Ready faster, which preserves instructional time in the classroom.

«More broadly, the findings here underscore the growing view that classroom engagement is at least as limited and valuable a resource as instructional time.»

Additionally, we asked them to keep a weekly time log of instructional activities in reading / language arts for a week in February and a week in May, and to complete a questionnaire on school and classroom practices related to reading.

«We found higher levels of classroom engagement after lessons in nature than after carefully matched classroom - based counterparts; these differences could not be explained by differences in teacher, instructional approach, class (students, classroom, and class size), time of year, or time of day, nor the order of the indoor and outdoor lessons on a given topic.

A key reason that flipped teaching and learning marries so well with the active classroom is that by pushing some of the rote instructional practice outside of, and prior to, class sessions, it frees up valuable face - to - face class time for applied learning pursuits.

The framework for our overall project also points to the mostly indirect influence of principals «actions on students and on student learning.223 Such actions are mediated, for example, by school conditions such as academic press, 224 with significant consequences for teaching and learning and for powerful features of classroom practice such as teachers «uses of instructional time.225 Evidence - informed decision making by principals, guided by this understanding of principals «work, includes having and using a broad array of evidence about many things: key features of their school «s external context; the status of school and classroom conditions mediating leaders «own leadership practices; and the status of their students «learning.

On behalf of the California Teachers Association, Karen Sher, a veteran teacher and instructional coach and member of the Oxnard Union High School District board, said that the current law offers ample time for multiple evaluations to determine whether a probationary teacher should continue in the classroom.

The DISS project suggests: «the majority of TAs spend most of their time working in a direct, but informal, instructional role with pupils on a small group and one - to - one basis (both inside and outside of the classroom).

Rather, an orderly, tightly - run classroom (a tight ship) is important only in that it creates additional instructional time, and can therefore facilitate increased student learning.

Studies of teacher leader practice provided converging evidence that, due to a lack of release time, teacher leaders were unable to provide substantive direct instructional support to classroom teachers.

Districts and schools influenced the degree and types of differentiation in the classroom mainly in three ways: mandated time for instructional differentiation, curriculum options, and online program adoption.

People familiar with the schools say classrooms rarely include anything but instructional material, leaving little room for «choice time,» a hallmark of many elementary schools.

While we are concerned about the amount of instructional time students receive each week, we are also concerned about the quality of learning while in the classrooms.

Student teaching is a full - time, college supervised, instructional classroom experience.

Prior to partnering with Kickboard, school leader Dawn Love calculated that the 1,600 classroom behavioral infractions in her school during the 2013 - 14 school year equated to 25,395 minutes of missed instructional time.

In most states, more that 50 % of special education students spend more than 80 % of their instructional time in general education classrooms.

DreamBox Learning is an adaptive, online K - 8 math instructional program designed to complement classroom practice, while empowering educators with real - time data to differentiate instruction and personalize learning.

The teacher's demonstrated pedagogical skills, including at least a special determination concerning the teacher's knowledge of his or her subject area and the ability to impart that knowledge through planning, delivering rigorous content, checking for and building higher - level understanding, differentiating, and managing a classroom; and consistent preparation to maximize instructional time.

District level educators can analyze sweeping patterns and trends while instructional leaders can employ fast and flexible reports to shape curriculum and instruction in the classroom in real - time