Sentences with phrase «classroom more seating»

Once flexible learning environments caught on, our district gave every classroom more seating options, including chairs and tables on wheels.

Not exact matches

The Old Town School owns and operates two facilities situated in Lincoln Square and one in Lincoln Park that include 425 - seat and 150 - seat concert halls, more than 50 classrooms, two music stores, cafe, and resource center.

If built, the Family Community Life Center — a mixed - use project that has been in the planning stages for more than 25 years — would include an Olympic - size indoor swimming pool, a 25 - seat theater and media center, 24 - hour day care facilities, an indoor walking track, gymnasium, fitness center, classroom space, and 132 affordable apartment units intended as «workforce housing» for the area.

«I want to assure you that, though I am discontinuing my campaign, I will continue my fight for affordable housing, tougher gun laws and more classroom seats to alleviate overcrowding in our schools.

City Education Department spokesman Michael Aciman said the city has invested $ 6.5 billion to create more than 46,600 classroom seats in overcrowded areas.

«That intimate classroom environment is more conducive to students» success than are university lecture halls that seat maybe 450 students,» he says.

Imagine, if you will, a classroom in which every seat is occupied by one of the best students in the country — bright, fully engaged, and hungry to know more.

I was pretty much prepared to veto any requests that smelled like they were diversions from the classroom routine, except for something along the lines of, «Ms. Delisio, can I please move my seat so more ceiling tiles don't fall on me?»

Issues like glare can be dealt with simply by seating the child in a shaded area of the classroom, and it may be the case that they need to wear sunglasses of some kind to make them more comfortable.

Students are taking more responsibility for their own learning as they see me model risk - taking in the classroom, and the flexible seating environment has played a large role in that shift.

Herb focuses on the practical and the specific, including ideas for seating, signage, planting considerations, teaching / meeting areas, outdoor classroom management, pathways, equipment storage, raised gardens, and more.

Operational definition of this behavior: Student leaves his / her assigned seat, without permission, for five or more seconds during classroom instruction.

The state has become a leader in the «competency - based» education movement — in which success is less about «seat time» in a classroom or passing traditional tests and more about students showing they can apply skills and knowledge to complex challenges.

Find out more about how to successfully implement Flexible Seating where you are by heading to the project page, and let's create classrooms all over the world that children can't wait to get into!

Policymakers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more personalized models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and that take place within teachers» classrooms, considering the context of one's students, classroom, and school.

Local decision makers can support and incentivize these types of evidence - based professional development models by providing more practice - based models of professional development that move beyond teachers» «seat time» to models that promote active learning and take place within teachers» schools, considering the context of their respective students, classrooms, and school site goals.

Kirstin warned, «Kindergarten classrooms are losing their block sets and finger paints, to make room for more and more direct instruction of developmentally inappropriate subject matter, more seat - work, and more testing and test prep.

Now, more than ever, it is important that we work together as a unified voice for the students of this state and provide them with a seat in the classroom that best meets their needs.

Although the numbers are stark, there are solutions that will work to ensure that the teachers standing in the front of the classroom mirror the students filling the seats, and we can do far more as a nation to improve the diversity of our teacher workforce.

With more than 32,000 alumni, TFA has been put on the hot seat for years about whether its teachers pass the «do no harm» test in the classroom.

Putting students in the driver's seat in this way enables teachers to move away from a lecture - oriented classroom environment, and spend more time as a mentor and facilitator, creating small groups to support struggling students, for example, but also letting them be the primary decision - makers in their own learning.

The first year of teaching is often a blur of lessons learned in the hot seat while students fail to learn all that they could.13 Nearly 1 in 7 new teachers leave the classroom before completing their third year, with most citing classroom management, the burden of curriculum freedom, and unsupportive school environments as their greatest challenges.14 According to the National Center for Education Statistics, teachers with three or fewer years of teaching experience are less likely than more experienced teachers to report being very well - prepared to maintain order and discipline in the classroom.15 Additionally, new teachers were less likely than more experienced teachers to report being well - prepared to implement state or district curricula.16 Residency and induction programs can provide essential practical training in classroom management, assessment and data literacy, and differentiation or special education techniques.17

Los Angeles — A new report from the Center for Civil Rights Remedies at the Civil Rights Project, Suspended Education in California's Public Schools, estimates that more than 400,000 students were suspended and removed from classrooms at least one time during the 2009 - 10 school year in California — enough to fill every seat in all the professional baseball and football stadiums in the state.

Classroom structures may need to be adjusted to accommodate individualized learning — in other words, instead of the traditional rows of desks facing the blackboard, classroom seating arrangements may need to be more flexible, so that the teacher can work with individuals or small groups while the majority of students work independently with a personalized learning software program.

Throughout the book we promote the concept that those who do a classroom walkthrough learn more by «sitting in the student's seat» to understand what the students are doing during the lesson than they do by focusing on what the teacher is doing during the lesson.

Imagine a career with a ringside seat to all the action: high - profile criminal trials, the House of Representatives and the Senate, major sporting events, breaking - news stories for TV, aiding students who are deaf or hard - of - hearing in classrooms, and more!

If you would like to attend a Seat Pleasant Maryland driver improvement program in a more traditional, brick - and - mortar classroom setting contact your court for a list of available options.