Sentences with phrase «classroom results rather»

What if school board elections turned on classroom results rather than petty power struggles?

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As a result, research has shown that homeschooled children tend to develop better social skills than those who spend a large part of their days in a classroom, rather than out in the «real» world.

The results showed that the intervention effects didn't just «spill over» to untreated students — rather, the classroom environment improved, and the improved environment benefited everyone in it.

Though often mistaken as one man's prescription for what should be taught in school, Cultural Literacy was a pioneering study of the history of education theory as applied in our schools — and it came to the rather damning conclusion that those schools had wrongly forsaken the importance of transmitting knowledge in the classroom; the academic failures were not the result of moral or character imperfections but of knowledge deficits.

«As a result of [my mission to Huntsville], classroom learning will be much more activity - based rather than theoretical - things like survivability, the history of space flight, the equipment used... and I will expand on the NASA material to make lesson plans more interesting for the students.»

Our core substantive findings cohere with results from the last three decades of education technology research: Most wikis reproduced typical classroom dynamics: the majority of wikis disseminated teacher content rather than nurturing student voice and supported individual activity rather than collaboration.

Further, Legg sought the numbers of students affected by having the compliance calculation at the school rather than classroom level, the number of teaching positions eliminated or unfilled because of this maneuver, and the amount of money districts have saved as a result.

In Singapore, for example, teachers have 20 hours per week scheduled to work with colleagues, including time for «action research,» through which teachers identify and solve shared problems through discussion and classroom experimentation.20 Research suggests that professional learning in many high - performing countries tends to yield positive results when it is part of a larger school effort, rather than a patchwork of isolated activities not connected to school - level goals.21

We believe that effective professional learning is ongoing and sustained, not infrequent and transitory; is job - embedded rather than external; occurs in the classroom and school context; focuses on results rather than perceptions; and is systematically aligned with school and district goals (DuFour, DuFour & Eaker, 2008; Lutrick, 2012).

Teachers» resistance to change and «fear» of integrating computers into classrooms resulted from not recognizing the usefulness and necessity of technology to teaching and learning; teachers still viewed the computer as a part of the curriculum rather than as a tool for teaching (Medcalf - Davenport, 1998).