Sentences with phrase «classroom seats in»

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.

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Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post announcing his company's purchase of Oculus.

In particular, the Haskayne Executive Education facilities include a boardroom (seats 14), a main classroom (seats 48) and five breakout rooms.

«Imagine enjoying a court side seat at a game, studying in a classroom of students and teachers all over the world or consulting with a doctor face - to - face — just by putting on goggles in your home,» he wrote.

You sat in the third row, on the window side of the classroom, four seats from the aisle.»

She loved to stay in her seat and she did not get up off her chair in the classroom!

When a child has been having problems in the classroom, such as not completing assignments, fidgeting in their seat, not paying attention, or talking during class, their teacher may begin to think ADHD.

Girls in the classroom need to recognize that their voice matters, that their voice needs to be heard not just by the teacher but by the boys in the room, and that they deserve a seat at the table, that they deserve to have value.

One practical way to end this type of behavior in the classroom is to assign seats and assign group projects.

«I nurse the baby, prepare bottles for daycare, pack the toddler's lunch, put together the baby's diapers for daycare, pack my lunch, pack pump parts, take juice and vitamin to the toddler, wake the toddler up, get him on the potty, wake the baby, dress the baby, dress the toddler, take the kids downstairs, put the baby in their car seat, make breakfast for the toddler, get dressed, take everything to the car, take the kids to the car, drive to daycare, drop kids off in their classrooms, get to work, prepare my patient lists for the day, greet my first patient or two, pump for 30 minutes, and then it's 9:00 a.m.»

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.

Our engaging online courses give you a front row seat in Chef Ann Cooper's classroom, where you can learn directly from a leader in school food change on how to transition school meal programs to scratch - cooked operations that provide real, healthy food to kids at school every day.

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.

On topic question topics included the mayor's proposed $ 20 million allocation for arts programs and whether this is all new spending, whether it's typical for elementary schools to have arts teachers, the mayor's proposed $ 4.4 billion capital spending to address classroom overcrowding, how many new classroom seats that spending would produce and where they would be located, whether all trailers used by schools would be eliminated, the definition of «problematic behavior» used in dealing with the Absent Teacher Reserve, what the state funding to be used for middle school after school programs would have otherwise been used for and DoE support for schools that will participate in the program providing increased school autonomy.

CITY HALL — Mayor Bill de Blasio unveiled a $ 84.67 billion preliminary budget for fiscal year 2018 Tuesday that includes money to pave 1,300 miles of road, adds 40,000 new classroom seats and boosts financial reserves to record levels in case of potential federal funding cuts from the Trump administration.

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.

Flexible seating has made an amazing difference in my classroom — it creates a student - centered environment and promotes responsibility.

Almost all of our K — 8 teachers have dropped seating charts but devote time to modeling appropriate behaviors in their new classrooms.

Even if you teach in a self - contained classroom and can easily take roll no matter where your students are seated, I encourage you to have seating charts so that when you're not there, your students will be familiar with the seating expectation and your substitute will know who's who.

In classrooms where teachers are effective learning - state managers, students know what to expect and often look forward to getting out of their seats periodically and interacting with others, ultimately refreshing their learning states.

Low - cost seating options like rugs, crates, and yoga balls with braces were ubiquitous in the classrooms we reviewed.

I was already experimenting with flexible seating in my eighth - grade English classroom when I saw a video about combating writer's block by working in a box castle.

«I am in my 13th year of teaching, but this is my first year to incorporate flexible seating into my classroom,» said first - grade teacher Ashley Rice Broomfield, before expressing a common sentiment: «I will never go back to traditional seating.»

What about classroom management in a flexible seating classroom?

Logistically, I can seat all students in a circle and focus on the physical space of my classroom.

They gripe about the amount of homework, food in the lunchroom, their seat in the classroom, and comments of other students.

Even with modified seating, most classrooms aren't really designed with student collaboration in mind.

But to the extent that the stereotype represents what's actually happening in classrooms (which I'm skeptical of), the problem is not the seating arrangement or lack of smartphones; it's the pedagogy.

The Larsen classroom project undertaken in summer 2009 involved renovating the first and second floors of Larsen Hall into an 80 - seat, tiered classroom with adjacent seating areas on the first floor, as well as a 50 - seat, tiered classroom and breakout space on the second floor.

Participants stressed that limiting the number of seats around a blended and personalized learning design table, in turn, limits the level of teacher buy - in to new classroom models.

The other strategies which I guess research can tell us that work really well are things like seating plans — having a plan for where people are going to sit in your classroom, taking into consideration what their needs are, what their personalities and what their behaviours are like.

Particularly in classes like Food Technology and Science classrooms where the physical seating has to be arranged according to what we do in those spaces.

• At day's end, there are just three ways of awarding «credit» for work done in (or out) of school (and conferring diplomas or equivalency certificates based on that credit): «seat time» as traditionally measured in Carnegie units; the judgment of classroom teachers; or «demonstrated mastery» based on credible external assessments.

Change the seating plan And it's not just the technology in classrooms that should change; it is also the teaching style.

Visualize a classroom with long bench - like seats that are set up around work tables and where there is no teacher desk — a place where the teacher uses a process called Q U E S T and BYOD to support middle school students in understanding what topics in the curriculum are important to them.

Children are captivated by nature and the nest box cameras quite literally bring the nesting season to life in the classroom and allow us to follow the stories of the nesting birds, giving children a front row seat to the world hidden within the nest box.

History students learning about the American Revolution will surely be engaged as they investigate all of the nooks and crannies on the Smithsonian's Gunboat Philadelphia from their seats in your classroom through this great interactive 3D file.

Many observers might stay seated and off to the side in the attempt to not disrupt the natural flow of the classroom — but their very presence makes it too late for that!

When we assessed this objectively in the speech perception task we found that in the enclosed classroom children were achieving around 80 per cent, irrespective of where they were seated in the classroom.

This could obviously revolutionize the classroom experience for visually impaired students, who could view the board from any seat in the classroom or lecture hall, easily read from books, tablets, and computers, move independently between classes, and participate in on and off campus events.

Unfortunately, one of the main criteria by which you are judged as a teacher is your ability to keep «order» in the classroom — quiet; neat rows of seated students; one person speaking at a time after being recognized; and so on.

He said, «Rethinking policies around seat - time requirements, class size, compensating teachers based on their educational credentials, the use of technology in the classroom, inequitable school financing, the over placement of students in special education — almost all of these potentially transformative productivity gains are primarily state and local issues that have to be grappled with.»

At the classroom level, education is a pragmatic, seat - of - the - pants enterprise in which teachers tend to throw whatever they have at students, and character educators are no exception.

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For ideas about classroom management in a flexible seating environment, see John Thomas's post on working with first and second graders and my post on middle school students.

Redesigning a classroom or implementing unassigned flexible seating is a shift in both structure and teaching philosophy — an entire mindset shift.

They gripe about homework, food in the lunchroom, their seat in the classroom, and comments of other students.

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.