A very large fraction of that increase has gone into reduction of class size, both by increasing the ratio of regular
classroom teachers to students and by increasing the numbers of teachers» aides and other non-teaching personnel in the classroom.
Not exact matches
«These are things any great
teacher would be able
to do for a small group of
students in a particular
classroom,» Baker says, but D2L can do it on a massive scale.
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.
«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts who consult Hollywood filmmakers
to create free
classroom activities for
teachers, including software and iPad apps,
to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics
to give
students the chance
to solve problems as real - life scientists would.
But it took him a while
to realize that meant visiting the
classrooms where
students and
teachers would be using his product, talking
to them, and watching them use it.
Beigel, a geography
teacher, was killed as he tried
to usher
students back into his
classroom when the shooting broke out.
Scott Beigel, a geography
teacher and cross-country coach at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, died a hero when he ushered
students to safety inside his
classroom after former
student Nikolas Cruz killed 17 with an AR - 15 semiautomatic rifle.
The impetus behind the company can be traced
to the frustrations that two of Pear Deck's co-founders — all former
classroom teachers — encountered while trying
to keep their
students engaged.
The school district where a
student opened fire two years ago, shooting two
students, is now allowing
teachers and other staff members
to bring guns into
classrooms.
Learning Bird, which offers affordable online individualized learning experiences
to K - 12
students, and rewards
teachers both inside and outside of the
classroom.
My high school
teacher Dora Di Rocco - Smith was particularly interested in doing enriched math in the
classroom for
students who didn't have access
to enrichment activities.
«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.
A jury has gone out
to consider its conclusions in the inquest into the death of Catholic school
teacher Ann Maguire, who was murdered in her
classroom by a 15 - year - old
student.
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.
In addition
to classroom growth methods, schools should develop a variety of other small groups for
students, led by qualified
teachers, counselors, and school psychologists.
Minorities ought
to be invited into the
classroom both as faculty members and
students, as board members of Christian schools and as
teachers.
The
teacher's approach
to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the
teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the
student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation
to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping
students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made
to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the
student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the
classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not
to exist.
In the science
teacher's relationship
to the
student in the
classroom the subject matter is always central.
For if we, the
teachers, can't fit the forcibly divorced domains of real fact / imaginary value, actual causes / fanciful ideals, feeling / form, concrete / abstract, together, how do we expect our
students, shuttled between worlds without transition as they flow between
classrooms through school corridors,
to do the job?
The Tangipahoa Parish Board of Education required its
teachers to read a statement before any
classroom discussion dealing with evolution urging the
students «
to exercise critical thinking and gather all information possible and closely examine each alternative toward forming an opinion» regarding «the origin of life and matter.»
And as always,
teachers must use their discretion
to determine when it is worth some level of
student discomfort
to push forward an academic conversation and when that conversation carries the risk of damaging
classroom culture and
student comfort beyond simple repair.
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classroom teachers and their
students.
As a leader in educational multimedia for the
classroom, WGBH supplies content
to PBS LearningMedia, a national broadband service for
teachers and
students.
Furthermore, the schools (in general) do not provide
teachers with the adequate resources
to perform their jobs effectively, such as
teacher - requested books for their
students; presentation items such as chalk, whiteboard markers, or projectors; basic
classroom organizational needs such as storage bins, filing cabinets with adequate files, and functional modern computers with adequate software
to make results tabulating more efficient; or motivational equipment designed
to reward
students for good behavior, scores, or attitudes (grades simply are not enough of a motivational tool).
The focus of the training, delivered via professional - development workshops and phone - coaching sessions, was the personal interactions in the
classroom between
teachers and
students; the coaches gave
teachers strategies designed
to help them build a «positive emotional climate» and show «sensitivity
to student needs for autonomy.»
At the same time, Turnaround's staff works
to improve the
classroom environment as a whole, coaching
teachers on strategies
to improve
students» academic outcomes by improving their experience in class.
Or maybe
teachers who didn't rely on suspensions as a default punishment were able
to find other methods of calming down unruly
students and restoring order and peace
to a chaotic
classroom.
Teachers in CSRP receive training in
classroom - management techniques: how
to set clear routines, how
to redirect negative behavior, how
to help
students manage their feelings — all intended
to provide
students with a calm, consistent
classroom experience.
Some schools have developed comprehensive approaches
to teaching character strengths, and in
classrooms across the country,
teachers are talking
to their
students more than ever about qualities like grit and perseverance.
And like many other
teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come
to believe that with
students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant
teacher control was the only way
to keep the
classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.
In American
classrooms, by contrast, Stigler found that a unit on adding fractions with unlike denominators would usually begin with the
teacher writing on an overhead projector a reliable formula
to solve the problem, which
students would be expected
to copy down, memorize, and use for each subsequent problem.
But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when
teachers are trained in how
to create a better environment in the
classroom, that can have a measurable effect on
student performance.
If
teachers want motivated
students, they need
to adjust their
classroom environment and their relationships with their
students in ways that enhance those three feelings.
to DonorsChoose.org, an organization that has funded more than 700,000
classroom projects for
teachers, impacting more than 18 million
students across the country.
As part of the #StaplesForStudents campaign, today Staples announced that every Boston and Metrowest project posted on DonorsChoose.org received full funding as part of Staples» $ 1 million donation
to DonorsChoose.org, a charity that has funded more than 700,000
classroom projects for
teachers and has positively affected more than 18 million U.S.
students.
Parent should ask whether the
classroom is
teacher - led or child - focused, and whether
students can work at their own pace or if they must follow a schedule, and whether they are required
to participate in group work or whether they can work independently if they choose.
She suggests being cautious of schools where
teachers are constantly interrupting
students to correct them or talking loudly across the
classroom.
I often ask my graduate
students, all of whom plan
to be
teachers, an unnerving question: how will they set up their
classrooms so that failure is rewarded?
There,
teachers and
students can find
classroom activities of every size designed
to foster exactly the feelings that
students said they want
to have.
Interesting article:» «Overloaded and Underprepared» joins an increasing number of voices expressing concern about the future of the stereotypical high school
student of today â $ «the one with the non-stop schedule who is overstressed, anxious,» Anxiety is comorbid with suicide, and yet PAUSD
teachers criminalize anxiety through everyday worst practices in the
classroom: excessive homework, test stacking, project stacking, inflexible deadlines, and uncaring response
to pleas for relief.
The intention of this course is
to give the
teacher a living connection
to science so that this same enthusiasm, understanding, and interest can be shared when the
teacher is working with the
students in the
classroom.
program that lets kids and their adult caregivers learn about the park first hand by using fun, self - guided worksheets; the NewYork Historical Society, where she developed curriculum guides
to help
classroom teachers incorporate primary sources into their instruction; the American Museum of Natural History, where she developed a series of
teacher guides for the Moveable Museum exhibits and several temporary museum exhibits; and MOUSE, a New York City based non-profit organization that works
to train middle and high school
students to initiate and manage technology help desks, where she developed curriculum and educational support materials for
students, faculty advisors, and MOUSE trainers.
Not
to mention, when around 100
students are «turned loose» at the door by
teachers after being in the
classroom all morning... well, the sound level & activity isn't exactly conducive
to a relaxing meal.
At Pope John XXIII,
teachers are required
to fully utilize an online communication system and are creating individual web pages that are connected
to the school's site while parents at Avery Coonley look inside their
student's «Smart Folder»
to see a slide show of their child's daily
classroom experience.
Back in December, my son's kindergarten
teacher initiated «Star
Student» weeks, which involved every child in her
classroom getting a special week dedicated just
to them.
Though I haven't been able
to get an answer from anyone on the exact amount of time allotted for lunch / recess (and I'm told not all classes get a recess — which is another subject, that I will get into more on another day), I am being told once a
classroom is scheduled for lunch that they have 20 minutes from there
to go through line, eat, clean up, and get out the door — which if a
teacher is running behind, a
student misbehaves, or God forbid it takes 10 minutes
to get through the lunch line, there's a problem.
Comic books, now generally known as graphic novels, have increasingly been finding their way into
classrooms and school libraries as
teachers search for tools
to not only help their
students learn how
to read, but
to tap into the vivid imagination that is the hallmark of childhood and turn their
students onto a lifelong love of reading.
At Kaler Elementary School in South Portland, Maine, universal breakfast - in - the -
classroom is paired with a mentoring program, designed
to help K - 5
students develop relationships with
teachers and other adults.
Stay tuned
to Beyond Breakfast for Part Two of our interview with Burke County Public Schools» Nutrition Director and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics president - elect Donna Martin,
to find out how
teachers reacted
to breakfast - in - the -
classroom as the program was expanded district - wide, and some
student - favorite school breakfast menu items.