Sentences with phrase «classroom teachers involved»

The study found that the Guggenheim's model for using inquiry as a means to learn about both art and literacy impacts students, their teaching artists, and the classroom teachers involved.

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In the 1990s, a researcher named James Stigler coordinated a vast international project that involved videotaping the classrooms of hundreds of randomly selected eighth - grade math teachers in the United States, Germany, and Japan.

Within the Mountain Oak School classroom, teachers masterfully blend academic and artistic disciplines so that the whole child is involved in every aspect of learning.

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.

See what teacher and administrator Trudy Carpenter says about being worried about getting too involved in your child's classroom.

Last year, research involving thousands of elementary school students, and published in the February 2009 issue of Pediatrics, demonstrated an association between daily recess and better classroom behavior as reported by teachers.

Tia is also involved in all aspects of the sanctuary's educational programming — developing curricula and interpretive materials, developing and implementing classroom teacher professional development, working on numerous grants in communities and schools, and developing and teaching natural history and food - based programming.

While serving as an elementary classroom teacher in the Toronto District School Board, she was actively involved in identifying and supporting numerous children with autism and other special needs.

Madeleine emphasized the importance of collaboration and communication; addressing barriers with teachers and principals who express resistance to in - classroom breakfast, and using the facts about breakfast — it improves test scores, and can be implemented with minimal additional work for everyone involved — to create support for the program.

Whether it be a parent talking about feeling helpless, or a teacher discussing the difficulties involved in the classroom or a therapist describing the treatment plan, we hope to provide an insight into the world of Selective Mutism and its challenges for all those involved.

Following a three - year study that involved about 3,000 teachers, analysts said the most accurate measure of a teacher's effectiveness was a combination of classroom observations by at least two evaluators, along with student scores counting for between 33 percent and 50 percent of the overall evaluation.

Homeowners and elected officials are obviously in favor of the cap, but school officials, teachers unions and others involved with public education are claiming that the inability to raise taxes by even a modest amount could mean cuts in the classroom.

We also focused on demonstrating ways that teachers and students could get involved in this research in their own classrooms,» said Fleming.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

Planning lessons involves integrating more social learning into the classroom, said Flanders» first grade teacher Smith.

It is now seeking eight new classroom teachers to join as trustees, who will be involved in leading the organisation as it opens membership to teachers and schools across the country.

This first group involved four GLC schools (Bulimba, Norman Park, and Seven Hills State Schools, Balmoral State High School) and 11 participants: one principal, two Master Teachers, seven classroom teachers, and onTeachers, seven classroom teachers, and onteachers, and one STLaN.

To evaluate the claim that No Child Left Behind and other test - based accountability policies are making teaching less attractive to academically talented individuals, the researchers compare the SAT scores of new teachers entering classrooms that typically face accountability - based test achievement pressures (grade 4 — 8 reading and math) and classrooms in those grades that do not involve high - stakes testing.

At the beginning of the school year, teachers involved in the program are asked to visit at least 20 children in their classroom, Smith said.

But in one school, as more teachers became involved recording their own personal after - school workouts, they asked to log exercise activities done during the day, such as classroom nature hikes.

And these evaluation systems are strikingly better than what they replaced: slapdash approaches involving a couple of classroom visits by a building principal for some teachers in some years that resulted in virtually all teachers being classified as high performing.

The second part of the project involves collaborating at four California schools, using hands - on activities in the classroom that have students and teachers examining objects and even redesigning them.

«Finally, my self - directed responsibilities are my online projects and the seminars I promote to help teachers become more involved in using technology in the classroom,» Wagner said.

Adjunct school staff members such as the physical education, art, computer, and music teachers also are involved in providing corresponding supportive information and activities in their own classrooms during the program.

Of course, this would involve displacing or at least supplementing the traditional 1:35 student: teacher ratio of the conventional classroom.

FROM THE P - FILES: Principals Share Parent Involvement Ideas This month, Education World asked a number of principals to tell us about ways their teachers involve parents in the classroom and the school.

Teachers involved in TAP receive detailed rubrics for every aspect of the program, complete with specific descriptions of what they are accountable for in the classroom and examples of exemplary, proficient, and unsatisfactory performance.

Teachers are so involved with running around helping their students that they often can't find the time to charge the phone that's busy in the classroom engaging all those students.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

In a 2002 pilot study involving three middle school classrooms in Boston, Dede found that students who played his game River City surpassed the test group in three areas: They were more motivated to do the work, performed better on postlesson tests, and tended to look to their teachers to facilitate rather than give direction.

Teacher talks to Kiri Mealings about a new study involving colleagues at Macquarie University and Australia's National Acoustics Laboratories, into noise levels in open plan classrooms.

It might involve working with teachers to develop the use of a specific technology (such as the collaborative suite represented by Google Apps for Education) in their classroom or across the school.

Of course, every classroom is unique, and we all face different challenges: Some teachers suffer from in - box fatigue trying to keep up with a constant barrage of parent emails, while others struggle to get parents involved at all.

Each of these classroom activities involve students in structured learning experiences and provide enrichment options that can be adapted to the specific needs of teachers and students.

(Such services take various forms but most commonly involve separate classrooms with more challenging curricula and specially prepared teachers, at least for core academic subjects.)

The third role, as a mentor, will involve identifying the needs of novice teachers and providing them with actionable feedback that helps them improve their skills and the learning of students in their classroom.

The Queensland University of Technology Outreach Program is a collaboration involving academics, pre-service teachers, classroom practitioners and students.

They know, for example, whether their teacher's explanations are clear, whether it feels comfortable to ask for assistance, how classroom activities might engage them more and increase their interest, how teachers might involve them more in fruitful discussions and how classroom activities might be managed more effectively.

As she writes in Beyond the Bake Sale, her first book on family — school partnerships, many teachers «tend to be more comfortable with helping families to be involved with their children at home than with engaging families in their classrooms and school buildings.»

Maybe you are proudest of your school's test results, your athletic teams» prowess, your teachers» skills at involving parents in the classroom, your school's many cultures and how they blend into a true family, your service - learning program, your media center, your Your six pride statements should tell about the biggest successes, your proudest accomplishments, your most valued resources.

Teachers were also involved and asked about their preparation and experience, pedagogical practices, use of technology, assessment, assignment of homework, school and classroom climate, and their own attitudes towards reading.

The approach will involve team - teaching, with a maths and science teacher in the classroom at the same time.

In schools all over the country it's the day when poetry breaks out of the classroom into the corridors, the canteen, the sports field, and beyond, and organisers want to make it as easy as possible for teachers to get involved.

Speaking at Bett 2015, Vicki Phillips, director of education at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, said too often those involved in bringing technology into the classroom put their own needs above those of the students and their teachers.

This could involve using a pre-made checklist of gifted characteristics, which the preservice teachers could complete while in classrooms.

The pioneering scheme involves English teachers visiting China for two weeks and Chinese teachers visiting England for two weeks, enabling schools to experience world - class maths teaching in English classrooms.

A project - based clinical approach offers chances to develop mutually - beneficial learning opportunities for P - 12 students and teacher candidates, establishing a model of teacher preparation rooted in authentic collaborations that involve university faculty and classroom teachers — teacher educators, all — in this grand venture that we call school.

It's nice to see other Math teachers getting involved beyond the classroom.

Discover the tools and techniques today's teachers and classrooms are using to prepare students for tomorrow — and how you can get involved.

A project - based clinical approach develops learning opportunities for both students and teacher candidates, relying on authentic collaborations that involve university faculty and classroom teachers.