Sentences with phrase «classroom visits by»

These reported implementation fidelity results were obtained through a combination of teacher surveys and structured classroom visits by project staff at specified times during the school year.

Included: Principals share the benefits of walk - throughs; how to initiate walk - throughs with teachers who might fear frequent classroom visits by principals.

Included: Principals talk about the benefits of walk - throughs, and how to initiate walk - throughs with teachers who might fear frequent classroom visits by the principal.

, these informal, non-evaluative classroom visits by administrators can lead to improved instructional practices and curriculum alignment.

But the proportion of unsatisfactory ratings that Kraft and Gilmour found is about three times the rate before the introduction of the new grading systems, when evaluations were infrequent and typically amounted to nothing more than quick classroom visits by principals wielding simplistic checklists that stressed comportment over quality instruction and student learning.

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 typical teacher evaluation in public education consists of a single, fleeting classroom visit by a principal or other building administrator untrained in evaluation who wields a checklist of classroom conditions and teacher behaviors that often don't focus directly on the quality of instruction.

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All lessons which were easily reinforced by the annual classroom visits to the Village.

Guided by a visiting teacher naturalist in the classroom, students will use bird puppets to experience how natural selection works as they try to survive with their adaptations in the island environments available to them.

Call and stop by for a campus tour and to observe one of our classrooms or visit our website for more information.

Because it was a training center school, our classroom was visited by many Montessori teachers and interns.

School Visit: Take time to drive by the school building and, if possible, go inside and let your kids see the layout and where their classroom is.

When you settle on a specific preschool, prep the child by may be visiting the school, let the child meet his teacher and also see the classroom that he will be in.

The episodes will be disseminated to New England high school classrooms with the help of Harvard's Life Sciences Outreach (LSO) Program; on the website of the Amgen Biotech Experience, a curriculum that is implemented by over 70,000 students nationally and internationally; and by leveraging the considerable PR power of Harvard and the other institutions the team visits.

During the academic year, DAAD Young Ambassadors promote study and research in Germany by working with their universities» study abroad offices, volunteering at study abroad fairs, organizing classroom visits, info sessions, fun events, and answering their fellow students» questions.

A sign on the door of a classroom at the author's school indicates that colleagues are welcome to drop by for a visit.

numerous opportunities for inductees to visit demonstration classrooms taught by successful veteran teachers.

It's driven by the sheer amount of information available to us, which far exceeds the amount that was available prior to the internet and constant connectivity when we relied on the sage on the stage for bringing it to us in our periodical visit to the classroom.

Lesson plans and classroom activities, organized by grade level and thematically related to the exhibits, enable local teachers to extend their field trip experience with activities before and after the visit.

Technology can be used to make the walls of the classroom and school more permeable by way of virtual visits and meetings.

During the next day's morning meeting, the class would debrief together about each group's visit by sharing pictures and videos, and having a classroom discussion about their experience.

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Here's what this approach looks like: Administrators make frequent short, unannounced classrooms visits (at least once a month), followed promptly by face - to - face listening / coaching conversations; teacher teams meet regularly to discuss planning, pedagogy, and assessment results; and teacher assessment is saved till the end of the school year, pulling together observations, other points of contact, and teachers» self - assessments.

«A school administrator,» he wrote, «can not watch teachers teach (except through classroom visits that momentarily may change the teacher's behavior) and can not tell how much students have learned (except by standardized tests that do not clearly differentiate between what the teacher has imparted and what the student has acquired otherwise).»

This includes developing courses that challenge students with real higher education leadership cases derived from sitting presidents, provosts, and deans; creating opportunities for students to interact with the most noted senior leaders in higher education; developing course structures that allow HGSE students to interact with higher education students at other universities around the nation, in order to compare ideas; and developing opportunities for our students to visit different colleges and universities, exposing them to places and viewpoints otherwise not accessible by simply sitting in the classroom.

By organising visits to theatres and other arts experiences, or inviting artists into the classroom, schools open a door for their students not just to inspirational learning experiences but to lifelong opportunities.

«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements, visited classrooms and teachers, and also met with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.

Those parents were not able to drop by to visit classrooms — so the staff sought other ways to bring them into the loop.

Though most teachers chose to participate, and the success rates for certification were quite high, some expressed criticisms that echoed issues often raised by merit pay critics: for example, that three classroom visits (some of them prearranged) were inadequate for evaluating teaching performance objectively and that separating the staff into levels strained relations among teachers and hurt morale.

By chance, a member of the computing staff had come across KRCS at a workshop and, following further investigation and a visit to BETT, the school saw the potential to totally change the way it created, presented, investigated and used technology in the classroom.

But Oksana Florescu, Puente's counseling - training coordinator, says regular visits to the classroom by someone who mentors students and provides information about college are crucial.

Another short news idea for your classroom: A new national park is being considered by Congress but don't expect to visit it any time soon.

On stand M24, teachers can visit Dogs Trust's education team, which aims to educate young people — the dog owners of tomorrow — by delivering free fun, engaging and interactive classroom workshops.

Savvy administrators can meet the needs of teachers and, at the same time, set the tone for a wonderful school year by visiting classrooms those first days and weeks routinely and regularly, making sure teachers can focus on providing excellent instruction instead of having to hunt down, for example, five additional chairs or a working projector.

School trips are an eagerly anticipated event in the school calendar for children, and it seems that this sentiment is shared by parents too, with nearly half (46 %) believing children learn more from visiting places than they do in the classroom.

On Wednesday afternoon in Radcliffe Yard, before a tent packed level full with degree candidates in the Harvard Graduate School of Education, keynote speaker Reshma Saujani, M.P.P.» 99, was telling a story about the classroom visit a few years ago that got her angry enough to launch Girls Who Code, a nonprofit that, by doing just what its name says, aims to send more women into tech.

Losing it would carry us back to the pre-Coleman era when schools were judged not by their results but by their inputs, promises, and services, and teachers were evaluated by brief classroom visits from supervisors who arrived with no data, no rubrics — and no ability to do anything about problematic instructors.

In particular, rich data on SIG schools in one of the studies shows that schools improved both by differentially retaining their most experienced teachers and by providing teachers with increased supports for instructional improvement such as opportunities to visit each other's classrooms and to receive meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from school leaders.

Inspired by a visit to the Goethe Institut Glasgow this activity has been developed for fun and entertainment in the German classroom.

Check in by visiting classrooms during their lesson times.

It is a distinction between principals who provided support to teachers by «popping in» and «being visible» as compared with principals who were very intentional about each classroom visit and conversation, with the explicit purpose of engaging with teachers about well - defined instructional ideas and issues.

We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool) focused their conversations with mentors on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.

«It would be hard to justify ratings by outsiders watching videotapes at a remote location who never visited the classroom and couldn't see for themselves a teacher's interaction and relationship with students.»

Visit each teacher and classroom by visiting the links below.

«Teachers are already wrestling with excessive monitoring, masquerading as classroom observation, carried out by senior management and a host of other people regularly visiting their classrooms.

We have found some success by starting with teachers who volunteer to participate, creating some success in these classrooms which we then try to make public, and then using data as well as actual classroom visits to make a compelling case for the value of the work.

CEL worked with Pittsburgh educators to develop a strategic approach to professional development which included showing ITL2s how to work side by side with teachers, providing classroom modeling, site visits, group and one - on - one coaching, and instructional rounds, said Mary Beth Crowder - Meier, a CEL educational consultant who worked closely with the ITL2s.

At Garfield — the site of a 2013 testing boycott led by teachers that gained national attention — student - government leaders visited classrooms to explain that the test was not required for graduation for juniors, and that students could fill out a refusal form at the school counseling office at any time.

During the school visit, Representative Shelly Willingham stopped by the JROTC classroom.

Nevertheless, Celia Oyler, a professor of education at Teachers College, Columbia University, is troubled by the uniformity she observes when visiting special education classrooms.