Sentences with phrase «classroom visits from»

The program includes the use of the MY LOGO Local Government Handbook for classroom learning, classroom visits from government officials, and field experiences (site visits to city halls and local courthouses) so that students can study local government first - hand.

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.

That is why Cuneen's 8 - week Fresh from the Farm program includes classroom visits from farmers, tastings, cooking demonstrations, expeditions to local organic farms and help creating a school garden.

Day 5: Students deliver the results of their service learning project and receive either a) an animal encounter and a behind - the - scenes tour of The Anti-Cruelty Society or b) if off - site, a classroom visit from a member of our Pet Visitation team.

Adopted elementary classrooms will receive 28 copies, 5 times a year of KIND NEWS magazine, a FREE classroom visit from one of our CAP canine crusaders with a choice of humane lessons and activities like «How to greet a dog» and access to online animal themed lesson plans and craft ideas that teachers LOVE.

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«The guy was filled with rage,» said a person who has visited the school building at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High where Cruz fired a squall of more than 100 rounds from his AR - 15 into classrooms and down hallways at terrified kids.

When I visited another EL school in the spring of 2015, the Washington Heights Expeditionary Learning School (known as WHEELS) in Upper Manhattan, almost every classroom I visited was engaged in some kind of elaborate discussion or creative project that demanded involvement from every student.

If you think your school or district could benefit from breakfast - in - the - classroom, visit the Partners for BIC website to learn more about our grant and to begin the application process today.

We enjoy a steady stream of visiting international students from these schools in our classrooms.

If you are looking for information on school breakfast and breakfast - in - the - classroom, visit our blog on ANC 2014 to find links to some excellent presentations from the conference.

At a school I visited in Boulder — Columbine Elementary — the beginning of the school day was moved up — from 8:30 to 8:15 — to make room for breakfast in the classroom.

«We visited some other places within Asaba metropolis, from where we moved to Agbor, where we visited Ika Grammar School which lost seven classrooms to fire.

Meanwhile, a visit to the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial School which is about 500metres from the St John's School, revealed how students were idling about in the classrooms and compound with no teaching and learning activities taking place.

Stay in your classroom and visit McDonald Observatory in the «Live From McDonald Observatory» distance learning program.

We also love finding out what students all over the world are learning in their classrooms so if you're visiting from another school please leave us a comment.

Step 6 in the classroom: Barring a visit from the Billionaire Fairy, you may have to get more creative for this final step.

To develop these guidelines, the various international partners created opportunities for representatives from the Ministry of Education to visit schools in the refugee camps as well as schools in Nairobi that have been accommodating significant numbers of refugee learners in their classrooms.

Visit on a typical morning, and you'll hear young voices singing scales in the practice rooms, while the rumble of hand drums emanates from a distant classroom.

Our feedback confirms that children develop enquiry, team building and communications skills and learn more from Discovery Visits than they do in the classroom.

Before each school year begins, classroom teachers and the school nurse from McIlvaine Early Childhood Center visit the homes of incoming students to identify potential health risks to students and talk with parents about how they can help their children be successful in their new classes.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

Wanting to see for himself, Mike visits his local elementary school in Takoma Park, Maryland, where «the children of übereducated whites» are in the same classrooms as poor blacks, black middle - class families» and «poor immigrant children from Latin America, Ethiopia, and Eritrea.»

In our visits to PL schools, we're seeing a move away from traditional lecture - based formats in favor of lively classrooms where students tackle self - designed projects.

From these visits and my own experiences as an instructor, I'd like to offer my top 20 suggestions for keeping your classroom a safe, open, and inviting place to learn.

Learning from scientific research Learning outside the Classroom (LOtC) is a government supported process that provides a quality mark for all of those providing learning experiences outside the classroom, including visits to museums, woodlands, natural spaces, and libraries.

Parents could request a waiver from these requirements, but only after their child had spent 30 days in a sheltered English - immersion classroom and only if the parent personally visited the school.

The resource contains a variety of activities from hands on making tasks, through ideas for making a walk more interactive to what to do back in the classroom after a lambing visit.

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.

REVIEW: Many students who may never have the opportunity to travel to northern Arizona to see the Grand Canyon can now visit it virtually right from their classroom.

Previous European visits to schools in the Netherlands has allowed the opportunity to bring designs and themes from Europe into West Sussex and the bright colours of Kandinsky and «floating» classrooms from Nijmegen are now replicated in West Sussex.

Most of the information comes from theNYC School Survey administered annually to parents, teachers, and students, or else from a school's «quality review» — ostensibly an extensive school visit in which an experienced educator observes classrooms, interviews school leaders, and evaluates how well the enterprise supports student achievement.

Our classroom and visit resources support object - based learning across the curriculum and are designed to meet the varied needs of students from EYFS through to Key Stage 5.

This year we are seeking nominations from establishments who are creating novel, innovative and inspirational approaches to learning outside the classroom whether it is in the school grounds, on visits to museums, art galleries or farms, through adventure activities or on cultural exchanges abroad.

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.

(2) A program must use information from paragraph (b)(1) of this section with informal teacher observations and additional information from family and staff, as relevant, to determine a child's strengths and needs, adjust strategies to better support individualized learning and improve classroom practices in center - based and family child care settings and improve home visit strategies in home based models.

Attendees will visit Johns Hopkins University to learn about the translation pipeline (from foundational to applied research to practice), visit two laboratories to learn how foundational and applied science is conducted, and explore how such research may inform classroom practice.

Laura Fuchs, a social studies teacher, said in a statement to chancellor Kaya Henderson in 2011 that short visits from master educators don't show the full picture of teachers» efforts in the classroom.

Annual teacher surveys between 2010 and 2013 asked teachers about the frequency of visiting another teacher's classroom to watch him or her teach; having a colleague observe their classroom; inviting someone in to help their class; going to a colleague to get advice about an instructional challenge they faced; receiving useful suggestions for curriculum material from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from colleagues; receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from their principal; and receiving meaningful feedback on their teaching practice from another school leader (e.g., AP, instructional coach).

«A million angels would come down from heaven and visit every classroom in America, wave their hands, and education reform would immediately become established,» Dewey replies.

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.

It moves away from the once - and - done obligatory and periodic classroom visit as the basis for teacher evaluation to ongoing constructive feedback over the course of a school year, which results in professional growth and documented positive summative evaluation.

For the project as a whole, we collected two rounds of survey data from principals and teachers and three rounds of site - visit data from schools and districts, including classroom observations and interviews with teachers and building and district administrators.

At each visit, you'll have the chance to see classrooms in action and hear from the leaders we support.

During the development of the user interface and book selection for Digital Booktalk, media specialists, reading coaches, K - 12 classroom teachers, and professors from higher education institutions were surveyed during site visits, conference presentations, and workshops.

Also visit Educational Products, popular with both gifted children and their teachers, Internet Investigations for free curriculum libraries and individual units right from the Internet, Materials for Gifted Classrooms, terrific (free!)

While there is no one - size - fits - all solution for the issues that influence student behavior, officials from all five school districts GAO visited were implementing alternatives to disciplinary actions that remove children from the classroom, such as initiatives that promote positive behavioral expectations for students.

During the program, which ran from October 2013 to January 2014, Teaching Artists from the Performing Arts Center, visited 8 third and fourth grade classrooms, one day a week for 10 weeks, in two schools in Mt. Vernon City School District, and one school in Yonkers City School District.

Designed to highlight local proof points, EduTours couple a presentation of research on the designated topic with a school visit that includes conversation with school leadership, classroom observations, and insights from experts in the field.

The instructional leadership team talked regularly about what they learned from these visits, identifying overall themes in what students were saying in their classrooms.

The Partnership developed from this with Lower Sixth pupils visiting St Peter's to help as classroom assistants on Friday afternoons.