Sentences with phrase «classrooms use project»

These innovative classrooms use project - based learning to meet each child where they are and move them forward at their right pace.

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A letter released today by the president of the B.C. School Trustee's Association, Michael McEvoy, confirms that school districts want the Liberal government to take immediate action to end the policy of funding private sector projects using money earmarked for classrooms.

There are plenty of deeper - learning skeptics out there, and one of their chief concerns is that while project - based learning in the hands of a well - trained educator can be used in the classroom in a highly effective way, it is also a technique that is easy for an unprepared teacher to do quite badly.

They observe this correlation firsthand as they cultivate the school garden using materials they find in their everyday classroom lives, and in return, the garden provides educational tools, such as samples for botany classes and plants that can be made into natural dyes for fiber arts projects.

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.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

As a scientist who has never had extensive ethics training, the other of us (Wendy Law), an SEP postdoctoral fellow, attended ethics courses at the University of Washington and Georgetown University, as well as teacher professional development workshops on using ethics in the classroom offered by the Washington Association for Biomedical Research and by UW's High School Human Genome Project.

The $ 5.2 million cost of Lynch's federally funded project, which included extensive use of classroom observers, may push it beyond the reach of most efforts to monitor school reform.

But Science Buddies realizes that teachers also need concrete support in the form of physical science materials that can be used for student projects, for classroom STEM experimentation and exploration, or to fuel the development of a school Maker Space.

Though it's certainly not big enough or sophisticated enough to study a space shuttle or the new Boeing 787 Dreamliner, it is excellent for classroom use and for science fair projects.

When she talks with her fourth, fifth, and sixth grade classes about the science fair project assignment, Lisa says she «highly recommends» that they choose a Science Buddies project, and she allots valuable classroom time for her students to use the Wizard.

My first projects would be for lettering and classroom use.

From this starting point, there exist different approaches to developing this global awareness, such as: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

Can be used in booklet format to monitor progress in one place, projected on board as classroom activities, or as homework tasks.

These include ready - to - use lessons and reference materials, classroom art, projects, videos, and interactive tools.

This is the perfect project to use in your classroom around Valentine's day, spreading the message of showing kindness and caring to others.

In each classroom that we visited we witnessed teachers who were constantly formatively assessing students, using questions, online games, projects, rich tasks or online quizzes.

Making Tomorrow's Millionaires This site, part of an eighth - grade social studies project, includes portfolio templates for use in the classroom as well as links to sources for current stock prices.

So when he gets his students involved in applied learning projects, they put to use the mathematical concepts they've learned in the classroom and gain a deeper appreciation for the discipline.

We encourage teachers to consider hands - on learning projects for their classrooms, and to use our site to connect these projects with localprofessionals who would like work with them to see the projects come to fruition.

Gigi Karmous - Edwards, the principal scientist at MCNC and a Martin parent, says the combination of videoconferencing, blogging, and other collaborative network - based tools used with classroom instruction fueled the project's success.

There exist four major ways to develop global awareness within the international schools: 1) curriculum design which embraces themes of awareness, empathy and a more holistic educational approach; 2) the use of technology that fosters connections between classrooms and destinations around the world; 3) social action projects that use service - based learning to create a deeper awareness of global issues; and 4) extra-curricular projects that offer a variety of tools to promote global citizenship.

Using a design experiment methodology, each project / unit was field tested multiple times in classrooms outside of our study and iteratively revised as warranted by the data.

This project requires the students to use tech in the classroom as they are asked to prepare a digital guidebook.

«It is nice to get the recognition and know that our project is being used in the classroom.»

If you are a teacher experimenting with making projects in your classroom, here are some successful fundraising strategies we've seen educators use to fund a makerspace for their school community.

Educators can use this Internet software to bring authors into the classroom virtually, to conference with other teachers globally, and to incorporate technology into project learning.

After extensive research on teacher evaluation procedures, the Measures of Effective Teaching Project mentions three different measures to provide teachers with feedback for growth: (1) classroom observations by peer - colleagues using validated scales such as the Framework for Teaching or the Classroom Assessment Scoring System, further described in Gathering Feedback for Teaching (PDF) and Learning About Teaching (PDF), (2) student evaluations using the Tripod survey developed by Ron Ferguson from Harvard, which measures students» perceptions of teachers» ability to care, control, clarify, challenge, captivate, confer, and consolidate, and (3) growth in student learning based on standardized test scores over multiple years.

What are successful end - of - the - year projects that you've used in your classroom?

In the classroom, Silburn explores issues such as environmental science and sustainability using a variety of multimedia projects.

By allowing them to make choices in the classroom as to which applications to use for projects they are learning to identify the correct tools and applications for each idea they want to share.

This form of instructional teaching is highly effective and still has its place in the classroom, so schools that have invested in visualisers should still make use of them, as they can project images without the need for photographing or converting them for use on the display.

Tablets can now be used in place of a visualiser, positioned anywhere in the classroom to capture and project various skills and methods, for example, presenting a science experiment up close, or demonstrating a particular art technique.

It's a brand new year, and time to start thinking big about how to use the Web to fund new projects or get gear for your classroom.

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Canby, a district of nine schools and about 5,000 students, now has about fifty classrooms using iPods of various types and the project has extended into high school, where students are listening to audiobooks and using video cameras to analyze their presentation skills.

Using game based learning in tandem with learning styles will help more individual's complete tasks, retain information, and apply what they've learned to future projects and tasks as well as their lives outside of the classroom or workspace.

In particular, growth in use of tablet devices by teachers and students was clear; 81 per cent of participating school leaders now own and use tablets for professional learning, and the majority of CC21 schools used project funds to purchase and trial iPads in the classroom.

Bottom Line: MSN has a clean, simple look and feel and would make a fine choice for use in the classroom or for home - based research projects.

When you teach using project - based learning (PBL), one brings outside expertise into the classroom.

Soble explains that exposure to the insights and ideas of others who use Project Zero ideas in their classrooms and schools allows her to continue her own education as a teacher, even as she's working as a PZC faculty member.

If three - fourths of North Carolina's classrooms were to implement Opportunity Culture models over one generation of students — about 16 years of implementation — we projected, using conservative assumptions, that:

Here are three free online resources — and some tips from an education expert — about how to get going with project learning in your classroom, even if you've never used it before:

Gilford's classes participate in the Student Watershed Research Project, a Portland State University program that supports environmental education and aggregates high - quality student - collected data for use outside the classroom.

Thanks to a large grant in 2000 from BellSouth (now AT&T South), the school now has Internet access and multiple computers in every classroom, as well as a project lab with computers and a library that can accommodate heavier computer use.

This teachers guide enables the zerocarbonbritain2030 report to be used as a classroom project or discussion topic.

Learning and Development managers can better attain the «10:20:70» effort in learning model using the inverted classroom method with blended learning projects.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

Another study, co-authored by Elizabeth Cascio and Diane Schanzenbach, uses data from the well - known Project STAR experiment in which students were randomly assigned to classrooms prior to kindergarten entry.

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.