Sentences with phrase «classrooms use textbooks»

Richard L. Allington («You Can't Learn Much from Books You Can't Read») cites research showing that many classrooms use textbooks written above the reading level of their students.

Not exact matches

For example, textbooks can be converted onto a disc, and laptops and recording devices can be used in the classroom to help with teachers» notes.

Rather than using standardized textbooks, Waldorf Grades students create their own main lesson books — writing text and illustrations from their classroom learning and sometimes outside research.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

If approved by voters, schools could use the money for wireless Internet connections, tablets to replace textbooks, interactive white boards and new pre-kindergarten classrooms.

All too often in struggling schools, she said, teachers have to buy their own classroom supplies and use out - of - date textbooks.

The basic idea in the grant proposal was that teachers had to overcome their squeamishness in talking about sex; indeed, they needed to learn how to stand in front of the classroom and describe intimate body parts using their students» vernacular, rather than the technical terms found in biology textbooks.

2) How do teachers use textbooks and accompanying instructional materials in their classrooms?

EW: How are readers and other textbooks in the exhibits different from books used in classrooms today?

Outside of the classroom, increased connectivity on college campuses provides opportunities for students and teachers to collaborate, empowers student research via university library — enabled online search engines, and allows students to use enhanced electronic textbooks, which include embedded videos and hyperlinks to pertinent articles on the Internet.

The researchers developed a hands - on curriculum and professional development lessons teaching basic physics using the popular toys, then conducted a randomized controlled trial in about 60 fourth - grade classrooms in a California school district comparing student learning under the project - based and traditional textbook based instruction over three weeks.

Solution: Describe how the upcoming week's curriculum meets state standards, and offer the parents a textbook to use as an at - home reference (almost all classrooms have a few extra copies lying around).

Textbooks, if present, are more likely to be used as references — a tool to help students design and build their projects — unlike traditional classrooms where memorizing the textbook itself may be the goal.

The suit alleged that the district had failed to provide textbooks and keep discipline in classrooms, used credit waivers improperly to improve graduation rates, and «dumbed down» standards for measuring school performance.

As a result, in some classrooms, textbooks may only be used once in a blue moon.

You will need professional development, your colleagues should be on board, you have to exchange textbooks for authentic materials, and the target language must be used in the classroom 90 percent of the time — at the very least.

The populist attack on Common Core isn't always fair: Some of the most widely mocked examples of so - called Common Core math were featured in textbooks and used in classrooms long before the standards were introduced.

In Smith's model, as it was refined over time, curriculum standards serve as the fulcrum for educational reform implemented based on state decisions; state policy elites aim to create excellence in the classroom using an array of policy levers and knobs — all aligned back to the standards — including testing, textbook adoption, teacher preparation, teacher certification and evaluation, teacher training, goals and timetables for school test score improvement, and state accountability based on those goals and timetables.

Most math education analyses in urban high school classrooms focus on delivery of content: What content to deliver, when to deliver it, how to explain it, what textbooks to use, how much home work to assign, and more.

Parents will want to see a display of textbooks and other materials that are being used in the classroom.

A battle is raging in Dallas over which social studies textbooks should be used in the district's classrooms next year.

You'll discover ways to improve classroom procedures, learn the best practices and methods to use with Abeka curriculum and textbooks, and more.

Eighth - grade teacher Carrie Pierce uses discovery and inquiry - based learning in her classroom (and no textbooks.)

The plan is also likely to spur criticism for its use of about $ 10.3 million in one - time rather than recurring dollars for school textbooks and digital materials, despite long - standing complaints from districts and school leaders that classroom resources have fallen woefully behind in the last decade.

Despite being treated to that «I'm the decision maker — so I don't need to listen to anyone,» it sounds like there was widespread excitement at the prospect of getting new textbooks to use in the classrooms of Bridgeport's school.

Online curriculum may be used as a classroom textbook, curriculum resource, or instructional supplement.

But even with access to technology and Internet connectivity, many schools still use an antiquated classroom model designed when factory work was the norm for most Americans — dozens of students in a room together, seated in rows facing the teacher, learning the same concept at the same time from a textbook that may be years out of date.

In a classroom setting where textbooks are used as the main reading material, the texts may not be well - matched to all students.

Many educators successfully dive into the concept of flipped classroom without using technology at all, relying on written materials and textbook reading.

To understand the contexts that surround the use of e-text and e-readers in K - 12 classrooms, it is important to comprehend the prominent role traditional textbooks have played within their curricula.

These donations are used to purchase textbooks and materials for classrooms, and to fund scholarships and teacher development programs.

The U.S. DOE's National Education Technology Plans of 2010 and 2016 promoted the concept of using open educational resources, such as digital open textbooks, as being more dynamic and responsive to the context of the classroom over print - based textbooks, while also providing a significant cost savings to school districts.

Often these students are not able to read the basal textbooks and anthologies in use in their classrooms.

Some opponents of using electronic readers in the classroom claim that a lack of textbooks in digital format is a significant challenge that has not been overcome yet.

Although OverDrive has long served schools libraries, these days the company is pushing harder to get schools to use its system for another purpose: Borrowing textbooks and other materials for students to use in the classroom.

But when the Kerala schools make the move to what they're calling «Digital Collaborative Textbooks,» students will begin using audio - and video - enhanced multimedia ebooks in the classroom, which stands to bridge the digital divide with the typical tech early adopters.

The idea is to make good use of the net to enhance the quality of education and allow them to acquire knowledge that isn't limited to just within the realms of the classroom or a few textbooks.

«Even if the schools have not adopted digital textbooks, we wanted to give parents the option to have their kids» same textbooks available at home,» said Osman Rashid, CEO and Co-Founder of Kno, Inc. «With digital books priced at $ 9.99 or below, parents can now finally stop their kids from carrying their heavy backpacks to and from school for less than $ 60 for the school year by supplementing classroom materials with interactive textbooks that can be used at home and on the go.»

Schools at every level were quick to reject digital textbooks because they felt like they'd lost control over what materials were used in the classroom, as though letting students use an ebook on a tablet would become a free - for - all of homemade, unvetted resources.

I just recommended one of our schools use some of their funding to outfit classrooms with iPads based on the textbook availability and viewability.

Academic Books, Including School Books and Textbooks - Books that grade school and high school students use for classroom learning or that college students are required to read for their coursework are not trade books.

In the classroom, first -, second -, and third - year students can take «VCM 626 Shelter Medicine I,» an introductory elective course that uses the Association of Shelter Veterinarians Guidelines for Standards of Care in Animal Shelters as the textbook.

I just posted some of my concerns of the methods I actually use myself and have studied in the classroom, the textbooks and in the real world.

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We teach complex insurance topics using straightforward explanations without unnecessary information common in textbooks and classroom courses.

There are no textbooks involved, and the entire course was created by expert designers and instructors using proven teaching techniques to get you out of the classroom, and back onto the roads.

If you are a Class A school for CDL instruction, your classroom course must use a current (or next most recent) edition of a textbook.