Sentences with phrase «classrooms with»

Gender stereotypes are still around in classrooms with girls preferring arts and humanities and boys favouring maths and sciences, a survey shows.

Teachers can apply for summer General Educator Fellowships to work with scientists on research projects, such as monitoring the zebra population in Kenya or excavating sites related to Peru's Wari Empire, in the Andes, or for Live from the Field slots; in this short trip during the school year, teachers report back to their classrooms with blogs, videos, and phone conferences.

Similarly, for classrooms with projector capabilities, an interactive map of lower Manhattan can really bring to life the area's changes over the last 10 years.

For classrooms with BYOD or 1:1 initiatives in place, Evernote can serve as a viable option for creating student portfolios.

With colleagues from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity, & Excellence, a federal research center at the University of California campus here, Tharp has identified five standards that he says mark effective instruction in classrooms with high concentrations of students from backgrounds outside the U.S. cultural mainstream.

Arnup and Bowles also highlight data from the OECD's Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS)-- focusing on lower secondary school teachers and their principals — suggesting «the majority of teachers are satisfied with their jobs, but teaching classrooms with a high proportion of challenging students is associated with lower levels of job satisfaction (OECD, 2014)».

Developing a global perspective is of great importance in today's schools for connecting our classrooms with virtual field trips to other areas of the world.

And yet, in our observation of highly effective teachers, we sometimes see two teachers go into their classrooms with similarly strong plans and come out with different results.

For one thing, the school districts have redefined a sheltered English classroom to include not only self - contained classrooms of English Learners taught in English, but also mainstream classrooms with ESL pullout instruction and self - contained classrooms of English Learners receiving up to 30 percent of their instruction in Spanish.

Inevitably, many school administrators find themselves scrambling against short deadlines to fill classrooms with qualified teachers.

Committed to a balanced budget, Hite and the SRC put forth a «doomsday» budget that severely cut the number of noontime aides, counselors, and teachers, and created «split» classrooms, that is, classrooms with two grade levels in the same room.

«Administrators descend on classrooms with clipboards and checklists, caucus briefly in the hallway, and then deliver a set of simplistic messages about what needs fixing,» the authors write, and the fixing is usually the teacher.

The network aims to help a small cadre of teachers help each other successfully integrate select PL components in their own classrooms with the goal of amplifying those teachers» learning schoolwide and, ultimately, citywide.

In classrooms with access to only a handful of devices, students can work in pairs or groups by sharing a text they've found and completing a graphic organizer together.

Disare goes on to look closely at the pros and cons of a system that sorts students into schools this way, including the concern that it might «widen racial achievement gaps and leave lower - achieving students in less demanding classrooms with fewer resources.»

Some new teachers are thrust into classrooms with almost no preparation whatsoever.»

Chinese families in San Francisco had challenged placement of children in mainstream classrooms with no help in learning English.

They had an array of problems: overcrowded classrooms with little ventilation, high absentee rates, few textbooks and other instructional materials, abysmal aca - demic results, and failure to file financial reports and to offer the advertised courses.

While increasing numbers of school districts offer pay incentives to address math and science staff shortages, the authors conclude that «compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.»

The classrooms with the highest weekly average were awarded the «Golden Sneaker Award» for the next week.

And good teaching can be done in classrooms with students sitting in desks in rows, holding pencil and paper, or it can be done in classrooms with students sitting in beanbags holding iPads and Chromebooks.

It is beyond dispute that, because disadvantaged children come to their classrooms with an array of educational and personal challenges, they need additional resources to compete successfully with their more - affluent peers.

With TeacherKit, teachers can build classrooms with student and course data, take attendance with the tap of a touchscreen, as well as take quick behavior notes to monitor classroom performance and participation.

It seemed to fit our data pretty well and we have from this rather unique perspective of looking at class clowning and playfulness which hadn't been done before, which we have yet further evidence to support the whole idea that there is this Pygmalion effect, this self - fulfilling prophecy that occurs in the classrooms with teachers and their students.

With versions for iOS, Android, and Windows devices, this app presents a great option for classrooms with a mix of devices.

Classrooms with poor acoustics can also leave children with normal hearing unable to properly determine what is being said by a teacher, which can be detrimental to their education.

A new study has found that classrooms with greater gender balance can help boys improve their educational performance.

Many of our students are walking into our classrooms with a biography that has become their biology.

We can welcome students into our classrooms with the possibilities of learning that lasts longer than any exam and goes far beyond the classroom walls.

«There are so many classrooms with nothing to read except textbooks,» Mayer said.

This three - year quasi-experimental study looked at evidence of self - regulatory behavior in academic classrooms with students who were identified as potentially talented in the arts.

And we know that many low - income students — especially strivers and high achievers — are not well served in classrooms with students that are three, four, or five grade levels apart at any given time, or that are overseen by administrators unwilling to enforce discipline standards.

Bugscope also helps to close the Digital Divide — classrooms with minimal equipment, whether in the inner city or an isolated rural area, can utilize Bugscope.

They also function as excellent stand - alone teaching tools for classrooms with a broadband connection and an LCD projector.

Project - based classrooms with an active - learning environment make such in - the - flow moments more common.

To do this, and to truly transform teaching and classrooms with audio visual and mobile technology, an IT strategy is vital.

The combination of voice recording and images promotes speaking skills and is a great choice for classrooms with students of mixed abilities.

The paradox that Zoch highlights is that the American public wants orderly classrooms with high standards, but American parents don't mean it when it comes to their own child.

It appears that education policies related to both compensation and working conditions must evolve further if school systems are to address the challenge of staffing math and science classrooms with teachers of strong academic caliber.

Students feel more confident when they go into different classrooms with the knowledge that expectations are the same.

Childrens Yoga in hundreds of NYC classrooms with students of all abilities and ages (from preschool through high school.)

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.

«Student attachment and well - being are greater in classrooms with higher emotional intelligence.»

As the results showed, attachment and group emotional intelligence emerge positively related to psychological well - being; in other words, «the students with the greatest attachment have the highest well - being, just as the students in classrooms with greater emotional intelligence do,» explained the researcher.

No significant link was found between the classroom environment in the fall and students» academic engagement in the spring; however, in classrooms with more positive environments, youth with social and behavioral problems were more academically engaged.

The new analyses by Powers and colleagues showed that individual student grades also improved just from being in classrooms with a greater proportion of African Americans who received the intervention.

Students whose teachers have not switched grades show greater improvement in test scores than students in similar classrooms with equally experienced teachers who switched grades frequently.

Hill leads an NSF - supported program for future K - 12 science teachers to help infuse their classrooms with climate change science, and an industry - academic partnership to understand the consequences of ocean acidification on shellfish farmers.

Real improvement happens in well - resourced classrooms with well - supported teachers.

Classrooms with perfect attendance celebrate with a pizza parties and get a banner to place over their classroom door.