Sentences with phrase «closed classroom doors»

Twenty years ago, most teachers worked alone behind closed classroom doors.

Our guest believes that the days of teachers working in isolation behind closed classroom doors should be a thing of the past.

Collaborating with Colleagues The days of closing the classroom door and creating a self - contained world are over.

I closed my classroom door and walked down the vacated halls of my school.

While Neil Armstrong no doubt experienced some fear and loneliness as the first person to set foot on the moon, many educators say it couldn't compare to the feeling on day one of a teaching career, when you close the classroom door and are alone with your first class — and your self - doubts.

One is the lesser profile accorded to curriculum and instructional practice and to what happens once the teacher closes the classroom door; another is the view that random assignment is premature, given its dependence on expert school management and high - quality program implementation; and another is the view that quantitative techniques have only marginal usefulness for understanding schools, since a school's governance, culture, and management are best understood through intensive case studies.

State officials can subvert the law through interpretations that don't conform to its intent; school districts can change their policies without making genuine changes in curriculum; or teachers can ignore the mandates, closing their classroom doors and doing as they please.

I understood teachers» urge to close their classroom doors and do their own thing; I had done the same thing when I was a teacher.

at the 2003 research conference of the Australian Council for Educational Research, successful education comes back to «the person who gently closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the person... who is alone with students during their 15,000 hours of schooling.»

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who gently closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher — but to do that, says Russell Boyle, we need to open those classroom doors.

What teachers do after closing the classroom door, four to five periods a day, five days each week, changes lives.

As Cuban remarks of recent changes in science curricula, «these curricular frameworks will have only a passing similarity to the science content and skills that teachers will teach once they close their classroom doors.»

«What teachers do after closing the classroom door... five days each week, changes lives.»

If we really want to improve student achievement we need to focus on the person who closes the classroom door and performs the teaching act — the teacher - but to do that we need to open classroom doors.

What teachers actually do when they close their classroom door is in no way controlled by those words.

Teachers are comfortable closing the classroom door and repeating similar lessons 5 - 6 times a day, rarely consulting with teachers of other subjects about the students they mutually teach.

Of course, teachers can always close their classroom doors and teach the way they always have.

Most teachers are in the Rational Middle and have managed to navigate this contentious debate by closing their classroom doors and doing the best they can for their students.

Teachers can still close the classroom door, but after more than a decade of federal and state accountability systems, teachers feel they have less independence in what they do inside, federal data show.

Not exact matches

In the video, gunfire seems to be coming through the door into the classroom — about 18 shots, the gunman so close that smoke seemed to billow in the window behind the bullets.

She rushed to the classroom closest to her, knocking on the door, but it was locked.

The pro-Cuomo Committee to Save NY is backing up a recent TV spot supporting the governor's proposed education aid cuts with a mailer that accuses school superintendents of going behind closed doors and «taking money out of classrooms — but putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in their own pockets.»

For example, if his desk or storage cubby was too close to the classroom door, it caused him stress during transitional times of the day when students rushed in and out.

After Liz retires, her classroom will be filled by a new teacher or a transferred teacher who might just need to know it's fine to close your door and grab a few laughs on a Friday at lunch.

As much as teachers go into their classrooms and close their doors and teach, principals go into their schools and close the door and lead.

When you close the door to the classroom, you need to be in charge.»

There is more than a little truth to the teacher's adage, «I'm in charge when the classroom door is closed.»

And teacher organizations have never liked the idea of a government agency telling their members what to teach once the classroom door has closed.

Lack of technology doesn't necessarily close the door to the flipped - classroom model, but it might require some intentional planning and differentiation.

«I know if it weren't for the team setup I'd have that sense of loneliness that every inexperienced teacher has behind the closed doors of her classroom.»

As I closed the door to my classroom for summer ~ I would always say... WHERE did the school year go?»

We go into our classrooms and close the door, and very rarely do we work with peers to improve what we're doing.

He also knew that reforms that draw on teacher wisdom are more likely to be effectively implemented when the classroom door closes.

«They're 10 feet wide, lined with lockers, and the classroom doors are all closed.»

Now what they do behind closed doors inside the classroom can be brought out onto the open Web because CC makes it easy and legal.

The term «professional learning community» had been used by education researchers since the 1960s to describe a more collaborative and collegial approach to teaching than the traditional isolated, closed - classroom - door model.

The popular digital practices of teens and 20 - year - olds... close the doors to maturity, eroding habits of the classroom...» But he proposes no changes in school or in society to offer them serious responsibilities for learning and for life.

When that classroom door closes, Ms. Smith and Ms. Gonzalez can teach pretty much whatever they want, using pretty much whatever materials they want, subject only to budgetary constraints, what's in the «bookroom,» how fast are their internet connections, and what's apt to be on their pupils» end - of - year state test, which of course doesn't exist for many subjects and high school courses.

We have a culture in schools of radical teacher autonomy where every teacher closes the door behind them and does whatever they want, and in too many cases that means that innovation happens in classrooms, but not in departments, not in grade level teams, and not in whole schools.

After a few bruising experiences, most of them just wanted to close the doors to their classrooms and teach.

If there isn't one, it's something that teachers and leaders have to build together, getting past the closed - door culture which is often inherited in schools: «We're all doing our own thing in our own classroom.»

Schools typically are organized into long, often windowless corridors, lined with 900 - square - foot classrooms — a floor plan that consigns teachers and students to working in relative isolation behind closed doors.

Education is no longer a profession in which teachers retreat to their classrooms and close their doors to work in isolation.

Then we went back to the classroom but it was almost time for my test to start and the teacher was going to close the door.

«The difficulty is maintaining equity, equality and solidarity without over-prescribing what a lesson should look like, and therefore regressing into a culture of tick boxes, checkups and closed doors to every classroom — all that was wrong with teaching and learning in the first place!»

I think that educators are coming to realize they need more time, they need more time with kids, they need more time with themselves that the work is far more collaborative, it has to be far more collaborative than it has been, so this notion of the egg crate school, where everybody's in her own little egg crate; you kind of have to kind of abandon that; you can't stay in your classroom and close the door.

Professionally engaged teachers, in other words, teachers who were committed to the profession by keeping an open door policy, were more likely to use the computer in their classroom instruction than were private, or closed door, school teachers.

Fragmented — Teachers function as individuals with classroom doors staying closed and teachers having their own territory and for the most part liking it that way.

A fundraising site said Anthony Borges was shot in both legs and his back while attempting to close and lock a classroom door last Wednesday.

A fundraising site says Anthony Borges was shot in both legs and his back while attempting to close and lock a classroom door last Wednesday.