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That's key for classrooms, Myerson says, where teachers want control over what apps their students can use, and students want something with great battery life and a selection of familiar Windows software.

Close to a million students stood up and streamed out of classrooms across the country last week as part of the National School Walkout, which honored the victims of the Parkland shooting one month ago and called on lawmakers to pass gun control legislation.

Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and Students experience autonomy in the classroom, Deci and Ryan explain, when their teachers «maximize a sense of choice and volitional engagement» while minimizing students» feelings of coercion and students» feelings of coercion and control.

Giving students more autonomy in their learning meant giving up control — handing over the reins of the classroom.

And like many other teachers at high - poverty schools, those at M.S. 45 had come to believe that with students as potentially disruptive as theirs, strong, dominant teacher control was the only way to keep the classroom calm and orderly; handing over the reins would mean chaos.

And so in these schools, where students are most in need of help internalizing extrinsic motivations, classroom environments often push them in the opposite direction: toward more external control, fewer feelings of competence, and less positive connection with teachers.

Do you find yourself spending time in the classroom controlling behavior and confronting apathetic students?

PHOTO ESSAY BY DONNA ACETO In the first of several nationwide actions initiated by high school students to protest the lack of meaningful legislative action on gun control, young people nationwide walked out of their classrooms on March 14 — some for 17 minutes to commemorate the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High -LSB-...]

The team involved with this project brings students into the Parkes observing facilities in Sydney, or brings a remote set - up to the classroom and gives students the ability to control the operation of the Parkes Telescope and collect their own pulsar data.

Although their brain - controlled drone certainly was innovative enough to earn a good grade, Magbagbeola, Kinn and the other students on their project team actually had goals outside the classroom in mind when designing the drone.

She provides Mary a tour of the school, which stands many stories tall, containing devices as ordinary as elevators (Mumblechook points out that electricity is, after all, a form of magic) and as fantastic as bubbles that carry students to their classrooms (In one of the classes, the filmmakers fit in a small homage / jab at a famous, British child wizard, who's tormented by a flying broomstick that he can't control).

In fact, by setting rigorous and consistent learning goals and giving local authorities full control over how best to help students achieve those targets, the Common Core fosters creativity and flexibility in the classroom.

«This is a chance for the teacher, while still maintaining control of a classroom, to share with students at their level,» says Liz Sullivan, coauthor of the «Teachers Talk» report and education program director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative.

Research shows that SEL increases prosocial classroom behavior, teaches cognitive control, changes students» home life, and prepares them for future success.

In another classroom, decorated with airplane - control diagrams and electric - car schematics, teacher Carl Cripe (a former U.S. Air Force master sergeant) keeps an eye on students putting the final changes on the electric car they hope to enter in a design competition.

Consensus needs to be reached on the focus of the observation (teacher, students or both), the frequency and duration of observations, the structure of pre - and post-observation meetings, who is going to own and control these data (critical with video recordings), and last, but certainly not least, the classroom observation guide to be used.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

They designed a Web interface for a remote control panel so that students, using their classroom computer and a Web browser, can control the microscope as they discuss their insects with the university's entomologists.

Using whiteboards meant that students could go to the front of the classroom and control the material on the screen, but more recently, mirror image apps have been created that connect devices to the display so that children can view and interact with the material remotely from their desks.

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.

Apple made significant changes to the iOS platform with its announcement of iOS 9.3 which bought several education specific features such as allowing for the sharing of devices across several students, a classroom application which will provide in class control of devices, and managed Apple IDs which can be created in bulk and managed by the school district.

ESSA, however, allows states to focus on what's within the control of educators: how much students learn while in their classrooms.

Giving control to students isn't the same as abdicating control of the classroom - but offering choices can motivate students to succeed.

Whether you prefer a quiet and controlled classroom environment or are comfortable with «controlled chaos,» there are several things to keep in mind that can help your students unlock the power of gameplay without derailing the rest of your period or day.

The results are worth the effort: When I surveyed students who were tracking their data, they were substantially more likely to respond that they were trying their hardest and felt in control of their learning than students in other classrooms.

Using your PowerPoint to foster and control the flow of the classroom is a great way to lead your students from a vocabulary list to an anticipatory set.

«By way of example, the teacher survey undertaken by Murdoch University in 2012 invited participants to respond to statements such as: «NAPLAN promotes a socially supportive and positive classroom environment» and «NAPLAN has meant that students have control over the pace, directions and outcomes of lessons in my class».

Since 2010 - 11, students in PBL classrooms have generally performed as well or better on the CST as compared with students in non-PBL control classrooms in all three dimensions of deeper understanding within the discipline (content, reasoning, and scope of learning).

AP U.S. Government and Politics: 1,245 students and 13 teachers in 44 classrooms as compared with controls of 475 students and 7 teachers in 21 classrooms

AP Environmental Science: 1,563 students and 29 teachers in 72 classrooms as compared with controls of 121 students and 5 teachers in 12 classrooms

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

Teachers often come to the classroom with an unclear understanding of attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder, and they are rarely provided with strategies that detail how to work with students who have been diagnosed with ADHD, even though such students make up an increasingly large number of their students — 11 percent and growing as of 2011, according to data gathered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Will PC Gair be able to help Dr Longshaw to be more assertive in the classroom and in turn enable her Year 10 students to take more control of their own behaviour?

To scholars, experimentation further suggests: 1) conducting studies in laboratories where external factors can be controlled in order to relate cause more directly to effect; or 2) randomly choosing which schools, classrooms, or students will be exposed to a reform and which will be exposed to the alternative with which the reform is to be compared.

Rocketship leaders will fix a disconnect they see between what happens in the online learning lab and the classroom, to give teachers more control over the students» digital learning and further individualize the teaching.

But professors and other education experts are concerned that there is too little quality control to ensure that students have completed the equivalent of a regular classroom experience.

Brain Games includes 31 games that are designed to be easily integrated into everyday classroom and school activities that help students exercise memory, attention, and mental flexibility, and help them learn how to listen carefully, use self - control, and follow directions.

The most important step a principal can take is to control classroom assignments so that students who had been recommended for bilingual education before Prop 227 are in the same classroom, making it easier to convert the entire classroom to bilingual education on the 31st day of school.

I love to find new ways to integrate technology into the classroom to help students learn and to help them have more control over their learning.

Our best evidence of the effects of laptop policy comes from a separate analysis that compares the exam scores of students assigned to the unrestricted - use and tablet - only classrooms to those of students in classes where laptops were banned, while adjusting for the minor differences in the backgrounds of students across groups and including controls for the instructor, the class hour, and the semester.

Randomly allocating students or multiple classrooms or multiple schools to the new reading program and to control conditions or to an alternative program eliminates the possibility that the two groups will differ in a systematic way and thus compromise the results.

Researchers identified a «consistent, positive relationship between student exposure to high - quality intellectual assignments and students» learning gains on the test — even after controlling for race, socioeconomic class, gender, and prior achievement differences among classrooms.»

KM: Due to the adverse affects on the students and teachers, our findings suggest that open - plan classrooms that are unable to control the noise from adjacent classes are unlikely to be suitable learning environments for young children.

It became a class that taught students that they could, through using certain strategies, leave my classroom with greater intelligence than when they entered it, because they could control their own depth of learning.

Thus, we control for teacher experience (novice or not), and the following four classroom - level variables: percentage of high - achieving students, percentage of low - achieving students, percentage of students on IEPs, and percentage of ELLs.

Data also show that students in the reduced - size classrooms had higher standardized test scores in reading and mathematics than did students in the control group.»

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.

When you're using any measure — student achievement or a classroom observation — to infer whether or not a given teacher is effective, you obviously want to control for students» prior achievement.

I hope you enjoy incorporating these programs into your classroom, and that you find, like I have, that they make students more engaged, give them control over their own learning, and provide a way for students to be successful independently.

They can also deliver compelling content, in a controlled way, to suit the consumption habits and wants of millennial students without allowing unwanted content into the classroom.