Sentences with phrase «control over the classroom»

To this end, advocates have begun to press for changes in state laws to provide parents some degree of control over classroom placement.

Not having to deal with the noise of other classrooms and hallway distractions is a big attraction for many teachers, and control over classroom temperature is another plus.

Having a clear seating chart when students enter the classroom establishes that you as the teacher have control over your classroom and that students should give you their respect.

[citation needed] Such individuals claim that many problems with modern schooling stem from the weakness in school discipline and if teachers exercised firm control over the classroom they would be able to teach more efficiently.

LearnBoost's attendance features give educators control over their classroom like never before.

While the students don't have total control over the classroom, they help contribute to a dialogue with their teachers from which the lessons develop.

How does the teacher maintain control over the classroom while allowing for creative expression from students?

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Namely, we have no control over whether or not their previous teachers taught the standards they were supposed to up to the point when they enter our classroom.

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.

We will get over it when you stop using your religion to legislate who people can marry, insisting on teaching your mythology into a science classroom, covering up crimes against children, allow birth control in countries that can't feed themselves in the first place... need more?

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.

The Brong - Ahafo Regional Deputy Director of the Narcotics Control Board (NACOB), Kofi Boateng, has expressed worry over the practice where drugs are being sold in classrooms of some basic schools in the Sunyani West District.

Similarly, first - grade INSIGHTS classrooms had higher teacher practices of classroom organization and lower classroom off - task behaviors over the school year compared to control classrooms.

More generally, Pianta has been encouraging the instructors to communicate higher expectations by turning over some of the control in the classroom to the kids: letting them work in teams on independent projects, for instance, instead of simply lecturing.

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 great deal to do with the degree of political control now exerted over the day to day business of the classroom, unrealistic expectations of working practice and also the growing disparity in pay between teaching and the «top» professions.

By setting high, clear learning goals and giving teachers and local officials full control over how best to achieve those, the Common Core ensures educators have autonomy over what is taught, and how it's taught, in their classrooms.

It is not likely that the district - level folks are going to begin to hand over any more control to schools, but there is room for more authentic, ongoing talk at all levels of the organization about what is working in schools and classrooms.

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.

I have no control over the standardized curriculum, or who's assigned to my classroom.

«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».

LANSchool 7.6 gives teachers control over the computers in their classroom.

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.

Children in the experimental classrooms gained about two months in reading achievement over those in the control group.

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.

Court Point: «Under the Court of Appeals» interpretation of FERPA, the federal power would exercise minute control over specific teaching methods and instructional dynamics in classrooms throughout the country.

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.

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.

The continuum ranges from inclusion to empowerment, and what drives coursework up the scale is generally the amount of control students have over the learning experience in their classroom.

When technology integration in the classroom is seamless and thoughtful, students not only become more engaged, they begin to take more control over their own learning, too.

These coaches saw blended learning as providing students with control over how they learn, the pace of the learning experience, and where they might choose to learn within the classroom.

They want to be organised and to have some degree of control over their time and what happens in their classroom.

Teach for America trainers defend the program's reliance on «no excuses» discipline, saying it is the fastest way for corps members to learn to control a classroom, and that they are free to expand their disciplinary toolkit as their practice improves over time.

In education's public sector, by contrast, the work is actually less interesting than it is in private schools, where teachers enjoy more control over the curriculum and more autonomy in the classroom.

Jane Krentz stepped away from the elementary classroom and into the thickets of state lawmaking 10 years ago after deciding that students were shortchanged by education policy she had no control over.

Reclaiming authority over your child's education and future starts by reclaiming local control of your child's classroom.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

From asking students to create classroom rules to giving them free rein in reading choices, their experiences reveal that handing learners more control over their own learning is a complex undertaking.

While peer tutoring, cross-age tutoring, and student - driven conversations are popular in classrooms, it is rare for adult educators to actually turn classroom control over to students, or to share that control equally with students.

Through the Flipped Classroom model, students have control over their pace of learning content before entering the classroom, and complete checks for understanding throughout the video.

Swintek and other students say they are glad to be away from classroom distractions and have more control over the pace of instruction.

Additionally, the less a simulation resembles schoolwork and the more control preservice teachers have over the simulation, the more the simulation would feel like authentic learning outside of the classroom (Badiee & Kaufman, 2014; Carrington et al., 2011; Girod & Girod, 2008).

In a blended learning environment, students learn through a combination of online instruction — with some element of student control over time, place, path and pace — and instruction in a classroom.

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.

Before the rights were stripped away, they effectively guaranteed a minimum level of funding for students because we had control over the student - teacher ratio in classrooms.

You're not required to be in a classroom, so you have complete and total control over your schedule.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS • Over five years» experience teaching Mathematics to students of different backgrounds • Highly skilled in planning effective classroom instructions • Hands on experience in teaching mathematical concepts to young students • In - depth knowledge of basic and advanced mathematics with a specialization in algebra • Demonstrated the ability to plan a program of study that meets the individual student's need, interest, and ability • Able to maintain a disciplined and controlled environment in the classroom • Proficient in preparing effective and appropriate lesson plans • Current teacher's license

Given clustering in data and ROE delivery, we used multi-level modelling (SAS PROC MIXED) to account for three levels of variability: intra-individual change in students over time (in the three outcomes), inter-individual differences between students (gender) and inter-group differences between classrooms (assignment to ROE or control group, grade level).

The realization of not having complete control over one's self can be highly frustrating and it did not surprise me that this manifested in the classroom.