Sentences with phrase «designing classroom environments»

Think about what you want your students to learn, and then design a classroom environment that will help them learn it.

Students overcome these challenges given a strategically - designed classroom environment, structured and systematic approaches to learning, and campus - wide organizational expectations that are easily understood and articulated.

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Belcher had seen Student - Centered Active Learning Environment with Upside - Down Pedagogies (SCALE - UP) classrooms at North Carolina State University with technology and seating designed to support active learning.

In a collaboration between Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and IBM Research, the Cognitive and Immersive Systems Laboratory (CISL) has reached that milestone, and is poised to advance cognitive and immersive environments for collaborative problem - solving in situations like board rooms, classrooms, diagnosis rooms, and design studios.

The Institute's elegant and intuitive classroom design make navigating its expansive digital learning environment a uniquely user - friendly experience.

It found that pupils who were schooled in a classroom environment which made creative and flexible use of design, natural light and noise, temperature, air quality, space and storage performed up to 25 % better than those in schools which didn't.

Learn Live On top of this, each year an escalating number of visitors also take time to attend the high level CPD accredited «Learn Live» workshop sessions that are designed to inspire visitors with inspirational ideas to take back to their classroom or learning environment.

The book includes stories, advice, and how - to articles designed to help high school teachers and their students shift from classrooms that are isolated and teacher - centered to digitally rich environments where learning is student - driven and constantly connected to the global internet.

In addition to working in the classroom environment, he has acted as a consultant in the area of technology and curriculum design / implementation, as well as an instructor in the preservice teacher education program at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Havelock Europa's design service for classroom layout included a series of bespoke teaching walls, the creation of general classrooms, environments for the teaching of art and music, a nursery, two learning spaces for special needs, staff facilities and a multi-purpose hall and dining area.

Use design thinking (brainstorming, prototyping, testing, building, and reflecting) to co-create your classroom environment with the students who will be learning in it.

In formal learning environments such as classrooms, learners are too often positioned as passive — listening, watching, attending, consuming — rather than encouraged to engage as creators — designing, making, producing, constructing.

The Science of Classroom Design, an infographic created through USC Rossier's online teaching degree program, digs deeper into how digital classrooms — and the physical classroom environment — impact student learning, behavior, and achievement.

By providing classrooms of the very highest standards and with a design life of at least 60 years, buildings from Portakabin help to ensure that there is no compromise on the quality of the learning environment.

They are designed to transform the traditional teaching environment and provide new career paths for teachers that allow them to advance their careers without leaving the classroom.

Every summer for the past 11 years, HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education have offered the Project Zero Classroom, a one - week, intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K — 12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address learning dilemmas.

Flexible classrooms are growing more popular as workplace design is inspiring teachers to reimagine their environments.

What simple design changes could you make to your classroom environment in light of this research?

These classroom posters are designed to improve the quality of student - teacher dialogue in a learning environment.

For new teachers, this resource compilation includes tips and guides on classroom design and layout to help maximize the possibilities of the learning environment.

This guide will help teachers explore sustainable design principles as part of a wider topic or classroom project on the built environment.

This 1 - acre urban garden and fully equipped kitchen are the home to a thoughtful, curriculum - based program designed to connect students with the earth, the environment, and an eclectic group of adults outside the traditional classroom.

First of all something that extends the learning environment beyond the four walls of the classroom: a tailored design that fits its objectives and the characteristics of its learning community.

So it's really important this research is conducted so that we can design open - plan classrooms that meet the recommended noise levels to ensure adequate speech perception in the learning environment.

The full journal article: The impact of classroom design on pupils» learning: Final results of a holistic, multi-level analysis (published in Building and Environment) is available to download at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2015.02.013 (PDF 635KB)

The award included a $ 500,000 grant, which he has dedicated to the Hrabowski Fund for Innovation to support and promote a culture of innovation; entrepreneurship through course design and redesign; development of unique classroom learning environments that support active learning, team - based learning, and entrepreneurial skill development; lab - and project - based capstone courses; faculty fellowships; and peer - learning initiatives.

Now in its 14th year, the PZC, offered in collaboration with HGSE's Project Zero and Programs in Professional Education, is an intensive summer institute designed to help pre-K-12 educators create classrooms, instructional materials, and out - of - school learning environments that address a range of learning styles and promote a culture of deep thinking to build complex knowledge in the arts and other academic areas.

When we commit to designing and developing an urgent, encouraging, self - motivating, and disciplined environment in our classrooms, we provide students (and ourselves) with learning experiences that are satisfying and lasting.

Other techniques that may fall into «less relevant» include such ones as «Stretch It,» which is designed to help «meet students where they are and push them in a way that's directly responsive to what they've shown they can already do,» and becomes more embedded in a blended - learning environment; «Wait Time,» which is designed to help all students have a moment to answer a question, but isn't relevant when each child is working at her own pace online; «Do Now» to help focus students on a particular learning activity when they enter the classroom; and several tips around varying pacing for the entire classroom, which become more irrelevant when each student has a unique pacing schedule.

... And also we had a group designing an outdoor classroom shelter that fitted into the environment and space.

A particular highlight was the practical workshop, bringing designers and consultants to help teachers discuss and develop a classroom design that connects the Curriculum with an educational environment under limited budgets and resources.

A rounded - corner design provides a safer learning environment for active students by helping to prevent injuries in the classroom and it features 7H scratch - resistant surface hardness that ensures durability, as well as a consistent, high - quality touch experience.

Jamie Snitker is an educational technology professional that specializes in curriculum and instructional design and delivery for classroom, blended, and elearning environments.

The three principal elements of the Protocol stress that Mathematics is more than covering content, that if we design tasks well, everyone can be part of a rich mathematical experience, and that classrooms are learning environments focused on developing deep understanding.

Each academic wing features classrooms that connect to a central collaboration space and a teacher design lab — enabling educators to see kids in the classroom, collaboration space, or corridors from virtually any spot in the learning environment.

The i21 classroom is an engaging and personalized learning environment designed to optimize teaching and learning through the interconnected use of mobile computing, audio, visual and formative assessment technologies across the curriculum.

«This book invites educators to «read» environments for young children critically: Does the physical design of classrooms, school grounds, and informal settings like museums really encourage creative, independent learning?

Teachers pay attention to even the smallest details, from classroom environment to lesson plan design, to make sure students have fun and stay engaged.

Designed specifically for the classroom teacher that is getting started in a 1:1 environment or is in the early stages of thoughtful technology integration and implementation.

Our range of outdoor classrooms, canopies and shelters for schools, are designed to create a dry and comfortable enabling environment which provides natural day light.

«This timely and pragmatic book thoughtfully lays out a new vision of education with design principles for inclusive, respectful, and rigorous classroom environments that promote expansive and culturally validating forms of learning.»

If the school environment in the inclusive classroom setting were universally designed, then kids could have the intensive instruction that they need without having their label be negatively valued or be the reason they are pulled out of the classroom.

The NESS is being designed to showcase specific examples of lessons, assessments, and student exemplars which will provide attendees with ideas and inspiration to take back to their own classrooms as more and more schools work towards creating 1:1 environments.

Using an existing set of video cases from the Center for the Study of Reading's video series, «Teaching Reading: Strategies from Successful Classrooms,» we developed Reading Classroom Explorer (RCE), a hypermedia learning environment designed to help novices understand that there are many successful tools and approaches available to engage students from diverse cultural, linguistic, and intellectual backgrounds in challenging literacy curricula.

As success stories spread, it's important to note that positive reinforcement comes from all angles: the way policies are designed, the support teachers have in the classroom, the environment the students are in.

In this study, the design of generative learning environments is used as a framework for developing an activity for students to explore modeling by interpolation and function approximation in the classroom.

Based on these deep relationships, they then work collaboratively to tailor instructional approaches and classroom learning environments designed to help students develop the knowledge, skills, and abilities that will prepare them for college, career, and life.

Children learn in what is called a «prepared environment» — classrooms that are designed to support the learner in every stage of development.

TAP's modified version of Danielson's teaching standards has three main categories — designing and planning instruction, the learning environment, and instruction — and 19 subgroups that target such areas as the frequency and quality of classroom questions and whether teachers are teaching students such higher - level thinking skills as drawing conclusions.

Virtual worlds, virtual environments and virtual classrooms are suddenly the focus of all Internet technology design.