Sentences with phrase «for classroom control»

No one advised me to do so; it just seemed like an effective tool for classroom control.

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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.

Battleground: One Mother's Crusade, The Religious Right, and the Struggle for Control of our Classrooms by stephen bates poseidon press, 365 pages, $ 24 The 1983 protest by a group of parents in Hawkins County, Tennessee, against certain stories and themes in the public school reading....

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

The teachers in this school are with them for 8 years, so classroom control is imperative.

However, even after control for confounding and selection factors associated with infant feeding practices, increasing duration of breastfeeding was associated with small but significant increases in scores on standardized tests of ability and achievement, teacher ratings of classroom performance, and greater success at high school.

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-...]

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.

When this happens, I get frustrated with them, and with me for not being able to control my classroom better.

Voters understood that passage of this proposition would mean more money in their classrooms, better pay for the teachers in their schools, more control at the local level, and more information for parents.

«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 57 controlled studies, outcomes were measured in more than 900 classrooms; the overall mean effect size for all outcome areas was 0.35.

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).

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.

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.

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.

But for a teacher managing a classroom, gameplay can sometimes seem like a recipe for chaos, and a sure way to lose control.

Given that school budget cuts, coach costs, changes in the curriculum cycle, staff cover, and health and safety legislation are largely beyond the control of out - of - the - classroom attractions, what exactly can be done to make school trips as painless and pleasurable as possible for those who want to undertake them?

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.

Rather, I advocate for blending current technology with their years of classroom experience, strong control of content, and thousands of interactions with kids and parents.

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.

Teaching a pre-designed online course isn't always an ideal experience, especially for those who are used to having full creative control of their classroom, but it doesn't hinder the academic freedom allotted.

• Although both treatment and control teachers volunteered to participate in the project, the treatment teachers were more likely to support use of video at the end of the first year, as a replacement for some or all of their in - person classroom observations.

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.

In addition to dipping into his private fortune for unlimited campaign ads touting his test score gains, he has total control of a $ 15 billion education empire that doles out jobs and no - bid contracts to potential critics and spends millions on a well - oiled public relations machine, but spends nothing on independent research or evaluation of classroom programs.

Included: Tips for keeping control when the classroom «ship» is sinking.

West Point provides an ideal environment for conducting a randomized controlled classroom experiment about Internet - connected computer usage for a number of reasons.

For the last three years, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard has run a randomized controlled trial of video technology in classroom observations — a project called Best Foot ForwaFor the last three years, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard has run a randomized controlled trial of video technology in classroom observations — a project called Best Foot Forwafor Education Policy Research at Harvard has run a randomized controlled trial of video technology in classroom observations — a project called Best Foot Forward.

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.

«Fortunately, the foundations for modular classrooms can usually be constructed within a week, while the rooms themselves are manufactured away from the site in a controlled environment.

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.»

It's an ideal resource for teachers looking to exercise firm but relaxed control in the classroom while getting the message across clearly and effectively.

With sixth graders, my untamed style, coupled with my total lack of classroom management, served only to propel the class out of control, where it remained for the rest of my first year.

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.

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.

They can't control who walks into their classroom, how prepared that individual is for school, if that person has had a hot meal, or even if that person has a home.

«Ultimately, responsibility for content control in the classroom lies with the educator.

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.

Kids who out of school control large sums of money and have huge choices on how they spend it have almost no choices at all about how they are educated — they are, for the most part, just herded into classrooms and told what to do and when to do it.

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.

For others, CCSS interferes with local control of schools, limits teacher creativity, and diverts classroom time and energy away from instruction to test preparation.

We should encourage direct learning through movement, gestures, and dance by first making our physical control of students less a priority of classroom management, and secondly, by exploring ways that technology frees us to use gestures and movement as a means for learning.

This word search puzzle has been clearly designed for teachers who need to take control of their noisy classroom (s).

Participating schools, regardless of group assignment, received program materials, teacher training, and substitute teachers to fill in for teachers during regular teacher training; control schools received these benefits for classrooms that did not participate in the study.

We also control for teacher experience as well as for class and school characteristics, including class size and the academic performance and demographic characteristics of all students in the relevant classroom and school.

Interactive whiteboards provided the opportunity for students to stand at 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.

A highly structured bureaucracy controls teacher certification and training, says C. Emily Feistritzer, president of the National Center for Education Information (NCEI) in Washington D.C. «Anyone who wants to make more new teachers available can begin by dismantling this elaborate system, which locks out potentially highly qualified teachers while accrediting many who don't belong in the classroom,» Feistritzer says in a story, («The Truth Behind the «Teacher Shortage»»), originally published by the Wall Street Journal in January.