Sentences with phrase «for classroom problems»

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But for all the big talk, Ivey has a lot of walk.MBA graduates, according to the school's owndata, can expect an average starting salaryof over $ 98,000 a year upon graduation.Every class evolves from students tacklingreal - world problems on their own, to doing so in groups, then as an entire class.Outside the classroom, the school offersscores of special projects, internationalinternships and one - of - a-kind programs, like the Ivey Consulting Project, the largestand longest - running Canadian programpairing MBA students with real - world businessesin need of help.

After hearing that schools were having issues with spinners causing problems in the classroom, Alexi Roy of SpinnerList wanted to make sure the commotion was for real.

«STEM Behind Hollywood» uses the scientists and experts who consult Hollywood filmmakers to create free classroom activities for teachers, including software and iPad apps, to explore popular movie themes such as zombie, superheroes, space and forensics to give students the chance to solve problems as real - life scientists would.

Transfer payments, regional subsidies and even the announcements for universities, regional slush funds or rural broadband financing announced over the last few months, they all share the intended two - prong effect: vote - buying, and spreading the illusion that the federal government can fix a local problem, be it in classrooms or in lousy internet connections.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

We found that some students were selected for paper - class treatment because they were considered behavior problems in the classroom, while others were selected simply because they were student - athletes On one occasion, for example, a Swahili instructor apparently requested that up to six football players be enrolled in a Swahili 3 paper class because they were under - performing in the Swahili 3 lecture class.

In American classrooms, by contrast, Stigler found that a unit on adding fractions with unlike denominators would usually begin with the teacher writing on an overhead projector a reliable formula to solve the problem, which students would be expected to copy down, memorize, and use for each subsequent problem.

For instance, an occupational therapist may suggest accommodations for a child with fine - motor problems that affect handwriting, and the classroom teacher would incorporate these suggestions into the handwriting lessons taught to the entire claFor instance, an occupational therapist may suggest accommodations for a child with fine - motor problems that affect handwriting, and the classroom teacher would incorporate these suggestions into the handwriting lessons taught to the entire clafor a child with fine - motor problems that affect handwriting, and the classroom teacher would incorporate these suggestions into the handwriting lessons taught to the entire class.

Though I haven't been able to get an answer from anyone on the exact amount of time allotted for lunch / recess (and I'm told not all classes get a recess — which is another subject, that I will get into more on another day), I am being told once a classroom is scheduled for lunch that they have 20 minutes from there to go through line, eat, clean up, and get out the door — which if a teacher is running behind, a student misbehaves, or God forbid it takes 10 minutes to get through the lunch line, there's a problem.

To the extent that candy consumption can affect any child's behavior (either due to food dyes, as some believe, and certainly due to blood sugar «highs» and crashes), it seems even more out of place in a classroom for kids with behavioral problems.

food manufacturers have managed to invade what should be a commercial - free zone through vending machines and «pouring rights»; branded foods (like Pizza Hut pizzas) sold in the national school lunch program; the sale of a la carte foods; the use of Channel One television in the classroom; the creation of textbooks replete with math problems that use the products» names; give - aways of branded items like textbook covers; offering their products as rewards for academic performance (read X number of books over the summer and earn a gift certificate to McDonald's); and much more.

«Which of course is a problem, because every dollar that has to be supported by the general fund is a dollar out of the classroom,» said Ed Wilkins, the school nutrition director for the San Francisco Public Schools.

For example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one exampFor example psychiatrist Bruce Perry, who runs the Child Trauma Academy has written extensively for audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one exampfor audiences of parents, teachers and other professionals about how early developmental disruptions affect the developing brain, how this manifests in the classroom, and how to effectively address these problems in multiple settings, His Scholastic series is one example.

And in today's classroom, where teachers must compete with digital distractions for their students» attention while trying to satisfy increasingly demanding academic standards, it is more important than ever that educators be able to combat apathy, instill vital problem - solving skills, and create a climate that maximizes learning.

The governor explained, «We earn about N5billion every month, N5billion goes for salaries, allowances, how do we address the problems of shortage of teachers in primary schools, how do we build classrooms, how do we provide transformers for communities without light?

Mulgrew testified with three other city labor leaders, representing classroom aides, firefighters and health workers, who took the Bloomberg administration to task for spending billions of dollars on the corruption - plagued payroll system City Time and the problem - plagued Special Education Student Information System (SESIS) while failing to give needed raises to city workers.

In an introduction to the special JSTE issue, editors Joseph Krajcik and Ibrahim Delen call attention to the current challenges posed by NGSS, which calls for a shift from classrooms where ideas are merely presented to students to those where «students grapple with data and ideas and use those ideas to explain phenomena and design solutions to problems.»

For example, if there is a problem with contaminants in the indoor air of a school building, classroom ventilation can be adapted to fit in with teaching periods and break times,» explains Schütze.

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.

Students immersed in classroom experiences that let them engage in learning mathematics concepts through problem solving, making and using abstractions, and developing and applying mathematical theories have greater opportunities for developing mathematical habits of mind.

She looks at the classroom board, her eyes moving slowly over the words of a problem that her teacher projected there as the students came in from recess and sat down for their math lesson:

This chapter provides a historical review on service - learning research findings, concluding that the studies generally indicate that students who participate in service learning maintain higher levels of motivation for learning, incur fewer disciplinary problems in the classroom, demonstrate improved attendance, possess higher self - esteem, and are less likely to drop out of school.

Clearly, there are many options available for schools and teachers to integrate sustainability and environmental problems into the classroom.

Included in the package: • Seven «Sum It Up» pages / stations, each with three problems, to put on walls around the classroom • «Sum» answers to write on the back of each page / station for students to use • Detailed answer key for the teacher This activity works well in the middle of a lesson and can also be used as a review.

What if the problem was that we need to find the most cost effective design for a classroom, given materials and certain parameters?

I took the opportunity to review the classroom for issues that I had learned might cause problems for my son.

Includes: Computational thinking for KS3 Computational thinking for KS4 Problem Solving for KS3 Also includes my popular poster resources to help promote computational thinking within your classroom

[T] here could be problems but what social system / playground / classroom / space doesn't have the possibility for problems?»

Included in the package: • Eight «Sum It Up» pages / stations, each with three problems, to put on walls around the classroom • «Sum» answers to write on the back of each page / station for students to use • Detailed answer key for the teacher This activity works well in the middle of a lesson or as a review.

Have them create posters for the classroom wall to remind them how to ask good questions, follow a problem - solving process, or analyze a source of information.

In a recent post for Education Week, Peter DeWitt details some of the problems with classroom observations.

The situation provides an early indicator of states» responses to the new teacher - quality mandates in the «No Child Left Behind Act» of 2001 — and of how a state that has had chronic problems finding qualified teachers for its toughest classrooms might meet them.

Preventing Classroom Discipline Problems: A Classroom Management Handbook In the latest edition of his book, Howard Seeman offers the kind of common - sense approach to classroom discipline that beleaguered teachers are looking for.

In the book, The Minds of Boys: Saving Our Sons from Falling Behind in School and Life, Gurian and co-author Kathy Stevens examine why boys are having more problems in school than girls, and offer classroom strategies and activities for motivating boys, without affecting the education of girls.

He offers theories for why previous attempts at solving classroom discipline problems have failed and discusses the strengths and weaknesses of existing literature on the subject.

Our biggest problem is that, although many teachers want to use computers for classroom instruction, we don't have a way to display computer information to a classroom full of students.

It is important to remember that part of this teaching approach is to allow the process to operate in the reverse order to the traditional way we do this in school maths classrooms; practice some maths then apply that maths through a word problem — where the maths skills have already been identified and formulated for the student.

A new study has found that positive teacher - student relationships at age 10 can significantly reduce problem classroom behaviours, and the effects last for up to four years.

The issue with that is that if we have students in a classroom who are ranging from below Low, barely able to read and make sense of their text, to students who are reading at this Advanced level, it is very difficult for a teacher to be able to teach to a class with that wide a variety of literacy levels, and the problem is that these children who are not reaching the Low benchmark or are at the Low benchmark are, if you like, starting the race quite a long way behind all of these other kids.

«I have seen first - hand the importance of fun, easy - to - use creativity tools in the classroom, and believe that Adobe Spark will enhance how educators teach digital and creative - problem solving skills to open up a range of new possibilities for students who want to express themselves,» said Mala Sharma, VP and GM of Creative Cloud product marketing & engagement at Adobe.

Each classroom has a copy of its rules, signed by all the students, posted prominently, as well as a list of steps for problem solving.

In a wide - ranging discussion, Murphy talks about the problem with interpreting the performance data of EAL children too simplistically, issues with «immersion» programmes and the lack of support for schools in helping EAL children in the classroom.

The New York City - based foundation said it hopes its new «students at the center» grant program will help train teachers to abandon traditional 40 - minute lectures for more - active approaches in the classroom, such as problem - solving, critical thinking, and hands - on learning.

Each of these programs address a particular problem of practice — using data, observing and analyzing teaching and learning in the classroom, engaging families meaningfully — and provides proven tools, protocols, and approaches for educators to practice and implement together for school and system - wide improvement efforts.

Chock - full of detailed examples of the kinds of problems that occur every day in real classrooms, the book also provides explicit techniques and strategies for dealing with those problems.

Former middle school language arts teacher Jennifer Gonzalez has a knack for finding the hard problems that plague educators and offering solid solutions in short, uncluttered episodes that cover teaching strategies, classroom management, and edtech.

He also asked lead teachers to discuss tactics for addressing the problem with other teachers in their upcoming «house meetings,» daily gatherings in which all teachers within each grade level (or «house») gather in an empty classroom to discuss curriculum, instruction, and administrative matters.

But then one would recall that other public functions exist, such as health, transportation, and higher education, that make large and urgent claims on the budgets of state governments; that problems other than a lack of money afflict the schools, such as students who arrive unprepared for learning or life in a classroom; and that evidence for the efficacy of money per se is at best mixed.

Offer training for teachers in reading that «aggressively» works on improving students» vocabulary skills or helps teachers work on academic problems in their classrooms.

If several students had problems with that, the teacher could focus his or her lessons on that topic or set up centers in the classroom for students to practice that skill.