Sentences with phrase «from being in classrooms»

And we in the central office need to make sure we are not burdening our principals with administrative duties that take them away from being in classrooms or working with parents.»

The new analyses by Powers and colleagues showed that individual student grades also improved just from being in classrooms with a greater proportion of African Americans who received the intervention.

Then we spent a week transitioning her a little bit each day, from being in the classroom with her to slowly backing away and letting her form friendships.

Not exact matches

For although from the outside looking in, all of the world's universities seem safely ensconced on their campuses, a revolution is happening outside the classroom.

It may sound far from what traditionalists would define as classroom learning, but it's all in service of getting students excited and passionate about education, Baker says.

The memo from Saskatchewan Government Insurance said details are still being worked out, but the curriculum is to include at least 70 hours of training in the classroom, yard and behind the wheel.

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Roig - Debellis was just one classroom away from the gunfire, and she locked her own students in a 4x3 bathroom, urging them to be quiet while «the good guys came to help them from the bad guys.»

A child is in a classroom, seeing another child from some distant country in a virtual monitor and actively playing a game with him.

Everything from teasing, lack of encouragement, lack of role models and subtle biases have recently been proposed as playing a major role in women's decisions to look away from technical careers, but I suspect the answer is more portentous — and follows women from the classroom to the workforce.

A few big advantages of tech in the classroom: instant quiz results and feedback; more personalized learning; lessons that can be watched again or viewed from remote locations.

It was there — in a classroom not far from the piazzas and cafes — that she began to learn some of the problems of the international financial system.

«Students and staff have the right to teach and learn in an environment free from the worry of being gunned down in their classrooms or on their way home from school,» Women's March organizers, who are setting up the school walkout, said in a statement.

Educational programs are available as well ranging from in - person classroom classes to online classes.

But he's also 16 years old and a survivor of a deadly mass shooting, one that he spent in hiding for two hours, trying to calm down crying classmates until a SWAT team freed them from a classroom closet.

As the shooting was taking place, tweets and video circulating on social media from inside the school showed students under lockdown, barricaded in classrooms, and hiding from the gunman.

Mitacs researcher Ali Zareian from U of C talks with Danielle Smith about how are PhD's moving out of the classroom and working in Alberta businesses...

Program was founded in 2010 to provide a forum for the conservative ideas so often excluded from Yale's classrooms.

Approximately 650 children are sitting in classrooms, thanks to the work of Restore International, and more than 100 students from these schools are now attending universities.

For years to come, the lessons from Dover will continue to have a profound impact on how science is viewed in our society and how it is taught in the classroom

It seems fairly arrogant to so diverge from three centuries of native language interpretation in favor of that which was learned in a classroom separated from the real use of language and culture by millennia.

Stepping into the political turmoil of Israel after being steeped in the United States presidential campaign is akin to moving into an advanced seminar on theological ethics from a third - grade church school classroom.

One sure sign that this has begun to happen will be a shift in informal out - of - classroom conversations from talk about course work, or even from talk about people in the school, to talk about the school itself.

As you probably can relate, writing is a wonderful Fellowship with the Lord — I hear from Him and learn from Him in the «classroom» of the keyboard.

Schools are retrofitting classrooms with computers, computer jacks, digital projectors for computer generated images, white boards and scanners that digitize images and notes, and interactive teleconferencing facilities that permit individuals and groups to engage in discussion from distant locations.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

What follows is a glimpse of life in our classrooms, with a comment here and there from this teacher.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

During the High Court hearing, counsel Nick Armstrong told the judge it was the only occasion on which a teacher had been killed by a pupil in a British classroom and the family were anxious «that all the lessons that can be learned from this enormous tragedy are learned».

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

There is something positively sardonic in a quick jump from a remembered student in a remembered classroom to the same man in his parish.

In short, the major cause for alarm is not the broadside from the public, nor the sniping from classroom sharpshooters, but the increasing number who are going AWOL from the pulpit.

Essentially, part of the point of the campaign is to let «secularists» know that (in AiG's opinion) when creationism is removed from the classroom or «Christian symbols from public places,» the First Amendment is being violated.

One new aim of education must then be to resist imitating the incomparably more interesting and vivid electronic media to distinguish what goes on in the classroom from time - compressed, disjointed, non-sequential presentations of subject matter.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

Departmental names won't matter much if the shift has already taken place from a scientific theology, based on the prior Catholic faith commitment of every student in the classroom (which obviously would require everyone enrolled in the course to be a committed Catholic), to a phenomenological, historical study of what others believe.

This world is basically a spiritual battleground / classroom that we apparently have created in order to learn from, after all.

Hippy, yeah I get what you're saying about not learning anything new in school, and not much from the teachers you had, I also read constantly and learned more through my books and travel than in classrooms.

After a quiet summer off from classroom duties, at a safe distance from multinational corporations, secularized businessmen, and the as - yet - unredeemed American economic system, maybe — if this survey is accurate — the seminary professors will come back a little closer to This World and this world than they've been in the past.

Moreover, there can be no divorce of the classroom from the lives of students in the dormitories and the lives of the professors at their homes.

But in no classroom should any teacher be exempt from the responsibility of pastoral formation.

They already get all the science they need from their pastors then they get on public school boards and try to stamp out all critical thought and reason in the classroom since it's a direct threat to their cult.

The courses combine classroom lectures from leading experts in the savoury snacks industry with practical interactive sessions as appropriate and are open to everyone whose job involves the manufacture of savoury snacks, or who simply wishes to improve their knowledge of this area.

When my class and I were coming in from an afternoon on the playground, we found to our delight, Leprechauns had been in our classroom!

Jackson said the work will start from the «head down,» in the classroom as his offense is installed.

We all expect more from Welbecks output next season and onwards, but is Wenger got an eye on his education right here, right now in the home of his old classroom?

From his warm, funny and friendly demeanor to efforts in the classroom — he's earned a 3.5 grade point average this semester at the Hayward school — to excelling on the basketball court, the long, lean, high - flying 6 - foot - 6 wing is a young man for young people — and old — to look up to.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

Based on over 10 years of work in the field and over 20 case studies from Challenge Success schools, Overloaded and Underprepared serves as a guide for change, offering practical solutions that can be implemented in a single classroom or on a school - wide scale.

This skeleton puzzle from Learning Resources is a brilliant addition to my resource collection and I can't wait to use it in the classroom.