Sentences with phrase «further than your classroom»

You needn't look any further than your classroom.

To find what such a system could look like, you don't have to look much further than the classroom.

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And at far less expense than the college classroom, which we also deplore.

There can be little doubt that such learning goes much further to reshape one's outlook and sensibility than conventional classroom study alone.

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Each discipline is further enhanced by Main Lesson Seminars, which requires more faculty and student involvement and commitment than teaching and learning in a traditional classroom.

Further, in some cases, accommodations can apply to more than just classroom assessments.

They exert far more energy shooting baskets and playing tag than they do sitting in a classroom all day, so I like to give them snacks with protein to help sustain them.

«Not only is inclusion better than exclusion from a moral and social - justice standpoint, but the inclusion of diverse views from diverse people with diverse life stories and experiences leads to a better, more robust decision - making process and far superior results whether in a classroom or in a boardroom,» said Lana D. Benatovich, president of the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.

We can welcome students into our classrooms with the possibilities of learning that lasts longer than any exam and goes far beyond the classroom walls.

What students do in arts - integrated education is actually far closer to the practice of contemporary artists than what usually happens in regular arts classrooms.

«A further two cohorts are being trained right now which means that more than 140 former troops are working in our classrooms and record numbers of eligible applicants have applied for the latest cohort.»

That happened with pocket calculators in classrooms in the 1980s, and connected multimedia mobile devices are now cheaper (in real terms) and far more powerful than calculators were then.

We must become far more sophisticated in the design and implementation of classroom incentive systems than we have been in the past.

Some school districts in Portland, Oregon are a little further along than the Los Angeles schools that are just bringing special education students back from special schools and Michigan schools that are just beginning to try full integration of its students and eliminating most of the special education classrooms.

For example, in a seniority - based system, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a RIF notice.

The numbers have shifted a bit since 2008, partly in response to a fall in teacher hiring in the wake of the last recession, but there are still far more new teachers in the classroom than there were two decades ago.

In particular, black students are far more likely than other students to have been in a classroom of a teacher who received a layoff notice.

Effective classroom management consists of far more than establishing and imposing rules, rewards and incentives to control behaviour, it involves practices and instructional techniques to create a learning environment that facilitates and supports active engagement in learning, encourages co-operation and promotes behaviour that benefits other people.

«We wanted to ensure that Envoys» experiential programs had the same intentionality, curriculum, and assessment that was so critical to a quality school,» Leighton says, pointing out that education outside of the classroom can be far more than the cliché of a field trip.

«Sometimes in the classroom, children are all treated or tested the same, even though some children may be much further ahead than others,» she explained.

Mastering sound teaching techniques «will be far more productive than being firm of convictions, committed to a strategy, and, in the end, beaten by the reality of what lies inside the classroom door in the toughest neighborhoods of our cities and towns,» says Lemov.

Why it happens is an interesting question for which nobody has a great answer, as far as I know, other than the obvious point that the schools and classrooms those kids enter into don't know how (or don't try very hard) to sustain earlier gains.

Since teacher salaries are the primary instructional expenses for schools, it should come as no surprise that charters spend less on classroom instruction than traditional public schools, whose teachers are older and thus further along on the salary schedule.

According to Hattie, teacher subject - matter knowledge had an effect size of 0.19, meaning that it was far less effective than other factors like classroom management (0.52) or effective teacher feedback (0.75).

«Many of the spacious facilities, such as a high - spec wifi and IT system, hygiene room, food room, classrooms with independent access to the outdoor learning environment and additional spaces for working, are far more suitable to inspire, motivate and encourage our pupils to learn than what we had before.

Meanwhile, in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District's Virtual High School helps accommodate a fast - growing and geographically far - flung population; as many as 500 students take all their courses online, rather than in overcrowded classrooms.

I have had the opportunity to visit more than 30 schools so far this year and don't intend to stop until my first day back in the classroom this fall.

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As we mentioned above, web conferencing is a far cheaper solution for synchronous learning than classroom based instructor - led training (ILT).

Being outdoors provides a far wider range of multi-sensory experiences than can be reproduced in the classroom, this gives much fuel for poetry and descriptive prose and creates a deeper and more meaningful context to creative works.

Because scientists explore the further reaches of what is possible in the classroom rather than document what actually is common practice, Barab cautions that these types of collaborations will hold challenges for both sides.

I think in what we [me and Bec] do, in being very open, it allows, I think, far more varied experience for the students than just having me in the classroom.

The nation's 4th graders report using classroom computers for rote activities, such as practicing and drilling math concepts, far more frequently than for activities that require critical thinking, such as making charts and graphs.

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But if a great teacher is to the classroom what Fred Astaire was to dancing, then an online teacher must be even better because teaching online is far more challenging than teaching face - to - face.

70:20:10 is a great reference model, but finding success with it involves far more than just blending eLearning with classroom learning, or improving how you rate performance against training.

Even as far back as 1984, he points out, a study by psychologist Benjamin Bloom showed that «students given personalized lessons performed two standard deviations better than their peers in a regular classroom.

Hispanic students with disabilities are far more segregated in American high schools than black special - education students, and they get fewer classroom opportunities to learn vocational skills, according to a national study.

Look no further than research from Eric Hanushek, Jens Ruhose, and Ludger Woessmann about the strong correlation between achievement in a state's classrooms and growth in a state's economy to understand some of the compelling reasons to improve education (see «It Pays to Improve School Quality,» features, Summer 2016).

Now into my second year as a blended - learning history teacher — meaning I have a group of students in my classroom every other day, assigning them to work online, at home, on the «off» days — I've found the scary parts less frightening than most fear, with far greater benefits than I expected....

The effective teacher chooses to give the effort and discipline to noticing what is special about each student, and to ensure that even the most challenging kids hear far more positives than negatives in her classroom.

If we believe that schools are shaping students for their eventual full - fledged roles as American citizens, then school discipline policies and classroom management practices should be about far more than shushing kids and keeping them in straight lines as they walk through the halls.

Many of ECOT's students re-enter regular classrooms, however, far worse off than they were before.

It said that the District's poor and minority students are still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

But the evidence is now overwhelming that even in a grim high - poverty school, some teachers have far more impact on their students than those in the classroom next door.

A 2015 report by the National Research Council, the research arm of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, said the District's poor and minority students were still far less likely than their peers to have a quality teacher in their classrooms, perform at grade level and graduate from high school in four years.

Elementary teachers now face far fewer classroom supports than several years ago, thanks to years of state cuts to classroom supplies and early grade teacher assistants.

David Simmonds, chairman of the LGA's children and young people board, said: «For parents, who are far more concerned with the quality of their child's education in the classroom than the legal status of the school, it is the council that they still turn to for advice and support.

With more than $ 75 million coming in from government at last count and another $ 220 million from the philanthropic community, we should be seeing more evidence of long - term student gains and far more alumni continuing their impassioned work in the classroom.