Sentences with phrase «growing numbers of classrooms»

And growing numbers of classrooms feature a bank of computers, where students work on reading or math problems that are, in theory, aligned to their particular needs.

The last chapter in the book presents a final challenge for educational leaders as they provide guidance and support for developing a growing number of classrooms capable of addressing the academic diversity that typifies today's schools and will typify schools in the years ahead.

At the same time, a growing number of classrooms are beginning to implementpersonalized or integrated instructional approaches that require teachers to craft multidimensional, interdisciplinary learning experiences for students of widely varying math abilities.

Not exact matches

Most concerning, class sizes are growing and classrooms host an increasing number of students with learning challenges or other special needs — with too few staff and resources made available to support them.

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

A growing number of Canadian elementary schools have added stationary bikes in classrooms to help students focus on learning.

What is emerging is a new idea: that qualities like grit and resilience are not formed through the traditional mechanics of «teaching»; instead, a growing number of researchers now believe, they are shaped by several specific environmental forces, both in the classroom and in the home, sometimes in subtle and intricate ways.

The number of New York City kids eating free breakfasts in public school classrooms is growing, but the obesity rates are not, a new study finds.

These students add a level of complexity to the classroom and school, and unfortunately, the number of these children are growing.

The rise in the number of engineering students also masks a slight drop in the proportion of women (but not the absolute numbers) in the classroom, as computer engineering — the fastest growing specialty — attracts a heavily male enrollment.

Jenny: The whole concept is not to grow in terms of student classroom numbers, but to grow in terms of the courses we offer, which allows for the continuation of the academy ethos.

The growing number of children who bring to the classroom an array of social problems — from the stresses of poor or broken homes to a lack of adequate motivation or language proficiency — represent the greatest obstacle they face, the principals reported in an informal poll taken here last week.

43 % of New Teachers in New Jersey Plan to Leave Classroom Teaching; Nearly Half are Mid-Career Entrants At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

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.

My classroom is a laboratory testing out a question that interests a growing number of educators and policymakers: What should 21st - century civic education look like?

Casey is one of a growing number of teachers who are incorporating «making» into their teaching methods, and turning their classrooms into makerspaces.

A growing number of educators are migrating between the traditional classroom and the virtual one.

Our members report that growing numbers of teachers are leaving the classroom due to increased levels of bureaucracy and a dramatic deterioration in student behaviour.

But, as the popularity of virtual pets — or «virtual pests,» as some principals call them — grows, so does the number of principals forced to deal with distractions the digital dogs and dinosaurs can cause in U.S. classrooms.

There are a growing number of grammar problems in American classrooms that affect not only a student's ability in math and English but also may contribute to the achievement gap according to the authors of Code - Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Cclassrooms that affect not only a student's ability in math and English but also may contribute to the achievement gap according to the authors of Code - Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban ClassroomsClassrooms.

Peanuts spur all kinds of classroom activities — from making timelines and snacks to investigating how peanut plants grow and estimating the number of peanuts in a large container!

Nuts for Peanuts: Peanut Plants, Peanut Timeline, and Peanut - s - timation Peanuts spur all kinds of classroom activities — from making timelines and snacks to investigating how peanut plants grow and estimating the number of peanuts in a large container!

At a time when U.S. schools will need to hire over two million new teachers to serve a growing number of students and replace a large cohort of retiring teachers, new research findings from the Harvard Graduate School of Education suggest that 43 % of new teachers do not anticipate staying in the classroom as full - time teachers for their entire careers.

It's a dilemma facing a growing number of teachers as they tackle the subject of global warming in the classroom: How do you make students understand the urgency of the issue without paralyzing them with fear?

That's why a growing number of groups are rallying to not only prevent high schoolers from leaving but also convince those who have fled to return to the classroom.

«So, we have a growing number of teachers who have English learners in their classroom but who have little or no preparation.»

Mobile devices have become an important part of the modern classroom, and an ever - growing number of educators are turning to Chromebooks in the classroom.

There are also a growing number of flipped classroom presentations happening at international education conferences all over the world

Immigrants continue to arrive in LA's classrooms with no English skills, and the number of homeless students grew by 50 percent to over 17,000 last year.

Teachers from districts within the Eastern Upstate TC Network partner to prepare their classroom implementation strategy plans and data gathering instruments to meet the needs of the growing number of their students who are living in poverty.

Increasing student enrollments, a growing number of teacher retirements and growing numbers of teachers migrating to other school divisions represent serious challenges to divisions seeking to ensure the quality of classroom instruction.

As the gap between the richest and poorest families in America has grown, an increasing number of families are unable to enroll their children in enrichment activities, which researchers identified as crucial to a student's success in the classroom.

The growing number of English language learners in traditional classrooms calls for instruction and practice tailored to each student's language abilities and level of mastery.

Federal stimulus funds helped plug in gaps primarily by saving as many educators» jobs as possible — but it was still not enough money to keep pace with the growing numbers of schoolchildren coming into North Carolina classrooms, in particular with regard to classroom supplies.

And with the number of poor students growing, families are less able to furnish supplies for classrooms or for their children than they were in the past.

Many schools have had to add extra classrooms - and a growing number of primary schools will have to expand to more than a thousand pupils.

The number of non-teaching staff in the United States (those employed by school systems but not serving as classroom teachers) has grown by 130 percent since 1970.

Added to the expanding list of school options available to parents and children are a growing number of course choices, dual - credit opportunities and other alternative learning options that go well beyond the traditional offerings of brick - and - mortar classrooms.

In addition to the growing number of regular classroom teachers being certified, Oak Hills also employs 8 gifted intervention specialists for their schools to provide inclusion services as well as consultation and resources targeted solely for their gifted population.

The number of students in our classrooms continues to grow.

Critics, including the operators of a growing number of charter schools that have shown remarkable progress in closing the achievement gap, have argued that these traditional teacher training programs are not equipping graduates with the strategies getting the best results in their classrooms.

The numbers and needs of ELLs in the K - 12 mainstream classroom are growing, and with them come new challenges for educators.

A growing number of states and school districts are short - circuiting the usual route to teacher certification with their own crash courses that put new teachers in the classroom after as little as three weeks... (Zernike, 2000, p. A1).

In classrooms of law schools, and conference rooms and offices of law firms large and small, both budding and senior lawyers are engaging in this practice in growing numbers.

Our network of classroom and online affiliates has grown significantly and now numbers in the hundreds.

A growing number of studies show that online drivers education programs are actually more effective than traditional, in - the - classroom drivers ed instruction.