Sentences with phrase «high time classrooms»

It's high time classrooms started embracing more of this kind of technology.

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By the time he was in junior high, Derrick was already a talented running back, but «he had very poor attendance and very, very poor classroom performance,» says Miriam Williams, a junior high school teacher who eventually took Thomas under her wing.

The crew is all skiing (well, excepting those who are in high school classrooms at the moment, but be assured they get plenty of weekend time on the slopes), and as always, I have grand hopes for my Tuesday's at home.

There was worry about them bringing food to the classroom, and that being disruptive, but what we've found — for the high school kids, especially — is that they are usually done consuming their breakfast by the time they get to the classroom!

Dozens of graduate students at Columbia University walked out of classrooms and research labs to press home their right to unionize, as part of a one - week strike timed for high impact with classes wrapping up for the year.

«NASUWT research has shown time and time again that teachers are facing serious health and safety risks in schools as a result of high levels of stress, school buildings which are outdated and not fit for purpose, the presence of asbestos and excessive classroom temperatures.

In response, I asked them, which child enters Senior High School and is seen in all three classrooms for tuition at the same time?

«Our members need skilled employees now more than ever, and our schools must provide our children with the skills necessary to compete outside the classroom,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «This study proves that New York is leading the nation — not only by setting high standards, but by taking the time to listen to parents and teachers about improving them.

In a new international study1, the UK ranks among the highest in terms of time teachers spend on admin, which could otherwise be used teaching in the classroom.

This isolation, in turn, is shown to increase the likelihood that low - income children will be in classroom settings with behavioral problems and high student turnover — both of which take away from instructional time and lead to lower educational achievement.

It is only with this kind of time - intensive, high - quality effort in all classrooms that we will be able to support all Hispanic students — whether designated as «English proficient» or not — to develop the advanced literacy skills needed for high - school graduation and well beyond.

And we know that many low - income students — especially strivers and high achievers — are not well served in classrooms with students that are three, four, or five grade levels apart at any given time, or that are overseen by administrators unwilling to enforce discipline standards.

Learn Live On top of this, each year an escalating number of visitors also take time to attend the high level CPD accredited «Learn Live» workshop sessions that are designed to inspire visitors with inspirational ideas to take back to their classroom or learning environment.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

For the rest of the day, the president, known for sharing his thoughts on a wide range of subjects on social media, never acknowledged the walkouts, in which students in every time zone spilled from their classrooms at 10 a.m. to remember the victims of a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., and to call for new gun laws.

High quality online CPD gives teachers access to training any time, any place, focusing on classroom best practice for a wide range of products.

Whether you are a kindergarten teacher setting out learning centers, an art teacher preparing for a painting lesson, or a high school teacher collecting assignments, a significant amount of teacher time is spent managing the materials within the classroom.

Managing the Quagmire of Disillusion One of the best pieces of advice I got before entering the classroom for the first time was given by my favorite high school science teacher.

Grouping gifted children together within the classroom (not all the time, but occasionally based on the learning objective at hand) provides them with an opportunity to collaborate with similar - ability students, which can cause them to positively challenge each other to higher performance levels.

Although the pay might not be high and the fringe benefits are nonexistent, substitute teaching still provides a dynamic teaching adventure that attracts aspiring classroom teachers, retired teachers, mothers who have deferred careers to raise children, retired policemen and firemen; part - time university faculty, writers, musicians, and magicians, among others.

A government spokesperson said: «Teaching is a hugely popular profession, and the number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high.

It's difficult to know exactly how this disconnect between teenagers» optimal sleep times and school schedules affects their classroom performance because school districts that start high schools later might be better - resourced or otherwise support students better than do those that start high schools earlier in the day.

But on a recent morning, when it came time to «inspire» a classroom of 9th graders to begin preparing for their own journey to higher education, her presentation was mostly about failure.

The gray teacher retention line begins high and drops significantly within the first ten years and continues to decline as time passes as fewer teachers stay in the classroom.

Those leaders will no longer be able to maintain the fantasy of high - school educators floating from classroom to classroom like Mary Poppins because of their love of children while at the same time haggling over pay, benefits, and working conditions as if they were automobile workers.

This bundle includes four different Reading Comprehension Worksheets suitable for higher intermediate advanced ESL learners: The texts explore different concepts through time / history... After carefully reading each story / text, students are required to complete some comprehension exercises including: questions, True or False, gap filling exercises, crosswords, word search exercises, matching exercises and engage in in - depth classroom discussions on topics relevant to each text.

When students are able to get foundational knowledge and skills through technology - based instruction, teachers can evolve their purpose in the classroom and focus their time on providing expert feedback on higher - order skills and tackling complex, real - world problems with their students.

Some of the gems here include a resource guide for environmental and marine science teachers, wetland activities, a resource guide for oceanography, and coastal processes: developed for elementary, middle, and high school teachers, The «marinated» classroom: a sourcebook of aquatic activities for the elementary classroom and another for the secondary classroom, water on the web: integrating real - time data into educational curricula over the internet and coastal capers: a marine education primer.

«Cheating can be a hard scenario to measure,» said Karla Garner, a Spanish teacher at Bishop Guilfoyle High School in Altoona, PA. «There is «observed» cheating during test time and group work in the classroom.

High - quality OER can save teachers significant time and effort on resource development and advance student learning inside and outside the classroom.

Given the high opportunity cost of a principal's time, or the salaries of professional peer observers, classroom observations are the costliest source of feedback.

A Department for Education spokesperson said: «The number and quality of teachers in our classrooms is at an all - time high but as the economy strengthens we recognise that recruitment can be challenging — particularly in some areas of the country.

Again, this has been linked to higher student achievement with the Trust reporting that «students who write outside school daily are five times more likely to have levels of writing above those expected for their age, compared with those who never write outside the classroom (30.9 per cent versus 5.8 per cent)».

With space at a premium, the provision of modular classrooms and learning environments that meet with performance, aesthetic and legislative requirements is at an all - time high

At the same time, he argues that high standards and accountability are no longer enough to address the issues some of our students — too often, students of color and children from low - income families — bring with them to the classroom.»

Every first - period teacher who has looked across a classroom of drooping eyelids and nodding heads is familiar with the effect of a high school day that starts at 7:30 A.M. Jodi Mindell, associate director of the Sleep Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Associated Press, «Sleep not only serves as a restorative function for adolescents» bodies and brains, but it also is a key time when they process what they've learned during the day.»

During the yearlong TES process, teachers are typically observed in the classroom and scored four times: three times by an assigned peer evaluator — a high - performing, experienced teacher who previously taught in a different school in the district — and once by the principal or another school administrator.

The introduction of the interactive whiteboard in the classroom has since resulted in an era in which the use of technology was literally moved to the front and centre of the learning environment, with many teachers and educators grasping the opportunity to enhance teaching by effectively using it as an interactive, real - time projection device resulting in higher levels of student participation and concentration.

As long - time classroom teachers now working as teacher educators preparing future middle - and high - school language arts and social studies teachers, we persistently seek ways to improve our coursework and clinical experiences.

Eventually he missed the students and returned to the classroom, this time to Newton North High School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career progHigh School, one of the city's two high schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career proghigh schools, where he now runs their alternative school - to - career program.

The program plans to strengthen the school system through; «higher expectations of social responsibility; more time to be playful and creative in order to learn more effectively when in the classroom; fewer standardised tests; and less time in a classroom setting (although no less rigor of content), which will create more passion in students to learn and less burnout as a result of too much time in school.»

«Professional learning is very important and I think one of the things that's helped us is flipping the classroom so we've done a lot of work in that area, developed a teacher film studio, recruited a digital coach who's very skilled in it and doing continuous work in teacher learning communities of three people to support each other, to learn how to film those lessons that are the lower order skills of remembering and understanding to allow more time in class with the teacher to do the higher order skills of analysis, synthesis and evaluation.

High - quality teaching occurs when teachers come to the classroom with a toolkit of knowledge and skills that they employ based on a set of effective practices and that lead, over time, to student learning.

This article describes my personal experience related to a simple way anyone can create high quality video lessons without spending additional time except for the real teaching time in the classroom.

One of the best pieces of advice I got just before entering the classroom for the first time was given to me by my favorite high school science teacher.

It's time to see if I can apply the research that I gleaned from a year of graduate school to the real - world unpredictability of a high school classroom.

We agree with this conclusion, and New Jersey, like other states, must develop such policies over time through a confluence of national and local research, lessons learned from our classrooms, and an unwavering resolve to provide our students with high - quality teachers.

«We found higher levels of classroom engagement after lessons in nature than after carefully matched classroom - based counterparts; these differences could not be explained by differences in teacher, instructional approach, class (students, classroom, and class size), time of year, or time of day, nor the order of the indoor and outdoor lessons on a given topic.

Finally, imagine that by high school only one - third of a student's time was in a traditional classroom setting.

Insight in Action In ongoing work to improve teachers» classroom practice, full - time release teacher leaders spent a significant amount of their time working with new teachers in middle or high school mathematics.