If the kids in your classroom didn't thrive, what would you change for next year?»
Not exact matches
Gadgets
in classrooms might make
kids happy, but sadly it doesn't seem to help them learn (a truth top technologists,
if not teachers, seem to understand — they tend to send their
kids to low - tech schools).
If it was the only symbol
in the
classroom your
kids went to,
in every
classroom in america?
And they are suspect
if they volunteer
in classrooms, hang around parks while their
kids play, or try to join
in a playgroup, typically made up of moms.
If they don't and the teacher is differentiating
in the
classroom and observe a
classroom where she's truly differentiating for different levels of
kids, fine.
I wrestle with this question
in my own
classrooms and with my
kids, especially these days, living
in what Chris Gallagher has called the age of quantification
in education: teacher - proof and child - proof
classrooms, a widespread sense that
if it isn't measurable, it must not be valuable.
Those sentiments are echoed
in a similar piece about breakfast -
in - the -
classroom in Daranelle, Arkansas, which quotes Board of Education President Jerry Don Woods on his support of the program: «
If we can't feed our
kids, you can't expect them to learn.
If you help the
kids take ownership of their own space
in the
classroom, you won't have as many spills.
Let's be realistic:
if your
kids are
in elementary school, they're probably going to eat a lot of sugar this Friday, when many
classrooms will hold their annual Valentine's Day parties.
If you'd like to voice your objection to the bill, please consider signing this petition from Food Policy Action and this one launched on Change.org by a second grade teacher worried about the hungry
kids in her
classroom.
Giving the best teacher gift isn't impossible
if you know your child's teacher but
if you're feeling stuck, here's a list of favorite gifts from the teachers at my
kids» elementary school, my former colleagues, and from my experience
in the
classroom.
And
if you're particularly concerned about the junk food offered to your
kids in their school
classrooms, such as food served at birthday celebrations, class parties and as teacher rewards, be sure to check out «The Lunch Tray's Guide to Getting Junk Food Out of Your Child's Classroom.»
FROM TPP — Some schools install hand sanitizers
in the cafeteria, but
if you think about,
kids need to wash hands before eating and take bathroom breaks whether they are coming from the
classroom or outside.
It's an extremely painful day for a lot of full - grown adults who have lost their mothers, and it's even tougher for little
kids, especially
if they're sitting
in the
classroom watching everybody else make popsicle stick frames for the moms they all still have.
If there's one issue that drives most Lunch Tray readers crazy, it's the steady flow of junk food
in their
kids»
classrooms.
I know many of us parents say, «
If I could be a fly on the wall of their
classroom...» While it would be kind of silly to see one of us sitting
in an elementary school desk or hiding under our college student's dorm room bed, there are plenty of ways that our
kids can «take us with them» to school, or at least the most important advice we can give them.
I was team mom for little league, cheer mom, pta mom, chaperoned school field trips, volunteered as a
classroom helper and parent at their schools (when
in public school) attended toddler tumbling and mom classes, was a homeschooling parent for one of my
kids with leaning disabilities, I didn't have to scramble to figure out what to do about work or where to take my
kids for child care
if they were sick, I led and was involved with the church groups with my
kids, I spent summers with them doing all kinds of things like traveling, visiting grandparents out of town, amusement park trips, swimming, picnics, and hiking, instead of them being stuck with a sitter every summer.
I worry that
if what my son says is true, the teacher is scapegoating another
kid in the class (call me crazy but I don't think a 5 - year - old should be sent out of the
classroom three times
in the first three weeks of school unless the behavior is violent or seriously disruptive).
If you work with children
in a school or camp environment and want to learn more about having better
classroom management while helping empower
kids to be the best they can be, visit here.
And
if your child is ready, waiting until he's older to start school may cause a bright
kid to be so bored that he'll slack off instead of excel
in the
classroom.
If authoritarian parents are demanding, doesn't that at least suggest they'd produce
kids who are better - behaved and more successful
in the
classroom?
If your child hasn't already encountered a person with a disability, it's likely he will at some point
in school, where children with special needs are often
in the same
classroom with other
kids.
He was not an enthusiast for political correctness and once suggested that school teachers should be allowed «to biff
kids back»
if they were aggressive
in the
classroom.
«I'm highly visible every day, but during assessments, we're walking around and we're checking
in these
classrooms because the
kids get frustrated, but one thing that's good this year, the time limit has changed, so
if the
kids are being productive while they're taking the assessments they could have that extended time,» explained Owens.
If my kids do not follow the classroom rules, they get a reminder of which rule they are breaking, and if the behavior doesn't stop, they can sit in a chair until they are ready to resume their work with courtes
If my
kids do not follow the
classroom rules, they get a reminder of which rule they are breaking, and
if the behavior doesn't stop, they can sit in a chair until they are ready to resume their work with courtes
if the behavior doesn't stop, they can sit
in a chair until they are ready to resume their work with courtesy.
This means
if you let your
kid eat a breakfast of pop tarts or crappy cereal, and then send them to school to sit by someone on the bus or
in the
classroom who's coughing or sneezing, they're an EASY TARGET for the germs to set up house and proliferate.
But I do love being back
in the
classroom,
if only because now I can actually focus on
kids and their concerns.
If your school is using Google Chromebooks
in the
classroom, you can use these quick keyboard shortcuts for using notebooks
in the
classroom to help your
kids and yourself navigate on a Chromebook.
Chromebooks Rules for the
Classroom -
If your school is using Google Chromebooks
in the
classroom, you can use these technology rules for using notebooks
in the
classroom to get your
kids started.
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.
«There was always this buzz word about «engagement» and I think we got lost for a few years there, that people thought
if kids came
in the
classroom and they enjoyed the lesson, then that was engagement.
If the climate allows, consider letting
kids in mobile
classrooms eat outdoors for lunch, either at cafe or picnic tables (following the example of Loggers» Run Middle School, mentioned above) or on blankets.
With your students thinking of the responsibilities and writing them
in kid speak, they will take more ownership of the
classroom culture than
if you just display a list of «
classroom rules» on the wall.
«But
if kids aren't exposed to arts
in the
classroom, how are they learning to think creatively?
«You make a
kid sit
in a
classroom for 45 minutes and
if he understands that material (right away), what's he doing for the other 35 minutes?
As I recently told American Youth Policy Forum, «
If you have a good teacher
in charge of a
classroom to do what is necessary to educate the
kids, the
kids learn.
If the subsystems were separate, as he claims, one should also see the opposite pattern:
kids who speak articulately
in the
classroom, but can not speak informally to their parents and peers.
It's not news that some children have a tough
if not impossible time learning
in the typical
classroom environment, and that, as they accumulate failures, they cease to believe (
if they ever did)
in their ability to do what the
kid sitting next to them seems to do with ease.
If you are a parent of a
kid who is studying
in a «blended
classroom» that uses «education technology tools», sit back and read our article on becoming a successful parent of a digitally - immersed student.
If NatureMapping is a boon for America's natural sciences, it has been equally helpful to thousands of
kids in the
classroom.
«Understanding [«troublemakers»] as canaries
in the mine, as responding to poisons and toxins that are invisible to us
in the
classroom air, really shifted my whole focus [as a teacher] away from thinking I need to intervene on individual children and instead asking myself, what is this behavior a response to
in the environment, and what is this
kid making visible to us that,
if altered, could actually make the
classroom a healthier place for all of the children?»
The myth about social media
in the
classroom is that
if you use it,
kids will be Tweeting, Facebooking and Snapchatting while you're trying to teach.
But there is something deeply powerful about hearing a
classroom of your peers read life into a text by reading it with passion and understanding and inflection and... Instead of thinking when you're reading silently, «I wonder
if anyone cares about this book,» seeing that every other
kid in the class loves this book, wants to bring it to life, enjoys it, is relishing the fiction and the words
in the story.
In other instances, the challenges of discipline problems at recess left some educators wondering
if they could afford the time lost when conflicts followed
kids back into the
classroom.
If the school environment
in the inclusive
classroom setting were universally designed, then
kids could have the intensive instruction that they need without having their label be negatively valued or be the reason they are pulled out of the
classroom.
«When you see the
kids and you see what's happening
in their
classrooms, it doesn't matter
if you have to be the custodian or the nurse because you're doing what you set out to do and that's providing children with an education,» McKinsey said.
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.
Classrooms hummed with student voice and activity as
kids designed and tackled assignments and projects independently,
in small groups, or directly with the teacher
if they needed additional assistance.
If sending
kids to virtual
classrooms without telling them, and funding public education through vouchers, are part of the reform model
in question, Floridians can keep it to themselves.
If there is no support or training, we will see more
in - school suspensions and other ways that teachers will remove
kids from the
classroom, and the
kids won't be much better off as a result.