Sentences with phrase «important work in the classroom»

The rigid rules in conventional schools continually distract students from important work in the classroom.

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Student athletes need to know that the «off the field» (in the classroom) efforts are as important or more so then the «on the field» work.

«Research becomes very important when we talk about what best practices are; it's one thing to say «this works» but it's another to have data that is research - driven,» she explained, pointing to breakfast - in - the - classroom as one example.

This format accommodates working adults and allows for an important give - and - take between your time in a Sunbridge classroom and your time in a Waldorf teaching setting, each enhancing the other.

However, my wife and I are working hard to drill our 4 - year - old on the important lessons he's learning each day in the classroom.

«He has been called to Washington to be a very important voice for what goes on in classrooms across this country, and therefore, even though it was not our first choice for John to leave, a, on such short notice or, b, in the middle of the school year, we are deeply gratified that the president and secretary... think so highly of the work that John has done with the board,» she said.

However, she points out a deeper meaning which reflects the importance of students feeling valued in the classroom: «When people believe they are important in a project, anything works, and, conversely, when they don't believe they are important, nothing works.»

«The most important thing my district does to encourage teacher use is to assign each school a technology resource teacher (TRT) to work directly in the classrooms,» Lexington, Kentucky, district technology resource teacher Mike Johnson told Education World.

University researchers are conducting important laboratory and classroom research and there is a growing body of teachers and school leaders who recognize one of the great ironies of education in the United States today: that the organ of learning is the brain but few educators have ever had any training in how the brain works, learns, and most importantly for students, changes.

«Given that we are preparing boys and girls to be men and women who work together, it's even more important for boys and girls to learn from each other, to be allowed to complement each other in the classroom,» she adds.

Research conducted by the University of Pennsylvania's Richard Ingersoll, among others, shows that general working conditions, the degree to which teachers have classroom autonomy, and other non-monetary factors are at least as important a consideration as salaries in explaining teacher attrition.

In my role as an adviser on this project, working with Sesame Workshop and IBM Watson on how they can continue to address these challenges is an important piece of the future of personalized learning and its continued role in and out of classrooms, across our liveIn my role as an adviser on this project, working with Sesame Workshop and IBM Watson on how they can continue to address these challenges is an important piece of the future of personalized learning and its continued role in and out of classrooms, across our livein and out of classrooms, across our lives.

Visualize a classroom with long bench - like seats that are set up around work tables and where there is no teacher desk — a place where the teacher uses a process called Q U E S T and BYOD to support middle school students in understanding what topics in the curriculum are important to them.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

As new findings in neuroscience imply applications in the classroom and beyond, it's important for educators to have a basic understanding of how our brains work.

Working to build positive student - student relationships is also very important to foster in the classroom with ELLs, as these relationships impact their oral communication and social and interpersonal skills.

Evidence can come in the form of photographs of students work or wall displays; after all, it's important for OFSTED to walk into a classroom and see that the walls are teaching the students before the lesson has even begun.

«Teachers who want to work in these environments have a responsibility and an important role to play in influencing and contributing to these approaches, so that when kids move across classrooms, they have common instructional experiences, a consistent understanding of behavior expectations, and teachers who are reaching out to engage their parents.»

Learning to win and learning the behaviors associated with winning are important, whether we're at work or in the classroom.

«It is important that the schools deliberately mix the genders in the classrooms, train students to work in diverse groups and so support the growth of equality and understanding.»

There is nothing that I do in my present school, or have done at other schools in which I've worked, that is more important than my classroom teaching.

How important it is for teachers in a classroom setting (your area that you work in is science) to understand how to select an appropriate task and then use it at the appropriate time?

A persuasive kernel of common sense, in many cases, lay hidden inside Illich's wild - eyed notions: that students learn a great deal from their peers; that educated people teach themselves or otherwise discover, outside the classroom, many of their most important lessons; that advanced education indoctrinates individuals, teaching them a kind of professional code and knowledge for work that can be addressed in a frank manner using plain facts and everyday language.

If you are dedicated to and excited about working with today's diverse adolescent population; committed to pursuing equity and excellence in urban classrooms; and deeply curious about curriculum, teaching, and learning, then we hope you will join us as you prepare to enter one of today's most critically important professions.

«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.

When students are creating in the classroom, it's important to give their work an audience.

The early childhood classroom is a great place to teach important social and emotional skills, like how to play with other children — which eventually becomes collaborating with others in work.

Learning communities: change of learning culture in the classroom: change from knowledge dispenser into a learning community, in which teacher and learners work collaboratively to achieve important goals emphasizing distributed expertise (students come to the learning task with different interests and experiences and are provided the opportunity within the community to learn different things.

The PBS Digital Innovator All - Star program expands on this influential work, deepening these educators» roles as leaders in integrating technology and digital media into the classroom — supporting students» learning through increasingly important media literacy skills.

They will further support educators in their important work in schools and classrooms around the globe.»

Given that full - time release teacher leaders have the opportunity to work with teachers over time, it is important that their activities with teachers have a sequence or some way to gauge progress, rather than only providing multiple instances of the same strategy (e.g., repeated demonstration lessons in the same teacher's classroom.

As we move toward Common Core implementation and proficiency in working with Design Question 4 (Helping Students Generate and Test Hypotheses) in the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model, it's important to remember that the main reason we work toward creating a DQ 4 classroom is the benefit for students.

Release time among teacher leaders varies: teacher leaders may receive no release time, indicating that teacher leader responsibilities occur during the regular school schedule or on the teacher leader's own time; part - time release, in which a teacher leader's classroom may serve as an important aspect of his / her leadership role (such as by inviting other teachers in to observe a demonstration lesson); or full - time release, which allows a teacher leader to work with teachers as they engage in instruction in their own classrooms.

Brandon Clark agreed, and emphasized how important it is that educators also work to build strong relationships with parents to support the work they're doing in the classroom, no matter how long it takes.

The Thoughtful Classroom Portfolio Series makes the important work of implementing and sustaining high - impact, research - based instructional practices in your classrooms easier than ever.

While instructional support and classroom management strategies are important, what ultimately encourages teachers to enter and stay in the profession are these deeper, more fundamental motivations — the desire to work in a vibrant and collaborative atmosphere, to be innovative, and to make a difference.

Whether a teacher uses Daily 5 in the classroom or not, word work is an important piece of student daily learning.

It is important to note that the classroom teacher served solely as an observer in the prior year's work, and the students involved in this research had not been engaged in any prior activities centered on historical thinking.

At a time when research is increasingly pointing to working conditions as being more important than higher pay in keeping good teachers in the classroom, the teachers in the comprehensive evaluation programs say that the combination of extensive evaluations and coaching they receive makes their working conditions more professional, and thus more attractive.

These students are reaching the halfway mark in their teacher education programs and one of my most important goals is to create a sense of energy and motivation as they — for the first time — take on the responsibility of working with small groups and organizing instruction for whole classrooms of students in Milwaukee's high needs urban schools.

I am grateful that our state representatives have shown they support the important work educators do in addressing students» trauma in our classrooms using peaceful, non-exclusionary alternatives.

It is also important that pupils do not miss activities that they enjoy, and that a plan is in place to ensure the pupil can make links between their learning in intervention sessions and their work back in the classroom.

While a student's work ethic in the classroom is a key contributor to his or her success, the teacher's ability to inspire students plays an equally important role.

Now, more than ever, it is important that we work together as a unified voice for the students of this state and provide them with a seat in the classroom that best meets their needs.

Designed in partnership with more than 75 schools, Strategic Teacher PLC Guides make the important work of bringing high - impact, research - based instructional practices into every classroom easier than ever before.

It is the iron will developed in the classroom that is perhaps the most important trait for dealing with politicians, and it is this same determination that means she will now be president of the Trades Union Congress for a year — overseeing work across unions.

But the president also praised Charbonneau for his important work outside of the classroom — to reinvigorate the school's yearbook; start an outdoors club; and create the Zillah Robert Challenge, which invites hundreds of students from across the state to participate in high - skills robotics competitions.

It is important to note that while the three levels are mutually exclusive in the sense that each cluster belongs to one and only one level, in classroom implementation, the levels can work together to support the priorities of the grade.

A: Identifying, recruiting, and developing wonderful teachers, who are great in the classroom and great at advising students, is the most important work that Collegiate's school leaders do!

Instructional coaches, who work closely with classroom teachers to improve their practice, are an important source of school leadership, but teachers often don't know how to capitalize on this relatively new position in education.