Sentences with phrase «inner city classroom»

The UHP is a new kind of inner city classroom, inhabited by native plants and animals (mostly birds).

A teacher who has a problem in an inner city classroom where students are speaking five different languages may not have that same problem in a homogeneous, suburban classroom just as the opposite could be true as well.

Have you ever bothered to walk in on and observe a typical inner city classroom?

Not exact matches

A former inner - city high school teacher, Farrington left the classroom after 15 years to get a Ph.D. in urban - education policy from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Consider the enormous sums of money being spent to promote Physical Education in the classroom, improved access to sports facilities, and improved playgrounds for children in inner city neighborhoods.

I found myself in an inner - city middle school classroom without a clue as to how to discipline students beyond the escalating volume of my come - to - order voice (I often went home hoarse) or the clacking of a wooden stick that I whacked on my desk for attention.

Bugscope also helps to close the Digital Divide — classrooms with minimal equipment, whether in the inner city or an isolated rural area, can utilize Bugscope.

My first «real» teaching job was at an inner city middle school teaching English with 40 students in my classroom.

In this study, 62 fifth grade students in three inner - city schools participated in a hands - on gardening program that included classroom activities and growing herbs and vegetables in an outdoor garden.

«When play enters the classroom, it transforms everything,» says Peyton, who began his teaching career in 1971 at an inner city high school in New Haven, Connecticut.

Los Altos is an affluent, tech - savvy community; I next wanted to see how Khan Academy could work in an inner - city classroom.

Unfortunately, this is also an election year, which means that political spin is likely to drown out reasoned debate about what policies are most likely to work in inner - city classrooms.

progressive methodologies in inner - city classrooms.

The original buildings and added - on portable classrooms look just like countless other aging inner - city school facilities across the country.

Citing studies of both evangelical Christian private schools and inner - city public schools, Levine noted that classrooms are often rich with political and ideological diversity.

Our work with teachers and students has demonstrated that an inner - city classroom in Philadelphia can feel as connected to traversing the Arabian desert by camel as they do to the cross-town bus.

Is it drawing America's best and brightest into inner - city classrooms where they turn lives around?

I eventually ended up in the classroom by volunteering my time as a gardener at a neighborhood school in inner - city Houston.

Teach For America, the privately organized teacher corps that places recent college graduates in rural and inner - city classrooms, last week announced the receipt of a three - year, $ 3 - million «challenge» grant from Philip Morris Companies Inc..

To the degree that teachers take to heart Kozol's vision of the classroom as an arena for political indoctrination and the deconstruction of Western culture, they limit the life chances of inner - city children.

-- Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character «Dale Russakoff, one of America's great journalists, illuminates one of the country's great problems — the failure of inner city schools — with on - the - ground reporting that extends from the governor's office and fancy philanthropies down (or up) to the small miracles performed every day by dedicated Newark classroom teachers.

The Inner - City Arts Professional Development Institute provides educators — classroom teachers, administrators, university students, and teaching artists — the tools to build bridges between the arts and academic subjects, improving student literacy and overall academic achievement, and raising teacher retention rates.

While obtaining her professional degrees, Burton taught second grade in a bilingual classroom in the inner city of Los Angeles, first grade on the west side of Chicago in a restructured school, third grade at Holmes Elementary in Oak Park, IL, and later served as an Assistant Principal at River Grove Elementary School.

The state's education officials decided to pin their hopes on the Common Core in a new attempt to revolutionize classrooms in inner - city schools like Liberty and in remote, high - poverty Appalachian towns.

Observing in an inner - city 1st grade classroom, he sees a teacher who is knowledgeable, resourceful, and particularly effective with her students.

And you haven't seen a classroom in an inner city public school that is so out - of - control that no one learns.

They also boast that the programs have over the past seven years placed more than 55,000 teachers into California public schools - many into classrooms of inner city schools.

Through my work as a classroom teacher in inner - city Miami, ensuring equal opportunities for all students has become my passion.

Here's a scene you don't see very often: a line of an inner city public school students standing outside of a classroom eagerly waiting for their teacher to let them in and begin class.

I had spent the previous fall tutoring reading in an inner - city classroom in Pontiac, Michigan.

In this article, they draw on their work in one rural and one inner - city high school to present five principles to guide such professional development: (1) offer teachers a manageable number of new strategies; (2) move from workshop to classroom; (3) establish forums for teacher empowerment; (4) vary and formats used in staff development; and (5) start with those who are most eager, and then spread the learning to others.

Planned, coordinated and executed a ten - week long classroom program for inner - city teens to learn all aspects of running their own show through the Garden of Dreams Foundation

Aggression in inner - city early elementary classrooms: Individual and peer - group configurations.