Sentences with phrase «instructional days students»

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The full day junior program will offer a review of skills with advanced teaching, plus innovative instructional games to ensure students are always challenged.

This junior day camp is a perfect mix of match play, drill work, strategy sessions and fresh instructional games to ensure students are always challenged.

Capacity: The new two - story facility, with a capacity of 1,600 students (an increase of 400 from the former campus), allows for the standard middle school configuration of Grades 6 - 8 on one campus... which provides sixth - graders with greater opportunity for academic rigor, fine arts and career electives and athletic and extra-curricular activities, as well as 30 additional minutes of instructional time each day, compared to an elementary schedule.

A universal, alternative delivery school breakfast — like direct delivery, Grab - n - Go, and Breakfast After the Bell — increases access to the morning meal to all students, and improves participation while also creating a calm, structured start to the instructional day.

«Even though our school is undergoing an accreditation study this year, is adopting a new math program, and has a significant amount of state mandated instructional in - service as a result of a court decision, our primary goal is to provide the best possible day — full of creative, profitable learning experiences — for each student!»

The assessment data would then be fed into a computer system that would use algorithms to generate the students» customized instructional playlists for the following day.

Cultivate leadership among teachers and other staff members because they are so much closer than the principal to the day - to - day instructional lives of students.

Whatever you decide to do with the last handful of instructional days, stay flexible and open to taking the journey with your students.

«With tardy students entering the school day at abnormal times and potentially missing a large number of cumulative instructional hours, teachers must divert their attention away from regular teaching time and towards remediation,» he says.

Given the time constraints I faced in my instructional period, as I only see my students for 45 minutes per day, I knew that the sharing would need to be brief.

You can gain additional instructional time during the day by eliminating students» showing up without pencils or sharpening pencils during class.

Flaking out: Student absences and snow days and disruptions of instructional time.

I meet with my students for 54 minutes every day, and every last second of instructional time is precious.

«When a single student misses a day or more of instruction, the teacher can review the recently presented material for the student who missed it, in which case the absent student's peers lose out on valuable instructional time, or she may move forward with new material and risk having the absent student fall behind.»

In a self - contained classroom, you can gain nearly a full instructional period a day by simply training students to manage two routines more responsibly.

Teacher specialization also usually means that students move classrooms throughout the day (even if they stay with the same class of students), and these constant transitions can decrease instructional time.

A study that appeared in the Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next looked at the impact of lost instructional days on student achievement.

A study published in the Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next found that more instructional days do indeed mean more student learning.

The piece focuses on Teach To One, a math curriculum used to power the Individual Rotation blended - learning model whereby students receive an individualized schedule and instructional plan each day based on their performance the day prior.

Students who sign up for 0 - Hour classes have the option of skipping the last block of the day, but most students choose not to skip that block so they get 90 more minutes of instructional time eStudents who sign up for 0 - Hour classes have the option of skipping the last block of the day, but most students choose not to skip that block so they get 90 more minutes of instructional time estudents choose not to skip that block so they get 90 more minutes of instructional time each day.

Instructional days are filled with discussion about the content, which helps students engage in good conversation and think about what they may want to discuss on the air.

Students are used to changing classes and adapting to each teacher's instructional approach, Rush notes, so neither the technology nor day - to - day instructional changes seem to bother them.

Instructional technologist Karen Cole offers additional suggestions, such as having a student check the weather forecast at weather.com and e-mail it to the school principal, who can announce it before school ends so everyone will know how to dress the next day.

Perhaps the best evidence comes from a recent study in Minnesota, which estimated that increasing the number of instructional days from 175 to 200 would cost close to $ 1,000 per student, in a state where the median per - pupil expenditure is about $ 9,000.

Figure 1 compares the magnitude of the effect of instructional days on standardized math scores to estimates drawn from other high - quality studies of the impact of changing class size, teacher quality, and retaining students in grade.

I love empowering my learners, therefore, I provide opportunities for student voice and choice throughout the instructional day.

While our studies use data from different states and years, and employ somewhat different statistical methods, they yield very similar results on the value of additional instructional days for student performance.

It's why charter schools can and do fire ineffective teachers, why they can turn on a dime when an instructional approach isn't working, why they can spend their money on the classroom instead of the bureaucracy, and why they can put the needs of students first, every day, all day.

Next you move into the nitty - gritty — the day - to - day work of students, the calendar of tasks and instructional activities.

Three Leaders at Arts - Based Schools Three administrators provide instructional leadership and solve day — to — day challenges at arts — based schools serving diverse student populations.

So special education teacher Kyle Birch moved five students from all - day instructionals into a few regular, co-taught classes.

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I am an instructional coach at a fantastic school with students and staff who seek excellence every day.

School districts may use time available for academic intervention instructional and / or student support services during the regular school day.

«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.

It involves thousands of decisions every day and requires teachers to constantly adjust their instructional practices to meet the needs of their students.

First, public schools that operate a prekindergarten program are eligible to receive funding for a half day if they provide at least 32,400 minutes (3 hours per day) of instructional time to students.

Second, public schools are eligible to earn funding for a full day if they provide at least 43,200 minutes (4 hours per day) of instructional time to students enrolled in (1) a dropout recovery school; (2) an alternative education program; (3) a school program located at a day treatment facility, a residential treatment facility, psychiatric hospital, or medical hospital; (4) program offered at a correctional facility, or (5) a charter school providing adult high school diplomas or industry certification under Section 29.259.

A wide variety of courses are available as half day, single day or multiple - day sessions to support schools with integrating digital media to engage students through dynamic instructional methods.

We offer an instructional calendar beyond the traditional 180 days to give students more opportunity to continue working toward meeting graduation goals.

«Our students have missed a significant amount of instructional time this year due to inclement weather days, and I am not certain that the planned rally is a convincing approach to advocate for more school funding.

There are step - by - step explanations and instructional strategies for ELL students that can maximize their involvement in classes and make great progress every day.

After four days of intensive interactions focused on developing greater expertise in leading for instructional improvement, they returned to the students that they serve with the inspiration, knowledge and energy that could make a difference for the whole school year and beyond.

Literacy rotation allowed for smaller instructional groups during part of the school day for students in grade 1 and some students in grade 2.

Currently, she serves as an Instructional Leadership Specialist at Central, Magnet Resource Teacher, Student Activities Treasurer, and 180 - Day Site Program Coordinator at the school.

Subject matter, ability level of students, grade level, diversity of participants, lesson type, time of day, and objectives or goals of instruction account for systematic variation in teaching interactions and instructional arrangements.

To ensure that those meetings were productive, the principal and her instructional leadership team kicked off the year with a full - day retreat before students came back to school.

Equity Monday offers a full day of programming dedicated to addressing cultural, socioeconomic, instructional, assessment, and linguistic inequities to positively impact student success.

By giving students flexibility over their own learning, we don't have to spend our whole day in the classroom and utilizing blended learning allows us to use a greater variety of instructional techniques.

IEPs create the broad structure from which educators can develop a more detailed and practical day - to - day instructional plan for students with all kinds of disabilities.