Sentences with phrase «into academic classrooms»

The observations made in this case study show that drama can be integrated into academic classrooms as an effective approach for engaging students in active participation in their learning while helping them make connections between historical and contemporary world issues.

Children who attend preschool are better prepared to enter into the academic classroom because they can follow directions, interact appropriately with other children, and are accustomed to being away from their parents to attend school.

Not exact matches

I describe it as inviting anarchy (no leaders) and chaos (the yawning chasm and gap which contains our arbitrary random - to - order ratios) into the classroom: in complementary contrast to the purpose - drive of the academic environment in which we swim, so to speak, our Alma Matrix.

«We've got to take this beyond the coaches and into the classrooms and help people understand that kids need to have time to recover, not only to get back to play but also to their academic cycle,» IHSA Executive Director Marty Hickman says.

«We saved 15 minutes every day,» Dr. Hartley continued, «because kids could play, then go into the cafeteria and eat and cool down, and come back to the classroom and start academic work immediately.»

This food tends to fall into three categories: food brought in for classroom celebrations; the use of food by teachers as a teaching tool or manipulative; and food handed out by teachers or principals as a reward for good behavior or academic performance.

And while I know of no academic studies looking at the latter two categories of classroom food, in my experience (and in the reported experience of my readers), food used as a teaching tool and as a reward also almost always falls into the «junk food» category.

It came after a cascade of dissent from parents and teachers, steadily growing since tests aligned with the Common Core academic standards were introduced into classrooms in the 2012 - 13 school year and since the state toughened its evaluation laws, with an increasing amount of educators» job ratings linked to student performance on exams.

The law, which bases as much as 50 percent of teachers» job ratings on student test scores, was strengthened during a time when more rigorous standardized exams, based on the national Common Core academic standards, were being introduced into classrooms.

And although research can seem abstract compared with the practical work of teaching, Schoenfeld says the theoretical foundations that academics lay eventually make it into classrooms and curricula.

Integrated into the elegantly appointed school along with academic classrooms, a student lounge and student library / media center is SWINA's Student Day Spa.

It can be frustrating to watch student behaviors that detract from personal or academic success: breaking classroom norms, getting into peer conflict, demonstrating a lack of motivation, and so on.

In this randomized controlled study on the impact of the arts on performance in traditional academic subjects, theater arts were integrated into language arts and social studies curricula for fourth - and fifth - grade students (14 experimental classrooms, 14 control classrooms).

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

Dec. 4, 2 p.m. ET: Common Core State Standards: Literacy and English - Language Learners As educators begin putting the common core into classroom practice, what instructional strategies will they need to bridge the gap between acquiring language and truly mastering academic content for ELLs?

This lets classroom teachers easily incorporate theater techniques into academic units, like English language arts.

Today I'm talking to Professor Peter Barrett who, along with colleagues Dr Yufan Zhang, Dr Fay Davies and Dr Lucinda Barrett, from England's Salford University, carried out a three year study into the link between physical classroom design in primary schools and academic achievement.

Just as the gym comes into the classroom, once a week the academic teachers go into the gym, participating in the activities with their students.

Illustrative of this, when we divided teachers into five equal - sized groups based on the average prior academic achievement of their incoming students, we found that roughly three times as many (29 %) of the teachers with the least prepared incoming students were identified as low performing based on classroom observations relative to teachers with the most prepared students incoming students (11 %).

Along with the four tips outlined above, I'm thinking about academic standards, assessment and rubrics, the skills that I want students to use and learn, field trips that might relate to our topic, and experts that I can invite into the classroom.

Similarly, the tracking of students into classrooms based on ability or academic performance may group disadvantaged children with the most disruptive students.

It's the enormous variation in the academic level of students coming into any given classroom.

Why, for example, should learning the letters and sounds of the word «BOO» in a pre-K classroom produce long - term effects on reading scores if a child transitions into a kindergarten classroom that has no academic content and moves from there into an elementary school that does not use systematic instruction in phonics?

This theme would then be a focus for the day and carry in some way into each of their academic classrooms.

It requires training and coaching with performance feedback in the classroom to help teachers transfer the knowledge into skills, which is much more difficult when it comes to behavior than it is for academics.»

At Bowie Elementary School in the Richardson (Texas) Independent School District, assistant principal Michael Davies's classroom and special education teachers take into account gender balance, academic balance, required special services, student relationships, and other factors as they put together class lists.

However, less classroom time did not translate into decreased academic performance, either.

The trauma and adversity that students are carrying into classrooms are changing how educators need to address learning and academic performance.

When using classroom data to separate students into quarters based on academic performance, the lower quarter of students had the lowest mean use of self - regulated learning skills followed by the middle quarters.

MindUP ™ was created with educators, for educators, to help them improve student engagement in learning, academics and focus, and to give them some tools and strategies to bring joy back into the classroom.

Cooperative learning is an educational approach which aims to organize classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences.

This proposal addresses chronic issues with alternative routes to teaching: poor induction methods into the profession, difficulty connecting academic certification requirements with real - life classroom challenges, and difficult school placements.

Our workshops and institutes offer insight into our Engaged Classrooms program, which provides an approach to instruction, classroom management, and discipline that fosters academic, social, and emotional learning and development in each and every student.

She is a proponent of changing the classroom experience by incorporating technology into her lectures, enhancing student engagement and rewriting the rules of what is taught in the academic environment, and how.

Practitioner journals can transfer the academic literature into smaller chunks teachers can digest in shorter blocks of time, with action items they can try in their classroom with minor adjustments.

Once a framework had been established, committee tasks were to then: (1) «zoom in» and break down specific targeted sections of the draft LPFs into what we called more detailed «mini progressions» for a smaller grade span, often adding some additional «interim steps» (progress indicators) to the mini progressions; (2) use the more detailed and focused mini progressions to design sample instructional modules (with a series of 4 ‐ 6 detailed lessons) illustrating how a teacher in the general education classroom might move students along this smaller grain ‐ sized learning progression using best practices in instruction; and (3) draw from best practices in instruction for students with significant cognitive disabilities to incorporate suggestions to each lesson plan for how to make the academic content more accessible for all students.

Teachers were essentially charged with bringing new, more rigorous academic expectations into our classrooms without adequate time to become versed in new materials or understand methods for applying them to our instruction.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS: A bachelor's degree or higher with at least 24 credit hours in content area Valid IndianaTeaching License for Grades K - 5 or 6 Demonstrates strong writing skills as evidenced by a written response included with Application, answering the following questions: o Describe one experience where you made a significant difference in a student's academic achievement.o Describe a time in which you have used student data to drive greater levels of student achievement.o Describe one way you have successfully integrated technology into your classroom.

To identify how this understanding can translate into classroom practices and authentic assessments, in 2013 — 14 four New York City middle schools and six New York City high schools joined New York City's Academic and Personal Behaviors Pilot.

«Rather than single out students who lack academic experience, we should invite them into a conversation about what we expect them our classroom exchanges to look like.»

While the incorporation of technology into the classroom is essential, the academic success rate of for - profit virtual charter schools is incomparable to that of traditional public schools, where academic success is the paramount concern.

In other words, if teachers of color bring so much to the academic table, why don't states and districts do more to bring them into the classroom?

Raise average class size to 30 students per classroom by abandoning the failed policy of «mainstreaming» virtually all students, and by separating students into classes based on their academic performance.

This session will provide evidence for why incorporating students» home language and culture into the classroom has social, emotional, and academic benefits, and the opportunity to explore promising practices that will lead linguistically diverse students of all ages to thrive.

The company's software also asks candidates a series of questions and scores applicants on how well they might be able to turn an academic standard into a curriculum, or how to create a classroom environment conducive for learning, he said.

To incorporate a project such as this into a «regular» classroom, a school would have to give the instructor more academic freedom than the average classroom teacher usually has.

The schools would do much better if they concentrated on turning classrooms into academic places where ideas really count, places in which discussion of those ideas is at the center of classroom activity.

Situated in a district that is working to address longstanding racial disparities in academic and disciplinary outcomes, this study will provide insight into how equity - oriented reforms translate into classroom practices.

In the second decade of the 21st Century, public schools are evolving to meet the economic, social, and political demands of a new technologically - connected era by adopting higher academic standards and infusing technology into classroom practices.

Putting this into practice means that effective classroom managers: develop caring, supportive relationships with and among students; organize and implement instruction in ways that optimize students» access to learning; use group management methods that encourage student engagement with academic tasks; promote the development of social emotional learning (self - awareness skills, social skills, self - regulation, responsible decision making, building healthy relationships); and use appropriate interventions to assist students who have behavior problems.