Sentences with phrase «just seen in classrooms»

With two out of every three of its recruits remaining in education — and becoming school leaders, policy players, activists, and social entrepreneurs — the benefits of Teach For America's efforts aren't just seen in classrooms.

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For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

You just don't see that in classroom education apps,» Belyayev said.

She also points to the revolutionary educational possibilities: «Other applications involve things in the classroom, where students are able to not just see a picture of Niagara Falls or some alien world like Venus — we have maps from our various spacecrafts of Mars and Venus that would allow students not just to hear about far - off places, but will allow them to scroll around the world at will.»

I'm seeing a lot of comments where people accept that evolution per se occurs, but either deny that there is evidence of life arising by the theory of evolution by natural selection or just want to treat creationism as equal to that theory in the classroom.

When we change from traditional universal free breakfast to universal free classroom breakfast we see a 300 to 500 % increase in participation at that school because we have removed several barriers to participation including the stigma of the free and reduced meal program, students who arrive at school just before the bell or who would rather play and socialize during the traditional before school breakfast period.

Just about one year ago, we were checking in with some of our Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom districts to see how their first year of breakfast - in - the - classroom was progressing; check out what Sandy Huisman, Director of Food & Nutrition Management in Des Moines, Iowa and with Amy Dennes, Regional Assistant Superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, had to say about the value of BIC.

Why not try it for just a month, and see if this idea grows roots in your classroom?

«When they put it in our classroom and I saw everything that it could do just playing with it, and my kids were so excited, I could see what a difference it made in a matter of weeks,» says Armstrong.

Just «feeling felt» by another person builds cognitive function, and bus drivers can often see environments, patterns of behavior, and aspects of a student's social and personal life that may be difficult to detect and understand in the classroom.

• Make it a «non-negotiable» • Recruit and hire teachers who buy - in from the get - go • Provide them with hands - on professional development and plenty of examples • Share and celebrate «best practices» • Identify teachers who do it well and have others visit their classrooms • Give instructional teams time to collaborate and to develop quality prompts • Stockpile successful A.R.T. plans and incorporate them into the school's curriculum map • Hire and / or bring in practicing artists to participate • And, most importantly, get excited - as though you had just seen a narwhal tusk for the first time!

«In terms of being in the classroom, we're just not seeing much evidence that the Kindle Fire is gaining a lot of traction,» Forehand saiIn terms of being in the classroom, we're just not seeing much evidence that the Kindle Fire is gaining a lot of traction,» Forehand saiin the classroom, we're just not seeing much evidence that the Kindle Fire is gaining a lot of traction,» Forehand said.

In 2003 - 04, for example, 27 percent of schools with a math teaching vacancy reported that filling that vacancy was «very difficult» or ultimately unsuccessful, as compared with just four percent of schools with vacancies in elementary classrooms (see Figure 1In 2003 - 04, for example, 27 percent of schools with a math teaching vacancy reported that filling that vacancy was «very difficult» or ultimately unsuccessful, as compared with just four percent of schools with vacancies in elementary classrooms (see Figure 1in elementary classrooms (see Figure 1).

To see the difference a standing desk makes in energy and focus, Brown recommends purchasing just one as an option for the classroom.

And then I also saw two teachers who were just operating out of a single office and would teach to students who were in an entire classroom somewhere else.

When we turn to her practical agenda, we can see just how important the teachers unions are to the Broader, Bolder coalition: most of the key reforms Ladd proposes have nothing to do with ending poverty in any direct way, but instead are directed toward employing more professionals for tasks outside the regular K — 12 classroom:

They can change direction of a robot to see the classroom's many attributes, not just the blackboard or an instructor but students who are pitching in or sharing their work with the class as well.

I was walking through a university in Melbourne and, as I was taking the escalator up to the floor where I was giving my talk, I passed a couple of classrooms that have glass walls so I could look into the classroom, and it's the first day of exams so the scene I saw in there, even though I didn't know it was the first day of exams, I could recognise it right away: desks separated by a metre or two, bare tables with just a piece of paper, an eraser and a pen; no calculators, no computers, nothing; students cut off from each other; students cut off from any source of information.

Teacher Patricia Allen has seen her students benefit from the word wall that has a prominent spot in her kindergarten classroom, but she sees an added benefit for herself as well: «In all honesty,» Allen told Education World, «I like the word wall because it offers a visual reminder to me to expose my students to words throughout the day, not just at writing time or other isolated occasions.&raquin her kindergarten classroom, but she sees an added benefit for herself as well: «In all honesty,» Allen told Education World, «I like the word wall because it offers a visual reminder to me to expose my students to words throughout the day, not just at writing time or other isolated occasions.&raquIn all honesty,» Allen told Education World, «I like the word wall because it offers a visual reminder to me to expose my students to words throughout the day, not just at writing time or other isolated occasions.»

My focus is not just on training teachers in Word, Excel, KidPix, and so on, but on helping them see how those programs can be useful in their classrooms.

«I've seen kids who might not have achieved as highly in a regular classroom really achieve at a much higher level because they had the extra help and the extra options of the videos and time in class to talk about what they didn't understand, not just to try to copy down notes as quickly as they could,» Gironda said.

If the principal is an instructional leader in your school, they are going to evaluate you on not just whether kids are getting good grades, but on what they see in that classroom.

«When I'm in my classrooms doing observations or just checking in, I want to see the kids doing all the heavy lifting.»

Even if the administrator has a good understanding that the evaluation is just a moment in time, and that the whole picture of teaching and learning is not being seen, a few visits to at teacher's classroom hardly warrants a comprehensive evaluation of the teachers effectiveness.

«Just like the Labour party, all they have done is undermine the hard work of classroom teachers, which has seen a million more pupils in good or outstanding schools since 2010, a 71 % increase in students taking rigorous academic subjects and 100,000 six year olds reading more confidently,» said Mr Gibb.

Transforming the standards into learning outcomes just got a lot easier In this expansion of the original popular Common Core Mathematics Companions, you can see in an instant how teaching to your state standards should look and sound in the classrooIn this expansion of the original popular Common Core Mathematics Companions, you can see in an instant how teaching to your state standards should look and sound in the classrooin an instant how teaching to your state standards should look and sound in the classrooin the classroom.

Her piece in the Washington Post spoke of what she saw and heard in classrooms and from leaders that reinforced to her that educating the «whole child» (or also known as social - emotional learning) isn't just jargon or a fad, but a shift in the mindset of leaders and teachers that is yielding real impact on student outcomes (and is supported by emerging data - based research).

They just see photographs of Chinese classrooms where you have a teacher in the front and students behind rows and the idea is, well, if that's happening there it must be rote learning.

I love watching him work with kids and to see just how much fun they have in his classroom through the joy and challenge he brings to the teaching and learning of science.»

to your student so that you can see improvements in not just their math performance but also their classroom engagement, overall confidence and even critical thinking skills.

The education newsletter Chalkbeat has been taking a look at the ways school discipline policies play out in classrooms, and spent time asking students and teachers about moments that changed them — times they just lost their cool, or saw others lose theirs.

For example, one school saw a dramatic improvement in five high - priority metrics included in the culture plan, including a 59 % reduction in the amount of out - of - school suspensions between the 2012 - 13 and 2013 - 14 school years, a 56 % reduction in classroom off - task / disruptive behaviors across nine grade levels, and an increase from 57.2 % to 59 % in Academic Performance Index in just one school year, with a Value Added grade of C for the first time in more than five years.

Authentic diversity should not just be seen as a challenge in the classroom — it should be embraced as an opportunity and capitalized upon as a strength.

In fact, sometimes when I see a child in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righIn fact, sometimes when I see a child in my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righin my office who is failing or perhaps just floundering in school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything righin school, I love to rev him up by saying something like this: «Hey, Reginald, when you go back to school on Monday, take a good look around your classroom and pick out a kid you really envy, someone who gets fantastic grades, is good - looking and is a super jock too, you know, a kid who always seems to do everything right.

You are able to take your furry friend out and see how they will react in the real life world, not just in a controlled classroom setting.

It differs from the «Defensive Driving» course in that the latter, due to limited driving time on Day Two of just over two hours for each of the three drivers, can only be seen as reinforcing the practical basics, as will have been discussed earlier that week in the classroom session.

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So many kids, of all ages, are using the company's devices, but we're just beginning to see how heavy smartphone use impacts children and teens: The letter cited existing studies with several negative conclusions, from increased distraction in the classroom to higher risk of depression and suicide.

When I saw the previews for this movie, I just knew there had to be a way to use it in the classroom.

«As we know, teaching Indigenous content in schools is particularly important, not just for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children who need to see their culture respected and valued in the classroom; but equally for all children to learn the true history of this country.