Sentences with phrase «learning works in her classroom»

This keynote reviews why Project - Based Learning works in all classrooms at all grade levels.

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With these types of jobs, you'll be able to start your learning in the classroom (or virtual classroom) and then finish it at your desk at work.

Whether it is through study and work experiences abroad, learning more about Asia in the classroom, or even engaging with newcomers in our local communities, our government needs to help us be more proactive in stepping out of our comfort zones.

Becoming a Golden Hawk means more than just cheering on our (really good) varsity teams — it means being a student who cares about your community, who works hard in the classroom, and who takes advantage of all the learning opportunities that can happen outside the classroom, too.

Creative church schools work hard to make everything that occurs in the classroom (worship, problems in interpersonal relationships, teaching - learning, and so forth), laboratories in which religious truths can be brought to life and experienced.

Let the tinies learn what it looks like to be a person, made in the image of God, working — no matter if our work happens on computers or at the laundry or on the job site or the classroom — as unto the Lord.

Learning to learn has become the primary focus of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as dividing large classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.

What I've learned from my research is that in addition to making sure our classroom practices are engaging, we also need to talk to students directly about their beliefs about school, helping them see how disengagement works against them, and what engagement actually is.

Through my writings (books, scholarly articles, popular articles, and website), my lectures at conferences (for physicians, lactation consultants, health departments, and LLL groups), and my university classroom teaching (I manage to work this material into every class, no matter what the official topic might be), I have been able to pass along the lessons I learned from LLL to thousands of people, who in turn have passed them along.

I've been working on creating a BUNCH of differentiated activities to facilitate learning for all the needs of the students in my classroom.

We will ask them what works and what doesn't, learn their best practices for a successful breakfast - in - the - classroom program, and learn more about what students want on their school breakfast menus.

Waldorf teacher education at Sunbridge Institute includes a deep exploration of child and human development; development of a teacher's contemplative capacities; exploration of pedagogical approaches and skills; studies in the arts; courses that develop abilities for working in a group of colleagues; and practical learning or mentored teaching in the classroom with experienced teachers.

Much is covered in this book, and I was most interested in how it explains working through the challenges of incorporating Reggio practice into American classrooms and the art of documentation for advancing child learning.

If you work with children in a school or camp environment and want to learn more about having better classroom management while helping empower kids to be the best they can be, visit here.

We have worked with school staffs in Danbury, Brookfield and Stamford to bring Social Emotional Learning in to the classroom and school.

After learning of Burger's methods, McGill University education professor Jon Bradley says he would consider taking a similar approach in his own classroom — encouraging students to analyze their work the way sports fans obsess over how the home team might do better next season.

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.

The curriculum is established by our professional teachers in partnership with the parents, who play an essential role in their children's learning by working in the classroom.

On a typical Wednesday in Pamela Victor's home classroom, her 14 - year - old son works on structured academics while her 12 - year - old daughter heads out to a wilderness program to learn to track animals, find edible plants and build a fire.

Schools Superintendent Kriner Cash says the computers and systems can help students accelerate their learning to catch up with their peers, especially their suburban peers who live in worlds filled with technology and equipment at home and classrooms working electronically with the homes.

Not only is the preschool teaching sector plagued by low salaries and high turnover, he says, but a recent working paper by the institute points out that «preschool educators tend not to support mathematics and science learning» in their classrooms.

Working with live animals forces students to apply principles learned in the classroom in ingenious ways, he says.

To cultivate that untapped talent, Singer said, educators have solid evidence of methods that work in STEM education — such as focusing on conceptual learning, problem - solving, and use of representations such as diagrams and evolution trees — but those methods are used in very few undergraduate classrooms where STEM teachers receive their training, Singer said.

The new program, called Math Forward, draws upon the work of Deborah Ball, dean of the School of Education at the University of Michigan, who believes that effective math teachers have an understanding of their subject that goes beyond what they have learned in course work and what they are required to teach in the classroom.

Many organisations and parent bodies aim to build awareness of the benefits that can be gained from schools, communities and parents working together in partnership, whether that's supporting children's learning in the classroom and at home, or helping to improve overall school life and processes.

Sylvia works in schools around the world to bring the power of authentic learning into classrooms, particularly in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) subjects.

Teachers in a startup culture can work together to build the classroom «brand» through activities such as proudly displaying the mission in the students» learning spaces, sharing messages of success on class websites and blogs, or designing a class logo and fun swag like t - shirts, water bottles, stickers, and pens.

Students can work together as they dive into new content and apply what they've learned in the classroom.

As part of her dissertation work, Honey is focusing specifically on how intrinsically motivated Native American middle school students are to learn cultural information related to the science taught in the classroom.

Many teachers who have spent their careers working in traditional classrooms may find that teach in a blended learning environment is a difficult adjustment.

In each episode, we explore cutting - edge ideas about teaching and learning from the world of research, meet educators who are putting them to the test in their own classrooms, and give you lesson ideas, tools, and resources to try new ideas in your own worIn each episode, we explore cutting - edge ideas about teaching and learning from the world of research, meet educators who are putting them to the test in their own classrooms, and give you lesson ideas, tools, and resources to try new ideas in your own worin their own classrooms, and give you lesson ideas, tools, and resources to try new ideas in your own worin your own work.

Rather than rows of students monotonously copying information from the whiteboard, the modern classroom encourages working together in teams, such as in designs for smart, TEAL, or SCALE - UP learning spaces.

Continuing in its mission to help teachers and pupils engage beyond the classroom, schools will now be able to share video and audio recordings of students» work and activities with parents, carers and the whole community, to support learning outside school and encourage parental involvement.

Not only that, her blog shares in great detail ways that a teacher might work to begin to utilize the concept of blended learning in the classroom.

I need to provide documentation of what I've learned during the past five years, along with proof (video tapes and actual student work) that I'm applying effective methods in my classroom.

As a result, I encourage regular teachers (like myself) to embrace this term and use technology to create a blended curriculum that combines engagement and active learning in the classroom with meaningful work done online.

Help can include targeted, high - quality professional development; curriculum improvements; additional time for student learning after school or in the summers; establishment of wraparound services, including community school models; redesign of schools to support personalization and more authentic work in classrooms and internships; or pairing of struggling schools with successful ones serving similar students.

It is also a major priority for Fujitsu, who are working with a number of establishments to explore how scanners can be used to improve learning in the classroom.

As part of a community of young creators, engineers, problem solvers, designers, collaborators, and dreamers, students can work as a classroom learning team, find inspiration in unanswered questions, and ultimately push ideas forward into a reality to make a positive impact on our world.

In a blended learning classroom, there is often online work that needs to occur.

Among the findings: (1) art activities can be integrated into classroom content and used to encourage rehearsal - type activities (such as songs) that incorporate relevant subject matter, (2) incorporating information into story, poem, song, or art form may place the knowledge in context, which can help students remember it, especially if the students are creating art that relates subject matter to themselves, (3) through artistic activities like writing a story or creating a drawing, students generate information they might otherwise have simply read, which will very likely lead to better long - term retention of that information, (4) physically acting out material, such as in a play, helps learners recall information, (5) speaking words aloud results in better retention than reading words in silence, (6) increasing the amount of effort involved in learning new information (such as being asked to discern meaning from an ambiguous sentence or to interpret a work of art) is positively associated with its retention, (7) emotionally charged content is easier to remember than content linked to events that are emotionally neutral, and (8) information presented as pictures is retained better than the same information presented as words.

Homer's Odyssey Key Events Revision Placemats (x18) This resource contains 18 revision placemats covering Books I, V - XIV, XVI - XIX and XXI - XXII (all the books required for the OCR Classical Civilisations New A-Level exam and will also work for GCSE students) Each placemat contains the following: Summary of the key events of the Book The key characters in each Book How key themes are developed in each Book These are excellent revision tools and can be used to support the learning of students both within and outside of the classroom.

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However, in order for this to work in the classroom, we need to explicitly integrate the above PISA cycle of skills into teaching and learning.

Working with 15 primary schools in underprivileged circumstances around the UK, Samsung provided a full suite of classroom technology and technical support to create a dynamic and motivational learning environment.

«As a former Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines, New York City teacher, licensed sea captain, and head educator of an ocean classroom prior to coming to HGSE, Timothy O'Brien is a «stealthy leader» who truly embodies the values, energy, and breadth of the Learning and Teaching (L&T) Program through his focus on student work and professional development of teachers,» says Lecturer Sally Schwager, Learning and Teaching program director.

When I initially considered conferencing with each and every student in my classes to reduce the need for written comments, I was apprehensive about the time commitment, but with the help of a colleague who had made it work in his classroom, I recently took the plunge and did writing conferences with my students — and it had a huge impact on my classroom and my students» learning.

In a world where technology and digital resources are engrained into our day - to - day routines, it's not surprising that a majority of schools have also adopted this way of working to add value to the classroom and students» learning opportunities.

In every class, both core and elective curriculum, Trinidad Garza uses the six strategies from the Common Instructional Framework — collaborative group work, literacy groups, scaffolding, writing to learn, questioning, and classroom talk — to align their instruction, create a rigorous environment, and foster students who take ownership of their learning.

What if teachers saw their work as a public exercise and were willing to open up their classrooms in service of their own learning and development?