Sentences with phrase «led by classroom»

Some offerings are led by classroom teachers and others by local community members.

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Training skilled craftspeople requires programs that combine classroom training and on - the - job experience, and are most successful when led or supported by companies invested in training their workforce.

These introductory, non-credit courses typically consist of videotapes lectures in live classrooms, led by Yale teachers and scholars.

Echo360 turns classrooms and events into collaborative communities of learning and success by combining an industry - leading video platform with engagement tools and analytics in a simple, mobile experience.

In addition to classroom growth methods, schools should develop a variety of other small groups for students, led by qualified teachers, counselors, and school psychologists.

The ACFEF apprenticeship program requires apprentices to complete 445 hours of classroom instruction and at least 4000 working hours in a professional kitchen while being mentored by leading chefs in the industry.

«He is a great leader, plays hard, and leads by example on the field and is the same in the classroom.

Many of our classrooms are led by teachers who are often undertrained, undersupported or burned out.

That in turn can lead to higher academic performance and improved classroom behavior, as children who aren't distracted by hunger pains are clearly in a better position to learn.

Students in a Brooklyn elementary - school classroom drank from a fountain whose water was more contaminated than Flint, Mich.'s — laden with 1,000 times the amount of lead permitted by federal safety regulations, a December test revealed.

The book earned quite a bit of praise from the Times and made this one - time English major pine for a classroom led by a professor who has previously been awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, the National Jewish Book Award and the Pushcart Prize.

The Borough President said she has been working the School Construction Authority, led by Lorraine Grillo, to set real dates for moving children out of the «temporary» trailers that have been used as classrooms due to school overcrowding.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said, «By providing tax credits that support scholarships, after school programs, and teachers that buy supplies for their classrooms, we can make a significant investment in our school system — and one that leads to an improved learning environment for our students.

«Our members need skilled employees now more than ever, and our schools must provide our children with the skills necessary to compete outside the classroom,» said Heather C. Briccetti, Esq., president and CEO of The Business Council of New York State, Inc. «This study proves that New York is leading the nation — not only by setting high standards, but by taking the time to listen to parents and teachers about improving them.

Since 1985, Project 2061 has led the way in science education reform by first defining adult science literacy in its influential publication Science for All Americans and then specifying what K - 12 students need to know in Benchmarks for Science Literacy, which helps educators implement science literacy goals in the classroom; the AAAS Science Assessment website with more than 700 middle school test items; and WeatherSchool @ AAAS, an online resource where students can use real - world data to learn about the fundamental principles of weather and climate.

A classroom program that helps teachers adapt their interactions with students based on individuals» temperaments may lead to more student engagement in kindergarten, more teacher emotional support to kindergarten and first grade students, and better classroom organization and less off - task behavior in first - grade classes, according to research by NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

The need arose from the Supporting Teachers and Children in Schools study, led by Professor Ford, which is analysing whether a course designed to improve teachers» classroom management skills is effective.

They posit that the intervention may lead to strong indirect effects by strengthening classroom norms of cooperation, order, and growth in ways that benefit all students in the class.

The current lack of harmonization among these financing mechanisms leads to gaps in ECE affordability for some low - income families, economic segregation within ECE settings and classrooms, and underutilization of ECE services by middle - income families.

A unique aspect of the workshop was participation by mission scientists and instrument leads who designed and presented classroom activities.The objective of the Van Allen Probes E / PO effort is to prepare teachers to engage and educate students in STEM content and Van Allen Probes heliophysics - related science as well as engineering and technology.

We have experienced this negative phenomenon first - hand by having had a district - wide contract rescinded before the program even started due to fear caused by media attention generated from a single parent in single school who took offense to a classroom teacher leading mandala coloring and using the term, «Namaste,» with her students.

A few weeks after the ruling, researchers from the University of Buffalo, lead by Catherine Cook - Cottone, Ph.D., interviewed 32 school personnel who were involved with the lawsuit, including district superintendents, assistants, school principals, classroom teachers, instructors of the EUSD HWP, and University of San Diego researchers who were originally involved in studying the program.

He is sent to a bottom - rank class and experiences violence in classroom by the group of gangsters in his class, led by Jong - hun, who is a stereotypical Korean bully in school.

Led by a former elementary school teacher, the school employs over a 1,000 state certified teachers, almost all of whom have also taught in traditional classrooms.

All teachers were evaluated by five structured classroom observations aligned to the district's Teaching and Learning Framework, which defined domains of effective instruction, such as leading well - organized, objective - driven lessons; checking for student understanding; explaining content clearly; and maximizing instructional time.

Led by Professor Greg Craven, the Advisory Group was asked to make practical recommendations on improving teacher education programs to better prepare teachers with the skills they need for the classroom.

That focus has led to a teach to the test mentality and tactics that have classrooms in five - by - five rows, students sitting up straight, filling out worksheet after worksheet.

Classrooms and buildings When considering a building project, leading by example is, again, key.

Study authors Ben Backes of American Institutes for Research (AIR) and Michael Hansen of the Brookings Institution found that students in classrooms of team teachers led by Opportunity Culture «multi-classroom leaders» showed sizeable, statistically significant academic gains.

Used by Tor Alexander Bruce within classrooms, training environments, business leadership programmes and in parallel with LEAD YOUR LIFE and other tools forming a pack of more than 50 resources.

It can also spark an interest which leads to self ‑ directed learning outside the classroom as students become motivated by turning their ideas into viable business propositions, in competitions such as the TeenTech Awards.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms.

The results so far are promising, and the technique could lead to more accurate evaluations (and more informed feedback), particularly by administrators who can't make it into classrooms.

The study compared student growth in classrooms led by teachers in Opportunity Culture roles to student growth in non-Opportunity Culture classrooms in both the same schools and in different schools, controlling for various factors including student background and prior performance.

The point of using the embedded technology and information - literacy skills in the classroom is then supported by lead teachers.

To that end, our keynote address, presented by Caroline Hill, who leads school creation and transformation at CityBridge Education and is founder of the DC Equity Lab, and Michelle Molitor, founder and CEO of Fellowship for Race & Equity in Education (FREE), focused on how we might reframe the conversation about personalized learning to bring equity to the forefront of school and classroom redesign.

On each school day, 8 million black children enter classrooms led by teachers who often do not reflect their cultural or ethnic background, in schools that are insufficient to the task of educating them.

Instructor - led training is training facilitated by an instructor in a classroom or online, usually to a group of people rather than an individual.

Based upon the research of HGSE Professor Catherine Snow, one of the world's leading experts on language and literacy, Learning Through Discussion and Disagreement begins by revealing what classroom discussion is and isn't and defining what makes a classroom discussion successful.

, these informal, non-evaluative classroom visits by administrators can lead to improved instructional practices and curriculum alignment.

Thousands of schools for African American students across the Jim Crow South were built with the backing of the Rosenwald Fund, one of the earliest and most important foundations in education; philanthropist Grace Dodge founded Teachers College, now at Columbia University, in 1887, which led to training of teachers in pedagogy; the Ford Foundation was involved in promoting the employment of classroom aides, National Merit Scholarships, and the development of Advanced Placement curricula and tests; the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards grew out of work funded by Carnegie Corporation of New York, which also funded the Educational Testing Service to develop objective ways of measuring academic merit, which led to the SAT.

Some 400,000 teachers worldwide will be trained to apply computers and Windows - based software to classroom lessons, under a three - year philanthropic initiative led by Intel Corp. and Microsoft Corp., both companies announced last week.

The video series features presentations by leading neuroscientists and can be viewed in their entirety or as shorter clips for specific learning objectives in the classroom.

The best principals lead by example from the classroom.

Research by RAND Education reached a similar conclusion: «paying teachers to improve student performance did not lead to increases in student achievement and did not change what teachers did in their classrooms».

As he speculates in «Injecting Charter School Best Practices Into Traditional Public Schools: Evidence from Field Experiments,»» [A] leading theory posits that reading scores are influenced by the language spoken when students are outside of the classroom... [The researchers] argue that if students speak non-standard English at home and in their communities, increasing reading scores might be especially difficult.

This reflects the call by government for a more clinical focus on teacher preparation whereby would - be graduates are required to observe and be engaged in classroom practices in a systematic and sustained manner with quality teachers; teachers who are identified and upgraded as lead or mentor teachers.

BTR is implementing a model that emphasizes training teachers on - site in actual classrooms with students and lead teachers, similar to the way medical residents grow into effective doctors by working directly with patients under the guidance of veterans.

As we discuss their insights, I'll mention what I noticed, leading with the positive, and little by little, day by day, our classroom becomes a place where we think, and talk, and work together to make wonderful things happen.

By applying more creative thinking, where pupils are receiving targeted provision which is all about closing the gaps and where this is common for many of the pupils in the school, it should lead to a reduction in the number of pupils registered as having SEN; finally addressing the nagging sense SENCOs have had that really what is required is the best provision at the classroom level.