Sentences with phrase «letting students»

A rapidly increasing fraction of high school teachers are even letting students use their own mobile devices as powerful research tools right in the classroom.

Remember to set up an exit ticket by letting students know it's not graded and not a test or a quiz, just a reflection of what they understood that day.

Consider assigning less of it, letting students choose assignments, and using it for review and assessment.

Growing interest in «blended learning» and other classroom uses of technology, which help teachers customize and individualize learning by letting some students move at their own pace online while teaching other kids in smaller, perhaps more homogeneous groups.

Try letting your students experiment with a range of media.

University professors who enjoy the classroom experience or expert trainers who thrive on live feedback, all say online teaching means not being fully present and that means letting their students down.

It's important to address expected behaviors as a class before letting students give feedback to their peers.

Now, with the resources and tools computers and the Internet provide, he feels more comfortable standing back and letting students explore a project on their own — acting more like a coach than a drill sergeant.

We wanted to give our students as much room to design as possible, and Ideapaint is great for covering walls and letting students get creative.

Key strategies to ensure student engagement include being authentic, introducing units with meaningful launch events, and letting students know what outcomes to expect.

Letting students take charge of how they learn leads to high engagement, in - depth inquiry, and quality work.

By letting students determine how they learn, via task design, rubric development, and student - led parent conferences, we see high engagement, in - depth inquiry, and quality work.

Letting students take a small break might energize them again.

But relinquishing control for a few minutes each day and letting the students wrestle with a challenge offers a huge payoff in the end: (1) your students learn what it feels like to sweat, to stick it out, and to overcome a challenge; (2) when it comes time to solve, they are more invested in the solution; (3) the strategies they come up with activate prior knowledge and set the foundation for new learning — and tip you off about how they think and what they know and don't know.

Use their aptitude to your advantage by letting students teach each other; you'll find that they show their strengths fairly quickly.

Most teachers are good at letting students know routines, rules, and even consequences, but many neglect to share what might be the most important component that preserves everyone's dignity when rules are broken.

By stepping back and letting her students have some control of their learning, Beale is able to step forward in her own practice and give her students the purpose they needed in the experimental work for real learning to take place.

Letting students take charge of transitions: Transitions don't have to involve an entire class.

However, online learning is not about letting students do everything on their own.

«Where's the harm,» they ask, «in letting students graduate?

Keys to Success Burdette and Smethurst believe that one of the reasons that some of these students each year have struggled in their traditional classrooms was that they may have had learning difficulties that had not been detected or addressed in earlier years, letting the students fall further and further behind.

Our training is spread out over an eight week period, letting students digest and apply what they've learned, allowing them to live the process.

«We wanted to distinguish ourselves from other school campaigns by letting students lead the messaging efforts.

Cook, who oversees the foundation's planned 2015 exhibition of vintage science kits, says that letting students discover things on their own energizes them and often allows them to internalize it as something wonderful.

«The opportunities represented by digital media are exciting and a lot of them are untapped — such as tracking learners over time, personalizing education and letting students learn different topics at different speeds,» Plass said.

This curriculum — organized into missions and quests — focuses on multifaceted challenges that may have more than one correct answer, letting students explore different solutions by making choices along the way, says Ross Flatt, assistant principal at the school.

It will also mean holding back from trying to skew the labour market and letting students find and study what they are good at, once they have mastered a broad range of basic competencies.

Science funding agencies are letting students experience weightlessness in hopes of keeping them grounded in science.

Plus, one branch of this mechanical family tree can also help power a village, charging cell phones and letting students study after dark by the light of LED bulbs.

I'll supervise students and we'll all work together to build a school garden, cultivating and ultimately harvesting from it, hopefully using the foods in school lunch, and letting the students in the horticultural club take home co-op boxes to their families.

Kasprzyk, who said he was always «in total deep trouble» at his junior high school in Worth, said he thinks the policy of letting students discipline their peers works.

«By letting the students make their own choices, we went from 68 % to 6 % waste» she happily reports!

«By letting the students make their own choices, we went from 68 % to 6 % waste» she happily reports!

Michigan officials are letting their students get an early start on their Christmas break, seeing as they won't really get a Christmas break since the world is going to blow...

During the Muscogee County School Board meeting Monday night, three Columbus residents criticized the administration for the alternative activity it conducted instead of letting students participate in the National School Walkout.

Christopher Rueth, 17 MiraCosta College Project: Internet censorship In high school, Christopher Rueth published instructions for getting past the school's firewall, letting students visit any website.

With a strong emphasis on flexibility, the school considers applicants without undergraduate degrees, and lets students design their own program to be either course - based or project - based.

Technologies like DreamBox, a math education software that's used in a number of classrooms across the US, adapts to each student's skill level and lets students learn at a pace best suited to their needs.

In a last ditch effort, Wagstaff, who goes by Dr. Bob, brought the Orabrush to a marketing class at Brigham Young University's graduate school, which offers companies the chance to let students perform a case study for them for about $ 1,500.

Givling is an app that lets student loan borrowers play trivia, with the winning team each week earning roughly $ 5,000 per person.

And, we'll promote your name to let students know your company is on campus.

Choose the option that lets your student loan servicer put you on the plan with the lowest monthly payment available.

The company envisions systems that will let consumers download a high - definition, full - length feature film in less than five minutes, allow rural health clinics to send 3 - D medical images over the Internet and let students collaborate with classmates around the world while watching live 3 - D video of a university lecture.

At Atlantic High School in Delray Beach, police escorted 70 students off school grounds, intermittently cutting off traffic at the Interstate 95 ramps to let students safely pass.

Now if they want to keep their funding they're going to have to do what the university tells them, including letting any student join a group they're helping to pay for.

Furthermore, just as comprehensive schools are desirable as a solvent of social class lines, so classes with students of differing abilities are valuable, provided the classes can be internally organized so as to let students proceed at their own pace, with enrichment through greater depth and scope of materials independently mastered by the most able students, and with special assistance by the teacher for the less able.

It is true that good teachers must let student arrive at some insights on their own.

But they do absolutely nothing when UNC lets the student athletes completely fake the student part.

We pay coaches millions of dollars not to coach, pay search firms hundreds of thousands of dollars to help us make obvious choices, but keep finding reasons why we can't let student - athletes sign autographs for money.

In a world of school supplies that all look the same, patterned pencils, notebooks with cats, or a certain kind of binder in a favorite color let students express their individuality beyond the basics on the school supply list.