Just
like good classrooms are built on reliable systems and structures, a positive faculty meeting should utilize protocols and processes that ensure all voices are heard, that no single voice dominates, and that discussion stays focused and productive.
Like the best classroom teaching, the best adult professional learning is pitched at the right level for each person.
Not exact matches
Rodoni gives everyone the first
classroom assignment: «Brainstorm about how you would
like your
best - referenced customers to describe you.»
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.
As companies
like Coursera, Udacity, and edX struggle to find a business model to accompany their noble cause, they've turned to implementing the flipped
classroom on campuses across the country, as
well.
I see a
classroom that looks
like one where I go each day, and I see students grieving friends who just as
well could have been mine.
They help you to discover yourself and define your
likes, dislikes and preferences in a work environment as
well compare
classroom theory to work place practices.
They
like us in the measure people
like something they think has a natural default, something they know is
good but will not pass their rating for excellence, something deep down in their minds they don't really want to be the
best, because it represents to them the
classroom example of something one level short of perfect.
I want the kids to do
well, but this year is
like an undisciplined
classroom under a rookie teacher with no training.
The youngsters from St Polycarp's Catholic School had previously taken part, and excelled, in
classroom sessions which include discussions on cultural and religious matters and how these impact day - to - day life as
well as a club
like Chelsea.
Kourtney Ferrua
liked what was happening at Grandhaven, and thought breakfast - in - the -
classroom would be a
good fit for her students at Wascher as
well.
I'm fully confident that kids can and will adopt
better eating habits when enough «interventions»
like tastings, opportunities to cook / grow food and
classroom instruction are available to them.
Well, good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar y
Well,
good for you for sticking to your guns, but prepare to be furious when your child comes home on the last day before the winter break vibrating
like a tuning fork from all of the «holiday» (read «Christmas») treats that
well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school classroom on the last school day of the calendar y
well meaning parents send for the traditional pre-break party that happens in virtually every public school
classroom on the last school day of the calendar year.
What I
liked best about this format for presenting information was the «360 degree» perspective it offered: Casey gave the issue a framework, with useful advice on how to persuade principals and administrators to implement in -
classroom breakfast programs; Nora followed, sharing her personal story with using free / reduced programs when her children were young, and stressing the importance of taking care of «the whole child»; Rosario charmed the crowd with her experiences implementing in -
classroom breakfast in her district, sharing a story about how excited her kids got about breakfast after a power outage — not how excited they were about the return of electricity, but about getting breakfast; Barry inspired the group by explaining how he took his successes as a school food director as a springboard to a new career as a consultant, replicating and spreading that success in other
classrooms.
After some initial resistance, Mr. Brown says that his teachers now love breakfast in the
classroom and the ability it gives them to bond with their students in a new way; the teachers
like connecting the children to
good nutrition.
Minority students across Erie County would do
better in school if they saw more teachers who look
like them in the
classroom or in the halls.
The funds will go towards the purchase of new
classroom equipment, security cameras as
well as physical repairs to the school's
like P.S. 119X, Bronx Community High School and The Parkchester School.
The Institute supports efforts to improve the current system, especially through the expansion of QUALITYstarsNYC, as a tool to help parents understand what
good quality early childhood education should look
like, from
best practices and teacher education standards to enriching
classrooms and play spaces.
The Buffalo Albright - Knox - Gundlach Art Museum will include
better amenities
like restaurant, educational
classrooms and a cafeteria for children to have school lunches.
Although most reformers say that they want to raise student achievement, many projects focus on interim targets,
like attracting more students into STEM fields, training more and
better math and science teachers or improving the skills of those already in the
classroom, and strengthening curricula.
Throughout, the M15 chief, Harry Patterson (John Hurt), who's rigged the van with a hidden camera and a microphone and is overseeing the ride, makes observations about the two figures» psychologies that are already plainly evident through the actors» gestures, as
well as offers explanations about the political and historical importance of this discussion that feel more
like classroom lectures.
CASEL president Roger P. Weissberg and Joseph Durlak, a Loyola University psychologist, reviewed 300 studies and found that, compared with nonparticipants, students participating in programs aimed at improving the social and emotional learning environment in schools «have significantly
better attendance records; their
classroom behavior is more constructive and less often disruptive; they
like school more; and they have
better grade point averages.
Without such definitions, teachers are left to guess at
best practices and to glean from professional readings what they might look
like in a
classroom.
I discussed the challenges we face as
well as what it looks
like in the
classroom.
Like most modern organizations, you probably utilize a host of software programs, whether for CRM (Salesforce), email marketing (MailChimp), virtual
classrooms (GoToTraining), HR (Zenefits), as
well as Google Analytics.
One of the difficulties for teacher observation, however, is that it is deceptively hard to observe what
good or great teaching actually looks
like in the
classroom.
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.
«Some K — 12 and college
classrooms look
like this as
well.
Like its
better - known homolog, Edmodo, Easy Class is a free online
classroom cum social networking site cum Learning Management System where you can create classes, add assignments and assessments, etc..
Equally, the pervasive impact and pace of social media developments regularly infiltrate the
classroom, compromising pupil
well - being and leaving even the younger generation of teachers struggling to catch up with issues
like cyberbullying and «sexting» and the numerous other variants that crop up every week.
While we can measure the difference a
good teacher makes in the
classroom, we can't develop a mathematical formula for creating these heroic professionals, so judges will instead focus on easy - to - measure but inaccurate metrics
like teachers» salaries as proxies for teacher quality.
In this blog post, I outline four of the most popular elearning trends of 2014 (including MOOCs, mlearning, virtual reality technology, and gamification) that could lay a foundation for the future state of schools, as
well as speculate what
classrooms, learning platforms, and teacher roles might be
like in the future.
The school sits in a nearly 100 - year - old public school building, and
classrooms look
like,
well,
classrooms.
The Kids
Like Blues project has not only taken my students» learning to new and unprecedented levels, it has also inspired me to be a
better teacher and given me the confidence to bring my own passions to the
classroom.
This is happening in the
classroom, as
well as online in sites
like School2school and Students20.com, two global communities of students and mentors interested in learning from each other.
And
like most of the
best classroom moments, we had some fun in the process.
For her reasoning, Pinkerton points to experts in the field, such as Dick Allington (Schools That Work), who calls for 500 different books in every
classroom library and Jim Trelease (The Read Aloud Handbook) who reminds us all that, «The more you read, the
better you get at it; the
better you get at it, the more you
like it: and the more you
like it, the more you do.»
However, we are also able to cross-reference that inference with context: how does the student usually respond to lessons, what is going on at home, what are you noticing in the general social dynamics of the
classroom, did they get in an argument with their
best friend this morning, did they eat breakfast, did they sleep
well, was a new video game released yesterday, is it particularly humid in the building today, what's going on in the general school culture right now, has this student been taking tests all day, are elements
like depression or anxiety potentially relevant, or is it just an «off day» for a great student?
Here's my
best guess: This poor child is the only black boy in that
classroom, and we're paying
good money for his Catholic school education, and here we are sending him to school with shoes
like this.
RV: And finally, what strategies can teachers use — regardless of the stage of career they're at — to
better manage poor or disruptive behaviour in the
classroom, so as to avoid things
like burnout, attrition and intention to leave the profession entirely?
Added assessment information,
like classroom assignments as
well as other offline assignments, can be uploaded to the extended learning portal to create a cumulative picture of learners» progress and true competence.
The other strategies which I guess research can tell us that work really
well are things
like seating plans — having a plan for where people are going to sit in your
classroom, taking into consideration what their needs are, what their personalities and what their behaviours are
like.
The fact that we know what
good practice looks
like is very helpful but upscaling is the big challenge — how do you get a quality teacher in every
classroom?
I can't tell you how many times I've had students who find out that the district they taught in was not following the law, or that they had felt
like things weren't going
well in the
classroom, but they didn't know where to turn to find helpful information.
I
like a
well run
classroom, everyone engaged, on top of what's happening... the proverbial «
well oiled machine.»
A
better means of driving reform would be to reward states and districts based not on unenforceable promises but on specific, concrete steps to overhaul anachronistic policies
like teacher tenure, now granted in most states as a matter of course after just a couple of years in the
classroom.
Technology enhanced students» learning outcomes — they
liked being in these
classrooms, and parents wanted their children to be in
classrooms where they did
well in all school assessments.
Teachers as
well felt
like they couldn't teach in as much of an ad - hoc way; there's a certain degree of, you know, you prepare as a teacher and then there's a whole lot of stuff that happens in the
classroom that you roll with... but when you're sort of «performing» on a screen as
well, there had to be a lot more preparation.
Furthermore, with the proliferation of alternative certification and programs
like Teach for America, the practice of hiring teachers without formal degrees in education or
classroom experience is fairly
well established.
If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to scale innovations
like the flipped
classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of blended learning that escape the factory - model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be
well deserved.