Sentences with phrase «make classroom visits»

«However, differences between principals in the two groups come into sharp focus as they describe their reasons for making classroom visits.

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They were on hand to visit a classroom and to promote the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's philanthropic initiatives — not to mention the millions in grants it's made possible — to expand education reforms in the Bluegrass State.

Try to meet the teacher before making your selection and make an appointment to visit the classroom.

At a school I visited in Boulder — Columbine Elementary — the beginning of the school day was moved up — from 8:30 to 8:15 — to make room for breakfast in the classroom.

Visit your child's classroom, and make sure you are comfortable with her learning environment.

While at PS / MS 126, Fariña also visited a preschool classroom and chatted with school parents who making paper decorations in honor of Chinese New Year.

There are many other factors to consider, such as administrators making time to visit classrooms, capable instructional leadership, clear expectations and common language around school or district initiatives, creating a culture of risk taking, etc..

The money will give pupils a range of cultural opportunities including training at the Royal Ballet School in London, film - making classes at the BFI Film Academy and free opportunities to study art and design at their local college or university; and visits to museums and galleries, using quality resources to support their classroom teaching.

As a father of school age kids, and as someone who has visited hundreds of classrooms and schools, he believes deeply that all great schools have one thing in common: outstanding adults who make magic for the kids they serve.

Analyzing the data and making hypotheses provides a focus for classroom activities between visits.

The annual Bett show is a great platform to demonstrate what technology has to offer but it's important to remember that those who visit make up a small percentage of the total number of UK teachers, and many of them are «evangelist teachers», who are already incorporating technology well in the classroom.

It's the job of the education team to make this as easy and effective as possible on school trips because as one teacher on a recent self - led visit put it: «To actually run around in a castle and hear the noises that are made, to touch the walls, to feel everything — you just can not put that learning into a classroom, it's impossible.»

If our child is having a mediocre classroom experience, we may have to make more school visits, talk to more parents to find out if they are dealing with similar challenges, and have more meetings with teachers and administrators (all things we really should be doing anyway).

Technology can be used to make the walls of the classroom and school more permeable by way of virtual visits and meetings.

• 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!

Through the Winners Walk Tall program, responsible middle schoolers make weekly visits to primary classrooms and teach lessons that emphasize making good choices.

Food is used as a way to improve the whole school experience, such as making lunchtimes a positive feature of the day, enriching classroom learning with farm visits, and practical cooking and growing activities.

If you visit other classrooms, make sure you extend an offer for others to visit your classroom.

Here's what this approach looks like: Administrators make frequent short, unannounced classrooms visits (at least once a month), followed promptly by face - to - face listening / coaching conversations; teacher teams meet regularly to discuss planning, pedagogy, and assessment results; and teacher assessment is saved till the end of the school year, pulling together observations, other points of contact, and teachers» self - assessments.

The resource contains a variety of activities from hands on making tasks, through ideas for making a walk more interactive to what to do back in the classroom after a lambing visit.

For example, recruit pupils for extra-curricular groups; arrange extra rehearsals; follow up on interests shown in the classroom (eg finding a child who is learning the guitar at home, informally, and getting them involved in a school group); produce a programme for the school concert which includes every child's name; liaise with other staff members (eg with the Art Department to provide a cover for said programme); organise refreshments; run a Parent Support Group for music; arrange for matching T - shirts for the jazz band or school choir; deliver a «sponsored sing» for charity; visit an old people's home to perform for the residents; and a host of other things which make for «a musical school».

«She opened up the school by making the morning announcements, visited classrooms and teachers, and also met with a group of eighth graders to discuss social issues, current events (such as Kosovo and Littleton, Colorado), and the challenges of being teenagers in this day and age.

Each volunteer commits to visit his or her assigned classroom seven times during the year and to conduct professionally - designed lessons focusing on self - awareness, decision - making, positive work habits and attitudes, teamwork and interdependence, communication, job and career awareness, and overcoming biases and stereotypes.

Burt Carney is worried not only that other public colleges might follow the University of California's lead, but also that groups like the Educational Testing Service are considering classroom visits to make sure that teachers and curricula in AP courses, for instance, meet certain standards.

To ensure these classroom visits are positive and productive, principals should make it clear to teachers that they are not coming to critique them.

It wasn't an easy decision, but when I asked my one simple question, I realized that the entire room was designed around the desk, making it seem as if this was my classroom and the students were just visiting.

Savvy administrators can meet the needs of teachers and, at the same time, set the tone for a wonderful school year by visiting classrooms those first days and weeks routinely and regularly, making sure teachers can focus on providing excellent instruction instead of having to hunt down, for example, five additional chairs or a working projector.

The policy should include a clear statement about the benefits of school visits or other opportunities for learning outside the classroom - making it clear that pupils» safety is paramount at all times.

He holds frequent meetings with principals to discuss and improve their work, visits classrooms constantly, and strategically uses data about classroom performance to help school leaders make decisions.

As a follow - up to making feeders, hang them outside a classroom window and keep track of the birds that visit.

As you make your daily classroom visits, take along your cell phone.

We found that the teachers who made the most gains in their classroom practice (as measured by the CLASS ™ observation tool) focused their conversations with mentors on classroom practice — following a cycle in which mentors observed teachers and collected data, interpreted the data with mentees in post-observation meetings, planned next steps together and kept in touch between monthly visits.

We have found some success by starting with teachers who volunteer to participate, creating some success in these classrooms which we then try to make public, and then using data as well as actual classroom visits to make a compelling case for the value of the work.

To make the connection with policymakers easier, since not everyone can visit a classroom, Mr. Amato brings his classroom to policymakers (and others) through a personal blog focused on sharing his successes and challenges as a teacher.

It was her first year teaching at AppleTree Institute, and the preschool's principal wouldn't stop making unannounced visits to her classroom.

Eight educators learned of their selection yesterday as 2011 Virginia Regional Teachers of the Year during surprise classroom visits made by their division superintendents.

After the classroom visits, they recorded on - camera interviews from principals, teachers, students, and cafeteria employees to learn about what makes El Monte City School District special.

Physically visiting your schools of interest, checking out the classrooms, play areas, and becoming acquainted with the teachers will go a long way in helping you make your final decision about where to apply.

This only happens when the principal articulates a strong vision for the school, visits classrooms constantly, knows the pedagogy he or she is looking for, occasionally makes specific requests for changes in teaching and — most important — provides teachers room to apply their own teaching insights and creates a climate where teachers feel safe to take risks.

Even if a teacher has read the fine print in the collective bargaining agreement, or perhaps has visited the Independence Institute's informative Independent Teachers website, making time to visit the union office during September often means taking time from their school or classroom duties during a high - pressure period.

Visiting her sister's classroom made Emily fall in love with Chicago and its students.

Many credit the success of Chicago's preschool program to the small class sizes, teacher aides, and high parent involvement — parents are required to spend time in their child's classroom, and staff members often make home visits.

She visits the classroom with instructional coaches for 15 minutes so they can calibrate by making sure the feedback they are providing teachers is aligned.

Funding will pay for coverages that will make it possible for teachers to visit one another's classrooms.

All of the choices she makes during classroom visits are centered around two important themes — better instruction and supportive relationships.

Student achievement comes first, but we also monitor budgets, talk to teachers, supervise the lunchroom, sign off on field trips, meet and greet parents, sit in on assessments, join parent - teacher conferences, lead meetings, cheer athletic teams and artistic performances, make sure the restrooms are clean, check that supplies are received — and sometimes we manage to visit classrooms.

At the Network supported schools, Nutrition Educators visit all classrooms of a particular grade each month to work with the children to make a recipe with that month's vegetable.

Skeptics of using school time to tend to emotions might consider visiting P.S. 130, where the hallway outside a third - grade classroom is decorated with drawings made by students showing their aspirations for the current school year.

• First of all, make sure you attend The author visit can have far - reaching staying power when the classroom teachers also take part.

She also has made visits to Girls, Inc. and C.A.L.M. as well as humane education presentations in elementary classrooms.